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1999 the year in review
The last year of the nineteen nineties started with all the excitement it should. Kathie's dad started out the year with a heart attack. He is doing wonderfully and had lost quite a bit of weight. We brought the kids to Disney World. They absolutely loved it! Joey was apprehensive at first but when he saw Pooh for the first time at MGM he ran to him and gave him a big hug. Amanda was in paradise. She had a smile from ear to ear for the entire 4 days. We dined with the 100 acres gang on Joseph’s birthday.We did not go to the beach this year, in lieu of that we joined a country club. The spring and summer were beautiful for the kids swimming. Amanda is swimming on her own, and Joseph is still afraid of the water. We took our annual trip to see the Yankees in Toronto. We had 25 people this year and hope to grow for 2000.
We also took a small trip back to Toronto to see Canada’s Wonderland and The African Lion Safari with the cousins. Both are neat and the kids loved them. Matt took his yearly trip to Yankee Stadium. Year 2000 is shaping up to be a whiz bang as well.
Family Tree
The Hewes family in America dates back to the colonial period. Several members of the family were active in the stirring events which led to the Revolution. JOSEPH HEWES was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, you can find his name in John Hancock's J, a Republican from North Carolina. Some of the members settled in Rome, NY, at an early day and have been identified with the history of the Empire state for two centuries or more. Marcena B. Hewes left the settlement at Rome, NY, as a young man and located near Leroy, NY, in Genesse county where he purchased a good farm and conducted it until 1877. He then aquired a large farm near Bergen, where he resided until his death in 1902. He married Cordelia Bannister and the subject of this sketch is one of the eight children, five sons and three daughters, born to this union.
William David Hewes was born in LeRoy, New York, July 26, 1868. After attending the grade schools, he entered the Brockport Normal School, from which he graduated in 1890. In the fall of that year he began teaching school in Clarkson, Monroe County, New York. He then taught in Williamson, Wayne County, New York, for two years, when he became principal of the schools in Shortsville, Ontario County, New York. He held this position for eight years. During the next four years he was principal of the public schools in Cuba, Allegany County, New York. In 1905 he purchased a grocery store in Phelps, Ontario County, New York, and remained in that business for four years.
In 1910 he purchased the Patterson Real Estate and Insurance Business in East Rochester, Monroe County, New York, and relocated there. This business until 1994 was under the name of William D. Hewes Agency, Incorporated, it handled all kinds of insurance, representing some of the strongest companies in the United States and was active in the development of the village. William David Hewes was president of the East Rochester Lions Club and could be depended upon to lend a hand to any project that has for its aim the promotion of the civic welfare.
William David Hewes stood high in the Masonic fraternity, being a member of East Rochester Lodge, No. 1020, F. & A. M.; Palmyra Commadery, Knights Templars; and Ismalia Temple, of the Mystic Shrine, of Buffalo. He was an elder in the First Presbyterian church of East Rochester and superintendent of Sunday school. His long experience as a teacher taught him the value of and necessity for better methods of child training and development, which he considered one of his hobbies. Politically he was a republican and took an interest in public affairs, particularly those of a local nature. He has served as county committeeman for his party and has held the office of justice of the peace. However, he seems to derive more pleasure in assisting his friends to public office than in becoming a candidate himself.
On New Year's Day of 1902, Mr. Hewes was united in marriage to Miss Althea Knapp daughter of Edward Knapp of Shortsville, New York. Mr. and Mrs. Hewes had three children: Robert, born February 13, 1905; Harriet Augusta, born April 4, 1909; and William David, Jr., born April 15, 1915. This is where I (grandson of William David Hewes, Jr.) pick up the essay.
Grandpa's history, schooling, college, business interests, great depression, marriage to grandma Mary Hartley from Fairport, Monroe County, New York.
William David Hewes, III born January 26, 1944; and James Hewes born March 20, 1947. Dad's schooling, college, business, marriage to Sandra Marie Gilman daughter of Harrison and Marie Gilman, from Glens Falls, New York, on April 24, 1965. They had two boys: William Harrison Hewes born March 16, 1966; and Matthew James Hewes born September 7, 1968.
Matthew graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology and married his high school sweetheart Kathryn Barbara Smith daughter of George and Marilyn Smith from Faiport, Monroe County, New York, on June 29, 1991. The have two children: AMANDA SARAH HEWES born November 9, 1994; and JOSEPH DAVID HEWES born February 8, 1997.
