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In the mean time, Francis savors the full joy of life as it comes. Not far distant are some of Norry’s descendants and others of Norry’s generation, though Norry and Riverius themselves slipped away to the far western coast. At hand, still is Raleigh the other son of Francis. The big car can do 60 miles an hour with smoothest ease and Francis can cover the ground as far as necessary whenever he so wills. In the close bonds of affection yet with full livery, his passing will be only from one heaven to another as it would seem. His wife is both devoted and devout and he still has that joyous possession, a sense of humor.
Ezra Benjamin Loop, born May 25, 1862 at Indian Creek (son, it is told, of two Yankees) became a Yankee inn holder. Fire put him out of business for a time, but he re-established himself. Well educated and fortified by a business course, he managed the Grand Central Hotel at Mansfield, Tioga County, until fire ravaged it after 3 years. Having taken a year’s rest he acquired another inn which he still manages. The personal manage is restricted, as he and his wife Cora have no children.
Francis says that Daniel married Polly Dykeman in 1850. New York state census showed a Daniel Loop, aged 36, and a wife Polly, three years younger, with a son Charles and a daughter, living in Portville, which is the corner town at the east and on the state boundary, between Hinsdale in New York and Eldred over the border. Some of Norry’s descendants are there today-among them Sara Loop Prentiss, whose attractive and hospitable home must be a center for many friends.
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