Benie 'Frank' Peets

1892 Mooers Forks, New York – 1968 Tupper Lake, New York

 

 

Continuation of tree (1st child of Salmon 'Benjamin' Peets/Minnie Gadway); all known surname descendants:

                9         Benie 'Frank' Peets  b: 28 August 1892  Mooers Forks, Clinton, NY; d: 18 September 1968  Tupper Lake, Franklin, NY

                                  +Elizabeth Cahier (aka Tellier)  b: 6 November 1895  Ellenburg, Clinton, NY; m: 8 February 1915  St. Edmund's, Ellenburg, Clinton, NY: [Ceasar/Olivia Houle]; d: 14 May 1941  Tupper Lake, Franklin, NY

                           10        Francis Laurence Peets  b: 22 April 1917  Ellenburg, Clinton, NY; d: 9 May 1993  Little Falls, Herkimer, NY

                           10        Evelyn Peets  b: 11 December 1918  Tupper Lake, Franklin, NY; d: 21 January 2009  NY

                                          +Gerard Theberge  b: 5 February 1917  Lawrence, Essex, MA; m: 5 December 1938 [Joseph/Marie Lemelin]; d: 13 August 2005  Saranac Lake, Franklin, NY

                           10        Lyman Joseph Peet  b: 28 November 1923  Tupper Lake, Franklin, NY; d: 17 May 1995  Dolgeville, Herkimer, NY

                           10        Floyd J. Peets  b: 23 September 1927  Tupper Lake, Franklin, NY; d: 28 August 1987  Syracuse, Onondaga, NY

                                           +Joan E. Dady  b: 29 September 1935  Salisbury Center, Herkimer, NY; m: 19 June 1965  Dolgeville, Herkimer, NY [John/Blanche Metz]; d: 20 June 2018  Dolgeville, Herkimer, NY

                

                              *2nd Wife of Benie 'Frank' Peets:

                                  +Ann Minnie Mapp (Butler)  b: 23 February 1894  Ponsonby, Quebec; m: Abt. 1944 [James Chapman/Margaret Triquet]; d: 22 April 1967  Tupper Lake, Franklin, NY

 

 

Notes for Benie 'Frank' Peets:

Census

- 1920 Altamont, Franklin, New York:  Frank Peets 26 (laborer/lumber woods), wife Libby 23, Lawrence 2 years 8 months, Evelyn 1.

 

- 1930 Tupper Lake, Franklin, NY:  Frank Petes 38 (teamster), wife Elizabeth 33, Lawrence 12, Evelline 11, Lyman 6, Floyd 2 years 6 months.

- 1940 Tupper Lake, Franklin, NY:  Frank Peets 48 contractor/lumber wood [$2000 house value], wife Libby 44, Lawrence 22, Lyman 16, Floyd 12.  [Altamont, 108 McLaughlin Avenue]

- 1950 Altamont, Franklin, NY:  Frank Peet 57 farmer/farm, wife Ann 56, Laurence 32 farmer helper/farm.  Sons Lyman J. Peet 26 woodsman/lumbering & Floyd Peets 22 bulldozer operator/lumbering, lodging at Long Lake, Hamilton, NY.

WWI Registration Records:  Frank Peet, res. Forest, NY; b. 28 Aug 1893 Mooers, NY; farm laborer; wife & 1 child; medium height & stout build, blue eyes & brown hair; Jun 1917 Altona, NY.

MISC:  Chateaugay Record (Franklin county, NY), Friday, 15 July 1927:  Shortly before noon on Thursday of last week, Frank Peets' dwelling house at Upper Chateaugay Lake was discovered to be on fire and an alarm was given, which brought together a large number of nearby neighbors, who did all in their power to extinguish the blaze, but such headway had been gained that it was impossible to prevent it.  Mr. Peets carried an insurance of $2,000 on the property, which will not nearly cover the loss.

Obituary:  Tupper Lake Free Press (NY), Thursday, 19 September 1968:  Frank Peet, 76, of 6 Lakeview Ave., died at 6:55 p.m. Wednesday at Mercy General Hospital, where he was admitted on September 7th and underwent surgery.  The funeral will be at 9 a.m. Saturday at St. Alphonsus Church and interment will be in St. Alphonsus Cemetery here.  He was born at Mooers Forks August 28, 1892, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Bennie Peet, and was married there to Elizabeth Tellier.  They moved to Tupper Lake in 1916, and he worked on lumbering jobs and operated a dairy farm on Stetson Road for many years, retiring about ten years ago.  His first wife died 28 years ago.   In 1944 he married Ann Mapp Butler, who died here April 22, 1967.  Surviving are three sons: Lawrence Peet, Tupper Lake, and Lyman and Floyd Peet of Dolgeville; one daughter, Mrs. Gerald (Evelyn) Theberge, Tupper Lake; two brothers, Joseph and Thomas Peet, Tupper Lake; four sisters, Mrs. Lavina Ferrand of Masson. Que., Mrs. Gertrude LaBarge of Plattsburgh, and Mrs. Melvina Willette and Mrs. Andrew (Rose) Miller, both of Tupper Lake; and six grandchildren.

 

Tombstone Inscriptions:  St. Alphonsus Cemetery, Tupper Lake, NY:  PEETE / Frank 1893 - 1968 / Elizabeth CAYEA Wife 1897 - 1941

 

Notes for Elizabeth Cahier:

Obituary:  Tupper Lake Free Press (NY), Thursday, 22 May 1941:  Funeral services were held Friday morning for Mrs. Elizabeth Peets, 45, who died Wednesday morning at 6:55 o'clock at her home at 100? ------- street.  The Rev. Monsignor E. O. Hervieux officiated at the requiem Mass at 9 o'clock in St. Alphonsus church.  Burial was in the family plot at St. Alphonsus cemetery.  Mrs. Peets had been in failing health for the past year and had been seriously ill for about two weeks.  She was born at Ellenburg, N. Y. on Nov. 6, 1895, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Caesar Cahey, and was married there 26 years ago to Frank Peets, who survives.  The family home had been here for the past 25 years, Mr. Peets engaging in farming and lumbering work.  Surviving are four children; Lawrence, Lyman and Floyd Peets, and one daughter, Mrs. Evelyn Theberge, all of Tupper Lake; one brother, William Cahey of Buffalo, and one sister, Mrs. Emma Miller of Ellenburg, all of whom attended the last rites here.

 

Notes for Ann Minnie Mapp:

Obituary:  Tupper Lake Free Press (NY), Thursday, 27 April 1967:  Mrs. Anna Peet, 73, died at 8:15 p.m. Saturday at her home, 6 Lakeview ave.  She had been in failing health about a year.  Funeral services were held at 11 a.m. Tuesday at the Richer Funeral Home with Rev. Michael Kundrat, pastor of St. Thomas Church, officiating.  Interment was in Lakeview Cemetery here.  She was born at Ponsonby, Quebec, Feb. 23, 1894, the daughter of James Chapman Mapp and Margaret Triquet Mapp, and had
made her home in Tupper Lake about 43 years.  Her first husband, Floyd Butler, died here in 1940.  She was married again 23 years ago to Frank Peet of this village, who survives.  Surviving also are one daughter, Mrs. John (Hannah) Sennett of
Philadelphia, Pa.; four stepchildren Lawrence Peet and Mrs. Gerald (Evelyn) Theberge, both of Tupper Lake, and Lyman and Floyd Peet of Dolgeville; a half-sister, Mrs. Ella Menard, Ponsonby, Que., and four grandchildren.

 

Misc. Items:  Hunter Reports Wild Man Deep In Forestland  [Ticonderoga Sentinel, NY, Thursday, 2 December 1948]: TUPPER LAKE - Is there a "wild man" roaming the woods in the heavily-forested Kildare country?  Lawrence Peets of Schuylervllle claims there is, and old timers who recall authentic similar cases know that it is entirely possible.  Peets claims to have encountered the man while deer hunting not far from the deserted site of Kildare, once a busy little logging settlement seven miles from Tupper Lake on the old New York and Ottawa Railroad right-of-way.  According to his report, he had taken up his stand on the long-abandoned logging railroad which branches off into the woods from Kildare, while his companion, Alfred Berard of North Tonawanda, made a swing across the nearby Jordan River in hopes of putting out a deer.  Peets asserts that he was startled by a sudden "whimpering" noise behind him, and turned to encounter the "wild man" standing in the trail and looking at him.  He describes the man as having heavy, dirty blond hair; a long unkempt beard, and dressed in a weird combination of rabbit skins and rags.  One arm, he said, was bound up in grass and fern brakes, as though it had been injured.  He carried a rabbit but no gun.  When Peets spoke to him, he states, the man darted off into the woods.  Berard rejoined Peets a few minutes later, and the two searched the woods in vain for another glimpse of the man.  They reported their experience at the Kildare gate house, and hunters in that area, as well as sportsmen and employees traversing that sector en route to the O. W. D. and Kildare club holdings are on the lookout for his possible reappearance.

 

Obituaries for the children:

Francis Laurence Peets:  Tupper Lake Free Press (NY), Wednesday, 12 May 1993:  Francis Laurence (Larry) Peets, 76, of 131 Peets Road, RD 1, Dolgeville, NY, formerly of Tupper Lake, died unexpectedly Sunday, May 9 in the Little Falls hospital after suffering a heart attack at his home.  He was born in Ellenburg, NY on April 22, 1917, a son of the late Francis and Elizabeth Cahier Peets.  The family moved to Tupper Lake in his childhood and he attended the local schools and was employed for many years at the Oval Wood Dish plant, and later for Adirondack Plywood.  He moved in 1968 to Dolgeville, where he was employed by the village department of public works for twelve years, retiring in 1982.  Surviving are one brother, Lyman Peets of Dolgeville; a sister, Mrs. Evelyn Theberge of Tupper Lake and nieces and nephews.  He was predeceased by a brother, Floyd J. Peets, who died August 28, 1987.  A Mass of Christian burial was celebrated this morning at St. Joseph's Church, Dolgeville, with the Rev. John F. Riley officiating.  Burial was in St. Joseph Cemetery in that village.  Memorials may be made to the Dolgeville Ambulance Corps in his name.

Tombstone Inscription, St. Joseph's Cemetery, Dolgeville, NY:  Laurence Peets /  1917 - 1993

 

Evelyn Peets:  Tupper Lake Free Press (NY), Wednesday, 28 January 2009:  Evelyn P. Theberge, 90, of Tupper Lake, died Wednesday, January 21, 2009 at AMC Mercy Center where she had resided since August 2005.  Born on December 11, 1918 in Tupper Lake, she was the daughter of Frank and Elizabeth (Cayes) Peet.  On December 5, 1938 she married Gerard Theberge.  He predeceased her in 2005.  Mrs. Theberge is survived by two daughters, Shirley Fuller and her husband Timothy of Piercefield and Jacqueline Gale of Greenville, TN, and five grandchildren.  She was predeceased by her husband, two grandchildren and three brothers.  There will be no calling hours.  A graveside service will be held at St. Alphonsus Cemetery in May.  Those wishing to make memorial contributions are asked to consider AMC Mercy Center.  Arrangements are with the Stuart-Fortune-Keough Funeral Home.

Tombstone Inscription, St. Alphonsus Cemetery, Tupper Lake, NY:  THEBERGE / Gerard / 1917 - 2005 / Evelyn P. / 1918 - 2009

 

Lyman Joseph Peet:  Tombstone Inscription, St. Joseph's Cemetery, Dolgeville, NY:  Lyman J. Peet / S SGT US Marine Corps / World War II / 1923 - 1995

 

Floyd J. Peets:  Tupper Lake Free Press (NY), Wednesday, 9 September 1987:  Floyd J. Peets, 59, of RD 1, Dolgeville, N.Y., formerly of Tupper Lake, died at St. Joseph's Hospital in Syracuse on Friday, August 28th.  A Mass of Christian burial was celebrated on Tuesday, Sept. 2nd at 11 a.m. at St. Joseph's Church, Dolgeville, and interment was in St. Joseph's Cemetery in that village.  He was born in Tupper Lake on September 23, 1927, the son of Frank Peets and Elizabeth Cayar Peets, and attended Holy Ghost Academy here.  He was a veteran of Army service in Panama in 1946-1947.  For more than 30 years he had resided at Dolgeville where he was employed as an equipment operator for the Town of Mannheim.  Surviving are his wife, the former Joan Dady of Dolgeville; three sons, Floyd Jr. and Roger Peets, both of Dolgeville and Richard Peets of Troy, N.Y.; one daughter, Mrs. Karen Parker of Indian Lake; two brothers, Lyman and Lawrence Peets, both of Dolgeville; one sister, Mrs. Evelyn (Peets) Theberge, Tupper Lake; and eight grandchildren.

Tombstone Inscription, St. Joseph's Cemetery, Dolgeville, NY:  PEETS / Floyd J. / 1927 - 1987 / Joan E. / 1935 - 2018 / in loving memory of / our father and mother


 

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- New York birth/marriage/death items in RED have come from newspaper obituaries, some marriage announcements, and occasional birth announcements. 

- Some birthdates in RED taken from Social Security records based on obituary/tombstone inscription deathdate.

 

Last updated:  29 May 2022.