Stephanie Sheldon Thrall

Stephanie married Roger Crichton Smith [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Gardner Thrall Smith
2. Prescott Faye Smith
3. Cameron Crichton Smith

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alt. Birth: 30 Sep 1899, Poultney, Rutland, Vermont, USA

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Steve Thrall attended Troy Conference Academy in Poultney, Vermont (now known as Green Mountain College) then Colgate University, graduating in 1922. Later he took graduate work in accounting. After trying tne lumber business, he found his real interest lay in selling. He joined the National Cash Register Company in their Rochester, New York branch in 1924. Since then, he has held many jobs with this firm during the past 38 years, salesman, agent, instructor, divisional manager, assistant sales manager and now branch manager in Boston, Mass. For thirty years, he has been either training salesmen, supervising salesmen or selecting salesmen. His keen sense of the appropriate and his remarkable ability to "sell" his ideas, are major reasons for his outstanding success as a salesman and business leader. He has served Colgate University as Chairman of the Student Selection Committee in Eastern Massachusetts, and Director. and President of the Colgate Alumni Corporation.

He is presently (1965) Treasurer of the Board of Trustees of Green Mountain College, Governor of the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, Past President of Rotary, Vice-President of Vermont Historical Society, Member of the Board of Society of Colonial Wars and New England Genealogical and Historical Society.

Steve Thrall has spent many leisure hours during the past five years, working on this genealogy. He has written to hundreds of Thralls all over the united States, and has brought forward nany of the lines that were not previously recorded. In 1957 he compiled and edited a genealogy of his wife's family entitled "James Monroe Goodell and his wife, Emily lingsbury. Their Ancestors and Descendants."

Steve is a member of The Country Club, Veston Golf Club, Everglades Club in Florida, Essex Club in Nswark, Algonquin Club, Wianno Club. He is an Bpiscopalian, Mason and Republican.

Durward married Helen Baker Goodelle on 27 Sep 1924. Helen (daughter of George Guy Goodelle and Edith Baker) was born on 22 Aug 1902; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Residence:
They have lived in Geneva, New York. Pelham Manor. New York. Dayton, Ohio.
South Orange, New Jersey, and presently reside at 270 Boston Post Road in Weston, Massachusetts.

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Luther had a fine sense of humor and priceless smile. He was a strict and respected father.

Luther and Elsie devoted their time to stimulating their children's ambitions. When the boys were in their teens, they decided they would like to raise chickens. Instead of giving the boys the initial investment, Luther took them to the bank and the transaction was handled in a business- like manner. Because the boys were minors, Luther endorsed their note, but the boys paid it all back in a year and a half, as they sold chickens and eggs.

Luther was always busy at something. He became interested in automobiles when they were new and kept abreast, all his life. He was a skilled mechanical engineer and was foreman of A.Y.Gray Company in Poultney, manufacturers of Ruggles engines. The plant burned down just after World War I. Luther then turned to selling Pierce Arrow automobiles, and he was still in the automobile business when he died. He was always fixing automobiles and his son recalls that before garages were common, the back yard was always full of cars which he fixed for his friends.

When he was in his late fifties, he developed a great interest in the old family homestead and farm which at that time was owned by his son, Durward Stephen. Although Elsie would not go there to live. Luther took over the direction of the farm and it is one of the few times that the farm made money.

Luther and Elsie both coordinated well and liked sports and dancing. They lived in Poultney, Vermont until about 1920 when they moved to Rutland, Vermont. Luther was a Mason, and Warden of the Episcopal vestry in both places.

Luther married Elsie May Farr on 26 Apr 1898. Elsie (daughter of Charles Farr and Mary King) was born on 28 Apr 1880 in Raceville, Washington, New York, USA; died on 9 Apr 1944 in Rutland, Vermont, USA; was buried in East Poultney, Rutland, Vermont, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

George married Edith Baker. Edith and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]