by Roxy Triebel
treebz65@hotmail.com

Freeman Swartout Barringer (1854-1927) married Elnora Kerr (1856-1929) in 1873 and these photos were probably taken about that time.  These tiny (a little over an inch tall) ferrotypes (more commonly known as "tintypes") are in pretty good condition, considering that they don't appear to have been kept in protective cases.  Elnora still has a faint pink tint on her cheeks.  Freeman, on the other hand, is afflicted with a bit of rust and a few scratches.  They turned out quite well considering that when I scanned them, the originals were a dark murky yellow ick color.  Since ferrotypes are positives, and therefore mirror images, I also "flipped" them digitally.

• Transcription of a 1953 newspaper clipping about the impending demolition of the Cohen Farm where Freeman and Elnora had spent their last twenty years.

• My mother's recollections of the house at Cohen Farm.

• My grandmother's recollections of her Barringer grandparents

 Freeman Barringer in his pumpkin patch.  Photo from some time in the 1920s?

 Elnora (Kerr) Barringer sometime in the 1920s?

Freeman and Elnora lived in several different places.  I have photos of a couple of them, but the only one that I currently have scanned and posted is the house where they lived in the 1920s.  This was a lovely old farmhouse on Hurley Avenue in Kingston, Ulster Co., NY that was demolished in 1953 to make room for the New York State Thruway.  Just to the west of this farm was a huge vacant area that could easily have been used, but the state government seemed to think it was necessary to destroy this old colonial-era farmhouse instead.  The place was usually known as "Cohen's farm" (this was the name of the people who actually owned it - the Barringers rented it from them and were caretakers).  Elnora once told my grandmother that its name was "Glen Burnie Farm", but Grandma doesn't recall anyone else ever referring to it that way.

Cohen Farm house 1917	Cohen Farm house date unknown	Cohen Farm house date unknown
waterfall at Cohen Farm 1923	pond and summerhouse date unknown	Summerhouse at Cohen Farm 1953

 (left to right) Roxy (Van Kleeck) Yerry, Elnora (Kerr) Barringer, Hattie (Barringer) Personeus in front of Cohen Farm house in the late 1910s or early 1920s?

 Interior of the house, showing part of the Cohens' extensive antique collection.  Date of this photo is unknown.

 Amelia/Emilia (Riccobono) Weyhe, one of the 1940s-era owners of the house.  She taught my mother's piano class at this house in the 1940s.  This picture of her appears to possibly date from the 1910s or 1920s?

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