Name/Title
Hapeman/Tremper/Griffing family papers - Finding AidEntry/Object ID
2017.008.002Scope and Content
Family papers relating to Sue Crane's ancestors, including Hapeman Tremper marriage certificates, Griffing family bible, Hapeman/Tremper/Griffing financial and land records.
See also Tremper genealogy - 2018.008.001.
Finding Aid
Repository
Sue Tremper Crane Collection Finding Aid produced May 2018, revised 2022
Historic Red Hook 7562 North Broadway Red Hook, NY 12571
Accession Number
2017.008
Title
Sue Tremper Crane Collection
Extent
One document box with family papers, seven oversize certiOicates and one photograph.
Dates
1870s-1940s [inclusive]
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions
Languages
English
Scope and Content
Documents including marriage certiOicates, family bible, photograph and Oinancial and land records relating to Sue Tremper Crane’s ancestors – Tremper, Hapeman and GrifOing families. Also a genealogical publication by Priscilla Leith Tremper on the Tremper Family.
Oversize Document Box contents:
Marriage CertiOicate, Sylvester Stall, Union Corners, NY and Luella Hapeman, Milan, NY Married in Red Hook, Jan 29, 1874 Hapeman/Tremper/GrifOing
Marriage CertiOicate, Joseph GrifOing and Emma Nesbit, Feb 24, 1873, Riverhead Long Island.( bad shape)
Marriage CertiOicate, Pascal l. Tremper and Dorothy N. GrifOing, July 2, 1932, colored print Married in Red Hook, St. Paul’s Lutheran Church of Red Hook
Marriage CertiOicate, Nelson Hapeman, Red Hook, and Catharine Hanever sp?), Red Hook, Jan 18, 1871, Red Hook. St. Paul’s Lutheran Church of Red Hook
Marriage CertiOicate, Harold W. GrifOing, Red Hook, and Alma I. Hapeman, Red Hook, Feb 21, 1903. St. Paul’s Lutheran Church of Red Hook
Grammar School certiOicate, Joseph GrifOing, 1907
Red Hook Honor Roll, Courtesy of SchefOler Lumber Company. List as of October, 1945, rolled up.
Document Box contents:
Soft leather-bound Family Bible, belonging to Dorothy GrifOing, given by her Grandma June (sp?), Xmas 1914. Family records written in the back, Several family obituaries found loose in the bible.
Grammar school book belonging to Josepg GrifOing, Will of Joseph GrifOing
Financial and land records relating to house on Prince Street,
Names – Pascal Tremper, Harold W. GrifOing (1938, 1946, Elmer Hapeman (brother of Alma, and William and Harry Hapeman)
Biographical/Historical Note
Sue Tremper was born in Red Hook and her great grandfather was Joseph GrifOing who managed Red Hook’s Baker’s Chocolate Factory. Sue married William Crane and served as Town Supervisor
Provenance
No deed of gift for documents has been found. Deed of gift for photograph and genealogy publication signed 6/27/17 is in the accession Oile.
Copyright Notice
Courtesy of Historic Red Hook
Related Materials
See video history interviews conducted by Seth Kramer and Christopher Klose and by Red Hook High School students.
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Finding Aid Author: Claudine Klose, 2022Collection
Sue Tremper Crane Collection
