Rachel Aber ^{22,25,26,29,42,43,44}

   Another name for Rachel was Rachel Abner.

   User ID: Abne1505.

  General Notes:

in 1850 census was living with sister Jane, and Jane's husband George Bellus in Bath, New Jersey
purchased lot of about 1 acre for $100 in Hornellsville, New York on 23 Aug 1852
from Stephen Pierce; land was sold to Nathaniel Aber on 22 July 1857 for
$100 by Edward Plaisted and Rachel
granddaughter, Florence Plaisted, wrote the following about her: "I do remember my grandmother Plaisted as I made my home with her at different times when I was a child, my own mother having died when I was very young. They had a very large farm with a large house and big red barns. She was a very religious woman and drove her own horse and buggy to Rexville to Church every Sunday and in good weather to Prayer Meeting during this week. I have been with her many times. She afterward moved to Greenwood, N.Y., where she was a great worker in the Methodist Church. She was also a member of the W.C.T.U. She liked to read and had a good many books."

grandaughter, Mabel Scott Loeven, wrote the following about her:
"One of my earliest recollections is of being brought to see my grand-parents. They had a large many-roomed farmhouse about a mile from the nearest village. The living-room was dominated by a large "bay-window" filled with all kinds of flowering house-plants.
"In the center of the room stood a round coal stove whose red coals could be seen through its isinglass windows. And then my grandfather, always sitting in his wheelchair, for on account of his heart disease he could not lie down. We children had to be quiet.
"Grandfather died in 1897 and the funeral service was held in the large living toom, all the grown-ups in a semi-circle and the children on the floor in front. We cried because our parents did, although I wondered why my grandmother could cry since she was no "relation" to him.
"The house was immense with many rooms upstairs and down and an adjoining house for the farmer and his wife who ran the farm, with its many horses and cows. The house had many gables; "The House of Seven Gables," we children called it after we had read Hawthorne's famous story of that name.
"There were two barns, on of which was called the "horse-barn," and a granary where various grains were stored. We children found that a mouthful of wheat grain chewed for a long time made a good chewing gum.
"One of the horses was a large bay horse named Bill. He was very gentle and was the one assigned to Grandma Plaisted for her own use. Hitched to a small buggy, he took Grandma and her grandchildren everywhere. My little sister wanted to ride him, so Grandma lifted her to his back while he was fully harnessed and hitched to the buggy.
"When my sister Eva and I were about ten and twelve years old, we often spent Saturday and Sunday at my Grandmother's farm. We would walk the mile and a half to school on Friday morning, but in the afternoon instead of going home, we would walk about the same distance to my Grandmother's. Monday morning we reversed the process and I always cried when we had to leave. I remember that the upstairs bedroom where we slept had a large picture on the wall of "Moses in the Bulrushes."
"About a mile from the farm there was a small Methodist church attended by my Grandmother and us children when we visited her. Most fun were the ice cream festivals given to raise money for the church. The women cooked the vanilla-flavored custard and the men chopped the ice and turned the freezer handle. We children took pleasure in licking the dasher when it was removed all covered with delicious ice cream.
"grandmother was always doing things with her grandchildren. There was the candy-making -- taffy-colored molasses candy which was boiled and then pulled until it had the right consistency and then cut off in short chunks with the kitchen shears. We ate these with walnut meats which we cracked and picked ourselves, accompanied by her jokes and conundrums.
"Grandma had what seemed to me very grand clothes, the only item of which I remember is a black sealskin coat. The dresses were lined as they are today and many were trimmed with passementerie.
"Thanksgiving and Christmas we gathered at Grandma's for dinner -- aunts and uncles and fourteen grandchildren, if they all came. The delicious cakes were something to be remembered -- three-layered white cakes with cocanut frosting or layer cakes with a cooked raisin filling. My father, Grandma's only son-in-law, admitted that she was a very good cook.
"For Christmas presents the girls always recieved sterling silver, initialed teaspoons and a book. I have forgotten what the boys recieved. Long winter evenings she had pored over catalogs from the Methodist Book Concern in New York to find books suitable for children.
"Her garden was her pride and joy with all kinds of flowers and vegetables. I remember most vividly the climbing, fragrant sweet peas in delicate, pastel colors. In the Spring the seed catalogs arrived and we had fun helping to select the flower and vegetable seeds.
"When she became older, the beautiful farm was sold and she moved to a small house in Greenwood, N.Y., near her son, Edward, who operated a hardware store there. There she organized the Women's Christian Temperance Union and was active in the Methodist Church. Although there were other churches in the town, this one had the High School graduation exercises and she saw her grandchildren graduate, attend Sunday School, Epworth League and join the Church.
"Evenings Grandma and I often read to each toher or looked over the Methodist Discipline, hymn books and the magazine published by the Church.
"When she died at the age of seventy-four, she left no estate but some beautiful furniture and the remaining members of a grateful and sorrowing family."

Rachel married Edward Harmon Plaisted, son of James Harmon Plaisted and Mary A Smith, on 11 May 1857 in Bath, New York ²⁶.^,29 (Edward Harmon Plaisted was born on 30 July 1832 in Portland, Cumberland County, Maine ^2,25,26,42, died on 27 October 1897 ^2,25,42 and was buried in Old Rexville Cem, Rexville, Steuben County, New York.)