#11 Genealogy is what I do: A trip to Steuben County, New York looking for Knights and Rugars

This is a picture of Aunt Jean with the Jasper town Historian. My sister, Kathy, and I along with Aunt Jean and my cousin Margy traveled to Steuben County, New York last September. (I know it takes a long time for me to get these things written up!) We were looking for more information about our Knight and Rugar ancestors. We made plans to visit two different town halls, but only got to one of them. We had an appointment at the one in Greenwood, but nobody showed up,so as we were looking around we saw a sign for a historical society meeting at a church down the road, that was going on that evening, so we went. It was kind of fun meeting this group, but unfortunately none of them were researching the names we were looking for. We did find out that the town was presently without a town historian.
The next day we went to Jasper which is where we met Scott Chace pictured with Aunt Jean above. They had very little there that was helpful, but Scott took us to the historical society where we found a few tidbits and later he emailed me with information about graves.
So what did we learn? you ask. Someone had done some research on the Knight family and left a few pages of notes in a file at the historical society. So we were all over those taking pictures and making notes. It gave information about the children of William Knight and Paulina Burr as follows:
Lucinda married David Raymond who is burried in Hemlock, MI
Maria or Miria born 11/27/1825 married Will Bartow or Bartoo at Jasper, NY
Danl is listed as unmarried (I think that may be wrong)
Eliakim married Martha Broughton (although the census says his wife is Sarah)
Prudy or Prudence married Benj. Gallop
Alba or Alva born 1805 and died 1902 married Mary Wynn first and later E'beth Broughton

Alba is my great great great grandfather

We also visited a library in Jasper that had historical gazeteers for some years. We found my great great grandfather Moses Rugar listed as a carpenter and his father, John Rugar as a wagon maker. In another place it tells that John Rugar was of German parentage, was born at sea, during passage to this country, four days out from New York. During the war of 1812 the family lived in Albany and later in Saratoga and Yates Counties. he moved to Greenwood in 1851 where he lived until his death. His wife was Elizabeth Rowley.
Now back to the story of our trip. We found out that there was a man descended from the Knight family who still lived nearby, so we called and went to visit him. From what he could tell us we figured out that he was a 5th cousin.
Of course we also visited cemeteries and found some relatives, but the only direct ancestors were Moses Rugar and his wife Mary Colbath.