From:
Julie Pomykala juliepomykala@yahoo.com
Sent: Apr 3, 2013
Subject: Cresson
Hi Charles,
My name is Julie.
My grandfather spent a total of 4 years at Cresson. My father has told us many stories of grandfather's battle with
TB. My grandfather was first sent there when my dad was about 10 and spent about a year in the hospital. He then
had to go back and spent another 2 1/2 yrs when my dad was in 10th grade. He told me how my pap used to make dolls and
sell them for $1 and he still has one of the wallets. Like so many others, it was very hard on my dad's family with
their father being away a total of about 4 years.
He saw the program on tv about the hospital and purchased
the DVD. I would like to see if there is anyone out there who may remember my grandfather. His name was John Boor.
He lived in Glassport, PA with his wife Ann and sons Robert and John. He was in Cresson in 1952/1953 and then again
approx 1957-1960.
I'm not sure how to find someone that may have known him but I'm hoping your
website will help. I know my father would love to speak to someone who can tell him about his dad's time at Cresson.
Thank you Charles. It is a wonderful thing you have done bringing these people back together.
Sincerely,
Julie
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Subject: Cresson Date: Jul 1, 2013
My grandmother's brother died while a TB patient of Cresson Sanatorium.
I found his obituary in the Warren Evening Times, Friday May 17, 1918 page 10.
"John Lind age 33 Cresson Sanitarium. Son of late John Lind. Body arrived by PRR train Thursday
morning and removed to home of his brother Charles Lind of Oil City, Pennsylvania. Services by Rev. Ebert. John
Lind was a member of Good Hope Lutheran Church. He is survived by his brother's Charles of Oil City, Harrison of
Rockland, sister's Lulu Lind of Warren, and Mrs. Ernest Foley of Greenville. He is buried in Grove Hill Cemetery, Oil City, Venango County, Pennsylvania."
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From:
Gammy1000@aol.com
Sent: Jan 22, 2013 1:33 PM
To: charlesfelton@earthlink.com
Subject: Mother
Hello Mr. Felton,
my name is Nancy Jane McCrerey Blackwell. My Mother was a patient in Cresson Sanitarium from approx.1948 until her death
in 1951. We lived in Claysville Pennsylvania. Her name was Nancy Elizabeth Wheat McCrerey. She was 32 years old at her
death. My dad came to visit her and sometimes brought my sister and me with him. We were only allowed to see her
when she came out onto a porch or balcony of some kind. She would wave and toss us kisses to us. We were very
young. I was about five years old and my sister was four. She did come home one time for a day but we weren't
allowed to hug her. We couldn't understand why.
I remember my sister and I had to go to a clinic or
hospital fairly often for shots of some kind for a what seemed to us a long time after she went into the hospital.
She died in 1951 and my dad remarried about 18 months later, he had two little girls who needed a mother. I barely remember
my mother and of course my sister doesn't remember her at all. My dad passed away last month at the age of
93. I hope you can include her in your information about Cresson. My address is gammy1000@aol.com. Thanks for your efforts in keeping the memory of Cresson alive.
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