Wisteria

I have mentioned before that I frequently find myself doing research on local people who lived here in the past. I ran across the phrase “home of a thousand voices” in a fictional work recently ( The Star-Touched Queen by Roshani Chokshi). I thought it a fitting phrase, for I often find myself listening for the voices of those who have gone before and there are many. (The hard part is putting together this post and trying to get all the sources accurate.) Most came from other areas originally, settling here briefly before moving on to other realms, whether otherworldly or otherwise. Take the case of little Kate Mary, 6 month old daughter of James H. Metcalfe and his wife Erzelia. Little Kate was certainly from here, she was born here. She also died here and was buried in the Jefferson Street Cemetery. According to records of St. John's Episcopal Church in Ellicottville, Kate Mary was buried from there on August 11, 1854. She was six months and eleven days old.[1] There are