Bill Murray as FDR

An Internet search about a movie with Bill Murray as Franklin Roosevelt reveals a large number of hits. It seems that the movie is planned to be shot this fall in Hyde Park.

Laura Linney will play Daisy

The story covers one weekend in Hyde Park during a visit from the Queen and King of England and covers FDR’s rumored romantic relationship with his distant cousin, Margaret Suckley (Daisy). Daisy gifted the president with Fala, a Scottish Terrier. Fala outlived Roosevelt by seven years and is buried with him.

In 2007 we held the STFA annual meeting and dinner at the Suckley Mansion, also known as Wilderstein. The movie may be an HBO film rather than a studio movie. Keep your eye out for this one!

~~Patricia Fox

Ila Malloy examines her first foal for 2011

April 22 through April 29, 2011

By Ila Malloy-Stoutenburgh

I left my uncle in Burney with a casserole size apple pie and a refrigerator stuffed with finger foods and headed home after midnight, which would be the wee hours of April 23, 2011.

I departed a day early on the calendar, leaving Uncle Myles to spend his last visiting day with his daughter, her husband, and his sons privately. I had been unable to quit cleaning or cooking and it was driving him nuts.

"Come in and relax!" the king of the castle would order.

"No!" I’d yell back. "The Japanese are immaculate housekeepers, and I can’t leave this kitchen floor sticking to her feet!"

Insubordination and court martial pending, I explained to him that my husband Michael had no vehicle as the truck I’d left for him in the parking lot had failed to start and was in the shop. He seemed to accept that more than any other pressing issue which demanded I return home. Maybe my horse Layla was sending me signals, like the pacing the mares do before they let loose of their new life form.

As it turned out, the timing was auspicious. Arriving home, I found ranch hand Rich sleeping in his truck in the barn parking lot on night duty watching over Layla sometime around probably 3:30 AM. All was well and so I proceeded to the cabin and talked to Michael for an hour about the visit before turning in.

The next morning our hands covered the ranch chores, and I did site checks on the stock.

Rich stuck to his guns about taking night duty again, and so I went to bed Saturday night, glad for the relief, as Annie is looking like she’s competing with Layla for delivery.

At 11:24 PM the call came in over the walkie talkie announcing the arrival of our first foal of 2011, and was I glad to hear "He’s standing!" Sneaky Layla had done it again. Can’t leave her for twenty minutes, she’s going to lay down her baby alone. Incredible mare.

Her colt’s perfectly black tail ascends his spine in a dorsal strip, fuzzing out to what appeared to be the dorsal barbs of a grulla, with a silver dove rump and smutty face. Sociable from the beginning, it was hard to keep our hands to ourselves.

I couldn’t stop saying "Wow!" and repeating myself about the color and Layla’s performance as a brood mare. With Wilson, the palomino Appy colt at a year, she has more than paid for herself with this second super fine colt.

Relief gave way to exhaustion and I adjourned to bed again, sleeping easier now. Rich insisted he stick out the night for Annie, who now seemed inspired, letting down beads of milk, anticipating her own foal.

The week went by in a bleary blur of interrupted naps. I slept in my car. I slept in the barn. I listened. I watched the milk beading and falling off, walked the mare, brushed and fussed while observing all of the signs of pending labor.

In the end I nearly let down my vigilance , when I went back up to the barn at about 11:15 PM. When I had left her, Annie was continuing to eat with appetite. I had taken photos of the dipping haunches on either side of her tail, which bore the last tail wrap of red. It is written that if the mare is feeding normally, it is unlikely she will produce that night.

When I opened the barn door, I heard no greeting as had met my entrance every previous time, and I was apprehensive it was too late. However, Annie’s bright eyes met mine, and I saw no baby in the stall, which was excessively messy for the short time. I let her into the inner paddock and went to work cleaning. She laid down.

I watched her bite her sides and switch her tail and lay out her head and I began to work harder on the stall. I had just wheeled out the barrow to the barn doors and turned around to look when she got up.

Looking back at me, she let loose a gush and the labor proceeded. I cannot at this time go over the event so much as I brought my camera out and videoed as much as I could under the circumstances, but the world saw the arrival of the red filly at 11:34 PM on April 28, 2011.

This is the first filly by our stallion IM Diamond Cutter, who we brought out in 2005 from Texas to California to start our own line of the American Quarter Horse. Similarly my great grandfather Albert Chauncey Stoutenburg imported the Hambletonian, a Standardbred horse, from the East Coast to Montana during his day. I have a picture of his wife, my great grandmother with this horse. Interesting how generations who never knew each other were similarly inspired.

Collingwood, Ontario, Canada (Downtown)

This year I have received many letters from interested and helpful family members who are contributing to our understanding the migration of part of our family post Revolutionary War. The line of Peter Stoutenburg, husband of Caroline Ashton, was established in Collingwood, Ontario, Canada. If you are of this lineage, please contact us, as we have much to share and invite your submissions to our forum.

Lanaii Kline has created an online group to survive the closing of our original private community which was closed by Microsoft Network earlier this year. We are seeking our participants who contributed and also would like to inform you that the content from that site has been saved. You are invited to rejoin us in our new online location. Please advise me should you wish to do so and I will direct you to Lanaii who also wears the hat of our Newsletter Editor.

Many thanks to Lanaii for all of her contributions throughout the years. She has completed this year’s edition and it has been distributed through the postal service. A copy of it is available to view at the group site. You should have received yours by now. Please let us know if you have missed yours.

Our annual meeting is imminent. Please contact us for more particulars should you be in the area during this next weekend.

Travel safely and we can’t wait to see you!

Ila Malloy
STFA Web Manager

In Memory of JACOBUS STOUTENBURGH Born 1696 Died 1772 who in 1742 became the first white resident of record on the Flatts, south of Crum Elbow Creek, where subsequently the village of Hyde Park was built and who owned many acres of land in Dutchess County under the Patent of the Great Nine Partners. He married May 25th, 1717 MARGARET TELLER of Teller's Point, Westchester Co. Born 1696 Died 1789

As another year’s annual newsletter is on its way to our members, look to your mailboxes for your issue.

Thanks once again to my lifelong friend Lynnea Jones for chauffeuring me to the FDR Library and Museum last October 2008. Among other items, the library houses files pertaining to Maud Stoutenburgh Eliot, a founding member of our Association, and a priceless collection of Hudson River Valley maps and antique documents bearing red wax seals, handwritten in India ink.

I also photographed many items from the collection at the William Stoutenburgh house.

The Dutch Reformed Church in Hyde Park still houses the memorial plaque, dedicated to Jacobus by FDR, preserved on the wall behind plexiglass. The Post Office mural collection funded by FDR shows in vibrant detail the artist’s concept of Jacobus’ people clearing the land.

At town hall a magnificent mosaic heads the conference room and the clerks there were very helpful gathering information from their records.

This year our contacts have increased at our growing website inviting praise and criticism. The internet is infinite in its potential to inform and misinform. We are wise to be cautious and continue to research and verify sources as we collect items of historical interest.

Please provide alternate means to reach you by mail and telephone as well as e-mail when you contact us. When contacting us through the website, please check your e-mail junk (also known as spam and bulk) folders for replies which you may be missing.

Thank you for the honor of the title of Family Historian.

Ila Malloy

We are delighted to present Gloria Waldron Hukle, who has contacted us through this website to introduce her work. We look forward to reading her books! The following is reprinted with her permission.

IMS Malloy

Gloria Waldron Hukle

Gloria Waldron Hukle, a native and resident of New York State is an llth generation Waldron in the line of the New York Dutch Waldron who emigrated to New Amsterdam (NYC) from Holland mid-l7th century settling on the corner of present day Wall Street and B’Way and later Harlem. Hukle is the author of three well-researched historical novels that comprise the "Waldron Series Books." More information to be found at Author Gloria Waldron Hukle website.

The First of the series is Manhattan: Seeds of the Big Apple, the story of Resolved Waldron, his second wife, Tennake, and his three young children by his deceased first wife, Rebecca Hendricks, who came over with him to the raw new world…William, Rebecca, and Aeltie. The story travels a period of ten years spanning the distance from Holland, onward through the journey over, to the family’s first steps upon American soil where they began a new life with Waldron serving Peter Stuyvesant as his assistant night sheriff–to the final closing scenes when the English took over in l664.

The children are active participants in this Manhattan story and the reader is invited to share the family’s growing years. One is also introduced to young Miss Engeltje Stoutenburg with whom the teenage William became enchanted. Of course, we know from the records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New York that William Waldron (William & Engeltje are Hukle’s 9th generation grandparents) marries Engeltje February l0, l671.

William Waldron and his wife Engeltje Stoughtenburg Waldron produced several children. Their son, Peter Waldron, most likely named for his grandfather, Peter Stoutenburg migrated north to Albany circa l699. He had married Catharina Vandenbergh in Sept. l698 and the couple parented ten children. Peter Waldron and his Cate are portrayed in Hukle’s, Threads: An American Tapestry just published May 2009 which opens in l723 with the New York Provincial census.

The Diary of a Northern Moon is a mystery connecting old local lore set in more contemporary times in the small hamlet of North Creek, New York, Lake George, and Albany. Two men return from World War II. One dies and the other keeps a secret that turns him inside out until l976 when a murder forces out the truth.

Gloria Waldron Hukle’s books are sold via Barnes & Noble or Amazon. Signed copies can be ordered through Good Buy Books in East Greenbush, New York, 518-479-2665 or Hoss’s Country Corner, Long Lake, New York. 1-800-952-HOSS, in Albany, Stuyvesant Book House.