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Hi everyone...Missed a day n yesterday since no wireless access,, so here goes:

Saturday..June 16
Left hotel after good nites rest....drove about 2 miles to Fair Lawn Cemetery in Buffalo....It is a very large and well kept cemetery and ver impressive, particularly with so many huge, artistic quality granite monuments...There wqas even a composite large monument presentation designede by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1928....We visited the Family plot of President Millard Fillmore with just a few headstones enclosed The largest memorial was a pink granite obelisk which desinated him as President etc...but was more moving were tyhe 4 tiny upright granite slabs which were placed directly over the graves...A very small weathered one was his which just had the initials M. P. F. etched on it...It certainly suggested his simple character and frugality!..A somewhat larger one indicated his wife, Abigail and the other 2 were their children...I saw a tiny American Flag withiun the closure evidently dropped from a ceremonial wreath for Memorial day...and reached in and took it for my cillection as a mimento...as I told him, "Thanks"..! for doing his part to continue the progress of the USA..

When the visit was concluded we left to return near the hotel and to Teddy Roosevelt's Inaugural site...He had been Vice-President to McKinley..and had filled in for him at the Pan-American Exposition when it was opened...and a few days later Mckinley visited on President's Day...and while shaking hands in the crowd was shot at point blank by an american zealot who tried to "make his place in history"....The President survfived...and Teddy remainede at thisw Wilcox Mansion as a guest of Col. Wilcox his friend,,,After about 4 days as the President appeared to be recovering...Teddy left to join his family at vacation in the Adirondacks,,,when he was urgently summoned to return at the sudden unexpected death of the President...A ceremonial Oath of Office was programmed by the Sec'y of War and the oath administered by a Federal Judge...About 40 VIP's attendend. It evidently was a sad and emotional Inauguration with many participants, including Roosevelt shedding tears! The house was immense and regal...My book will disclose more...

We the immediately dashed...really sped to the next location which was the home of Millard Fillmore..which was in East Aurora, NY....The home was quite large and impressive...but nothing similar to the Wilcox Mansion we had juswtr visited...Fillmore was a poor man with only an 8th grade education, nand had been trained in several trades after serving various apprenticeships....but belatedly took the necessary steps to serve apprenticeships with various lawyers and finally passed the bar exams for the practice of law...He really became educated after his marriage to Abigail who was several years his senior...She had been a school teacher and straightened him out! More will come in my book...getting interested???

We the drove west again to just beyond the Ohio border where we found lodging and dinner! ZZZzzzz....




Now we reach today..Father's Day...JUne 17

Warren Harding...James A Garfield and Rutherford B. Hayes....one after aqnother today...miles apart...but it will have to wait 'till tomorrow...too tired!...Nitey-nite!