Surnames: Krom, Crawford, Alsdorf, Barnhart, Churchwell, Frost, Lawrence, Mansfield, Gray, Tompkins.

This is the history of my family in the Township of Rochester and surrounding areas of Ulster County, New York. My Grandfather, Myron Charles Krom, left behind a box of photographs, about 200 and most of the photos were labeled. This box of photos set me on this quest to know who these people were.


The Krom & Crawford Families came across the vast ocean to a great unknown in the early 1600‘s, they came here for a variety of reasons and participated in the birth of America. Living in the colonial era was difficult and required lots of hard work, these people helped to tame a country. Many of our forbearers fought in the American Revolution, for the right to be free from England.

The Civil War was another defining event in the course of our great county. The Krom & Crawford Families participated in the Civil War. Johannes Alsdorf and Nelson Weeks (from the Crawford line) both served in the 56th regiment.

I hope you find this site useful.

• World War I Draft Card of Roy Krom (129 KB)
  .
• Hannah Casey (13 KB)
  She is 4 months old
• Hannah Casey at Hazel Mountain (24 KB)
  Hannah is at Hazel Mountain located in Luray, Virgina. The elev. is 2775 ft. At Hazel River Falls, the stream drops 30 feet into a pool ringed by tall cliffs in the shape of a natural amphitheater.
• Hannah Casey with her mother Ethel (17 KB)
  .
• Inez, Jake & Minnie (9 KB)
  Oct. 17, 1959
• Issac Krom (18 KB)
  My Great Great Grandfather
• Isaac #3 - Isaac B Krom - 1850 census Mabletown (73 KB)
  In 1850 Isaac B Krom was a Tailor living in the home of Mr. Depue, who was also a Tailor. Isaac B. was single and age 28.
• Jacob Crawford Family (28 KB)
  .
• Isaac #4 - Isaac B Krom 1850 Marbletown (73 KB)
  There is a 4th Isaac I have found, he is also a Tailor, age 31 and he is living in the home of Peter P Krom. I will need to do a little more research on him.
• Jerusa Krom Churchwell (27 KB)
  .
• Julia Crosby (16 KB)
  12 25 1916
• The Krom Family Home (17 KB)
  .
• Lizzie Crawford (10 KB)
  .
• Isaac #1 Isaac W Krom 1850 Rochester Census (61 KB)
  Here is my Isaac listed with his wife Elizabeth Quick and 1st child Mary. Isaac & Elizabeth married August 21, 1847 at the First Dutch Reformed Church, Rochester, Ulster, New York
• Isaac #1 - Isaac W Krom 1860 Rochester Census (94 KB)
  My Isaac again with his wife and children in Rochester.
• Isaac #4 - Isaac B Krom - 1860 Wawarsing Census (63 KB)
  Isaac B is now living in the home of John Thompson, a Merchant Tailor in Wawarsing. His age is 41.
• Myron Charles Krom (12 KB)
  Myron was born April 2, 1907 in Wawarsing, 11th child of William & Mary Krom. He was a carpenter who built houses and furniture in the Ulster Cty area. He also was a butcher working at Lake Mohonk and Lake Minnawaska; as well as the Flamingo Hotel in Miami Beach, Fl. He died Nov 3, 1993 in Winter Park, FL.
• Lorn Crawford (11 KB)
  .
• Arthur Daniel Krom (8 KB)
  Born March 18, 1902 in Rochster, he was 8th child of William & Mary Krom. In 1930 he worked as a Motorman at Stok Railway. He married Erna Rexhouse from Toronto. He died November 27, 1990 in Poughkeepsie.
• Krom Headstone (35 KB)
  This headstone stands at the Sandhill Krom Cemetery.
• Roscoe William Krom (18 KB)
  Born September 1, 1899, he is the 7th child of William & Mary Krom. In 1930 he worked as a chef at a private intitution. He married Nettie Millard of Staasburg. He died June 26, 1988.
• Lovina Krom with Elsie & Sam Dunesmith (26 KB)
  At Lake Mohonk
• Della Rose Krom (20 KB)
  Born April 22, 1896, she is the 5th child of William & Mary Krom. In 1920 she was a teacher at an elementary school in Wawarsing. She married Cornelius Irwin. She died November 8, 1988.
• Mary Catherine & William Henry Krom (26 KB)
  .
• Lovina Catherine Krom (16 KB)
  Born November 2, 1889, she is the 3rd child of William & Mary Krom. She married Louis Lafin. She died May 12, 1988.
• Mary Catherine Crawford (14 KB)
  .
• Lucy Ida Krom (32 KB)
  Born July 28, 1884, she is the 1st child of William & Mary Krom. She married Ira Bonesteel. She died December 31, 1966.
• Mary Catherine Krom (40 KB)
  .
• Anna Krom (19 KB)
  Born December 27,1892, she is the 4th William & Mary Krom. In 1930 she workrd in a shirt factory in Kingston. She married Robert Osterhoudt. She died March 10, 1988.
• Milton Schiebel (31 KB)
  .
• Myron Krom building a house (18 KB)
  .
• Myron & Hannah Krom (16 KB)
  .
• Myron Krom, the Butcher (15 KB)
  .
• Roscoe & Arthur Krom (13 KB)
  Canoeing on Lake Minnawaska. It is family lore that many of my Krom ancestors worked at the Lake Minnawaska Resort, which was opened June 14, 1879. For more information on Lake Minnawaska please visit the link at the bottom of this page.
• Billy Lafin (13 KB)
  Born October 7, 1918, he is the 1st child of Louis & Lovina Lafin. He died in 1940.
• The Bonesteel Family (15 KB)
  Ira Bonesteel marred Lucy Krom March 31, 1906. Their children Raymond is on the left, born July 21, 1908, Marguerite in the back, born February 25, 1907 and Dotothy January 06, 1913.
• Camping (12 KB)
  Myron Krom at Cape Pond
• Charles Churchwell (9 KB)
  Charles is the son of Jacob & Jerusa (Krom)Churchwell. He was born 1887 & died in 1895. He had a brother Ben who was born 1889 and died in 1891. Jerusa died in 1894. I find this interesting, I find myself wondering about deaths all happen between 1891 & 1895.
• Myron Krom (13 KB)
  The week before my grandfather died, he went and visited his friends one final time. He use to come to my house every day and read the paper and ask us "What's new?" This was taken the day before he died. He was found holding a photo of my grandmother Hannah, she had died in the seventies.
• Charles, Ross & Rosa Crosby (10 KB)
  .
• Nettie Krom (27 KB)
  After the death of her mother, Nettie took over the care of the family. She never married and stayed with her father until his death between 1900-1910. SHe died shortly after.
• Clarence, Pauline & Lovina Krom (14 KB)
  .
• Raymond Bonesteel (11 KB)
  .
• Della & Myron Krom in front of the old shop (20 KB)
  .
• Roscoe & Arthur Krom (19 KB)
  .
• Dot Bonesteel (19 KB)
  .
• Roscoe Krom & Aunt Anna dog (24 KB)
  .
• Egbert Alsdorf (14 KB)
  .
• Sandra Rockafeller (12 KB)
  She is the 3rd child of Howard & Olive Rockefeller. She was murdered August 4 ---- in Poughkeepsie.
• Ross & Selina Crawford (25 KB)
  .
• William Schiebel (16 KB)
  He is the first husband of Minnie Crawford and fathered 3 children, I have no further information on him.
• World War I Draft Card of Augustus Bonesteel (66 KB)
  Augustus Gilbert Bonesteel was drafted at the age of 38,
• World War I Draft Card of Cornelius Irwin (59 KB)
  .
• Eli Jonas &Jacob Crawford (29 KB)
  .
• Eli Jonas Crawford & Selina Gray (15 KB)
  .
• Elting Crosby (20 KB)
  .
• John & Ethel Lawrence (23 KB)
  .
• Ezra Krom & Willie Corn (10 KB)
  .
• World War I Draft Card of Egbert Alsdorf (49 KB)
  .
• Fishing (21 KB)
  Myron Krom is on the far left and John Lawrence is 2nd from the right, they are Cape Pond with a few friends and a bunch of fish.
• World War I Draft Card of Fredrick Lafin (46 KB)
  .
• Fishing (21 KB)
  Myron Krom is 3rd from the left & John Lawrence is 3rd from the right and again they are showing a great catch. Both of my grandfathers loved the outdoors, John Larence owned a camp at Cape Pond in the Catskill Mountains of New York.
• World War I Draft Card of Howard Davis (53 KB)
  .
• Flamingo Hotel (24 KB)
  In 1920 Carl Fisher built the Flamingo Hotel, a two-million-dollar undertaking with quite an elaborate design. Myron Krom worked as a butcher at the Flamingo in the early 1940's.
• World War I Draft Card of Howard Perry (51 KB)
  .
• George Crosby (13 KB)
  .
• World War I Draft Card of James Casey (60 KB)
  .
• Hannah & Myron Krom (12 KB)
  .
• World War I Draft Card of Lorin Crawford (54 KB)
  .
• World War I Draft Card of Micheal Casey (51 KB)
  .
• World War I Draft Card of Richard Irwin (57 KB)
  .
• World War I Draft Card of William Van de Bogart (58 KB)
  .
• World War I Draft Card of George Sharpe Krom (218 KB)
  In 1918 George was a Manufacturer. He lived at the Baltimore Hotel located at 501 Los Anegeles St, Los Angeles Cal. He had grey eyes and brown, he had a medium height and build.

• Isaac Krom #3- Report of Isaac B Krom (1 KB)
  This Isaac was a Tailor in Marbletown in 1850 & 1860. As I find more information on him I will update.
• Krom Family Hypothosis - Report of Reuban Krom (33 KB)
  My effort to discover who Isaac W Krom (my G-G-Grandfather) involves researching all Kroms in the Township of Rochester in Ulster County, New York. Rueban Krom is shown in the 1840 census with a male child between the ages of 15 & 20 living in his home, this falls in the correct age group to be Isaac. Since Reuban is 80 years of age, this child must be a grandchild. I am still trying to determine who he is.
• Krom Family Hypothosis - Report of Lucas Krom (37 KB)
  It is more likly that Lucas is the father of Isaac W Krom. He is shown in 1840 with a male child 15-20 living in his home.But the 1840 census also shows Lucas Jr with a male child between 15-20 living in his home. I am fairly certain that Isaac has always lived in Rochester, so one of these 3 children must be him.
• Isaac Krom #2 - Report of George R Krom (5 KB)
  There is a lot of confusion regarding Isaac Krom. There are 3 of them that live in Ulster County, New York. The Isaac found in this report was born in about 1828, lived in Marbletown. As I find out more information I will update

• Colonial America 1600-1775
• History of Shandaken, Phoenicia & Woodland Valley
• Cousin Connect: My queries
• History of the Ulster Guard, 20th New York Militia
• Photos from Lake Mohonk Mountain House
• History of Town of Wawarsing
• History of the 56th New York Vol Infantry
• History of Ashokan Reservoir
• Cindi's List - New York
• The Hoferer Family Tree
• Early History of New York State
• To purchase copies of Ulster County, New York Will Testators
• This link has useful information on Ulster County, New York
• eBay - Genealogy Section
• Ulster County Archives
• Names who took oath of Allegiance Ulster Cty, NY, 1689
• History of the Town of Rochester, Ulster County, NY
• Neversink formed from Rochester, Ulster Co. March 16, 1798
• Fine Lineage - Krom
• Tina Sini's Web page
• Genealogy Planet
• Early American Maps
• Historical New York Times Project
• New York State Historical Maps
• Tax Assessment List for the County of Ulster, 1716/7
• Death Inquisition Taken at the Dwelling House of N Keeter
• Historical Maps of New England
• Ulster County NY Message Board
• 18th New York Infanrty Vol
• The Van de Bogart Family
• USGENWEB Ulster County, New York
• Ulster County Genealogy Society Web Page

Christina Sini
tsini@earthlink.net

Edit Your Page