Dear Genie, I did in deed, thanks for the SP CK.
The funeral was today in Easton Meeting near albany New York, the site of the "Peace Feather" story, which I wrote a song about, for thouse of you with my CD, and the words are posted somewhere here about, the song being The Ballad of Judith Folger. The meeting house dates from a few years after the peace feather incident, which was about 1777, the "new" meeting house is 1790 about... amazing place. It was a well attended meeting and I sang the new song at his grave as his ashes were burried.
The peace feather is still over the door of the new meeting, still a white goose feather, though not 200 + years old. I have been invited to come up on the aniversery of the incident, which is celibrated every year since the 1770's, to sing my ballad about Zeb Hoxie and the Mohawks et al.
Gene was well remembered by all, many who were children with him in that meeting, seven decades back.
Cheers all,
Larry