Emma Toof. Courtesy of Laurie M. Deredita Born: 1856, daughter of Charles Stewart Toof and his wife Philura Hayes
Died: June 10, 1938
Emma E. Toof was the last of the pioneers of Bloomingdale and St. Armand. Trained at Oswego Normal School, Miss Toof taught in the school between Saranac Lake and Bloomingdale (maybe the former St. Armand District No. 3 school on the Bloomingdale Road) for more than 25 years.
Essex County Republican, June 17, 1938
Miss Emma Toof
Miss Emma Toof, 81 years old, the daughter of the late Charles F. Toof and Philura Hayes Toof, who gave the town of St. Armand and the village of Bloomingdale their names, died on Friday morning June 10th, at her home on Saranac Avenue, Bloomingdale. Miss Toof's death occurred in the house which she had occupied since she was seven years of age. She was the last of the pioneers in this village. Her birth place was a log cabin on a farm near the present Bloomingdale station. Her Father and mother came from Canada in 1842. Miss Toof, who was a graduate of Oswego Normal School, taught in the school between Saranac Lake and Bloomingdale for more than 25 years. She was the first organist at the M. E. Church here for nearly half a century. Before health failed she was interested in different organizations.
Miss Toof suffered from a fractured shoulder several weeks ago and had been a patient in Saranac Lake General Hospital. She returned to her home about three weeks ago.
Funeral services were held in the Methodist Church on Sunday afternoon, of which she was a life long member. The Rev. J. O. Masel conducting the services. Burial was in the family plot in Brookside Cemetery.
Her survivors are a niece, Mrs. Charles White of Bloomingdale, a grand-nephew, Roland White, who was residing with her at the time of her death, a grand-nephew, Stuart White of Saranac Lake, a grandniece, Mrs. Hance Williams, a grandniece, Clara White and a grandnephew, Frederick White of Saranac Lake.
Adirondack Daily Enterprise, August 3, 1976
Bloomingdale
By Mrs. Dorothy White
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Toof of South Colton called on Dorothy White on Monday afternoon; their daughter, Arlene De Persiis of Brooklyn accompanied them. Toof's father was a brother of Emma Toof and Lydia Hayes and they are trying to trace some of the others in the family. It was interesting to talk with them about the house as it was years ago. He also recalls hearing that Emma Toof rode behind her father on horseback from Keeseville before there was a road. They have often wondered (and some of the rest of the family has also) what happened to Clara Toof White's father — he ran a meat market a little below where Jim Emmons lives now, what was later called the Will Bigelow property.
