Mrs. Moffatt lived on a rural route outside Limerick, NY.
Limerick, a hamlet in Jefferson County of northwest New York, lies near the northern end of Lake Ontario.
(The Post Office in Limerick closed in 1998.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limerick,_New_York
In September of 1923, Mrs. Moffatt was celebrating a birthday.
We have seen another postcard story related to this event – Mrs. Moffatt was ninety years old.
She received a postcard greeting from Olive Allison – her granddaughter.
Olive mailed the postcard from Dexter, a village of Jefferson County in northwest New York State.
Dexter lies on the Black River, near Black River Bay – an arm of Lake Ontario.
Limerick is less than 2 miles north of Dexter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dexter,_New_York
The face of the postcard exemplifies the simpler designs that characterized postcard art after World War I – and the end of European dominance of postcard printing.
Here, a group of swans gather at the bank of a stream that winds between trees in a rural landscape.
A high bridge crosses the stream in the background.
Beside the illustration is a printed legend:
Congratulations
“May you live all the days of your life”
The invocation is attributed to “Swift”, but I am rather certain that this is not the great English satirist, Jonathan Swift.
The postcard was printed by Owen Card Publishing Company of Elmira, NY.
On the reverse, Olive writes, “Wishing you a very happy birthday”.
One hopes that Mrs. Moffatt was pleased by the pretty postcard, that she enjoyed a wonderful birthday, and that she and Olive remained correspondents for many years.
GENEALOGICAL NOTE
Nancy J. Buckminster was born in Jefferson County, NY in 1833; she was the daughter of Richard Buckminster (1800-1883) and Mary Polly Avery (1806-1845).
Nancy was the second-oldest child -she had five brothers.
In 1856, when she was 22, Nancy married James A. Moffatt (1830-1907).
The marriage was registered in Jefferson County, New York.
Nancy and James had a son Charles (1856-1924) and a daughter, Gertrude (1869-1963).
After James Moffatt died in 1907, Nancy remained a widow for 18 years -she died in her 92nd year in 1925.
