Descendant of the Hyatt Family Visits Cudner Hyatt House

This week, Carolyn Mehta and Barbara MacDonald from the Scarsdale Historical Society welcomed Guen Sublette from Colorado to her ancestral home, the Cudner Hyatt House, currently the headquarters of the Scarsdale Historical Society. Guen came to Scarsdale to see the house where her great great grandparents Oliver and Sarah Bates Hyatt lived and her great grandfather was born. After touring the house, the group also visited the graveyard of St. James the Less to see the graves of the Hyatt and Bates family.

From time to time the Scarsdale Historical Society receives calls from distant relatives of the Hyatt's and other old Scarsdale families to request a visit. A few years ago the CNN London correspondent, Jim Boulden, a descendent of the Popham family came to visit Scarsdale. He toured some local Popham properties, visited the graves at St. James the Less and then had lunch in a Popham house.currently owned by Joan Frankel. She showed Boulden a piece of silverware engraved with his ancerstor's crest and initials that had been found buried in a wall of the house.