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I have known Mr. Scoville from his boyhood; the only house seen from the window where I am writing is the house where he was born ; and as a pupil of mine, when he first started upon preparation for his life work, no one had better opportunities for knowing the spirit of the boy, of the man, that always controlled his life. He was drawn to service by God's love rather than by the terrors of the law. In his view there was nothing wholly reprobate, either in nature or humanity. He was friendly to everybody, and this feeling was reciprocal. I do not think he ever had an enemy. Every wrong deed that met his notice found in him that Godlike spirit that, while it hates sin, forgives and rescues the sinner. He was always enjoying good things, looking on the bright side, with full faith in the power of the gospel of Jesus in making the world happier and better. That prosperity in material things should accompany spiritual growth was his belief.
The duty of man to work in God's way in making the world hap- pier and better was the keynote of his life.
The conditions of his youth developed vigorous growth. What gymnasium can surpass in privilege the hills of Cornwall -pure air and water, with continual inducements to exercise all the powers of the body and mind, developing them to their fullest capacity? He enjoyed the sports of youth and the activities of manhood. As a farmer boy he acquired those habits of industry, of foresight, so essential and use- ful to a happy life.
The lesson to be learned on the farm from the corn crop alone, that king among cereals, exceeds all that the boy can pick up in the city streets in his whole boyhood.
Witness the operations of fertilizing the soil, plowing, harrowing, planting, cultivating, hoeing, and harvesting the crop, tracing its varied uses in feeding the family and the farm stock, all dependent upon the skill and labor of the husbandman, in harmony with the divine power giving life to the seed and sun and shower in due season, to complete the whole round in a successful harvest.
Father Hyacinth has laid down this maxim as a postulate: "That without material prosperity there can be little spiritual growth."
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This does not mean that the abundance that a man hath is the measure of his goodness or of his happiness. Man has received the earth as a God-given heritage. It is his study to learn about the powers of nature and their control for his use. Exercise of the powers of mind and body, either in amusement or labor, within proper limits, gives strength.
What greater opportunities and inducements to learn about the powers of nature and the Giver of all good than is enjoyed by the farm- born and bred child of New England? The conflict with a stubborn vet generous soil, its rocks and its forests, have contributed much to those powers still dominant in New England, though by division and transplanting they are now world-wide in influence.
Will the physical, the material conditions of New England stand this drain? Will her institutions of education and religion prove equal to the task of transforming into New Englanders the crowds that flock to our shores? Our faith sees the God of our fathers still honored and loved. The natural conditions of the country, the patriotic spirit, the institutions of education and religion will hold control, and raise out of these conditions worthy successors, so that the honor of New England as a people zealons in good works will never grow dim.
Children of Cornwall, yours is not a hard lot. You have a glorious heritage. What often seems hard now, the task well performed will give you power to conquer greater obstacles in life. Study the life we have been considering and emulate the example. Do good to all men, love the work you find to do, that the world may be happier and better because you have done in charity and love what you could.
LETTER FROM WILLIAM B. CLARKE, D.D.
NORWICH, CONN., August 23, 1902. My dear Mr. Gold:
Many thanks for your invitation to attend the celebration, next Sun- day, of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the erection of the church in North Cornwall, and in memory of our friend Samuel Scoville.
How I should enjoy being there if only my health permitted! As it is, these few lines must answer for me. It is now more than forty- eight years since I assumed my first and most sacred pastorate, that over your church. As I look back I am impressed with the wonderful harmony of all the elements in that church life when I entered it.
How glorious were the hills, on the sides of the north especially, that surrounded the city of the great King! More beautiful still were the inhabitants of the city, those three aged saints worthy to be held in everlasting remembrance, Father Howe, Squire Sedgwick, and Deacon Hart. Scarcely less dear to me were the young people, of whom Samuel Scoville, whose memory is especially with you today, became early dear to me. He also was faithful to me to the end. When the twentieth
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century opened, I received from him a delightful token, wishing me a happy new century, which it was sure to be, because it would usher me into heaven. He has preceded me, joining the elders before the throne, whom I have mentioned.
I remember also Chauncey Baldwin, the sons and daughters of Leete and Noah Rogers, your own daughters coming on, and many others.
Do any remember the class we had in the Assembly shorter Cate- chism? The young people's meeting, and especially that splendid winter night when, coming home from that meeting, we found an ox sled, and, piling on, coasted down the hill with great merriment till we collided at last with a stone wall, which put an end to our sport. Some were offended with the noise we made and thought the pastor might have led his young people into better ways, but good Deacon Hart restored the pastor's self-respect by telling him "he was glad of it and hoped he would do it again." So it proved that we were still in the light, though perhaps only in the moonlight.
An important element of our Sunday congregations in those days was the boys' schools, the largest, that which was conducted by your honored father and yourself, besides those of Ambrose Rogers and Burton Hart. Then there were the good Deacons Russell and Dwight Pratt, and a host of other things which I cannot recount today.
Finally, an old man's blessing upon the people still dear to him. May we all be found meet to be partakers with the saints in the inheri- tance of light.
Afft. your old pastor, WM. B. CLARKE.
LETTER FROM J. A. R. ROGERS, D.D.
WINDSOR, CONN., August 19, 1902. REV. DR. PRATT :
My dear Brother - I am grateful to you and others for the invita- tion to write a word for the memorial service of next Sabbath.
For many reasons this meeting house is very dear to me. My father. , and especially my grandfather, had much to do with its erection. I was born and reared under the shadow of its spire and was among thie first baptized within its walls into the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. In my earlier years I attended its services fifty-two Sun- days in the year, and later have had the privilege of preaching occa- sionally in its pulpit. These things make it dear to me, but the ground of interest is that it had been solemnly set apart to the worship of the Lord God Almighty. I am tempted to speak of many things in regard to this sacred edifice, but I must forbear. I cannot fail, however, to speak of those blessed ones who have worshiped and those who still worship within its walls. From them all, living and departed, have gone forth blessings to all the world, how great, is known only to Him
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who has perfect knowledge. Of these blessings we shall know far more in the ages to come than is possible now.
If this church is a temple of God, in a far higher sense was the body of our brother, Rev. Samuel Scoville, recently laid to rest in the neigh- boring graveyard. Of him it is not mine to speak at length, but simply to utter my word of love and appreciation. His natural gifts we all know, his tenderness of heart, his lofty aspiration, his quickness of apprehension, his good fellowship. His kindly spirit drew every one within his reach to him. His companions in his childhood, all his col- lege mates, among whom he was easily king of hearts, his brethren in the university, his parishioners, and all who knew him.
I must leave entirely to you, our honored brother, to speak of his ministry, and yet I would fain utter a word about his kindness to the poor. When Christ sent to John the Baptist the proof of his divine mission, the crowning thing was, the poor have the gospel preached to them. The love of our brother for the poor was one of his noblest and most Christian traits.
As this is a Cornwall occasion, I know you will permit me a con- cluding word about his love for this place, so dear to us all, and the dearer because of his love for these hills and valleys and the noble men and women it has reared. I venture to say there is not one of us who has not loved Cornwall more deeply since we learned of our brother's dying request, that in carrying his body to burial it should be taken past his home and that of his father and grandfather, and this church, to its last resting-place, stopping, as was his wont when alive, at each of these loved places.
Our beloved brother is resting in paradise, with a fuller vision of his Lord than he ever had on earth and joys unknown to us, awaiting in hope the glorious resurrection, when his body shall be made like that of his risen Lord.
Yours faithfully and affectionately, J. A. R. ROGERS.
LETTER FROM C. J. RYDER, D.D.,
Secretary of American. Missionary Association.
NEW YORK, August 22, 1902.
REV. DWIGHT M. PRATT, D.D.,
West Cornwall, Connecticut :
My dear Mr. Pratt - I cannot easily express the regret I feel at my inability to be present at the memorial services to be held in the honor of Rev. Samuel Scoville next Sabbath.
Miss Scoville wrote me a letter expressing the desire of the family to have me there, and my own desire was very strong.
There are few men I have ever known whom I honored and loved as I did my dear friend, Mr. Scoville.
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He was greatly beloved by every member of my household. He was so large-hearted, genial, unselfish, and sincere, and withal so strong and steady and true that he left a place in the lives and hearts of all who knew him that no other could fill.
I should love to say some of the things I feel at this beautiful me- morial service. I am pledged to preach here at Stamford, however, and cannot get away. I am so glad that you can be there, my dear Brother Pratt, for you are just the one for the sympathetic and loving service. Very cordially yours,
C. J. RYDER.
Appropriate addresses by Dwight L. Rogers and Prof. Edward C. Baldwin completed the exercises.
IN MEMORIAM. REV. SAMUEL SCOVILLE.
Toll, toll the bell! solemn and slow ! Mournful and low Our heart beats are tolling, blow upon blow ! They are bringing him home.
Over the bridges and climbing the hill And across by the mill,
Around by the farm so deserted and still All in silence they come.
Home he is coming, but not as of yore With the smile that he wore
And greeting so glad as he stepped in the door, They are bringing him now.
Home to his fathers that sleep 'neath the sods But home to his God. We standing hopeless, as mute as the clods, Our tears falling low.
Ring, ring the bells! crowd to the strand! A ship is at hand ! Some we have looked for are close to the land, The anchor is cast !
Brave sailors they were, tho' the stress might be sore And the tempest cloud lower. Life's journey was stormy, but the voyage now is o'er. Heaven's port reached at last !
April, 1902.
MRS. C. E. BALDWIN.
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REV. SAMUEL SCOVILLE.
Tall as a stately pine, with limbs and face of an Apollo type, And filled with animation and a godly zeal,
He lived among us, a perfect man. His mission was God's love to fallen man.
In his work he showed a love That in his life was an example unto his fellow men. He loved his country and with trumpet voice he thrilled The hearts of many hearers, when he told The story of the patriotic dead.
He loved mankind, and none had gone so low But what he stooped unto them with a helping hand.
He loved his native town, its quiet lake; on its mountain peaks and o'er its rocks loved to roam.
He learned their secrets and they bro't him close to Nature's God. And now he's gone; 'tis ours to mourn his loss,
To emulate his zeal and love and sympathetic ways.
If in our lives we can but show that we his mantle wear
'Twill prove he has not lived in vain.
His work's well done; he's gone to his reward.
We cannot mourn his loss ; among us none can find
A man who better loved "his God, his country, and mankind."
H. S.
After the close of the exercises " The Samuel Scoville Associa- tion " was organized, designed to keep in mind and put in practice the love of Mr. Scoville for Cornwall by his friends who return to the Cornwall hills.
INDEX.
Abbott, Samuel, 74, 251. Adams Family, 312. Adelphic Institute, 39. Alger Institute, 41. Allen, Joseph, 7, 449. Col. Ethan, 212, 449. Capt. Amos T., 224. Andrew, John T., 320. Rev. Samuel, 322. Andrews Family, 277, 389. Andrews, Rev. William, 87, 88, 389. Rev. Wm. W., 90, 391.
Rev. Wm. G., Moravians, 361.
Rev. Edward Warren, 394. Israel Ward, D.D., 396. Samuel James, D.D., 397. Poem, 465. Dr. Timothy Langdon, 398. Ebenezer Baldwin, LI .. D., 399. Wm. Given, D.D., 400. Charles McLean, 400. Henry Staveley, 433. Anniversary Hymn, 174.
Baldwin Family, 275, 445. Baldwin, Joseph, 445. Henry, 445. Henry, Jr., 447. Ithamer, 447. Jabez, 447. Noah, 151, 148, 448. William, 448. Mrs. C. E., Hymns, 174, 482.
Barnum, Edward P., 225. Basset, Rev. Amos, 29. Baptists, 176. Baptist Church, 359. Baptism of Children, 78. Beck, George C., 456. Beers Family, 313. Beers Bequest, 371.
Beers, Ralph Silas, 389. Bellamy, Dr. Joseph, 51, 55, 100, 125. Berea College, 425. Bierce Family, 273. Bird, Rev. Samuel, 57, 128.
Birdseye Family, 277. Birdseye, Hon. Victory, 449. Bird's Nest, 40. Blinn, Col. Charles D., 229, 436. Blodget, Rev., 93. Bloody Mountain, 18.
Bolton, Henry Carrington, 389.
Bonney Family, 251, 445; Boudinot, Elias, 37, 293. Frank, 294. Bradford Family, 303. Brewster, 272, 434. Edward E., 435.
Bridges, 22. Brinsmade, Rev. Daniel, 51. Daniel B., 293, 412. Family, 412, 413- Brownell, Rev. Grove L., 80, 106,
134. Brush, Rev. Jesse, 113, 141. Austin, 265, 426. Buck Mountain, 17. Buell, Maj. Jesse, 196. Bunker Hill, 18. Burnham Family, 252.
Burnham, Oliver, 167, 216.
Calhoun, David, 401. Dr. John, 401, 402. Dea. Jedediah, 402. John C., 96, 403. John E., 404. Calhoun Family, 276, 401.
Carter Family, 254.
Cedar Creek, Battle, 227. Cemeteries, 334, 368. Charter and Survey, 5. Chandler Family, 304. Chapel, South Cornwall, 97. West Cornwall, 115, 329. Chichester Ferry, 22. Christie, Rev. Henry, 164.
Church Members, List, 53, 102. Church Collections, 143. Church Erection, 170. Clarke, James, 439. Ephraim, 439- David, 439, 440.
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Clark, Victorianus, 73. William, 151, 440. William Leavitt, 440. Clark Family, 273, 439. Clark Hill, 18. Clarke, Rev. Wm. B., 112, 140, 325, 479. Cleveland, Daniel, 418.
Clothier, John, 250.
Cochrane, James, 333, 455.
Cochrane Family, 455. Cogswell, Lieut. Wm. H., 223.
College Graduates, 389.
College Land, 18, 365.
Colt's Foot Mountain, 18.
Conclusion, 335.
Congregational Church, 42.
Congregationalists, Strict, 123, 157.
Consociation, N. of L. Co., 64.
Cook, Martin, 457.
Cornell, S. M., 419.
Cornwall Hollow, 177.
Cornwall, Rev. John, 57, 100, 128.
Cotter Family, 275.
Crandall Family, 304.
Cream Hill, 17.
Cream Hill Agl. School, 39. Crimes and Casualties, 239.
Daggett, Rev. Herman, 29, 83.
Daggett Funeral Sermon, 34.
Dana, The Convict, 239. Day, Rev. Hiram, 93. Dayton, Rev. G. R., 175.
Deacons, North Church, 76, 116, 148. First Church, 95.
Dean Family, 280.
Dexter, Newton, 418.
Dibble Family, 258, 453.
Dibble, Israel, 453. Douglas Family, 241.
Dress in 1777, 23. Dwight, Rev. E. W., 29, 30, 83.
Eaton, Rev. Jacob, 225. Ely, Rev. James, 423. Edwards, Elizabeth, 435. Emmons Tavern, 247. Episcopalians, 202.
Everest Family, 298, 423.
Everest, Rev. Cornelius B., 293.
Fairchild, Herman, 334. Farmers' Club, 28. Farming and Farmers, 25. Feldspar Mine, 384. Fenn, Rev. Stephen, 94.
Fennell, Wm. G., D.D., Baptist Church, 359. Ferry, Chichester, 22.
Fitch, Rev. Chas. W., 114, 142. Mem. Sermon, 120. Ford, Thaddeus, 197. James D., 447. Foreign Mission School, 29, 82, 341. List of Members, 31, 346. Teachers, 346.
Forge in Hollow, 200.
Foster, Stephen, 152, 270.
Fox, Emily, Indian Song, 32.
Fritz, John Peter, 334, 457.
Fuller, Elder, 176.
Garrick's Song, Peggy, 193. Genealogical Notes, 389. Gibson, William F., 419.
Gold Family, 284, 404. Gold, Benjamin, 37, 292, 412. Capt. Edward F., 415.
Maj. Nathan, 284, 404.
Nathan, Jr., 405.
Rev. Hezekiah, of Stratford, 407. Col. Abraham, 287. Rev. Hezekiah, of Cornwall, 51, 99, 122, 155, 290, 411. Onesimus, 407, 421.
Thomas, 291, 411. Thomas R., 294, 417.
Hezekiah, of Cornwall, 418.
Dr. Samuel W., 39, 152, 296, 419. Theodore Sedgwick, 419.
Stephen J., 413.
George R., 413. Samuel Fay, 414. Edward E., 414.
Golds in Virginia, 422.
Gould, Jay, 409. Graham, Rev. John, 51.
Great Hill, 18.
Great Hollow, 17.
Green Mountain, 17.
Green, William, 224.
Harris, Jonathan, 48, 60. Harrison Family, 298, 427.
Harrison, Daniel, 168, 189. Daniel, 2d, 189, 302. Hannah, 428. Edmund, 299. Noah, 300.
Myron, 300. Ralphı, 300. John R., 300, 427.
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Harrison, Geo. C., 301, 427. Heman, 302, 428. Luman, 302, 428. Wilbur Fitch, 427. Tohn Bradford, 427. George Edward, 427. Hart, Noah and E. B., School, 40. Geo. S., 40, 311. Dea. Titus, 76, 308. Dea. Nathan, 147, 308, 325.
Titus Leavitt, 437. Rev. John C., 149, 309.
H. Milton, 152, 437. Nathan, 170, 438. Elias Edgar, 225.
Hart Family, 305, 437.
Harvey, Rev. Joseph, 83.
Hautboy Hill, 179.
Hawes, Rev. Josiah, 67, 104, 130, 16I. Hawley, Madam Abigail, 408.
Hewitt, Wm. H. H., 427, 455.
Hewitt Family, 455. Highways, 10. Hitchcock, Reuben, 151.
Holley, Rev. Israel, 102, 130.
Holloway, George, 246.
Holmes, Capt., 21.
Hotchkin, Dea. Beriah, 103. Hough Mountain, 16. Housatonic Railroad, 20.
Holliday, Mark R., 427.
Howe, Ichabod, 151, 325. Hubbard, Levi, 407. Charles H., 419. Rollin M., 434. Hubbell, Myron, 224. Huntington, Mr. & Mrs. C. P., 115.
Hurlburt, Dr., 182, 245. Joab, 188. Ozias, 165, 186. Hyatt, Dea., 76.
Indians, 23, 361. Indian Trail, 364. Ives Family, 278. Ives, Henry H., 456. Dr. John Wagner, 456.
Jeffers, Capt. John, 214. Jones, Caleb, 31. Jones Family, 272. Johnson Hollow, 17. Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. H. T. S., 40. Solomon, 183. Palmer, 453. Samuel J. B., 455. Johnson Family, 253.
Judson Family, 281.
Kahler, Henry, 459. Kellogg, Dea. Judah, 96. Frederick, 451. Philo M., 451. Kellogg Family, 304.
Ladies' Sewing Society, 137, 143. Lakes, 18. Lawyers, 387. Lewis, Ensign Nehemiah, Jr., 451. William, 452. Henry Gould, 452.
Library, 369, 372.
Library, Rev. Hez. Gold, 373.
List for 1742, 14.
Listman, Charles, 459. Lovell, John B., 293. Mrs. John M., 416.
Lowrey, Thomas, 429.
Lyman, Frederic, 421.
Mallinson, Joseph, 456.
Mallory, Dea. E., 162. Mallory Family, 283.
Manufactures, 236, 37.5.
Marsh Family, 282.
Marsh, Isaac, 450. Cyrus Wm., 450.
Maynard, Rev. J. L., 87, 110, 138.
McAlpine, Silas H., Poem, 31.
McCormick, Charles, 224. McMahon, Gen. Martin T., Ad- dress, Appendix. Meeting House, First, 47. at S. Cornwall, 92. at N. Cornwall, 109, 163, 170. Memmott, Wm., 457. Memorial Sermon, Rev. C. N. Fitch, 120. Memorial Day Exercises, 1892, Ap- pendix. 1900, 460. Messenger, Samuel, 246.
Methodists, 175, 202. Milford, Sergt. H. P., 226.
Mill Rights, 12.
Millard, Matthew, 246. Mitilene, 447. Electa, 447. Millard Family, 280.
Mine Mountain, 17. Miner, Darius, 453. Minerals and Mining, 20.
Monroe, Francis H., 427.
Moravians, 361. Ministers in Cornwall, 385. Ministers Raised in 2d Church, 149.
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Ministers Wives Raised in 2d Church, 150. Monument, Sedgwick, Appendix. Morgan, Colin D., 420. James, 421. Morris Co. Presbytery, 129.
Morristown Presbytery, 66, 160. Moral Society, 77. Moser, James H., 433-
Natural Curiosity, 331. Nettleton, Jehiel, 436. Elijah, 436.
Nodine, Crawford H., 224.
Nichols, Ephraim, 421.
Nickerson Family, 334, 454.
Nickerson, Orson, 454. Leonard J., 454. North Family, 320.
Obookiah, Henry, 29, 83. Orton, Thomas, 179. Osborne, 409.
Palmer, Rev. Solomon, 47, 97, 154.
Patoo, Thomas H., 30.
Patterson Family, 441.
Patterson, Silas G., 441.
· Burton C., 443. Silas Beach, 443. Henry Sherman, 443. Elnathan, 444. Lieut. Matthew, 444.
Peck, Henry D., 417.
Pendleton, Rev. H. G., 149.
Pendleton Family, 197.
Pest House, 366. Pettibone, Rev. Ira, 94.
Physicians, 332, 388.
Pierce Family, 244.
Pierce, Major Seth, 448.
Pierpont, Rev. John, Sermon, 353. Letter, 358. Pine Street, 19. Pond Hill, 17.
Population, 375.
Porter, Dea. Thomas, 60.
Post Offices, etc., 380.
Pratt, Rev. Dwight M., Poem, 329; Sermon, 470. Ezra Dwight, 432.
Rev. Dwight M., 432. Rev. Almon B., 149. Chalker, 151.
R. R., Hist. of 2d Eccl. Soc., 98. Russel R., 431. Pratt Family, 267. Prince, Rev. N. A., 95.
Prindle Family, 281. Public Rights, 10.
Pulpit of First Church, 97. Puttkamer, Franz Ulrich von, 420.
Rattle Snake Hill, 17.
Red Mountain, 18.
Reed Family, 282.
Representatives, 230, 384.
Revolutionary Soldiers, 205.
Rexford Family, 281.
Ridge, John, 38.
Ridge, John, Letter, 350.
Rivers, 18.
Roads, 22, 379.
Robbins, Rev. Francis L., 79, 106, I34. Rogers, Rev. Medad, 58.
Rogers Family, 261, 424.
Rogers, Ambrose, 39, 174. W. C. and Lydia, 40.
Rogers, Dea. Noah, 147, 166. Dea. Egbert M., 149.
Rev. John A. R., 150, 425, 480.
Col. Anson, 151, 426. D. L., Noah, & J. C., 152.
Daniel M., 424.
Daniel O., 424.
Noah C., 424.
Capt. Edward, 205, 263.
Hon. Edward, 264.
D. L., 325. Dwight L., 425.
Roman Catholics, 177.
Rugg Hill, 17.
Rugg Family, 253.
Russell, Dr., 252.
Ryder, Henry Clay, 421, 422. C. J., D.D., 481.
Salter, Rev. J. W., 92.
Samp Mortar, 26. Sanford, Rev. E. B., 94. Thomas, 455.
Schools, 29, 327.
School, The Cornwall, 374. Hollow District, 198. Scoville, Ralph 1., 433. Rev. Sam'l, 150, 153, 434, 469. Jacob, 219. Scoville Family, 258, 433.
Scoville, Elias, 260, 434. Sedgwick, Maj. Gen. John, 221. Memorial Day Exercises, May 30, 1892, Appendix. 1900, 460. Sedgwick Family, 258, 423. Sedgwick, Emily, 423. Benjamin, 107, 326.
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Sedgwick, Gen. Chas. F., Hist. Add. by, 153, 177, 317. Sedgwick Hollow, 17. Sedgwick, Maj. Robert, 180. Dea. William, 180. Theodore, 184. Gen. John, 184, 210, 315. Maj .- Gen. John, 221, 317, 460. App. Hon. Albert, 317.
Senators, 384.
Separates, 121.
Sessions, Rev. John, 93.
Settlement, 9.
Settlers, Early, 12.
Shays Rebellion, 211.
Shear Co., J. Mullinson, 383.
Shepard Family, 319.
Sherwood, John C., 438. Herbert Francis, 438. Nathan Hart, 438. Ebenezer, 252, 444. Joshua Bradford, 445. Slaves, 367. Smith, Rev. Walter, 80, 106, 136. Mrs. Walter, 136. Rev. Ralph, 94. Rev. Gad, 176. Smith Family, 284, 429.
Smith, David, 429. David Fitch, 429. John Bradford, 430.
Geo. Reed, 430. David Fitch, 430. Ransom Fitch, 430. David L., 431.
Society, 2d Eccles., 98, 160.
Statistics of Cornwall, 377.
Starr, Rev. E. C., Hist. of Ist Church, 352. Stevens, Wm., 419. Stone, Rev. Timothy, Eccl. Hist., 42. Stores, 380. Swift, Jabez, 451.
Gen. Heman, 451. Rev. Job, 451.
Talmadge, Elder, 177, 203. Tanner, Wm., 189. Thompson, John, 333, 458. Titus Mountain, 17. Tomlinson, 407. Tower Dale, 17. Tracv, Rev. S. J., 87, 110, 137. Trafford, Julia, 448. Trowbridge, Joel, 446.
Urmston, Rev. N. M., 90.
Vaill, Rev. Herman L., 29, 293. Theodore F., 294. Joseph H., 294, 414. Elizabeth Sedgwick, 464. Hiram, 172. Volmiller, George, 334, 456. Village Improvement, 368.
Wadhams, Maria Elisabeth, 433. Wadsworth, Dea. James, 148. Rev. Henry F., 150.
Wadsworth Family, 243, 424.
Wagner, John, 455.
Waller Hill, 17.
Waller, Phineas, 48, 60, 104.
Warrups, Tom, 24.
Webb Family, 320.
Weeds and Bushes, 377.
Weston, Rev. Hercules, 60, 158.
Wetherby, Rev. Chas., 112, 140. Sermon, App. Wheaton, Geo., 152.
Wheaton Family, 261, 449.
White, Rev. S. J., Sermon, 94. Whitney, Joseph, 334, 452. Ernest, 453. Henry D., 428.
Whipping Post and Stocks, 249. Whittlesey, Rev. Nathan Hart, 438.
Wickwire Family, 261, 435-
Wilcox Family, 191. Woodbury Mountain, 18. Wood, John, 334.
Yutzler, Adam, 458.
FUNERAL SERVICES
OF
GEN. JOHN SEDGWICK,
CORNWALL.
CONN.
May 15th, 1864.
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UTICA, N. Y. UTICA STATE HOSPITAL PRESS. 1893.
T HE funeral services of Maj. Gen. JOHN SEDGWICK were attended on Sunday, May 15, 1864, from his late residence in Cornwall-Hollow. There was a sim- plicity and solemnity throughout the whole, which rendered the scene of the most impressive character. Not less than two thousand persons were present, includ- ing representations from every town in the county, as well as some of the highest dignitaries of the State, and also a delegation from New York who were formerly inhab- itants of Connecticut. Governor Buckingham tendered to the family a military funeral, but they declined the honor as not in keeping with the simplicity of General SEDGWICK'S character, and his dislike of all ostentation. There was, therefore, an entire absence of all military display, the simple services, and the vast assemblage of people testifying more eloquently to the great public loss, than any display of drooping plumes, or muffled drums.
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