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The family at the present time consists of six children and nine grandchildren. The elder daughter Mary, is married to Capt. Michael J. Zifcak. They with their two sons lived for a while in Gaum, Marianas Islands. Dorothy, the youngest in the family, is Head Bookkeeper at N. E. High Carbon Wire Co. and lives in Sut- ton with her parents. The eldest son George, a graduate of Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Class of 1933, is employed by the Hayward-Schuster Mills as a Design- er. He is married and has a son and daughter and is a resident of Worcester, Massachusetts. John Sarkis is a graduate of Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Class of 1934, and is employed by the Merritt, Chapman, Scott Construction Company as Project Engineer. He is married and has a son and daughter and is a resident of Belmont, Massachusetts. Harry is operator of the "Breezy Acres Farm" with his father. He is married and is the father of two sons. Sahag, the youngest son and a veteran of World War II, manages his own self-service grocery store in Worcester, Massachusetts. He is also married, has a son and resides in Worcester, Mass. In sharp contrast to the Freeland place across the road, this farm has changed hands eleven times in less than a quarter of a century.
A new house is being built by the Zifcaks across the street.
Merriam Lane on the Freeland Farm leads to Lake Singletary and to twelve summer camps. The first settlement on the shore of this farm was made in 1924 by Miss Edith F. Lanpher, who bought three acres on its northeast boundary, and built - later transferring the property to Miss Anne Hofstra of Uxbridge. The latter enlarged and expanded her holding. The remaining shore was surveyed into lots fifty feet by one hundred feet. Adjoining Miss Lanpher's tract, H. J. Stone of Shrewsbury, through an advertisement, became interested in the settle- ment and built a cottage in 1925, later selling to Louis Ballard of Millbury. Bert Lemieux of Millbury is the present owner. Miss Agnes Kenary of Millbury pur- chased a lot at the same time. J. Arthur and Antoinette Lavigne of Worcester built in 1926 and that property is owned by Rev. Paul N. Benoit of Northbridge. Atty. John E. Bjorkman and family of Worcester came in 1926 and are veteran campers, being the first family to purchase and to still enjoy the camp. John E. Skogsberg came in 1927 and later sold to Druggist Albert P. Lambert of Mill- bury. The Carl Lindgren cottage, built in 1927, has been transferred to his son- in-law, Calvin Waters of the Worcester Fire Department. The Jacobson cottage, built in the same year by George and Axel Jacobson, is now owned and occupied by Major Hjelmar Jacobson of the Salvation Army in Quincy. Carl and Bertha Anderson came from Worcester in 1927 and are the present owners of a camp
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here; as are the Arthur Johnsons, who built in 1928. Both families were berry- customers of Miss Freeland. Edward O. Ludvigson, who built in 1928, sold to Alexander F. Ballard, a Millbury druggist. William A. Sundstrom built in 1929 and is a present occupant. The general depression, which set in in May 1928, put an abrupt stop to building activities. No other cottage was built until 1939 when John and Thyra Picking constructed a home, now owned by Ernest Chevalier, a furniture dealer in Millbury. Electric lights were extended to the shore in 1931. This little group of campers is known as "The Singletary Lake South Shore Assoc." Its officers call a meeting once or twice a year for reasons of camp main- tenance, such as fire protection, road repair and care of electric light poles.
The next farm on Boston Road was owned by Daniel Stockwell in 1876. Mrs. Daniel Stockwell (Alice) died February 8, 1884 and on February 9 of the next year, Mr. Stockwell died. The home place was inherited by the third daughter, Angeline, who lived there with her husband, George W. Thompson, and their two sons, Lewis, born in 1864 and Alton, born in 1872. Her sister, Mrs. Reuben Adams (Sarah Eddy), died October 29, 1896 and Mrs. Adams' daughter, Edna Adams Cote Burns, died November 12, 1936 at the age of 66. Mrs. Thompson was faithful to her church and was a worthy example in her regular attendance. Alton was a carpenter by trade and made axe handles and ox whips to sell. Wonderful sage was grown on this farm to the great satisfaction of local house- wives, who purchased the savory herb for their poultry seasoning. Mr. Thompson died in 1901 and Mrs. Thompson died April 10, 1926.
Mrs. Marion O. Horton came to keep house after Mrs. Thompson's death. She was the widow of a Civil War Veteran, and an extremely capable woman. Lewis died in 1935 and after Alton's death Aug. 17, 1937, Mrs. Horton returned to her native state of New York.
The place was sold to F. Hazen Bordeaux of Millbury. He reserved a portion of land on the shore, where he built a summer home and sold the remainder of the farm to Robert and Mildred Pierce of Millbury on June 14, 1939. Mr. and Mrs. Russell Hook lived at the farm for a time. Robert Pierce sold shore sites to Allen Simonds, Robert Leonard and William Davis, all of Grafton. Simonds has sold to Dr. Joseph A. Lundy of Oxford and Leonard to Ralph Berger.
The rebuilding of the cottage into a red salt-box house was begun by the Pierces in 1941. The house is a reproduction of the W. H. Davidson house in West Millbury, which was built in 1743. It has a huge central chimney with four fireplaces in the main house and two in the ell, also a built-in charcoal grill. An interesting feature in the pine dining room is the ten feet by five feet hearth- stone, which was the step to the old barn across the street, belonging to Wood- bury. The front door and leaded glass came from the John Freeland house, which was torn down. Mr. Pierce is the owner of a hardware business in Millbury.
The following is quoted:
"Taking the Boston road west at Sutton Center and continuing to our new and modern school house, directly across the road you will find a cart road, somewhat improved, which leads for about three-quarters of a mile through what has been known throughout my lifetime as the Thompson Farm, to Lake Singletary. As you finally arrive at the lake, you will be pleasantly surprised to find about an acre of hemlocks and white birches and some cleared land which, it has been
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said, was used as an old Indian burial ground. I have found nothing to substan- tiate this fact, but it is a beautiful spot with a lovely view of the lake. The shore line is packed wide and deep with rocks brought there by oxcart to clear the farm land.
"On the right of this acre of land, bordering Stephen Benjamin's wall, is a rustic cabin, built in 1939 by F. Hazen Bordeaux and still owned by him. This cabin is lined with knotty pine, has large beams supporting the ceiling and has a stone fireplace. Sydney Hutchinson was responsible for its construction but many had a part in its making in one way or another. Walter King exchanged or, I would rather say, traded a flock of sheep to me for a new Ford car and I, in turn, traded them to the Dodge Brothers, Frank and Harry, for the lumber that went into this cabin. The finish lumber came from S. Martin Shaw of Sutton. Many of the furnishings came from the old M. M. Hovey estate and some from a Parson- age at Paxton, Mass., given by my aunt, Nellie M. Pratt.
"So, as I come away from the busy activities of the day and travel down the old cart road, I see in my mind's eye quaint old Angelina Thompson, busy about her flower garden near the corn crib. Further down the lane I can picture, as in boyhood days, Alton and Lewis Thompson walking alongside the oxcart. Lewis up front with the long rawhide ox whip saying 'Gee' and 'Haw' at each turn of the lane. Then I realize how much our standard of living has changed from the old days, but this short recess of perhaps an hour, back to nature, gives me a new lease of life and the will to carry on, hoping that we may, during our short span of years here, leave this good old town and its friendly people a better place to live in for the future generation now coming up.
"This little sketch was requested by and written for Fred L. Batcheller, who has walked the streets of Sutton for eighty years or more and who has always had a kind word and a friendly smile for everyone. May he continue for many more,
Your friend,
F. H. BORDEAUX"
In 1876, Mrs. Brooksey Cole Woodbury lived at the Cole-Woodbury place with her daughters, Martha and Ellen. Her daughter Marietta had married Philip H. Riley of Missouri. They had two daughters, Mary L. and Martha C., and a son, Benjamin. Mary taught school for a number of years. Martha was married to Charles Alexander Pratt of Little Rock, Arkansas. Mr. Pratt was a banker and owned a chain of railroad restaurants. Mrs. Woodbury died July 7, 1882, and her sister, Margaret Phillipps Eddy, died in 1887. Miss Martha and Miss Ellen Woodbury continued to live at the home place. A friendly welcome and gracious hospitality always awaited one at their fireside. Miss Ellen taught a number of years at the Eight Lots School and at Sutton Center. Mr. and Mrs. Hollis Rich- ardson occupied the ell part of the house in the 1890's. In their later years, Miss Martha and Miss Ellen lived in the home of Charles N. Woodbury. The farm was then rented to Frank Young and his son-in-law, Silas LaRose. Miss Ellen died Oct. 31, 1912 and Miss Martha on Jan. 28, 1914.
After their aunts' death, Mrs. Pratt and Miss Riley, both very well-to-do finan- cially, remodeled the house for a summer home. It was named Woodbury-Heim. The partitions on the first floor were removed, making one large room. The barn on the opposite side of the road was taken away. Mr. Pratt died July 21, 1924 at
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HOME OF DR. RUDOLPH F. NUNNEMACHER
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the age of 80 years. Due to the depression, the last years of Mrs. Pratt and her sister, Miss Riley, were not happy ones. Mrs. Pratt died April 20, 1933 and Miss Riley April 8, 1935 at the age of 84 years. Both are buried in the family cemetery at the rear of their mother's home.
The Cole-Woodbury place then came into the possession of Mrs. Marion Put- nam, who conducted a tourist home and residence for Sutton teachers, for many years known as the house with the Blue Blinds. She sold in June 1947 to Dr. and Mrs. Rudolph F. Nunnemacher, who moved here in August.
Dr. Rudolph Fink Nunnemacher is Associate Professor of Biology at Clark University. He was born March 21, 1912, in Milwaukee, Wis. He attended the Milwaukee University School and the Schweizer Landerziehungsheim Schloss Glarisegg in Switzerland. He received the following degrees: Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, A. B. 1934; Harvard University, M. A., 1935 and Ph.D., 1938 in Biology. He was instructor in histology and embryology at the University of Oklahoma Medical School 1938-39 and had an instructing fellowship at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in the summers of 1936 and 1937.
Mrs. Sylvia Acken Hendricks Nunnemacher was born March 22, 1916 in Pitts- field, Mass. She attended Miss Mills' School and the Pittsfield High School and received the degree of A. B. from Radcliffe College in 1937.
Mr. and Mrs. Nunnemacher were married in December 1938. Their children are Robert (called Knick), born 1942, Sallie (1945), Gretl (1948) and Doro- thea (1951).
Dr. Nunnemacher has served on the Finance Committee of Sutton. He is now chairman of the committee to investigate the desirability of Sutton joining the proposed Public Health Union. He is a member of the Massachusetts Citizens Committee for Public Health.
The State Road was extended by this farm to Putnam Hill in 1915. The town purchased six acres of the land opposite, on Putnam Hill Road, for an athletic field. The development from a scrub-brush lot into a ball field was a WPA project.
Mrs. James Stockwell had for many seasons been cultivating a tiger lily and had never succeeded in getting a bloom. At last, the plant had several showy blossoms, of which she was most proud, and which she guarded carefully. What was her surprise one afternoon to find them gracing the fireplace at Woodbury-Heim. The Japanese butler, with his artistic sense, could picture the effect of the orange blossoms against the black background. Like others, he thought there were no private grounds in the country.
In 1945, George Herbert Johnson purchased from Atty. J. Fred Humes forty acres of land on Putnam Hill Road between the Cole-Woodbury farm and the Marble place: In 1947, he staked off a house lot 100 ft. by 100 ft. and erected a two-story cottage for his daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Brickey. The Brickeys had one daughter Patricia.
In December of the next year, they sold the house to Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur L. Ojerholm of Millbury, who moved here January 7, 1949. A son, James Allen, was born February 18, 1949.
Mr. Johnson is now building a second house, next to the Ojerholm's, for his son, Albert Hurd Johnson.
Franklin H. Marble, in 1876, owned the next place. The house was occupied by Franklin, his sister, Ann, and brother, Albert A. Ann died June 6, 1903.
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Frank died April 9, 1879. Albert outlived both his sister and brother and lived alone here for many years. He was a shoemaker by trade and a veteran of the Civil War. For years he was widely known as a violin player, in much demand at dances and entertainments in this vicinity. He died on July 26, 1917 at the age of seventy-seven. The funeral services were held on the following Sunday afternoon in the Town Hall, a memorial hall to Civil War Veterans.
The place was then sold to Mr. and Mrs. Eli D. King, who lived there with their children, Marion and Henry, until Mr. King's death on July 31, 1921. Mrs. King and her daughter, Marion King Bumpus (Mrs. Charles), live in Clare- mont, N. H. Henry married and left Sutton.
The next owners were Maria and Noe Dufresne. They sold to William Casey and family July 5, 1924. Mr. and Mrs. Casey have seven children: Gerald W. attended St. Michael's College, Winooski, Vermont and married Mabelle Small of Wilkinsonville; Bernard T. attended Lowell Textile Institute, Lowell and mar- ried Leona Buxton of Millbury; Agnes married George H. Chase of Wilkinson- ville; Claire attended Post Institute in Worcester and is a member of the "Sisters of Mercy" Order in Athol; Geraldine attended Becker Business College and mar- ried Wilfred Proventure of Millbury; Jean E. married Irene LaPlante of Sutton and James J. graduated from Holy Cross College and married Miss Alice Cote of Manchaug. In May 1945, the Caseys sold to Mr. and Mrs. Howard Watson and moved to Oxford. The Watsons have two children, Howard Jr. and Sylvia, both attending Sutton Schools.
The estate east of the Pierce property on Boston Road was owned by the Hon. John D. McCrate until his death in September 1879. Mrs. McCrate and her sister, Frances Sibley, the wife of James W. Stockwell, were cultured women, re- specting old customs and traditions. Mrs. McCrate was regal in bearing, of great courage and determination, yet kindly in nature. After her death in Boston, the place became the property of her sister. Mrs. Stockwell was a woman of unusual charm and grace. On November 10, 1900, as she returned to the room after bidding good-bye to guests, whom she had entertained for the evening, she sank to the floor and passed away in an instant. Thus, quietly, came the end of her beautiful life.
Hon. James W. Stockwell was a prominent figure in the history of Sutton, actively interested in the town's educational and civic life.
His education came largely through his own efforts. As a teen-age boy, after performing the family chores for a neighbor, he walked daily, one winter, a dis- tance of five miles from the Eight Lots to study with Newell Wedge, the well- known teacher, in the Old Stone District. This journey in hilly country over diffi- cult wintry roads must have severely taxed his endurance, but the help and inspiration he gained outweighed the hardship. He read widely and had an unusual gift of expression in writing and in speaking.
He gave many years in public office to the town, serving as Treasurer and Tax Collector and on the Library and School Boards. He was State Senator from the district in 1879. He devoted much time to farm organizations and was Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture.
Mr. Stockwell married Miss Joanne Garvin April 23, 1902. Because of ill health, the Stockwells sold the farm in 1927 to Stephen Edgar Benjamin. Mr. and Mrs. Stockwell moved to the Bancroft Hotel, Worcester where Mr. Stock-
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well died on August 17, 1931 and his wife on January 28, 1935. Both are buried in the Old Cemetery in Sutton Center.
The ell of the house had burned April 23, 1896. The barn was destroyed by fire an hour before midnight on February 9, 1903 and with it perished a valuable pair of chestnut horses.
"SINGLETARY FARM", HOME OF STEPHEN E. BENJAMIN
Stephen Edgar Benjamin, a mill executive and a native of Nova Scotia, mar- ried Miss Mary Stevenson, a school teacher of Worcester. Mrs. Benjamin is a very talented and gifted woman. Their daughter, Mary Elizabeth, is a Horace Mann graduate of the South High School, Worcester and also of the Salter Secretarial School. Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin operated the place under the name of "Single- tary Farm Hostess House" and had many successful seasons catering to tourists and guests. The barn on the farm, which had been rebuilt, was wrecked in the hurricane of 1938. It was again rebuilt the following spring.
Mr. Benjamin was Tax Collector of the town for sixteen years (1934 to 1950) and was also an insurance agent till the time of his death on November 16, 1950. Mrs. Benjamin was then appointed and elected Tax Collector. M. Elizabeth Ben- jamin has continued the insurance agency.
Stephen Benjamin's genial manner won him many friends and he was wel- comed as he went about town on his business. With sympathy and understanding he helped the many, friends or strangers, who came to him with their problems.
Three summer camps were built in 1940 on the Benjamin shore by Arthur E. King from hurricane lumber. In 1945, one of the cottages was sold to Gustaf H.
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and Irene W. Carlson of Westboro. Mr. Carlson is Treasurer of the Westboro Savings Bank. He improved and added to the original building, built a boat house and retaining wall along the shore and has dug an artesian well.
In 1876, the Stockwell cottage, across the street from the Benjamin property, was owned by Stephen H. Stockwell and occupied by John Baker. In the spring of 1883, Mr. Henry S. Stockwell bought it from his brother's widow, Hannah P. Stockwell, and in the fall Mr. Stockwell's father and mother moved into it from their old home in the Eight Lots. In 1887, Mr. Stockwell's father died and it has been occupied by many families since then: Hollis Richardson, Leon Sochia, John Davis, Randsom Richardson, Frank Clark, Ernest Bolster, Lyman Allen, (Eli D. King), Lena and Harry Allen, and Elmer J. Bancroft. Mr. Bancroft was a clerk in the Sutton Center store for many years and was beloved by all. He died here Aug. 28, 1935.
Extensive repairs were then made to the cottage and rented to Dwight W. King and his bride. It was later occupied by Mr. and Mrs. James Hickey and their three children, Janet, Lee J. and John U., formerly of Douglas, and by Mr. and Mrs. Clyde B. Gabriel, who were the owners of many racing dogs. It was sold in April 1945 to Mr. and Mrs. Eric W. Kallio of East Douglas. They have two children Ellen, and Eric A.
The house opposite was the home of Abner B. Lane, who died July 13, 1889 at the age of 78 years. With their mother, A. Brigham and Willard Shumway then lived there. "Brig" Shumway died there in May 1907.
William V. Campbell, a brother of Mrs. Shumway, came to live on the farm with two sons, William and George. William attended Sutton High School and George had six children - of whom Elizabeth, Harry, Walter and Agnes were born here. Mr. Campbell purchased the place and rented it to Eugene Washburn. The Washburns lived here for a few years with their children, May, William, Amelia, Eugene and Charles. Since they moved away from Sutton, there have been four tragic accidental deaths in their family.
The farm was then purchased, in September 1912, by Mr. and Mrs. Lewis H. Sherman. They moved here with their four children, Lewis Patch, Olive Anna, Mary Emily and Newell Paige, from the brick-store block in the center. Olive married Norman C. Perry September 4, 1918 and Emily married Alvin Swindell August 25, 1926. Newell, the younger son, married Miss Alice Dudley, January 7, 1933 and lived here until their deaths in 1935 and 1936. Mrs. Lewis H. Sher- man's brother, George Silas Potter, lived here and died in 1938. Mrs. Sherman died March 27, 1945 and Mr. Sherman married Mrs. Fanny Williams Dodge, widow of G. Harrison Dodge, on January 16, 1948.
A small tenement on the west side of the house has been rented to Bert Ald- rich, to George Wright, whose daughter married Lewis Thompson, to Mr. and Mrs. Ralph R. Robbins and son Randall and to Mrs. Christine Sweet and three children. It has since been occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Currier and daugh- ter, Beverly; Mr. and Mrs. C. Irving Partridge and one child, Mr. and Mrs. Clay- ton Blanchard and two young sons. Mrs. Blanchard the former Miss Doris Swen- son, died here suddenly of polio September 3, 1946. The present tenants are Mr. and Mrs. Everett Rixham.
Alpheus T. Young and his wife, Ruth M. Young, bought the place, east of the Sherman land, from Lewis Howard in April 1878. They had four children:
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Norton, who died in September 1928; Nellie, who married Joseph E. Moore, April 22, 1880; Eva, the wife of Frank Clark and Mabel, the wife of Napoleon Malhoit. Mr. Young was overseer of the carding room of the Rhodes Cotton Mill of Millbury for thirty-seven years. Mrs. Young died January 15, 1892 and Mr. Young May 7, 1923, at the age of ninety-seven. He was the oldest citizen of Sut- ton and received the gold-headed cane from the Boston Post. Even in his later years, he had been an expert in hand-mowing with a scythe. Mr. and Mrs. Napoleon Malhoit bought the place from the Young heirs in July 1923. They sold to Norman C. Perry in 1932 and moved to Uxbridge where Mr. Malhoit died on January 13 of that year at the age of sixty-four. Mrs. Malhoit, who is blind, lives with her widowed sister, Mrs. Nellie Moore, at the home of the lat- ter's daughter, Mrs. William H. Gilbert, in the Eight Lots. She spends her time to wonderful advantage; reading in Braille and making many useful and salable articles from leather. No friend need identify herself, aside from speaking, as she is very quick to recognize voices. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Clark had four children - Fred, Paul and Alice, who reside in the Eight Lots, and Ruth, who married Charles P. King.
Mr. Perry made the house into a two-tenement house to accommodate the men who are employed on his farm. Mr. and Mrs. George Partridge and two children moved here from Oxford. Raymond Partridge died here November 22, 1941 at the age of eighteen, a valued member of the First Congregational Church at the time of his death. His sister Bertha married Charles Mitchell of Sutton and moved to Rochdale. Mrs. Partridge died suddenly on Mother's Day, May 8, 1949. Mr. and Mrs. Francis Despin and three children also lived here and Mr. and Mrs. Roy Potter and family. The present tenants are Mr. Partridge and his son Harold W. and wife, Wilma E. and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Gifford and son Lin- coln, who is in Military Service, stationed in Trinidad.
"The majestic elms", mentioned in the first Town History, which were ad- mired by all, succumbed to the hurricane of 1938. They are greatly missed by the townspeople, who had grown to revere the trees.
The house across the street, occupied by George Hastings in 1876, was owned by Stephen H. Stockwell, a brother of Henry S. Stockwell. George Hastings' daughter Nellie was married to Dr. George Woodbury and lived in Worcester. In the spring of 1883, Henry S. Stockwell bought the place from his brother's widow, Hannah P. Stockwell. July 4, 1887, Simeon Stockwell died at the age of eighty-seven years, and his wife Delia Maria went to live with her son, Henry S. She died in October 1888.
The Stockwell's two sons died in 1893: Thomas Thurston on March 2, at the age of seventeen years; and Harry Griggs on October 18, at the age of twenty- one years. Harry was a student at Amherst College where he and John Gifford were great chums. After Harry's death, John Gifford came to live at the Stock- well farm. Henry S. Stockwell died December 23, 1913. Mrs. Stockwell's sister, Miss Ann Griggs died here June 4, 1933. Miss Hattie Hilton, an invalid, made her home here for many years until Mrs. Stockwell's death on February 8, 1940.
Mrs. Stockwell, who lost her sons in their youth, and outlived her husband, was a brave soul, and continued her interest in community work. She lived to celebrate her ninety-third birthday. She was a member of the First Congregational Church and a charter member of the Gen. Rufus Putnam Chapter, DAR and the
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