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Albert T. Parmenter,
substituted.
Frank Webster
William Gormin, paid.
G. H Murphy,
Francis H. Moore,
exempt.
Edwin Rogers,
Francis H. Brown,
.Hubbard H. Brown, paid.
Michael Newell,
Joel F. Parmenter,
Jonas Goodnow,
Luther G. Hunt,
Samuel Bent,
Winsor Pratt,
substituted.
T. M. Brenn, 66
Lorenzo Parmenter,
exempt.
George H. Murphy,
enlisted,
Joseph B. Adams,
66
E. S. Butterfield,
exempt.
C. W. Floyd,
66
Luther S. Cutting,
paid.
Henry H. Cheney,
E. R. Chase,
66
James J. Puffer, 66
Dana W. Hayden,
exempt.
N. C. Haynes,
paid.
William E. Eager,
Francis F. Walker, exempt.
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In the foregoing lists are the names of some of Sudbury's most valuable citizens. Voluntarily they came forward, and offered themselves at their country's call. Young men left the farm, the store, and the work-shop, and in the best of their years and their strength engaged in the work of war. The death rate among them, according to the records, is very small. Yet the history of the regiments in which most of these soldiers served shows that they sometimes occupied positions of extreme peril. Some, who passed through the severest engagements, escaped unharmed ; while others were wounded repeatedly, and recovered and again entered the ranks. Some of the strongest were the first to succumb to the power of disease ; while others, slender of stature and unaccustomed to out-door toil, came back at the end of their term of service robust and strong. Such are the fortunes of war.
LIST OF CASUALTIES.
The fatal casualties that occurred to persons who were accredited to or natives of Sudbury, as we have found them recorded in the Town Book or the Adjutant General's Printed Report, are as follows : -
KILLED OR MORTALLY WOUNDED IN BATTLE.
Horace Sanderson. John Forsyth. Edwin S. Parmenter.
THE WADSWORTH MONUMENT South Sudbury. See page 555.
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DIED IN THE SERVICE OF DISEASE OR HARDSHIP INCIDENT TO ARMY LIFE.
John P. Hudson.
Thomas Corcoran.
Curtis Smith.
Hartson D. Sinclair.
George T. Dickey.
Thomas Smith.
Abel H. Dakin.
Cyrus E. Barker.
The following is a sketch of the above-named soldiers so far as we have information concerning them.
HORACE SANDERSON.
Horace Sanderson, born at Waltham in 1837, was a mem- ber of Company K, Sixteenth Regiment, M. V. M. He enlisted for three years and was mustered in July, 1861. He was killed at the battle of Chancellorsville, May 3, 1863.
JOHN FORSYTH.
John Forsyth, son of John and Hannah Forsyth, was born in Waltham, Feb. 12, 1835. He enlisted at Newton in Company H, Sixteenth Regiment, for three years, and held the position of sergeant. He was mustered into the service in July, 1861. By trade he was a carpenter, and his former home was in the east part of the town. He was killed at the battle of Gettysburg, July 3, 1863.
EDWIN S. PARMENTER.
Edwin S. Parmenter, son of Charles and Fanny Parmenter, was born in Sudbury, August 19, 1844. He was by occu- pation a farmer, and lived at his father's home in the north- easterly part of the town. When the draft came, July 17, 1863, his brother, Albert T., was among the Sudbury con- scripts, and Edwin went as his substitute; making the second son in the family to go in the defence of his country. He belonged to Company H, Eighteenth Massachusetts Regiment, and was mustered in August 22, 1863. He was mortally wounded at the battle of Bottom Bridge, Va., and died, June 8, 1864.
JOHN P. HUDSON.
John Plympton Hudson was mustered into the United States service, May 21, 1862, and was a member of the
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Seventh Massachusetts Light Battery. He was with it in its first engagement, which was with the artillery of Gen. Roger Pryor, at the "Deserted House," near Suffolk, Va. This action was noted for the effective work of the battery. Said the "New York Tribune," in the news of Feb. 3, 1863, "The Seventh Battery achieved great honor in sustaining a furious cannonading and in more than matching it [Pryor's Battery] in this its first engagement." In describing the action, it states, "Follett's Battery [that is the Seventh Massachusetts] was then wheeled into position, and at twenty minutes to four o'clock, the action commenced in earnest. Then ensued an exhibition of artillery practice, such as has rarely been seen in this war. For three hours and eleven minutes this artillery duel continued, and the service of the guns on both sides, it is said, was not surpassable. During this time the enemy was slowly giving way before the su- periority of our cannonading. Their pieces were all si- lenced by seven o'clock, and they had been driven two miles from the Deserted House." In his own description of the action in a letter to his brother, dated Suffolk, Va., Jan. 31, 1863, Mr. Hudson said, "I was in a battle yesterday and a desperate one too, but I am safe and uninjured. . . . I was in the hottest of the fight, all of it, and got a hole torn in my overcoat by a shell. It was a regular artillery duel for three hours. Our company had two men killed and ten wounded." In another description of the battle, he states that the ground was plowed with the shot and shell, and that the trees above the battery looked as if seared by the frost or by a fire. In one instance his clothing was sprinkled with the earth that was thrown up by the shot. During the same year the battery was engaged at South Quay, Som- erton, Providence Church Road and Holland's House. It was afterwards ordered to New York to prevent a riot in the enforcement of a draft. While there, Mr. Hudson became unfitted for duty through disease, contracted while in the service in Virginia, and entered the hospital. After rejoin- ing the battery, while yet in an enfeebled condition, he obtained a furlough to go North. He arrived at Sudbury in November, 1863, where his illness increased until his death,
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which occurred at the Luther Goodnow house, near the old Haynes Garrison, March 7, 1864. John P. Hudson was born at Wayland, " Wayland and Weston Corner," Oct. 5, 1838. He was the son of Martin Newton and Maria (Reed) Hudson, and early went with his parents to Sudbury, where the most of his life was spent. He was held in high esteem by his asso- ciates, and had the confidence of the community in every position that he occupied from his early youth to the time of his going forth a young man in his country's service. As a soldier, he was true to every trust, and faithfully stood at his post until health gave way in camp life about the swamps of Suffolk, Va. In a letter sent by a comrade in the battery, Dr. William H. Ruddick of South Boston, it was said, " He had not an enemy in the company, always did his duty faithfully like a good soldier, his conduct and bearing was an example for the rest to follow, he was loved by all." He died at the age of twenty-five, and was buried at Wadsworth Cemetery in the family lot. His grave is marked by a marble stone, which is inscribed as follows :-
VOLUNTEER'S GRAVE. JOHN P. HUDSON A MEMBER OF THE 7TH MASS. LIGHT BATTERY DIED IN THE U. S. SERVICE MARCH 7TH 1864 Aged 25.
" How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, With all their country's wishes blest.
By fairy hands their knell is rung ; By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; There Honor comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there."
CURTIS SMITH.
Curtis Smith, son of Joseph and Olive (Moore) Smith, was born at Sudbury, Dec. 22, 1842. He enlisted, January, 1864, for three years in the Fifty-ninth Regiment, and was
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a member of Company E. He was a farmer, and the second son of the family to enter the service of his country. May 6, ten days after leaving the State, his regiment was engaged in its first fight, and between that time and the middle of June it was in the battles of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, North Anna and Cold Harbor. Between June 3 and 17, by which time the regiment was before Petersburg, fifteen of its men had been taken prisoners, among whom was Mr. Smith. He was taken to Andersonville June 10, and died there October 19. The town of Sudbury had one son offered as a sacrifice to her country in that terrible prison pen. The story is sufficiently told by the Town Record Book, which says, " Died, Oct. 19, 1864, of starvation in prison at Ander- sonville, Ga."
GEORGE T. DICKEY.
George T. Dickey was a son of Ira S. and Eliza Dickey. He was born in Weston, and afterwards lived in the west- erly part of Wayland, but the proximity of his house to Sud- bury and his family connection with it allied him socially to that town. He was by occupation a farmer, and, perhaps, few soldiers were better equipped physically for the endurance of army life than he ; and his cheerful disposition was well suited to brighten the rough experience of the camp and the march ; but, like some others who were exceptionally robust, he was stricken down by the hand of disease, and after but about a half year's service as a soldier, he died in the hospi- tal at Williamsport, Md., March 4, 1862.
ABEL H. DAKIN.
Abel Henry Dakin enlisted from Natick in Company I, Thirty-ninth Regiment, M. V. M. He entered the army as a drummer, but afterwards held the position of bugler. He died of consumption near Kelly's Ford, Va., Dec. 20, 1863. In the Wadsworth Cemetery is a stone bearing the following inscription : -
ABEL H. DAKIN, MEMBER OF CO. I, 39TH REG'T MASS. VOLS. Aet. 31 Years. " REST, SOLDIER, REST."
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Mr. Dakin was a son of Abel and Emeline (Stone) Dakin, and was born at Sudbury, Dec. 28, 1832. His life was mostly spent in his native town at the home of his uncle, John H. Dakin, at the present Carpenter place. He was a young man of excellent character, and, while in his country's service, he faithfully performed his part. One of his com- pany, in a letter to his sister, Mrs. Mary S. Brown, after his death, stated, that "he did his duty cheerfully, was never heard to complain," and that " they could feel that he was a true and faithful soldier." At the time of his enlistment he resided in Natick. He was married April 17, 1858, and has left one daughter, Garrie O. Dakin. He gave his life for his country, and was one of the great army of martyrs that marched to the South to be offered as a sacrifice in the sacred cause of freedom.
Thomas Corcoran, died, April 11, 1865, at Kingston, N. C. Hartson D. Sinclair, died, May 26, 1865, at Cumberland, Md. Thomas Smith, died, Jan. 26, 1865.
Cyrus E. Barker, died at Annapolis, Md.
"On Fame's eternal camping ground Their silent tents are spread ; While glory guards with solemn round The bivouac of the dead."
SKETCHES OF RESIDENT SOLDIERS.
We will now give a sketch of the Sudbury soldiers who are living in town, so far as our information of them extends. The task will be an easy one, for time has made more havoc than the bayonets or bullets of the foe. The ranks of the veterans have been thinned, year by year, through death and removal. Fewer and fewer have become the survivors, till but about a half score are left to decorate the graves of their comrades as the spring-time returns ; and when a few more years have passed the last veteran will be gone. The Sudbury soldiers who are non-residents of the town are somewhat widely scattered ; but, as in the case of residents, more or less of them are at the head of households, occupy honorable positions, and are useful and substantial citizens.
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They laid down the weapons of war and took the imple- ments of peaceful pursuits, glad of the repose that comes after victory.
Welcome with shouts of joy and pride Your veterans from the war-path's track ; You gave your boys untrained, untried, You bring them men and heroes back. ALICE CARY.
JAMES B. BUTTERFIELD.
James B. Butterfield, son of Luther and Mary Butterfield, was born in Wayland, July 22, 1840. He was the second member of the family to serve in the war, his brother George having enlisted Aug. 18, 1861, in the First Massachusetts Cavalry. His early home was at Lanham, at which place he has recently resided.
WILLIAM B. BAILEY.
William B. Bailey, son of Mathew and Roxanna Bailey, was born at Palmer in 1837. He was a resident of Sudbury at the time of enlistment, and by occupation a shoemaker. He married Alvina Darling of Sudbury, and since his dis- charge from the army has lived at the place in South Sud- bury formerly owned by his father-in-law, Trobridge Darling. He belonged to Company D, Thirty-fifth Regiment.
JOHN H. EATON.
John Henry Eaton, son of John and Ruth Eaton, was born in Sudbury, Nov. 17, 1838. His home was in the Lanham district and his occupation that of a farmer. He belonged to Company F, Forty-fifth Regiment. Since his discharge from the army he has lived at his former home.
JOSIAH GLEASON.
Josiah Gleason, born in Sudbury Aug. 8, 1826, was son of Reuben and Jerusha Gleason. He was by occupation a farmer, and since the war has resided in town.
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FRANCIS GARFIELD.
Francis Garfield, son of Enoch and Priscilla Garfield, was born in Lincoln, October 1830. He was by occupation a shoemaker, and became a citizen of Sudbury several years before entering the army. He married Sarah, daughter of Thomas B. Battles, and resides at Sudbury Centre.
CHARLES E. HAYNES.
Charles E. Haynes, son of David and Rachel Haynes, was born at Sudbury June 12, 1837. He enlisted for three years in the 13th Reg't., M. V. M., Co. F, and was mustered into service July 16, 1861. At the time of enlistment he was a farmer by occupation and a member of the " Wadsworth Rifle Guards." After he was mustered out of the United States service, Aug. 1, 1864, he returned to Sudbury where he now resides. He married Abi, daughter of Daniel L. and Sarah Willis, and has one son, Charles Ernest. He was several times wounded. His first wound was caused by a fragment of shell which struck him on the head at the second battle of Bull Run, Aug. 30, 1862. In the same battle he was also taken prisoner, but escaped. He was wounded next at the battle of Antietam, Sept. 17, 1862, by a musket ball, which passed through both legs. The third wound was received May 8, 1864, at the battle of Spottsyl- vania, where he was shot through the hand and at the same time was struck by some missile in the side which knocked him down.
RUFUS H. HURLBUT.
Rufus H. Hurlbut, only son of Thomas P. and Mary (Moore) Hurlbut, was born at Sudbury, July 16, 1842. He enlisted at the age of twenty, in the Thirty-fifth Regiment, and was promoted to sergeant, May 8, 1865. While his regiment was before Petersburg, Sept. 30, 1864, he was wounded in the head. During his march through the Wil- derness he was taken sick, and for a time he was in danger of being left behind ; a comrade, John Morse, then of Way-
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land, nobly offered to remain with him. At Fredericksburg, as he went up the perilous heights, he was obliged to pass through a gap in a fence, the position of which was so ex- posed that he was forced to tread upon a heap of bodies which had just been slain, but he escaped unhurt. He con- tinued with the army till the expiration of his term of service, June 9, 1865, when he returned to South Sudbury, where he still resides.
JOHN H. MOORE.
John Herschell Moore was born in the west part of Sud- bury, June 30, 1841, and was the youngest son of James and Sally (Thompson) Moore. He enlisted for three years when a student, and was a member of Company G, Thirty-second Regiment. This regiment was engaged in the battles before Richmond, at Antietam and Fredericksburg in 1862, and at Chancellorsville, Spottsylvania and Rappahannock Station in 1863.
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ALPHEUS PUFFER.
Alpheus Puffer was born at Sudbury in 1840. He was the son of Samuel and Laura Puffer, and his early home was in the north-east part of the town. At the time of enlist- ment he was a resident of South Sudbury and by occupation a carpenter. He was a member of Company F, Forty-fifth Regiment. He is at present a resident of South Sudbury, and engaged in the business of a machinist.
ELI H. WILLIS.
Eli H. Willis, son of Eli and Mary Willis, was born in Sudbury in 1841. He was by occupation a farmer. He married Sarah, only daughter of Luther and Mary Butter- field, and resides in the Lanham district. He was a member of Company E, Thirty-fifth Regiment, and was the second member of his father's family to go to the war; a brother, Averill, having enlisted August, 1861, in the First Massa- chusetts Cavalry.
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SUMMARY OF SERVICE.
According to Schouler in his " History of Massachusetts in the Civil War," Sudbury furnished one hundred and sixty-eight men, which was eleven over and above all de- mands. He states that " four were commissioned officers. The whole amount of money appropriated and expended by the town on account of the war, exclusive of State aid, was seventeen thousand five hundred and seventy-five dollars. The amount of money raised and expended by the town dur- ing the war for State aid to soldiers' families, and repaid by the Commonwealth, was $6,199.18."
" The population of Sudbury in 1860 was 1,691; the valuation, $1,043.091. The population in 1865 was 1,703; the valuation, $1,052,778. The selectmen in 1861 and 1862 were James Moore, John H. Dakin, George Parmenter; in 1863, A. B. Jones, George Goodnow, H. H. Goodnough ; in 1864 and 1865, Thomas P. Hurlbut, Charles Hunt, Walter Rogers. The town clerk during all the years of the war was J. S. Hunt. The town treasurer during the years 1861, 1862 and 1863 was Edwin Harrington; in 1864 and 1865, S. A. Jones."
Shortly after the war, Sudbury's rank among the towns of the county in population was the thirty-ninth. In 1776, it was the only town in Middlesex County having a popula- tion of two thousand.
It may be of interest, as well as important as a matter of history, to give the names of Sudbury citizens who were in- cluded in the first and second classes of those subject to a draft in November, 1863.
Provost Marshal's Office, Headquarters Seventh District, Massachusetts.
Concord, November 24, 1863.
By order of the Provost Marshal General of the United States, the following list of the names of all persons enrolled in the Sub-District of Sudbury, is published for the informa- tion of whom it may concern.
Any person enrolled as below may appear before the
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Board of Enrolment on Monday, December 14th, 1863, and claim to have his name stricken from the list, if he can show to the satisfaction of the Board that he is not liable to mili- tary duty on account of, 1st, Alienage ; 2d, Non-Residence ; 3d, Unsuitableness of Age ; 4th, Manifest Permanent Phy- sical Disability.
As all disabilities must be manifest and permanent, cer- tificates of physicians cannot be examined or considered.
All persons who were exempted from the recent draft on account of having furnished a Substitute, or paid Commuta- tion Money, need not appear.
FIRST CLASS.
Adams, Joseph B., 33, farmer.
Butterfield, S. Ebenezer, 21, shoe- maker.
Horr, Richard R., 30, shoemaker. Hunt, Horatio, 34, carpenter.
Bones, Patrick, 33, laborer.
Brown, Francis H., 21, farmer.
Bacon, Adoniram J., 24, “
Bent, William H., 24,
Jones, Levi S., 38, farmer.
Bent, Cyrus A., 23,
Linehan, John, 28, laborer.
Bent, Lucius P., 31, 66
Lamson, Frederick A., 21, laborer.
Bent, Samuel, Jr., 30,
Moore, Francis U., 29, carpenter. McCann, Owens, 31, farmer. Maynard, Moses W., 43, farmer.
Brown, Spencer W., 37, farmer.
Brown, Hubbard H., 24,
Moore, William H., 33, miller.
Brown, Edward E., 33,
Moore, Benjamin, 20, miller.
Brown, Newton E., 24, 66
Murphy, George H., 31, laborer.
Conant, E. Luman, 23,
Nilligan, Morris, 28
Conant, Edwin A., 33,
Conant, John M., 24,
Parmenter, Lorenzo, 31, farmer. Parmenter, Alfred N., 23, “
Cutting, George F., 27, trader.
Parmenter, John W., 27, carpenter.
Cutting, Luther S., 30, farmer. Chase, Eli R., 25, clerk.
Phillips, John H., 25, laborer.
Puffer, Dexter R., 32, clerk.
Priest, Abraham, 27, farmer.
Puffer, James F., 23, farmer.
Prouty, Augustus, 34, clerk.
Puffer, James J., 34, carpenter.
Parmenter, Joel F., 33, trader.
Pratt, Nathan L., 33, powder-maker.
Pratt, Windsor, 31, cooper.
Pratt, Francis, 24, farmer.
Carr, Erwin S., 25, Carter, Leonard, 33, hotel keeper.
Newell, Michael, 24,
Parmenter, Alfred T .. 23, “
Cheney, Henry H., 21, carpenter. Conant, Albert, 25, laborer. Dadman, Orin, 43, farmer. Evans, Moses W., 22, laborer.
Eaton, Edward N., 26, farmer. Eager, William E., 31, laborer. Floyd, Charles W., 28, laborer. Goodnow, John B., 33, farmer.
Hunt, Samuel M., 33, farmer.
Haynes, Nathan C., 28, farmer.
Haynes, George F., 28, Jones, John C., 31, laborer.
Brinn, Thomas M., 32, tailor.
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Garfield, John W., 30, shoemaker. Goodnow, Nahum, 20, laborer. Gleason, Josiah, 37, laborer. Goodnow, Elisha, 24, farmer. Gormain, William, 30, overseer. Gay, Almer H., 27, shoemaker. Garfield Samuel H., 20, laborer. Goodnow Jonas, 42, laborer. Goodnow, John, 3d, 24, trader. Heffiman, James, 20, paper-maker. Hayden, Dana W., 28, farmer. Hunt, Luther G., 27, Haynes, Andrew, 25, Haynes, Marshal, 22, Hemenway, Adoniram J., 21, clerk. Hudson, S. Alfred, 23, student. Haynes, James, 25, laborer. Haynes, Sylvester, 27, laborer. Hunt, Edward, 34, farmer.
Pratt, Levi L., 37, farmer.
Parmenter, Tisdale W., 26, farmer. Rogers, Edwin, 27, butcher. Richardson, Thos. C., 28, musician. Richardson, Lyman B., 22, miller. Stone, William L., 21, farmer.
Stone, George W., Jr., 25, farmer. Smith Curtis, 20, Smith, Elisha E., 34, Sherman, Theo. S., 30, shoemaker. Thompson, Alfred N., 31, farmer. Thompson, Charles, 36, Tilton, John F., 35, Vinton, Porter M., 29, clergyman. Willis, James L., 25, farmer. Walker, Francis F., 26, farmer.
Webster, Franklin, 28, machinist. White, Calvin, 30, laborer.
SECOND CLASS.
Agnew, James, 36, spinner. Brigham, Rufus, 44, farmer. Burr, Hiram G., 36, trader. Casey, Martin, 36, farmer. Cutter, Joseph D., 42, farmer. Cutter, Charles A., 37, butcher. Dakin, Asahel, 41, farmer. Doyle, Edward, 35, “
James, Charles A., 43, machinist. Jones, William P., 43, shoemaker. Jones, William F., 35, laborer. Joice, John, 40, laborer.
Ladd, Thomas, 41, laborer.
Moore, Curtis B., 35, farmer. Milleman, Elisha, 35, "
Moore, George, 35, Murphy, James, 36, laborer.
Noyes, Joseph, 38, farmer.
Puffer, Napoleon B., 42, overseer.
Parmenter, Madison, 36, farmer. Parmenter, Samuel O., 43, “ Puffer, Otis, 38, mariner. Parmenter, Addison, 36, farmer.
Pierce, Luke, 40, farmer. Perry, Levi E., 42, farmer. Rice, Isaac, 43, laborer. Rice, John W., 41, farmer.
Rice, Oliver R., 37, farmer. Richardson, Benj. H., 42, carpenter. Seymore, Charles, 43, farmer. Smith, Farwell, 39, farmer.
Sawyer, Theodore W., 44, farmer. Taylor, Sewall B., 43, machinist. Taylor, John, 44, carpenter.
Dittling, Felix, 36,
Dakin, John H., 43, " Dakin, Jonathan C., 43, farmer.
Fairbank, Nelson, 43,
Fairbank, Jona P., 37, Goodnough, Hiram H., 37, farmer. Goodnough, John, 2d., 38, Goodnow, George, 43, Gough, William J., 36, carder. Hunt, Jonas S., 36, trader. Haynes, Reuben, 41, farmer. Haynes, Hiram, 39 Harrington, Edwin, 43, “ Hunt, Aaron, Jr., 43, Haynes, Warren H., 41, farmer. Hurburt, Thomas P., 43, Hunt, Nicholas B., 42, Haynes, Francis, 39,
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Howe, Joseph C., 44, manufacturer. Taylor, George, 41, farmer. Harriman, John K., 38, carpenter. Tilton, Edward F., 37, powder-maker. Heard, Augustus, 44, farmer. Tilton, George W., 38,
Jones, Dexter C., 42, farmer. Willis, George W., 42, carpenter."
But few events of especial prominence, not already men- tioned, have transpired in Sudbury thus far during the closing period of the century ; and no record of its commonplace annals will be given. After mentioning the Bicentennial of the Wadsworth Fight, the laying out of an important highway, the George Goodnow Bequest, and the organization of societies, we shall consider in the subsequent chapters several subjects that stand related to each period of the history of Sudbury.
BICENTENNIAL.
April 18, 1876, the town celebrated what was supposed to be the two hundredth anniversary of Wadsworth's Fight at Green Hill. (For true date see page 218.) At early dawn a salute was fired, and a procession of " Antiques and Hor- ribles " paraded, making a trip to South Sudbury. Later in the day a procession of the citizens, including the school children, was formed and marched to Wadsworth Monument, which was decorated with the national colors. The following sentiment was offered by Jonas S. Hunt, Esq., and was responded to by Hon. T. B. Hurlbut : " Wadsworth Monu- ment, - The joint tribute of the State of Massachusetts and the town of Sudbury."
Services were held at the Unitarian Church, which con- sisted of prayer by Rev. George A. Oviatt, an oration by Prof. Edward A. Young of Harvard College, and remarks by Rev. George A. Oviatt, Luther H. Sherman, who spoke for Wayland, John H. Hillis, who spoke for Maynard, and Capt. E. D. Wadsworth of Milton, a descendant of Capt. Samuel Wadsworth. J. P. Fairbanks was president of the day. Jonas S. Hunt, Esq., was toast-master, and Homer Rogers chief marshal. Music was furnished by the Sudbury Cornet Band, Alfred M. Moore of Malden, leader. The exercises closed by the singing of America.
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