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EMMA F. TOLMAN, second daughter of Philander Tolman, married Albert F. Richardson of Sebago, No- vember 27, 1873. Children: Frank Tolman, born April I, 1878; Anna Mabel, born July 1, 1879; Mary Cleaves, born December 26, 1880; Augusta Hortense, born Septem- ber 13, 1883; Amy Kelton, born September 21, 1888.
Mr. and Mrs. Richardson have been residents of Cas- tine, Maine, for several years, Mr. Richardson being the well known and popular Principal of the State Normal School at that place.
JAMES H. TOLMAN, fifth and youngest son of Phi- lander Tolman, married Ella E., daughter of Hon. C. A. Chaplin of Harrison, November 25, 1877. Children: E. May, born October 20, 1878; George W., born July 17, 1880; A. Laura, born September 26, 1883. Mr. Tolman was educated in the Harrison schools, and Bridgton Acad- emy. He studied law in the office of his father-in-law, Hon. C. A. Chaplin, and commenced the practice of law at Casco, Maine, in 1881, and was also engaged in the mill- ing business in that town. In 1886, he was elected as a member of the Board of County Commissioners by the Republicans of Cumberland County, and held the office for six years. He removed from Casco about 1891, and located in Westbrook. In 1893, he was appointed as Judge of the Municipal Court in that city, and still retains the position. He is very popular in the city of his residence, and has been three times re-appointed as judge, and his many friends in his native town always take pleasure in assisting him as much as possible. He continues the practice of law, and is quite prominent in the profession.
ANNA M. TOLMAN, third and youngest daughter of Philander Tolman, married Walter S. Dudley, January 12, 1882, and has one child: Mildred Emma, born February 3, 1883. Mr. and Mrs. Dudley reside at "Greenwood Villa," in Harrison, which was the residence of Mrs. Dudley's father.
EMMA ISABEL TOLMAN, daughter of Theodore and Augusta Tolman, and granddaughter of Philander Tolman, married Charles G. Herald of Portland, December 30, 1897. Children: Gardner Tolman, born July 6, 1899 ;
HON. JAMES H. TOLMAN
MRS. J. H. TOLMAN
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Theodore Thomas, born January 31, 1902. Mr. and Mrs. Herald are residents of Portland.
Mrs. Laura (Kelton) Tolman, widow of Philander Tol- man, died April 21, 1904, aged ninety years.
GOLDEN WEDDING.
November 3, 1891, marked the fiftieth year of the mar- ried life of Philander and Laura (Kelton) Tolman. The anniversary was honored by the presence of a large assem- blage of their descendants and other relatives and friends - about seventy-five in all. The mansion, "Greenwood Vil- la," and lawn were illuminated by Chinese lanterns, the par- lors festooned with evergreen, the dates "1841-1891" be- ing placed over the folding doors, banks of plants and cut flowers forming other decorations of the room. A profusion of valuable and elegant gifts were received from many friends in Maine and Massachusetts. A fine poem "Toll Gatherers," contributed for the occasion by Mary Tolman Saben, a relative of Mr. Tolman, was read by Miss - Gibson, teacher of elocution at Bridgton Acad- emy, and a golden wedding song by the same author was sung to "Auld Lang Syne." Numerous letters of congratu- lation and regret were received, including one from Hon. Thomas B. Reed, member of Congress.
Several of the grandchildren of Mr. and Mrs. Tolman have been for a number of years distinguished widely for their natural talents for music, and for the high degree of culture attained by them in that greatest of the fine arts.
Miss A. Laura Tolman, daughter of Frank W. and Hattie Tolman is recognized as one of the most promis- ing lady violincellists in Boston. Her musical education was obtained in Boston and in Germany, where she per- fected her studies in the finer points of 'cello playing under the best masters. Her professional nom de plume
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is "Tolmanina." Another grandchild who is eminent as a professor of the piano and teacher is Carl Jean, a son of Charles E. and Mattie Tolman of South Paris. He has won much fame, and is known and appreciated as an artist through our State and other States. A third grandchild who has developed remarkable talent for piano playing is Mildred E., only daughter of Walter and Anna Tolman Dudley. She is entirely devoted to her profession and has attained to much excellence as a performer before the public. She was a graduate of Bridgton Academy and of Castine Normal School before she resolved to make music the business of her life.
TRAFTON FAMILY.
JOSHUA TRAFTON, very early in Harrison in the last century, was born September 27, 1784. He came from York, Maine. He married Johann Ross of Harrison, born February 28, 1797; died October 28, 1861. Their children : Otis F., Ruth, Susan, Joseph, Johann, Abbie, Huldah.
OTIS F., b. Dec. 20, 1807, married Eliza Wilkins of Water- ford, b. Mar. 4, 1814. Their children :
I. Henry O., b. Dec. 17, 1835; married Henrietta Cush- man of Waterboro, Me. They have one child, Etta S.
2. John Emerson, b. Mar. 28, 1838, married Myra Maines of Bethel; Mr. Trafton died Oct. 31, 1897.
3. Elizabeth, b. May 17, 1842; died Sept. 30, 1845.
4. Algernon, b. May 17, 1842; died Sept. 16, 1845.
5. Abbie M., b. July 3, 1844; married George W. New- comb, of Harrison. They had two children: Fo- neta, b. July 5, 1876, married Benj. Iredale of Bridg- ton; they have one child, Ruth. Sumner O., b. Nov. 27, 1880, married Augusta DeShon Albee of Rockland, Me.
6. Frank M., b. Dec. 22, 1847; married Clara L., daugh- ter of Smith Chaplin of Naples. They have three
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children: Lida A., b. Mar. 30, 1876, married J. Howard Randall of Portland; they reside in Harri- son. Carlotta, b. Aug. 5, 1885, married Benj. Har- mon of Harrison; they have two children, Lynton and Lida. Araminta O., b. June 19, 1891.
7. James A., b. Mar. - , married Araminta, daughter of Smith Chaplin, of Naples; they have three chil- dren : Otis, b. Apr. 12, 1875, married Ella Meserve of Westbrook, Me; one child, Norman. Leo, b. Oct. - , 1876, married Margaret Rankins of Sanford. Charles, b. July 31, 1875, married - Clark of San- ford.
RUTH, married Charles Kimball, July 4, 1838. They had children: Leonard, Porter, Augusta, Abbie.
SUSAN, married John Lewis. Their children were: John, Charles, and Eliza.
JOSEPH, married Jane Lewis of Lovell; they had two sons, Newell A., and Perley.
I. Newell A., b. Oct. 13, 1843; married Mary Elizabeth, (b. Dec. 22, 1846), daughter of Dr. John E. and Mary E. Dunnells of Harrison, Dec. 15, 1867. They re- sided on the farm previously owned and occupied by Joseph, the father of Newell, for the first thirteen years of their married life, when Mr. Trafton re- moved to Norway Village in 1880. To Newell and Mary E. Trafton were born three children in Harri- son : Mabel Jane, b. Oct. 21, 1868, married H. Howard Knight of South Portland. Homer D., b. Nov. 14, 1870; died Dec. 9, 1895. Alice Maud, b. June 15, 1872, married Charles Q. Knight, and re- sides in Portland.
Mrs. M. Elizabeth Trafton died May 11, 1885, in Norway.
Mr. Trafton married second, Hattie E. Libby of Casco, Maine, in Gorham, New Hampshire, January 3, 1887. He died in Norway, March 9, 1891. The family removed from Norway to Portland the same year, and continue to reside there.
JOHANN, married William Badger. They had two chil- dren : Willie and Abby Eliza.
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ABBIE B., married Leonard Libby of Harrison, Oct. 27, 1847. (See Libby family.)
HULDAH, b. Aug. 22, 1826, died Sept. 3, 1878; unmarried. G. F.
TWOMBLY FAMILY.
WILLIAM TWOMBLY, son of William and Mary (Hicks) Twombly, was born in Norway, August 31, 1803. He married December 13, 1829, Alice, youngest daughter of James and Jemima (Stetson) Sampson, born September 15, 1803, in Harrison, one of the first children born on the site of the Harrison Village after its settlement by her father in 1800.
Mr. Twombly, early in his married life, settled at Bol- ster's Mills, and all his children were born there. The tract of land purchased for a homestead, a portion of which was cultivated successfully by him during his lifetime, has, by clearing and intelligent handling, become in later years, one of the most valuable small farms in the town.
As a carpenter and builder, Mr. Twombly was unex- celled. He erected and finished a number of the most sub- stantial dwelling houses in his own village; one being the dwelling erected in - for Benjamin Farrington, now the home of Walker Mills. Another on the Otisfield side of the river built in -, for Oliver Corliss. He also made in his shop a superior kind of winnowing machines, or grain separators, for which he had a patent right. He was the master builder of the Methodist Episcopal Church building in the village of his residence. He was a pattern of industry and integrity in all his business relations with others. In his daily life and deportment he exhibited to the world the reality of conscientious Christian manhood. In his relations to the church, he was a class-leader and trustee for many years of the church property, guarding
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its interests with strict fidelity. He was a devoted friend of popular education and of all movements for conserving public morality. The cause of temperance was very dear to him. He was a charter member of Crooked River Di- vision, No. 100, Sons of Temperance, organized February 5, 1850. He was a Democrat for many years but ever after the firing on the old flag at Fort Sumter, he was an uncompromising Republican. He loved freedom and jus- tice more than mere party.
Mrs. Alice Twombly possessed in full measure those kindly qualities of character which distinguished the family from which she sprung, in all its generations, and no family in the town ever received a greater measure of regard and neighborly affection than that of Mr. and Mrs. Twombly. Mr. Twombly died May 2, 1876, aged seventy-six years. Mrs. Twombly died September 5, 1877, aged seventy-four years. Their children are:
JAMES CLINTON, b. Aug. 21, 1830; died Nov. 12, 1849. LYDIA WATERHOUSE, b. Oct. 3, 1832; married Dec. 3, 1854, Charles E. Stuart. (See Stuart family.)
OLIVE WATSON, b. Nov. 19, 1839; married, Mar. 23, 1856, John Newland Knight of Otisfield. They have one daughter, Alice Twombly, b. May 7, 1857. They reside in Bolster's Mills.
WILLIAM WALLACE, b. July 14, 18 -; married Aug. 4, 1859, at South Paris, Harriet G. Hicks; they have re .. sided in Norway Village nearly all their married life. Mr. Twombly worked many years in the Norway tannery ; was a soldier in the Civil War in Maine Volunteers. He is employed as janitor at the Norway Opera House. Their children : John Clinton, b. Sept. 7, 1863. William Laforest, b. June 1, 1874.
JOHN NELSON, b. Jan. 12, 1842; died in infancy.
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WALKER FAMILY.
The ancestor of the Walkers of Harrison, and of the numerous descendants by other names in this and other towns in this and other States for more than a hundred years, was CHARLES WALKER, who was born in Kit- tery, District of Maine, Aug. 15, 1759. He settled in Fal- mouth (now Portland) before or during the War of the Revolution. He served in that war as a private soldier under three separate enlistments in companies that were raised in Falmouth, commanded as follows: March, 1778, nine months, Capt. Jesse Partridge; July, 1779, three months, Capt. William Cobb; July, 1780, eight months, Capt. Joseph Pride. During the third term of his service, he was promoted to the rank of sergeant.
Mr. Walker was a United States pensioner under an ap- plication dated July 16, 1833, to his death, June 20, 1843. He married Eunice Berry, probably of Falmouth, December 26, 1782. She was born September 24, 1761, and died in Harrison, July 29, 1823. They had a family of three sons and three daughters, all born in Falmouth. Samuel, born October 8, 1783; married Hannah Hicks of Westbrook in 1808. Miriam, born October 7, 1785; married Philip Cobb of Windham. Charles, Jr., born October 1, 1787; mar- ried Sally Barbour, eighth child of Adam and Betty (Knight) Barbour of Westbrook. John, born September 3, 1791; died November 24, 1791. Eunice, born May 4, 1793; married Bela Dawes of Harrison. Eliza, born June 28, 1798; married Joshua Howard of Harrison, and, sec- ondly, David Woodsum of Harrison.
SAMUEL WALKER, son of Charles and Eunice (Ber- ry) Walker, settled first on a farm near Pride's Bridge, Westbrook, on the Presumpscot River. He subsequently sold out, and moved to Harrison about 1815, purchasing
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a farm from the original proprietor, Harrison Gray Otis, located one-half mile easterly from the village, on the hill. Here he established a homestead, raised a large family, four of whom were born in Westbrook. He was a man of excellent character, a worthy member for many years of the Free Will Baptist Church, and highly respected as a citizen and neighbor. He died September 27, 1867. His wife pre-deceased him June 4, 1850. They had seven children as follows :
CHARLES, b. Aug. 4, 1809; married Nov. 21, 1833, Mary H. Hanson of Harrison. He succeeded his father in the management of the home farm and in the care of the aged parents; but he died Feb. 16, 1860, while his father was yet living. He was like his father, a kind neighbor and citizen and a devoted Christian. His widow survived him forty-seven years. She died Apr. 16, 1907, aged 94 years. Their children were:
I. Charles Lincoln, b. Aug. 3, 1835; married Ist, Lydia Sawyer of Harrison, Dec. 13, 1859 (b. Mar. IO, 1838 and died July 15, 1866). Mr. Walker married 2d, Sarah J., daughter of Walter P. and Hannah (Bray) Harmon, May 9, 1867. They had children : Charles Sidney, b. Aug. 24, 1870; married Adele Le- Duc, of Lowell, Mass., Apr. 6, 1904 (b. Feb. 14, 1877). Frank Wilson, b. Aug. 3, 1872; married Eva W. Carsley of Harrison, June 9, 1895. She was born Apr. 28, 1873. Walter Wilfred, b. Aug. 3, 1872; married Marion W. Jones, Sept. 26, 1900; b. July 3, 1871 ; they have a son, Harold Harmon, b. July 29, 1903.
2. Emily H., b. Sept. 3, 1837; married Horace E. Adams, June 7, 1861. He was born Oct. 14, 1827; died in Peabody, Mass., Feb. 24, 1895. Their chil- dren : Emma F., b. Apr. 6, 1862. Mary E., b. Oct. 8, 1863. Ada I., b. Mar. 28, 1866; married Alonzo W. Tyler, of Peabody, Mass., Mar. 29, 1886; chil- dren : Mabel C., b. Jan. 20, 1889. Ethel H., b. July 3, 1891. Alma B., b. Jan. 23, 1896. Orrace A., b. June 7, 1901. Warren A., b. July 14, 1905. John H., b. July 2, 1871, in Peabody.
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3. Albert Wesley, b. Oct. 14, 1840; married Addie E. Adams of Worcester, Mass., May 17, 1864. She was born Aug. 25, 1838. Children: Mary Alice, b. Mar. 8, 1870; married L. S. Burbank; she died Apr. 2, 1895. Albert Franklin, b. Mar. 8, 1872; married Isabella Frost of New York; children : Alice T., b. in Winthrop, Mass., and Aubrey C .; they live in Winthrop.
4. Caroline P., b. Dec. 13, 1842; married Freeman J. Dunn of Harrison; she died Oct. 31, 1886. Mr. Dunn died Their children: Charles F., b. May 19, 1869; married Kate J. Gray of Bridgton, Me., Nov. 24, 1895; she was born Mar. 19, 1871; they have one son: Gerald P., b. July 18, 1900. William M., b. Apr. 26, 1871; married Nov. 19, 1895, Alice E. Simpson of Bridgton (b. Mar. 9, 1875); they have one son: Lawrence E. Dunn, b. June 17, 1899.
WILLIAM, b. July 25, 1811; married Belinda Edson of Harrison, Aug. 13, 1835; settled in Harrison; their chil- dren were:
I. Lucy E .; married Isaiah Spiller of Casco.
2. Adeline; married Jason Kimball of Gilead.
3. Franklin; lives in Waterville, Me; unmarried.
4. William; married Eunice, daughter of Benjamin Wheeler of Harrison. Had a daughter, Nellie ; mar- ried Rollins Davis of Harrison.
GEORGE; married Lydia Ann Libby, Oct. 25, 1840; settled in Harrison. Their children :
I. George W., b. Mar. 12, 1842; died young.
2. Julia A .; married'Virgil D. Kennerson of Harrison, deceased. .
3. Albert, b. Mar. 25, 1846; married Ellen Woodbury of Bridgton. They had children. He was killed by a railroad accident in Massachusetts.
4. Samuel, b. Apr. 9, 1848; married Ellen Kneeland of Harrison. Had issue.
5. Elliot L., b. Mar. 22, 1850; married Brown of Hiram.
6. Zibeah; died unmarried.
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SAMUEL, b. June 10, 1815; married Charlotte Twitchell of Bethel. They settled in Harrison; Mr. Walker was a shoemaker, a man of intelligence and ability to con- duct public affairs. He held the office of Town Treas- urer and other offices. Their children :
I. Algernon S., b. Apr. 12, 1841.
2. Osgood B., b. Dec. 14, 1842; married Addie Lamb.
3. Emeline S., b. Sept. 12, 1844.
4. Frances C., b. Dec. 29, 1846.
5. John D., b. Mar. 31, 1849; died Jan. 6, 1851.
6. Clara.
7. John E.
8. Emma J., b. -; married Thomas Mason of Bridg- ton.
FRANKLIN, son of Samuel, b. in Harrison, Nov. 20, 1817 ; married Frances Bailey, b. Sept. 20, 1825, daughter of James Bailey of Harrison. Their children :
I. Frances Eugenia, b. June, 1848; married Ist, Os- good Noyes of Harrison; they had one child, Er- land Frank, b. Aug. 28, 1877; married 2d, Albion Kimball of Harrison; they reside in Gorham, Me.
2. Horace, b. Oct. 14, 1851 ; married Mar. 4, 1875, Mary Jane Scribner of Otisfield, b. Sept. 28, 1853; they have one child: Frank Wilmot, b. Dec. 24, 1877; married Oct. 10, 1900, Grace May, daughter of Isaac and Alma (Edwards) Skillings of Harrison, Dec. 26, 1877; children : Paul Whitman, b. Dec. IO, 1903. Henry Wilmot, b. Jan. 24, 1908.
Franklin Walker was, in early life, a farmer boy, but being inclined to mechanical pursuits, he learned the wire- making art, and by industry and application he became a skilled workman, and eventually, a partner in the noted firm of P. Tolman & Co., proprietors of the largest wire manufacturing business in the State. He was of versatile genius and excelled in several specialties of work. He had an inherent love of music, and was many years a choir singer and leader, and was one of the best known teachers of the old fashioned singing schools in this section of the
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State. He, early in life, became a member of the Free Baptist Church, and was one of the most constant and de- voted supporters of that faith and worship. He was a contractor with S. H. Dawes for building the Free Baptist Church in Harrison Village, and served the church in many other ways. He possessed a heart of kindness, sympathy and charity, and for his true neighborly character he was beloved by every one who knew him. Franklin Walker died Sept. 28, 1884. His widow died June 15, 1904.
MARY, b. in Harrison, July 19, 1821; married Simon Sea- vey of Waterford; their children :
I. Charles W .; is a machinist and engineer in a west- ern State.
2. Frank W .; is superintendent or foreman of a woolen factory in Vassalboro, Me.
3. John; resides in State of Oregon.
4. Horace, b. in Waterford; married Annie Dawes of Harrison. (See Dawes family.) He is a talented musician and has been for thirty years or more prominently identified with a number of the most celebrated military bands in the country, as a player of the tuba. He travelled and played with Sousa's world-famous band, for nearly twenty years. He resides in New York City.
ZIBEAH, b. in Harrison, May 16, 1825; she, early in life, learned the tailoress' trade, and was employed in that business the most of her life, working many years in Harrison. She resided the latter years of her life in Waterville, where she died.
MIRIAM WALKER, second child of Charles and Eu- nice (Berry) Walker, married Cobb, and settled in Lincoln, Maine, where they had children.
CHARLES WALKER, JR., second son of Charles and Eunice (Berry) Walker, settled first in Westbrook, where he married Sally Barbour, daughter of Adam Barbour of that town. In the War of 1812, he was in military ser- vice of the government for a limited time, as a musician,
CHARLES WALKER, EsQ.
MRS. SALLY (BARBOUR) WALKER
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at Portland. He came to Harrison about 1815, with his father, occupied the same house, and with his wife, was ever after the firm stay and support of his aged parents during all their declining years. He early embraced the faith of the Free Will Baptists, and was distinguished for his zeal in advancing the interests of that denomination, and for his high Christian character. He was one of that noble triumvirate of deacons, Carsley, Bray and Walker, who for many years upheld the standard of their church, and helped lay deep and strong, the foundations of the religious structure which stands unmoved today in its de- votedness to the principles of higher living and the ad- vancement of society toward perfection in the civilization and conversion of the world to pure Christianity. Deacon Walker possessed sufficient education to be a competent teacher of the young, and for several years during his early residence in town, he kept a school each winter in an unoccupied room of his own house. He was a devoted friend and supporter of all movements for popular educa- tion, and was one of the foremost leaders in the organiza- tion of the large school district, and the erection of the schoolhouse known for many years as the "Pound School- house," from its proximity to the town pound. That dis- trict embraced for years, the inhabitants of the village, the Woodsum neighborhood, and down the country road to include the family of Esq. Oliver Peirce. It was a fa- mous old school district, and many finely educated teachers were employed to train the youth within the walls of that hall of learning for about a quarter of the whole town. The "Pound Schoolhouse" was also a great center for re- ligious gatherings for prayer and conference meetings, and many of the early itinerant preachers of the Free Will Baptist order, as well as those of the straight sect of Baptists, have labored there for the conversion and re- formation of sinners. Thus was Deacon Walker as a teach- er, and as a member for years of the school committee,
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closely identified with the early progress in providing edu- cational advantages for the youth of the town. Besides, he was a captain of the militia, a Justice of the Peace, chairman of the Selectmen, and Town Clerk for about twenty-three years. Deacon Walker was for many years Clerk of the Otisfield Quarterly Meeting, which embraced a large number of churches in Cumberland and Oxford Counties, and included the church at Shelburne, New Hampshire. He thus became widely known to the denomi- nation in that circuit, and was universally loved for his fine social qualities as well as for his true piety. But it was in the exercise of his gift, an endowment peculiarly his own, that he was known far and wide as "the sweet singer," whose rendering of the favorite old revival hymns "with the spirit and understanding" made him a power to thrill the minds of the wayward, comfort the hearts of the sorrowing, and arrest the attention of the impenitent, sometimes, it was said, more effectually than some of the pulpit efforts of the ablest preachers. Inspired with re- ligious fervor, with solemn face glowing and radiant with emotion, with eyes upturned, and hand pointing upward, he used this gift of musical eloquence to move the mul- titude of breathless listeners in a way that threw into shadow many of the traditions of the devotees of the mu- sical and dramatic schools.
Deacon Walker was endowed with a strong physical con- stitution, as was likewise his wife. They were inured to many hardships, and were patterns of industry and thrift in domestic management, and distinguished in a wide home community, and among all the churches, for generous hos- pitality and benevolence.
When the Quarterly or Yearly Meetings came around to Harrison their home was always thronged by the brethren and sisters, especially by the ministers; and when the beds in the house had all been pre-empted by the women, to whom they were assigned by Mother Walker, the presiding
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genius of the occasion, she would cover the floor of some large spare room with extemporized accommodations for the men, by cutting up a web or two of factory cotton cloth into sheet lengths, and making ticks to be filled with clean straw from the barn, so that, with the extra bed clothes always in reserve in that house, and the buf- falo robes and cushions from the carriages of the guests, there was an array of field beds sufficient for all the brethren. This is a true and unexaggerated picture of the way Deacon Walker and his provident helpmate used to entertain their guests when pressing necessity arose to re- quire it.
Deacon Walker retained his physical and mental facul- ties to a great degree till past seventy years of age. In the summer of 1859, he became much debilitated with a dropsical affection. He was attended by the family phy- sician, who exercised all his skill by the usual operations, and by various treatments, to save his aged patient. It was all in vain, and on the 19th of August, at the age of seventy-two, he fell calmly asleep to wake no more on this side.
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