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Nov. 10, 1905, Bruno Theberge (usually known in Sullivan as "Joe Brown") died at the Elliot City Hospital in Keene, as the result of fatal injuries received in Sullivan on Wednesday, Nov 8, 1905, two days before. On the latter date, he was driving, in the morning, down the hill west of the Jacob Spaulding, or Barnes, house, 119 on the map. He had a load of boards which were not chained to the cart. The boards slipped forward and hit the horse, causing it to run down the hill, throwing Mr. Theberge from his seat to the ground. The vehicle passed over his body, one wheel passing over his face, grinding off one of his cheeks. A small boy who was with him hardly knew what to do in the emergency, but eventually summoned help, who took Mr. Theberge into a house, and word was sent to Dr. Prouty of Keene, who came to the rescue as quickly as possible, and Mr. Theberge was taken in an ambulance to the hospital, where he died on the tenth.
ACCIDENTS NOT FATAL.
March 28, 1866, Lucius Nims suffered the amputation of a leg, which was injured while logging on the old Warren farm (56 on map.) The operation was performed by Dr. G. B. Twitchell of Keene. Mr. Nims lived several years. We accidentally omitted to note this fact on page 374, in its chronological order.
Dec. 24, 1889, Crosby A. Mason, a native of Sullivan, born at 50, where his youth was passed, lost both of his eyes, while assisting in blasting rocks in
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Dublin, to procure stones for the foundation of the barn upon the Parker place, recently purchased by Mr. Catlin. By a premature explosion, he received a portion of the charge in his face, causing the destruction and removal of both eyes. He resides in Keene.
Apr. 23, 1900, Ernest Leroy Blood, a native of Sullivan, born at 138, suffered the amputation of one of his thumbs, below the first joint, at the Elliot City Hospital in Keene, as the result of an accident in the chair factory at Munsonville. He had been married on the 19th of the same month.
Oct. 9, 1905, occurred one of the most distressing accidents which has happened in the town. Little Frederick Ward, a child of Charles M. Ward, who lived in the house at III, where Atwell C. and Austin A. Ellis had lived, lost both his eyes by the firing of a gun which was in the hands of his half- brother, much older than himself, named Harry H. Hall (whose last name is sometimes called Ward). It cannot be supposed that Harry meditated any fatal occurrence, nor did he probably intend to produce any serious injury. There was a blank cartridge in the gun and Harry probably thought that he might scare the child. The full charge entered the child's face. Being about twelve years of age at the time, Harry should have used more discretion, but discretion in children is as uncertain as the algebraic "x". The accident oc- curred at Mr. Ward's house, while Mrs. Ward was ill at the Elliot City Hospi- tal in Keene. Mrs. Holt, a near neighbor, heard the firing of the gun and rushed to the Ward home. Seeing the condition of little Fred, she telephoned to East Sullivan and learned that Dr. Prouty was on his way from Keene to Munsonville. The doctor was hailed at East Sullivan and immediately pro- ceeded to the Ward home. He was with an automobile and Mrs. Prouty was with him. They went at once to the Elliot City Hospital in Keene, Mrs. Prouty carrying the little fellow in her arms. Both of the poor child's eyes were re- moved that night. It was a most melancholy affair, adding one more solemn and dreadful lesson respecting the careless use of fire-arms. Little Fred has been placed in the Perkins Institution for the Blind in Boston, to be educated according to their well-known and highly approved methods. It is a singular fact that the gun which was the agent of this awful accident was the same which killed the little Heald child. See the bottom of page 369. This was the fourth Sullivan boy to lose both eyes by an accident, the other three being Crosby A. Mason (see page 794), Eugene S. Smith (see page 374), and Arthur B. Thorning (see page 374).
Nov. 19, 1906, George H. Burns, who had been living for two or three years at the house of Samuel S. White, in whose employ he was, was the victim of an injury which nearly proved fatal. It was the day of the state and national Thanksgiving. He went into a field a considerable distance from the house, thinking to have a little fun by splitting open a rock which was already cracked. He carried a stick of dynamite in his pocket for the purpose. As he was about to place the dynamite in position, he undertook, for some reason, to whittle it with his knife, when it suddenly exploded, tearing his left hand from the arm, so injuring the thumb and first two fingers of the right hand that they had to be amputated, leaving only the third and fourth fingers upon that hand. His eyes were badly injured and there were other terrible injuries to the different
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parts of his body. After lying for a time unconscious, he rallied enough to crawl to the house, whence he was taken to the Elliot City Hospital at Keene. He eventually recovered and regained the use of his eyes. He has a hook ad- justed to his left arm. With this and the two fingers remaining on his right hand, he can dress himself and do many kinds of light work and make himself useful in many ways. His escape from instant death, as well as from prolonged agony, was marvellous. He resides at Mr. S. S. White's still.
Since the chapter on CASUALTIES was written, we have learned that the true date for the amputation of the leg of Elizabeth M. Howard, now Mrs. Ken- ney, was Dec. 30, 1857. The date on page 374 was an approximate date.
We have also learned that the true date for the amputation of the leg of Nahum Bridge was Sept. 24, 1863, instead of the approximate date given on page 374.
FIRES.
Since pages 378-381 were written, two more fires have been added to the Sullivan list.
Sept. 13, 1905, in the evening, the barns of Miss Helen A. Peabody, upon the old Winchester farm, at 193, were burned. Miss Peabody had no stock. Her grass had been cut by the "halves" by a neighbor who then lived at 175. There were about six tons of hay for each stored in the barns. The neighbor had insured his part of the hay for a hundred dollars just before this date. The fire must have been of incendiary origin, as there had been no lightning upon that day and no one was known to have taken any lamp or lantern into the barns that evening. Two barns and an open shed were consumed.
Apr. 7, 1907, the barn was burned upon the Edwin J. Dunn place at 126. The premises had not been occupied since the death of Mr. Dunn, several years before. The barn was a miserable structure, practically worthless, and contain- ing nothing of value. The fire was possibly due to the carelessness of some tramp, but much more likely the deliberate work of an incendiary, with no special motive besides the mere spirit of wantonness in firing a worthless and disused structure. It is a curious fact that all the fires in District No. 3 have been on the adjoining estates 121, 122, 126, 129, and 128, the D. Spaulding, J. Dunn, E. J. Dunn, Woodward, and Preckle places.
CHURCHES.
Page 382, lines 5-7. We find, on further search, that an appropriation of 5 /. was made at a special meeting, June 2, 1790.
Page 387, line 18 from bottom. For " numpered," read numbered.
Page 388, line 5. That old plan, with a dot indicating the centre of the town, is preserved.
Page 389, last line of the coarse print. After "same time," there should be a comma.
Page 393, line 17 from bottom. For " Hadyn," read Haydn.
Page 393, line 13 from bottom. Mr. Morse pitched the tunes with an old- fashioned pitch-pipe.
Page 397, twentieth line from bottom. These " later and present pew 0 occupants " may be seen on page 451.
Page 398, line 21, under the year 1800. For " Joseph Ellis, Sr.," read Simeon Ellis.
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Page 399, line 7. For " Arathusa ", the way she spelled her name, the correct spelling is Arethusa.
Page 400, line 12 from bottom. After " Nims ", there should be a semicolon instead of a period.
Page 402, line 23 from bottom. For " Diancy ", the true spelling is Diansa.
Page 404, line 15 from bottom. For " Allce ", read Alice.
Page 404, line 6 from bottom. For " Sekonk ", read Seekonk.
Page 405, line 24. For " July 1, 1900", read July 1, 1905.
Page 405, line 14 from bottom. The first recorded baptism was that of " Lydia, daughter of Abel Allen". Mr. Allen had no such daughter. Undoubt- edly Lucinda was the daughter intended.
Page 410, under the year 1853. For " Diancy ", the true spelling is Diansa.
Page 41I, in the fourth line of the year 1873. Before the word " Alice " should be the date, Nov. 2.
Page 412, line 9 from bottom. The catalogue of names would include 559 persons, if we deduct one number for a person who was twice baptized (alluding to A. W. Brown, who requested renewed baptism on uniting with the church). The two Jewett boys who united with the church also desired to have the bap- tism renewed, that they might make the request for themselves.
Page 415, paragraph 16, line 7. The beginning and the end of the term of Mr. Phelps are given incorrectly. His official service began Apr. 11, 1886, and ended, May 1, 1889.
Page 415, paragraph 20, line 2. Instead of the date given for the close of Mr. Place's pastorate, it should be Dec. 9, 1894.
Page 416, line I. The second date should be Nov. 3, 1895.
Page 416, paragraph 23. Mr. Patterson closed his labors with the two Sul- livan parishes on the first day of May, 1906.
To the list of pastors add :
24. SAMUEL CHARLES EATON, born in Blackstone, Mass., Aug. 14, 1872, son of Rev. Samuel and Harriet (French) Eaton; prepared himself, by private study, for the Bangor Theological Seminary, from which he proposes to gradu- ate in the future ; supplied the Sullivan pulpit from July 1, 1906 until Sept. 26, 1907, being the second pulpit that he had supplied. He also supplied the church at East Sullivan during the same period.
25. WILLIAM ORION CONRAD, now (1908) supplying the pulpit of the old church in Sullivan, was born in Sterling, Minn., Apr. 26, 1861. He took a pre- paratory course at Carleton College, Minn., and graduated at Amherst in 1887, and at the Union Theological Seminary in New York, in 1890. He supplied a pulpit at Bristol, Me., for a few months in 1888. He supplied the First Presby- terian church in Blue Earth, Minn., from May to September, in 1889, and was its pastor from May, 1890, to August, 1896. He was pastor of the Rollstone Cong. Ch. in Fitchburg, Mass., for ten years, 1896 to 1906. He supplied the pulpits of Harrisville and Nelson from Oct. 1907 to Oct. 1908. He was or- dained, June 13, 1890, at Blue Earth City, Minn. He began his engagement with this church, in connection with the church at East Sullivan, Oct. 1, 1908. He resides in the old Nathaniel Osgood mansion in Nelson.
Page 417, line 2. For " 1860," read 1880.
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Page 425, line 2 from bottom. For " Negro " and " Negress," read negro and negress.
Pages 425-426. During the ministry of Rev. Charles Cumming, pastor of the Baptist church, the church records do not contain the dates of the baptisms and admissions of the members of the church. We tried perseveringly to find some record of these admissions, but could never find a record of the church that gave the desired information. By accident, however, while visiting the late Mrs. Boyden of Marlborough, a daughter of Rev. Charles Cummings, we dis- covered a nearly complete series of almanacs of Rev. Mr. Cummings, covering the years of his Sullivan ministry. On the margins of the leaves were many notes and memoranda referring to the Sullivan church. We copied every item which referred to any subject except his farm work. From these memoranda, we derived the dates for the baptisms of the following persons :
June 1, 1817, baptized three, names not given.
August 3, 1817, Silas Morse.
Oct. 5, 1817, baptized five, names not given.
Dec. 7, 1817, Asa Foster and Tirzah Boynton.
June 4, 1820, three whose names are not given.
July 23, 1820, Stillman Eaton.
Nov. 2, 1823, Eliza Eaton.
Nov. 16, 1823, Solon W. Eaton, Luther Hemenway, Jr., and Cynthia Hemenway.
Nov. 20, 1823, Mary Boynton, Athenodorous Guillow, and Elvira Fay Gibbs.
Dec. 5, 1823, Rebecca Gibbs, Lucena Gibbs, Bethiah M. Boynton, and Betsey Boynton.
Dec. 21, 1823, Mary Foster (later Mrs. Cutler Knight) and Mary Gibbs (later the wife of Dr. Silas Barrett).
Feb. 14, 1828, Sarah Mason (afterwards Mrs. Stillman Stone).
May 30, 1830, Joseph Elliot Cummings (son of Rev. Mr. Cummings) and Betsey Buxton of Nelson (afterwards Mrs. Lemuel Eaton of Hancock).
March 3, 1836, Thankful Watson Gibbs, daughter of Dea. Dalphon Gibbs (afterwards Mrs. Lewis Asa Knight), baptized near Mr. Hemenway's, just across the line in Gilsum.
Apr. 27, 1837, Dalphon Lombard Gibbs, later of Worcester, Mass., a brother of the preceding.
All of these names are found in the list of members of the church given on pages 425-6, with the exception of Rebecca Gibbs (afterwards Mrs. Parker), Sarah Mason, Betsey Buxton, and Dalphon L. Gibbs. These former members had disappeared from the rolls when the revised list, now appearing in the church book was made. Mary Foster appears as Mrs. Cutler Knight on the roll, but she was admitted before her marriage. Rebecca (Gibbs) Parker was readmitted, Aug. 23, 1840, from the Pottersville church. We have not here, as a rule, given the names of the men whom the women subsequently married, because that was done on pages 425-6. It is obvious that the roll given upon those pages was not arranged in the chronological order of the admissions, but made up at random, from the recollection of the writer, previous to 1832.
Page 427, line 17 from bottom. Gilman Joslin died Nov. 16, not Nov. 17.
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Page 433, under ASA WITHINGTON, line 6. He died Apr. 3, not Apr. 4, according to the N. H. Sentinel.
Page 438. The marks # and t which follow the names of some in the roll of church members should not have been separated from the names by punctua- tion. Each such mark belongs to the name which precedes it.
Page 441, line 4 from bottom. Dea. Blood has removed to Templeton, Mass.
Page 444, in paragraph on H. H. COLBURN, line 4. He was born Oct. 4, not Oct. 3, according to the Granite Monthly. Mr. Colburn died in Dalton, N. H., Sept. 26, 1907. Mrs. Colburn, prostrated with grief, committed suicide, by drowning herself in the Connecticut River, Nov. 25, 1907.
Page 444, in paragraph following H. H. COLBURN, line 3. Rev Mr. Burr was not Rev. A. H. Burr. See the note at the foot of page 447.
Page 447. After the paragraph on T. M. PATTERSON, add :
21. SAMUEL CHARLES EATON supplied this church at East Sullivan from July 1, 1906 until Sept. 26, 1907, in connection with the church at Sullivan. He was born at Blackstone, Mass., Aug. 14, 1872, the son of Rev. Samuel and Har- riet (French) Eaton. He had lived at Hillsborough Bridge, and Sullivan was his second pulpit supply. He was not as yet ordained. He left with the intention of taking a full course at the Bangor Theological Seminary, and hoped to take a post-graduate course of a year in addition to that.
22. WILLIAM ORION CONRAD, the present pastor (1908) of the East Sulli- van church, began the supply of this pulpit, Oct. 1, 1908, in connection with the old church at Sullivan. He was born at Sterling, Minn., Apr. 26, 1861, the son of J. E. and Eleanor Elizabeth (Slagle) Conrad. He took a preparatory course at Carleton College, Minnesota, and graduated at Amherst in 1887, and at the Union Theological Seminary, in New York, in 1890. He supplied Bristol, Me., a few months in 1888. He supplied the First Presbyterian Church in Blue Earth, Minn., from May to September in 1889, and was its pastor from May, 1890, to Aug., 1896. He was pastor of the Rollstone Cong. Ch. in Fitchburg, Mass., ten years, from 1896 to 1906. He supplied the pulpits of Harrisville and Nelson from Oct. 1907 to Oct. 1908. He resides in the old Osgood mansion, now much improved, just above the Concord Road in the Western part of Nelson. He was ordained at Blue Earth City, Minn., June 13, 1890.
Between the 12th and 13th pastors at East Sullivan, as noted on page 446, REV. ELLSWORTH W. PHILLIPS, now a successful pastor in Worcester, Mass., supplied for a few months, but we did not get the information in time to insert the fact in its proper place. He aided in the formation of the Chris- tian Endeavor Society in that village and was its first president. He supplied the pulpit for the last six months of 1890.
MARRIAGES.
Page 452, line 3 from bottom. The whole sentence, "The years of the marriages are placed in the centre of the page," should be erased. The full date was placed in the first column.
Page 452, line 2 from the bottom. For "The month and the day of the marriage are," read The date of the marriage is.
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Page 475, under the date, Jan. 1, 1881. The marriage of Frank W. Bridge and Hattie A. Dunn should have had for its date, Jan. 1, 1882.
Page 476, under the date, June 20, 1883. The marriage of Arthur P. Morse and Ida D. Morse should have the date, June 21, 1883.
Page 479, line 3 from bottom. For "observed," read found.
Information has been received concerning certain marriages which adds to the information given in the tables under the chapter on MARRIAGES. It has been thought best to give this in the genealogies. The reader will there- fore be likely to find in the genealogies fuller information about certain mar- riages the details of which are not fully given in the list of marriages.
SCHOOLS.
Page 482, lines 8 and II. The years, 1804 and 1806, should be preceded by a -.
The school collectors, a list of whom is given on pages 481-483, were also the prudential committees during those years ; that is, they performed the duties which were later assigned to such committees. In the year 1830, they were appointed by the town, in town meeting, for the last time. After this they were chosen by the districts. The districts did not, at first, keep formal records of their proceedings. They began to do so at different dates. From the order books of the select-men we have discovered who served as prudential committees, in each district, until such records were kept.
In the first district, after 1830, the prudential committeemen were the fol- lowing : 1831, Nathaniel Heaton ; 1832, Lucius Nims; 1833, Rufus Mason; 1834, Ashley Mason ; 1835, Jeremiah Mason; 1836, Nathaniel Heaton ; 1837, Joseph Felt ; 1838, Joseph Addison Wilder: 1839, Amos Wardwell, Jr. ; and for 1840 and onward as they are given at the bottom of page 494, in which list the prudential committeeman is the second person named in each year.
In the second district, after 1830, the prudential committeemen were the following : 1831, Benjamin Tyler ; 1832, William Brown ; 1833, John Winch ; 1834, George Hubbard; 1835, Roswell Osgood; 1836, Joseph Seward ; 1837, John Winch ; 1838, William Brown ; 1839, Martin Spaulding; and for 1840 and onward as they are given at the bottom of page 496, in which list the pru- dential committeeman is the second person named in each year.
In the third district, after 1830, the prudential committeemen were the fol- lowing : 1831, Hammond Keith ; 1832, Oliver Stone; 1833, Dexter Spaulding ; 1834, Jacob Spaulding ; 1835, Asa Ellis; 1836, Archelaus Towne; 1837, Abijah Hastings ; 1838, Harrison Rugg; 1839, Solomon Esty ; 1840, Allen Merrill Wilder; 1841, Archelaus Towne; 1842, Thomas T. Wetherbee; 1843, David Seward; 1844, Dexter Spaulding ; 1845, William Hastings ; and for 1846 and onward as they are given on page 499, in which list the prudential committeeman is the second person named in each year.
In the fourth district, after 1830, the prudential committeemen were the fol- lowing : 1831, Ellsworth Hubbard ; 18£2, Elijah Mason ; 1833, Benjamin Kemp, Jr .; and for 1834 and onward as they are given on page 501.
In the fifth district, after 1830, the prudential committeemen were the fol- lowing : 1831, Dalphon Gibbs ; 1832, John Farrar ; 1833, Stephen Foster, Jr. ; 1834, Hosea Foster; 1835, Samuel Winchester; 1836, Charles H. Cummings ;
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1837, Chauncy W. Rawson ; 1838, Hosea Foster ; 1839, David Boynton ; 1840, Ira Myrick Rawson ; 1841, Willard Dort ; 1842, Charles, Rawson ; 1843, Chauncy W. Rawson ; 1844, Ira Myrick Rawson ; 1845, Samuel Winchester ; 1846, David Boynton ; 1847, Charles Nash ; 1848, Charles Nash (and not Willard Dort as was suggested on page 503, lines 3 and 4) ; and for 1849 and onward as given in the list on the top of page 503.
Page 483. Since making up the list of school superintendents, at the bot- tom of this page, as supplied by the records of the town meetings, a careful examination of the order books of the select-men reveals the names of those who served in the missing years between 1828 and 1843. From 1828 to 1835, allusions to school affairs are rare. It is likely that there was no superintendent in 1828, as was the case in the year before, when we have a record that the town voted to have none. In 1829, we find from a certificate issued to Josiah Seward, 3d, testifying to his ability to teach school, that there was an "examining committee" for that year, consisting of Rev. Josiah Peabody and the merchant, Nathaniel Evans. We find nothing with respect to 1830, but Rev. Job Cushman, who supplied the pulpit of the First Cong. Ch., served as superintendent in 1831, for which he received compensation in the following year, according to the order book of the select-men. It is possible that he may have served in 1830, as it was quite customary to select clergymen for such a position. We cannot dis- cover from the order books of the select-men or from any other source, that anybody served as superintendent in 1832-3-4-5. The select-men may have appointed examining committees, but we have not discovered the evidence. They appointed the superintendents, when there were any, for many years. In 1836, the superintending school committee consisted of Hosea Foster, Dauphin W. Wilson, and D. Grosvenor Wright, who received compensation in the following spring. It is likely that they served in the following year, as the committee was changed but little for several years. In 1838, it consisted of D. Grosvenor Wright, Dauphin W. Wilson, and Alonzo Mason. In 1839, the committee was composed of Alonzo Mason and D. Grosvenor Wright. The same men served in 1840 and 1841. In 1842, the committee consisted of Hosea Foster and Alonzo Mason. In the order books of the select-men, the date of receiving their compensation is usually in the spring following the years in which they served. In 1843, it was voted to dispense with such a committee. For 1844 and onward, the list of superintendents may be found on page 484.
Page 484, line 12. James Osgood should be James W. Osgood.
Page 485, end ot first paragraph. The school committee for 1907 consisted of Clara A. Barrett, Arthur H. Rugg. and Charles Wellman. For 1908, it was composed of Arthur H. Rugg, Charles Wellman, and Mrs. Joseph A. Reed.
Page 500, line 17. Miss Hubbard's name was Emma F. Hubbard.
On page 505, after the first paragraph, insert the following paragraphs :
In the autumn of 1829, ENOCH HALE, A. B., of Alstead, taught a select school in the old schoolhouse at 88, which was afterwards used for an armory. Mr. Hale was a graduate of the University of Vermont, in the class of 1826. His school here closed with an exhibition in the old second meeting-house, at 77. Dea. Charles Mason of Marlborough, a native and long-time resident of the town, informs us that boards were laid over the pews on the north side of the
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edifice, which were covered with a carpet, thus serving for a stage. A play was presented, the name of which we once heard but cannot now recall. Several boys and girls, afterwards well known in town, participated in it. A curious episode marked this term of school. A charge was preferred against Mr. Hale for an assult upon some one (probably in Alstead), in which it was alleged that a stabbing occurred. Mr. Hale was absent a few days to stand a trial. We can- not find any record of this affair upon the court records at Keene, and we con- clude that it was only a justice trial, in which Mr. Hale was undoubtedly ac- quitted, or at least not held for the grand jury. Mr. Hale became a Protestant Episcopal clergyman. He became the principal of the Atkinson, N. H., Academy, where he died in 1830.
Mr. (afterwards Rev. Dr.) Daniel Grosvenor Wright began a select school in the same schoolhouse (afterwards the armory), in the autumn of one of the years from 1834 to 1839. He did not receive much patronage, or meet with much success, and his school came to a close in a few weeks.
Page 505, last paragraph of tenth chapter, 2d line. For "had twice been," read was twice.
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