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Blacksmiths, Luman Brace repair shop, Bert Skellinger repairing and horse- shoeing, P. H. Barrett, horseshoeing and repair work.
Wagon shop, Harley C. Jones.
Painters and paperhangers, Webb & Co., Frank Stockman, Roberts & Son, carriage painting, Charles Ray, Charles Brady; Craig Bros., painters.
Telephone company, M. H. Osgoodby, Mgr .; also owner of Academy of Music.
Warehouses and produce dealers, Geo. Barber, and A. D. Baker, also Old Richmond Warehouse.
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NUNDA HOUSE. BUILT 1836
Hotels, St. Johns, Mrs. J. H. Hughes ; Nunda House, D. F. Lyons ; Cottage Hotel, Charles Fox; Hastings House, Arthur Carmor.
Livery, John H. Hughes, Portage St.
Billiard room, R. H. Hughes, Second St.
Barbers. S. B. Ryall. J. Mahoney, Wm. Vient.
Wm. S. Knappenbarg. dealer in coal, lime and plaster.
Calvin Leclair, Veterinary Surgeon.
Photographer. Elsie Sphoon.
Bankers, I. J. Depuy's Banking House. I. J. DePuy, Pres., Perry DePuy, Cashier, James H. Baker. Assistant Cashier : Nunda Bank, J. E. Mills, Pres- ident, Fred G. Olp. Cashier, Robert E. Balty. Clerk.
Stenographers: Mrs. Alice Long, Fannie Morris, Mary Stevens.
Notary Public: Mary Stevens and O. H. Cook.
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BUSINESS OF DALTON
R. E. Muir. Station Agent. Hunt & Moses, dry goods and groceries, Norris & Cudebec, dry goods and groceries. Wm. D. Burt, Seed Store, Charles E. Lynd. Hardware, Charles Maker, Shelf Hardware and groceries, wholesale egg buyer and shipper : Aylor & Douglas, dry goods: M. R. Smith, furniture and under- taker ; Mrs. J. R. Hamilton, drugs and millinery ; Kelly & Co .. groceries ; Hotel, Parker House : Newspaper. E. Merry. editor ; blacksmith and repair shop, E. J. Douglass ; grist mill, Van Austrand & Co.
THE TIDE OF TIME
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"Ah, thus it is-one generation comes. Another comes, and mingles with the dust And then we come, and go, and come and go Each for a little moment, filling up Some little space, and then we dissapear
In quick succession : and it shall be so
Till time in one vast perpetuity
Is swallowed up."
Copied from Aspenwall genealogy.
OUR FIVE GENERATIONS
Five generations since our natal day Have come, have come
And of the First, there is only one to stay, The rest have come-and gone
The Second, more kind, has left a score to tell During their winters day
What fortune, losses, hardships, all befell Ere youth had fled, and night had closed their day.
The Third grown gray-only one-half remain Hoping to gain. (perhaps hoping in vain.) Strength four score years and ten, still to attain, They may remain (in feebleness remain).
The Fourth, blithe, strong and sturdy, these intend (Their mode of life to mend, )
To round out five score. ere their journeys end (Longevity is surely now the trend) ;
The Fifth are young, what fear, what care have they We are here, we are here, to stay
Life is a picnic : Time a holiday We mean to shout hurrah ! on next Centennial day.
1808-OUR CENTENNIAL-1908 Names of Nunda Citizens Born 1808
Lurancie Richardson Wilcox: Walter Whitcomb: Hiram Smith, of Granger (in Greater Nunda ) ; Samuel Cooper: Elizabeth Donaldson Grimes. wife of R. Phillip Grimes: Edward Swain, b. 1808: Eliza ( Brown) Pres-
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cott, b. 1808, wife of Albert H. ; Wm. H. Burge, b. 1808 ; Leonard Kuhn. b. 1808; Urania Montanye Kuhn, b. 1808; Betsey Smith, b. 1808 ( Mother of Mrs. Melissa De Puy), buried at Nunda ; Horatio Packard, b. 1808, Father of E. W. P .: Rebecca Van Dyke Close, wife of John Close, b. in Engle, 1808: Libby Drew. b. in Vermont 1808, settled 1847, in Nunda ; Elizabeth Guthrie Gearhart, wife of John Gearhart ; Louisa Fuller, daughter of Joshua.
LONGEVITY IN NUNDA
Centenarians living, Mrs. Permillia Robinson Hubbell, born January, 1805.
Other Centenarians
The following persons completed the full five score ere they passed away :
Mary A. Hunt, born Leicester 1802, died June, 1908, aged 106 years ; Mrs. Catharine Cox, widow of Gerritt Cox, grandparents of the late Jacob Cox. lived in Northeastern Nunda. She was known as Granny Cox because of her great age. When she was 102 years old she fell and broke her hip bone, yet such was her great vitality that she lived two longer, and died at the great age (even for Nunda people.) of 104.
Mrs. Martha Hill Ewart, died while on a visit to Canaseraga in 1907. aged 102 years.
Mrs. Katyann Louisa Dunn, mother of Thomas Dunn, was born in Eng- land and died in Nunda. aged 104 years.
Almost Centenarians
Zadock Sherwood, a veteran of the revolution, came to Nunda in 1823 and outlived all the other citizen soldiers of that war. He died near Nunda, Ill., in the one hundredth year of his age. He broke his hip bone when he lacked the three months of one hundred years, and refused to eat, saying, he had lived long enough.
Granville Sherwood his son, nearly equaled his sire in length of life and was. in his ninty-sixth year when he died.
Margaret Burnett. a daughter of Granville Sherwood. attained the age of 88 and died in 1907. The sum of the ages of these three was 283 years, or an average age of 94, for three generations.
Margaret Blair, eldest daughter of the late Henry Rockafellow was living until 1907, she was born in 1810 in New Jersey, and died in Iowa aged 97. she survived all of her brothers and sisters excepting a Mrs. Terry, who died on Church Street so nearly 100 years old that they tolled the bell for 100: Samuel L. Rockafellow, now an octogenarian, and her half brother, Charles H. Rocka- fellow, age 70, of this place.
Another Long Lived Family
Asenath Brewer Chase lived in Nunda before there was a house in Nunda village, and in the vicinity until her marriage, she lived at Lakeville the rest of her life, she was born in 1807, and was in her 99th year when she died. Her father lived to be 90. Daniel Brewer, her brother, born 1809, lived to be past 90. Elizabeth Brewer Kingman, born 1811. is still living at Lakeville and bids fair to become a centenarian. Jessie Brewer lived to be past 80, his wife did also. Nelson Brewer a younger brother is still active and is 86 years of age.
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Celestia J. Hills, widow of Leander Hills, died at Highland. Kansas aged 97 years and six months.
Dr. Samuel C. Upson attained the age 97.
Herman Pettit, 94; Miss Sarah Fuller, 96: Samuel Rockafellow, 94; William Wallace, 94 years 10 months : Miss Margaret Stillwell. 93 years 9 months : Clinton Colton,, Dalton, 96: Record Dalton, 95: Nancy Comstock, 90; Seth Barker, 91 : Elizabeth Powers, 95 : Rhoda Cole, 94; Rev. Jacob Seager, 92; Abraham DeGroff. 90; Mary A. Silsby, 91 ; Lydia M. Roberts, 91 : Peter Passage, 94; Mrs. Annah (Morse) Tuthill, 91 ; Jane R. Horner, 90: Cyrus Rose, 91 ; Sophia Town New- ton, 91 ; Mrs. Jane Holmes, 90.
Pioneer Nonagenarians
David Baldwin (veteran), age 90: Samuel Rockafellow, age 94; Lydia Barnes, 91 ; William R. Duryee. 90: Mrs. Mary Fuller, 90; Mr. Joshua Fuller. 92; Mrs. Nancy Miller, 92: Daniel Andress ( Revolutionary soldier). 90; Will- iam D. Gould (Revolutionary soldier ), 91: Mrs. Elizabeth Durfee, 95; Mrs. Esther Satterlee, 92; Mrs. Esther Town, 92: Mr. J. Davidson, 91 ; Lieut. David Baldwin (veteran 1812), 90; MIrs. Betsey Prentice, died in 1822, aged 90 years.
Old Nunda
Donald Hamilton, died about 1860, aged 90; Myron Smith, 94; Mrs. Sally Parker, 92.
Died After Leaving Nunda
Capt. Henry Bagley, 91; Harry Cleveland, 94; Nathan Sherwood, 90; Isaac McNair, 90; Mrs. Jenet McNair, 93; Mrs. Sarah Burgess, 97.
Our Oldest Living Citizen
Mrs. Mary Barrett Barron, eldest daughter of Dea. James Barrett, was born in N. H., Nov. 23, 1813, and is now nearly 95 years of age. She has attended the services of the Baptist Church for seventy-five years.
Alanson Rice, who once lived in Nunda, is still living and is 91 years old.
ADDENDA
The book is crowded to the covers and the publisher has called a halt. first things have received so much attention that I have no space left for my own family or my own special friends, I have written out of my reverence for the past in which not I but my parents lived. I have written what could not have been written five years from now, for half of those who have helped me most, have passed away during the three years that have passed since the one hundredth birthday of the mother, to whom I dedicated the book. But how shall I satisfy the expectations of those who have lived here the last half of the century. I might say that the Biographical part of the book, may be written later, but I am reminded that after Nov. 24th, I shall be living on borrowed time and it will not do to make promises. I have, however, mentioned the last pioneers that came to our town. the last Indian that comes as a guest where her ancestors came expecting to stay ; the last class that graduated from our High School; the last soldier or .sailor that enlisted ; the last young men to go into business, and the last teachers
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and preachers that are to make the people wiser and better. And what is there more to tell along the lines I have followed? Others will tell of the Centennial Celebration, but will they tell, that I was the first to call attention to our, Cen- tennial Birthday and ask for its observance? That is already forgotten, but the files of the Nunda News, with my first Pioneer article, will substantiate it, I have said nothing of politics except to name some of those that have been chosen for positions of honor. I might name the present officials as the list does not represent either the pioneers or the soldiers who saw service to any great extent it would detract from the ideal state of things I have depicted as existing, and I prefer to think well of existing conditions, as I am optimistic, and believe the car of pro- gress is still making good "Auto" time and making headway best, in up hill matters when the "Autoist' is riding alone, for those who are doing their best for themselves, are often indirectly ushering in new and improved conditions.
Belonging as I do to the past order of things I will not attempt to sing the song of progress, for it is keyed too high for me, but will conclude as I began by chanting (this time in the words of another) my regards for
THE FOLKS I USED TO KNOW
"I know lots of folks in the city As pleasant as folks can be, And you can't claim to be lonesome With thousands for company But I'll own that I get homesick And back again long to go Where I can meet in the village street The folks I used to know.
Some things happen over and over In the grind of God's great mills, Like Christmas and Sunday and taxes And disappointments and bills. There's many a chance to be a happy And as many to be forlorn But you'll have but one .- one Mother And just one place to be born.
Even the glories of heaven Preachers might paint more fair If they would only hint now and then 'Twould be like the old times there ; And I'm sure it will be a comfort When my time has come to go, To know I shall meet in the golden street The folks I used to know.
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