The History of Washington County in the Vermont historical gazetteer : including a county chapter and the local histories of the towns of Montpelier., Part 27

Author: Hemenway, Abby Maria, 1828-1890
Publication date: 1882
Publisher: Montpelier, Vt. : Vermont Watchman and State Journal Press
Number of Pages: 1064

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missioner to locate, alter and establish new roads, and as referee, and to make contracts and legal papers. He was a useful man in the community in which he lived, fearless and outspoken in his views, had decided opinions of his own, and the ability to maintain them. He was twice married ; first, to Ruth Bridgman, in Hard- wick, in 1812, by whom he had two chil- dren, Dorman Bridgman and Ruth; the latter died in 1849, at the birth of her first child. Dorman B. is an eminent lawyer in the city of New York, where he located in 1850. He has taken an active and in- fluential part in reformatory measures in in that city, and is one of the leaders in favor of civil service reform in this coun- try ; has written an exhaustive work upon that subject, entitled, "Civil Service in Great Britain"; also, a work entitled, "The Spoils System, and Civil Service Reform in the Custom House and Post- office in New York City"; and numerous other works of which I am not able to give the titles; one written during the last Presidential campaign entitled, "From the Independent Republicans of New York, by Junius." He is a graduate of the Vt. University ; also of Harvard Law School ; educated himself, and came out free from debt. He was chairman of the Civil Ser- vice Commission, when Geo. Wm. Curtis resigned, during Grant's administration.

Nathaniel Eaton married, 2d, Mrs. Ruth (Curtis,) widow of Dr. John Gilman, by whom he had one son, Caleb C., born in Calais, where he resided till he was 34 years of age, when he moved to Middlesex, living there 16 years ; represented that town in the Legislature in 1876, '77 ; was justice of the peace 4 years ; lister 3 years, and appointed to take the census for that town in 1880; in May, 1880, removed to Montpelier, where he now resides.

He married Susan, daughter of Larnec Coburn, one of the early settlers of Eas Montpelier ; children, 4; all daughters 2 died in infancy ; Flora Coburn, born i Calais, preceptress in Goddard Seminary Barre, m. Prof. Henry Priest, Principal o that institution, Aug. 11, 1881 ; Emil Louisa lives with her parents.

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EAST CALAIS PAPERS.

CONTRIBUTED BY MR. AND MRS. ALEERT DWINELL. CAPT. JOSHUA LILLEY

located at an early day in East Calais, and came in possession of the water-power and a large tract of land around. He put up a saw-mill and a grist-mill where the saw- mill now stands, and about 1805, built a two-story house on his hill farm, now owned and occupied by Levi G. Dwinell. Capt. Lilley entered into speculations of various kinds, among which was the mer- cantile, in which he was unsuccessful and had to retrench. In 1812, he sold his hill farm to Israel Dwinell, and about the same time his mills and other landed property passed into the hands of Maj. Nathaniel Davis, of Montpelier.

Maj. Davis, availing himself of the water- power facilities, erected various mills, among which one for carding wool and dressing cloth, a trip-hammer shop, where were made scythes and hoes, and a shop or manufacturing cut-nails.

One of the inducements for starting a nail factory was the supposition that there was iron ore in the ledges a short distance west of the village, all of which was true, but in the prospecting made, it was not found rich enough to pay for working. Nails were manufactured about 2 years, when it was found freights were too much to make the business profitable, and it went down, and other business was started, cabinet work, clover-mill, potash, etc. The business development called workmen and residents into the place, and the Major put in a store.

SHUBAEL WHEELER, ESQ.,

son of Bowers Wheeler, of Montpelier, (now East Montpelier), married Elsey Davis, daughter of Maj. Nathaniel, about 814, and in 1816, they moved to East Calais, and occupied a two-story house rected by the Major, near where the saw- till now stands. He was a lawyer, the rst and only one who ever resided in town or any length of time. For several years e occupied a leading position in the af- irs of the town and County, representing e town several times, and was clerk of

the County Court for several years. He was interested in farming to some extent, and was partner for some years with Sam- uel Rich in mill property, deeded to them by Maj. Davis.

Judge Wheeler was a man of high at- tainments, largely endowed by nature, yet his love of social pastime was at the ex- pense of his financial interests. About 1860, he went West to make his home with his eldest daughter, Emily, the last one living of his 8 children-wife of Levi W. Wright, formerly of this town, now of Merrimac, Wis.

CAPT. SAMUEL RICH,

born in N. Montpelier, Oct. 22, 1797, married Dolly Davis, dau. of Maj. Na- thaniel ; came to E. Calais in March, 1824, and owned the saw and grist-mills, to- gether with 350 acres of land. In 1836, he built the two-story house now occupied by his son-in-law, Albert Dwinell. In 1840, he rebuilt the grist-mill now owned by Simeon Webb.

In 1850, he sold the mills and his lands to Albert Dwinell, at which time he gave up active business. Mr. Rich died June 12, 1856; Mrs. Rich, Aug. 15, 1841. Capt. Rich improved his limited opportunities for schooling, and had the advantage of one or two terms at the academy. He took up the study of surveying, and was for many years a practical surveyor. He was a man of superior mental endow- ments ; strong memory ; well versed in history and in politics ; always a staunch whig. He had 3 children. The son, Samuel D., has been an invalid from his youth ; the eldest daughter, Irene D., was married to Albert Dwinell, Apr. 10, 1845 ; Dolly A., the second daughter, married Joseph W. Leonard, and resides on the Leonard farm.

ISRAEL DWINELL AND FAMILY. CONTRIBUTED BY L. G. DWINELL.

ISRAEL DWINELL, one of the early set- tlers of Calais, born in Croydon, N. H., Oct. 8, 1785 ; Apr. 1, 1813, married Phila Gilman, of Marshfield, and on the same day moved to Calais, to a farm on the East Hill, where he resided until his death,

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Feb. 20, 1874. His wife, born in Hart- ford, Ct., Sept. 17, 1793, died June I, 1864. They had 10 children, all born in the same house into which they moved the day they were married. In the midst of hardships which they had in common with all early settlers, they found means and disposition to give their children ad- vantages which few of their day enjoyed, two of their sons obtaining a collegiate education ; the others enjoying advantages above the most. Shortly after settling in life they made a profession of religion, and were for many years connected with the church known as " the Marshfield and Calais Church." In later years they were connected with the Christian Church of the town, they " dying as they had lived, strong in the faith of the Gospel," as said Rev. Mr. Sherburn in the funeral sermon of Mr. Dwinell.

ALCANDER DWINELL, son of Israel, was born Feb. 2, 1814, married Sarah Cheney, Jan. 31, 1849, in Lowell, Mass., where he lived a few years, and removed to Brook- lyn, N. Y., where he now resides. He has one son, William Alcander, who mar- ried Julia Jaquith, of Brooklyn, and lives with his father.

IRA S. DWINELL, son of Israel, born Jan. 27, 1816, married Clarina H. Pearce, Oct. 1I, 1842, settled and still lives in East Calais. They have had 2 sons ; the first died in infancy; the second, Byron Lee, graduated at Goddard Sem., Barre ; graduated at Tufts College, class of 1876, and at Boston University School of Med- icine at the age of 28; married Ada Bar- ron, settled in Taunton, Mass., practicing medicine.

Solon, son of Israel, b. 1818, d. at 23 years, the first grave in the East Calais cemetery.

ISRAEL EDSON DWINELL, son of Israel, born Oct. 24, 1820, " began to fit for college in the Academy at Randolph Center, Sept. 1836; taught school in Calais, winter of 1837 ; in Calais or Montpelier each winter but one till graduated from college ; fin- ished for college at Montpelier Academy, 1837, '8 and '9; entered the University of Vt., Burlington, 1839; graduated in 1843;

taught in Martin Academy, East Ten- nessee, 1843-5, 20 months ; entered Union Theo. Sem., N. Y. City, 1845 ; graduated from Un. Theo. Sem., 1848 ; married Re- becca Eliza Allen Maxwell, in Jonesboro, East Tennessee, Sept. 12, 1848 ; was home missionary, under the A. H. M. Society in Rock Island, Ill., 7 ms., 1848-9 ; began to preach in Salem, Mass., the spring of 1849; was ordained as colleague pastor with Rev. Brown Emerson, D. D., Nov. 22, 1849; dismissed, May, 1863; began preaching in Sacramento, Cal., July I, 1863 ; installed pastor of the First Congre- gational Church of Christ, Sacramento, Cal., July 10, 1864, where I now am.

I. E. P."

ALBERT DWINELL, b. Jan. 15, 1823, m. Irene D. Rich, Apr. 10, 1845, and settled in Moscow, East Calais, owning a large farm, and has also been in the mercantile business ; has been elected to both branches of the State Legislature ; has 3 sons: Ist FRANK ALBERT, graduated at Barre Acad- amy ; m. Harriet A. Hammett ; settled in Plainfield in the mercantile business ; has been a member of the State Legislature from that town. 2d, CLARENCE RICH, graduated at Barre Academy ; m. Ella H. Hammond, and is in the mercantile bus- iness at East Calais. 3d, Dell Burton, 14 years of age.

MELVIN DWINELL, son of Israel, b. July 9, 1825, gives the following : " Fitted for college mostly at Montpelier Academy ; entered the University of Vermont in 1845 ; graduated Aug. 1849; was principal of People's Academy, Morrisville, 2 years ; came to Georgia in the fall of 1851 ; taught in Hamilton, Ga., I year ; taught 2 years in Macon Co., Ala. ; Jan. 1, 1853, bough' half in the Rome (Ga.) Courier ; a year after, bought the other half; have pub lished the Rome Courier continuously fron Jan. 1, 1855, to this time (1881) excep from May 18, 1864, to Sept. 1, 1865. Ma: 18, 1864, the Federal troops took posses sion of Rome, and I left. They used m material and stock on hand, and when the left, utterly destroyed everything in m office except one job-press, which the carried off. I was mustered into the Cor

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federate army at Richmond, Va., Mar. 28, 1861, as 2d lieut. for the war ; was pro- moted to Ist lieut. in March, 1862 ; was in the first and second battle of Manassas ; actually engaged two days of the seven in the fights around Richmond, from June 28 to July 25, 1862 ; was in the first battle of Fredericksburg and the Gettysburg, be- sides 20 or 30 smaller engagements and skirmishes. The only wound received was a gun-shot wound in the upper left arm at the battle of Gettysburg. From this wound I was disabled some 2 months. After I returned to my command, in Nov. 1863, I was elected one of the two representatives from my (Floyd) county to the State Leg- islature, which exempted me from military duty, and I resigned my commission, and that ended my military service, except that I served as adjutant, with the rank of captain, for a short time in the spring of 1864, under Gen. A. R. Wright, in com- mand of State troops. After the close of the war, I returned to Rome, Ga., arriving here May 25, 1865, and found that my en- tire assets consisted of $22.50 in gold in my pocket, and the debris of a printing establishment, once worth $10,000, esti- mated at $300 ; but I went to work getting up from the ruins, and soon got type enough to print small circulars, hand-bills, etc., using a planer and mallet for lack of a press. I soon hired a small press, and Sept. I, got out a small weekly paper. I was soon on my feet again, and have since done a fair business. In the summer of 1875, I went to California ; visited on the trip, Salt Lake City, the Va. City gold and silver mines, the valley of Yosemite, etc. n 1876, I made a trip to the East, visit- ng London, Paris, Brussels, Venice, Rome, Herculaneum, Pompeii ; ascended Vesu- ius ; lit my cigar in the crater ; saw Alex- ndria, Cairo, the Red Sea, Jerusalem, Damascus, etc. I have recently published volume descriptive of. my travels, en- tled, ' Common Sense Views of Foreign ands.'"

LEVI GILMAN, son of Israel, b. Nov. 3, 327, m. Louise M. Kennan, Sept. 3, 1857, lu. of P. Kennan, adopted by A. Alden ; ttled on the old homestead, in East

Calais, where I now live ; have 3 children : \ Julia Louise, m. Nov. 12, 1879, to Charles P. Hollister, of East Montpelier, where they now live ; Maurice Kennan entered Boston University School of Medicine, Oct. 1880 ; Mary Avis, 14 years of age.

JANE PHILA, daughter of Israel and Phila Dwinell, b. May 8, 1830, m. John Gardner Hale, at East Calais, Sept. 28, 1852, Rev. W. T. Herrick and Rev. I. S. Dwinell officiating ; children of Jane P., Harriet Amelia, Jennie Norton, b. in Grass Valley, Cal. ; Edson Dwinell, b. in Lyndon, Vt .; Mary Gilman, Ellen Fran- ces, b. in East Poultney.

Harriet A., educated at Mrs. Worces- ter's, Burlington, Tilden Sem., N. H., and graduated at Carlyle Petersilea's Music School, in Boston ; has taught music at Tilden Seminary, the People's Academy, Morrisville, and elsewhere. Jennie N. graduated at Mt. Holyoke Female Sem. in 1876. Edson D., prepared at St. Johns- bury Academy in 1878, has entered Am- herst College.

Wait Byron, son of Israel, b. May, 1839, d. June, 1848 ; Edgar, son of Israel, b. Feb. 1837, d. June, 1837.

ALDEN FAMILY.

BY MR. AND MRS. ALBERT DWINELL.

ASA ALDEN, born in Natick, Mass., in 1794, came to Vermont, 1817; married Avis Snow, of Montpelier. He and his wife were among the first who came to East Calais, and settled in Moscow in 1819. He was the village blacksmith about 30 years, in which occupation he had the misfortune to lose one eye. For 20 years he was the first hotel-keeper at this place, and held the post-office 27 years, and other offices of public trust. Reared under Con- gregational discipline, his sympathies were ever in that direction, and while there was no such organized church in town, he yet lived to all appearance the life of a quiet and exemplary Christian. We well remem- ber him at the earlier church services and singing-schools, held in the school-house, he being the only one who discoursed bass on a big viol for miles around. He died here, May 2, 1380, aged 86.

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His widow survives, in her 81st year, (1881) living with their youngest and only surviving daughter, Lydia Ann, in the same house they at first occupied, and which is now the oldest dwelling in the village ; built by Capt. Caleb Putnam about 1818.

ISAAC ALDEN, nailor and merchant, came to East Calais in 1815 ; married for his 2d wife, Hannah Snow, of Montpelier. GEO. ALDEN, nailor, came in 1816; both broth- ers of Asa Alden.

On the west side of the stream, next door neighbor to Mr. Alden, lived

JONATHAN HERRICK,

shoemaker, an honest, temperate, indus- trious man, and his wife, Drusilla Cole, who deserves mention among the early settlers, living in Moscow, East Calais, from about 1825 till 1847, when they moved to Cabot. Mrs. Herrick died in 1880. For some years Mr. Herrick took the lead in singing here, and his two old- est children, Lucius and Caroline, were among the best spellers in Moscow.

THE DRS. OF CALAIS.

DR. SAMUEL DANFORTH, the first phy- sician of Calais, came to this town in 1800. He lived here most of the time until his death, in 1811 or 1812.

DR. STEPHEN COREY came in 1812; was in town but a short time.

Dr. Jonathan Eaton came in 1812, and remained 3 years.

Dr. Nathaniel B. Spaulding came about 1819, and was here in 1832.

Dr. John Gilman came in 1815, a man of marked abilities in his profession. [See Gilman Family.]

Dr. Charles Clark came in 1825 ; re- moved to Montpelier in 1840.

Dr. Asa George came in March, 1825, and died in Aug. 1880, a man of marked character and ability, and a leading man in his profession.

Dr. William S. Carpenter came in 1841, and left in 1842.

Dr. E. S. Deming came to Calais from Cornish, N. H., in 1843, located at Kent's Corner, and married Maria, dau. of Pliny, son of Colonel Curtis ; afterwards lived

where Dr. Harris now lives; was repre- sentative one year ; was a man of sterling integrity and a successful physician ; moved to Cambridge in 1854.

Dr. M. Ide came in 1854, and removed to Stowe in 1875. He was town clerk many successive years, and held other town offices.

Dr. G. H. Gray came in 1868, and still resides in town.

Dr. Harris came about 1880.

Drs. Gleason, Tilton, Tobey and others here for indefinite times.

COLLEGE GRADUATES OF CALAIS.

I. E. Dwinell, M. Dwinell, D. B. Eaton, Calvin Short, C. L. Goodell, University of Vt .; Dr. B. L. Dwinell, Harley N. Pearce, Tufts College, Mass. ; A. N. Bliss, University of Michigan ; Miss Laura A. Kent, Miss Ellen Cox, Miss Eva Darling, Antioch, Ohio. F. B. Fay entered Harvard in 1879; W. Cate entered Tufts in 1876; C. L. Wood, a lawyer in Chicago.

Mrs. Hartshorn celebrated her hun- dredth birthday in Calais.

EAST CALAIS FIRE.

BY CLARENCE R. DWINELL.

Sept. 5, 1873, 12 o'clock P. M., 20 min- utes, the little village of East Calais was aroused by alarm of fire. The basement of the building of W. H. Ridout, used on the first floor as a tin-shop by Wing & Ridout, was in flames, to subdue which was unavailing. The fire had so burned through the floor above, it was impossible to remove the stock of goods and tools. The second floor was occupied by the fam- ilies of W. H. Ridout and Alonzo Batch- elder, who were able to save but little of furniture and clothing.

The fire spread to P. F. Whitcher's barn, the next building south, which with its contents was completely destroyed ; thence to the boot and shoe store of I). B Fay, whose stock was partly removed next to the hotel property of Phineas Wheeler, which was entirely consumed ; a good hotel building, which had been re cently much enlarged and improved ; two large barns, sheds and out-buildings

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thence to the shop of A. N. Goodell, a quick victim to the flames.

Only by the untiring efforts of the cit- izens, the fire was kept from crossing to the east side of the street, and to the new dwelling of Z. G. Pierce, just south of the hotel. This fire was a severe loss to the village. It has not yet fully recovered from its effects, and the hotel has not been replaced.

REMARKABLE PRESERVATION.

BY I. D. DWINELL.

In the year 1866, the months of Aug. and Sept. were marked for the unusual amount of rain which fell " in these parts," which, culminating about the 2 Ist of Sept., we were disposed to call it the line storm. The falling torrents had raised the trib- utary streams and Kingsbury branch to a flood of rushing waters. Rev. Mr. Lis- combe, a Methodist minister, who with his family sojourned with us 6 months, preaching occasionally (as opportunity al- lowed) the morning of the 22d, was stand- ing on the center of the foot-bridge at the head of Moscow falls, viewing the great rush of water, when the upper dam par- tially gave way, and the bridge started. He gave one leap up stream, and bridge and man went over the falls, a distance of 300 feet-75 feet perpendicular-over three dams ; and for a wonder to everybody, he came out alive, bearing cuts and bruises, but not seriously injured ; ruining, how- ever, his overcoat and losing his hat.

Oct. 28, he preached his farewell sermon here, and the Monday following, started with his family for Wisconsin ; not with- out getting a new hat and coat and about $50 as a parting gift. His daughter, who came here a widow of seventeen, was mar- ried Sept. 26 to Henry Goodell, one of our young townsmen.

East Calais boasts of a young man, a graduate of Tufts College in 1880, who aught our district school, in the winter of [881; Harley Nelson Pearce, who at the ime of his birth, March, 1855, had twelve iving grand-parents, six on his father's, nd six on his mother's side. The latest urviving grand-parent was Judge Alonzo

Pearce, who died July 25, 1879, aged 80} years.

LONGEVITY OF CALAIS.

BY AMASA TUCKER, AGED 75.

Persons deceased in town who were 70 years of age and over :

Darius Slayton, aged 90 years ; Amasa Tucker, 90 ; Reuben D. Waters, 91 ; Wel- come Ainsworth, 91 ; Luther Ainsworth, 88 ; Lyman Daggett, 95 ; Howe Wheeler, 92 ; George Ide, 93; Gideon Hicks, Jr., 95 ; James Nelson, 93; Reuben Wilbur, 94 ; Stephen Hall, 92 ; Barnabas Doty, 92 ; Squire Jennings, 77 ; Jared Wheelock, 87 ; Pardon Janes, 82; John White, 89; Asahel Pearce, 87 ; Alonzo Pearce, 80 ; Benjamin Gray, 82 ; Jonathan Tucker, 83 ; Asa George, 82; Thomas Stanton, 83; Ezekiel Sloan, 88; John Martin, Jr., 86; Aaron Bailey, over 80; Edmond Willis, over 80 ; Daniel Young, 86 ; Bachus Pearce, 87 ; Samuel Fay, 83 ; Samuel Mackus, 88; Thomas Cole, 85 ; Gideon Hicks, Sr., 75 ; Israel Dwinell, 88; Abijah Wheelock, 82 ; Asahel Pearce, 87; Nathan Bancroft, 82 ; Samuel Robinson, 85; Jabez Mower, 84 ; Jonathan Pray. 81; Ebenezer Cox, 81 ; Mason Wheeler, 81 ; Joseph Brown, 82 ; Remember Kent, 80; Remember Kent, Jr., 81 ; Luther Morse, 82 ; Calvin Callier, 82 ; Welcome Wheelock, 80; Thos. Hath- away, 84 ; Samuel Fuller, 84 ; Joshua Bliss, 2d, 84 ; John Martin, 84 ; Jonathan Dudley, 84; Luther Ainsworth, 88; Joshua Lilley, 88; Gideon Wheelock, 80; Jason Marsh, 80 ; Abram Hawkins, 83 ; Bucklin Slayton, 80 ; Willard Rideout, 86; Elijah Nye, 87 ; Sabin Ainsworth, 76; Edmund Willis, 86; Moses Ainsworth ; - Jacob Ainsworth, 85 ; Mercy Ainsworth, 86; Jason Marsh, 80 ; Amos Jennings, 82; Daniel Young, 86; David Thayer, 80; David Daggett, 80 ; Sylvester Jennings, 82 ; Edia Fair, 80 ; Beniah Short, 73; John Eddy, 76; Elias Smith, 70; Aaron Lamb, 75; Nathan Parker, 71 ; John White, Jr., 78; Geo. W. Foster, 70; Chas. Dudley, 76; John Em- erson, 75 ; Willard Bugbee, 79 ; John Dick- erson, 70 ; Noah Pearce, 74 ; Jacob Eaton, Sr., 77 ; Chas. Slayton, 71 ; Chancy Spauld- ing, 70; Jessa Slayton, 78 ; Simeon Slay-

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ton, 77 ; Seth Done, 71 ; Shubael Short, 79 ; Phineas Goodnough, 74 ; Bucklin Slay- ton, 80 ; John Cochran, 74 ; Britian Whee- lock, 72 ; Silas Wheelock, 70; Rev. V. G. Wheelock, 71 ; Stephen Pearce, 74 ; Noah Clark, 75 ; Nehemiah Merritt, 73; Aaron Lilley, 74 ; Thomas Foster, 76; Frederick Bliss, 77 ; Jeremiah Cummings, 76; Perez Wheelock, 76; Asa Wheelock, 75 ; David Fair, 79 ; Squire Jennings, 78; Aaron Wheeler, 78; Adams White, 71 ; Reuben Pray, 72 ; Thomas Pray, 75 ; Jesse White, 74; Horace Ainsworth, 70; Hosea Ellis, 77 ; Nathaniel Hersey, 78 ; R. W. Tobey, 73; Caleb Bliss, 79; Sabin Ainsworth ; Jonas Hall, 73; Isaac Wells, 73 ; Stephen Martin, 76 ; Ezekiel Kent, 73 ; Lewis Wood, 77; Ezekiel Burnham; William Bruce ; Joshua Bliss ; Peter Nelson ; Wm. Abbott ; Benj. Bancroft; Salem Wheelock; Amos Wheelock; Vial A. Bliss, 75; John J. Willard ; Caleb Mitchell ; Lemuel Perry, 77 ; Jed'ah Fay ; Sally Lamb, 95; Rachel Bliss, 93 ; Esther Kendall, 93; Sarah Os- good, 93; Sarah Wood, 91 ; Amy M. A. Wheeler, 91 ; Mrs. Jas. Nelson, 91 ; Nancy Wright, 93 ; Mercy Willis, 94 ; Polly Janes, 80; Margaret Ainsworth, 93; Julia John- son, 90; Polly Wheelock, 85; Hannah Haskell, 80; Grace Jennings, 79; Polly Kent, 76; Elvira White, 74; Alfrida White, 73; Mary Curtis, 73 ; Almira Bliss, 73; Catherine Robinson, 74; Charity Mower; Mary Jarvis, 72; Polly Marsh ; Sally Wheelock, 77; Nancy Hall, 73 ; Car- oline Wright, 77; Phebe Bancroft, 74; Mrs. Joseph Brown; Mrs. Rufus Green ; Sally Marsh, 77; Eliza Nye, 77; Sarah Mitchell ; Lucy Ainsworth, 75 ; Polly Fay, 72 ; Elanor Doane ; Rachel Robinson, 78 ; Polly Janes, 79 ; Jane Hathaway, 74 ; Sally White, 73; Hannah Guernsey, 79; Polly Haskell, 79; Relief Eddy, 72; Emeline Cole, 71; Lydia Gray, 78; Betsey Stan- ton, 70; Catherine White, 71 ; Rowena Wheelock, 70; Polly Dudley, 78; Joanna Smith, 79; Jerusha Emerson, 72 ; Jerusha Sloan, 78; Lydia Eaton, 75 ; Amy Parker, 77 ; Deborah Slayton, 75 ; Betsey Slayton, 72 ; Cynthia Wheelock, over 70; Eleanor Done ; Hannah Jennings, over 70; Mary Short, 79; Roba Pierce, over 70; Sally

Cochran, 77 ; Cyrena McKnight,73 ; Rachel Reed, 76; Hannah Turner, 71; Rebecca Mackus, 77 ; Mercy Cole, 78 ; Sally Hicks, 74 ; Phila Dwinell, 71 ; Polly Gilman, 73 ; Mrs. Johnson, over 80; Widow Brown ; Mrs. Samuel Robinson, 84; Lucy Ains- worth, 72; Alfrida Leonard, 80; Lydia Eaton, 70; Hannah Bliss, over 70; Azu- bah Tucker, 87; Hannah Ainsworth Per- ry, over 80; Sally Tucker, over 70; Phila Hathaway, 82.

Mrs. Esther Kendall and Mrs. Sarah Osgood, aged 93, were twin sisters, and died within about two months of each other.

OLD PEOPLE OF CALAIS

now living, over 70 years of age, July, 1881 : Salem Goodnough, 82; Aaron Tucker, 86; Hosea Brown, 81 ; Joseph Whiting, 82 ; Kelso Gray; Elijah S. Jennings, 81 ; Henry Sumner, 80 ; Jacob Eaton, 80 ; E. C. M'Loud ; John Robinson ; Rachel Tucker, 81 ; Rispah Cox, 81 ; Lucy Kent, 81 ; Mary Abbott, 86; Sarah Ormsbee, 83; Polly Foster ; Avis Alden, 80; Ira Ellis, Ardin Martin, Ira Kent, Abdiel Kent, George Kent, Harvey Ainsworth, Orin Davis, Willard Nourse, Joseph Persons, James S. Daggett ; Amasa Tucker, 75 ; Caleb Bliss, Jerra Slayton, Isaac Davis, Chas. B. Marsh, Alonzo Stowe, Thos. J. Ormsbee, Thos. J. Porter, Jacob White, Jonas G. Ormsbee, Mason W. Wright; Lemuel Perry, 75 ; Henry Fay, Quincy A. Wood, Benjamin King ;. Sally Fuller, 87 ; Betsey Webster, 81 ; Mary Morse, 81 ; Millicent Parker, 87 ; Sarah Mann ; Rhoda Goodell, 83 ; Deborah D. Little, Mehitable Kent, Sarah Bancroft, Louisa Bliss, Ruth Mer- ritt, Chloe Guernsey ; Mary Cochran, 74 ; Sarafina Fay, Polly Martin, Polly Pierce, Susan Wells, Polly Sumner, Fanny Thayer, Harriet Bruce, Caroline Wright, Eliza Stowe, Rowe, P. S., S. F. Jones, Berthana Hockett, Lydia Brown ; Lucy Hammond, 73 ; Lydia Slayton, 70 ; Betsey Martin, 72 ; Marilla Perry, 73.

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The History of Washington County in the Vermont historical gazetteer : including a county chapter and the local histories of the towns of Montpelier., Part 27

Author: Hemenway, Abby Maria, 1828-1890 Publication date: 1882 Publisher: Montpelier, Vt. : Vermont Watchman and State Journal Press Number of Pages: 1064

Author: Hemenway, Abby Maria, 1828-1890
Publication date: 1882
Publisher: Montpelier, Vt. : Vermont Watchman and State Journal Press
Number of Pages: 1064