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EPAPHRAS NOTT, a cooper, settled bear Joshua Howe in 1783, married Jemima Som- ner, moved to Central New York in 173s, died in 1848 aged 98.
DR. WM. H, PARKS, son of Harvey Parks, (who was representative two years and died of cancer in 1867, aged 67) studied physic and is now practising in Great Barrington, Mass.
JAMES PEARCE, a revolutionary soldier, lived and died in this town. His children were, Isaac, James and Amanda.
EDGAR HERRICK, son of Arch and Sophia (Pember) Herrick, enlisted in the 5th Reg. Vt. Vols., and died in service.
FREDERICK PEMBER, jr., son of Frederick and Sally (Stevens) Pember, went to Illinois, married there, had 5 children, enlisted in the Union army and died.
MILTON H. PEMBER, son of Russell and Adeline (Hyde) Pember, enlisted April, 1952, in the 5th Minnesota regiment, went out a3 sergeant, was made first Lieutenant June, 1863: contracted a fever at the Vicksburg siege ; was discharged August, 1863; re- turned to Wells, went soon after to Mt. Ta- bor where he married Ann Croft of that town and settled there.
POTTER FAMILY.
CAPT. WM. POTTER and wife Phebe. from New London, Ct., first settled in Pawlet ; re- moved late in life to Wells. Capt. Wmn. bad command when young, of a trading vessel. He died in 1827, his wife in 1835: Children, Joshua, Wm. Jr., Seth, John, Abel, Samuel, Phebe, Sally, Abigail, Deborah - married Dr. Reub. Lewis.
W.x. JR., married Experience Francis, raised a large family ; went to the Schoon country, died over 40 years of age.
Wmn. Potter, 3d, was a man noted as a legal counselor, practised as such many years, died in 1852, aged 50.
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JOSHUA, son of Wm. 3d, enlisted in the 7th Reg. Vt. Vol .; served 3 years, re-enlisted : died in service.
DR. SAMUEL, first practised in this town several years ; removed to Pawlet, where he died in 1835. He married Avis, dau. of John Collins, of Ira. Children, Collins, a mill wright; Fayette, an attorney, lives in Pawlet, Samuel, George, Chas. W., Edwin, Phebe, Helen, Lovina.
CHAS. W., married Sophia, daughter of Abel Parker, Jr., resides in town ; is proprietor of the celebrated Lake House.
Two sons of Ephraim Reed who removed from this town to Tinmouth, in 1868, enlist- ed into and died in the Union army in the late war.
JARED F. RIPLEY, son of Linas H. and Ma- hala (Mosher) Ripley, enlisted in a Wisconsin Regt., and was killed at the battle of Shiloh.
EDSON, brother of Jared F., enlisted and died in hospital at Washington, D. C.
JAMES SPRAGUE, son of Elida and Char- lotte (Glam) Sprague, married Melissa Van Guilder. He enlisted in the 7th Reg. Vt. Vols., and died near Baton Rouge, leaving a wife and three children, one of whom soon after was burned to death by her clothes tak- ing fire.
OzRo, brother of James, enlisted in the 2d, Vt. Reg .; served for a time and was discharg- ed and afterwards enlisted in a N. Y. Reg., was wounded in the battle of the wilderness and soon after died.
OTIS TAFT who came to Wells in 1856, married 1st, Charlotte Sprague, by whom he had three sons, Lewis, Austin and Cyrus who all enlisted in the late war. Mr. Taft mar- ried 2d, widow Porter, of Poultney, who also had three sons who were also all in the war with their step-brothers ; Edwin A., in Co. G., Vt. Cavalry, who was taken prisoner in a raid near Richmond, under Kilpatrick and confined for a while in Libby prison ; Albert L., served in a N. Y. Reg. of heavy artil- lery ; and Linsey enlisted also in a N. Y. Reg., Mrs. Amos Tooly died in 1859, aged 90.
WILLIAM TOOLY, son of Amos, was born in Wells, enlisted in the 23d Reg. N. Y. Vols., and was killed near Goldsborough, in N. C., a short time before Johnson's surrender to Sherman ; HORACE, brother of Wm., enlist- ed at the same time, same regiment, was wounded at Dallas in Georgia and died soon
after ; they were both good soldiers and their deaths were heroic.
ELISHA WALES from Whitehall, N. Y. mar- ried Laura Lamb of this town and settled here. He enlisted in the 14th Vt. Reg., was in the battle of Gettysburg and died ou his way home at Vernon, Ind., and was buried there.
ALBERMALE WILLIAMS, son of Abijah, born in this town, became a physician. He married Ruth, daughter of David Goodrich. He died in Dorset, in 1830.
REV. PHILO WOODWARD, a presiding elder in the Methodist church, residing now (1869) at Rochester, N. Y., was a step son of Win. Fisk and resided in this town till of age.
DANIEL WYMAN, who died in 1757 was the first person interred in the village burying ground.
REV. OLIVER HOPSON,
a Protestant Episcopal clergyman, graduated at (now) Trinity College, resides in Conn. He married Caroline Allis, and is the father of 8 children,-William (who died while an infant), William 2nd, George (who is also a minister in the Protestant Episcopal church), Edward, who was killed at the battle of Ce- dar Creek, Caroline, Elizabeth, Mansfield and Mary.
ORRIN L. HOPSON,
the youngest son of John, was the wit of the family and an inventor and mechanic. He resides in Connecticut. He married Susan Wilson, and has two children.
WILLIAM CROSSMAN
moved into town in 1796. He commanded a company and fought bravely through the Revolutionary war.
AMO3 BOWE
came from Middletown, Ct. He settled upon a small farm near the Pond bridge, and re- mained there until his death, which occurred in 1844, in the 74th year of his age. Mr. Bowe was an excellent scholar for his day, and a great reader. In his religious belief, he was an Episcopalian. He was twice mar- ried. His children were Titus, Amos, Emily, by his first wife, and Obadiah A., Abner, Rebecca and Esther A., by his second wife. He died in 1844, aged 73.
OBADIAH A. BOWE,
son of Amos, was born in Wells in 1807. Ho learned the trade of a printer in the Northern
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Spectator Office, at Poultney, and was for a time an apprentice in the same office with Horace Greeley. He became one of the early and leading anti-slavery men, and for several years edited an Abolition paper in the town of Herkimer, N. Y. He was a man of con- siderable talent, and a fair writer. He died of a fever, in 1859, in New York City, aged 59 years.
The following lines written by him on his fiftieth birth-day, although by no means among the best productions of his pen, are still rather pretty.
LINES ON MY FIFTIETH BIRTHDAY ..
BY O. A. BOWE.
Youth, Childhood, Infancy,-adieu! The dearest friends must part, you know;
I've spent a good long time with you- The hour is late, and I must go.
"Old Age," a sober friend of mine, Says I must come with him to stay;
Heaven knows I cannot well decline- I'm fifty years of age to-day.
How strange it seems to be so old ! How sad to be so little wise ! What wrecks of time do I behold, As back I turn my failing eyes !
Old Home, where first I saw the dawn, And felt the life-blood at my heart,- Where is thy life and freshness gone ! How sad and desolate thou art !
What radiant hopes of boyhood's time, What cherished dreams have passed away ! The friends of youth's unclouded prime, My father's household,-where are they !
My schoolmates two score years ago, The dwellers round on every side ; So many forms I used to know, All are dispersed, and most have died.
SONNET.
Suggested during a walk in Autumn, by the thought of a departed relative.
[Mr. Bowe died in 1858 or '9. An obituary appeared in the New York Sun at the time. Ed.]
BY O. A. BOWE.
Do the Dead view us, in our daily rounds ?
Do they rogard us from their homes above- Gazing npon us with their eyes of love, And listening calinly to our voices sounds ? Do they regret when passion fills our souls, Or pride or weakness tempts our feet astray ? Do they rejoice when love the heart controls, And peace and goodness hover round our way ?
Lamented parent 1 through yon opening cloud Thy well remembered face I seem to see ; Ah, be the bending heavens in pity bowed That I may find myself yet nearer theel It is thy form-'tis thy paternal hand, Thus beckoning to me from the Better Land.
ALLEN GROVER,
son of Nathaniel, who settled here about 1800, was, for many years, a prominent citi- zen ; was representative 2 years ; selectman, constable, &c., many years; died in 1865, aged 63. Allen C., his eldest son, is a physi- cian, and resides in town. Marcus D., an- other son, is a lawyer, and has represented Wells in the State legislature the last 4 years (186-), being the youngest man ever elected in town.
In Messrs. Paul's and Park's History of Wells, are the following items not found in Mr. Hopson's record :
Daniel Atwater, of this town, and his wife, Lois, died in 1861, the husband one day be- fore the wife, and were buried in one grave.
Robert E. Wakeley, who resided here sev- eral years, was killed instantly by the falling timbers of a barn.
John Barden, of this town, representative for several years, for a number of sessions has been door-keeper of the House of the Legislature.
Robert Beebe and wife, Abigail (Martin), from Connecticut, were early settlers. Mr. Beebe died in 1813, of apoplexy ; children : Ephraim, Aaron, Ozias, Silas, Robert and Sally.
David Blossom, from Massachusetts, was also one of the first settlers. Children : Da- vid C., William, Joseph and Chloe. Joseph was a physician and practised in Granville, N. Y., adjoining. Mr. Blossom removed from Wells in 1804.
PETER BLOSSOM came with his brother, Da- vid, and settled where R. M. Lewis now lives. He was twice married. By his first wife he had three children : Seth, John and Hannah. Mr. Blossom had been a privateer during the Revolutionary war, in the American service, and used to take great pride in telling his bold and daring feats. His son, Seth, was town representative from Wells a number of years.
SAMUEL BROUGHTON
and wife, Rachel (Dowel), were early settlers from Connecticut. Their children were two daughters, Sophia and Emilla. Mr. Brough-
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ton, " for his love of litigation, became the terror of the community in 'which he lived." " It seemed to be his ruling passion through life." At 70 years of age, he won an im- portant suit. He removed to Moriah, N. Y., in 1825, where he died, in 1864, aged 95.
While he resided in Wells, he was afflicted with a lung difficulty, and had so strong a belief that if he could obtain the heart of a rattlesnake and swallow it while warm that, meeting Joseph Parks at the favorable mo- ment when he had just killed one of these snakes, on his way to church one Sabbath, Mr. Broughton requested him to get the heart of the snake for him; and Mr. Parks extracted the heart, and put it into Mr. Broughton's hand while still beating, and he, Broughton, swallowed it. This was in 1821, and he always averred he was cured by it.
EBENEZER BUTTS and wife, Prudence (Glass), from Canterbury, Ct., settled here about 1787. He was the first settler in his neighborhood, and the hill on which he set- tled, is known to this day as Butts' Hill. Their children were Rufus, Nathan, Ezra, James, Sally, Assenath and Sybil. No record has been found of their age (Mr. and Mrs. B.) They have been dead more than 40 years.
CHARLES D. TRACY, son of Castle Tracy, enlisted in the U. S. service in 1862, and died in the war. One of Tracy's sisters married ALBERT CULVER, who was in the Union ser- vice and a good soldier. While operating upon a pocket revolver, he accidentally dis- charged a ball that entered his wrist, and from which he died in a few days.
CLARK STEPHEN and wife, Patience (Gran- nis), from Connecticut, were early settlers. Children : Luman, Stephen L., Lovina, Lydia and Esther. Mrs. Clark died in 1809. Mr. Clark married, 2d, widow Roxana Beebe, by whom he had one son, Simon.
Mr. Clark had been, in early life, a teacher ; was justice of the peace here a number of years. His son, Bishop, was accidentally killed in his 17th year. While felling a tree with David B. Lewis, the ax came off from the helve of Mr. Lewis's ax and struck in the young man's thigh. He died in a few hours from the wound. It was a sad event for the yet young settlement ; for the doting parents-he was their youngest son-and for Mr. Lewis, who was associated with him in the sad event. But no blaine was ever at- tached to Mr. Lewis.
WILLIAM CROSSMAN, who settled in Wells, in 1796, commanded a company in the Revo- lutionary war. He married Eunice W. Lewis. Their children, all born in town, were Jacob L., Pamelia and William, jr. He removed from town many years since. (No further record of him is given, probably could not be found.)-Ed.
WESLEY CLEMONS, son of Michael and Eunice Clemons, and grandson of Thomas and Mehitable Clemons, settlers of 1783, from Worthington, Mass., married Lucretia Smith, of Granville, N. Y., and resided on the home- stead of his father in Wells. He was justice of the peace many years, and held various town offices, almost continually, till the time of his death, which was sudden, of heart disease. While driving some sheep a short distance from his house, he fell dead (in 1841, aged 46.) He was a worthy inember of the Methodist Episcopal church. He had been also a delegate to the Constitutional Con- vention in 1834. He left a wife and eleven children.
MARTIN V. B. CLEMONS, son of Wm. A. and Eunice (Mc Crees) Clemons, enlisted in the late war of '61, and died in the Union service.
HUGE CLEMONS, brother of William, who, at the time of the rebel outbreak, resided with a sister in the State of Georgia, was conscripted into the rebel service and com- pelled to fight in their ranks till the battle of Gettysburgh, when he effected an escape to the Union lines.
JAMES Cox (in the list of representatives two years) was from Pawlet and removed to Poultney, in 1868.
ABSER CONE, one of the first men here, settled where James H. Parks now lives,- the place being then an unbroken wilderness. His children were Abner, Enoch, Noah, Ly- dia, Rachel, Polly, John and Joseph.
EBENEZER DART and wife Hannah (Pratt) lived in this town several years. He was a Revolutionary soldier and drew a pension. He died near fifty years since.
JOHN S. DAVIS, another Revolutionary sol- dier, came from Granville, N. Y., here in 1$15. His wife's name was Tryphena Olds. They bad children : John, George, Stephen, Ira, Cyril (resides in Granville, N. Y .. ) Polly Annis, Lucretia, Tryphona, Esther and Bet- sy. Mr. Davis drew a pension many years before his death in 1845, aged 96.
SIMON FRANCIS, from Wallingford, Ct ..
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representative of Wells several years, re- moved West, where he died several years since.
ANSON NICHOLS, step-son of George King, of this town, enlisted, in 1823, in Naval ser- vice of United States under Commodore Perry in his expedition against the pirates and never returned.
SETH GEER, son of Cyrus and Lucy Geer, and grandson of Ally * and Cynthia Geer, married, first, Laura Lewis, of Wells; 2d, Mary Pierce, of Pawlet, by whom he had two children. He enlisted in 1862, in Co. B, 14th Reg., Vt Vols., for 9 months, and was in the battle of Gettysburgh. While in ser- vice he contracted a disease which caused his death in 1863, soon after his return home at the expiration of his term. He was aged 33. His widow removed to St. Lawrence Co., N. Y.
DAVID GRAY, from Arlington, settled in the wilderness east of the Ryder farm, in 1794. He married Sally Cole. Their chil- dren were Henry (representative from Ar- lington in 1853), Richard, Fedro, Polly, Da- vid, Lyman and Harriet. Mr. Gray left Wells in 1813.
ALLEN GROVER, son of Nathaniel, who set- tled from Massachusetts, about 1800, married Mrs. Rachel Harndon (widow) from Poultney. He carried on the merchant's business here more than 30 years ; was a teacher of winter district schools 11 years; representative to the Legislature 2 years ; selectman and con- stable several years. He died in 1865, aged 63. Children : Luthera (wife of W. H. Hill, merchant in Wells), Allen C., physician, and Marcus D., lawyer-both of Wells-the latter representative 3 years.
DAVID HOWE, (birth, death and age not given), son of Joshua, married Phebe Cole. Children : Jane, Obed, David, jr., and several daughters. Mrs. Howe died a few years since, aged 95 years.
JOHN HOWE, son of David, jr., enlisted and served in the late war till its close; returned and was drowned, in 1866, in Wells pond, while bathing.
REV. WM. HOELL, from Saranac, N. Y., married Luthera Grover, and resides in the village of Wells. "His clerical duties are of a local sort," and for several years he has been in the mercantile business.
* Ally Geer raised a large family, all of whom left town but Cyrus, who died in Wells, 1862.
WM. HUNT, another Revolutionary hero, resided in this town several years. He was born in England, but espoused the colonial cause, served through the war, and was in the battle of Yorktown at the taking of Cornwallis. He drew a pension till his death in 1820.
"MR. OBADIAH A. BOWE, -for some time past connected with the editorial department of The Sun, died yesterday afternoon, at his residence in Third Avenue, near 51st street. Was a native of Vermont, born in Wells, and was a fellow apprentice to the printing business with Horace Greeley, of The Trib- une. The friendship thus founded has never been interrupted, and it was through Mr. Greeley's representations of the experience and personal worth of his friend that he be- came, about 3 years ago, connected with our office. At that time, his general health was good. With slight interruptions, he was able to attend to his duties until lately, when he was seized with an intermittent fever, which acting upon an impaired constitution, termin- ated fatally after a short illness.
Mr. BowE has been connected with the American press, as printer and publisher, and in other capacities, for over 30 years. As a newspaper publisher, he was not fortu- nate, probably because of his want of keen business habits; his yielding good nature in assuming responsibilities not his own; and his conscientious advocacy of views which, as he had often said, were in advance of the times. He was a man of genial disposition, of fine literay taste, and an ardent, intlexi- ble advocate of what he believed to be right and just. Our own short acquaintance with him inspired only feelings of esteem and re- spect; and we believe that all who have been associated with him regret his death, as the loss of a friend whom they esteemed and loved. He leaves a wife, to whom he was devotedly attached, and two daughters nearly grown to woman's estate."
An old acquaintance in Wells writes: "July 15, 1876 .- Mr. Bowe married for his first wife Miss Catherine Weaver. She left three children-daughters. I cannot tell when she died. He married second, Miss Laura Bowe, a relative, a very estimable and talented lady and a poetess. They had only one child, a son, who died in infancy. Mr. Bowe died in 1850, aged 52 years."
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IN MEMORIAM. DY A MOTHER. " I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me."
They tell me that my " soldier boy " is dead, That all his toils and sufferings are o'er, That strangers laid him in his narrow bed, Down where is heard the Mississipi's roar. Can this be true ? can my own boy be dead, Whose head I pillowed in its infancy ? Can stranger hands have pillowed his dear head In its last resting place ? Alas! for me.
Sad was the day he left his childhood's home -- (Young-inexperienced as a little child.) Putting his country's armor on-to roam With those who his unwary feet beguiled. Since his departure to that Southern land, My spirit felt abiding, deep unrest- Fearing his slender form could not withstand The withering fever blight. He is at rest.
But he went forth to battle for the right; And blessed be the memory of our boy- Tho' o'er my earthly hopes for him, a blight Has passed-his death bereft my heart of joy. They tell me I may well be proud of him Who served his country, nobly, faithfully ; Proud ! when his pictured face my tears bedim ? O let them fall ; 'twill ease this agony.
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Henceforth my thoughts will fly unto the shore On that far land where sleeps my only son, His requiem the Mississippi's roar, Laid down to rest with all his armor on.
Father ! forgive ; and help me drink this cap- Help my bowed heart to say, "Thy will be done." Accept the sacrifice, our loved one offered up On Freedom's shrine : soon let sweet peace be won.
More to our country I can never give- The son has gone to God. With armor on His father has gone forth-O let him live ! And help us all to say "Thy will be done." God gives and takes-dear George farewell ! farewell ! Till the last trump shall raise thee froin the dead We know He doeth all things well-Farewell Till we shall meet where not a tear is sbed. The vacant chair, a lock of hair Cut from the dying brow, The pictured face, fond memories These, these are left us now.
C. H. H.
HYDEVILLE, VT., Nov. 7, 1862.
· Vide Castleton, page 546, 547.
THE WITHERED ROSE BUD.
Oh! Mothers, whose full hearts are breaking- While you yearn for the loved ones away,
As the agony comes with awaking, In the night or with morn's early ray ;
I know all how deep is your sorrow Who look on the face of the dead,
Who can hope for no brighter to-morrow, Because hope forever has fled.
With embraces, with prayers, and with woeping, My first darling was laid down to rest, Where her clay is ao quietly sleeping, My band has the flowers caressed ;
There I plucked a white rose-bud last summer ; I kissed it and sent it away With a message of love to her brother, For whom I could then only pray ;
I charged it to bear him my blessing, My hope that my boy should not die, That often our Father addressing, I prayed I might meet him on high. * * * #
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'Tis suinmer again * * The white roses Are budding upon Mary's grave ;
The grasses and flowers are growing, The snowdrops and evergreens ware ; To the grave of my first born I wander, Where the snowdrops and white roses are ;
'Neath the evergreen shade I now ponder, Till my heart almost sinks in despair. * * O'er the withered white rose bud I'm weeping That I last summer sent to my boy, Far away is that " soldier boy " sleeping, And withered my hoart's budding joy.
This bnd to my heart is far dearer Than any, or all of the rest, For it to my boy has been nearer ; Perchance to his lips have been pressed,
As it whispered the love of his mother, And the p ayers she had offered for him,
While she thought of the sister and brother And the place where bright hopes never dim.
Oh, tell me, sweet bud, dost thou bear me A message of love from my boy ?
A word or a thought that will cheer me, Be in my bereavement a joy ? Thou tellest no secrets ! I lay thee Beside the dark brown lock of hair,
From the brow of my dying boy taken, Oh shall I not meet him up where. The buds and the flowers ne'er perish, Where cometh no sorrow nor care,
Where the hopes and the loves that we cherish, Are blooming forever, and fair ?
CLARA II. HOSFORD. Hydeville, Vt., 1863.
VERMONT'S VOLUNTEERS.
BY MRS. CLARA H. HOSFORD.
A song-a song ;- my muse awake ! awake my slum- bering lyre !
Sprit of song breath on my lay-thyself my heart inspire
To sing in strains befitting-not too sad, nor yet too gay --
Of our brave Green Mountain heroes-now mingling in the fray ;
Of the sick, the dead, the dying, and the living who yet stand
Upon our country's battlenieuts-a breastwork for the land ;-
Let onr strains tho' sad be hopeful-let joy smile through our teurs,
While we sing the well earned pralses of Vermont's brave Volunteers.
When Sumter's cry rang through the land like an electric shock,
Up rose the brave Vermonters, firm as their native rock ;-
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From palace home, and cottage, from valley, hillside, glen ;-
Ever true unto their country, our own Green Moun- tain men.
I've seen them in the time of peace, among their native hills-
Those hills so brightly evergreen, where flow the pear- ly rills ;
I've seen them leave those peaceful homes, 'mid loved one's prayers aud tears
Responding to their country's call, our noble Volunteers.
Hail to Vermont! our native State; her name we proudly own,
On more freedom-loving children, God's sun has never shone-
From the rebel, and the traitor, they never shrink in fight,
But dare to do, or suffer,-in the cause of truth, and right.
Vermont! yes, well we love her-and her sons Bo loyal brave-
In memory fondly cherish those who fill an honored grave,
Embalming deep within our hearts, with a grateful Nation's tears-
Those who died to save their country-our noble Volunteers.
On many a southern field of death their graves are thickly strown,
Death has reaped a fearful harvest of our own beloved, our own :-
All honor to the living, and thrice honored be the dead
Who in a cause so glorious, their precious blood have shed.
And still Vermont's brave sons will go till War's red sun shall set ;
In foremost ranks in many a fight they've ne'er dis- gracedl her yet :
Vermont shall reap in joy at length what she has sown in tears,
And crown with fadeless laurels her loyal Volunteers. They love their homes and dear ones, but love their country more ;
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