Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1866-11-16

bOr Vi our SOOuIy CIdoC H"o P1ooOu
away in Hon. Merrick Gay of Stock
bridge, whose death it is our painful
duty to record this morning. Mr..
Gay was one of the most extensive
wooden manufacturers in the State and
hence in addition to his known probity
and genial character, he exercised a
wide spread influence wherever he
was known. Herepresented his town,
Stockbridge, for four years in the
House of Representatives, and in
1865 and 1866, was elected to the
Senate, Early the present season he
was stricken down by the fatal dis
ease enlargement of h e heart, |
which has resulted in his death. He
died at the advanced age of GA years
in his native town, almost at the old
homestead, and leaves mourning cir
Gle of beloved friends and neighbors.
Two of his sons are among the most
respected young men in Vermont, Mel
son Gay, Esq, of Stockbridge, and
Charles NJ. Gay, editor of the Rutland
Herald.
Both branches of the Legislature
adjourned yesterday afternoon after
passing resolutions of respect to the
deceased Senator's memory. In the
Senate, Senators Dorr and Doton, and
in the House, Messrs. Hubbard of
Stockbridge, and Dunn of Fairfax,
paid appropriate and feeling tributes
to his memory.
We copy from Walton'o journal
the following truthful obituary of Mr..
Gay, which is from the pen of Henry
Clark, Esq, Secretary of the Senate :
He was a man Of fine presence,
associated with quiet, unobtusiye,
courteous manners, which attracted
those who met him in the various walks
of life, and commended him to the
respect Of those who came within the
circle OF his acquaintance. Thus has
f passed away a gentleman OF worth
and enterprise, possessed Of those
manly qualities which won the high
/ regard of his colleagues in the Senate
= who esteemed him for the many fine
: qualities which marked him as a man
= Of prudence, a careful legislator, anC
an associate in whose opinion they
placed great confidence.
e CLANCY Richardson, Of Woodstock
. gives in the Standard, the following
sketch of a snow storm in Tat vicini
ty, siNty-twO years ago:
October 9th, 1904 about the mid
die of the forenoon, it commences
! showing. We had had no frost, tn
!, leaves were all green on the trees, tn
wind was at rest, and the snow cam
. like a sugar snow. in large flakes. we
~ and heavy. Wherever it lit it wa
. sure to stay. The trees were 500
. loaded, and the old trees in the fOres
! that had faced the elements for Ger
OtlI It's Dt2dii " IiCllbIt. LII tllt dllCl
- noon we heard them crack and fall o
the mountains like distant thunde
., and the Young trees bent their head
: to the earth and there stayed. man
~ OF them until the next summer, an
= some OF them never regained their VI
If ward positions, To many this was
, dark day. Snow about two feet dee
, corn, potatoes and apples, a lare
- part Of them. under the snow, and {
: all appearance a long cold winter W.
~ closing in upon us The General A
sembN Of Vermont held its session
Rutland that tall aud the Represent
u. tives passing through Woodstock an
,e Sherburne over the mountain to TIL
It place horseback, as was the custom
ID travel in those days, had serior
V. time getting through. We had plea
If ant weather after the storm and tt
m snow principally left US and the crol
10 were harvested without loss; Y
IN some Of it lay in piles in the woo,
tv and on the north side of the mod
r. tains until the next summer.