The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-08-02
ETHAN ALIENS GRANDDAUGHTER

In the make of newspaper, an impor-
tant, the material, part is the prompt gath
eripg and publishing of reliable news.
Aside from the occurrences in our own i'm
mediate vicinity, we are, of course compelled
to rely on our correspondents and reporters,
but, mainly, after all, on the telegraph and
our newspaper exchanges. The news to
be neos must be promptly published, and
very little time is afforded for its consider
alton. II every item was delayed until the
facts narrated might be personally nvesi-
gated by member of the editorial staff,
and history searched to ascertain whether
the purported facts accorded with those
detailed in history, daily newspapers would
soon 90 to the wall and be suppanted by
the ponderous monthly, always month
behind the times as to news. The people
would not long stand this style of journal
Ism. but would demand return to the
present daily newspaper which is about as
near accurate as human hands and brains
can make it. The best we can do is to
examine as carefully and wisely as may be,
use the best judgment afforded by the
limited time OF our disposal, and then GO
ahead-sure of being berated if the facts
do not exist, and of being denounced with
lack Of enterprise if doubling the authen-
ITCHY of the facts, the statement finds its
way into the waste basket instead of the
newspaper.
II being centennial time, brisk search is
made for centenarians, and if, perchance,
one 10 found and can be connected with
the heroes of hundred years ago, how
happy the paper that makes the discovery
The Springfield massachusetts, Union has
made the happy discovery of the existence
Of . rand'daughter of Ethan Allen.
Neglecting to secure a patent on its
discovery, or copyright for its
letter press description, the item has
been extensively copied by the pres.
Of the country-our own among The
cumberland 1t has been sent broadcast or
the wings of the lightning. Although We
published tho account of the Springfield
Union interviewer in full, we give the AS
ISOLATED Press telegram, that our reader
may have the facts at hand. The Telegram
Is - follows:
MRS. Jemima Graves, who will be 10
years old ON the Sd OF September, is visit
ing her grandson in this city. She is thu
daughter Of Ethan Aliens Oldest son, ant
IL . native Of Sturbridge. She was mar
ried ct the age Of twenty-four, and ha
eight sons and daughter, her ''younges
boy" being nov venerable, gray-hairet
man. On Wednesday morning she rose a
3 O'Clock, rode fIom her recent home in
small town in New York nine miles in
wagon to Utica, and took the cars for
appear to be much fatigued by the Jour
ney. Her faculties are remarkably wei
preserved, and she is more lively and socia
than many women of halt her years. Sh
we'll remembers her illustrious grandfather
the hero of Ticonderoga, and describes hi
personal appearance, habits and dress, il
detail. She isto spend the rest of her lif,
With her daughter, Mrs. Eudosia Howard
at Brimfeld."
30 Jemima was born September 3, 1774
At 6Iurbridge, Mass, was she? Well sh
was "lucky girl" Ethan Allen, himself
was born January 10, 1887, aid was mar
ned In 1859 to Miss Mary Brownson, {
Woodbury., Connecticut, she resided will
his family first at Salisbury, Conn, and af
forwards at Sheffield, Mass, and where b.
remained until about 1766-eight years be
fore the suppositious birth of Jemima-
when he removed to Vermont, while hi
family remained at Sheffield until 1777-
Allen being in captivity and took up thei
residence at Sunderland, where they resld
ed until 1887, when they removed to Bur
lington. Allen, from the time he came t.
Vermont, or the New Hampshire Grants
a. they we're then called, was constantly il
the service Of the settlers and, as is known
took an active part in the revolutionar.
war, being captured in his attempt to cap
ture Montreal, September 90, 1875, an'
was . prisoner In the hands of the British
for two years and eight months. Unex
pectedly, LIE returned TO Vermont, May 81
ITS. and, of course, could not have visitet
his family until after that time.
But who constituted his family. Hi
oldsst and only son, by his first wife wal
Joseph wh0 died at Sheffield, at the age o
sIsvsn ysors, while his father was a prisoner
In England. He had four daughters, name
iy Lucy, who married the Hon. .Samue
Hitchcock, and was the mother of the late
Major General Ethan Allen Hitchcock
Parmelia, who married Eleazer w. Reyes