Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-12-13
+ wATCHMAN STATE JOURNAL WEDNESDAY,
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Obituaries.

A week or two since we published the death oi
Mr.. n. r. NEwcoNn, sou Of Mr. '. l. New
comb, of this village. We now add further par
ticuars Of the sad event. Henry T. Newconib WAS
born In birmingham. Mass, the 9th OF Noyem-
Der. 1870 lie resided In Montpelier until the fall
Of 1861, when he went TO Bloomingdale, \. l.,
and engaged in farming for a number OF years
but more recently was employed M a guide
TO pleasure parties visiting shat Section during
the summer season. During the winter season
he engaged In hunting and trapping. few days
previous 10 his death he was away from home on
a hunting and trapping expedition from which
he returned TO Bloomingdale TO vote ut the FRESH
dental election, November 7th-after which he
went back to his camp in the woods To collect his
traps and tent for the purpose OF removing them
home for the winter aud during this return
journey he met his death by the capsizing OF
boat, in which he and young man named Clark
were crossing a small pond known MS Fish
Pond" They chung to the boat until chilled
through, when they sank. The bodies Of the two
young men were discovered some days afterward
near the shore. Mr. Newcomb leaves a wife and
two children ~ mourn his loss
pERKISs, for several years the oldest male resi-
dent Of this town The deceased was born in the
town Of New Boston, n H., March 20, 1881, thus
being eighty-nire and one-half years old at his
death His parents were Philemon and Abigail
Perkins who with three sons, Jacob stephen and
Jonathan, removed from New Hampshire in 1901,
TO make themselves home in the wilderness
country Of Vermont. They settled at once In the
south part Of Plainheld, on the farm now owned
bv Jacob and Augustus Batcheder. In Decem-
Der, 1906, Jonathan the youngest sou, was married
to Miss Lydia Carnes who had also removed from
his native town in New Hampshire After long
lie Of great coniugal harmony and felicity, in
which she as wife aud mother experienced her full
share Of hardships and suffering; being generally
subject to fcvers and painful form of catarrh and
being for the last seventeen years Of her life to-
tally blind, she died in the summer Of 1870 leav-
ing her bcreit husband a. fond a mouner az ever
grieycd for a youthful wife
Aften ten years of married life spent with his
parents on the farm above mentioned, Mr and
Mrs Perkins, with Ave children, removed to a
large lot Of wild land tsome two hundred and
sixty acres) which he had purchased in Goshen
Gore, and upon which only the smallest clearing
had been made before their removal thither. Mr.
Perkins removed to his new home in April, where
a rudely constructed house had been prepared for
the reception Of his family. The building was a
frame loosely covered with boards, without chin.
ney doors or windows. A heap Of stones in the
center which afterward served as the base Of a
chimney, was the only provision for fire or light.
As to ventilation il may be conjectured the pro-
visions were ample. This home they reached in
the evening, with an OK team and sled there be-
ing no bridges or worked road to the premises
Their life in this wild home was not without IL.
adventures and dangers
As years went by, grief which "waters the
earth and sits down by turns at the feet Of ever
one came to this household. Jonathan, the
oldest son died in 1928 Of protracted fever and
four years later David, the only remaining sou,
while employed in working the old Groton road
from East Painheld TO that town, was instantly
killed by the premature discharge Of a blast he
was t,mping.
Personally, Mr. Perkins WAS a man Of grea
physical endurance and Of very rugged constitu
ton. lie, with his two brothers who came t,
Vermont, attained an average age Of nearl,
eighty-nine years The last years Of his life
however he was quite inirm from rheumatism
We, able every year to do most kinds Of ordinary
farm work lie was accustomed 10 mention thu
fact that he had swung his scythe for seventy
seventy-fye and, at last, for seveuty-seyen years
lie was a man of tender heart, strongly attached
to home and devoted to those who make homo
His life was careful and cody, his business con
Quoted in strict honesty, and his whole life a pat
tern Of industry and frugality. While he neve