Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-05-31


of the members of the family who have
died during the past year; also what
was the date of their death, the disease,
the names of the attending physicians,
and how long were they residents of
this county? What is the amount of
titled land in farms of three acres or
more, amount of meadow and moving,
pasture, orchard lands and wood lands /;
what is the value of your farm what
the worth of farm implements and ma
chinery what was the cost of building
and repairing fences in 1879; the cost
of fertilizers the same year what was
the cost of labored hired including
board in 1878; how many weeks labor
hired including homework; what was
the estimated value of all farm products
in 1879; how much hay and grass sold
that year; how many animals, giving
ages, on hand June l., 1880; how many
calves produced and how many cattle
slaughtered in 1879? By making out
answers to these questions at once, much
time will be saved.
DEATH OF TIMOTHY G. CoBB.-Again
we are called upon to chronicle the
death of one of our oldest and best
known citizens. Timothy G. Cobb was
born in this village. in the house recent
ly burned near the Catholic church,
Oct 18th, 1906, and has resided here
during his whole lifetime. He was the
son of Col. Ellis Cobb who came to this
town from Hardwick, Mass, in 1903.
Col. Cobb was fuller by trade, and
bought water privilege on the falls
where he put up carding and fulling
mill. Within few years he purchased
most of the land about the outlet of
Bellewater, and in 1917 built the
carding mill so long called Cobb's
MILL Col. Cobb married Abigail, sis
ter of the late Samuel Chamberlin, Oct.
81, 1905, just year to day before
the birth of Timothy. There were five
children in Col. Cobb's family, of whom
Timothy was the only son; Mrs. Har-
vey of st Johnsbury, now in extremely
poor health, alone survives. Mr.. Cobb fol-
lowed the occupation of his father, and
carried on the carding and fulling bust
ness until his shop was burned in 1872.
Since that time, his health having par
TALLY failed, he has been content to look
after his lands and tenements, and the
duties of town treasurer, which Office he
held nearly thirty years. He was gen.
ial and accommodating, and few men
have done as much business with the
public as he, and had the good fortune
to have no quarrels and no accusations
of wrong-doing. He took great inter-
est, as did his father before him, in the
business enterprises of the town, and
especially of the church. Mr.. Cobb,
senior, built the White church, and
Timothy was long connected with the
Congregational society, contributing
generously toward the support of the
gospel. He was an excellent musician,
and led the choir forty years. Few men
leave better record of honesty, neigh
borly kindness, and noble endeavors
than the deceased. Mr. Cobb married
Mary P, daughter of DR.. F. W. Adams
March 20, 1886. There were borr
to them five children, two of whom
died in infancy, Geo. Harmon living
until he was twenty years old. He leaves
two sons, Ellis of Bennington VT, and
Frederick of this town. Funeral SER
vices, largely attended, were held OF
Saturday at his late residence, Rev
Phelps officiating. One by one, the ole
citizens of this place, and the old resi-
dents of the village are departing, unit
that generation of excellent men anC
woman, so many of whom were here
when we came seventeen years ago, are
nearly all gone. Squire Woodman says
that Mr.. Cobb was the last living per
son of all who resided in this vii
lage and neighborhood when he came
here sc years ago.
We copy the following from the Sal
; Francisco Call which will be of interes
to the many friends and acquaintance
of Mr.. Lord
Joseph M. Lord, one of the first of Cal
ifornia's pioneers, died at Benicia Oh
Monday, and will be buried in this cit.
to-day. Mr.. Lord was fifty-nine years o
age, and was born in Barton, Orleans
County, Vermont. He arrived in San
Francisco in the spring of 1S47, and en-
tered into the boarding house business
aud kept house somewhere in the neigh
: borhood of Sacramento street. On tn,
discovery of gold he left San Francisco
, for the American River. He was remark
ably successful in his mining, and in 1884,
he had accumulated such wealth that il
? July of that year he left here for his ma
: tive home in Vermont. His arrival Their
f set hundreds of people crazy with tn
, gold fever, and it is estimated that hi
fortune was instrumental in infuencin,
] at least 1000 persons to leave that stat
for California. He was the first man VIII
returned to Vermont from California, an