The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1885-09-10
The attendance was small owing to the cold
vet weather. The track was heavy.
sULLvAN's SONS AND DAUGHTERS.

Many Of the sons and daughters of sullivan
are widely scattered. Its absent children could
answer to long roll-call. Nearly every State
In the Mon claims them as ills own and
wherever they have gone, they have as "a rule
taken excellent rank as citizens. As examples
we call TO remembrance the Emerys, the Per-
rvs, the MOseley>, the Humans. the PrebleS of
Boston; the Dyers, the Ingallses, the Simpsons
and the Prebles Of California; the Abbotts. the
Lynams of Concord the Simpsons of Newton ::
the Fosters, the BragdOn>, the Sargents of va
riOus sections of the country; and many others
too numerous t. mention here. Many of these
men stand in the very front rank of business
and social position, and all of them have taken
nolnferor standing in their adopted homes.
SuilN ; children and its chlldren's children
have not forgotten their mother town which
they evidently love TO visit. AT the present
time, or very recently, quite large number
are, or have been, spending a short season
here. Among them may be mentioned John ID.
Sargent, John 5. Emery and wife, Geo. e.
Emery and Mrs. W. ID. Emery of Boston, Hen
ry Bragdon of Canajoharie, accompanied by a
son of the late lothian Bragdon, Jr., of New
York city; Mrs. Belle Wooster Higgins who
has been at sea for quite number of years
with her husband, Capt. Hollis |. Higgins :;
Miss Eunice J. Simpson of Newton, Mass. !;
Mrs. Opbelia Foster Burnham of Cherrytield !:
Mr.. Alfred Martin and son of Penns ylvania !;
Mrs. Augusta Speideli Smith of Waterville, and
Mrs. Petrea, daughter of the late Geo. Smp-
son, of Ptts5urg, Penn.
John 5. Emery has recently placed in the
cemetery at the Falls village very fine tablet
manufactured in Boston of the best Vermont
slate. Its dimensions are as follows: height 5
feet, ill.,. !; width it,, in; thickness inches.
The tablet bears the following inscriptions:
Capt. Josiah Simpson, ST., born in York,
Me-, in 1928. Died about 1900"
turbulence Bragdon. his wife, born 1928, died
previous to 1890"
"Prudence Simpson, daughter OF the abO, e.
born 1866, died young
capt. Josiah Simpson, Jr., born in Sullivan,
1913, died at Petit Menan Isle, April, 1888"
MARY Sullivan, his wife, bora in Sullivan,
l113, died April IS, 1857. Buried at Belfast,
Me"
Hiram E. Simpson. born Aug. 90, 1910,
died May 3, 1916"
elisha M. Simpson, born Nov. 10, 1911. died
May II, 1913. Children of Josiah Jr., and Mary
Simpson"
Capt. Josiah Simpson, Sr., was the great
grandfather of John S. Emery of Boston, Mrs.
Geo. Cunningham of Ellsworth, and the late
VIM. II. Simpson, recently editor of the Bel
fast journal; he was the grandfather of Am
brose Simpson of Sullivan and Mrs. John S.
Emery.
When quite young man, Capt. Simpson be-
came seaman, and as early as 1853. in the ca
pacity of master of transport, he rendered as
slstance 10 the English expedition against the
French at Quebec. He was at Quebec at the
death of Gen. Wolf whom he so much admired
1lI2 Capt. Simpson moved from York to Suli-
van, and settled on the Falls Point, where he
built house and store. He also built mills and
several vessels.
AT one time, according to tradition, he and
his vessel were chartered to transport a large
number of French subjects who had been ex-
PEELED by the English from Acadia, or Nova
Scotia, TO Guadeloupe, w. l. 1t is related that
the voyage was the saddest one he ever made,
for his passengers, like those who sailed from
''the Basin of Minas" at much earlier date,
were ''friendless, homeless, hopeless" and
would not be comforted. Editorial correspon-
dence in Ellsworth American.
MAINE HORSE TRADER AND BOSTON HOOD
LUMS.
AS rule, the countryman who attempts
viewing the "Lowlands" of this city by gasght
fares roughly If be chances to fall into the tolls
OF the desperate characters who infest Merrimac
and Sudbury streets, and, as a general thing,
not only gets robbed, but also receives a sound
beating as the reward of his temerity. One in
stance lately occurred, however, in which the
would-be robbers caught a tartar in the fullest
sense Of the term. During the early part of last
week cattle dealer, whose name is withheld at