Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-03-12

quite lumber job. | never see the mare
after Holcomb had her"
Ascending little farther by this I'M
ley where Hoyt johnson lives, and called
again at his house. Mrs. johnson said
"There were two William Bevinses. my
uncle and my cousin; my cousin married
his wife in Rutland. The horse that Geo.
johnson had of Rufus Rising. it is i'm
pressed on my mind that it was very
dark colored horse; have seen the horse
many times; remember it Well; it was
dark roam, "A little grayish and very
dark. Geo. johnson had a span that run
in the pasture the year he sold this horse
to Cook. | saw the horse George sold to
Warner Cook soon after Cook got it /;
George stood in our door-yard when he
rode by very fast, and George growled
about the way Cook was using the horse
he had sold him. 1t was not sorrel nor
light gray. George spoke because he
was very tender of his horses.
IL couldn't recommend William Bevins
for truth; he was son of Joseph; their
family was very different from ours; one
son would steal everything he could.
William was not very truthful.
civilian Bevins's wife when he mar
ried her lived in the family of a man by
the name of Fay. Her father was John
Buffers; my brother married his other
daughter; after his daughter married
William Bevins he came here and lived
with them; after that my brother Clark
married the other girl. William lived
with his wife at Rutland a while and
they had one child when they came here :
they came here before | was married.
quite number of years; her father came
here and Clark married his other daugh-
ter before | was married. Clark was
married about four or five years before
was; it was all of four years. | think
five; they had two children. sure. But
tiers had been here IA year and half or
two years before Clark married his
daughter.
civilian Bevins had a good many
horses; | don't remember any black one
Reuben, Ira and Warren Potter-that
was all. Reuben used to have horses :
he lived two years upon the Byington
place in Hague; log house. little ways
from Rufus Rsing's. | was not very
large then. Mother used to hire the
girls to spin. One year that they lived
there was when my second girl. Lucinda,
was baby; they lived close by the
Beaver marsh.
civilian Bevins was born in June or
July, 1900; there was only four or five
weeks difference in age between him and
my oldest brother. William Bevins'
father-in-law was a poor man; one of his
daughters kept house for him a while.
Will Bevins was not married till he was
of age. Buffers was very old man
when he came here. Never heard him
tell of going to Boston. He had had
quite family: three of them were burn
ed up in his house. He had no property
when he came here; he brought no horse
nor nothing. He did not 90 back to Rut-
land at all. If Will Bevins had had
present of Il horse from his father-in-law
we should have been apt to know it.
william Bevins had no horse when he
came here. | did not know of his hav-
ing one very young: think he had a span
before ! was married. He worked at
Crane Pond"
HOYT JOHNsON.-"At Crane Pond Will
liam Bevins had a pair of bays, one of
them spawned. Il French beast; was at
work there at the time. He came here Il
number of years before | was married.
"Reuben Potter was always trading
horses. don't think he could have sold
to Reuben Potter. not right off. for Reu-
ben was not much older than my Oldest
boy. Reuben was the oldest. then Ira.
then Warren. Ipersume the Potters had
deal with Rufus Rising; he was in the
same neighborhood and had a good deal
of deal with poor people.
IL took the big gray mare that George
johnson had when he died, at the APP
praisal, twenty-five dollars. She was
about twenty years old. George had
owned her quite while. raised a colt
from her. She was big, good mare. a
good stopper. George got her of a man
in Queensburg, at the head of Lake
George; she would weigh from ten to
eleven hundred; sound, smart. head up.
George had her ten or fifteen years;
kept her little short of two years.
Mrs. JOIINSON.-''I don't remember
when George got the gray mare. He
raised several colts from her
All think Reuben, Ira and Warren Pot
ter fair men for veracity.
HOYT JOHNSON.-''I knew John GlaZ-
Ter well. He had Il gray mare. The