Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-01-29

was mare; she got hurt and they kept
her to raise colts. The third one was
sold to Abijah Nickinson; he sold to
Frank FELTON,, who got $l00 for her. These
were all the colts she had before IIol-
comb got her. think now the first one
was foaled in 1S40 She bred three wears
in succession. ! was a near neighbor and
knew them we'll. The first colt was
foaled on the upper place, and then w.
IL. Cook got the present Joseph Cook
place and took the mare and colt down
there. Warner Cook certainly owned the
mare in the winter of 1899, when Bur
chard preached here; and perhaps in
1898. w. III. and Valorus Cook divided
the property and the mare and colt went
to w. ii. | can remember the time the
mare came into Warner Cooks hands but
can't fix the date. | think it was in the
winter. She was youngish mare when
he got her, four or five years old, and
pretty white. He drew logs with her
and think she got SPAWN and they put
her to breeding. | think she was not
more than five or six years old when
Cook got her; do not think can be mis-
taken; do not think she was more than
~ or 20 when she died. 1t was all nom
sense letting her die. | think she came
from the other side of the lake. | have
had that idea some time. VIM. ii. Cook
always said this mare came from over the
mountain. She was not very large;
would weigh $50 in good flesh; pretty
long body, pretty long slim neck, carried
her head up well. She was a screamer
on the road | once drove her to Wey-
bridge by side of a chestnut mare.
never drove a better team; think this was
III 1872. She was sound: think she had
had 'one colt. She was full 10 hands,
perhaps ID II pretty good chest; pretty
broad; shoulder good; hind leg rather
crooked: you would call her a little leg
gy. She had a very good back; long
mp; rather of goose neck, dropped for
ward of her withers, but she could get
her head up with any of them; legs rather
fine, not heavy. She had a splendid ear,
slim, thin, pretty good length; stuck
them right up; il handsome name and
tail. good length but not what you would
call heavy or bushy: long, slim head,
wide between the eyes, not Roman nose
"A mare-faccd head little inclined to be
dishing; tirst-rate eye; stuck out big as
your fist-large, bold-looking eye; Il
mare of eatintelligence you would say
she had got some brains. She was as
fine roader as you ever sat behind-am
bilious, full of vim, all day long. She
| was worth Sl25 in those days. They
claimed that she was Messenger after
Ethan was born. | know she was called
young mare when Cook got her. |
think they called her six years old; she
< could not have been over seven. Alvah
Bennett, before Cook got this mare, had
IA dapple grey horse, very fine looking,
large. came from the West. They said
he was Il full-blood Messenger Ethan
was built some like his dam; he had Il
long body and not large legs. The first
; colt out of his dam would weigh 1850;
. long body, built good deal like the
b. mare only larger. The first three colts
were all bays: every one could trot."
Mrs. Frinda Ham. wife of George Ham
: of H., is daughter of George johnson.
: She was born in June, 1899, and remem-
| bers Il grey that her father had; thinks
e he did not have it when he died, in
X March. 1919; thinks it was rather light
: grey, dappled. Il young, pretty mare.
t George johnson had four children, viz:
: Alzina, born ...... .................ls3l
e Mary, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Martha, ...................,....l SjG.
n Frinda. ...lSi9.
}. All are dead except Frinda, Mrs. Ham.
= Geo. johnson has sister living at Fort
q Edward. y. Y. a letter from her states
a that she has no recollection whatever
I about his horSes.) Mrs. Ham further
: says; My father died in Hague on Il
I farm about two miles from the lake.
Il was born on the sam Alderman place
~ have often been shown the house as my
!. birthplace.
. This was the morning of sept 30, Il
!. very beautiful day, and as there was a
{ fair in progress ut Crown Point, we
# drove To that place. some nine miles dis
< tant. On our way we had further talk
# with Gustavus Wicker, who said that
II Zeno and Joel Rising had the mare. Ru-
: fus was older. Zeno's oldest living child
I is joel, now of Chestertown. y. Y. The
= mare was white when Warner Cook got
/, her; must have been rs much as eight or
e ten years old. lie got SPAWN on her.
y Frank Harrington of Brandon bred the
Il dam of Flying Cloud.
It Further on We called on Mr.. Alvah L.
IT Bennett, to whom we had been referred
1. lie fhnnrht damn of Ethnn WIS rnispn by