Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-01-15

on the Connecticut river. Leonard Dens- |
moro came first and bought place in
old Hague. Gershom came next, after
vile, or Lewis, New York. The people |
of that place left their homes expecting
Indians and got to Pittsburgh at time of
the battle. We came here long time
before Gershom Densmore came. He did
not come right after the battle of Platts-
burgh. was married in 1927, and had
two children when Gershom came. Ny
second child was born in 1880. know she
was born before he came. She was born
in February and he came next fall. He
and his wife came in the fall of 1880;
they came to our house and stayed.
There was little snow on the ground.
He left Hague in the fall of 1912, if re-
member right. One of my girls was
and went away the next fall. There was
Leonard, Francis, Enoch and Gershom
Densmore, sons of Leonard. Leonard
came first and was here when we came.
His brother Gershom came next; then
their father, an old gentleman past labor.
/ think Leonard had been here five or six
years when we came in 1915. Gershom
and Leonard Densmore were brothers of
my husbands mother. His father mar
ried her at Winchester, or Hinsda1e, N. H.,
about 30 miles from Bellows Falls.
~ knew the Risings. Horace lived at
ii; made and peddled wooden ware.
Rufus lived with him at one time. 1t was
after | was married. Ny husband at one
time cut timber for them. 1t was in the
winter of 1886. The Risings had farm
at the time in Hague. Horace Rising
died not more than year after they got
the timber. Rufus moved back on the
farm. They might have been manufac-
turing the bowls some years before that
/ think they were. Rufus, Jr., was about
two years old when was married; he
was their oldest child"
After this interview with Mrs. Hovt
johnson we looked up her husband, who
was at a field below the house digging
potatoes. He was born in 1906 He
said:
my brother owned that mare. Rufus
Rising went over the Green Mountains or
on to the Green Mountains and got the
mare. My brother snapped with Rising
and got her. He keep her two or three
years and traded her to Warner Cook and
afterwards Holcomb got her. Rising
l-o,, har oil, NJ l..
her year or two and worked her on a
team. Warner Cook kept her one. two
or three years, perhaps four. w. II.
Cook was Warmers son. He took her
down there and kept her about year,
perhaps. and sold her to IIolcomb.
George johnson lived in Hague. where
Sam Alderman lives. when he sold the
mare to Cook for $50. She was small,
low, thick-built mare, kind and good to
work. She had good full name and tail
was iron gray when | first knew her.
She was a handsome mare. handsome
made, handsome as a log, round all over
good roadster: long hips: square behind
smooth, handsome limbs: not very long
neck. Never heard anybody say what
her blood was.
II don't know the town where Rising
= went. He said he got her at the Green
Mountains. He went with his wife to
visit his or her relatives. Soon after he
got home said to him: "Iou have got
new mare; where did you get herr
lie said, II got her over at the Green
Mountains
MY brother came here and lived with
me before he was married. think had
two children when he was married
should say it was in 1880. He did not
get this mare till some four or five years
think she was seven or eight years old.
: 'Greshom DensmOre never owned the
mare He was my uncle, and knew all
about him. He lived right here. He
never had anything to do with the mare
no Densmore ever did.
: Il knew when my brother George trad
= ed for the mare Rising had her only q
short time knew when George SOLD
her to Warner Cook. knew when VIM
: IL. Cook had her, and knew about the
h time he sold her to Whit. Holcomb. She
kept growing white; she never was tn,
darkest ron-grey. George johnson lum
u bered with her. Kind true critter as evel
was harnesscd. Never knew anybody tC
own that mare but Rising, Johnson
Cook and IIolcomb."
Here followed long examination fOl
the purpose of fixing dates. which result
! ed in our returning to the house for the
: benefit of Mrs. Johnsons better recolec
ton. Ioyt johnson and wife said:
: That George johnson lived where San
= Akerman now does when their boy Perry
u was born. Their children were as fol