The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1890-06-08

CONNECTICUT'S OLD FOLKS.
aor. ors We'll and Lively In Spite OF
0onra-Some Have Died within tho week.
N1npLETowS, June 7.-Connecticut old peo-
Mo have had many merry anniversary anu
birthday parties this week and scores OF
friends have helped them TO enjoy them.
notable vent was the golden wedding OF Mr.
and Mrs John Fielding OF this city le" uaSs
ago Twenty-Five children and grandchildren
attended and Joyous time 1t was. All
tbo children and grandchildren filed past
the venerable pair, and as they shook hands
With them each left gold piece from 81. 80 to
aoo coin as q token. Mr.. Fielding is "a years
old and his wife so. With ono exception all
the children seven In number. born to them In
their fifty years of welded life, are alive. one
child died about a year ago. One son Is W. u
Fielding of Hartford. the alert and skiliul de-
tectiye for the Connecticut Association OF
Farmers and sportsmen for the Protection OF
Game and Fish. After the golden wedding the
frip for Kingston, n. Y. They will spend the
summer there with q son. 1905 .h,, =, Iou,s
and Caroline Hutchings OF Bristol, who are 50
and 80 yenrs old. respectively; Both are IN nne
health and spirits. and all their faculties are
Uni Mrs Jairus Chapman Of Eastford has Just
celebrated her S4th birthday at me nome OF
n,
was So years old day Both ladies' are as
spry 10 any maiden OF Is years. ana trot ABOUT
their town on foot DO their 0wp ON
evening In good style A..
still more wonderful old lady perhaps inc
Oldest woman In Connecticut is Mrs. Marcia
Beers Of Cheshire. who Is lQ2 years OLD. she
il still brisk and vigorous body. does hGuSe-
hold chores, and sews and knits beautifully.
She can make q spinning VIII eel reel OH merrier
music than any piano turn1e out yarn t. tRat
ia fOnrtpen times the
OF tum- IT, tum. tum Strauss waltZes and such
fashionable things Mrs Beer r. memory h1o Is as as
the childhood days Of the, American republic.
She loves to talk. and recites Yards OF poetry ,p
classes and in q steady hand she writes her
no friends od fho"sh
Time has written great many OF his odd
little scrawls on her face; A.,
haTen. S Who celebraed her 10th birthday the
Ss sb iEfRnT WIZ Ry Fw l' 6eP
Each child came with bouquet for Mrs. Shell
don and she gave them boxes OF sTee Inas
Visitor to the Elm City Orphan Asylum.
At Rockville there are great many aged
nounced that nearly all OF them Use tobacco In
some way. Hence he publicly asks: Does the
use Of tobacco tend. to promote longevity aud
Though Time has dealt tenderly with the
corps OF old folks IN ConnrGtlcut; stu many any
living In the past ten days. Not few OF them
were notable, citizens.o o, Lyman Smith Of Mas
fly renowned for the longevity of its members.
One brother. famous Marvin Smith OF Allyn's
Point died not long ago aged lO5 Or og years.
ness, and Lyman was in superb health until
day, or two before his death. Another brother;
Alvin OF Montvi Q. survives aged VI years. and
he is in perfect health.
Miss Alicia Reed died at Cornwall, 90, years
1 member Of the Msthodist CHURCH in that VII
lags, and attended every meeting on the Pine
Grove camp ground until 1851 When h ehe was sRs
Lucy Foster. Who died In Moriden, aged Of
Py b0Fy Of to oW Sory Sns cRe ei
her Aunt Lucy. She was rather eccentric re-
NAMED almost continuously 1n In her Eoom h With
Mrs. Maria Newcomb who died aged SO years.
was ono, of the Oldest residents OF billy Toll
days of her death. She was woman OF rare
ability; dwelt alone and alyays took took, care q
Judgment, and marked discretion.
William Crpmb; who died at the age Of 81
the best and ySeit 6n G9GR e Of
1T was an odd concide9e9e that MnGtt
Thompson. aged 81 NenrS and % days, and his
WIFE, 50 year. months and Is days. died at
almost exactly the same hour in New Haven.
s o de4 Of bo%e Il WR R9 en' Rs
death notice In each case reached the town
registrar OF vital statistics at almost the same
moment.
cox. aged 50 wears, Of Westileld. While tho
rest q ,her. family were at church she strolled
out Of tho house. across the fields to the ON
bankment OF small pond nifty rods away. 1t
Is supposed she slipped on tho smooth steep
turl. She fell into the pond ana was drowned
Horny Brown Of Mansfield Centre, who died
r. that village aged Y years and 3 months. T E
been fine all his life until a low weeks ago.
The Rev. James W. Eaton, who died at Stat
ford recently, ~ years old. bad preached Wes;
leyan Methodism for nearly sixty years. and
dwelt on stafford street for tho past thirty
seven years.
Another remarkable clergyman is the Rev.
+; ID. Avery. who next Wednesday will CONF
plete MS iortieth year n pastor OF the church
In the old back country town OF Columbia.
There will lie lublic celebration that day in
the church in ionor%, his long labor, and the
veteran preacher will roview his forty years.
work. Services will begin at II A. NJ. there
VIII he COLLATION. 1t noon III the chapel. and in
tho afternoon long prOGra , me o. exercises.
Slergymen IRON din"rcnt parts of the State
Nill attend Deacon William 4. Collins and
9osenh liutCpins and l,dmund r. Lyman OF
ton will sing " Will lift W mine eyes.