The Newtown bee., 1890-10-24
EASTON.
MRS JUsTUs SHERWOOD.

Expressions of pity and sorrow are heard on all sides at the death, by hang ing, of Mrs Sherwood, Monday, 18th, 60 ] years of age. For about four years, she had had symptoms of insanity and, about three years ago, she spent nearly year in the Middletown asylum. Since her return, little fear was felt by her family of serious results and the only noticeable change was her quiet, almost melancholy manner, so different from her usual cheery, yivaeious habit. Busted about her housework, Monday, she seemed in better spirits than usual and father and sons were mortified, when she was miss ed, to find her hanging in the front hall, dead. Medical Examiner F. B. Downs of Bridgeport was notified and held an inquest Tuesday morning.
 The funeral, Wednesday at l at the house, was well attended, Rev Mir Weeks of the Baptist church officiating and his words were peculiarly appropriate. The burial was at the cemetery near the Bap- tist church Eber Gould, Benjamin Beers, Amos Candee, George Sherwood bearers. The grief stricken relatives, her husband, daughter, Mrs Frank Sherwood, two sons, Daniel and Justus, have the sym pathy of a wide circle of acquaintances. Mrs Sherwood was once Eliza Schuyler of Little Falls, N. Y., and two sisters came to attend the funeral; other broth- CTS and sisters reside there, Mrs Sher- wood belonging to a large family. Twice married, Mrs Frank Sherwood and q son Schuyler, who died some years since, were children by her first husband, Mir Sweet of New York State; Daniel and Justus were the only children by Mir Sherwood. A woman of more than or dinary refinement, she will be missed by many outside her own family circle.
 George J. Banks and Bennett Seeley, registrars of voters, were in session at the town clerks office, Thursday, l6th, from m until 5 p m, to perfect the list of electors in the town, and receive the names of those 'to be made." The pre- liminary list embraces 245 voters and the list to be made 2S applicants.
 About 15 men are employed at the res ervoir dam, where the l00-foot overflow is to be raised three feet and the main dam banked several feet higher it's entire length to hold the added volume of wa ter.
 Ellis Wheeler and family spent few days in New York, last week.
 Mrs Albert Van Vert spends few days with relatives in Bridgeport.
 c. J. Hughes of Bridgeport recently set headstones, one of polished gray mar ble and the other pure white, in the Bap- tist cemetery to the memory of Monson O. Banks and George W. Gray, father and first husband of Mrs Levi French. The suit brought by George McDer- mott against Ellsworth Andrews for damages to McDermott's road cart was decided by Justice J. A. Treadwell in ia vor of Mir Andrews.
 The death of aged Nancy Coley, whose maiden name was Burr, not Beers, recalls the old slavery days in Connecticut. Her husband, universally known as Cast steel'' Nichols, was the property of an- cestors of Col A. E. T. Nichols of Green field Hill and got his name from cast iron constitution and the family name of his owners. The old lady was daughter of slave owned by Tim Burr's family in slave days, but says she was never in bondage. Col Nichols has taken an act jed number of her children and un- doubtedly would have borne the expense of her burial, had not his absence from home prevented. Never provident wo. man, this old negress and her second husband often travelled about the coun- try begging. Before the death of her first husband, she was jailed at Danbury and sent to Wethersfield three years for cohabiting with James Coley, her second husband, to whom she was married after the death of Nichols. Coley was sup ported by the town of Westport, his ma. tive place and is spoken of as an ingen. 1 ious old man who might have cared fol himself if he had energy. A redeemine 1 trait in the old mans character was the kindness he showed his wife.
 Mrs Eldridge Wheeler, daughter anG { son are guests of Mrs Daniel Edwards.
 Perkins French has bought 10 young cattle of Wheeler, Candee and Clark, the Monroe dealers.
 Mrs M. J. Hine, who has been witt her sister, Mrs P. B. Parmelee, has re turned to Bridgeport.