The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1891-10-15

young days aud occasionally So al
frirud- Ia Canaan.
| } In lived atGut hall ~ down ia.
iang bill east Of lIa-heu'= G9ruer On
If h sons, Randall was ..n2ef. had q
! iiae tenor voice, and KEEP -Insiag reH9yI-
as well Al district schools
Thomas, deacon Tom married 6Iiye
daughter Of Col. John Moor tqey had D.
/ children, several Of whom died young
do not think II was large family that
survived 10 manhood aud %omBuh5a3 /
know Of only two girls, ih9ugh -one may
rave ina ri and gone our Of town. On.
daughter ~a> parslyz.d aua helple s fur
several years. There were tBfee of four
sons Capt. Asa was not only good oil
Ger, but very agreeable gentleman, VINO
died much regre ted only few yesr5 az
Ter his marriage. Cynthia, the younge !,
was married TO Constantine White.
Wi Lam Steward, br ither OF phneas
gave Widow Eunice Weston receipt fjr
small sum in l77G; haw long he had
| lived in Canaan before that Is not In lwn
He lived on the place on the middle road
where his son Elder jonathan lived -
many years. His name is connected with
the religious history Of the town from tho
very beginning. He was one Of the sign
ers of Dir. Whitaker's Remembrance wiki
regard to taxation, published in the RI
PORTER few years ago. Il i not known
If he Jinei Mr.. Calebs CONGREGATIONAL
church or not, as some Of the old mem
pers did not but he and his wife Ejiza-
beth were members of the church re.or-
gan'zed In 1901 and he was one of the
arst descons. used to see him with his
wife behind him on his pacing horse, go
ng TO the old meeting house sundays !;
aud on communion days she would hsv+
the bread tied up in large homemade,
olalded linen handkerchief. He had u
| liree orchard In bearing quite early, and
| mad cider mill in the orchard with no
roof over it. The date of his decease is
not known to me- but think it was afte;
NJ. Holt became pastor Of the church in
1914.
William Jr., Doctor Bill, was self
taught doctor who devised several medi
cinal compounds among which his "Prec
ious Ointment, or Three times Three"
was the most esteemed. This is the for
mula ilrst, lard, mutton tall1w and fresh
butter; second, burgundy pitch, rosin and
hemlock gum third, loaf sugar, mollasses
aud honey. He travelled in hight wagon
selling his medicines, chiefly in western
New York, and was gone several years
tie published a medical work shout a.
large as an old time Sunday School q les
ton book. BY some accident he was
)adly crippled, and when he returned hsd
some ingenious contrlvances in his car
riage to ease his crippled limbs. lie lived
TO quite an advanced age, and died in
Madison (;) His wife's maiden name
vas Hood; she had four or five children
Jonathan, Elder Jonathan, q Baptist
preacher, was well known for msny years
His first wife was Jewett and he lived
at first in house between Mqxie Jewetts,
and the Coburn road. Here his wife was
killed by lightning, the only casualty of
hat kind that recOllect to have heard
n all the region round about there. |
an not certain but think she had ore
son, David, the father of d ID, Stewart
Esq. of st. Adams. He had a second
wife and some children. Mary, | am
.old, who married and went cut of town ,
do not recolect her but knew very wei
.wo sons, James and Stephen who died
bout two years ago at Skowhegan vii
age.
Elder Jonathan was too Young when he
left Mass. to get much education there,
and too old when schools were establish
d in Cansan to remedy the deficiency
lis pronunciation was anfiqua'e aud nj
lyle not after the model Of Addison. II,
preached sometimes in the old Baptist
Meeting house, but more frequently at
Iaskell's Corner and other places where
mere was no regular service. He was
lot dull, but an easy and fluent speaker.
1t is said he lived to old age | know not
he date of his death.
Deacon VIM. Steward had two daugh-
ers Susan who married Joseph Cleave-
,nd; and Abigail married to - Pouler.
She had three sons AMI daughter, Mary
wife of Daniel lIerr;a with whom she
lived in her old age.
EBEN WESTON.
14non CitV C,lD