The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1891-09-10

j rest Of The iuiidDg az tavern. Bu-H
uess was Cone alml ent rely On cred.
i lime, were hard after tie M u IL
collections were dIliiculf afler ~
/ fells he Wa. not attic 10 me- H. I'D "a
/ tins, aud his Boston cr.daHr. @ .eed
4 nm out. He retained tie t.veru. CON
p olni-ed with creditors. aud u fs,' g. -
could make eli CT n .etsltd taelr
claims. lie wa q c',d Cal5Ael When ~
"as only Adjutsut, wfh5u1 p4,-.ug
Trough the lower gr4d' He inarne1 .
laughter Of Jonas Pa lln Who lived on las
tArm next above the Stephen We,.9u
paee. Both he and h!- " f. died Drf5ie
Il achi"g middle age Inc oldest -sa
John went to Bangor as q k in d ltJra.
9ut WIS cashier 10 a bank for mary years
4 younger sou, Gnstavu- followed him
mere | believe, aud the d4u shter marri,d
aud lived at kendsll's Mil; ami 80 at
q her family all passed away from thu
own
Maj n Asa aud Col. J1la were demo
crais; none Of the other brothers were |
| 9elirve.
Sth Jr.. married Lucinda HeywpJd
Who died in ISIS ut the az u ~ II
after wards had u second aud third f.
aai reared a large family Hal good
farm, but did some joDs OF stone wJrk.
lie must have prospered greatly to get
such good buildings as he did 81 ga Is IN
Il c, the buildings, | am told, which were
burned few weeks ago He was Cap
tain of the Cavalry Company, AMI ike Ms
brothers, male fac Appearance a, al
ollicer
Abraham was also a Captain and then
Msjpr of Cavalry. He married Bctsey
| ileywooi, younger sister OF Lucinda.
The father, Peter Haywood, decided his
farm 10 him in consideration of his care
and support Of the "old folks;' a task
hich he performed faithfully and to thu
abstraction Of all parties. He was n
very agreeable man in his family as | can
testify, having been a neighbor M any
ye ,rs, and his wife was of a like pleasant
disposition. But before closing the bar
gain, Uncle Peter who was something Of
an oddly put his proposed son-iu-law TO
test; he took him out to his corn field
and said to him "some men think this is
planted too close together. Others say il is
too wide apart, now Whist do YOU think
about W. After looking carefully the
answer came Il think it is as near rjghi
as it could be THAT is just my mind
says Uncle Peter AID turned s,rsigh
back to the house, convinced that man
whose judgement agreed SO well with hts
own, wouli he safe man to entru't with
his daughter, his farm, and the comfort
OF his lie.
Mr.. WYman did many profitable ] lb@ Of
stone work. He bujI.a jail in OXford
County, and one in New Brunswick. st.
Stephens | think. lie was one Of the re
lertmtn of Bloomfield several years lie
aud his brother John were Free Masous.
Il jah built his house in the I'll of
1910 IN the George BigeloW lie ghDu4 mood
on the beginning of the ascent towards
the Fairfield liGe. lie was then rtc.Ltk
married | thiuk TO a Miss Bicknel OF
Newport. H.. was a srnng. active man,
noted as a wrester; he wa not easily
matched. | kpow little Of his family;
see the name Eli }h Is continued thcre,
d scendsut If hi suppose. one of his
sons WAS II minister | am told.
Levi was more desirous OF II good ed
ncstion than any of the others. He with
my brother Stephen, attended the Non.
mouth Academy one term; he was the on
ly one Of the family wno ever taught
school, and he was strict in discipline.
He was sl>o s.one cutter. H. msrlied
Sophia Walker who died alter Civ NJ
birth TO one son, II. then married Fame
Ia Benson Of Mercer, who had no chiid
rem He WAS Lieutenant in tire LII .ht In
fantry company believe at the time of
mis- d ath, Of fever, when he was c1m.
parativelJ young man.
the son Augustus went TO Galeua, H..
when he became Of age, strulliug out
with som" companions one Sunday he ale
root fescmpl ng parsnip which they
found it was the poison hemlcck, Il rank
poison from which he died. Thus one
other branch of the Wymau family be
came extinct
el hen v0urg man went to west
ern Jew York, lived IN Pa.m9ra some
years, and then novel farther w,st but
not out of the state. He came haok on a
sis ono with his wife, n tn appeirn :
in e!iig.ut woman. He acquired hand
some property.
Joseph, Deacon of thu CONGREGATIONAL
church, was a man worthy that honorable
clllce. He married Polly. daughter o.
between the Snow pltc. aud the Fditheli
line. They had ten children; how many
of them remained 10 town. aud how many
scatt, red away is unknown to me. What
was remarked OF MsjDr AbrahAm's nat
ural disposition | thiuk j. true Of the
in thought and action. they were not u
fretful, irritable race
Berjamin had the home farm snd lived
with his father, or his fat er with him
He married Miss Reed his step mothers
daus liter, who got Il divorce from HIM
aud married again in Lowell. By bad
management he got d-elly ia debt, and
some time after his fathers death, sold
the farm to Deacon James Cleveland. He
then lived st the village. and | believe
built house near the end OF the present
rail road track He was sometimes a
Washingtonian, sometimes no. He hal
no ION to perpeluate the name; his one
Nhthan' son OF the secohu wire went
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