The Newtown bee., 1892-04-08
TRUMBULL.

The following inscriptions are on gravestones in the Long Hill cemetery, Trumbull:
 'Tn memory of David Beardsley, who died May II, 1902, in his 74th year.-And of Mary, his wife, who died February 20, 1922, in her 97th year."
 These were my great grandparents. David Beardsley here mentioned, was son of Benjamin, son of Daniel, son of Samuel, son of William, the first of the name in Stratford. His father Benjamin is said to have settled at Chestnut Hill, at the four corners, east of the school house.
 The writer wants to know the maiden name of Mary, wife of David Beardsley and whose daughter she was.
 David and Mary had sons: Thaddeus, Lemuel, James (my grandfather), David and Stephen. Grandfather's daughter Hepsibah married in Trumbull, June IS, 1926, Abiiah Wheeler, father of the writ CT.
 My grandfather, Maj James, was in early life carpenter, having journey men, perhaps apprentices, at work for him, carrying on quite an extensive bus mess. He was a private soldier in the Revolution and, until the Spring of 1926, resided in Chestnut Hill, when he remov- ed to White Plains district or Trumbull Center, occupying the small house that stood upon the bank nearly opposite the present residence of his grandson, Will liam Summers Wheeler.
 Grandfather's wife was Ruth, daugh- ter of David Summers and Mary Mallett and one of 16 or 17 children. Her par ents were buried in Long Hill cemetery, and the following inscriptions are on their tombstones:
 ''In memory of MT David Summers, who died, February 2S, ISIS, in the Seth year of his age.'
 ''In Memory of Mary Summers, wife of Mir David Summers, who died October 17, 1901, in the G2d year of her age.''
 The parents of David Summers were buried in the ''Unity Graveyard, lit tie east of the lower end of White Plains street, with the following inscriptions:
 ''Here Ives Buried the Body of MT David Summers, who departed this life Jan'ry ye 28, lzGl, in ye 59th Year of His Age"
 "Here Ives the Body of Mrs Abiah Summers, wife to Mir David Summers, who died December 5, -1737, aged B years.'
 The inscriptions on my grandparents gravestones in Long Hill cemetery read thus:
 ''In memory of James Beardslee, who died June 6, lS43, in the Seth year of his age"
 "Ruth, wife of James Beardslee, Died Feb. 7, 1860, 4E. 93.''
 She was born February 13, l7G9; had children: Hepsibah (my mother), Ed win, Mary Esther, James Madison and David Summers.
 Edwin died March 4, 1916, aged 4G.
 Mary E., May II, 1S43, aged 37
 J. Madison, July 3, 1877, in his roth year.
 Hepsibah, June ,, 1881, aged S6.
 Dr David Summers Beardsley is still living, with his wife, Laura Farnham Carr, at Pultneyville, Wayne county, N. '.
 Hepsibah was born November P, 1897.
 James Madison, November 24, 1907.
 David Summers, April 8, lS1O
 The dates of my grandfathers birth and those of Edwin and Mary are un- known to the writer.
 My great great grandfather, David Summers, was the son of Samuel, son of Henry, who settled in Pequonnock.- [James Beardsley Wheeler, Huntington, April ,, 1892.
 Edward Ward is deputy game warden.
 Woolsey B. Sterling has just complet- ed several hundred feet of new fence.
 The wide awake farmers in this vicini- ty are pushing Spring work along as fast as possible.
 E. Thompson of the Park City killed several snakes while out in the fields, Sunday. They had evidently emerged from their Winter quarters to take an in terest in Bridgeport's election.