The Somerset reporter., 1892-04-07

from and at what date il unknown - NJ
He probably took up the land com.
In the well known Pickard aud Ms&I-
Jewett fsrma la his Old are he llgai
with his sou Pickard and reached ueafIy
81 years.
One daughter as before stated, married
James Webb, and one married Gto-2.
Noyes who lived ON he East end Of tHe
Picksrd Jeweit farm. The house ~as
taken down or removed many years ago
He removed to the eastern part Of the
state | believe there was another dsugh-
ter who married q Goodridge and lived in
Bingham There were four slns
Joseph Jewett was the father Of Make
Tho died SIX or eight years ago, and lived
on the Make Jewett farm. His wife VA
susanna Adams In 1911 there was an
epidemic Of ii fever, win hich she diel
Feb. 9Th, and be followed the first day oil
March Their four children, all yet child
rem in age, were taken by their unc
| plckard into his family, and he as Admin
istrator and Guardian managed the farm,
aud when they became of age be made
settlement that was perfectly satisfactory
to all. In winter these children with his
own made q good pung load to the oil
school.h house on the corner near the uncle
Seth Wyman place, and when they were
all unoaded, the old white mare WAS
headed for home and sent off without h
driver.
The oldest daughter Czarina married
| Cook who built the house where Captain
Joseph Patten after wards lived, the house
that DR., Bowen said looked like dog sit
ting down on MS tail.
Mr. Cook died bus year or two after
marriage, and his widow married some
one who removed to Houlton | think.
Hannah married James Steward and Mi.
rands, Isaac, sons of uncle Sol Make
married Miss Tinkham whose father liy
ed near the Jewett place but on the oth'r
side Of the road. He moved to Mass, 81
Make had to go there for her.
Packard Jewett married Anna Wyman
who was the mother of five children, and
lived to good old age. At the age of
81 he took second wife, Miss b Xoy
who had been his houseBeeper for some
time. He WAS able to manage his farm
with her assistance till Lis death at the
age Of Sc He was good farmer and
raised good crops, one of which is worthy
OF mention. He raised GOO bushels of
potatoes on an acre, of the variety called
Long Red or Meriuo. 1t was on newly
br )ken pasture land near the barn, which
the cattle had manured abundanily while
waiting to be let into the barn yard
1t is singular, might say unaccounta-
bic, that all his children should die with
consumption. Though not apparently
robust man, being only of medium q
and rather lean, few men were able to do
more work on farm than he and the
Wlmans were well known as strong
| h.o al lu oh trap MT
pampered neither were they pinched ;they
lived well but not luxurlously they were
comfortably clad according to the season,
and suffered no Injurious pNvatons
brought up to industry but not overtask
ed. Relatives who knew the grandpsr.
en,s never heard of any hereditary con
sumtlon II there WAS any, 1t was in
more remote ancestry.
/ The first victim WAS John, the young
est except one. He had been in trace
with his cousin Theodore wyman in Sc
bee. He decided to go south for the
winter, and obtained letters of introduce
ton from me TO several persons in Angus
la, Georgia. But he got no further than
New Jersey where Benz amin Weston Jr.
was then living. | suppose he was not
much if any over twenty tive. The next
WAS Mary, the Oldest, wife of Col. James
White of Newport. | suppose she may
hav been thirty five.
Then followed Col Moses who married
Caroline l. Neil; he left three chldr, n.
Fanny wife OF DIR. William b Snow fol.
lowed, but | am not able TO guess her
age or the number of her children. The
last TO yield was Anna, the youngest SEC
ond wife of Benjam Weston Jr. While
her two sisters were fresh and rosy, she
was always pale and thin, and yet her
life was the longest OF any, reaching ii Is
said medium old age.
So far as ! know none Of uncle Pick
ards grand children were consumptive,
though perhaps Mary's daughter and only
child was an exception, dying think be
fore she was twenty five. do not know
The cause OF her death.
Joshua Jewett married mn Adams sis
ter of his brother Josephs wife. He lived
in the house nearest to the village of the
cottages on the other side of the road
from Albert Leighton's farm. The lot
contain d fifteen or twenty acres of the
Hight farm. Perhaps the house now
standing there is a new one; If 1t is the
old one ii must be nearly a hundred years
old. Mr.. Jewett was a )iner by trade,
aud pretty good workman. Soon after
the war with England he went to the
proyencas engaged in lnmhering -and
had extensive dealings with the Cunard
Company. He claimed that they cheated
him out Of large amount that was justly
due him. He returned to Maine and made
his case appear so Just that several men
in Bloomfield and Nurridgewock advanced
MIN money to enable him to carry on
suit in the New Brunswick courts. He
never recovered ANYTHING and his friends
lost their money. ! believe both he AID
his wife died before reaching old age.
His children, Bryce, Alexander, and two
or three girls, moved to Buda or near
there, not far from Joseph We bis
Samuel Jewett married daughter OF
uncle Sol. Steward and lived in liartland
or that vicinity. have no further know
ledge Of him or his family.
This completes the number Of MsXi.
milan Jewett's children.