The Newtown bee., 1893-02-17

and sent back to the world from which they had professed to come out.
 One Abolitionist living near the Wood bury line was granted letter ''in good and regular standing," to the North church in that place. Two prominent members of the church, both belonging to each political party, after the eXcom- munication process had begun, called up- on MT Garfield and
 URG ENTLY REQUESTED HIM
 to ask for a letter of dismission to the North church of WoOdbury. Said he, with that emphatic decision of his, "I shall never go to Woodbury to church To ask for letter there, will be all a sham. No, I shall not do it You must go on as you have begun"
 They did, and MT Canfield was the last "blackened trunk of a disfellowshipped Abolitionist" to be laid in the grave.
 Even after Lincoln's proclamation of from every slave, the church voted by a small majority not to ask or allow the offending members" to come back, except on confession that they alone were in the wrong. And now all are gone. It has been very difficult to answer the cynic's question, why men fit for membership in Woodbury were
 TOO GOOD FOR WASHINGTON
 and could not be retained.
 He was one of the first to join the Liberty party'' and his house was sta tion on the underground railroad" lead ing to Canada. It was while living here that his only child, Miss May, was born to him. By industry and frugality he prospered in his daily y toll, and in Octo- Der, 1850, he sold out to Mir and Mrs F. W. Gum, who started the famous insti- tuition from the little house he left until it's present capacious dimensions, and went on to the Judge Brinsmade farm, half mile east, where he lived and died.
 As a farmer he was thorough and methodical and took great delight in fat tening large steers and oxen. In raising crops he was not satisfied with anything less than the best. His tobacco bed must be started as soon as the ground would permit, and plants set at the earliest mo- ment.
 THE NEIGHBORING FARMERS
 thought themselves all right when they could say, My tobacco is as forward as Uncle Lew's."
 His character, like his features, was rugged and uncomprisiDg when in re. pose, but on call would light up with the sweetest affection, beam with mirth, soften with sorrow, or flash with indig- nation at duplicity, ,meanness and wrong. Yes and no were two invariable quanti- ties with him. He never tried, like the politicians, to split the difference between them. If he saw a truth he went straight to the front door of it. He was very strong in his attachment to home and friends and
 NEVER RODE ON ANY RAILROAD excepting the underground" Mrs Can field died some 15 years ago and his de clining years were cheered and sustain ed by his daughter with the deepest sym pathy and fflial affection. A large con- course of friends and neighbors attended the funeral and deposited his remains in the old cemetery little distance east of the house. He had expended good deal ing in repair the burial place of his an- cestors. Thus has passed away an orig inal, strong character, whose probity is a rich legacy to his fellow citizens. ANOTHER ESTIMATE OF MIR CANFIELD.
 Lewis A. Canfield, the oldest man in town, died Thursday, February 9, at the age of S4. He was carpenter by trade and by hard work and frugality had gain ed competenc.'. Of late years his at tention has been given to the manage ment of his farm and in this he was very successful. His beef was always prime, his oxen especially being marvels of fat ness that never failed to delight the eye of butcher. He was also motel as the grower of some of the finest tobacco pro- duced in this section of the state. It was said that such close attention did he give his tobacco crop, that he could call each plant by name and at the close of the harvest, could estimate almost to pound how much weight there would be. That he was good man to work for, is evinc- ed by the fact that one man was in his employ continuously for IA years. Mir Garfield for some years owned and lived in the house which afterwards became the home of the late Frederick w. Gum, of the famous aGunnery school" His wife wasea sister of MT Gum. More tn 40 years ago, MT Canfield purchas- ed the place where he has since lived, about one mile east of the village, on hill which commands fine view of the country. This place was once the home of Judge Daniel Brins-