The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1897-09-10
DISTRICT NO. y, NEwBURY.

THE EASTMAN FAMILY REUNION.
The social event of the season took
place from the. home of Mr.. and Mrs j.
". Eastman on Wednesday, Sept. lst
1t Will be remembered by very many of
the readers OF this paper that the above
named place was formerly the home of
Isaac Eastman, who was born in New
buryport, Mass, in 1912. He came to this
town with his parents in 1925, and settled
in school district No IL, on the farm of
the late Davis Cheney, where he remain
ed Tor three years, at which time he re-
moved to what is known as the G. B.
FISK farm. At the age of % he married
Miss Sophronia Smith! He settled on the
farm now owned by Anthony Hood,
where he soon made clearing and built
a log cabin and was very soon ready for
housekeeping. He felled the timber,
cleared helds, sowed wheat and planted
corn, from which he harvested abundant
crops. He next moved to the place ia
military known as the lime kilns in dis
trict No. II. Here they had born to them
eight children, five girls and three boys,
all of whom grew to maturity.
Mr.. Eastman was of genuine New Eng
land type, hardy, energetic and indus
trious. AS citizen he was highly re-
specled and a good neighbor He took
deep interest educating his children, not
only in the common schools but provided
for their. pursuing academic studies. Six
of the eight children became successful
teachers. Emily r., the oldest daughter,
was a member of the class of 1857 at the
Newbury Seminary and Female College
Institute. Before taking her degrees she
married, and with her husband and oldest
brother, Newell b. a t once embarked
for San Francisco, California. Her stay
i'll this city has been forty years, and very
recently she has returned to her native
land to be greeted by her aged father and
mother. brothers, sisters and a host of
warm hearted friends.
The guests began to arrive at an early
hour and the most agreeable converse at
once entered into. "reminiscences of
other years were not wanting. At about
p. m. most bountiful dinner was SER
we'd. Seated around this table might
have been seen some thirty relatives rep
resenting fuor generations. Those from
out of town were, Rev. S. l.. Eastman, A.
NJ, of Iowa and o. d. Eastman, NJ. D., of
Woodsville, n. HI.
choice edlbles of the land, ramble was
proposed and enjoyed by all who were of
suitable age. The fields, brooks and
ponds were revisited after an absence of
forty years. She might have been heard
to say, Eye crags and peaks. I'm with
you once again, cry to you as though |
would embrace YOU The golden gate of
CALIFORNIA dlOEuS ulb IIlOSU lovely SCENE
ry in America but to Miss Eastman no
land can ever compare to the land of her
birth. True, it is a land of rocks, land
of storms and of tempests, but it is her
own native land. Her heart turns to it
as unfailing devotion.
The particular place in this loved land
where she first drew her breath, the fields
and woods, the old brook and meadow,
the ponds and the orchard that first greet
ed her infant sight-why, they are all as
dear to her as the face OF old familiar
friends. And above all she freely spoke
of the old house, the home of her child
hood, her fathers home, endeared to her
by so many tender associations and fond
Oh how could she ever
fail to love them. The party broke at an
early hour, and the guests wended their
way homeward well pleased with the OPP
portunity of becoming better acquainted.
Maud Whitcher is attending the town
central school at Newbury.
Miss Eunice A. Fisk returned on Mon
day last to enter her third year i'll the
Wells River high school.
The new barn of j. w. Whitcher is
nearly completed and when finished will
be one of the best in this part of the
town.
Eunice Fisk visited relatives last week
IN Barnet, ST. Johnsbury and Lyndon.