The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-01-28

long life of SS years in this parish and was the last of her generation of fam fly name known here since the first settlement of the town.
 She was born Feb. 9th, 1910, CW1n with Lury) in the Samuel w. Starks, house built by her father, Ara Loomis, in 1900, and his home until his death Sept. 10th, 1S44, aged 77 years.
 MT. Loomis brother, Dea Lorrain Loomis, lived in the next house, now owned by Dan Murray, and he built on the newer part of the house soon after 1910. It was finished in the best style of the times and the walls of two of the rooms were ornamented with delicate stencil work, which still remains, simi- lar in effect to modern frescoing. l Dea. Loomis, at his own expense, put | the first stove in the Winchester meet | ing house about 1925. He died in 1857, | aged 99 1-2 years. He joined the Win chester church Feb. 10th, 17S5, as did also Abigail Rainsford, who became his | wife in 1789. She was a relative of Rev. Joshua Knapp, the first minister of the town.
 Another brother, Wait Loomis, lived a little farther east, at the fork of the | en down some years ago. He served in the Revolutionary army when only | fourteen or fifteen years of age. He married Sally Stone and lived to be S3 l years old.
 The school register of Marcus Munsll, who taught in Sucker Brook district in 1919, give eight Loomises and four Mur- rays among his pupils, along with the l ma pp A n1r T2,~oo Cna | Goodwin, Hart, Hurlbut, Pinney and others.
 Miss Loomis had two uncles besides Wait, who were Revolutionary soldiers, and one of them, Remembrance died while held a prisoner, by the British. Her grandfather, Capt. Epaphras Loomis of Torrington, was in command of one of the companies ordered in June, 1776, to be "raised' and marched direct ly to New York and their join the Con- | tinental army
 Her grandmother, the wife of Capt. Loomis, was Mary Hills, whose brother, Col Medad Hills, made muskets in Goshen for the Revolutionary army under contract with the government.
 Miss Loomis was an own cousin on her fathers side of Dr. Erastus Ban croft for 50 years the prominent physi- elan in Torrington, as well as of Chester Bancroft, who died in Winsted in 1882, aged 90 years, after about 20 years of to- tai blindness.
 Ara Loomis married Margaret Loomis and on her mothers side Miss Loomis was connected with Alanson Loomis, who removed from Winsted to Fulton, N. ", before 1850, with Mrs. Loranda Loomis who died on Spencer street,
 Winsted, in 1855, and with the family of Dea Benjamin Benedict of Winches- ter, whose daughter, Wealthy, married
 Dea. Ithuel Blake and removed to Gov entry, New York.
 She was also relative of Mrs. Loring
 S. Williams (Matilda Loomis,) for more
 than twenty years a missionary among
 the Choctaw Indians, dying in 1S44, and of Hon. Arphaxed Loomis of Little
 Falls New York, surrogate of Herkim-
 CT Go. for eight years and member of Congress for two years. These relatives were all natives of this town.
 Ara Loonis and his wife were highly 1 respected in the community and the
 family was one of much natural refine
 ment. They were godly people, and the Sucker Brook neighborhood sunrise
 prayer meeting was often held at their
 house.
 October 3, 1916, in the old meeting house, Rev. Frederick Marsh baptized their six daughters, Mary Abigail Ruby Harriet and the twins, Lucy and Mury. Ruby died young lady. The
 others became kind hearted, sensible Christian women and nothing but | good could be said of them Mary mar ried Dea. Clark Swift of Warren. Abi- , gail married Horace Barber of Harwin- ton, Harriet married George Raymond
 living until her death upon her fathers . homestead, and Mury married Nelson Brooks and died in 1Ses Miss Loomis . always lived with Mrs Brooks hay
 ing her share of the care and the work of the family, and receiving a consider ation and appreciation not ofter
 given.
 As old age came on she had been ten. derly cared for in the home, by hel = nieces, Mrs. Lucy A. Tibbals and Mrs
 Ellen Miller and at last was gathered l home as a shock of corn fully ripe. Or
 Sunday, while the family was'at church t and only MT Tibbals with her, the sum l mons came, the heart stopped beating
 and life was over.
 |. Miss Loomis life was quiet one l mostly spent at her home which she s seldom left except to go to meeting
 Her work was thoroughly done and 9
 life long friend says "She was the bes
 tempered person I ever knew" Wt doubt not she has received from hel , Lord and Master, the welcome, "Wel
 done, good and faithful servant" ! She was never on the cars, never ou , of the state of Connecticut, but hel , whole S8 years seem to have been con
 tented, peaceful and happy ones
 Miss Loomis was a link connecting
 the present with the past
 In her early life there were no stoves
 The great fire places were used for heat !. ing and cooking and the huge bricl oven was heated three times in twt weeks to bake the rye and Indial ? bread, pies with rye crust and rye gin
 gerbread, sweetened with maple molas g ses, all products of the home farm [ Every girl learned to milk, to make but 3 ter and cheese, and soap and candles, t. l sew and to knit and spin. In Mis- 9 Loomis' fathers house, weaving wa l done for the family and for others; ant until recently she could readily tell pat
 terns-Nelsons Wales, Nine Snov
 Balls, Double Huck-a-buck, &c.,, il
 which the linen table cloths and tn II blue and white blankets were woven