Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1898-12-22

yond the north line OF Chelsea. Later hi
! father lived in Chelsea village at what II
now the Dudley Cabot place, and A. W
| Whitney, who as q boy was living In .
house upon the opposite side OF the road
recalls AIonzo Noyes as playmate OF hi
early childhood. - The father was then en-
gagged in driving freight team between
| Burlington and Boston but soon after re-
moved to the Mclaughlin farm where
Rufus Brown DOW lives near Washington
| line; and there the father died when Alon.
20 Noyes was but nine years old. He was
| the fifth of nine children, seven sons and
two daughters, and at his fathers death
went to live in the family OF Edward b.
Stanley, who was then living on the farm
now owned by Alfred @. Underhill. Here
he became youth, but when seventeen
years old he bought out and ran the stage
line from Chelsea to Montpelier. Later he
was employed driving an omnibus in Rox-
bury, Mass, and soon sitter in Boston in
the same work on the HathorDe Omnibus
line. Afterwards be was employed by Mr..
Coleman and when horse cars supplanted
the omnibus, he changed his occupation
and drove the first horse car ever run on
Washington street In Boston, which was
in the year 1856. During the war in 1862
he returned Co Chelsea and bought a half
interest in the livery business OF Josiah 5.
Patterson, which, however, be retained
less than two years and in 1864 bought OF
Chester Sanborn the freight route from
Chelsea to South Royalton. This business
Mr.. Noyes pursued up To the time OF his
death, having large patronage in Chelsea
and the adjoining town of Tunbridge, de.
livering and receiving freight at South
Royalton depot on the Central Vermont
railroad for merchants and others who
lived along his route. Always very ae'
commodating man, genial and affabie In
social intercourse, bright and witty In
conversation, Mr.. Noyes acquired large
range OF acquaintance in his own and adj
joining counties. In no sense an office
seeker, he was always intensely interested
in public affairs aud, lifelong Republi
can, was devoted to bis party as to all the
duties OF citizenship He was Tor ONE
years collector OF taxes and except a sim
gle year, since 1881, had been elected first
constable OF Che,sea. At his death he was
serving his second term as county COM
missioner. In these positions, as in his
daily cupation, he obtained large per-
sonal acquaintance, which he readily re-
tanned. being always good company, easy
to meet and greet. He had tenacious
memory, well stored with the events OF his
busy life, and was, withal, great reader.
His bright mind and ready wit we're con-
slant source of entertainment among his
numerous acquaintances, by whom he will
be long remembered and sincerely
mourned. Mr. Noyes was married in 1853
to Mrs. Emeline Snow Brooks, who now
survives him after nearly forty years OF
welded life. Their two daughters are also
living, Grace, the wife of Col h. rbert o.
Bixby, and Miss Eunice A. Noyes, the lat
ter, for many recent weeks, sadly suffer
ing invalid, yet able to attend the funeral
rites OF her kind and loving father. Oh
his brothers, Charles Noyes from Audover,
N. H., and Carl K. of Worcester, Mass,
were present at the funeral. Another
brother, Edward, living in Franklin, n.
H., and sister, Mary, in Malone, N. y,
were unable to attend because of sickness.
A tragic fate has ended the lives OF others
also. One, Boston policeman, died from
4 blow received while arresting an Of
len Ter; another was drowned in Harlem
river; q third dropped dead from apoplexy
aud the father suffered a fracture OF the