The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-01-18
In Sentiment But
Old in Years.
MRS. BASLINGTON
OF Brookfield Remarkable
at the Age Of 80 Years.

Brookfield, Jan. 17.--Mrs Marcia Jen-
nings Darlington will celebrate her 91st
birthday Wednesday, Jan. Is, at her
pink colored home on Maple street. Her
many friends will call to see her and
leave some token of their friendship.
She appears to be more bright than
when she was interviewed in 1898 about
the time of her birthday, that is she is
more willing to talk and has enjoyed
reading the newspapers more the past
year than she had the year before.
Her health is very good with the ex-
ception of what she suffers from the
leg she broke by falling in March last.
She employs her time in reading the
newspapers and doing fancy work and
making rugs, many Of which are seen
on the floors about the living rooms.
Her son, George Oliver Baslington of
cleveland, will not come for a visit.
but has sent letter.
Mrs. Baslington talks freely on all
topics of interest at this time and is
well acquainted with all reforms past
ana present. She is great believer in
Woman's suffrage, and was always at
lily pOllo eiI Tie election Oh town Of0cerS
and voted for the school committee as
her only right at the polls. She was a
great abolitionist, and she stated today
that she had harbored fugitive slaves
IN the Very house she now occupies. A
person once said that owing to her
opinions of that question, she and
Wendell Phillips should both be hanged
together
She is pleased with the statements
IAN ~.
message, and approves OF his econom-
zeal measures recommended to the leg
lslature. She reads the Christian Reg
lister and she says that gives her the
Ideas and news of all reforms. She
reads The Spy at times for local news
but complains of all the newspapers
using too poor ink, excepting when they
nave something the paper is especially
anxious to have everybody read.
She sits at her windows and sees the
electric cars pass up and down the
road, and watches the number of horses
come to the watering trough. She says
that she has known all the time that
business was decreasing, because of the
small number of horses which have
come to the trough TO get water. She
Is pleased to hear that some firm is to
occupy the G. H. Burt factory, and she
sent to the committee to have some one
mat the Cataract engine company is
going to have Friday night for the
benefit of the shop fund.
MRS. Marcia Jennings Baslington
was born Jan. IS, 1903. in the place then
known to the travelling public as the
| Terraces. Her father was the pro-
prletor of this hosiery. Her early life
was spent, as was the custom in those
days, in doing duties about the house
taking nf hn oh
attended the public schools and gained
all the advantages then in the schools
She was young when the affairs of the
revolutionary war were quite fresh in
the minds of the people of that time
and she we'll remembers many in
stances connected with the history of
the country and the neighboring towns
and villages.
She well remembers the Spooner
| tragedy. Her father, Gersham Jen-
hlngs, was on the jury that heard the
case. She remembers seeing Gen. La
tayette when he passed through and
tells about his stopping at the Howe
mansion. That day the bells rang and
there was great jollification in the
town. She was well pleased when If
was told her that the public schools
observed Lafayette's birthday and gave
collection taken in the schools toward
the monument to be erected for his
memory. She saw the first load of dirt
that was dumped into the roadbed of
the Boston and Albany, and also the
Llrst car that run over the road
Mrs. Baslington married George
Washington when she was q wears old
Inc ReV. George r. Moves, the first
pastor of the Unitarian church in this
town, performed the ceremony, She
was the mother of four children and
Two Of them are alive now. George
OllVer Darlington is the older brother
he IS treasurer of the Chaplin Bolt e
| Nut company of Cleveland. O. and
Abraham Baslington, who is now own
er of farm in Colorado. Their ages
are So and IS.
Two years ago she visited her son in
| Cleveland. While there she had the
pleasure of meeting Senator Mark
Hanna and was at a whist party which
ne attended. Senator Hanna is presi
dent of the Chaplin Bolt & Nut Com
pany, of which her son is treasurer.
Mrs Baslington is a member of
the First Congregational CUnitarian1
Church and was a constant attendant
when her health permitted it. She is
a God-tearing woman and her notices
are Truth and righteousness must
prevail and Let all the ends thou
almest at be thy country, God and the
| truth"
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