Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-01-26

though very serious damage might 20
done. A great many chimnev e--5 were
taken off in all sections of the town of
Wilmington, and in surrounding towns as
well. The number of houses of which
windows were blown in and lights of
glass broken out is very large. A great
many people were kept busy mailing up
windows and stopping up "air holes" I'M
til late in the night. More or less damage
was done in other towns. At Readsboro
the large new store house of the National
Metal Edge Box company was utterly de-
molished. which was valued at 5000. The
tower on the East Mountain in Shelburne
Falls was blown down. This is the Sec
ond time this tower has been blown down
and tho ruin is complete.
MARRIED sIXTY-sEvEN YEARS.
Deacon and Mrs. Leroy Wilder of Dunn
merston completed 67 years of married
life on January H. Mr.. Wilder was born
Dummerston November g. 1908, and has
tlways resided in that town. His wife
whose maiden name was Patience Gould,
was born in Rrattoboro, March 49, 1911,
ana is now in her SSth year. They were
married at the home of her falhar, Eb-
cnczer Could in West Dummerston, jan
nary u, 1922 by Rev. Hosea Buckley.
Deacon Wilder was son of Deacon Dan
Wilder. who died on the ancestral farm
March 20, 1910 aged 50 years, two months,
whore he resided so years, and on which
farm, located I'm the south part of the
town, his father, Joshua Wilder, settled
in l795. Joshua Wilder was a revolution
any soldier and served as a private in the
Massachusetts militia His name was
placed on the pension roll December -,
1888 when he WAS 10 years old. His an
nual allowance was $50. When he settled
in pummerston he had a family of nine
children and the house he moved into was
q plain structure. 1t was a framed build
ing with only one room, loosely boarded
up, the cracks between the boards being
wide enough to stick your fingers
through: and the cellar contained mill ons
of tcas." The WilderS were PROSPEROUS
farmers and illustrate in a marked de-
gree the health-gviug and life-prolonging
tendency of the farming occupation in
Now England, when pursued with indus.
try fruEaity and temperate habits.
Joshua Wilder united with the church N
49,! when he was 81 years old At the
age of IS years he built a covered wagon,
a sort Of prairie schooner, in which rep
rcsentatives of -four generations on sun
day mornings wendell their way to the
church at Dummerston Centre, three
mill distant.
It, General they have enjoyed excellent
health. Several of Mr.. Wilder's ancestors
liNod to he more than 90. and Mrs. Wild
CT grandmothers was 1o4 when she died.
SONS OF VERMONT DEAD.
Rev. s. C. Chandler, formerly of East
Middlebury, died recently at Sufiield,
Conn, aged IS years.
Levi Thaycr Of Braintree is dead at the
age of 81 years lie was one of the lead
ing farmers of that town.
John Leyman, a respected citizen of
Braintree, died January 16, aged So lie
af..Ys IL.
IS months in Libby prison.
col. c. f. Simonds n native OF Brattle-
boro, who recently died IN Norwich, Conn.
was a noted hotel man, and at the
time Of his death owned hotels in Nor
witch, Conn, Lexington, Ky, and Canton,
Ohio.
Scion n. Alexander. aged Go years, who
died at his home in Bellows Falls recent
~, was born in Athens, VT, February IL.
lSS3, and lived there until 1854, when he
went to California and passed five years
in the gold district. Upon his return he
was in the lumber business in Boston for
year. He represented the town of
Athens in the Legislature of 1S63-Gi. In
1861 he moved to Saxton's River. where
he was in business. and in 1880 went to
Fellows Falls He was married in 1859 to
Caroline +. Adams of Hinsdale, n. H..
VINO survives MN. he leaves besides his
widow. two sons, Harry o., in Boston,
and Hugh A., a lawyer in Concordia, Kan
Albert Alexander of Greenfield Is a
brother, another lives in Carson City, and
a sister, Mrs. ]. l.. Wyman, lives in
kecne
Capt. Daniel Paddock, an Old and well
known farmer. who resided in the west
part of Bennington, died Thursday of a
gradual failure Of the vital powers. Mr..
Paddock was born in Bennington August
l, 1911, and had resided here all his life.
He was married in 1898 to Miss Fannie
Fillmore, a daughter of Elijah Fillmore.
Her father was an uncle of President Mil
lard Fillmore. Mrs. Paddock died seven
or eight years ago. Capt. Paddock is sur
Vived by son and four daughters.