Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1900-09-17
GAIL centennial.

Incre was reunion OF Jne Gall
family at the old homestead about two
miles northeast of this city, on Aug.
20, and the one who was delegated to
prepare an account of it sent it to
the Journal instead of to the TELE-
GRAM as was expected. The farm
was located and settled one hundred
years ago March Oath, but the cele-
bration was not held until the above
named date, as it was impossible to
get the party together before. Mr.. and
Mrs. Gail moved here from Warwick,
Mass making the journey with all
their goods on an OK Sled. The fol-
lowing account of the celebration
printed by request from the Journal:
The goth of August, 1900 was red
letter day for the "Gail' clan at
Barre. Ii was no less than the CEN
tennial day Of the Gail homestead.
1t was not a much hetalded muster,
but none.the less happy success. In
the early morning began the arrivals
and at about nine O'Clock almost half
a hundred had reported themselves
ready for business.
The scene was BEAUTIFUL, highly
animated, inspiring. TIE weather
was perfection of early autumn in
Vermont. This certainly is descrip-
lion that d. scribes-for those who
know the real thing. Ard the place
one of Vermont's dear Old homes,
crowning fertile slopes amidst nestl-
ing hill ard clustered mountains,
whose assure rim makes the circular
boundary f the wide lan1scape. The
approach, the country road is a long
lovers lane Of NAPLES overarching and
interlacing. The birthday naples
(planted upon the sons ACHE ewing
their majority and the old locusts
still shade the ample yard of the
house in which the happy, old-time
family was reared. And here too ia
all reality are "The orchard the mea-
dow, the deep tangled wildwood"
The house is the first farm house,
the one that followed the original log
cabin built few rods away near the
spring which still keeps the upland
meadow green. Ia fact here is the
whole outfit Of we'll regulated Yer
mont farm, barns about as old as the
house and always in good repair and
never empty; ample corn crib and
woodShed in the same satisfactory cat
egory with the barns, and the well
with it's old-time sweep; also the cold
oaken bucket and so forth.
Here dwells the farmer at seventy.
five, rugged and brisk, himself riding
the mower and reaper over these an
ceStral acres, almost as ripe as the
grain he cuts. 'Uncle 81" is of the
third generation from the Josiah who
was here one hundred years ago, drove
down his stake and lifted up his axe to
let the sunlight into his cabin and
corntield. This present incumbent OF
the old homestead, which has never
been alienated from the name and the
direct line, and his offspring in two
generations, with a few kin who had
secuted in day or two in advance OF
the main column, gave greetings,
hearty, you may imagine, and joyous
and tender.
The clan in this country begins in
1910 at Watertown, Mass, with Rich.
ard Gale and his wife Mary. After
Richard Q) came Abraham (2), Abra.
ham, Jr., (3), Josiah a., and, in the
next, the fifth generation, Josiah, Jr.
(5), born in 1744, who settled first in
Warwick, Mass, and then in 1900, re.
moved to Barre, VT, and settled upon
the very site where this centennial
day is celebrated. Here he occupied
till his deceaSe in 1920.
This Josiah, the first generation in
Barre, was accompanied by his only
son. John (2), who was born in ITS.