Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-09-22
Sutton.

Mr.. and Mrs. l.. E. Thayer of Newport
visited at L. w. Green's lately.
H. M. Farr goes to Bellows Falls Monday
to spend week with his sisters.
Mrs. M. w. Smith from Worcester, Mass.
has been visiting her sister, Mrs. Myron
Ham.
Mrs. VIM Marshall is called to st. Johns
bury by the severe illness of her son, Ed.
Duval
G. F. Varney and brother-in law Frank
Wilson were here from St. Johnsbury re-
Gently.
John A. Smith of East Lyndon spent a
few days with his niece, Mrs. M. E. Ham,
recently.
Mrs. Emily (Farr) Smith from Bellows
Falls visited her brother I'll. M. Farr and
other relatives last week.
Mr.. and Mrs Daniel Skinner of Barton
Landing spent Tuesday and Wednesday
with relatives and friends in town.
Mr.. Theron Bell of Burke, his nephew,
w. F. Mullin from Boston, his niece, Mrs.
Maria Brown from Shrewsbury, Mass, his
grandchildren, Mrs. burlington of Lyndon
with her children made a family party at
L. B. Farr's last Wednesday.
Nearly forty attended the social at o. T.
Curtis last Wednesday. 1t was very
pleasant affair, as all the socials are. Mrs.
Ernest Miles invited them to meet at her
home for the next one, Oct. 9. Please
remember it is to be dinner social.
Will Bishop, who isvery ill with typhoid
fever, escaped from his wife and the nurse
Thursday night and ran across the fields
quite distance to the home of Edwin
Curtis, where he was kindly cared for till
he could be taken home the next day. Mr..
Bishop contracted the disease by caring for
his brother, who died lately.
The following article is copied from the
Daily Paragraph, paper published in
Bloomington, Ill.
'sTrue Blake, for many years resident of
/ Normal, died there after an illness of two
weeks yesterday afternoon at 1870 at the
ripe old age of SO. He was the last of his
| immediate family of nine brothers and sis
| tiers, all but one of whom were younger
than he. At the time of his death there
J were present with him two of his children,
Mrs Charlotte B. Myers, of Streator, Ill,
other son, Walter T., of San Diego, CAL,
was unable to be present. The deceased
lived an eventful and useful life. He was
born at Sutton, VT, July a, 1918. In 1851
| he married Mary Hayes IN Cambridge,
Mass, who lived but few years. Later he
married Emily Bean Blake, the widow of
| his only brother. He united with the
Baptist church of Griggsville, ILL.,, on
| March Is, 1912, and has ever since been one
| of the staunchest supporters of the old
faith, having held many positions of trust
| in the Normal churc b, with which he has
been SO long and honorably connected.
In 1868 he came to Normal and settled in
| his present home. There he became iden-
| titled with the civic and educational life of
the community, having been an active
| member of the town and school boards of
| Normal in the early years of the town.
| His three children were educated at the
| university, His second wife died here and
he was married in 1856 to Miss Emma
Bats of Normal, who has cared for him
through the LEI years of his life, after his
health failed, hid who still survives him.
Although of late years his life has been the
| quiet of one whose life work was done,
| the community has lost a man of honor
and integrity, whose many sterling quail
ties will long be remembered by those who
| knew him.