The Press., 1903-04-30
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STAFFORD SPRINGS

Charles e. Beans OF New London was
In town over Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Cardinal of Pal
mer were In town over Sunday.
There will be meeting OF the W. r.
G. next Wednesday afternoon at O'Clock.
Chas. McGin Of Pittsfeld has taken a
position as boss finisher at the Warren
mill. l 2
Harvey Chapman, the hardware mer-
chant, has returned from business trip
to Boston -..-.
Daniel Sullivan, who has been quite iii
with pneumonia at bis home on Gold
street, is able to be out again.
Leon Ellis has gone to Providence for
brief visit after which he will be en-
ployed on farm at Brookfield, Mass.
Michael Mack, employed at the STAFFORD
house, has returned from brief. va cation
at West Warren and Worcest. r, M .ss.
The examiners Of the parochial schools
for the Hartford district were In town
Tuesday and visit, st. Edwards school.
There will be meeting OF the directors
Of the Stafford Springs Agricultural So
ciety at the loom over the express office
Saturday at 4 80.
Miss Harriet Fowle, daughter OF Rob-
elt Fowle, formerly landlord of the
Springs house, will be united In marriage
May Sd to Eldon Felix at her home In
Sioux City, Iowa.
Rev. q. NJ. Geer, Pm. D., professor of
history at the Hartford theological semi.
nary, will supply the pulpit at the Congre-
gational church next Sunday. The pray
er meeting this evening will be led by
Dea. J. 81. Valentine.
A special meeting of the Stafford
Springs cemetery association was held at
the library building Saturday evening. A
vote was passed authorizing Secretary
w. d. Heald to dispose OF the heavy
timber north Of the cemetery on the tract
Of land given to the association by the
late Josiah Converse. A committee was
also appointed consisting of Andrew
Wilton, president; W. q. Cooley, vice.
president and W. D. Heald, secretary, to
secure plans and estimates for building a
association was formed the plans provid-
ed for a+vault short distance from the
main entrance, on the right side of the
drive, going In, about south from the out
let Of the upper lake. With the sale of
the wood and the available funds now on
hand the association will have a sufficient
sum to build the vault. The suggestion
Of the town making an appropriation for
a vault to be free for public use has been
made In times past by residents nntsidel
OF the borough and wish has been ex-
pressed that some action might be taken,
but the matter has never teen brought
before the voters. AS the Springs ceme-
terry Is the nearest to the railroad station
this location has been spoken of. The
.vaultsif built by the cemetery association,
couldbe used by anyone, but of course
the usual fees would be charged. This
subject was talked over at the meeting
and 1t seemed to be the minds OF many
present that II the town desired a vault
here 1t should be built by the town, but
that vault should be built this summer
either by the town or association.
Additional names of soldiers buried or
having monuments erected to their mem
ory In Stafford Springs cemetery:
John Wood, Go. D. 25th Conn.,, April
LIST, 1908.
+ Andrew j. Tyler, Co. 1, 10th Conn.,,
died In prison at Florence, 8. c., October
16, 1854. a
Julius Parkess, engineer on military
trains, Dec. 81, 1868.
Joseph FL. Meridith, lieutenant 18th
Conn.,, served on staff of Gen. Butler and
other generals, later commissioned colo
mel Of colored troops, died in New York
March 80, 1885, body cremated and ashes
deposited In the grave of Mrs. Julia Grant
Dow, mother Of Mrs. Meredith.
Whole number of soldiers: Civil war,
3S; Revolutionary war, 3.
Soldiers who were members of Winter
post and who are buried In outside ceme-
teries: Wilmington Hill-Leonard Ros-
well, Co. K, 22d Conn, September 90,
1897; John G. Fuller, Co. 1, 21st Conn,
September 16, 1896; Amasa Irons, Co. r,
10th Conn. September 90, 1894; William
D. Irons, Co. K, 22d Conn, August 10,
1899. Skungamaug, Tolland-LeH Gary,
Co. K, 22d Conn.,, September 20, 1888.
Nathan Hale, Coventry g. Greene,
Co. 81, 25th Conn.,, September Q. 1895.
Enfield, Mass, John McGrath, Co. K,
s7th Mass, died about 1887. Brimfield,
Mass. .-SamuelS 8. Nichols, Go. /, 18th
Conn, january s5 1873. Wales, Mass
Charles Davis, Go. A, 1st Conn. II. A.