Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1903-10-02

-hANN' maj iNb W lltll s,lfN els We llbh
the old farm aud carried it on at the
halves for four years, then We hired the
place for three years, and then We
bought it and put all our energy into
/ paying for it. About six weeks before
Warren's death he said we must 60 over
TO Lyndon aud pay George c. Cahoon
the last payment on the place. 1t was
in the fall, and knew he was not able
to go, but he said he must, and so We
drove over on the old county road that
went up through the Rosebrook sugar
place, and made the last payment One
day little while after we got back,
( Warren walked up to the window aud
was looking ont across the pond and he
said d was in hopes | would live to see
the cars come in, but | shant, but YOU
will see them and said to him. we
shall all see them Warren, but he didn't
see them, from here anyway, for he
died in December, and the first train
reached here the next month" Some
one spoke of the beautiful teeth her hus
band had, that We're all perfectly sound
and white when he died. "Oh! YES.
she said che used to try the nails he
bought by taking them between his
teeth and breaking them with his fin.
gers. We lived i'll the log house that
was built by John Bishop, son of Enos
Bishop, and it stood where the ell of the
present house stands. The old Enos
Bishop cabin was down on the fiat,
nearer the pond
As she reviewed occurrences in her
eventful life, all of them intensely af-
fecting, the expression of the emotion
could be plainly followed, but she never
failed to control it. OF the war, she
spoke with deepest force, and with tears,
but her narration was not interrupted
by them. "All three of the boys went
to the war; she said. "Oh it was
foolish, but they weren't afraid" "Who
stirred them up to go?" | asked, and
instantly she replied, expressing a truth
one would not think of at first, every
coward in town vino hadn't courage
enough to 60 himself punched them
every time he saw them. After the first
enlistment they We're paying big
bounty for re-enlisted men, and they
were offered good sum to enlist from
Massachusetts town, but they wanted
to keep their quota of drafted men good
| here and so they offered them three hun
| dred dollars apiece, and as they had
rather go from their own town they
agreed to it," The failure to pay this,
the requiring the bereft mother to work
out her taxes instead of abating them,
and other facts of like nature, could
not appropriately be detailed here, and
they might better be forgotten, were it
not we'll to recall the loyal fortitude
with which she met the conditions ill.,
humanity imposed upon her.
Her life was such that she must form
a deep and fixed conception of Justice.
She was too great woman to let an in
jury spoil her with its bitterness, but
when so touched, it was as if the chisel
had traced upon the marble; and yet,
written even deeper, was her record of
the kindness that had come to her. 81
would have frozen once" she said "if
it hadn't been for one man. There was
a big storm and | could not get anyone
to draw me any wood, and | hadn't a
stick. q. &. Waterhouse was cutting
wood and he sent his men for several
nights with log to me--a fellow named
Pete Young and one named Cloud from
Charleston-they would each bring up
log on his back and cut it up for me,and
so I didn't freeze out q it."
GLOW did you gett. news from the
war ?" I asked. "Wen, Mr.. Warner
drove stage up through from Lyndon
and the post office was first in the Gilkey
store, and was afterwards moved into
the depot. | heard from the boys by
mail, and | heard of Orlando's being
killed quite soon after, but | was ex-
pecting Russell home, and was looking
for him every day, when got letter
from Mrs. Bowman. Major N. p. Row
man was walking through Arlington
Cemetery and saw his name on grave
stone, and he wrote to his wife and she
sent the letter to me. After the war
Capt. Beattie told me about Russell.
He said he called for fifty men to go
with him into dangerous place and
t Russell was among the firstto volunteer.
, He was only boy, but the thing he