The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-04-09
WILLIAMSTOWN.

WILLIAMSTOWN.
Mrs j. X. Lynde was called to
Bakersfield, last Thursday by the i'll
ness of her son Roscoe. 1t is hoped
that the case is not serious one.
Will M. and Robbie Duffus returned
to Waterbury last Saturday, where
both are pupils in the high school.
After his graduation in June next
Will will go to Boston, where he is to
have a situation in the Office of the
Vermont Marble Company.
Miss Emma Adams has been in East
Brookfield for week or two past,
with her sister, Mrs. Bert Reed.
Napoleon Berry, of East Montpelier,
who drove Horace N. Farnham's team
that was used on our road machine
last year, has moved his family to our
village and will work this year as last,
for Mr.. Farnham, here.
W. H. Davidson, engineer at the
Grearson- Beckett Company's granite
works, is at his old home in Nova
Scotia, for a short vacation.
The Universalist ladies took nearly
ten dollars at their new sugar sociable
last week.
Miss Effie A. Whitney has been all
ing with nervous prostration for some
three months and though it is hoped
she is better she is yet confined to the
bed much of the time.
Frank Lathrop, six weeks ago, cut his
right hand between the thumb and
forefnger, on saw tooth, and has
been suffering with blood poison since
Last Saturday evening the Rebekahs
gave monograph entertainment and
promenade. The admission fee was a
novelty, in that it was graded accord
ing to weight of the payer of it. a
premium was also put on the heaviest
weight.
Mrs. M. Joanna White now of Water
town, Mass, continues to improve so
much in health that it is hoped her
great desire to come here may be graft
fled early in June.
The ladies reading club had appoint
ed last Friday evening for gentlemen S
night, at the home of Mrs. J. X.
Lynde, but were cor PEELED to post
pone it on account of Mrs Lyndes
sudden call to Bakersfield.
We have lately learned additional
facts concerning Rev. Newell W.
BiSby, son of our late townsman,
Ebenezer Bixby, who died the 3lst of
last January, in Iowa, at the age of
ninety-four years. He preached his
last sermon in Manchester, Iowa, Sep
TENDER 2, 1902 Two weeks before his
death he was injured by fall but it
was not thought at the time very Sc
riously so. The fall, however, caused
his death. He was IA pioneer Free
Baptist minister in Iowa, having gone
there in 1917. The family genealogy
shows that Rev. Mr.. Bixby was a di-
rect descendant Of Mary Chiffon, the
first woman who went on shore from
the Mayflower. His first pastorate
was in Pennsylvania. From lS4l to
1916 his labors were in Vermont. In
1916 he was appointed n home mis-.
sionary in Iowa. The record of his
work done in Iowa since then, is an
admirable one. In his ministerial Ca
reer he baptised 604 persons, and
preached about 400 funeral sermons
Four children were born to him, one
physician, having died in 1886. One
is the treasurer of the Iowa home mis-
sion board. He left four sisters, two
of whom, Mrs. Ichabod Tucker, and
MRS. Deacon FRANCIS Carleton, are Nv
ing in Tunbrid e; and the other two
are, one in Chicago, and one in New
Jersey. His funeral was largely at
tended by residents of his own and nd
joining places with three clergymen
officiating.
We have just had the pleasure of
looking over a genealogy of the Towns
end family, the only one of which
bearing that name, now, in our place.
| IS our worthy townsman, Daniel @.
/ Townsend. The first of that family
found in this record, was Roger de
Townsend (also written Townshende)
an Lnglishman, born about A. ID.
1873. His wife was one Catherine
Atherton, of Sussex county, England,
"A fact of interest, as we recall thai
our townswoman Laura Townsend
now of Waterbury, married an Ather
ton. The fifth, in the Townsend line
was member of Parliament and wal
knighted by the king The sixth il
line was one of the most eminent law
yers of his day in England, was knight
ed by the king and was alsC
a member of the kings privy council
The seventh in line, was Lord Chic
Justice of Chester in A. d., 1915
! The eighth in line, once entertained