Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1905-07-18
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What fearful havoc death has made
and still is making in every sphere OF
life! Among the more noted persons
whose names occur at this moment are:
Gen. Low Wallace, Gen. Fitzhugh Lee,
Gen. Maxine Gomaz, Mary Livermore
and John Hay. As before remarked:
"L,ke other .yrants death delights to smite,"
And shining mark Ia ever his delight;
No matter what the sex, or state. or name'
"There is but step between me and death"
Probably every one of my age remem.
bers the Aroostook war, which occurred
In 1889. Not long since obtained a
history of that event, giving the cause
and final settlement of the trouble,
which proved to be rather interesting
reading.
There we're four men drafted in Hart
ford at that time, and since l became
somewhat acquainted with them all In
after years, perhaps line or two OF the
history of each one might not prove
wholly uninteresting to the reader.
Their names were: Nathaniel Page,
Alonzo Fuller, Mathew TObin and
Thoms Sturtevant.
Mr.. Page lived in our school district
at that time and was the father OF that
large family of whom mention was made
some time ago when speaking of his son
John A. He sold his farm in Hartford
| in 1850, then moved to Hebron where
he lived some years, when he moved to
Buckfield to live with one of his sons
and died at the age of IS years. Mr..
Page was a good neighbor, religiously
inclined, but whether he belonged to
any Christian church is not known.
Alonzo Fuller belonged to another OF
those great families, so common 90 years
ago, married and settled in Hartford near
Bear Pond, and when diphtheria became
so fatal in 1862, it took two of his three
little children, who died about the same
time, were both buried in one grave;
the writer being one of the two men who
carried the little ones to their last resting
place. When last heard from, which was
more than year ago, Mr.. Fuller was
living entirely alone on the old place and
we'll along in the eighties.
Mathew Tobin was the second son OF
Joseph and Lydia TObin, and the family
to which he belonged was nearly as
large as the other two just mentioned
Some years after the ArOostook wal
ended Mathew enlisted in the navy, to-
gether with his younger brother, Ezra
but before sailing he was taken down
with the small pox and put into hos
pital, so his brother was obliged to GO
and leave him behind, not knowing
whether he would ever sec him again OF
not. But in due time Mathew recover
ed so as to come home by deserving, ar
object of curiosity, having lost all hi:
hair and looked as John d. Rockefeller
does to-day minus his wig. 1t was re-
ported that Uncle Sam offered reward
$1,000 for Tobin's capture, and he soor
disappeared from town, but of his sub
sequent history the writer knows
nothing.
Thomas II. Sturtevant was the Oldest
of the two sons of Allen and Betsey
Cole Sturtevant, and like Thomas Edi
son was born q natural genius; but pn
like the latter he had no energy to push
himself along. He taught school awhile
but soon gave it up and tried his hant
at making different kinds of nipple
ments. One was a surveyors compass
with which he would run lines and fine
the true corners, where others had fail
ed in the attempt. He also made {
clock containing the moon and showing
all her phases precisely like the natura
moon; but never put it on the market
Last of all he tried farming on a small
scale, but his health failed up in middle
life and he died in poverty.