The Press., 1905-11-22
Mrs. Hovle is now absent On a7visit,


 Thanksgiving!
 Harold Morse expects to return sooti to New Canaan.
 Miss Leila Church returned tc Rockville Saturday.
 Chicken thieves have been at work in the Hollow, we hear.
 A new tenant has moved into the old Lee Burdick house, Holland side.
 It is said that chicken thieves have been marauding around the Hill, too.
 We learn that D. B. Gardner start. ed last week from Rockville on triI to Philadelphia.
 When big I is big I it is a big I; when it is a little it is little from the story of Jonah, down.
 Little Teddy Roosevelt Worden was a visitor at his grandparents', Town Clerk Morrison and wife, last week. "
 The old (first) nine o'clock Baptist bell, Sunday mornings, has gone into innocuous desuetude, it would appear. Comrade J. H. Houstan leaves his sister this week for the Hartford hos. pital, to be treated for heart, spinal and other maladies.
 Fred Lougee and family have moved from Westford into the tenement lately vacated by Marten Hansen, near the railway station.
 It is expected that the next number of the Connecticut Magazine will con. tain a Dimock genealogy by J. N. Emo, now of New Haven, who is a painstaking, genuine genealogist.
 Although we hear of water famine all around, most of the wells on tlso Hill yet yield a good supply; how ever, we may sing a different tune before long if this dry spell con sin- ues.
 Word has just come of the sudden death at Eagleville Sunday of s. O.. Vinton, a native of this town He was the second son of the late Dea David Vinton, and used to keep g store at Daleville, also to run dry goods peddler's cart hereabouts. He leaves a widow, nee Maria Ooggshall, also formerly of this town, aud one child, son, F. o. Vinton.
 THE RUBY aENEALoGY.
 The Ruby family is of long, hon.
  3d, a native of Union, was the pro. genitor of the Rubys in this town, He came hither in his early married life, his wife being Nancy Daggett, We remember him as a genial, pleasant man to meet. He was one of family of fourteen children, and his children were: Emily, who mar ried the late John A. Brown of this town; Julia, who married H. E. Bill liDgs of Lookport, N. Y; William D., at present second selectman of this town, who married Sarah Bar rett, then of Holland; Edmund, who was at last accounts in business in Nevada; Thomas, who married Olah Leach of Union, and Minni3, who married Eli Remmert of Stafford. James Ruby, 3d, the aforesaid pro. genitor, was a lineal descendant of John Adams, a former president of the United States, and also of a rev. olutionary soldier, He died Nov, 18th, 1855. having lived all his farming and numbering days on tine old Daggett place, Roaring Brook school district, ill the north part of the town.
 THE TAYLOR GENEALoGY.
 Elisha Taylor of English ancestry, came from Cape God, Massachusetts, and settled in Wilmington about 1725. He was the father of four children Dorcas, -, Samuel and Thomas Thomas was born in Willington in 1752. He married Miss Experience Freeman of Mansfield, who brought strain of good blood into the fam fly, being lineal descendant of the celebrated Edmund Freeman and of
 
 and Massachusetts colony fame Their children were Thomas, Louis, Expe- rience, Martha, Abner, Asa, who was deacon of both the churches here at different times, and Lucretia. Louis married --- Toby of Monson, Mass, a tanner and currier there. Martha married Amos Preston of Will lington, they being the first couple married by the then young Congrega- tional pastor, the late Rev. Dr. Hub bel Loomis, who had just been or dained and settled, he making a mis- take in the ceremony, calling the couple up the second time for recti fication Abper married Miss ---- Johnson of Stafford, This couple moved early in their married life to Lee, Mass, where he became the principal merchant of the town, and was also in the furniture business. He had been the proprietor of little cabinet furniture shop, which used to stand little northwest of the dwell ing house of the late Lucius Eldredge in this town. Miss Johnson was a sister of the then sheriff of Holland county, an office then considered next to the governorship of the state, and proprietor of the Stafford Springs House. He hung the Indian, years ago at Holland, the public execution fo i'm n1o village. When teaching school in Stafford Springs we boarded with Frank Johnson, his son. He was the first "express agent'' from that viii lage to Hartford, the railroad then being just opened. Lucretia married --- Chandler of Longmeadow, Mass. For many years he was sta tion agent there for the then N. Y, N TT Horkf0r1 opI