The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1905-07-05
MANSFIELD.

MANSFIELD.
Mrs. Storms is boarding at E. +.
Storrs' for the summer.
Miss Vera Freeman of Spring Hill
spent last week in Lyme.
Miss Myra Johnson has been the
guest of Mrs. M. A. Hanks.
Prof. and Mrs. @. A Wheeler are
spending the summer out of town.
Alex Beckwith has entered the en-
ploy of 9. @. Davis on Spring Hill.
Mrs. Sumner of Eastford was the
guest of her son at Gurleyville last
week.
Mrs. N. Waldo has moved from the
Corners to Gurleyville in Mrs. Lin
coins house.
Several of the city people who an
nually visit Spring Hill for the sum-
mer have begun to arrive. =:
John Strand of New York and Mrs.
Strands sister spent the Fourth at
the latter's home on Hanks hill.
Miss Maude Huntington, who
teaches at Harrington, is spending
the summer vacation with her parents.
The annual Children's day concert,
which was postponed last month, was
held in the NJ E. church Sunday
evening.
Paul LANCER and Annie Endres were
united in marriage by Rev. O. E.
Pease last Saturday. Both are from
Gurleyville.
The Ladies' Aid society of the
Baptist church held their annual
strawberry supper in the church par
lors last Thursday evening.
The young people of the A. @. M.
B. presented the four act drama,
"Me an Otis,' in the Spring Hill
town hall last Tuesday evening to
an appreciative audience. The drama
was full of humor and all the young
people took their parts we'll.
Samuel S. Fuller died at his home
at the Four Corners about midnight
Friday, aged nearly 90 years. Mr..
Fuller was born at Mansfield Center
November 20, 1913, the son Of the
late Daniel and Zeruah Hall Fuller.
When a child he removed with his
parents to the North parish, where
he lived all his life, his father
being proprietor of the Fuller tavern
for many years, during the days Of
stage coaches over the Boston and
Hartford turnpike. On March 4, 1871.
Mr.. Fuller married Miss Olive Hib-
bard, daughter of the late General
Daniel Hubbard of old training days.
Five children were born to them,
Louisa M. of this place and Mrs. Eliza
beth West of Rockville, and Samuel
H. of New Britain. Two daughters
died young. Mrs. Fuller died March
2, 1902. Upon the death of Postmas-
ter Woodward in 1851, Mr.. Fuller
was appointed to succeed him and held
the office nearly fifty years, resigping
the position January Is, 1900, hav
ing become incapacitated from feeble
health. He was for a long period
proprietor of the Four Corners store,
selling out to l.. L. Lyon, the present
postmaster. He was direct descen-
dant of DR.. Samuel Fuller, who came
over in the Mayflower. His grand
father, Benjamin Fuller, was a pri-
vate in the Revolutionary war, and
his father served in the war of 1912:
Two sisters survive him, Mrs. Ruth
Button, of Hampton, 81 years of age,
and Mrs. CLARA Barrows of Coventry !;
also one brother, Daniel E. Fuller, of
this town. He also left four grand
children and six great-grandchildren.
The funeral took place from his late
home on Sunday at 2 p. NJ, the Rev.
Harris E. Starr officiating. The
bearers we're his son, Samuel Fuller ;
SON. law, Orrin West, and his two
nephews, Joseph O. and Eugene Full
Ter. Interment was at Storrs ceme-
terry.