The Newtown bee., 1906-01-12

:. Wiley,
 ost, G. A. R., of New
 lent of Newtown
 
 know where that paper is that Aunt Emily gave your mother?" I saw it there Gin the drawer) and I read it over. Could not tell you. The inter- est was to be paid annually on S2000 at four per cent. We had to scratch'to get it. Aunt Emily wanted to know If my father had ever said anything mother. "Well," she said, ''that pa. per isn't good for anything any more." i always remembered it. It was few days after my mother died,i 1888. My fatber staid there year after my mother died, then he moved to Step ney. He inherited property in Step ney, and has lived there ever since.
 Redirect: Only a few days after my mothers death he went over there. When he came home he asked me to get the paper. He took it. It was the next day the conversation took place between me and Aunt Emily. One of the conditions of that paper was that my mother was to pay inter- est on $2OOO. I never saw bond or deed could not tell how many sig natures were on the paper. Yes, I think there was something that looked like star on the paper. I could not tell whether it was opposite the sig nature. Don't ever remember having seen the paper afterwards. I never said anything to my father about the paper. 1 had other conversations with Aunt Emily about the Brick house farm. Charlie has lived in the Brick house in.the last five years. Aunt Emily has had several families living there the Pervis's, Wilson's, Ferrys, Hub bells. She rented it to them. It was six or seven years ago that he tCharlie) went to live there. \ Joseph Gilbert Gorham: reside in Woodbury.3 Advertisement in THE NEWrowN BEE, issue of February 27, 1891, was read to him. l saw some thing in THE VIEWPOINT BEE that led me to go down and try to buy this place. Think it was in March, 1891, l went to look at this place to buy it.. l am pretty sure I saw it advertised for sale. Think it was Mrs Emily Northrop's. Went there to look at this place and she was not at home. Called again the next day. SAW THE OLD LADY THE NEXT TIME l WENT THERE.
 She wanted S2OOO for this place as I remember it. She said 1t cost her that. There was nothing in the house except some old furniture. l went to look at the farm and offered her S14OO. l went over there with Frank Ives, who lives at BOtsfOrd Station. There was fellow there they called Charlie Blakeman. I think it was Blakeman. MT Ives seemed to be acquainted with wife. Mrs Northrop was not at home. l found a young lady there who told me to call the next day; that her aunt would be at home. came the next day and saw Mrs Northrop. As I re. member Mrs Northrop she sit there in the chair and she wore glasses, and as remember, she was a rather stout lady. She told me that she wanted to get $2000 for the place; that it had cost her that. l did not sit down in the house. It was cold day in March went out with this man and looked at the place. l should not want t( fore part of March, 1891.
 Miss May Parsons, in answer tG question-"What, Miss May, did Aun, Emily say (if anything) to you about Grace and Lil in relation to her prop erty after Mrs Blakeman was dead?' She told me who she was going t( leave some of it to. She said she was go ing to leave A Annette Dibble something that she would leave her S100O. She said something about leaving Grace and Clip something; about having their mothers share. Why, she sai6 they would have their mothers share that is Mrs Beers and Ms Dibble; ;heard her say it several times. Sht said Lil. used to bake for her somt and Grace used to carry butter tt Danbury for her and do errands fol her. do not remember of anything else. l knew that Grace lived there , Mrs Northrop told me. think sht said Grace was about 15. Aunt Emil! said that when she was sick Grac, used to come up there and cook fO her. Aunt Emily had affection for all She had affection for Annett Dibbl' r and Reuben Johnson and Grace ant
 Lillian. She thought a good deal O
 tell how they used to come up ther'
 and do so much for her and how sh'
 could not get along without them
 In April. 1899, not long after my com
 ing, discovered that she thought
 great deal of them, and saw no chang
 in her manner toward them. Sh
 spoke more of them in her daily tall
 than of any others.
 Cross Examinations: She though
 kindly of all her relatives. She spOk'
 of the Blakeman children; that the
 should have their mothers share. Il
 speaking about helping her with tn ) cooking, etc., she said she could no :, get along without them. Grace use' to do a great many errandS coul not do them. Did not have the horse :, Could not do the business like Grace Heard her speak of Charles Blakema
 going to buy the Brick house farm
 She said she wanted him to buy il Last spring she said she wanted hiI t to buy it. Question: What was tn
 conversation that you heard betwee
 Mrs Northrop and Charles Blakeman
 wife?" Aunt Emily said that sh
 would like Charlie to buy the place
 and she would leave him enough to fl
 it up. That is as near as l remembe the conversation. 1 don't know wha Mrs Blakeman did say. The convers'
 tion was in the sitting room. It ws
 about year or six months before he 6aath She fi0n,t SaV whether ChAr1