The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1906-03-07

Poor fellow!
Nathan O. Ward and L. d. Nichols
have just returned from a short visit
with friends in Holyoke
We have received at the hand Of
Ahira e. Pearl an interesting old doc
ument, which we may notice in the
next issue of this paper
At the Baptist church Sunday morn.
ing the text was 11:47. Subject,
"Who should join the church 20 One
person was received by letter
The engagement of Miss Dagmar
Kjoller of Holyoke to Linnaeus Dean
Nichols of West Wilmington was an
nounced at birthday party, given by
Miss Kjoller ut her home last Friday
evening.
Are our people aware that the
greatest engineering feat of the world
is now undertaken by our government,
namely, the reclamation by irrigation
of 81 the great American desert?'' 1t
is enough to take ones breath away
to hear the details about the dams,
reservoirs, ETC.
A neighboring newspaper has I'M
dertaken the enterprise of publishing
expositions of the Sunday school les
sons for the succeeding Sunday. We
have heard two or three Of them read,
and must say that they are quite flip
pant, sophomorical and assertive. We
guess the young mans style will be
quite different twenty five years from
now, if he should live.
In some of the items last week in
this column there may have been some
cases of heterophemy or something
else-for instance, in the johnson
genealogy, Mrs. Emily "Burdick"
Johnson should read Mrs. Emily Mer-
rick Johnson Aud in the George
Washington item, the word mot
eliminated. So the item should have
read George Washington died the rich
est man in North America, etc.
A Bohemian lad, some 1S years of
age, Frank Chocol by name, living
with his parents in Westford, was in
stantly killed last Thursday, while
assisting his brother to unload ties
at the railway station. His neck was
broken by slipping tie, which knock.
ed him over backward. His parents
are among the new Bohemian contin.
gent in this REGION and much sympa-
thy is felt for them in this sudden
bereavement. These drivers and lum-
bermen cannot be too careful while
pursuing their somewhat risky call
ing. Many imminent accidents have
been averted in this locality by quick
wit and alacriry.
THE MANSFIELD AND WELLINGTON Ell
DREDGEs.
Among the many interesting gene
illogical sketches of Wilmington fam
lilies in The Press, have been watch
ing for something on what has been
one of the most numerously represent
ed, the Eldredges. It a starter is
needed, here it is. The Eldred name
reaches away back in England to the
ADglo-Saxons, but appeared in New
England about 1886. In Plymouth
colony list of those able to bear arms,
1913, is the name Eldred, and about
1916 VIM. Eldred was settled in Var
mouth, Mass. ; married Ann Lumpkin.
His son, Elisha. born 1858, lived in
Eastman, near the Doanes, one of
W HON married into the Dimocls farA-
lily. He died 1899, and the name is
spelled Eldredg on his tombstone
His son, Elisha, Jr., born about 1890,
Dorcas Milford CT Truro,
Mass. They moved to Mansfield,
Conn.,, being admitted by letter to the
S. Mansfield church June 81, 1741.
They had in Truro, L. milford, born
Jan. %, 1913; 2, I'm Eastham),
Jesse, born Aug. 8, 1715; 3, Elisha;
4, David; 5, 6, Mary and Dorcas,
twins; Z, Jemima; s, Bethia; 8,
Jamesin. Milford 4, Elisha, Jr., 3,
Elisha 2, William 1, settled in Mans
field, and had 1 3 children: 1, Thorn
as, died in six weeks; 2. Mary, horn
1913; 3, Thomas, 1910; 4, Elisha,
1912; 5, Hezekiah, born in Mans
field, 1744; &, Daniel; 7, Lemuel
8, Abiel; 8, milford; 10, John; II,
Micah; II, Dorcas; 13, Jemima
Jesse 4, Elisha, Jr., 3, Elisha 2, Will
liam !, married in Eastman, Nov.
Z, 1884, Abigail Smith, descended
from several Pilgrims, including El-
der VIM. Brewster. Gov. Thomas
Prince, Rev. John Lothrop. Stephen
Hopkins and Henry Rowland. They
had: 1, Abigail, Oct 81, 1885; 2,
Dorcas, in Mansfield, April 30, 1888;
3, Mary, June 6, 1910; 4, Jesse,
baptized in Mansfield, April 25, 1912;
5, Ebenezer; 6, Martha; z, Ebenezer;
8, Samuel; 9, Zoeth, 1851; 10, Je-
NINA, born Wilmington, 1865; IL,
IL, Joseph and Anne, Feb. %, 1859.
Zoeth's granddaug liter married Joshua
Preston. Jesse 5. Jesse 4, Elisha,
Jr., B, Elisha 2, William /, married
Mary Pierce of Mansfield, March 10,
1857. They had: l, Jesse, Jan. II,
1768; 2, David. Sept. %, 1773; 3,
Enoch, May 2, 1875: 4, Elijah, Oct
II, 1778. Elijah 6, Jesse 5, Jesse
4, Elisha, Jr., 8, Elisha 2, William
1, married Clarissa Crane, Dec. 81,
1906. They had: !, Clarissa, Feb.
"a, 1908, (married Thomas Russ) i
2, Esther, Aug 3, 1909, (married
David Buffington), Elijah mar
ried, second, Sally Hunt. 3, Elijah
Z was born March II, 1911, married
Holman; 4, Sally, Feb. IA,
1913, married Wilson Curtis; 5,
Elan, born Jan. %, 1915; 6, Abig- |
all, born Feb. 6, 1917, married Jona-
than Lyman Durham; Z, Mary, born
July IA, 1919; s, Joseph, her twin,
married Susan Wilson; he had mar
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