The Newtown bee., 1906-05-04

paper, one lived in New Haven, while the third, Almon, lived in town for years. After the Galpins left the house it was occupied by family of Wheatons. Then it was owned and occupied by a family of Armstrong;, of whom a grandson now lives in New Preston. Newel Newton bought the place of the ArmstrongS and he and his wife began housekeeping there. They were the last to occupy it.
 The next place to the north is now owned by Frank Carryl. The Camps are the first who are remembered as living there. The farm then went to nal owner. After his marriage he lived there for few years, then sold the place to Augustine Newton. The place remained the property of Agus- tine Newton and later of his son, Newel, until the death of the latter. It was then sold to Seymour Brown, then passed to Earnest Isbell and from him went to it's present occu- pant.
 Under the mountain to the west of this, there was house near where an old barn now stands. This was the home of Ezekiel and Betsey Newton. They raised family of nine sons. They were great workers and made work the chief thing in life. Ezekiel Newton asserted that he was such a fast raker and binder of rye that hay ing tossed one bundle into the air as he finished with it he would have another done before that came down. There was neighborly strife between the Camps and the Newtons. The Camps were church going family, but the NewtonS were not, and the Camps declared that they had better crops than the Newtons because of this fact In those days it is said that one of the chief ways of getting money was to fat hogs. It is told of Garry Newton that he kept all his fall pigs over winter fatting them the next summer. In the fall he had number of butchers to dress his pork, attended to look on and to help: A great dinner was provided for all. The day of the butchering was very mud dy but the weather changed and at night everything froze up so it was terribly hubby. In the night MT Newton loaded bis pork into his cart and started for New Haven with a pair of oxen and horse as leader. On the way his cart axle got so hot it was set on fire, all the little streams were frozen and he had no way of getting water but he had bottle of cider in the cart, with that he put out the fire: He delivered his load at the market on Broadway, now Chapel street, went to the wharfS and got load of plaS- ter, coming back to Broadway to put up for the night. He returned home the next day and in that way he got SlOO. it is said,
 The house where Edward Fenn now lives was built about 60 years ago by Almon Galpin. MT Galpin lived there until 1876 when he sold the place to Edward Fenn and went to WOOdbury to live.
 The house where Franklin Hollister now lives was built about 1927 by Gideon Hollister for his son, Gideon. The Gideon for whom the house was built had three children, Gideon Hiram, who was born in 1918, he grad ranked among the foremost writers and speakers of his time; he was class poet. He studied law with Judge Sey- mour of Litchteld, was admitted to the bar in 1842. He was writer and best known as the author of history of Connecticut. Marrilla married George Drakeley and lived in Wood bury. David, who also graduated from Yale, studied law and has been a lawyer of prominence in Bridgeport. All the children were born in the old Hollister homestead but moved into the new home before David could walk. MT Garrett, whose wife was an aunt of Senator Platt, lived and died Garrett was very strict in his observ- ancel of the Sabbath. He would not pick up stick or shave himself on that day. If he was little late in stopping work on Saturday night, he would run home to get there in time to shave before sunset. When the boys tried to tease him about the way he kept the Sabbath he said he wished it came twice as often. It was the custom of those times for the deacOns to visit the sick in the community. During MT Garrett's last sickness Dea Sherman Preston Hollister visited MT Garrett and prayed with him. About 1842 Gideon Hollister sold this place to Garry Newton and moved to Wood bury near Hotchkissville. After the death of Garry Newton, Newel New. ton and his family lived there until only Mrs Newton was left. The place was then sold to Willis Futile and in a few years he sold to Samuel Hollis. ter and his father, Frank Hollister, moved into the house.
 Next comes the old Hollister home. stead. The house was built about 1775 by Capt Gideon HolliSter for his son, Preston, who was married in 1775. It is said he was not happy ein his mar riage, so went into the War of the died. His half brother, Gideon, had the house; he married Currence Hick- ok in November of 1782. It is told that once when the men were all away the house caught fire on the roof around the great stone chimney and Currence HOllister, taking pail Of
 water in each hand, walked up the roof and put out the fire. This Gideon
 was the oldest brother of the twin deacons. He had three children, Ma rilla, who married Andrew Hine; Gi. deon. who married and began house. keeping in part of bis fathers house and whose children were all born there. Then his father had the house
 moved out that his brother, Truman,
 who married Jannette Smith in Janu. ary, 1927, could begin housekeeping in
 the homestead. Truman was strong abolitionist and teetotaler. This generation. beginning to realize the
 ruin caused by using spirits, was be. coming temperance. Those called 1 temperance were the ones who did not
 use spirits but still used cider, while
 the teetotalers did not use even cider. Truman always lived in the old home and had the homestead when bis ia.
 ther died. He had four children, Sophia, Seth, Burr and Lora. Sophia
 married Daniel Nettleton in 1854 and they lived in Morris until 1872 when the call came for them to return to the Nettleton homestead where Sophia died in 1898. TruD,an died of typhoid