The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1906-01-12

:. Wiley,
ost, G. A. R., of New
lent of Newtown
Boyhood.
know where that paper is that Aunt
Emily gave your mother?" saw it
there (in the drawer) and l read it
over. Gould not tell you. The inter
est was to be paid annually on $1,000
at four per cent. We had to scratch'to
get 1T. Aunt Emily wanted to know
II my father had ever said anything
about that paper she had given to my
mother. "Well," she said, "that pa
per isn't good for anything any more"
l always remembered it. 1t was q
few days after my mother died, in 1888.
My father staid there year after my
mother died, then he moved to Step
ney, and has lived there ever since.
Redirect: Only few days after
my mothers death he went over there.
When he came home he asked me to
get the paper. He took it. 1t 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 $4,000. I never saw bond OF
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. could not
tell whether it was opposite the sig
nature. Don't ever remember having
seen the paper afterwards. never
said anything to my father about the
Aunt Emily about the Brick house
farm. Charlie has lived in the Brick
house in.the last i've 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 (Charlie)
went to live there.
Joseph Gilbert Gorham: reside in
Woodbury.. Advertisement in The
NEwrOwN BEE, issue Of February q,
1891, was read to him. 1 saw some
thing in THE NEwTOwN BEE that led
me to 60 down and try to buy this
place. Think it was in March, 1891, l
went to look at this place to buy it.
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 daV.i
SAW THE OLD LADY THE NEXT TIME /
WENT THERE.
She wanted $4,000 for this place as 1
remember it. She said it cost her
that. There was nothing in the house
except some old furniture. 1 went to
look at the farm and offered her el400.
L went over there with Frank Ives,
who lives at Botsford Station. There
was fellow there they called Charlie
Blakeman. I think it was Brakeman,
Mr. Ives seemed to be acquainted with
him. I went the first day with my
wife. Mrs NOrthrOp was not at home
1 found young lady there who told
me to call the next day; that her aunt
would be at home. l came the next
day and saw Mrs Northrop. As I re
member Mrs Northrop she sit there ir
the chair and she wore glasses, and a
[ remember, she was rather stout
lady. She told me that she wanted tc
get $4,000 for the place; that it hat
cost her that. I did not sit down In
the house. 1t was cold day in March
l went out with this man and looked
at the place. l should not want *
pay more than $14OO. 1t was in the
fore part of March, 1891.
| Miss Nav Parsons in answer t(
question-"What, Miss May, did Aunt
Emily say III anything) to you abOu,
Grace and Lii in relation to her prop
erty after Mrs Brakeman was dead?'
She told me who she was going K
leave some of it to. She said she was 60
ing to leave Annette Dibble something
that she would leave her $1,000. She
said something about leaving Grace
and "Lil" something; about having
they would have their mothers share
that is Mrs Beers and Mrs Dibble.
heard her say it several times. Sht
said Lii. used to bake for her some
and Grace used to carry butter t(
Danbury for her and do errandS fol
her. l do not remember Of anything
else. l knew that Grace lived there
Mrs NOrthrOp told me. think She
said Grace was about Is. Aunt Emily
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'
and Reuben johnson and Grace ant
Lillian. She thought good deal O
them. I knew she did. She used tt
tell how they used to come up there
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. II
speaking about helping her with tn
cooking, ETC., she said she could no
get along without them. Grace use'
not do them. Did not have the horse
Could not do the business like Grace
Heard her speak Of Charles Blakema1
going to buy the Brick house farm
She said she wanted him to buy II
Last spring she said she wanted hin
to buy it. Question:: "What was tn
conversation that you heard betwee
Mrs NOrthrOp and Charles Brakeman
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 remembe
the conversation. don't know wha
, Mrs Brakeman did say. The converss
tion was in the sitting room. 1t va
about a year or six months before he
death. She didn't say whether Charll
had leased it or not, He was livin