The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1906-04-06

ion who will remember this venerable
lady, who died at the home of her son in
Piemont about forty years ago. She
retained her faculties of mind and body
so well that she actually made and fitted
dress for herself after she was a hundred
years old.
The present writer well remembers a
visit she made to her son, Prentiss Knight,
in this town, in 1858. or the following year,
and heard her personal recolections of the
battle of Lexington, and her account of
the battle of Bunker Hill, which she, with
many others, witnessed from a hill in
Medford. Let us recall her memory for
a moment, and be thankful that she be-
queathed the secret of living long and hap
PLY to her daughter-in-law.
Mrs. Knight came of Scotch-Irish stock,
that remarkable people which, originally
from Scotland, and modified by few
generations OF .ssidence in the north Of
Ireland, has furnished this country with
some of its most eminent citizens. Her
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS John Cochrane and
Lilly Kilgore, his wife, born and bred in
the parish of Glendormant, in the north
of Ireland, and members of the Presbyter-
ian church there, came to America in l71S,
and settled in Brunswick, Maine, on the
present site of Bowdoin College. They
left that place for fear of the Indians, and
settled among their country men in Lon
donderry, n. H., where the youngest son,
Samuel, was born. John, son of Samuel,
married Agnes Wilson, a sister of James
Wilson, who made the first globes in this
country, and of David Wilson, both of
whom settled and died in Bradford, and
were both past ninety when they died.
John and Agnes Cochrane came to Brad
ford in 1902, and Mrs. Knight, their sixth
child and second daughter was born Jan.
II ,1S0S, in house that stood little above
the cemetery on the upper plain. In 1912
her father removed to Newbury, and set
tied near the Bradford line, on the north |
ern slope of Wright's Mountain. The |
farm is now a pasture owned by Dudley |
Carleton, the buildings are all gone, and |
the road which once passed the house has /
been discontinued these many years.
The recollections of an aged person are
always interesting and Mrs. Knights
memory is a store house of
She has certainly lived A..
through a very remarkable portion of the
worlds history. She has lived under the
of every president except
Washington and the elder Adams, and /
the war of 1912 very we'll
Grand old DIR. McKeen finished his min
stry of siXty-three years almost thirty
years ago, yet she remembers when he
began to preach. He preached one week
lay in a dwelling house, and her father
who was at work near by, came and sat
Town on the door step to hear the ser
non. 1t was upon the parable of the
Wedding garment and she felt badly and
'ried because she thought he meant her
ather, who was in his working clothes.
She recalls to mind the cold year"
SIG, when about a foot of snow fell on
he 18th of June, and Moosilauke was
White twice in July and three times in
august. Corn and potatoes were fail
ire, and some people suffered from hunger. +
There we're families who boiled potato
cps, and weeds for greens, and would go
Dng distances to get even them. Chill
Iren would talk about being good for per-
APPS they would die when it came winter,
nd they might not have anything to eat.
Ter people Jared better than some. as
er father made reeds for hand looms. and
vent around the country selling them,
aking pay in grain. Mrs. Knight rcmem-
ers well the people who lived in Bradford /,
D lSl3,-the Baldwins. Johnsons. Peck
It's, Hardys, McDuffees, Tabors, Parkers
nd Others Of that day. In Newburv
here were the Eastmans, Carriers. Smiths.
he Boyce. Rogers, Putnam, Prescott,
awyer, Brock and Hazeltine families,
no lived in the same school district. and 4
iildren from all Of them were her school
.ates. She remembers Samuel Hasel-
ne, a gifted young man, who died in 1919.