The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-13

leisure, but such has not been the
case. In her younger days she worked
on her fathers farm, and after her
marriage she did manual labor in the
fields for her husband.
1T was no disgrace for a woman to
work in those days" she often says, as
she relates stories of the days she
worked in the fields and cared for her
children after the sun disappeared in
the west.
Mrs. Doremus is a disciple of the old
maxim, early to bed and early to
RISE and still follows it's teachings.
Before leaving the old farm she al
ways went to bed before 8 o'clock, and
even now In the city is never found out
of her bed after $3.50 o'clock.
She is also an early riser. but occa-
s~ionally during the past few months
has had her breakfast sent to her room.
This is done, however, against her will
and she submits to such waiting upon
only under protest.
Mrs. Doremus is the daughter of
Sally Hennion and Philip Hall, andswas
born in Spring Valley, Bergen County,
on August 10, 1903. Her mother was
born on December 16, ITO, and was q
daughter of one of the old Dutch fam
lilies of Ramapo. Her father was an
Englishman, who came to this country
toward the close of the eighteenth cen
fury, and conducted a farm at Spring
Valley. Her mother died in 1910.
When she was Z years old her father
and mother moved to Saddle River,
and 1t was there that she was married
to John A. Doremus, of the old Do
remus family of Parsippany on April
"a, 1924. Doremus was a son of Abra-
ham Doremus, who settled in Par
sippany in 1869. He was the son of
Cornelius, one of three brothers, the
first of the name in this country COM
ing here from Holland in 1895.
There were three brothers of them and,
though at first they settled at Freak
ness, they later scattered and went to
different parts of the country. 1t is
from one of these brothers that former
Mayor Doremus is descended, and
Aunt Sally's husband was descended
from another.
When Mrs. Doremus move into the
Parsippany house as a bride it was the
same structure that had stood there
ever since her husbands father built 1t
when he first settled in the place.
Sixty-two years ago. long after the
founder of the family had died, Aunt
Sally's husband tore down the old
building and erected a new house on
the site. She has lived there ever since,
save when she has been at the home of
her grandson, at whose house she now
lives.
h has had five children, two of
whom are now living, Mrs. Broadwell
and Abram H.. Doremus. who now
lives at the farm in P~arsippany. Mrs.
Broadwell is 70 and her brother is 70.
She has eight grandchildren and eleven
great-grandchildren living.
Some tim age a stray black kitten
wandered up on the Linnett's back
porch and cried for it's supper. Aunt
Sally heard it and gave a plate of milk
to the h~alf-starved animal. Since then
the two have been almost inseparable
during the daytime. She feeds it and
cares for it in every way n at night,
the last thing before going to bed,
she asks her daughter or some other
member of the family to be sure and
care for the kitten if it needs anything.
1t is a pretty picture to see the devo-
ton of the kitten, not yet a hundred
days old, to her mistress, past the
century mark in years.
Aunt Sally's memory for things that
have happened within recent years is
imperfect, u things that happened
years ago she still remembers distinct
ly. One thing that seems to ave i'm
pressed itself on her mind indellbly is
something that happened during the
war of 1872. She was then 8 years old
and lived in Saddle River. In these
days, she says, the farmers used to
pasture their sheep or the lawns in
front of their houses, between the stone
walls and the roadway. One day, as
she was standing at a window and a
big flock of sheep was standing in
front of their house, a body of mounted
soldiers on their way to the front came
down the road. Needlessly, she says,
they rode through the sheep and
manned them so badly with the horses
feet that it was necessary to kill a
great number of them. Just the other
day Aunt Sally told this incident to
with her on the stoop, and her eyes
flashed as she described the pitiful cries
of the injured animals.
When she was a young lady sheNlived
for a time with an old woman, who
was known to every one as Granny
Hopper, who was a peculiar old SOU
and very set in her ways. There were
several other girls in the village, and
one day Granny Hopper too all of
them to New York to buy fancy hats"
as she called them. In those days the
girls all wore silk hats and Donnets
when they We're dressed. They re-
turned from the city with vari-colored
hats, and Aunt Sally was as proud of
her new headgear as any Of them.
She wore her new treasure once, n
then one day Granny again went to
the big city and came back with a
plain black bonnet, which she made
Aunt Sally wear instead of the gaily
oolored one that she had purchased a
few days before.
Just imagine me in that black silk
at that age m the other girls in their
colors." said the old lady, and laughed
a little at the recollection.
All her life she has been q moderate
eater and has always, until recently,
used a great deal of coffee and tea.
She has stopped using the latter now,
as 1t keeps her awake, she thinks, but
she has her big cup of coffee every
morning.
Along with her cat Aunt Sally has q
passion for flowers and flower growing.
She plants a little sarden every year,
in the spring, and tends it herself