The Newtown bee., 1908-04-10

Ford but was called Sally lived in a house which Captain Gideon built for him and afterward was inherited by his son, Samuel F. Hollister, and who died there in 1888. As they lived SC near together and their wives being sisters, they used many things in con- mon. The grindstone and fiat irons, the churn. also the mortar. which was log holloWed out at one end. in which all their fine salt was crushed, were carried back and forth.
 We can only imagine the inconven- fences to which the good people of those times were subjected. No stoves in which food could quickly be baked, no canned fruit, only the preserves which would keep in stone jars, or they must resort to the barrel of boiled cider apple sauce. They attended the weekly Tuesdayafternoon prayer meet ing and afterward when sitting around the fire they talked over the events of the day, commenting on those who took part, saying how able Mir So and So was in prayer or whether some one else was consistent. When Deacon Preston took part in meeting he usually chose text of scripture and talked upon it but Deacon Sherman spoke more as the spirit moved him. One of them walked all the way to Calhoun street to talk and pray with a sick girl who lived Tn a h'use down the hill from Edgar Calhoun's place. A grandson was very sick at one time and Deacon sherman went to see him every day and told the sick boy that he would die fir him if he could. The boy re- covered and in old age remembered the devotion of his grandfather at tha t time. These were
 PROUD, BRAVE AND CHRISTIAN
 PEOPLE.
 One of them who read religious reading on Sunday said she would not allow her self to sleep on the Lords day.
 The funeral of Preston Sherman and the wife of Sherman Preston was on the same day. He died at the age of seventy-two on January 10, and sine on January Il, 1850. He had been sick two weeks of lung fever and she died suddenly. She had laid out her things in preparation for his funeral which was expected to be on the next day and not feeling very well lay down on the bed. The family thought she spoke and on going to her found her dead. His funeral was postponed one day, that the two might be buried at the same time. There was so much snow that the coffins were carried to the church and then to the old cemetery in a sleigh. The Rev Gordon Hayes offic- iated. Preston Sherman and Lois Ford's children were: Mary Esther, who married Merritt Beach. He built the brick house now occupied by Tur- ney 0dell; Austin, who went to Vir- ginia and found and married his wife there. Preston Sherman Ii married Phebe Turner and built house near the homestead. Their son. Arthur. succeeded them. This is the place at present occupied by Robert F. Hollis ter. Sherman Preston and Sarah Ford's children were Marilla who mar ried J. Clark Calhoun and he built the house in which Wilbur Fenn now lives: : Clarissa married Asahel Hollister and went to Sullivan County, N. r.. to live. Mrs Lewis Logan is a granddaughter. Samuel Ford Hollister lived at the old place and was unmarried, Sherman Preston II married Patty Nettleton and lived in Nettleton Hollow where J. B. Hollister resides.
 The house recently sold by Walter Newton was
 AT ONE TIME A TAVERN
 and the bar is still there in cupboard in one of the front rooms. It consists