St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-08-04
ABOUT SHEFFIELD PEOPLE.
The Interesting Life Story of Five Young Old
Residents.

NNl y NiOSS " IL, 10 uOLCWOl LILY Dut Ing
they at their advanced age are better
preserved than the majority of people at
60 years, is remarkable
HANNAH (PEARL) FOLSOM.
Hannah Pearl was born in Sheffield,
Aug 3, 1927, where she lived until her
marriage with Noah L. Folsom. Then
she moved to Wheelock, where her hus-
band kept store for some years. Her
home has been for number of years
With her sonin-law and daughter, Mr.
and Mrs. Albert J. Gifin. Although she
has not Travelled a great deal, having
been to Boston once, and once to Mont
pelier when her husband represented Shelf
field in the House. she is well abreast of
the times. She is now and always has
been great favorite with children, and
is loved and respected by all who know
| her. Ofseven children born to her par
ents, Nicholas Pearl and Hannah Gray
Pearl, only three are living-Isaac Pearl
Rachael Eastman, and Hannah Folsom.
One brother, William, was brought from
Peacham on horseback in his mothers
arms, being only a month old at the
time. Another brother Jeremy Pearl
lived to be 80 years old and still an
other brother, Hardy Pearl, having
shouldered the pick and shovel, Joined
the gold searchers in California, and died
as young man in the west. Their sis
ter Mary died in Lowell Mrs. Folsom,
whose Send birthday occurred yesterday,
having survived her husband by 16 years,
is still the possessor Of remarkably good
health and spirits. Although she begins
her daily work between four and five
O'Clock in the morning, she is the last one
in the house to retire at night. Regular
habits of living and unvarying cheerful
ness make such things possible to her.
RACHAEL (PEARL) EASTMAN.
When Rachel Pearl, now Mrs. East
man, was born, June "a, 1917, her
parents lived in Peacham. Not great |
while afterwards the family moved to
Sheffield and took the old farm, which
Mrs. Folsom now owns. There Rachael |
lived until she was 20 years of age.
Wheelock then became her home and she
lived there about 40 years Again Mr..
Eastman moved to Sheffield and after
farming for some time, became the over
oSNi Vi liz IOWH lttI III. Later MIS-.
Eastman lived at the Coffrin place be-
tween Wheelock and Lyndonvile. Two
years ago she went to live at East
Burke on the farm of her son, near the
base OF Burke mountain. Recently she
has been living with her daughter, Mrs.
Hannah Barber, in Sheffield, but last
week went to East Burke to spend some
time with her son, Eli Eastman On her
92nd birthday which occurred in June,
a small number of friends and relatives
gathered to celebrate the event. Among
the guests were her brother Isaac and
her sister Hannah. Three children and
three grandchildren are alive to perpet
uate the memory of Mrs. Eastman.
slightly deaf, her eyesight is
quite good, for having played out" one
pair OF glasses, she quickly found another
which enabled her to read with ease.
One OF her greatest delights is to sit in
her rocking chair by the window and
read some interesting book Her one
regret is that she cannot be as actively
useful as ever to her friends and care
takers.
ISAAC PEARL.
Isaac Pearl was born in Sheffield. Ian.
16, 1920, and was married at Wheelock,
July %, 1S41, to Susan Wiley. Most of
his life has been spent at Sheffield and
now in his Goth summer he is living with
his son-in-law and daughter Mr.. and
Mrs. Lester Brown, in the village of his
birth. In the years 1852 and 1853 Mr..
Pearl tried his hand at gold hunting in
California, doing better in the time he
was there than he would have done at
home. Besides three children he has 16
grandchildren and Il great grandchld-
rem. If the total descendants of the
brother and two sisters, Isaac, Rachael.
and Hannah, were gathered together,
there would be reunion of nearly so
people. Mr.. Pearl was a schoolmate of
Timothy Hill, and remembers distinctly
the time when the boys had to cut the
to keep the school house warm.
Lists OF names were hung on the wall
and each scholar had to work up the F.
fuel In his turn. The fact that boys were
needed on the farms during the summer
prevented any schooling except for few
months IN the snowy season Such rig
orous training must have had beneficial
effect. tor today Mr.. Pearl reads close
print without glasses and hears as well
as ne ever could. Moreover he is still an
active farmer, for on the day the GALE
DOMAIN reporter visited him, he had
moved with the moving machine and a
pair OF horses four or five acres of land
and had raked it with the horse rake in
the afternoon. !
TIMOTHY HILL.
Jan. II, 1917, Timothy Hill was born
in Sheffield, his parents, King w. and
Sally Gilman Hill, having but one Older
child, Aaron W. Hill, born in 1914, At
the age of 26, Timothy married Sarah |.
Miles, and for while lived in Wheelock.
but most of his life has been spent in
Mr.. Hill has outlived his
many brothers and sister by nine wears
winch means good deal when it is re- :
that he was the second Oldest d
OF the family. He now has three child. a
rem, tour grandchildren, ard five great Il
grandchildren. The old Hill farm at
Shefheld consisted of $50 good acres, and /,
I'VE barns were annually filled to the Il
brim with hay Like all other bows Of II
his day and location, Mr. Hill had but e.
little education. Il never went to school II
alter | was eight years old" he saws ',
and the terms which he did attend were u
very short in comparison with those of 81
To-Day Yet this kindly old man recog- .
hizes and does not attempt to depreciate III
the value OF education. On the contrary q
ne wishes that the people of his genera. w
ton could have had the "chance, &c - al