Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-08-27
WEST CORNWALL.

The one important question asked for
the last few days, "are Won going To the
Fair, and do you think it will rain?'
Miss Katherine GriswnlA visited Miss
Laura Bascom of Shoreham early in the
week.
Miss S. E. Griswold has returned
home, after visiting relatives in Brandon.
G. T. Dimmock and son Burton have
gone west on business trip.
Painters from Shoreham are painting
the house and other buildings at o. A.
Fields.
Miss Ethel Currier o. Thetford is visit.
ing at her grandfather's, H. c. Currier.
1--WE copy extracts from quite lengthy
article in the Valley Springs. IS. d.
Vidette regarding the sudden death OF
Almon S. Pinney, who moved from this
place with his family and his father and
mother, Mr.. and Mrs. Horace Pinney,
his sister Mary. who married Datus
Bingham. and a brother, Edward: at
was q shock to this community to hear
last Saturday afternoon that one of its
old st residents, s. A. Pinney, had lust
expired after leaving his home. For
over a year he had been suffering from
an incurable heart trouble. While the
end seemed near, in a way, it was not
expected he would pass aw " in such a
sudden and almost tragic way. Mr..
Pinney left home about two o'clock, II
seon began to rain and he stopped at tn e
home of Mr.. Butler until the storm was
over. Then he went to Main street.
where Nj. M. Ross, his son-ln.la law. met
him as he was showing signs of serious
illness. A chair was brought, the sick
man dropped into it, and he passed away
before medical aid could be got. The
body was taken to DIR. Bliss office and
the family summoned. He suffered very
little and the end was peaceful. Mr..
Pinney was born in Middlebury. VT.
Dec. ~, 1912, where he spent his early
youth. He enlisted in 1863 in the 14tb
Regiment of Vermont Volunteers. He
served for year, when he was com
PEELED to enter military hospital
and was soon honorably discharged.
On March 23d, 1864, he was married to
Lucia A. Green. At the close of the
Civil war he engaged with his father in
the stock business at West Cornwall. In
1873 he came to settle on the farm which
he owned at the time of his death and
where his daughter Mrs. w. H. Storms
and family now live. MIR. Pinney came
W Wis "iidSe W i've IN 1SUE where he
died August 9TH. Seven children were
born to him, a son and daughter dying
in infancy. Besides his wife, five child
rem, Mrs. Gertrude Stearns, Mrs. Nina
Ross of Manly, Mimi; Mrs. Maud Schef.
fer, Miss Winifred Pinney and Mrs.
Eunice Oliver. For &c years Comrade
Pinney lived in this community, being
not only one of its oldest settlers but one
of its most desirable citizens. A good
husband, kind father and helpful neigh
Dor. The funeral took place at the Con.
gregational church in the presence of a
large audience that more than filled the
edifice. This notice will be read with
much interest by our older citizens who
will sympathize with the bereaved child
rem and more especially the wife who
has been called upon to part with her
life companion, the love of her earlier
years, and who when she went from this
place here, to find and make a home
among strangers in strange land, left,
among all she knew or knew her. moth
ing but friends. The best wishes of all
went with them, as an entire fam
lily, to that new country, as the SYM
patty of the few old friends that are
left, feel for them now.