The Press., 1909-12-08

| meGEe90e, W1tn &6 Aoaeb buEoo nHo- places and two ovens. The ovens were of brick. as no New England stone could withstand the heat of the fire for baking.
 The bases of those chimneys were frs duently ten feet square in the cellars, with an aah pit holding some forty to fifty bushels of ashes, with an opening In the back of the large fireplace In the long kitchen. The kitchen fireplace was frequently about four feet wide by about three and one. l lalf feet high and some fifteen inches deep, with large andirons standing me aix inches above the hearth for large ack log and forestiCk, on which tle ire was built.
 Under the forestIck, when there was a good bed of ooals, was the place for the cast Iron bake pan, which was used when the oven was net heated and . nloe shortcake was in order for q s o'clock tea. These ehimneya were usually built of stone Co near tLe top of tho roof, and some were topped out with stone.
 Iu the same naighborhood with the Aieknell home, and some distance east, was the EsQ Johnson farm, of which I knew but very little To the neFtheast of the Johnson farm was what was known as the Sharp place, occupied by one Walbridge, and only a short distance from the Timothy Holt. ST.. place mentioned h my first article.
 Some distance east of the Holts on the Ashford road. and near the Ash. ford Hue, was the home of Dr. Jason Aarrowa, and very near was the home If Abram Holman. grandfather of the late w.. D. Holman. A little further east, aud over the Ashford line, was the then fine home and farm of Asa George, or as he was better known as Asa Smith, a mulatto, re- spected by the whole community.
 He was a very fair mechanic, and at times did quite an amount of work in the new silling of barns and of moving buildings, and he was some- thing of an athlete, tall and we'll proportioned, and even in modern times would be considered 8 good wrestler, not perhaps at the catch as- catch -can. but at the square shoulder to elbow hold. which was the favorite hold then.
 recall a story told of match that was arranged between Smith and John Heath at one time. There was some race prejudice then, as now, and Heath at first refused to wrestle with a negro, but he finally did and was the victor, and as he threw Smith he let go his hold and let Smith fall his whole length very heavily, which was not quite fair.
 Near the line of Ashford and Will lington, north from the Smith farm, was the home of Marvin Knowlton, very intimate friend of Gen. Orin Holt, a well-to-do farmer and a man of considerable means Still farther on was the Amadon family, some of whose descendants are still known in the east part of Wilmington. I might refer to the Hamlet of Westford on the Center Turnpike, where, at the time of which am writing, was the home of the Richmonds, who carried on a very prosperous mercantile and shoe manufacturing business
 In the north part of this section of Wilmington were several families that in my first article I overlooked, families that had had their homes there for many years-Capt. Lamb. tile father of Stephen Lamb; Clark family, of which one. the oldest son, was soon after the captain of the old company of the 23d regiment of the Conn militia; the Walker family, two maiden sisters of Jonathan O. Walker; the Stiles family, two maiden sisters and a brother, Seth Stiles, of Samuel Stiles of the Hol low.
 One of the Walker girls married one Barrows, who was the father of B. W. Barrowe. who for many years was wealthy farmer in Mt. Sterling, Ill. His sister, Almira Barrows, afterwards became the wife of Origen Hall After the death of her hus band she went to make her home with her niece, Mrs. George Turner, in Mt Sterling, where she died only few years ago at the age of 84 years. Another of the Walker girls, Miss Alice, or ''Aunt Alice" as she was called, afterwards married the late David Glazier of Wilmington.
 In the Moose Meadow district were, or they came very soun, the two Bidwell brothers, Ira and Harvey Bid. we'll Both in the early forties were active in the Washingtonian temper ance movement, aud who were ire. quent speakers in the sohoolhouse temperance meetings frequently held in the various schoolhouses in town.
 It was about 1884 or that what was the carding and fulling mill in the Toplif district passed into the hands of one Dale, who, with one or to other Englishmen built a silk mill and several houses and store, and built up what has ever been called Daleville. I recall two or three fami lies that came about that time. An English family named Brockbanks and the Oogshall family. whose two daughters, afterwards married Caleb Holt and s o. Vinton. and who may be still living.
 A few days ago had handed me a clrcular describing new process of the manufacture of linen of the Ok ford Linen Do of North Brookfleld. Mass, in which it's claimed that through recent discoveries they are