The Press., 1909-11-10
wILLINGTON.

in the Congregational chapel. Rev. E. W. Darrow leader, was attended by a larger number than usual. Miss Ida M. Adams and Elmer MatheWs were voted in as new members.
 Next Sunday, if the morning IS pleasant, there will be no service at the Baptist church, the congregation being invited to go to the hall ID South WilIingtcn, where the church will meet as one body at II o'clock, the baptismal service at Lake Beauty follow ing immediately If the morn frg she uId ba stormy or unfaVorable, the services Will be held as usual at the church on the Hill in the mcrn- ing, at the hall, South Willington. in the afternoon.
 D B Gardner and wife of Rock ville spent Saturday at the Oongre gational parsonage Pleasant mes sages come frequently to this family from Rev Harol1 Gardner. Who is on his way to begin his woIk hs niiE sionary in Turkey. There have hf n missives from London, Paris, ne and other points. He las fourd agreeable travelil g companions and Is gaining knowledga and experience and making friends. as always. where ever he is His next stepping place will probably be Uonstantinople.
 Mansfield Center, Nov. 6.
 In reading Raminisoencss of Will lington'' in The Press of Nov. 3d, I note errors in that of the Stiles family. Will you kindly print these Corrections in the Samuel Stiles family" Samuel Stiles was twice married. First wife was Sally Water man. who bore him four children Samuel Jr., Sally. Catherine and Faith. Second wife, Calista Heath, who bore four children (three of which died in childhood Oalista. Marshall. Sophronia and Marshall. Sally and Faith married brothers, Eli and Robert Battey of Wilmington, not Ashford. Philo Wright, who was
 
 Kate Wright Emo. "Reminiscences of WillingtOn, Conn, by Native
 of the Town-2.
 The first part of these "reminiscences had to do entirely with the three eastern school districts, so this will ! treat with the three center districts. the Fenton. the Center and the Roar ing Brook, and am not sure that the I or simplyR g hamlet.
 There was in the Fenton district no special industry but farming. Their nearest post office was Mans field Four Corners and the nearest gIist mill was Capt. Sharp's. It was strictly farming community There was in that vicinity quite tract of land known as the Cedar Swamp, rom which Capt. Sharp, years later, after he put in his shingle mill, ob- ;ained his timber for making many thousand of cedar shingles Although lying in the town until I was we'll towards forty years old, must con- ess that l never saw tl at Cedar Swamp, and for years I did not know l Cedar tree when saw one, except y the baIk It is an old saying tt at Ve are never too old to learn, and I lave learned good many things since hat long ago time.
 To go back to the Fenton district, If the families as now recall them $ near the Mansfield line, were the Oalkins family, the Simon Carpenter family, Roderick Fenton, with his quite large family. of which a. O. Fenton, in later years very in- innate friend of mine, was the oldest on, Chester Fenton, with his one laughter, afterwards the wife of Will jam Eldridge, Horace Holt, with heir four or five children, and the Elijah Eldridge family of nine or ten Ihildren.
 Here l recall an incident of years ater, after I had learned my trade as ! carpenter. B. P. Williams, with myself and Jason E. Twiss, who was killed in the battle of Antietam, did the carpenter work on the new house built by Elam and David Eldridge. It was the year after they had fattened and killed the largest hog that was aver fattened in Wilmington, weighing near 800 pounds. remem ber some of it was served for our fare and I was not very fond of pork in those days. and in fact never have been.
 Of the Oalkins family recall but very little, only that James married a daughter of Horace Holt, and that Dunbam Oalkins was quite given to the use of adjsctives in common con- versation. N
 The Fentons and the Holts and Ell dridges were all well.to.do farmers, and we'll respected in the whole town.
 Of Uncle Simon Carpenter it was said that he was a very close, hard l! working farmer and never spent dol lar when he could avoid it; and that he objected to being taxed for the repairing of the schoolhouse in his own district His son. Luoien, was a chip of the old block. and that when he died bachelor some years ago left some forty thousand dollars to be di- vided among nearly 40 cousins. II really question whether he ever got very much real satisfaction in his life. I think that I have written enough of the Fenton district and will pass on to the Center.