The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-07-04
TO-DAY IS GLORIOUS
TO THESE WOMEN
Their Fathers Fought at Ticonderoga
and Brandywine-Real Daughters
Of American Revolution.
BY w. G. SHEPHERD.

BROOKFIELD, N. Y. July A.
Three really genuine daughters OF
day that one could imagine. They are
the American revolution are having
about the safest and sanest Fourth to-
Mrs. Phoebe Wooley Palimeter. OK
Brookfield, and Mrs. Esther Ann
Shepardson and Mrs. Lydia Melissa
Henry, Of Poolville, both little up
state" villages OF central New York.
Though intensely patriotic, for their
fathers fought in the long war that
made US free and independent, they
deplore the tendncy of tn present. gen.
Grafton to max the Fourth day OF
noise and sport, forgetting almost en-
tirely the patriotic side Of the celebra-
ton.
Mrs. Palimeter, now aged and too
feeble to leave her bed, takes the
greatest possibl plasur Ia thing over
and over again on the Fourth the
events OF that terrible war as told her
by her father. To her children and
grandchildren, who gather about her
today, she delights to tell OF her
soldier boy who followed Ethan Allen
at Ticonderoga.
My father always believed that
God, himself, helped the Americans
because he wanted, in some corner OF
this earth, a place wher frdom might
xist
81 believe It, too" she added.
They must have suffered up in
those northern woods near Ticou-
deroga. My father was founded ter
ribly, In the side, at the battle of
Bemis Heights, Oct. z, 1777. He and
another wounded soldier made their
way to Albany where there was hos
pital They had only enc horse be-
tween them. On would ride until the
other was too weak to walk and then
he would alight and help the weak
man TO the saddle. In the last stages
OF the terrible journey neither one
could lift the other to the saddle.
They could not even lead the horse,
but 1t followed my father and his COM
Iade through the woods TO Albany.
Il have heard my father tell about
how pay day after pay day went by
without any pay for the soldiers.
Their shoes were out and there we're
no shoes to replace them; their clotn.
ing beanie tattred but there was no
new clothing in sight. The blood from
their torn and frozen feet stained the
the SOW in winter. The sun, In sum-
mer, beat down on hatless heads.
People who say that this govern
ment Is only test OF democracy and
that It's success hasn't been establish
ed are all wrong.
God its behind the United States;
he won't let our nation die; II seems
to me 1t Is big part Of his plan for
this earth"
Mrs. Palimeter is So years old; her
father died 81 years ago.
The other two daughters are csle-
brating the Fourth In a way that
helps a person see what Independ-
ence day means TO those who can
look back TO a father who fought un-
der Washington. At their home were
lemonade and ginger snaps for every
body, and everybody for miles makes
Ii a point to visit the patriotic sis
tiers. 8
Mrs. Shepardson, the older daugh-
ter of Jeremiah Perdy, revolutionary
war hero and protege of Washington,
delights I'm telling how her father.
then a Lad OF is, joined the army aud
went 10 the front.
"At first they didn't want father to
go. The colonel said he was too young,
and that there were enough men to
do the fighting.
All right he says to the colonel,
III you won't let me enlist I'll go long
with my brother anyhow, You can't
drive me away from him.
That was In Westchester county,
New York, one August day In 1777.
When General Washington heard
about him sticking 10 his brother. ne