Connecticut western news., 1911-01-12
IN THE DAYS OF OLD TContinued from page II

l feet It had on them. On some or them i the effect was to make them very pug nacious on others to make them very ! hilarious, and others it makes very silly. Now there are many ways in the world of learning practical and useful lessons, and we are very dull scholars if we do not profit by them. Ore of these ways is by observation. By observing the effect of cider drinking on these persons I learned that it was very muddling to the brain and made up my mind that 1 did not want my brain so muddled and decided to let it alone as beverage {; that it was all right for vinegar for mak- ing and preserving pickles, but very bad as drink, and I have never had reason to change that decision. think the same still.
 But enough about my first recolleotions now will continue by saying something about the children of the families have spoken of, some of whom were consider ably older and younger than myself and therefore we did not attend school at the same time. First, the Spauldings, Ben jamin and James who left the Valley before marrying Mary, who became the wife of George Stephens <; Phoebe, who married Seymour Watson Esther, who married Royal Hubbell, and Han. nah who was little younger than my. self. who left town and afterward mar. ried a man named Benton. Next the Methodist Preacher who was named Stearns and one son named Charles Stearns. Next MT. Beardsley who had two sons, twins, who were so much alike that We could not tell them apart only by their names which were Wallace and William. Next J. B. Mead and two sons, Moses and Henry, and one daugh- ter Harriet Mead who died young, I should say, as 1 remember her. at about twenty. five. Next Joel Rockwell, three daughters Julia. Mary and Sarah, aud one sou, David, all of whom my brother tells me dled of consumption. Next Harvey Warner, ten children, Alkaline. Moses, Jane and Joseph (twins), Phoebe, Abigail, Elizabeth, Ruth, Alphonso aud Henry grandchildren of Granny Gleason 1 Next Moses Benedict, four children. James, Benjamin, Mary and Martha. Next Comfort Crofut, three sons, Bene- dict, Joel and Peck, and one daughter, Sarah. Next Joel Crofut, one son, Willie, who died when young lad. Next James Granger, with five children, Miles. Henry, Marion, Martha and Jose phiLe e, the latter now Mrs. Sartisl Root mother of Jerome Root and Mrs. Edward Pease. And just here in passing will mention one of my old teachers, Caroline Ferguson, sister of William Ferguson, |, who was a most excellent teacher and a lovely woman, who afterward became the wife of the late Judge Granger and who died few years ago after having trained and taught and left her impress on a family of daughters, the Misses Granger and Mrs. Dr. Camp, all of whom We know and also know them all to be justly worthy of such a mother.
 And now l want to go little out of the Valley just over the line into New Marlboro, Mass, and speak of three fam ihes who were related to me by blood aud marriage. First Jesse Benton, who was the father of Frederick and Philo Benton and Parmelia and Emeline Ben ton, and of Susan Benton who was a daughter by & second wife. Emelims Benton became the wife of my Uncle Jarvis Collar. Philo Benton married Emily Clark and had B family of four boys, Warren, John. Edwin and Albert; the latter still lives on the old place, Emily Clark was an aunt of my wife, Emily Foster, and bore her name, thus making me related by marriage to both the Benton and Collar families. Next we come to Uncle Asa and Aunt Sybil Collars, who were my grandparents. Their children were William, Jarvis, SAlome, Clarisa, Almeda, Elvira and Sybil Collar. Almeda Collar married Sanford P. Stevens and therefore was my mother. My Uncle Jarvis Collar was the last to occupy the old homestead which had been In the family for more than l50 years. He died Ill 1852 and l settled his estate and sold the old place, I have all their papers i'll my possession some or which are nearly two hunured years old.
 Next we take the WadSwoTth family, which consisted of John P. Wrdsworth. his wife Minerva, a.IId Iuur ,.aughters named Mary, Julia, Maria aud Celia Wadsworth. Julia Wadsworih became the wife of my second brother Manning W. Stevens, in September l8c4, and re- moved immediately to Iowa, where they built for themselves home and raised d family of seven children, six of whom are still hving.i Edward. the oldest died at the age of twenty Mrs Mary Pusey, !