Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1911-05-03

grdnucnlldren are all living to bless
their memory. Guy H. who is a
graduate of Lehigh University and .
who is unmarried, remains at home.
S. who is the wife of Prin. c. H. |
Wiley has four children living and
two deceased. Albert W., who
married Ada G. Brown of Westfield. |
has two children. and Harold who
married Agnes L. Harris of Beebe
Plain, has one daughter. Albert. who
is lawyer. is at present engaged with
his brother Harold in the lumber
business at Lowell Their families
remain in Westfeld. Mr.. and Mrs.
Farman are royal entertainers as all
their friends know. They continue in
charge of their business though rely
ing on others more than formerly for
the heavy labor. The following orr
ginal poem written by Guy II. Farman
was read by him at the anniversary
Life's history leads onward but we
know no coming line.
o Thou Recording Angel, to the roll
ing scroll of time
We may-not write before thee, but
what stores if we could find
The key to thy roll of knowledge of
the deeds Of all mankind.
So tonigbt-in -fancy's sight may the
scroll backward roll,
Backward, still further back till fifty
years be told
To DAY when locks like silver were
then as black as coal
And frosted head of autumn was
then head of gold.
To day of April sunshine and a
day of April showers,
But day that's we'll remembered by
those dearest ones Of ours
Whose fifty years of welded life to-
night we'd crown with pleasure
And bless with friends and children's
love. best of life's- treasures.
On that day uncle Herod and his fam
lily went down
By custom he was uncle to the coun-
try round it's said
To the old place on the river to the
home of Little Brown,
For that day his son Willard would to
Isabel be wed.
She was a daughter of the household
where they met.
In fancy's vision we may see the
little parlor yet
Where all were friends. And for some
moments let us linger here
Ger those within that little group to
bride and groom so dear.
One father tall, whose features firm
his self-reliance told,
With iron will had carvedshis fortune
from the forest old.
His heritage was the true spirit of
the pioneer
And he to no vain bauble bowed nor
held cheap tinsel dear.
) But Brown, the father of the bride,
) was of a slighter bUilds
And whether from his early home
which literature had filled,
Perchanceeit may he from some trait
that Scottish blood imparts,
With quicker thrill be felt the soul
that loves the Muses. arts.
In temperament quite different, ir
some things much alike.
A common faith bound both men tt
, God of love and right:
; Each man hated tyranny wherever i
might strike
Both strongly for the Union in the
coming mighty fight.
: One mother. slow of speech. was care
, ful and exact in thought.
, Twas size whose wider culture had tt
+ her Industrious mate
, A taste for reading and a love OF
knowledge brought.
, One line she traced to the earl,
!, settlers of the old Bay state.
7 Another was in the old Connection
] valley bred.
e Puritan, too, it's distant strains much
7 honored names have fed.
e To sweet-voiced melody. scarce more
t well-governed feminine hand
t Has rocked cradle in the land.
z The mother of a family will ever BIZ
! most dear
To all her little children whom she s
. watched from tenderest year
And the mother of the household ir
/. the daughters heart will never
Be forgotten or not longed for not till
y time her life shall sever.
! She was little woman. who of life
= and friends was fond.
q In her enduring courage and affection
: strong,
i And not less earnest in her hatred OF
o the wrong.
But half dozen years have fiowr
since she has loosed earth's bond.
n Sisters and brothers helped to make
that circle cheer,
!. Some this evening we have with US
n here
e And others in a distant state nov
dwell,
f And two beyond the veil whence none
\ return to tell.
There is another person. who on ;
e time like this
e There's something in our nature tell!
! us we should surely miss,
IS The parsons voice is wanted. fol-
q wherever one may search,
}. There's naught for life's great mo
II ments like the sanction of tn.
l. church.
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