Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1911-05-17
Burial Grounds of Orleans County
Deaths Previous to and Including

the Year 1870.
Continued from Monitor of March ~
WESTFIELD
Farzina, daughter of John and
Catherine Stephenson, 2 Aug. 1888,
IL years.
Ebenezer Barber, June 1860, At
years, months, "a days. His wife,
Caroline, 2 Feb. 1862, 81 years, 10
months, days.
Rimon Miller, April 1857, "a
years, months. His wife Nemea, "a
July 1867, II years, 2 months, II day $.
Elbridge S. son of R. and N. Miller,
% Aug. 1851, "a years, months, %
days.
Sarah H. Miller, 20 Nov. 1862. 27
years.
Jesse Bailey, April 1857, "a years.
His wife, Abigail, 6 March 1868, 80
years, 6 months.
Warren, son of Jenison and M. E..
Bailey, March 1853, 7 months and 6
days.
(Note-Jesse Bailey and Abigail
Their son Jesse was born at w. Oct.
8, 1880. Alfred, son of Jesse Bailey,
died at W. April rs, 1882. Abigail.
Vaniah Miller.)
Luther Lockwood, 16 Sept. 1856, 81
years, 7 months, his wife, Rebecca, 7
April 1864, 70 years. Their daughter,
Rosetta, 27 March 1882, 8 years.
months. An infant, IL April 1888.
weeks.
Mr.. Samuel White. rs Oct. 1886, S.
years.
Floretta A, daughter of Harry j.
and Eliza Gilpin, 26 March 1858, 10
years, 9 months, IA days.
Charles A., Buck, son of Jesse and
Eunice (Backus) Buck, l March 1858.
Born Is Aug. 1843.)
Lucinda A. Ward, 29 Oct. 1888, "a
years.
Hannah, wife of Stoughton Brown,
Is May 1886, "a years, days.
(Note The children of Thomas
and Ruth Ward, whose family record
is on Westfeld town vecords were as
follows: Born at Hardwick, VT, Jos
eph, Is July 1910; Hannah, May 90,
1912. She was married at Westfield
20 Dec. 1885 to Stoughton Brown,
who was then of Greensboro. Her
death occurred the following May as
above recorded; Lucinda, born Feb.
1914, died as above recorded Mahala,
IL Sept. 1916. Born at Westfeld
Samuel, IA May 1922, who died at w.,
Dec 1922 and Mary, born IL Sept.
1913. Thomas Ward died according to
same town record rs Oct. 1929
John Sawyer, 27 July 1862, CT years.
MARY Sawyer died June, 1892, aged
88 years, months.)
Franklin B., son of A. G. and G. K.
Davis, % Oct 1851, years, IA days.
Medad Smith Hitchcock, rs Nov.
1910, az years.
Patty, wife of Medad Smith Hitch.
cock, Aug. 1882, 81 years.
Infant daughter of M. S. and Patty
Hitchcock, 2 Dec. 1888, Is days.
(Note In the inscriptions from
w., in Monitor of Jan. Is, 1911, ap-
pear those Of Thomas Stoughton and
wife Sarah. Their children born in w.
whose names appear on w. town rec.
ords were John, born l3 Jan. 1903.
He died as shown in Monitor above
mentioned % Jan. 1884; Thomas, born
II April 1910; Cloudon, born 10 Jan.
1873; Seymour, born rs March 1916
Harvey born 10 July 1919. His death
is shown by Monitor as above indicat
ed, l Aug. 1885.
Lemuel and Patty Stoughton had
children as follows born at w.. Polly,
Is Oct. 1917, who married Vaniah Mil
Ter about 1910 as mentioned in article
in these columns April 10, 1911; Mir
anda, 3 April 1920. The children of
Lemuel and Abigail Stoughton also
born at W., were Joseph, Is Aug 1924
Laura Fl June 1927 and a daughter
| born 27 April 1881, who died 10 Aug.
1917
History of the Shepard Family.
Continued from last week.
On the 25th of July, 1898, the great
event of the times happened, no less
than the marriage of Mr.. JOSEPH
Stanley of Greensboro and Miss Mary
Gerold, of Mindon, to which all the
inhabitants of the town were invited
and which nearly all attended. As
there was no minister in Mindon OF
Greensboro, and no qualified justice ir
Mindon, they were duly Joined in mat
rimony by Timothy Stanley, Esq
The wedding dinner was taken at tn,
home of her mother (Mrs. Cutler) il
Mindon, and then the whole party, OF
horses procured at Peacham for the oc
casion, proceeded to Greensboro TO
the wedding ceremony.
After the ceremony at the house o
the groom, the wedding supper wa
served in front of Judge Stanley's 10,
house. There were present at tina
wedding twentyfour, besides per
haps few children, this making fiji
teen families in town, all told.
Mr.. Horace Shepard (the grand
father of my wife) died in Hardwick
and few days since | copied fror
the grave stone at the Center grave
yard Gas it is called) the following
"Horice Shepard, died March I'd, 1872
aged 63 years Martha, wife of Horic
Shepard. died Jan. 18th, 1880. aged