Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-11-15

for future days. She received numerous
tokens of regard, including postcards,
congratulatory letters, confectionery, USE
full gifts and beautiful flowers. Refresh
ments were served in the dningroom,
which was decorated in autumn colors
The large and handsome birthday cake
made by Mrs. Jennie Cheney was cut by
Mrs. Stone. Piano and violin selec-
lions were rendered by Miss Viola Harris
and Miss Alaude Miller Mrs Stone re-
ceived her guests with her usual dignity
and courtesy, and manifested a hearty
appreciation of the effort which was
made to make the day one of pleasant
memory.
Mrs. Harriet Ann Lamb) Stone was
born in Wilmington, this state, Nov. IA,
1924. She was the third child of Lewis
and Eleanor (Dexter) Lamb. After
awaiting herself of the advantages which
the schools in Wilmington afforded she
was sent to Lowell Mass, to attend the
Academy" OF this trip she recently
said: II went to- Lowell in 1889, when
nearly 10 years old, in the stage alone.
l stayed over night in hotel in Brattle
boro and rode all the next day. The first
time l ever rode on a steam railroad was
when l went from Lowell to Boston in
1870 She taught school in the Arvine
Boyd district in Wilmington the summer
before she was II.
On June g. 1874. Harriet Lamb was
married to Ashley Stone by Hon. o. l..
Shafter in the home of her father, ON
what afterwards was known as the Jasper
Boyd place. Mr.. and Mrs. Stone began
housekeeping in the house next to Mr..
stones store, which was on the site of
the store now owned by Orrin o. Ware.
They had six children. Three died in in
fancy. Lewis, the oldest son, died in
1904; the second son, Byron, died in 1905;
the third son, Dexter Stone, survives.
There are five grandchildren and four
great grandchildren The family lived in
Wilmington until 1881 when they moved
to- Hinsdale n. H., Mr.. Stones native
town, where he died in 1898.
Mrs. Stone comes of Puritan stock.
She is of the eighth generation by direct
descent from Thomas Lamb, who came
in the fleet with Winthrop in 1880 and
settled in RoXbury, Mass Others of her
ancestors We're Samuel White, who came
over in the Mayfower, Thomas Dexter of
Lynn and Rose Dunster, sister of Presi-
dent Dunster, the first president of Har-
ward university. Her grandfather. Jona-
than Lamb, one of the original settlers of
Wilmington, came there from Spencer.
Mass. There is a record of the deed to
him by Levi Hall of Halifax Aug. 8, 1888,
of the place afterward known as the
Welman or Gaius Smith place. This was
the birthplace of Mrs. Stone and of her
father.
Mrs. Stone has lived under the admin
istration of all but four of the Presi-
dents of the United States Lafayette
visited the United States the year she
was born. The first railroad in this
country was begun when she was four
years old, and when she was six years old
the census gave the population of this
country to be 12,S66,9 800. She remembers
when the first cooking stove superseded
the fireplace in her home, when school
teachers boarded around and received a
salary of SLY a week, when a silk gown
was rarity and when daguerreotypes re-
placed silhouettes. She has been a mem
Der of the Methodist church nearly "A
years and a member of the w. C. II.
U. since its organization. She is in re-
markedly good health and all her fac
ulties are keen. She attends church reg
ularly, takes a walk nearly every day,
has good interest in current events,
enjoys visiting and is very busy most of
the time with reading, writing letters
sewing and knitting. She can say with
Browning:
80 let me within this life
Though lifted DER its strife;
Let me discern, compare, pronounce at
last
The future may face now have proved
the past"