Norwich bulletin., 1916-07-01

1 They went to Norwich, N. Y, where he was a wagon maker. Their daugh- ter, Mary Louise Brown, died July 29, 1915. She was the last of her family. | Betsey was the second wife of GurdOn Ladd. They lived in Windham. Her ] house burned down in the night dur | ing a snow storm and high wind when she was past 75 years. She died at | 87 years. Abigail married William | Lewis Ladd. She died at 88 years. 1 Arad Robinson went to the common l schools, worked at the trade with his father and became a blacksmith. He
 married Nov. 30. 1920. Lura Abell, daughter of Ira and Abigail (Hyde) Abell of Pleasure Hill, was born in Franklin Sept. 2, 1797. She was a de- | scendant of many of the first settlers of Norwich and Franklin Abell-Hyde- Kingsbury- -Backus-Post families.
 For about one year Arad had a shop which was located on the Norwich Windham road near the four corners south of the SchOolhouse on Kingsbury hill and lived in a house that stood
 close by the two roads at the north erly corner. For many years there has been nothing here to show that it was once the location of a home, ex- cept the old well. The well was across the road, easterly, and close in the corner. It is now covered, probably, l by the states improvement of the l road. It must have been a busy place 1 here as it was located on The much travelled turnpike and it was a few years before the time of railroads. It is tradition that money was so scarce in those years after the sec ond war with George III. of England
 and the long series of wars of Napo- or the blacksmith was given in all
 sorts of goods and services but no
 actual cash. He had a good oppor-
 tunity to buy another shop with Q
 partly finished house and a, few acres
 of land so he moved to the place
 where he lived the remainder of his
 days and where his son and grandson
 have continued to hold the home in
 the family about 95 years. All of the
 eight children of Arad and Lura Rob-
 tnsOn were born here and all of their
 descendants bearing the name Robin sen also except one during this year.
 The house is located near the top of
 high hill where it is sheltered from
 the cold nOrtherly and westerly winds,
 with @ hne view over Aver Gap of
 valley and hills One of the hills is
 so steep and rugged as to bear the
 local name of Aver mountain. In the
 valley more than q mile away the
 burial place at PautipauS can be clear
 ly seen from the house. Here many
 of the Robinson, Abell and Hyde an
 cestOrs are buried Going about a
 mile to the east down into a ravine
 and across a path formerly led to the
 birthplace of Lura AbeII. the home of
 several generations of the Abells, the
 path is hardly to be found now and
 the wal lzis a good task to those who
 like to use their strength that way
 Much of the wooden part of the old Abel house is still held up by the big
 stone chimney. This was the home
 of the grandfather of Lura Aben, En-
 sign Simon Abell, who at the age of
 67 was at the battle of Saratoga, one of the hottest fights and most impor- tant battles of the American Revolu- been marked by the Sons of the Amer ican Revolution.
 A few hundred feet to the west or to the north of the Robinson home and a view is to be had over many miles of eastern Connecticut.
 Lura Abell's mother died when she was twelve years old. With her sis ter, Asenath, who was two years old CT, but not the leader, they kept the house for their father and brothers, | Ira, Dudley, Joseph, Lavius Hyde and 1 Daniel Fillmore Abell Abigail, the baby, was taken by a Bigelow family 1 in Lebanon (Goshen).
 As young woman she went from l her home on Pleasure hill down to | Pautipaug to Mrs. Robinson's to learn | the very important art of weaving 1 Mrs. Robinson was very expert at this 1 work. It was here that Arad and l Lura became intimately acquainted l He had, however, probably seen her | often and for several years on Sun l days as a singer in the choir of the 1 Methodist church at Pautipaug. Arad l was not suited with this church. His l children went to Pautipaug till about | 1S42 when many of the family united | with the Congregational church under | Dr. Mott.