News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1917-03-07
MOONLIGHT RAMBLES
Sketch No. A Pertaining to Old.
Time Hyde Park Residents

! "Sli' hSlS you are. NOW lOuS udNC
been waiting! Don't worry about me
lfyou have got your breath we will bC
moving.
Eyes, these buildings are merely mem
DRY. The barn is still here, but the house
is gone. James Lucas, better known as
Uncle Jim, and wife lived here. They
came from Ireland and settled here. He
was mason by trade and also laid
stone walls in this and adjoining towns
and later after he had bought and moved
to the farm above on the hill, the town
hired and fitted it up for schoolhouse
and one teacher | remember was the sec
ond daughter of William Crowell. Yes
and it will soon be all gone; but come on,
don't believe you have noticed this wa
tering trough. See, it is made of cement,
you read lot about it and how it is TAX
ing the place of lumber in putting up
houses and silos, and logs dug out used
to be ideal things for cattle and horses to
drink out OF, but cement seems to be the
thing now. No, frost don't seem to hurt
it any. Yes, it is queer, but come on, you
are not going to start the business to-
night
Ives, this is where Tom Gregory and
wife used to live. They sold out to Mr..
Lucas and with his family went west
and word was sent back when they went
the long journey where none come back.
Oh, who lives here? Chas. Lucas and
wife and their SON lives with them. No,
he is not married. But the place belongs
to James Lucas of Montpelier. The house
is fine and hear he is going to remodel
the barn the coming summer.
"Well, this little place has not changed
much. Let me think-Sam Green lived
here with his wife, but they have both
been gathered by the Great Harvester
and the place is now owned by Mr. and
Mrs. Turkey. She was a daughter of
Mr. Lucas. Well say, amt this good
piece of road-turn out? not even if we
meet someone afoot.
Here is the top of Leighton hill and
he lived here and had large family and
all the young people used to gather here
nights for cards and dancing. They are
about all gone to their last home. The
place is now owned by a young couple,
Ray Baker and wife. | thought Mr..
Leighton ran blacksmith shop? II did,
but wait till we get to the place. Right
here is where it stood. l have a pair of
shears Mr.. Leighton made, also hinges
for the doors. Will show them to you
later.
"Well, pull your cap down, if there is
any wind blowing you will get it here.
Pretty farm buildings yes, Brigham
Leighton lived here and you know this
hill was noted in those days for raising |
potatoes. 1t was nothing tor them to |
draw a 1000 bushels by to the starch
factory in Perkinsvile or Cady's Falls.
Say, what a shame they gave up those
factories. | loved the buildings that |
were made out of the starch. Who lives |
here now? Why, Will Grimes and wife.
His father and mother and Leonard |
Grimes and wife lived here before Frank |
did. There have been three generations |
of the Grimes family who lived here. |
Well, come on. Lush, another Leighton.
lived here. What remained of the fami- |
lies went to the west, some to York state. |
You see this little cellar by the spring A |
man by the name of Jim Stowell and |
wife lived here. 1t is nearer 60 years |
than so since then. They are both dead |
and their house was drawn up and joined |
to the little Leighton house. That's so.
Both of them wouldn't make a good ell /
to house.
"That is not the schoolhouse that was
there in those days. 1t stood right here,
and l heard a woman say she taught |
here when there were 81 names enrolled.
What would teacher do now with so
manyi am sure l don't know. Yes,
the schools were just as good as they are
now, think. About 40 years ago they
built this schoolhouse. Hold on, if there
amt another one of those trough logs for
water, is it not? Mercy, these buildings
don't look much like the old buildings.
The old house is all gone and they have
built this new one and the barns have
been remodeled until not a familiar look
remains. Those buildings were fixed up
by II. Grimes, one of Franks boys, who
went down country and made good. But
Joe Walsworth, and wife lived here then.
She died here and a few years later he
joined her. o. D. Matthews lives here
now. They came here about three years
ago from York state.
"Ain't this fine piece of road? Hold
On, where you going! Oh, just a little
trip up the hill. You had forgot there
were a couple of places up here. l had
nearly let it slip my mind. There is
scarcely a thing to show, but right here
S where the house stood and over here
where the barn was. John Moore and