Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-09-26


years, or until 1888, when Moses
Spaulding was elected deacon. Oliver
Blodgett elected deacon January &c,
1919, was not ordained until 1928.
The Vermont Historical Magazine,
upon the authority of Rev. Pliny H.
White, says: A council was called Oc-
tober, 1928, to ordain deacons for the
church at Barton and others in the
vicinity, and Oliver Blodgett of Bar
ton, Loring Frost of Coventry and
Zadock Bloss of Irasburg, were or
dained deacons of their respective
churches. The Rev. Noah Emerson
preached the sermon, and the Rev;
VIM. A. Chaplin of Craftsbury offered
EFT held the Office of deacon until his
death which took place in April, 1874.
March 10Th, 1888, the church elect
ed Alba C. Allyn, Moses Spaulding
and Cyrus w. Sturtevant as deacons.
Dea. Allen removed to New York two
years later. Dea. Spaulding held Of
flee until his death, Sept. 18th, 1S49.
| Dea. Sturtevant served until his re-
moval to Lebanon, N. H., in 1854. The
following named persons were elected
deacons and served until death:
Moses Sergeant, elected June Is,
1855, deceased Dec. 9th, 1879. DR.: J.
deceased April 7, 1891. J. G. Hall,
elected Jan. 9, 1880, deceased April
18th, 1891. B. F. Emerson, elected
Jan. 18th, 1880, deceased May 1, 1902.
D. w. Robinson, elected Dec. 3Oth,
1892, deceased March 9Th, 1908. R.
B. Skinner, elected Dec. Both, 1892,
deceased Jan. 10th, 1900. 0. D. Owen,
elected Jan. %, 1900, deceased Dec.
30th, 1907. P. S. Hitchcock, elected
Jan. 18th, 1880, and held office until
he moved from the town. James R.
Collision was elected Jan. 18th, 1905,
and held office until failing health
would not permit his holding the Of
flee longer. Hugh Campbell was
elected Jan. 16, 1907, and held office
until he went to California in the fall
of 1916. The present deacons are as
follows:
F. w. Baldwin, elected Feb. 18th,
O. D. Rowell, elected Feb. 18th,
1908.
W. H. Gilpin, elected Feb. 5, 1908.
G. F. Cutler, elected Jan. II, 1917.
The following named persons have
served as clerks:
Ellis Cobb, elected Sept "a, 1917,
served % years.
Daniel Smith elected May 10, 1916,
served five years.
VIM. A. Stimson, elected March 20,
1850, served two years.
John H. Kimball, elected Dec. Z,
1852, served six years.
Daniel Smith, elected Mar. II, 1853,
served nine years.
! S. S. Clarke, elected July 5, 1867,
R. B. Skinner, elected June 5, 1868,
served 80 years.
H. j. Stannard, elected January z,
1898, served II years.
S. A. Hunt, elected Jan. p, 1915,
served two years.
The first house of worship in the
town of Barton was erected in 1920
| by Ellis Cobb, or if not wholly by
him, largely by his efforts and means,
but built for and occupied by the
| Congregationalists. 1t was located
| about one-haf mile north of Barton
village at the junction of the "Hol-
low" road leading to Orleans with
the road leading to the North ceme-
terry. This first church was about
thirty-eight by forty feet, with COM
mon pitch roof and stood end to the
road, and besides the main building
had joined to the center of the end
towards the road vestibule, about
twelve by fifteen feet. The outside
! door opened into this vestibule and an
! other door opposite, or nearly so,
| opened into the house. This vestibule
might be called two stories, it having
two rooms one above another. The
| lower one was used as an entry or
I.Vestibule. to the meeting house, and
the upper one as an avenue to the
! choir gallery and also a room for
Sunday school purposes. The upper
room and the choir gallery were both
reached by common stairway on the
north side Of the vestibule The
choir gallery extended across the end
of the house next the vestibule, a door
| leading from this upper room into
the gallery. The pulpit was in the op-
posite end from the gallery. A large
box stove that heated the house stood
under the gallery just as you entered
the house, and on each side of the
stove, were two or three wall box
peWs, coming out even with the gal
lery, and constructed somewhat diff
ferent from the balance of the pews
in the house. There were wall pews
on the sides and up to the pulpit on
the end next to the pulpit, those on
the ends being at right angles to
those on the sides. There were two
aisles to separate the body from the
wall pews, of which there was
double row, separated by a partition
in the middle.
The building above described was
the home of this church for twenty
two years.
In the meantime, the village had
grown up about the falls at the outlet
of Belle Water pond, now called Crys-
tai lake, and the old church was not
1912, another house, having been
built, was dedicated, standing where
the B. & M. passenger station now
stands. History tells us that this
second church was also built, "mainly
throroh the lihara litu Of Col Ellis