News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1917-04-04
MOONLIGHT RAMBLES
Sketch No. 7 Pertaining to Old
Time Hyde Park Residents

well, mere we go. AIN { TINS hill goo
one? Autos go over here2 Well, no
very often. once in while they make thi
trip. They seldom try it the second time
though. The top at last. You see moth
ing here that looks like Eye olden times.
Freeborn Hyde lived here. He was
great lover of merino sheep and he paiC
big prices for them, or what they though
were big prices in those days.
Later H. d. w. Doty lived here anr
then his son Horton and he sold it to it.
present owners, VIM. and Emma Davis.
"Well, look up there. What do yor
think of that for hill? But come, we
will meet worse than this and you car
keep thinking what a pretty view there
will be when we reach the top. Rest o.
course. Now take look around. Don't
that pay you? 1t is like picture. The
moon makes it nearly as bright as day.
| Yes, and we must make the most of it.
Rested? Come on, dear, now to the
plain below That is the old Ira Cob
| leigh place. Not thing t lat looks as it
used to, only the hills around. Yes, they
were called home long ago. Amos Davis,
the man who quotes the scripture, owned
it for a number OF years and now his son
Clyde and wife Florence live there.
up and onward. This place looks
something as it used to- Oh, the or
chard Amt it 6ue? You can't remem-
Der who lived here years ago ? Why Sam
Farr and his sister Betty, noted for the
helping hand they gave to all who need
ed They are gone and forgotten. The
place was owned for years by Steve
Vaughn. You have not forgotten him
He went around looking for minerals in
different places in the land and he sold
farming tools. He had a lot of bees and
sold the honey. 1t was good. And Mrs.
Vaughn was noted for the fine butter she
made, and she was also a great cook
She would get nearly all the premiums at
the County Fair on her foods taken
there. They sold and with their five
children went to Old Orchard Me, and
she was called home last year A Mi.
Hapgood from York state bought the
place and he sold it to a Mr.. Parrault,
the present owner.
Come on down to the turn. Where
does that go to? Centerville, but we
won't bother with that tonight. Cutne
on. What place is this? John Cobi,i4h
lived here years ago. He sold to sc re
Blake, who lived there for years aud
raised large family of boys and girls.
Later Mr.. Bryant who sold to Carroll
Stone and he to Labelle and then it W ent
to the present owner, Harlie Jones
eyes, that is a graveyard. A great
many of the old people of the hills around
are sleeping here. Come on. Here is a
place where we will find one lived
sixty years ago. Alfred Holbrook lived
here. He had two daughters and four
sons. He ran cider mill, about the first |
IN these parts. The apples were all |
ground out add pressed by hand power. |
1t was good days work to make bar
rel of cider in that way. He and his good |
wife are sleeping side by side waiting for |
the call that will come some day. Ches- |
Ter and Charles are the only children liv- |
ing now. Chester lives here at the old |
home place. Some Of the time he keeps |
house alone; when he can get help he has
a housekeeper. He married Ella Camp
bell, daughter of Jackson Campbell.
She was teacher in our village high
school. She left him with a family of
our girls and one son; all will remember
our obliging mail carrier, Elbridge Hol-
brook. He died of a tubercular trouble,
eaving a widow. The girls were all
:eachers except one who was a trained
Nurse. They are all married and all live
near home.
"Eut come over back here in the field.
want to show you the large spring that
supplies Hyde Park village with water.
What, way up here? Sure. Fifty or
ixty years ago they would have thought
hat big undertaking would they not ?
Here it is. The water is carried in pipes
lown through the valley for about, l
hnk six miles. Yes, great supply and
# the very best. 1t we had only had it
hat Sunday morning-but what's the
se. We have got it now.
Come back to the road Snowshoes
re handy-sure thing. We will cross
yer to the left. Now do you see any,
hing natural about those buildings?
es, years ago Jefferson Oobleigh sold
hem to Charles Holbrook after he mar
ed aud Charles and his wife have lived
1ere ever since. They have son who
as a large hen business established. He
aises nearly all white Leghorns. He and
is wife live with his father.
well, come on. What is that, have
e got to climb that hill? Well, yes, I'M
IS carry you and think you will get {
chill if you wait for that. Hold on,
on't hurry. Here is bridal path that