Evening journal., 1920-11-15
II GENERATIONS
IN THIS CRADLE
Descendant of Mayhower
Physician Will Be Next
To Use 1t
HEIRLOOM BROUGHT
OVER BY PILGRIMS

PLYMOUTH. Mass. Nov 2-There
is small lad in Omaha. Neb. who,
when he grows mp. viii be able to
boast that he was rocked in the
cradle ID Which his ancestor eleven
generations back was also lulled to
sleep. The boy is now Q months OF
age, Tom. son OF Mr. and Mrs Thomas
r. Porter. He will De the first one
Of his line who has been born outside
Of The precincts OF Old Plymouth
Colony. for the tenth generation had
only moved as far as Abingdon. about
twenty miles north. a progression Of
score OF miles in almost three CEN
turies.
The cradle is reposing in glass
SIDED case In plgr N Hall. The de-
positary OF relies OF The MayilOWcr
Pufgrlms and The home OF the Pill
grim Society of Plymouth nr sam
uel Fuller, physician Of the May0oWer
company. brought the cradle with
him from England, and, 10 is sup
posed, was himself sent TO the land
OF Winken. Blnken and Nod many
times In 10 and eleven generations
have been rocked in 10. The second
Samuel Fuller slept in lt. and after
him Or. Isaac Fuller. In the third gen
Grafton, and later physician Of Mid
dleboro, slumbered in It's capaci0us
quarters.
Isaac Fuller the second and Isaac
Fuller the third. NTH generation. used
the cradle. and the daughter OF the
latter. Reliance, slept In 10 as a baby
in i716. when 70 was more than i36
years old. In IN. she married Josiah
Edison. and seven small EdsOns were
rocked In it and Olive Edison. who
came 1928. had for mr. nrst rest
ing place outside OF her mother s
arms the old relic Of the MayilOWer
DAYS. Olive married Jacob N0yes in
1918. and Henry A. NOyes, who was
born in 1920. was a representative of
he eighth generation 10 be tucked
away in the heirloom. James Noyes
came TO this country in i63i. the FIRST
James OF that name In America. Tie
was clergyman and preached in
Medford. Mass
The ninth generation was repre-
scented in the use OF the old cradle by
Ella Moves. Of Abingdon, who occu-
pied 10 In 1851. She was a daughter
N the widely known Deacon Henry
Moves. OF Abingdon, whose portrait
hangs on the wall OF the Congrega
tional Church in that town, and is
wcn remembered moi only as a church
official but as lover OF good horse
flesh.
At the time OF the deacon's mar
riage with Hannah Loud. the cradle
went 10 his brother. Lucien Moves
and from him descended TO hh
daughter. Miss Elsie Moves. the Owne'
IN IN To save ii from any possible
destruction. 10 was deposited viii
tho Pilgrim Society as a loan exhibit
and IS In nreproof building Q
granite and terra Gotta and glass an
has been there FOR many years.
When Ena Noyfs above mentioned
grow M. she Was MARI To Wliiial
a Hicr' MS. and ih went 90 NJ
hraska. But when their daugnte
Mabel was horn. that event too
place back In the old home town ,
Abingdon and she war rocked N ~
Ola cradle, making the tenth OF IN
family line 20 use 10.
Mabel Higgins grew mp IN Onlah
and shc married Thomas r. Porter
IN maj civ and they have a son, nov
months old and The eleventh OF th
line FROM the old Or Samuel tuuci
~ ms Niayn0wer Pilgrims OF 1921
on his fathers side the boy Is dc
srcndpd from six generations Of som
IN mo frsi blood OF Virginia and Ken
lnckv his father dating back hrst u
cantain Andrew Steele. or Lexington
Kv I'M Revolutionary times. and M
ancestors even then had come owe
fhn plns Ridge Mountains from Nr
cinia when Kentucky was an lnuia
haunted wilderness
A condition attached TO me crall
when IL was loaned 20 the Piluim 70
cirlv was that when any desrenuat
~ DR. samuel Fuller appeared az tu
dpnosiiory Of ihe heirloom ana u'
sired 10 be- Graded In ITS wooden Torn
fhr request is 90 be granted. M
rase about 70 is 20 ha opened ana ~
applicant may be placedd IN the fpl
,yhcrr once rested his ancestors, ai
mat is why little Tom Porter,
Omaha. Neb T.. :. A. IS TO occur
that resting place
Inst when DE VIII come hol y
certain. but be and his parents arg
a--iva here some Time this iai, pro
ahlv about The date when ihe oWci
rcifhration Of The Pilgrim lercenl
nav opens. December q. ne ,Nu
anniversary 0f the date OF me ian
ing in This place OF the eNpiorn
nsriv on me Naynower. lie VIII 9
emmy hr cradle Tor perhaps a co9l
~ minutes and then. after ne ls lah
orf fhe cradle again viii ne pldc
fn ife ease and viii walt TOT one
81. fttnIrfn generation.