The Press., 1921-08-04
East Wlllington in the 1seOs and Since.

Holmes place, which passed from him
 to his daughter, Julia (HOlmes) Dill worth, and the John Graham place,
 occupied by widow Jane Graham, with her daughters, Rebecca and Sarah, and her son, Jerry. After her death,
 is passed to her brother, Isaac liar bison. In late years it was in the hands of Junius Burr, and now, Jo- seph Langhammer On a plot on the
 south part, Thomas Hughes built a small house, and some time after, a
 barn. This place is now owned by
 James B. Taylor. South of this Ora ham -Harbison place lay the Lucien
 Holt place, owned in the 6O's by Sim con Williams, who afterward acquired
 the Samuel Stiles place next south,
 and moved thither, renting the old place for longtime to widow Harriet
 Lewis, whom he married as his third wife, Simeon's son, George B., by first
 wife, about this time became manager
 of the farm of David l.. Pearl, in the
 Rider district, and finally acquired the farm. After Simeon's third mar lriage, his children by his second wife, Charter, lived on the Stiles place. Henry, the older, left, and Phila kept house for years for the remaining brother, Charles, till she moved to
 Stafford Charles sold off the timber
 and then the farm, and bought the estate of c. Durham Rider, where he died not long ago.
 The next place south was owned by James Dawley, but has since been
 long in the hands of Whitman Wilson
 and family until recently.
 The next place south is at the
 crossing of the Hollow" street, and was passed to John Heath, from his father. Heath, after the Civil war, was the first in Wilmington to make the keeping of hens a chief business, but it was not a permanent success, and the place came into the hands of the mOrtgagee, Gilbert Ide. After the death of MT. and Mrs. Ide, Samuel Wilson lived there for several years, and now George Wilson. Across the street is the big old Dr." Partridge house, occupied more recently by George Wilson, but now by Frank BOs-
 worth. Westward from the Heath place the house owned during the last years of George Snow and his widow later by Ernest Wilson. Next west is the schOOl-hOuse and then the former wheelwright shop of Winfield Snow, made over into store by Roland Squire, but occupied by his brother Elmer for about 20 years past. The adjoining house was occupied after the Cicil war by Henry o. Sparks, and later by various tenants. Across the street is the stately house built by Gen. Holt, with pillars in front, but generally known as the Baldwin place, long held by more recent owners bearing that name. West of this is the Buckminster place, now occupied by Merrill Cushman and family, and across the street northward is the Origin Weston place and store, later occupied hy the Grants, Then by George Snow, and long by C. Durham Rider and his widow, and for most of the time until rural free delivery came in, it was the home of the Hollow" post office. The One-stOry house in the yard was long occupied by the Rents, the parents of Eliza Kent Full Ter of White Ribbon Banner fame. Just west of the store stood the old gambrel rOofed house of the Niles family, originally from Braintree, Mass. Within my remembrance, San ford H. Niles, having lived there, the father, Joshua Niles, having died be- fore. Westward across the Fenton river, the Hosea Vinton place had come into the hands of Lucien Holt, and up the river stood a saw and grist mill and mill-hOuse, all later owned Iy G: E. s. Amidon. ..
 At the corner where the road from DaleVille meets the Hollow road was the Amos Preston house occupied by Sylvester T. Preston, whose tannery stood at the foot of the hill in front. l do not know the history of the house almost in the yard of the Preston house, which went into the hands of Lorenzo 1dei and recently of Charles s. AmidOn. The next house south was owned within my remembrance by Mrs. Converse, and occupied by her sister, Mrs. HarbisOn and family. Still farther south on Daleville road; lived Dana Baker, and on top of the hill westward Edward Morrison, whose daughter, Emma married William "Durand" Holman of the River Dis trict, Holland side. Another daughter, Clara, married and lived :n California. Near neighbors to the Morrisons were Josiah Sparks and his sister Marian. road leading north westward from house in which John Henry Holmes the west end of the Hollow, passed the spent his last years, and the place came later into the hands of Daniel Blakeley and his mother. Recently it was bought by Eddie Cushman. Farther on was the Joseph Sparks place,a and on the side hill west Will liam Snow some years ago built a house and dwelt It is now owned and occupied by John Bottomly. Hen ry Williams and George Wilson are now the only survivors of the inhabit- ants of the Hollow district of Civil war times, who still reside in the Hollow" though Charles AmidOn's children through their mother, Alice Holt, are great-grandchiIdren of Lu- Cinn Holt JOFT, NJ FMO