The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-03-10

Mrs Amanda NJ Huling aged %.
Orson Thayer, aged o.
Mrs. Jane Bishop aged 90.
Mrs. Ellen Hale. aged so.
Combined ages Of three sisters and
brother, 357 years.
This is an unusual record for one family
and it is 10 years more than the record of
a Massachusetts and New York family
quartet whose pictures recently appeared
in a Boston newspaper.
Moreover. all four of the persons men
toned above live within about six miles
of each other in the towns of Guilford and
Halifax. whereas the members of the
other family referred to are widely sepa-
rated. Mrs. Hale. who is the wife of
Orlen J. Hale, and Mrs Bishop live at the
Hale farm just over the Guilford line in
Halifax, but they are part of the Gull
ford community, while Mrs. Huling and
Mr.. Thayer are bona fide Guilford resi-
dents
These four children" spent their child
hood on a farm in West Marlboro, where
they were born, their parents being Col.
Ezra and ThirZa tSheldon) Thayer. Col.
Ezra Ihayer got his title from his con
nectiOn with an old militia company.
There were other children in the family,
whose ages at the time they died prove
that tire family was one of unusual longe-
witty. For instance, Mrs. ROsina Kings
bury. a sister who died three years ago
in Idaho, was 93 years old. \ brother.
l.. Fayette Thayer. was 81 when he died
in Somerville. Mass, in 1905. Two
others did not reach an advanced age.
Harvey Thayer, who was born in 1898.
was wounded in the Civil war and died
Company Il, 10Th Wisconsin regiment,
and became second lieutenant Mrs.
Sylvia \. CThayer) Whitney died in Gull
ford in October, 1885, at the age of As.
Mrs. Amanda Huling was born April
10. 1926. She was twice married, her first
husband being James Cook and her second
husband Mr.. Huling, both Connecticut
men. After MIR. Huling's death she came
to live at Mr.. Hales. later going to live
with her daughter Jennie r., wife of Wal
ter c. Phelps of West Guilford, where
she now lives and is active and in good
health. She has another daughter. Miss
Estella Cook, a stenographer in Boston.
/ When Mrs. HuIlng was a baby she was
carried on pillow from West Marlboro
to Pennsylvania, her father and mother
going by horse and buggy to that state to
visit his brother.
Orson Thayer. the next oldest in tho
family. lives with his daughter, Mrs. S
Alice Thomas, wife of Merton A. Thomas
of Weatherhead Hollow, Guilford. He
sustained a shock Jan. IL, but is improv-
iiAS anu lOI IHe past rev udNS mas been
able to get out ON the veranda He was
| born Oct 13. 1928, attended school in
Marlboro and Greenwood seminary in
{ West Brattleb0ro and later taught school
tOn June 13, 1854, he married Hannah
| E. Allen of Nottingham, who died in
/ Guilford March 10, 1900. He moved to
/ the Melendy farm in Weatherhead Hol-
low March 3. 1870. and was there II
years. Then he lived year in Guilford
| Center, two or three years in Hampden
and Longmeadow, Mass, about five years
| in West Brattleboro, where for a time he
was IN the blacksmith business, and then
moved to the Joseph Jacobs place il
Neatherhead Hollow. and since the death
OF his wife he has lived with Mrs. Thomas
i tie has been selectman and has held other
town offices. Mr.. Thayer's four surviving
Echildren are Hervey ID. Thayer. of West
i Brattleboro. Leslie q. Thayer of Ber.
nardston, Mass, Mrs. S. Alice Richmond
! of Guilford and Harry l.. Thayer OF
/ Brattleboro. He is member of Broad
Brook Grange of Guilford and has been
a farmer most of his life.
! Mrs. Jane Bishop was 90 years old last
month. She was born Feb. s13 1881. and
remained in Marlboro until her marriage
| TO Joseph Bishop of that town. They
went to Aieriden, Conn. where Mr. Bishop
was employed as a machinist and where
he died. Soon after her husbands death
Mrs Bishop came to live with Mr. and
Mrs. Hale, which was about II years ago
lier two children died in infancy
| Mrs, Ellen Hale was born March 2