The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-01-21
VITAL STATISTICS.
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formed elsewhere. In going over the
records it was interesting to note that
one girl had been divorced and was mar
ried again at the age of 10: one man was
married for the fourth time, at the age of
II one bridegroom at the age of IS was
married for the third time while it was
the second marriage for his bride, who was
6S In four instances both the bride
and bridegroom had been divorced; in IL
instances the bridegroom alone had been
divorced and in nine instances the bride
alone had been divorced. 1t was the
second marriage for Is men whose first
wives had died and the second marriage
for II women whose first husbands had
died. Three men were married for the
third time and one for the fourth time, but
according to the records none of the
women had been married more than once
previous to last year. Eight girls were
obliged 70 have the consent of parent, the
youngest of these being ID years old. Ten
boys secured consent, tie youngest being
II. In one instance both the bride and
bridegroom. who came here from out of
town, had the consent of parents, the bride
being II and the bridegroom 20. In an
other instance two children" living in
town. girl of II and boy of 10, were
married on consent of parents. Local
clergymen and Justice of the Peace C.. 5.
Hopkins performed 131 ceremonies. one
or both of the contracting parties being
from out of town in 40 cases.
Ceremonies performed locally were as
follows: Justice G. s Hopkins, 81 ;
James Z. Rand, %; Rev. Edwin p.
Wood. TO- Rev. DIR. Herbert p. Woodin,
30: Rev. Walter c. Bernard. 6; Rev.
Charles C.. Chayer, 6; Rev Arthur V.
Woodworth. 4 (; Rev. c. Walter Bishop 4:
Rev. Delmar +. Trout. 1 4; Rev. +. q. :.
Osgood, 2; Rev. Oscar Casting, 3: Rev.
Elbert S. Hewitt 4: Rev. Thomas
Mann. l.
While the records show a total of 211
deaths during the year - of these were
at the Retreat and all but two of that
number were from other towns and other
states The records show lit men tC
have died against a total of 81 women
The oldest person to die was woman
who was 90 years of age. and five women
lived to be 90 or over. The oldest man
was % and he was the only man to have
reached the Goth milestone. OF those dy
| ing at the Retreat the oldest was {
woman of 90 and the oldest man dying
there was 81. One man dying at tn,
Retreat at the age of Is years had livet
there IL years and one who died at th'
age of 50 had been there 30 years. On,
: woman and four men committed suicide
during the year--one by taking poison
one from revolver shot. one from hang
ing. one by cutting his throat and one b!
drowning. the last three being at the Re
treat. Two persons died from the effect
/ of burns. both non-reSidentS. One Brat
| tleboro resident died elsewhere and TIN
burial took place elsewhere. Twenty
nine non-residentS died here aside iron
those dying at the Retreat. The larges
number of DEATHS were of persons be
tween the ages of CT and -, while tn
number of those dying between the age
of II and 60 was nearly as large.
/ In the following table of deaths tn
''R" signifies the number dying at th
Retreat and these are figured in til
male" and female columns: