The Press., 1922-02-09
WELLINGTON

mud and ice from a little used road way on Tuesday.
 The basket ball game of Saturday evening was we'll sustained and inter esting. That South Wilmington won was foregone conclusion and the Boy scouts were good losers.
 At the recent state agricultural ex- hibit, held in Hartford it was a grat- ification to the community that Will liam Parizek, farmer and meat-man, was awarded the first prize for bacon and the second for hams.
 George V. Smith is receiving delic- ious fruit and fresh vegetables from his brother, Dr. Charles Smith, of Pennsylvania, who owns Florida ranch and has passed his winters there for several years, finding the motor trips between his homes pleas ant and beneficial.
 Potter District, North Part, from 1966
 Chiefly through the courtesy of Mrs. Hattie E., (Mrs. Geo. w Eaton of Stafford Springs, former resident of the district, which, it appears includ- ed the nearest or northwestern part of WestfOrd parish, am able to add to my account published.
 In the northwest corner of the Will lington projection, on the road run ming from the Works district of Staff ford to the Union -WestfOrd-Hil road, lived long before the Civil war, the Thomas Anderson family; sons, Les ter, Alfred, JacOm, George, and ThOm- as. Thomas settled a little east of his father, with housekeeper, Mrs. GoOdell, whom he married. They took a boy, Clarence Walcott, to live with them. In Moose Meadow ceme- tery is a headstone to Sarah, wife of Thomas Anderson, died February, 15, 1871. Aged 67 years, 4 months" Y" Also one "In Memory of Thomas An derson who died March 30, 1885. Aged IT," Also one Erected in memory of Mrs. Jerusha Anderson, who died February 18th, A. D. 1872 in the 56th year of her age" And Alice, wife of Thomas Anderson, died September IS, 1865. Aged 97 years, months" Records on other stones proved this last to be the wife of Thomas, senior. Alfred died April 12, 1851, aged 56; George died Septem- Der 1, 1862, aged 58; his wife, Fear, died March Is 1856, aged 39. Jacob died November IF, 1883, aged 35. Lester died July IS, 1883, aged 90; and Thomas (Jr.) died February P, 1894, aged 86. He married after his first wife's death, Na Widow Nelson; and they spent their last days on Stafford Street. His farm became the property of George Buck, who took the build ings down, and used the lumber in building at Palmer, Mass.
 The road northward from Potter schOOlhOuse past Wesley Bidwell's to the WOrks-UniOn road fell in Willing ton, probably half mile east of Tom" Andersons. At the next house north of Wesley Bidwell's, a Severy family lived for a short time after 1866. No record of occupation after them. Charles Wood lived on the opposite or east side of the road. Eber Weld, bacheler, lived alone in a house north of Severy; later the house was long unoccupied, and event. ually burned down. East of the road and farther north than Weld, lived Lydia Cook, widow of Hiram, with five children; Abbie, Lydia. Janet, Emma, and Hiram. In the early sev- enties they moved to Rhode. Island j; Joseph Marcy buying the place. Mar cy married Maria Ennis; they had one daughter, Marian, better known as May" Maria's daughter by a former husband, Mrs. Phoebe McMas- ter, with her little daughter, Geneva, lived with the Marcys. Mrs McMaster died nearly 40 years ago. Geneva graduated from Providence Normal School; taught year in R. l., and then taught the grammar grade in Stafford Springs, soon after the pre- sent building was erected. After wards she married William DeEtte, and they lived in East Providence, until she died about five years ago, leaving her husband, a son, Harland, and grandson, Herman; after a very useful life of active labOrs, especially in church and w. c. T. U. May" Marcy married first Charles Grover of Buff Cap, who died aged about 36; she afterward married Trad StOrrs, Civi war veteran; and after his death became a practical nurse; but died June 1919.
 On the Westford side of the town line, on the road from WestfOrd Hill to Union, Stephen Cook lived, east ward from his daughterfn-law, Ly- dia Cook. His family consisted of himself and wife, widowed daughter, Mrs. Mary Miller, and her two chil- dren, Sarah, who married her cousin, Francis BallOu, Jr., and George w. MT. and Mrs. Cook died in the early sixties, and the family left town; the BallOus and G. w. settling eventually in StaffOrdville. The Cook buildings were torn down. On a crOss-road above Cook, running westward lived John Smith, son of John Smith, Senior, and Marcia Thresher. John, Jr. mar ried Drill Green. Of their children, Merritt married and lives at Mansfield Depot; Maria married John Nichols :; both dead now. Sarah married William Buxton; she and her husband both are dead; Albert died unmarried, and Frank died in childhood. Orrin lives at the old homestead; so far as known, the only native resident born in the district. John Smith IT,, died Novem- Der 27, 1906, aged 87; his wife Orril, died November 25, 1889, died April 15, 1854, aged 68 ;
  aged 86. An earlier John Smith died March 30, 1918, aged 58; and his wife. Mary died November 1, 1S42, aged 86. On the Westford-Union road north of Stephen Cook lived from March, 1866, Samuel Smith, who married Mary J. Thresher, Of the three children, AL mira died in infancy; Charles died unmarried at the age of A; and Hat ISN <1 TA1n { up by Thomas Anderson, Clarence died in 1904 and she married secondly George W. Eaton.
 Near the junction of this road with the Works Union road lived T. Fielder Dunnam, who married Almeda, sister of John Smith, Jr. Tn 1866 both his mother and hers lived with them; and died there. Of Fiedder's two sons Dwight died by accident 8 few years ago, and Merritt had previously mov- ed out of town; to Middletown, if l