The Press., 1922-03-30

Stafford Springs along the western ridge of the town of Wilmington. At
 the north side of the corner lived first, Sylvester Balch; later. James Graham, John Mahan, Giuseppe Remar, and
 other foreigners About 40 years ago the New Road" to Stafford Springs
 was made over Lillibridge Hill, pass ing on the north side of this house,
 and Gary of Stafford Springs built house on the north side of the corner.
 It was sold to Harry Leccone.
 ! MT. and Mrs William D. Ruby. Additional Notes the Foregoing
 Families, By Carrie S., (Mrs. FranI<) l Orcutt, One of the Teachers in ! the District.
 Burnham Lillibridge married Polly ! (Mowry) Stone, who had at the time
 one daughter, Maria, who died unmar- ried February 21, 1863. Burnham and Polly had ten children, David, the old
 est, married Lodice, daughter of Ark
 Fisk; one son, Frank D. Jeremiah
 married Mary A. Arnold; built house near his father, where he lived many years; had one son, Daniel C., and later moved to TorringtOn, Conn. \ spring of 1899. Morton married Julia
 Ann Kies; one son, Merrill, who died a young man. Betsey married Samuel
 Hammond of Hartford, Mich; had AL bert Frank, and Charles. Jane E., married Ezra Spencer, but died 20
 months after. Nathan B., died from diphtheria at Barnegat, N. J., where he was teaching school; unmarried. Buried in Village Hill cemetery. His headstOne bears his last message home; "Tell all my family to meet me
 in heaven" Clark married Mary s:
 Goldsmith, 1859; enlisted in 2d Conn, Vols; but died at Greenville, near
 Norwich, Conn.,, of typhoid fever, (which went through his fathers family, though they did not meet him), October 20, 1861, leaving a baby, Jen- nie E. Freeman c. 1839-1914; died
 unmarried. Roger Sherman, 1842-
 1917; married Corinne Ide; left son,
 Clifford Burnham; Lithia, Florida. Mary Josephine, youngest child of
 Burnham and Polly Lillibridge, 0844- 1894), married March 1, 1868, Frank J. Baker; married secondly, Edward
 Maine; three children.
 Benjamin Lillibridge, (Jr), was nice man; born 1727, died Nov. 6, 1876; married Deborah Battey, (18O3-1853), had Mary, (1821-1S31) Amanda Lydia, who married Edmund Shell of East Windsor, Conn, and had one daughter, Mary w., who married Bancroft. The third child was Hampton R., 1825-1838). Fourth Martha, Q828- 1853), who married Francis Whiton.
 Fifth, B. Dwight, 183O-1899), who left
 Frank D., of Marblehead, Mass, and Sxy&l
 1S63), who married Edward N. Twiss;
 and seventh, James H., (1840-1912), who married Alice M., and left a
 daughter, Flora A., at Huntsville, N. Y. Rufus Twiss had Jason and Ed ward. The Andersons were children
 of Thomas of Potter district, where
 namesake Thomas remained; George, brother of Lester, Alfred and Celinda,
 married and had Alfred and Letitia; then his wife died of consumption.
 George is said to have proposed to
 Deborah Burroughs, teacher at Roar
 ing Brook, summer term of 1856, on
 the day of his return from his first
 wife's funeral, but he never found
 wife number 2. Lester was married
 three: times, as was his last wife.
 Celinda, in response to a call for tes-
 timOnies, at campmeeting love feast,
 said, My hearts full of glory, inspir-
 ing my tongue, Could I meet an angel,
 I'd sing him a sOng." Perhaps she never met one; at least she remained
 single. The AndersOns were light on
 their feet. Foster TOwne, district
 committee in 1S62-3, when he lived on
 the Hampton Lillibridge place, had
 boys: Andrew, Horace, Nelson, Frank, and George. Abner Nichols had Eu-' nice, who married Joseph Brown;
 Samuel who married a St. Clair;
 Amos, who married Martha Morse;
 Jane. who married John Cleveland;
 Jael. who married Nelson DilwOrth
 John, Abhie, and VascO. Jane and
 Yasco only are living. VascO married Hattie Kay and went west; then took up a claim in Canada, on which coal was . discovered. Brown, DilwOrth, Cleaveland, and St. Clair, Samuel Nichols wife's brother, were in. the Civil War. David Fuller had Lyman, Russell, and Fredus.
 Thomas Sherman, an Englishman, and a musician, conducted a singing school at the Moose Meadow church, and the young folks around there,- the Morse's Brooks's, Orcutts', CleaVe- lands', Allan Page and many others attended. He would say, Put your month in the shape of ho, and sound full and firm" I think MT. Sherman's son Charles was killed in the war. His widow and four children, Fanny, AngeIine, Louis, and Charles, lived With Thomas Sherman. All dead.
 Gustavus Frink had George and Harriet Amelia, who married Harry Dudley. Ark Fisk had six children: Lodicia married David Lillibridge, ElizaE ct married Frank Cushman, and Elizabeth married Frank Cushman, and Prouty; Eds wifes name l do not remember; Marvin died in Anderson vile prison; Emily married Frank Barrett. Roswell taught school, then studied law, and practiced for several years at Stafford Springs; but died several years ago.
 Samuel Bartlett's sister married Everett Fisk of Staffordville.
 Ira Fisk married Burnham Lilh- bridges sister, Annis, Had AdornO, who had quite family; Leander E., who married his neighbor, Martha Benton; who, after Leander's death, | married his brother Marvin; no chill dren. Amelia married Bartlett, who l soon died. She studied medicine, | went West and practiced. Reported to | have married man with money. Bet sey married pr. Frederick Johnson l and lived at Mansfield Depot; but died many years ago. He married | again. No children. The Kies family | lived on a hill southwest of Roaring | Brook schoo1house. Children: Harris, | Julia, who married Morton Lilli- l bridge, Charlotte, Ephraim, Nancy , and William