Hartland History
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Gospel meetings were held at the M. E. church every afternoon and evening, last week.
Rev. Allen HAZEN was in Boston, last week.
Mrs. Dr. RUGG and Master Harold were at Proctorsville with Mrs. Sarah HAGAR, last week.
Mrs. Jane GOVE of Springfield, Mass., is in town.
Miss Carrie E. PERRY left, recently, for Boston, where she has secured a situation as teacher.
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A sleigh ride, supper, and a few hours indulgence in the fashionable game of whist, was enjoyed by a company of gentlemen and ladies from Windsor, last week, at the Pavilion House.
Henry D. DUNBAR of the Baldwin Locomotive Works is at his home in North Hartland for a short time.
Frank E. BADGER, while cutting wood for I. N. SARGENT, a few days ago, had the misfortune to split his great toe through the middle, leaving half the bone on each side, the cut extending back among the bones in the foot. Dr. RUGG was called to dress the wound, and hopes the toe may be saved.
J. P. STILLSON and Frank MILLER are cutting lumber on the TRASK farm, for H. S. BRITTON.
Homer GILSON, son of Nathaniel GILSON of this town, has been appointed superintendent of the Tuckerton Railroad, in Connecticut – a road with which he has long been connected.
C. S. BRIGHAM, clerk for W. R. STURTEVANT for the past three years, has resigned his position and started, last Monday, for Florida, where he has a son living.
Mrs. S. M. DUNBAR has so far recovered from her injury as to be around the house again but her husband is gradually failing, having been confined to his bed for most two weeks.
A. A. MARTIN is the happy recipient of a beautiful gold watch with his name engraved on its face. His mother was the donor.
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Moderator, J. H. EASTMAN; clerk, W. R. STURTEVANT; selectmen, Asa WEED, J. H. EASTMAN, C. C. GATES; listers, E. S. AINSWORTH, Geo. W. SPEAR, Wilson BRITTON; auditors, E. S. AINSWORTH, W. R. STURTEVANT, B. F. LABAREE; street commissioners, selectmen; treasurer, E. W. BILLINGS; overseer, C. P. BURK; agent, E. M. GOODWIN; constable, J. S. SLEEPER; grand juror, A. J. WEED; trustee U. S. revenue, E. W. BILLINGS; school board, D. F. RUGG.
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B. P. RUGGLES has recently received by mail, from Marseilles, France, three packages of Mediterranean sea-shells that were mailed at Marseilles last August, but being misdirected to “Wisconsin,” instead of Vermont, went astray and were sent to the dead letter office; from whence postmaster STEVENS received a notice that such packages were there and the inquiry if such a man was here. Mr. STEVENS’ reply brought the packages, containing 160 specimens of 40 species, about two quarts in bulk and 30 ounces in weight.
J. G. MORGAN has contracted all the maple syrup he makes this season to Mr. REED of Woodstock, for 70 cents per gallon.
Clarence MARTIN of Claremont was in town last week.
Three young men of the Methodist Seminary at Montpelier will give an entertainment in the M. E. church here, Wednesday evening of this week, after which the young people will serve cake and coffee in the vestry.
Our popular drum corps gave their drama, “The Firemen,” to a crowded house in Plainfield, last Saturday. They are invited to repeat it at North Hartland next Saturday evening.
The many friends of Miss Lena PERKINS will be glad to know that she is slowly improving.
George DAVIS has bought the Buckley MARCY place, at the Four Corners, for $400.
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A class in French has been organized in this village, with Hugo CARY as instructor.
Arthur ALEXANDER is back again in his old place in E. M. RUSSELL’s wheel-wright-shop.
Mrs. Lewis ROGERS died, last week, and was buried Sunday, in the Plain Cemetery, beside her husband, who died last May.
Mrs. J. B. LINDSAY has sold her place on the Plain to Lawyer HOLT of Claremont, N. H. Fred McLAUGHLIN is to occupy the house.
Mrs. Henry T. MARSH of Woodstock is spending the winter with her daughter, Mrs. A. A. STURTEVANT.
About forty of the young folks held a party with Fred A. DUNDAR (DUNBAR?), Wednesday of last week.
Old Mr. WILLIAMSON, living on the Plain, is very ill, with no hopes of recovery.
Mrs. Olive GOVE died last Saturday morning, and was buried this (Tuesday) afternoon, Rev. C. M. CARPENTER officiating.
Charles E. FOLLANSBEE has been visiting friends in town, for a few days. He is employed in the insane asylum in Somerville, Mass.
Mrs. C. TRUAX has gone to East St. Johnsbury to care for a sick sister, who is considered hopelessly insane.
Norman PERRY has entered into a business arrangement with Gen. Henry A. FARRINGTON of Manchester, N. H. which necessitates his removal from this village. His wife, Mrs. Dr. PERRY, will accompany him.
Oliver SMITH is again on the street, after being laid up for several weeks, caused by a fall from a tree, while picking apples.
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Many of the young people are away at school. A. C. STEVENS, Mary STEVENS, and Gertie SMITH at Montpelier; Katie AINSWORTH at St. Johnsbury; Ida METZ at Orford, N. H.; Florence STURTEVANT at Hartford, Conn.
Miss Hortense CLEVELAND is teaching in the Jenne district; Miss Winnie BARNES, a graduate of the high school at White River Junction, in the Burke district; Daniel LYMAN in Felchville; Miss Lena CLOUGH of White River Junction in the village school. The school-house has been newly whitewashed and papered and otherwise improved.
Will M. PENNIMAN left town, last week, to enter Dartmouth College.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred CLARKE left town, Monday, for York Beach in Maine. They intend to be absent several weeks.
Solomon LADD and wife, of Lowell, Mass., have been recent guests of Mr. and Mrs. N. F. ENGLISH.
M. R. HEADLE of Middletown Springs and Will HEADLE of Rutland are guests of their father, R. W. HEADLE.
George SPAULDING comes to the front seat with tomatoes, having one raised in his garden that weighs two pounds and measures seventeen inches round it.
Mrs. E. H. PITKIN died very suddenly, Friday night, being sick only fifteen miuntes. Heart disease supposed to be the cause.
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There are three people buried in Weed Cemetery with the name Chloe (or Chloa). They are a mother, daughter, and granddaughter.
Chloe Peabody was born July 20, 1789, in Reading, VT, the daughter of Daniel Peabody. Her mother’s name is not on the birth record, but the death records says that her mother’s name was Abigail. Chloe married William Rogers, likely his second wife, and had nine children between 1815 and 1834. She died December 8, 1864 of lung fever. She was buried in Weed Cemetery, and her gravestone is included in the 1907 survey, but it is listed as no longer there in the 1991 survey.
Her first child was Abigail Rogers, who was born about 1815. Abigail married George Bagley in 1841. She died November 3, 1863. Abigail and George Bagley had a daughter Chloe Ann (Chloa Ann on the gravestone) Bagley around 1842, apparently named after her grandmother, Chloe (Peabody) Rogers. Chloe Ann died at age 12 in 1854 and is buried in Weed Cemetery.
Chloe (Peabody) Rogers also had a daughter named Chloe Ann Rogers, born around 1831. She married Cornelius F. Person March 27, 1848 at Hartland. She died March 25, 1849, at the age of 18. No cause of death is given in her death record. Her gravestone is in Weed Cemetery.
So the three Chloe’s buried in Weed Cemetery are a mother (Chloe (Peabody) Rogers, 1879-1864), her daughter (Chloe Ann (Rogers) Person, about 1831-1848) and a granddaughter through the first child of Chloe Peabody Rogers, Adeline, Chloe Ann Bagley (about 1842-1854).
The information above is from Hartland Historical Society notes confirmed through Vermont Vital Records.
John SPEAR, one day last week, hitched his horse, with buggy attached, at Labaree’s store, by the wrong end of the driving reins, thus making it easy for the animal to take a circle round the hitch-post. Seeing the opportunity, the horse improved it. Wheelwright RUSSELL put in a new reach, thill, and cross-bar, and the buggy was again in running order.
The business of the Vermont Farm Machine Company, as we are informed by an officer of the company, was $140, 000 for the past year. The recent fire was confined to the old wood building and only caused a suspension of work for two or three days. The last order sent by general agent BATES, only last week, was numbered 24704.
Mrs. Prescott WRIGHT of Pepperell, Mass., daughter of Lewis PATRICK, an old time resident of the Forur Corners, has made a recent visit among her many friends and relatives in this town and Windsor, where all were pleased to welcome back to ttheir homes one so well and favorably remembered. Mrs. WRIGHT is a sister of O. L. and N. W. PARTRICK, of Windsor.
W. R. STURTEVANT, as executor of the estate of Sam’l CONANT of this town, sold at the house of Albert AIKENS, in Barnard, June 12, the following named real estate, 82 acres pasture, mowing and woodland to A. B. STEWART for $300, and 12 acres woodland, not easily reached, for $10 to Elmer F. ABBOTT.
Delegates to the republican convention at Montpelier, June 18: A. A. MARTIN, O. W.WALDO, J. H. EASTMAN.
The Methodist parsonage has been much improved in appearance by moving the barn.
John HARDING, of White River Junction was in town last week with two more stones for Hartland cemetery. One of Italian marble, was set over the remains of Mrs. Cyrus W. ROGERS, and the other, of Tennessee marble, over the remains of E. W. PERRY. This cemetery owes much of its best work to Mr. HARDING.
The old historic brook, that winds around the green slopes and through the rich meadows of Hartland village, has yielded uncommonly satisfactory results to the fishermen of late, and the honors are about even with H. L. DICKINSON, F. C. CARPENTER, Geo. DAVIS and Julius LAMB. But the best of all is, two little girls, Florence STURTEVANT and Addie BRITTON, took it into their heads that they “would a-fishing go,” and after a brief stay at
the brook they came home, each with a half pound trout, less but a very small fraction.
Taylor ALEXANDER, a well known citizen residing in Hartland village, was married the 11th inst to Miss Martha E. PIERCE, of Claremont, N. H. The marriage services were performed at the house of Judge E. VAUGHN, in Claremont village, by Rev. Frank A. THOMPKINS.
The young men of this village have organized a skating rink which is to be known as The Hartland Skating club. The officers are: Elmer SLADE, president; W. T. RICHARDSON, Secretary and Treasurer; Building Committee, Jesse V. JOHNSON and Frank P. MARTIN.
George F. STURTEVANT is painting his house in this village. The color, formerly pea green, is to be pure white. Frank, his son, is putting a part of his summer vacation to good use by doing the work.
During this writing several artists are engaged in applying “Brandon brown” to the outside surface of WALDO & DICKINSON’s block.
Good specimens of carriage work were taken from WALDO’s paint shop this week. Among these was the covered carriage of H. B WATRISS and a buggy belonging to A. C. MARCY, both of the Four Corners. WALDO has been obliged to keep two or three men a part of the time tokeep out of the way of his orders. A. A. MARTIN has work enough for one painter nearly all the time.
Mrs. F. P. BARSOW is not altoghether pleased with her pure blood stock of swine, introduced on the farm by her son, the Judge, while on a visit here from California. She has had no increase in the herd owing to the pig-eating proclivities of the mother who, for two succeeding years, has swallowed the whole of the progeny as soon as born.
One day last week, while planing hard wood plank at the mill of MARTIN & STICKNEY, the cutter, revolving at an uncommonly high rate of speed, burst into three parts, the fragments being projected with fearful velocity by the heads of F. P. MARTIN and Charles BAILY who were tending the machine at the time.
June 8, rye stands on the farm of J. C. HOLT 5 feet 4 inches, as shown in the news room by his son J. H. HOLT.
The young men interested in the skating rink at Martinsville, have organized under the name of The First Skating Rink Association of hartland. The officers are: A. A. MARTIN, Pres.; John STRONG, Secretary and Treasurer: Lucian SMALL, Geo. SPAULDING and A. E. HILL, business committee.
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A. L. DAVIS has purchased the Silas WILDER farm on Densmore hill, paying therefor $500.
Mrs. BARSTOW’s farm at the Four Corners has been sold to Frank E. KING of Lebanon, N. H., for $4,500. The family have moved in.
Curtis FLOWERS and Marvin WHITCOMB have just bought, cut and drawn an elm tree from A. L. DAVIS’ farm , which yielded over five cords of wood.
John P. STILSON has hired the Dan SEAVER farm in West Windsor and will soon move on it.
Mr. RICHARDSON of Olcott Falls has moved into Mrs. SUMNER’s house. Mrs. SUMNER goes to Hartford, Conn., to live with her daughter.
Mrs. Ellen B. KETCHUM and son Henry leave, Wednesday, for Denver, Col. Charles BACKUS, who has been in their employ the past year, is to accompany them.
The Methodist Seminary at Montpelier will have as students from this town, during the next term, A. C. STEVENS, Miss Mary STEVENS, and Miss Gertrude SMITH.
Miss Carrie E. PERRY is home from Middletown Springs, stopping at J. H. EMERSON’s.
Allen SLADE of Proctor is stopping at B. F. LABARREE’s.
Milo HEADLE, a well-known teacher, is at home with his father, R. W. HEADLE.
Mrs. L. WHITMORE and son Frank, from Nebraska, are visiting at J. A. McARTHUR’s.
Abbie JONES is home from Haverhill, Mass.
Mrs. LAWRENCE and daughter Lottie, of Malden, Mass., are spending a few weeks with C. V. N. WINSLOW.
The concert given a Pavilion hall by the “little old folks” was a decided success. The only bad thing about it was sore sides from laughing.
Mrs. E. S. SLADE of Proctor is at her old home in this village.
Mrs. Will SPAULDING of St. Albans is at George SPAULDING’s.
Mrs. Oliver BROTHERS died very suddenly at North Hartland, last week, at the age of 76 years. She retired in good health at night and was dead in the early morning.
A little grandchild of Amon ROYCE died of pneumonia, last week, aged three months.
Mrs. Catherine SHEPARD died last Wednesday and was buried Saturday, Rev. C. M. CARPENTER officiating.
William SHORT, for many years a farmer in this town, but who has of late been with his daughter in Concord, N. H., died in that city and was brought here for burial, the 16th.
Mrs. Huldah HAMMOND died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Z. WALKER, Tuesday night, funeral on Thursday. There are many more sick, and it seems as if the death angel was hovering over this town.
The snow is fast disappearing and the traveling is quite good in some places; on the hills the mud is deep yet. The blue birds, robins and ground birds, are again with us telling us spring has come once more.
Miss Luna JOHNSON has gone to Sunapee to work for Mrs. MARTIN.
Miss Alice SPAULDING has gone to Claremont, N. H., to work in a millinery store.
Charles St. CLAIR has moved from Martinville to Mrs. LADD’s house on the plains.
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George D. WOOD of San Luis Potosi, Mexico, is with his mother at the Four Corners.
Grand list of 1889: Real estate, $5,807.93; personal, 1578.11; polls, $750; total, $8,136.06. The list for 1888 was: Real $5,782.70; personal, $1,709.06; polls, $756; total, $8,247.76.
Fred E. CRANDALL has been engaged, the past week, in placing guide-boards along the highways through the town. No excuse now for anyone to get lost.
A new bridge has just been completed across Lull brook, near A. A. MARTIN’s shop.
Dr. D. F. RUGG is attending the American Medical Association in Newport, R. I., this week.
Dr. S. E. STEVENS can be found at the residence of Nathaniel GILSON, near the depot.
The remains of William ALLEN, better known as “Father ALLEN,” were buried from his late home near Hartland Falls, Sunday, the 16th, Rev. C. M. CARPENTER officiating. The large gathering of friends and neighbors testified to the love and respect in which he was held as a citizen. He was 82 years of age.
A horse owned by Frank GILBERT, valued at $200, was recently so terribly cut by wire fence in the pasture that it was found necessary to kill him.
The factory at North Hartland has closed for a short time.
Misses Gertie SMITH and Mary STEVENS are home from Montpelier Seminary.
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