Hi Listers - I just saw a notice on our local cable station, that a man named Frank Haley is looking for information and history of anyone who is buried at the Old Oak Hill Cemetery in Bellingham, MA. I know some of you have Bellingham connections. If anyone belongs to the Norfolk County list, could you pass this along? I think I read something a little while ago that someone was going to clean it up. The Historical society maybe? Anyway, if anyone needs his phone number let me know. He had an email address, but I didn't have a pencil - I'll try to catch it next time. Lisa

Stephen Patridge/Partridge Birth 10 Jun 1746 Medway, Norfolk, Massachusetts, Usa Sex Male Person ID I607 Last Modified 17 Apr 2001 Father James Partridge, b. 8 Oct 1700, Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, Usa Mother Keziah Bullard, b. 2 Dec 1711, Medway, Norfolk, Massachusetts, Usa Group Sheet F170 Family 1 Esther Emerson, b. 14 Jun 1751 Married 27 Feb 1772 Uxbridge, Ma Children > 1. Lewis Patridge, b. 26 Aug 1776 > 2. Stephen Patridge, b. 1 May 1781 > 3. Eunice Patridge, b. 11 May 1785, Rochester, Windsor, Vt > 4. Reuben Patridge, b. ABT 1788, Rochester, Windsor, Vermont > 5. Adrial Patridge, b. 4 Nov 1790, Rochester, Windsor, Vt > 6. Cyrus Patridge, b. 22 May 1794, Rochester, Vt Group Sheet F391 Notes Research: Is this the Stephen in the VT 1790 CENSUS as residing in Rochester,Windsor Co.??? Probably, as his son, Martin was recorded as of Braintree, VT. Research: 23 Aug 1999 Adding further information as received from Howard O. Partridge (Sat, 21 Aug 1999 13:36:58 EDT), this is reinforced, as Howard O. Partridge was born in Rochester, VT in 1790, child of Stephen and Esther. BIOGRAPHY: Moved to Shrewsbury, MA and then Rochester, VT by 1790. The family later moved to Wilmington, Essex County, New York and in 1815 the parents and young children migrated to Ohio, settling near Columbus. BIOGRAPHY: http://www.medwaylib.org/EarlySettlers.htm cf. James Partridge/Patridge (New York settlers used Patridge spelling)

dge Home Page | New Search | Individual | Pedigree | Descendancy | Login Birth 10 Jun 1746 Medway, Norfolk, Massachusetts, Usa Sex Male Person ID I607 Last Modified 17 Apr 2001 Father James Partridge, b. 8 Oct 1700, Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, Usa Mother Keziah Bullard, b. 2 Dec 1711, Medway, Norfolk, Massachusetts, Usa Group Sheet F170 Family 1 Esther Emerson, b. 14 Jun 1751 Married 27 Feb 1772 Uxbridge, Ma Children > 1. Lewis Patridge, b. 26 Aug 1776 > 2. Stephen Patridge, b. 1 May 1781 > 3. Eunice Patridge, b. 11 May 1785, Rochester, Windsor, Vt > 4. Reuben Patridge, b. ABT 1788, Rochester, Windsor, Vermont > 5. Adrial Patridge, b. 4 Nov 1790, Rochester, Windsor, Vt > 6. Cyrus Patridge, b. 22 May 1794, Rochester, Vt Group Sheet F391 Notes Research: Is this the Stephen in the VT 1790 CENSUS as residing in Rochester,Windsor Co.??? Probably, as his son, Martin was recorded as of Braintree, VT. Research: 23 Aug 1999 Adding further information as received from Howard O. Partridge (Sat, 21 Aug 1999 13:36:58 EDT), this is reinforced, as Howard O. Partridge was born in Rochester, VT in 1790, child of Stephen and Esther. BIOGRAPHY: Moved to Shrewsbury, MA and then Rochester, VT by 1790. The family later moved to Wilmington, Essex County, New York and in 1815 the parents and young children migrated to Ohio, settling near Columbus.

Thomas5 EMERSON, son of John4 and Mary (RICE) EMERSON, was born at Mendon or Uxbridge, Mass., Feb. 2, 1725. He married Nov. 25, 1748, Abigail MARSH of Uxbridge. She was born 1720, and died June 21, 1804. Their children were: 1. Asa (named above), 2. Esther ( b. June 14, 1751; married Stephen PARTRIDGE on Feb. 27, 1772, d. Oct. 13, 1796 and was a res. of Uxbridge, Mass.), 3. Daniel (b.April 5, 1753; married April 6, 1772, Judith GAVETT and was a res. of Sutton, Mass.), 4. Enoch (b. Feb. 26, 1775; married Eunice DANA; d. June 21, 1804, and was a res. of Rochester, Vt.), 5. Mary (b. Feb. 24, 1757; married Dec. 25, 1788, Gideon MORSE, and was a res. of Uxbridge, Mass.), 6. Phebe (b. Nov. 14, 1759), 7. Eunice (b. Sept 9, 1761 and d. 1786), 8. John (b. Oct. 4, 1763), and, 9. Abigail (b. April 25, 1766 and d. Sept 15, 1804). (page 112)

Esther Emerson &Stephen Partridge of Midway (sic) - Feb. 27, 1772 Marriage Records To 1800 From Early Massachusetts Marriages Prior to 1800 By Frederick W. Bailey This family removed to Essex County New York eventually; Their great grandchildren lived in Wilmington and Jay New York.

Hi Frank I didn't recognize youre email; thanks for sharing . Here are some web pages that came through the Boylston MA (about 25 mins north of Mendon) on their newsletter this week. For those of you with time to browse, maybe something interesting? If you want to subscribe to the Boylston MA newsletter their address is potpourremail@boylstonhistory.org They do a nice job; have a calendar of coming events, etc. Selected Massachusetts History Highlights http://www.mass.gov/lib/pubns/highlights.htm The George Fingold Library, State House Room 341, Boston, MA 02133 Phone: 617-727-2590, Fax: 617-727-5819 http://www.mass.gov/lib/homepage.htm Massachusetts/New York Boundary History http://www.hopefarm.com/massachu.htm Massachusetts Historical Society http://www.masshist.org/welcome/ a timeline of the history of Massachusetts. http://www.worldhistory.com/massachusetts_timeline.htm A Tour of Massachusetts History and Trivia http://www.masshome.com/tour.html Massachusetts - Obtaining Copies of Vital Records http://www.mass.gov/dph/bhsre/rvr/vrcopies.htm History &Culture http://mass.gov/portal/index.jsppageID=mg2topic&L=3&L0=Home&L1=Visitor& L2=History+%26+Culture&sid=massgov2 A Brief History of Massachusetts http://www.usgennet.org/family/bliss/rehoboth/mahistory.htm Excerpt of Hutchinson's History of Massachusetts-Bay http://wsrv.clas.virginia.edu/~rwm3n/webdoc9.html A Tour of Massachusetts History and Trivia http://www.masshome.com/tour.html

I realized I sent this originally from an email address that is not subscribed to the Mendon list, so it probably didn't get through. Here it is: Hi cousins, I haven't seen any messages for the Mendon list in a while and just thought I would wake up the list. I usually ask an off-beat question and get discussion going, but I can't think of any today. Any list members in south Florida have probably already evacuated and are off the net, but I, for one, will be thinking of them this weekend as Hurricane Frances approaches. The current track looks like it will avoid my area near the Chesapeake 'cause it looks like it might go inland. After a harrowing all-night visit from Isabelle last year, we're not looking for a repeat. We had twelve trees down, but none hit the house, so we were lucky. Having lived through multiple earthquakes, tornados, floods, and hurricanes in various parts of this country and Europe during my lifetime, I can feel for what our cousins in Florida will experience this weekend. For list-Mom Alice: I sent you the last of my transcriptions a couple of months ago. If you have anything new for transcribing, let me know. Regards, Frank

This came through on another mailing list this morning. Thought some might be interested in her Massachusetts roots. Mrs. Child is related to the Washburn family and Here is her line to the Washburn family: John Washburn/Elizabeth Mitchell d/o Experience Mitchell and Jane Cooke ..Samuel Washburn/Deborah Packard ....Nehemiah Washburn/Jane Howard ......Jane Washburn/Josiah Deane, Sr. ........Josiah Deane,Jr./Sarah Byram ..........Sara Deane/Isaiah Weston, Sr. ............Isaiah Weston, Jr./Caroline W. Curtis ..............Bryon Weston/Julia Clark Mitchell ................Julia Carolyn Weston/John McWilliams ..................Julia McWilliams/Paul Cushing Child Mrs. Child was ninety-one years old at the time of her passing. Article below By Kathryn Kellinger salon.com Aug. 20, 1999 You must have the courage of your convictions," trills a black-and-white Child as she pan-flips a large potato pancake. Losing half of the contents onto the electric range cooktop, she scrapes up the errant potatoes with her spatula and puts them back in the pan, assuring me, her momentary confidant, that it's OK to make a mistake -- no one sees us alone in the kitchen anyway. As an adult, I find this reassuring. I, like Child, am not a natural born cook. Pre-Emeril, pre-Fat Ladies, long before the rise of Alice Waters, Jeremiah Tower and Wolfgang Puck and without the magic of editing, Julia Child was re-outfitting the American kitchen and re-educating the American palate. In the process she became the most important culinary figure this country has produced, as well as one of the century's most admirable women. As befits a woman who stands 6-foot-2, Child has done everything in a very big way. Raised in Pasadena, Calif. she once impressed her friends by scaling a fence to freedom after being apprehended for hurling mud pies at passing cars), was unfamiliar with the family kitchen, where a hired cook was in charge. She instead preferred playing in her family's backyard tennis court, writing and performing plays and smoking her father's cigars while hiding with her pals (McWilliams' father found this hobby so distasteful he offered her a $1,000 bond if she promised to give up smoking until she was 21. She took the deal, and after collecting the dough on her 21st birthday, began puffing away, as many as two packs a day for the next 30 years). Her career as a cut-up continued at Smith College, her mother's alma mater. She played on the school's basketball team, where she excelled at the "jump ball" portion of the game, and studied enough to get by. Equipped with a new 1929 Ford convertible, McWilliams ferried her all-girl crew to Prohibition-era speakeasies and found that driving with the top down was a benefit when one of the girls overindulged. Train trips home to California for holidays meant four-day cross-country parties during which McWilliams' highly developed sense of fun kept everyone laughing. She later declared, "I was an adolescent nut. Someone like me should not have been accepted at a serious institution." Nevertheless, she graduated from Smith and returned to California with ideas of becoming a lady novelist. Not yet a cook, but always a hostess, McWilliams was again the life of the party. But she was also the quintessential good citizen, volunteering with the Pasadena chapter of the American Red Cross until World War II broke out. At a time when women were being told to get out of the kitchen and into the factories, McWilliams, who had never been in the kitchen in the first place, headed to Washington in a flurry of patriotism. Landing an administrative position with the Office of Strategic Services, the precursor to the CIA, she pushed papers by day and hosted cocktail parties by night. And when it was announced that volunteers were needed to staff new overseas bases, McWilliams lost no time signing up and departing for Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) by way of India. After a month-long journey on the high seas with 3,000 soldiers, McWilliams, one of only a handful of women, arrived in Ceylon to begin her new job as a research assistant in America's first intelligence organization. While the trip alone would've done in many, McWilliams was thrilled to be surrounded by sophisticated international spy-types. Soon promoted to administrator, she was required by her job to process highly confidential documents. While somewhat bored by deskwork, she was enthusiastic about being part of such an organization. The drudgery of the job was partly alleviated by the glamour of a top-secret clearance and the exotic location. Plus, she met Paul Child. Having dated many of the OSS women, he had a reputation as both a loverboy and a lover of food. Although these were two areas the still-naive McWilliams knew little about, she and Paul Child struck up a friendship. As well as being an artist and photographer, multilingual and sophisticated, he was in charge of building the war room at the command. McWilliams found him extremely impressive. In their off hours, Paul Child would lead the staff on expeditions to local restaurants, sampling the local cuisine and avoiding the uninspired fare of the OSS mess hall. In Ceylon and later in Kunming, China, where they were both stationed next, McWilliams discovered the joy of eating. Almost better than that, she discovered the joy of talking about eating. She was intrigued by Paul and his smart circle of friends, and she never tired of listening to them consider the food they were eating or about to eat. A sensualist, Paul Child had lived in Paris and often described for McWilliams the rich and delicious French cuisine he loved. His talk of quenelles was hypnotic. McWilliams was smitten and, finally, so was Child. They married when they returned to the United States. At the age of 34, Julia Child began learning to cook for her new, food-loving husband. As was the custom for new brides, Child referred to Irma Rombauer's bestselling "The Joy of Cooking" for direction. Ever the optimist, she was not discouraged by her early failures in the kitchen. Paul Child soon accepted a government post in Paris and his wife's life was transformed. Upon arriving, the couple immersed themselves in the national French pastime: eating. For Julia Child, to taste the food that had been so articulately described to her years before was a revelation. Diving into French culture, she shopped the markets, learned the language and got to know her neighborhood butcher. With her Michelin guide in hand, she explored Paris. She learned about cheese and drank wine. She later described herself as being "in hysterics for months" as her love affair with food became all consuming. Finally, at the age of 37, Child enrolled in Paris' famed Cordon Bleu cooking school. The only woman in her class, she worked tirelessly. She tried out new dishes on her husband and outfitted her home kitchen with the tools of her new trade. Her family fortune kept the couple supplied with truffles, and she entertained often, sometimes incapacitating friends with epic amounts of butter and cream. The owner of the Cordon Bleu thought she lacked natural cooking ability but had extraordinary stamina. In collaboration with two French foodies, Simone Beck and Louisette Bertholle, Child formed "L'ecole des Trois Gourmandes" and began teaching French home cooking to American women in Paris. The students started early in the morning and worked until lunch, at which point they'd eat their lessons with wine. As she taught the classes, Child came to recognize the importance of dependable and accurate master recipes that would enable the students to produce consistent dishes. Taking recipes already assembled by her French partners, she began the arduous task of structuring, testing and rewriting them to fix flaws. As her husband's career moved the couple around Europe, Child remained in constant contact with Simone Beck (known as Simca) by mail, working toward their goal of publishing a new and comprehensive French kitchen manual for an American audience. After nearly a decade, "Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume I" was complete. The book made approachable a formerly intimidating and unpronounceable cuisine. The textbook format, complete with diagrams, offered the "servantless American cook" an opportunity to adapt professional French techniques to the home kitchen. Child translated not only methods, but names -- French Baked Beans sounded much more achievable, though less sexy, than the foreign and mysterious "cassoulet." The book was a sensation and, along with more accessible airline travel, was significantly responsible for the American embrace of all things French that took hold in the 1960s. Soon after the book's release, the Childs bought a house in Cambridge, Mass., and Paul Child, who possessed an all-consuming adoration for his wife, devoted himself to supporting her booming career, which was about to get even bigger. Child had been invited to appear on public television to promote her new book. With the idea that she'd demonstrate a dish from the book rather than just talk about it, she arrived at Boston's WGBH studios toting eggs, a whisk and a hot plate. The studio had no cooking facilities, but Child proceeded to whip up an on-air omelet, which happens to be the perfect starring dish for TV: familiar, one main ingredient, and, in the hands of a trained professional, pure showmanship. Taking only a couple of minutes to prepare, the illustrious omelet commanded a full 10 pages of text and detailed illustrations in Child's book. The audience went wild. WGBH received letters demanding more of Julia Child and quickly asked her back to shoot a pilot. "The French Chef" series turned out to be public television's greatest success, winning an Emmy in 1965. Child, always a staunch supporter of educational television, accepted payment of $50 for each show, donating the balance of her salary to the station. She's an unlikely TV star, to say the least. Perpetually sounding as though she'd just gotten off the tennis court, and with an implacable, reedy accent, she fluttered about her TV kitchen. But her enthusiasm and can-do attitude were infectious, and the frequent gaffes offered opportunities to show the home cook how to repair a dish if it should stick or spill. Child had fun. Given to imagery ("the dough should feel like a baby's bottom") and colorful language ("use the electric mixer and go whole hog"), she preached the advantages of a modern, well-stocked kitchen. "The French Chef" was equal parts cooking instruction and performance art and it had wide appeal. Housewives, college professors, foodies and non-foodies: Everyone loved Julia Child. Vogue magazine food writer Jeffrey Steingarten remembers rushing home from class at Harvard Law School to his black-and-white television and jotting down ingredients and instructions on his legal pad. Right after the show, he'd go to Savenor's market "and I'd see Julia there. I'd stalk her in the aisles," he says, his eyes twinkling. Child has starred in eight television series since then and published 11 books. She founded the American Institute of Wine and Food, an educational center devoted to the culinary arts. She has won too many awards to list. She is a unique American treasure who succeeded in a time when women supposedly couldn't prosper in her notoriously sexist field. And, as with everything she has done, she did it all with great style and humor. Her influence cannot be overstated. Thirty years ago, Child raised the food consciousness of Americans and forever enhanced the sophistication of their appetites. When frozen convenience foods were standard fare in American homes, she proposed that we learn how to cook, and what's more, how to eat. Sara Moulton, executive chef of Gourmet magazine and host of the TV Food Network's "Cooking Live," says "Julia urged us to be more aggressive consumers, to go into our supermarkets and demand leeks and demand shallots. Now leeks and shallots are everywhere." Moulton, a shining example of today's TV chef, worked with Child on her second television series, "More Company." "Cooking should be fun," she says. "I learned that from the master. Julia didn't just share what she knew. She made you want to do it too." Legendary editor Judith Jones, Child's editor since her first book, credits her with another important contribution. "She was the voice of sanity, and has remained the voice of sanity, telling us to eat a little of everything, stressing moderation; she's like a voice in the wilderness." Indeed, Child's nutritional advice has always been sound. Today, as books like "The Zone" and the suspect "Eat Right for Your Type" top the bestseller lists, Child, an energetic and healthy 87 years old, shows us that a joyful life of moderation may well be the key to longevity as opposed to a cranky existence without bread, potatoes or foie gras. This fall, Child will publish a new book edited by Jones, "Julia and Jacques Cook at Home," in which she cooks alongside Chef Jacques Pepin. Besides offering back-to-basics instruction, it will feature a dialogue between the two culinary masters and illustrate the joy of taking a dish and making it one's own, using a good recipe as a foundation. "This book is seminal in that it shows nothing is written in stone," Jones says. "Cooking isn't fun if you simply stick to a formula." Thanks to a new 22-part companion series for PBS, we will also soon see Child's familiar frame in her familiar home kitchen, once again teaching us how to, among other things, "fearlessly boil up sugar into caramel." Until then I'll be watching reruns of "The French Chef" on the TV Food Network, observing with fascination as she clarifies chicken stock with egg whites in the classic French method, absorbed by her thoroughness as she describes different methods of making ice cream. She closes each show with a culinary fortune cookie, every bit as reassuring as when she long ago insisted, "You must have the courage of your convictions." "Bon appetit!" (kindness of Barbara Lenker)

In a message dated 7/22/2004 9:31:20 PM Pacific Daylight Time, llepore@comcast.net writes: I hope you are writing down all of his stories -------------- I got him to tell a lot of them on tape -- but he got weary of that -- so now I'm left to write the rest down. Sue Susan M. Roe Seal Beach, CA SueMHR@aol.com If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may live in peace. Thomas Paine

I hope you are writing down all of his stories Lisa llepore@comcast.net ----- Original Message ----- From: <SueMHR@aol.com> To: <MA-MENDON-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2004 6:08 PM Subject: Re: [MA-MENDON] Mendon near 100 yrs ago > In a message dated 7/21/2004 6:31:30 AM Pacific Daylight Time, alicep@rcn.com > writes: > as requested I had a little interview with Myla Thayer > ------------ > Great! I just love to hear about the memories of the older generation. My > dad (same age as Myla) is a great story teller. If you get him going he'll go > on for hours! > Sue > > Susan M. Roe > Seal Beach, CA > SueMHR@aol.com > > If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may live in > peace. > Thomas Paine >

In a message dated 7/21/2004 6:31:30 AM Pacific Daylight Time, alicep@rcn.com writes: as requested I had a little interview with Myla Thayer ------------ Great! I just love to hear about the memories of the older generation. My dad (same age as Myla) is a great story teller. If you get him going he'll go on for hours! Sue Susan M. Roe Seal Beach, CA SueMHR@aol.com If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may live in peace. Thomas Paine

In a message dated 7/22/2004 11:06:56 AM Eastern Daylight Time, SueMHR@aol.com writes: > I couldn't get this to work. Sue http://www.iarchives.com/anc_04/search.jsp?toc=j40czmmw2dq I stumbled upon it this way Go to a Google search type in "Milford" 1904 It was the 2nd item that came up on the list right after a map .. Contents: Table of Contents >City Directories >Milford - 1904-5 i Hopedale Milford

In a message dated 7/22/2004 7:41:58 AM Pacific Daylight Time, Jespane@cs.com writes: http://www.iarchives.com/anc_04/search.jsp?toc=j40czmmw2dq I couldn't get this to work. Sue Susan M. Roe Seal Beach, CA SueMHR@aol.com If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may live in peace. Thomas Paine

Milford City Directory http://www.iarchives.com/anc_04/search.jsp?toc=j40czmmw2dq I light of the discussion of 100 years ago, I stumbled upon this directory of Milford. Maybe others have seen it before. Anyway , I did find ephemera e.g., Trask Brothers bicycle shop.... and it appears as if the directory does record some of the maiden names of women and some street addresses. It opens in JAVA which takes a while but once you get a page open it is relatively easy to go forward or backward in the directory pages. Jes

OOOPS name in 1921 class was Nellie TUCKER not RUCKER.. (Typo) Alice

Morning Listers, as requested I had a little interview with Myla Thayer, 98 1/2 yrs. young. Sorry to say she does not recall a Mabel Payne nor a Waldo Thayer, nor a Everett Thornton.. SHE DID HAVE A BROTHER WINSOR tHAYER/.. Myla lived in the part of Mendon called So. Milford. She always says she was an outie Mendonite not an Innie. :)) \\She was born in 1906 the youngest child of George & Minnie ( Bicknell) Thayer. She graduated in 1922 and members of her class were.. Harold Lowell Kenneth Morrison William ( Billy) Irons Mabel Metcalf Florence Bagg Grace Wood and Myla She had several principles and teachers during her 4 years of High School.. which was at the now Clough Sc. Mr. Herbet?? Wisbey Prin. Miss Stearns VP (maybe Marion?) T She believes a Mr. Wigren was the last principle before Mr. Clough ?? and a Mr. Robbins High Sc. was a one room classroom and a Recitation Room where they went to recite and discuss their studies. The clss of 1921 Nellie Rucker Marion Bartlet Lillian Metcalf Phyliss Whiting Aldo Sabatinelli ( the only male ) Myla had brother Horace Thayer w graduated in 1918 in the same class as Martha Lowell ( Harold and Donald's sister) She also had another brother who grad. in 1920 Winsor Thayer Her other siblings were Doris Grad. 1914 Hilda- 1916 Grace (missed date) Charlotte Marlowe was the wife of Harold (Putt) Lowell In the Mendon Historical Museum we have photo's of these and many other early graduating classes. Well, Jean wondering if your Ma remembers any of these other early 20th century folks. :)) Myla has a remarkable memory.. I believe Grace Wood was her dearest friend at that time. OH! Myla has never married. Hope someone can relate to some of these above names. Have a Nice Day Alice

In researching the CHILSON family of greater Mendon area, I have found several who intermarried with families of Kennebunkport, ME. Seems odd to me. Was there any particular tie between Mendon/Milford families and Kennebunkport families? Does anyone know of anything? Here's one that I can't identify... Olive P. HUBBARD CHILSON died in Milford, MA, 9 Jan 1864, age 34, b. Kennebunkport, ME, dau. of Samuel Hubbard and Joanna Hatch. I have no idea which Chilson she married. Does anyone recognize these names? But he was still alive and, presumably, living in Milford when she died. Sue Susan M. Roe Seal Beach, CA SueMHR@aol.com If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may live in peace. Thomas Paine

Hi list - I have the fire chief's report on Lowell's. If anyone would like it let me know and I'll send it off list. Lisa

> In a message dated 7/16/2004 11:12:36 AM Eastern Daylight Time, > SueMHR@aol.com writes: > > > > Please let me know what Myla Thayer remembers > > ---------------- > > Let us all know! This is getting interesting. Sue > > > This is what Mabel remembers. > > > "You recall Harold's nickname which i had forgot,and Thonton way back, was > my idol. I didn't know Myla at that time, there was a Waldo Thayer > [never married] who lived with his mom &dad our next door neighbor (in > Mendon); he > worked in Uxbridge too, he use to walk past our house to get the > trolley.he was a nice guy, and older than we were. could Myla be in the > grade below me at school? {maybe ahead of me} Ernest Thornton that was his > name!!!!!! he was living wth a couple and his sister and brother they > were younger then he was. I don't remember where his parents were. There > is so much I remember,but we moved to Milford after my mom married Javan e. > Ballou (then) we moved back to Grampa's (Trask) in Mendon, that's when Iwent > to work in Uxridge mill as a weaver for 7 years. (Sister Lizzie Payne went > to work in the mill when the soldiers went into WWI; they paid her the man's > wages for running the huge looms) > Mabel Sanders > Santa Clarita CA > Wow Jean- This is great! Lisa

In a message dated 7/16/2004 11:12:36 AM Eastern Daylight Time, SueMHR@aol.com writes: > > Please let me know what Myla Thayer remembers > ---------------- > Let us all know! This is getting interesting. Sue > This is what Mabel remembers. "You recall Harold's nickname which i had forgot,and Thonton way back, was my idol. I didn't know Myla at that time, there was a Waldo Thayer [never married] who lived with his mom &dad our next door neighbor (in Mendon); he worked in Uxbridge too, he use to walk past our house to get the trolley.he was a nice guy, and older than we were. could Myla be in the grade below me at school? {maybe ahead of me} Ernest Thornton that was his name!!!!!! he was living wth a couple and his sister and brother they were younger then he was. I don't remember where his parents were. There is so much I remember,but we moved to Milford after my mom married Javan e. Ballou (then) we moved back to Grampa's (Trask) in Mendon, that's when Iwent to work in Uxridge mill as a weaver for 7 years. (Sister Lizzie Payne went to work in the mill when the soldiers went into WWI; they paid her the man's wages for running the huge looms) Mabel Sanders Santa Clarita CA