The Vermont Tribune, Ludlow, Friday, January 29, 1886 Windsor 1/29/1886 A little son of E. W. OAKES got a bad gash in his hip, recently, by being caught on an ice-hook. W. H. H. MURRAY delivered his poem to a very interested audience, Tuesday evening of last week. Several telephone instruments have been removed since Jan. 1st, and their places supplied with apparatus for telegraphing, using the old wires. Transcribed by Ruth Barton -- Ruth Barton [email protected] Dummerston, VT

Related West Rutland Varieties September 05, 1894 Argus and Patriot Work on the sidewalks is to be resumed. The People's bargain store has been closed. James Kennedy and family, of Boston, are in town. The schools opened for the fall term last Monday. The season at Clarendon Springs has been a light one. Mrs. Thomas Cooney died suddenly last Thursday night. Rev. C. O'Reilly visited New York and Saratoga last week. John O'Rourke had two horses die of spinal disease last week. George Brine has the contract for building the new sidewalk. The Methodist Sunday school went to the lake last Wednesday. The "hotel" has been reopened by J.P. Battles, its new owner. Policeman, W.B. Burke, of New York, visited his parents last week. Thomas Rice, conductor on the New York Central railroad, is in town. Thomas A. Devine has closed his engagement with P. O'Neill, druggist. Edward Lidden, who died in Castleton last week, kept a drug store in town for some time. Extensive repairs on the graded school building, district No. 7, were completed last week. The new electric railroad between the village and Rutland will be in working order by October 1. Mrs. E.D. Reardon, of Anderson, Ind., is visiting Mrs. J.E. Leonard, her sister, on Clarendon Ave. P.F. Borke has returned from New York.  He will enter a law office in Rutland for the study of that profession. Mrs. Reed and son, of Washington, D.C., family of Commander Reed, of the U.S. navy, spent the summer in town. A huge scale overhanging the covered quarry is giving much anxiety to the workmen there.  It is the same piece that thousands of tons fell two years ago, burying five men.  Everything is being done to dislodge the rock. A Republican club has been formed in town and a caucus for the nomination of representative and justices will be held Friday evening.  The Democratic town committee is moving very slowly, considering that West Rutland has been, so far, a Democratic strong-hold. Prospects are not bright for fall and winter trade in the marble business.  The Albertson Marble Company's employees work five days a week, and frequent discharges of men by two other companies indicate slack business.  Very fine marble is being quarried in the Clarendon deposit, owned by the Vermont Marble Company.  H.A. Smith, formerly with Sheldon & Sons, has opened a new quarry in Brandon, which is said to premise good results. A weary pedestrian from Tinmouth or thereabouts went to the circus in Rutland early in the month and remaining to see the last elephant shipped, turned his weary footsteps home 12 or 15 miles away.  This was at 3 O'clock A.M.  Spying a horse hitched to a post, near the store of E.D. Keyes, he quickly appropriated it, and did the distance in an easy leisurely manner. Two young men from the place, owners of the horse, also took in the circus, but remained too long away from their property.  On discovering their loss the whole sheriff force was advised and spent two whole days in discovering the "stolen" property, but the "weary pedestrian" has not been discovered and probably never will be, while another unfathomed mystery remains to be solved. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Don't get soaked. Take a quick peek at the forecast with the Yahoo! Search weather shortcut. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/shortcuts/#loc_weather

The Vermont Tribune, Ludlow, Friday, January 29, 1886 Mount Holly 1/29/1886 Perley BARRETT is nearly well again. Miss Emma AMES of South Wallingford is visiting at Clark BURTON's. Chas. ALLEN ------------------ at Essex Junction, was at home over Sunday last. (mice got that one.RHB) D. G. DAWLEY is having a severe time with inflammation of the eyes, and they are no better at present. The reorganization of the ladies' aid society will take place at Mrs. J. D. S. PACKER's, Friday afternoon. Transcribed by Ruth Barton -- Ruth Barton [email protected] Dummerston, VT

The Vermont Tribune, Ludlow, Friday, January 29, 1886 Londonderry 1/29/1886 Alvin DAVIS, who had a shock a short time ago, is improving. Ben SPARROW recently injured his thumb quite seriously in the machine shop. Frank STEVENS and wife have gone to Boston, to stop a year with Dr. PAINE. John THOMPSON's horses took a lively turn through Clarksville, last week, taking fright at a sled beside the road. Fortunately they were stopped at the school-house, without having done much injury. Transcribed by Ruth Barton -- Ruth Barton [email protected] Dummerston, VT

The Vermont Tribune, Ludlow, Friday, January 29, 1886 West Bridgewater 1/29/1886 One day last week a flock of wild geese were seen going southward. Mr. ENGLEY of Boston, formerly agent of the Ashton Mills, was in town last week. Mr. and Mrs. J. K. SPAULDING attended the Spiritualists convention at Ludlow. R. F. MADDEN has a hen that laid an egg, recently that has the picture of a child's head upon the shell, and also the outline of a cap upon the head. The egg can be seen at SPAULDING's store. Frank TOWN and Horace JOHNSON were returning from Plymouth, a few days ago, and when near PINNEY's mill the horse took fright at the cracking of ice and the occupants of the sleigh were spilled out. The horse made good time for home, but no serious damage was done. Transcribed by Ruth Barton -- Ruth Barton [email protected] Dummerston, VT

The Vermont Tribune, Ludlow, Friday, January 29, 1886 Bridgewater 1/29/1886 Mr. and Mrs. Edgar ALLEN of Barnard have been visiting friends in this burgh, recently. About forty, mostly small boys, attended GILSON's grand magic lantern exhibition held in the grange hall, the 18th. An infant son of Charles DOUGLASS about a month old, was strangled to death, the 20th, by mild from a nursing-bottle. E. M. ALLARD has purchased a timber-lot in Little Sherburne, and his son Clayton has stopped staging and put for the woods. Mrs. George PAGE, whose death from consumption occurred in Proctorsville, was a grand-daughter of the late Jesse BRIGGS of this town. Transcribed by Ruth Barton -- Ruth Barton [email protected] Dummerston, VT

The Vermont Tribune, Ludlow, Friday, January 29, 1886 Sherburne 1/29/1886 Mr. ROBINSON will vacate, this week, if the weather is favorable. He moves to Rutland. E. J. DOYLE arrived at his home the 21st inst., having been absent a few days in Massachusetts, on business. Mr. and Mrs. Daniel HOWE had a son call to visit them, the 21st; and as they had not seen him before, presume the doctor did the introducing. J. K. SPAULDING invited about a dozen of his best friends to a sort of a birth-day visit, on the 21st inst. Those who attended wished the occasion oftener might happen. Frank TOWN has moved into the house south of the school-house, and report says he will build a shop to work up hard wood. The people now draw it seven miles to the south part of the town and to West Bridgewater. Success to him. Glenn HUTCHINS, chopping logs in the south part of the town, last week, cut a bad gash in his foot. It was from his great toe nearly to his ankle. Charles MADDEN dressed it nicely; sewed it up with needle and thread, putting in a dozen stitches or more, then sticking-plaster completed the ceremony. They think he (HUTCHINS) will be out in a few days. Transcribed by Ruth Barton -- Ruth Barton [email protected] Dummerston, VT

Our friends in Minnesota told us about a local baby born 17 lbs. +...they said they put shoes on him, handed him a lunchbox, and stuck him on the school bus. Neysa ----- Original Message ----- From: Darrell A. Martin To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2011 7:10 PM Subject: Re: [VERMONT] Sherburne 12/11/1885 On 2/11/2011 9:16 PM, Ruth Barton wrote: > Sylvia, I don't wonder at your response, I had to read it several times > before I "got it." As others have already stated it is a rather oblique > birth announcement. There are several others in a similar vein. I don't > know whether they were trying to be cute or if the Victorian times caught > up with them and the "upper crust" didn't talk about crass things like > giving birth. > > Just a sign of the times, I guess. Ruth Ruth: I don't know about Victorian times; people shared a lot more of their personal lives than we do today. To me, the announcement was humorous because the baby was "big enough to be confused with a new hired man" at 9 pounds plus. (I was 9 pounds 3 ounces at birth, but somehow escaped the "hired man" label.) Reporters were certainly given more latitude in their phrasing in the 19th Century than we get in the mainstream media today. The Internet is a different story.... Darrell *************************************** List Guidelines: http://home.sprynet.com/~darrellm/list_rules.htm Visit the Gateway to Vermont Web Site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~vermont/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

On 2/12/2011 6:47 PM, Neysa wrote: > Our friends in Minnesota told us about a local baby born 17 lbs. +...they said they put shoes on him, handed him a lunchbox, and stuck him on the school bus. > Neysa Neysa: He probably had to take the cigar out of his mouth to explain they wouldn't take him in kindergarten. Darrell

On 2/11/2011 9:16 PM, Ruth Barton wrote: > Sylvia, I don't wonder at your response, I had to read it several times > before I "got it." As others have already stated it is a rather oblique > birth announcement. There are several others in a similar vein. I don't > know whether they were trying to be cute or if the Victorian times caught > up with them and the "upper crust" didn't talk about crass things like > giving birth. > > Just a sign of the times, I guess. Ruth Ruth: I don't know about Victorian times; people shared a lot more of their personal lives than we do today. To me, the announcement was humorous because the baby was "big enough to be confused with a new hired man" at 9 pounds plus. (I was 9 pounds 3 ounces at birth, but somehow escaped the "hired man" label.) Reporters were certainly given more latitude in their phrasing in the 19th Century than we get in the mainstream media today. The Internet is a different story.... Darrell

I love it, Alice!! Neysa ----- Original Message ----- From: Alice Gordon To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 11:16 PM Subject: Re: [VERMONT] Sherburne 12/11/1885 I think they were trying to be clever. When I was born (1942) my dad (he who was born in Barre 1899) sent out penny post cards announcing that another war bond buyer had entered the Gordon household and is now the loud ruler of the battalion. It was cute and I was delighted to find one that he kept in his safety deposit box all these years - it was discovered when the estate was settled. Alice Gordon -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ruth Barton Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 8:17 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [VERMONT] Sherburne 12/11/1885 Sylvia, I don't wonder at your response, I had to read it several times before I "got it." As others have already stated it is a rather oblique birth announcement. There are several others in a similar vein. I don't know whether they were trying to be cute or if the Victorian times caught up with them and the "upper crust" didn't talk about crass things like giving birth. Just a sign of the times, I guess. Ruth Sherburne 12/11/1885 HUH? On Feb 9, 2011, at 3:14 PM, Ruth Barton wrote: > t is curious how people will talk about their neighbors. Just now the > current points to Wm. DOUBLEDAY. Some say he is lucky, others say he > "missed it," hiring a fellow to work for him this winter. In > reality it's > on one's business but their own. Weight of the fellow, 9 1/2 > pounds, Dec. > 1st. -- Ruth Barton [email protected] Dummerston, VT *************************************** List Guidelines: http://home.sprynet.com/~darrellm/list_rules.htm Visit the Gateway to Vermont Web Site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~vermont/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message *************************************** List Guidelines: http://home.sprynet.com/~darrellm/list_rules.htm Visit the Gateway to Vermont Web Site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~vermont/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I've been told that  this is called Quaker Nichols Farm and I did find it listed this way on Find-A-Grave. Thank you to everyone that helped with this. ---ORIGINAL MESSAGE----   6. Re: Quaker Nichols Cemetery, Danby (Cindy Taylor) Message: 6 Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 18:47:22 -0800 (PST) From: Cindy Taylor <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [VERMONT] Quaker Nichols Cemetery, Danby To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Many of the graves are?just plain stones with no names, looks like some are completely unmarked?(not sure if they were originally marked or if the stones were broken and/or moved over the years).? It's very small, between Danby village and Danby Four Corners.? It was originally part of Anthony Nichols farm.? He was a member of the Quaker church. ? Cindy --- On Fri, 2/11/11, MK <[email protected]> wrote: From: MK <[email protected]> Subject: [VERMONT] Quaker Nichols Cemetery, Danby To: "Vermont List" <[email protected]> Date: Friday, February 11, 2011, 8:00 AM Does anyone know the history of the Quaker Nichols Cemetery in Danby?? Is it named after a Nichols family?? What is it currently called/named today?? I can't find it listed online. Thanks for any info. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Need Mail bonding? Go to the Yahoo! Mail Q&A for great tips from Yahoo! Answers users. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396546091

Thank you Ruth for your wonderful entries. I know how much time and organization it takes to get these done - they are fabric of our ancestors lives. Patty > Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 20:22:41 -0500 > To: [email protected] > From: [email protected] > Subject: [VERMONT] 1885 > > Well folks, thus ends the year 1885 in Ludlow and nearby towns. Hope you > all have enjoyed that look back at the people and doings of the area as > much as I have. > > I don't have many papers from 1886, 87 or 88, but have almost all from '89 > which I am working on now. So stay tuned. I'm sure some of you have found > some items humorous, some brutal and some shocking in their political > uncorrectness, according to the customs of TODAY. Some I almost didn't > include but decided they were important at the time, and that's the way > they wrote about them, and if we want to get the full picture we need to > see it "warts and all." Ruth > -- > Ruth Barton > [email protected] > Dummerston, VT > *************************************** > List Guidelines: http://home.sprynet.com/~darrellm/list_rules.htm > Visit the Gateway to Vermont Web Site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~vermont/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Sylvia, I don't wonder at your response, I had to read it several times before I "got it." As others have already stated it is a rather oblique birth announcement. There are several others in a similar vein. I don't know whether they were trying to be cute or if the Victorian times caught up with them and the "upper crust" didn't talk about crass things like giving birth. Just a sign of the times, I guess. Ruth Sherburne 12/11/1885 HUH? On Feb 9, 2011, at 3:14 PM, Ruth Barton wrote: > t is curious how people will talk about their neighbors. Just now the > current points to Wm. DOUBLEDAY. Some say he is lucky, others say he > "missed it," hiring a fellow to work for him this winter. In > reality it's > on one's business but their own. Weight of the fellow, 9 1/2 > pounds, Dec. > 1st. -- Ruth Barton [email protected] Dummerston, VT

The only thing that I found is that Lawrence O'Kelly is buried in St. Joseph's Cemetery, in Burlington, Chittenden County, VT. You would think that he and his two wives would be buried with him. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bev Thomson" <[email protected]> To: "Titus" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 11:15 AM Subject: Re: [VERMONT] Caroline O'KELLY > Hi Anne: > Thank you sooooo much for your offer to help me. Here is her > run-down: > Lawrence O'KELLY (Husband) s/o James & Margaret LEAVY > + Caroline (nee POWER) d/o William & Sophie BOUCHARD > b 3 Sept. 1857 - St-Chrysostome, Chatteauguay, Quebec, Canada > d 14 April 1893 - Shelburne, Chittenden, Vt. > This couple was m 10 January 1876 St-Antoine Abbe, Huntingdon, Quebec > Lawrence was Naturalized 30 August 1882 - Burlington City Court. They > had 7 children all b Shelburne - 1st one b 1879 which would be approx. > time of immigration into Shelburne. > Again I do sincerely thank you & will definitely keep my fingers crossed > !!!! > Bev > PS - Her m surname was O'KELLY but have seen it shown as KELLY in > other documents relating to earlier O'KELLY's > Lawrence & Catherine were of RC faith. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Titus" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 6:25 PM > Subject: [VERMONT] Caroline O'KELLY > > >> Bev, >> Was Caroline's husband, John? What year did she die? Did she have any >> connection with Australia? I have done a few searches, but need to >> decifer >> which one you're looking for. >> Anne >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Bev Thomson" <[email protected]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 1:34 PM >> Subject: [VERMONT] Burial Grounds in Vermont >> >> >>>I very sincerely thank the many who responded to my post re >>> finding my Pat. GrMother's (Caroline O'KELLY) grave site in Vt. >>> As suggested I have checked 'Find a Grave' site as well as >>> town (Shelburne) & County (Chittenden) people. Have checked >>> local RC churches in the area also. Have posted many times in >>> past yrs also & have yet ti find it. >>> Can anyone ref me to a State of Vt. Government office that *might* >>> have such info ?? >>> Again - I DO thank all for your attempt(s) to help me. >>> Bev > > >

Can't wait for '89 to begin. We have enjoyed these immensely. Neysa ----- Original Message ----- From: Ruth Barton To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 8:22 PM Subject: [VERMONT] 1885 Well folks, thus ends the year 1885 in Ludlow and nearby towns. Hope you all have enjoyed that look back at the people and doings of the area as much as I have. I don't have many papers from 1886, 87 or 88, but have almost all from '89 which I am working on now. So stay tuned. I'm sure some of you have found some items humorous, some brutal and some shocking in their political uncorrectness, according to the customs of TODAY. Some I almost didn't include but decided they were important at the time, and that's the way they wrote about them, and if we want to get the full picture we need to see it "warts and all." Ruth -- Ruth Barton [email protected] Dummerston, VT *************************************** List Guidelines: http://home.sprynet.com/~darrellm/list_rules.htm Visit the Gateway to Vermont Web Site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~vermont/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I think they were trying to be clever. When I was born (1942) my dad (he who was born in Barre 1899) sent out penny post cards announcing that another war bond buyer had entered the Gordon household and is now the loud ruler of the battalion. It was cute and I was delighted to find one that he kept in his safety deposit box all these years - it was discovered when the estate was settled. Alice Gordon -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ruth Barton Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 8:17 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [VERMONT] Sherburne 12/11/1885 Sylvia, I don't wonder at your response, I had to read it several times before I "got it." As others have already stated it is a rather oblique birth announcement. There are several others in a similar vein. I don't know whether they were trying to be cute or if the Victorian times caught up with them and the "upper crust" didn't talk about crass things like giving birth. Just a sign of the times, I guess. Ruth Sherburne 12/11/1885 HUH? On Feb 9, 2011, at 3:14 PM, Ruth Barton wrote: > t is curious how people will talk about their neighbors. Just now the > current points to Wm. DOUBLEDAY. Some say he is lucky, others say he > "missed it," hiring a fellow to work for him this winter. In > reality it's > on one's business but their own. Weight of the fellow, 9 1/2 > pounds, Dec. > 1st. -- Ruth Barton [email protected] Dummerston, VT *************************************** List Guidelines: http://home.sprynet.com/~darrellm/list_rules.htm Visit the Gateway to Vermont Web Site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~vermont/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Well folks, thus ends the year 1885 in Ludlow and nearby towns. Hope you all have enjoyed that look back at the people and doings of the area as much as I have. I don't have many papers from 1886, 87 or 88, but have almost all from '89 which I am working on now. So stay tuned. I'm sure some of you have found some items humorous, some brutal and some shocking in their political uncorrectness, according to the customs of TODAY. Some I almost didn't include but decided they were important at the time, and that's the way they wrote about them, and if we want to get the full picture we need to see it "warts and all." Ruth -- Ruth Barton [email protected] Dummerston, VT

Many of the graves are just plain stones with no names, looks like some are completely unmarked (not sure if they were originally marked or if the stones were broken and/or moved over the years).  It's very small, between Danby village and Danby Four Corners.  It was originally part of Anthony Nichols farm.  He was a member of the Quaker church.   Cindy --- On Fri, 2/11/11, MK <[email protected]> wrote: From: MK <[email protected]> Subject: [VERMONT] Quaker Nichols Cemetery, Danby To: "Vermont List" <[email protected]> Date: Friday, February 11, 2011, 8:00 AM Does anyone know the history of the Quaker Nichols Cemetery in Danby?  Is it named after a Nichols family?  What is it currently called/named today?  I can't find it listed online. Thanks for any info.       *************************************** List Guidelines: http://home.sprynet.com/~darrellm/list_rules.htm Visit the Gateway to Vermont Web Site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~vermont/  ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ____________________________________________________________________________________ We won't tell. Get more on shows you hate to love (and love to hate): Yahoo! TV's Guilty Pleasures list. http://tv.yahoo.com/collections/265

http://www.nekg-vt.com/Cemeteries%20of%20VT/rutland.htm Look in Danby, Scottsville Cem. on the NEKG site. It appears on the map I think below the Scottsville Cem. Lots of Nichols listed in Scottsville Cem. Quaker cem. not indexed. Possibly few graves or was moved to Scottsville. theclown16