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Mary A. Srow passed away Jury 928, at her home in the town of Bloom.

Mary Snow was a daughter of A. 3. and E. J. Snow and was born in Athens, Ohio. She moved with her Wisconsin when a small

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Bloom City.

Helen Margaret, pre

ceeded her in death July 11, 1918, at

the age of 7 years. Mr. and Mrs. Moran in their early married life, moved to Richland Center, making it their home until March, 1914, when they moved to Viola. Mr. Moran preceeded her in death Jan. 29, 1916. Later she moved to her present home of Bloom.

At the age of twenty she gave her

heart to

perience of Holiness.

carnest Christian worker, a

great believer in Divine healing, having been

healed in answer to prayer a number of times. On Jan. 13, 1914, the Lord wonderfully restored her to health in answer to prayer after twenty-six years as a hopeless invalid. She nev

er tired

of giving God the glory.

Funeral services were held at the Presbyterian church conducted by the Rev. J. W. Markee, of the Weslyan Methodist church, of which she was a worthy member. Interment was made

n the Fancy Creek cemetery.

Now we are weary, friendless and

Watching here alone.

Mother thou no more will fondly

With thy loving tone.

Yet forever shall thy image in our memory dwell;

And our tears thy lonely grave shall

CARD OF THANKS-We wish to express our sincere thanks to all who so kindly assisted us during the sickness and death of our beloved mother. Miss Mabel Moran, Pauline and Keith.

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POLYCARPUS, DR. [187] of Bernardston, had chil. 550 I SOPHRONIA,7 b. 7 May 1775, d. 3 Aug. 1814, ae. 39. She was published for marriage to George Alexander of Hartland, Vt., and was m. to him by Rev. Amasa Cook of Bernardston, 14 Feb., 1795. Her husband lived in Bernardston, was a clothier by occupation, and d. 12 Oct. 1829, ae. 60. Had chil.: Polycarpus Cushman, b. 7 May 1802, a machinist by occupation, and a highly respectable and intelligent man; and Geo. Austin, b. 27 Mch. 1809,- a brick-mason by trade.

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He m. 2d Mary Lyman of Northfield, and by her had 4 chil. He was Ensign and Lt. of the Militia Company in Bernardston; Selectman and Assessor of that town for the years 1809 and 1810; and Representative in the General Court of Mass. for the years 1809 and 1812.

II Twin boys, never named, d. in infancy.

-552 III POLYCARPUS LORING, Hon. (1448) b. 21 Sept. 1778, named after a neighbor and friend of his grandfather, Dr. Polycarpus Loring, a distinguished Physician and Magistrate of Plympton; published to Sally Wyles, dau. of David Wyles of Colchester, Conn., 13 Oct. 1804, and m. 27 Nov. 1804 by Solomon Smead, Esq., of Greenfield. She d. at Saratogo Springs, N. Y., of a cancer of the stomach, 13 Aug. 1845, ae. 63. She was b. at Colchester, Conn., 8 Apl. 1782. The following obitua ry notice of her was published in the Greenfield papers:

"Died at Saratoga Springs, where she had gone for the benefit of her health, 13 Aug. 1845, Mrs. Sarah Cushman, wife of Hon. P. L. Cushman of Bernardston, aged 63.

"A life distinguished by a cheerful devotion to the duties of benevolence, and in all its relations, as wife, mother, friend and neighbor, has thus been closed, after a painful illness, in a calm resignation to the will of God in whom she trusted. The benign influence of a cheerful and faithful discharge of all the duties of the domestic relation, upon society, is seldom duly appreciated, until the heart from which this unintrusive influence emanates has ceased to beat, then the void is felt.

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"Sure 'tis an awful thing to die:

'Twas so to her; yet the dread path once trod,

Heaven lifts its everlasting portals high,

And bids the pure in heart behold their God."

He m. 2d Abigail (Barnard) Coleman, widow of the late Capt.

Thaddeus Coleman of Greenfield, 21 July 1846. He was m. at Brattleboro, Vt., by Rev. Addison Brown. She was b. at Sterling, 29 Nov. 1786.

He has frequently held various town offices. For several years he was Overseer of the Poor. He was Selectman and Assessor of Bernardston for the years 1810, 1816 and 1817; Representative in the General Court of Mass. the years 1816 and 1840; was a Senator for the county of Franklin in 1844; and was a Justice of the Peace fourteen years. In those various offices his services have met the approbation of his constituents.

A singular circumstance occurred when he was a member of the Senate, and which was extensively noticed by the newspapers of that day. He had but one son, an only child, and although

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they lived in the same county, in the same town, belonged to the same church, lived within a few rods of each other, and were intimate in all their social and domestic arrangements, yet they differed in their political sentiments, the father was a Whig and the son a Democrat, — and both were members of the same Senate! The father was first elected by the people, and the son was elected by the Legislature to fill a vacancy occasioned by the decease of the other Senator from Franklin county.

Strangers visiting the Senate that year would often enquire for the father and son at the Senate Board who differed in their politics, but agreed in everything else.

Such a combination of uncommon circumstances seldom occurs, and is, therefore, worthy of notice in this memoir.

But his principal business has been that of farming; and in that he has always enjoyed himself best. He made farming not merely profitable, but endeavored so to manage his lands as to make them constantly growing better-a desideratum to which all farmers should aim. He was also a "book farmer," so far as books could teach him, and was not ashamed to admit that he had yet much to learn in the cultivation of the soil. He was, therefore, a progressive and experimenting farmer, and in that way did much to elevate the condition of the farming interest. He was an early patron of all real improvements in agriculture and its kindred pursuits. He was among the first to engage in raising the Merino breed of sheep, on their first introduction into

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