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James, was admitted as a townsman in 1683, being then only 23 years old. In the division of the Meadows in 1694, he had 4 acres and in the final division of 1697 the same Number was confirmed to him. In the division of the Co. Lands of 1673, his name does not appear according to the rules adopted for the admission of townsman and the division of Company Lands. these facts indicate that James was married in or before 1683, as no unmarried men under 24 years of age were admitted townsman. the proportion indicate's that he was a man who had good property, 2.5 to 3 being the average. he moved from Barnstable to Plympton, Mass. perhaps in 1685. In 1694 he bought a large track of land on the east shore of Monponsett Pond, within the present limits of the town of Halifax, Mass, and moved there with his family soon after. He lived a quite and a blameless life, and as fast as his sons grew to manhood he divided his large holdings among them.

Bearce, James (I13699)

802

At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.

Newsom, J.S. Jr. (I26941)

803

Joanthan served with the Maine volunteers from Buckfield. His death was recorded by Delphinia Record as being killed just before the battle of Petersburg Va., on April 7,1865.
Private Company D, 32 Maine Infantry, Transferred to Co. D 31st Maine Infantry.

Damon, Jonathan (I1359)

804

John was a seafaring man, no kin to the Tower Families of Hingham, probably a British deserter.

Tower, John (I2922)

805

John Bouton was a farmer. John and Sarah settled at Norwalk where he owned land jointly with his brother Matthew3 Bouton, which according to town records, he sold 25 Jan 1693, to Mercy Lockwood, widow of Ephraim Lockwood. The town records of Dambury contains records of his conveyance of lands that place, and records of New Canaan state that he, together with John Jr. Nathaniel, Daniel and Ebeazer, were among the constituents of the Society of New Canaan.

Bouton, John (I31838)

806

John came to Plymouth in 1623. Was associated with Lyford in schemes to other throw the government and substitute Episcopal rule; wrote letters to persons in England who were hostile to the colony; was detected and banished from Plymouth colony. The Western adventures of Dorchester . England sent him to Cape Ann in 1625, but he accomplished nothing. He went to England, and came again in 1630. Settled in Watertown, Mass. He was a farmer may 18, 1631, Deputy in 1634. General court granted him a farm at Waterford, this he mortgaged to Mr. Craddock. Was on important committees. Had grants from the Indians of the islands in Narragansett Bay. Was slain by Indians while on a trading voyage at Block Island in July 1636.
John was a very active colonists that believed in the colonies however, he maintained his allegiance to the crown.

Oldham, Thomas (I17373)

807

John Damon with his sister Hannah, came to Scituate before 1633. They were then minors, and under the guardianship of Mr. William Gillson, their uncle. We understand that they were very young at that time from the circumstance, that having been made the heirs of Mr. Gillson, they were not established in their inheritance by the Court until 1649. "John and Hannah Daman were allowed by the Court to be lawful heirs of William Gillson, it being proved by diverse persons that Gillson had often said that he intended to make these (his sister's children) his heirs." (Colony Records 1649)

John Daman succeeded to the residence of his uncle, on Kent street, the second lot from Satuit brook (Edward Foster's being the first).

I have copied an excerpt from a hand-written book by a Mrs. Hatch who recently died. I don't know how accurate old Mrs. Hatch was, but I was impressed with her attention to detail and perseverance when I read the book in a recent visit to Scituate. She writes, in her preamble:

"The earliest mention of the name in English history is that of William Damon, author of a book of music published in 1591, during the reign of Elizabeth I. The Rev. S.C. Damon, author of a memorial published in Honolulu in 1882, states that he also found the name while traveling in France. (He mentions) that visitors to the World Fair in Chicago in 1893 will remember the name "Colin & Damon" prominently displayed on a French exhibit in the Manufacture and Liberal Arts Building. There is little doubt (Mrs. Hatch continues) that the name is of French origin and was probably brought over to England as early as the 14th century.

The parish records of the St. Lawrence Church of Reading, England, record the baptism of John, son of John Damon on 25 June 1620." (Mrs Hatch notes that these are are not Scituate's John Damon.') She continues....
John was prominent in the affairs of town and church. In military affairs he held the position of Seargent in 1666. He was appointed to the Command of the Scituate Militia under Miles Standish and held that position until 1669.
Lived at the 2nd house from Satuit Brook on Kent Street in Scituate.

EXCERPT FROM PLYMOUTH COLONY RECORDS VOL 2 P.143

John Damon,the forefather of all the Damon's hereabouts, came to Plymouth with his sister Hannah in the company and under the care of their mother's brother William Gilson, before 1633. Their uncle was a man fairly well to do for the times, a good churchman and of very excellent abilities. Not long after Gilson's arrival he was made an assistant to the colonial court---counsellors they were called in those days---and in 1634 he is found at Scituate a member of Mr. Lothrop's congregation. His house was next to Edward Foster's just south of Satuit Brook. He had land on the north of second cliff and in 1637 erected the first windmill in the colonies; on the third cliff. Beside the nephews and nieces Gilson and Good wife Francis had for a time an inmate of their household Pricilla, the daughter of Peter Brown of Plymouth, who had left his widow with a large family of children. Both Gilson and his wife was devoted to their young kins people. That he might " leave them something after his days were ended " the former applied for and received from the court an allotment of more land than he personally could personally or conveniently cultivate, because " although he had no children of his own, yet that he had two of his sister's children, which he looked upon as his own. " When he died in 1649 John and Hannah was awarded all of his possessions, saved one small legacy to another nephew and another of 5 pounds " to my pastor Mr. John Lothrop."
Young Damon lived in the house on Kent street which his Uncle had left him and tilled the 80 acres which had been awarded to Gilson on his own {Damon's} and his sisters account.
He was warmhearted, generous and ever ready to be such measures of assistance that he was able, to a friend or a neighbor who stood in need. This characteristic brought him collaterally into a pretty romance in which Govenor Prence, his daughter Elizabeth and John Damon's friend Aurthur Howland, Jr., of Duxbury were involved. This was in 1666. At this time the provision concerning courtship was the law of the colonies:----
" Whereas divers persons unfit for marriage both in regard to their young years and also in regard of their weake estate, some practising the enveigleing of men's daughter's and maids under guardians { contrary to the parents and guardians liking " , and of maybe servants without leave and liking of their masters. It is therefore enacted by the court if any shall make any motion of marriage to any man's daughter or servant not having first obtained leave and consent of the parents or masters so to doe, Shall be punished by either fine or corporal punishment or both of the discretion of the bench and according to the natures of the offence."
Young Howland and Mistress Prence were enamored of each other. They were not " unfit for marriage" within the meaning of their status, both being of age and the formal possession of 50 acres of land in Duxbury which had been granted to him by the Colony Court. Their was one grave and insuperable objection. Howland was a Quaker. His father, at first was a sympathizer, and then frequently prosecuted before Prence, who was then Governor, for the entertainment of Quakers and assisting and the promulgation of their faith, and finally embraced it. The Governor was rabid in his opposition to the sect and the marriage of his daughter to one of them was intolerable. The young woman was the third child of his second marriage. Her mother was a sister of William Collier, as prominent and persistent in his persecution of the Quakers as was the Govenor himself. Both parents forbade the courtship despite of their joint effort continued. No other means availing, recourse was finally had to a criminal prosecution against Howland under the law which has above quoted. On march 5, 1666-7 Howland was brought before the bench on which his accuser sat as the presiding Magistrate and charged with :--
" Inveigling mistress Elizabeth Prence and making motion of marriage to her , and prosecuting the same contrary to her parents liking, and without their consent, and directly contrary to Their mind and will."
He was sentenced to pay a fine of 5 pounds to find sureties for his good behavior:--
" And in the special that he desist from the use of any names to obtain or retain her affections as aforesaid."
Here John Damon came to the assistance of his friend. He became surety for that good behavior which the Court required. He also apparently counselled the action which was taken 4 months later with Howland " Did solemnly and seriously engage before this court, { Governor Pence still presiding} that he will wholly desist and never apply himself for the future, as formally he hath done, to mistress Elizabeth Pence, in reference onto marriage." However solemn this agreement may have been, it was not serious in the part of young Howland: Nor did mistress Prence agree that this action either of the court or her lover was final. The courtship continued and was consummated and a marriage later. The daughter was never forgiven. The bitterness which Pence showed towards general Cudworth for the latter's leniency the Quakers was greatly increased in the case of his daughter because of her successful rebellion to his stubborn will.
Although he disinherited, he live to see her surrounded by a contented brood in the Scituate Planter who had become surety, for the good behavior of the parent the godfather of his children.
John Damon's unselfishness and genuine interest in the welfare of others is also shown in his advocacy of the cause of Elder William Hatch who claimed a share in the town"s common land. It has been told elsewhere in these pages that the Colony Court had permitted the freemen of Scituate to make division of these lands among the freeholders. In doing this there had been trouble. Two factions had sprung up, and the town had delegated the privileges to the committee. While the magistrate did not approve of this, they sanctioned it for a time and then reestablished the bench in the performance of the duty by appointing a committee of its own choice of the townsmen, made up however of the leaders of each fraction. These men were Captain James Cudworth, Cornet Stetson, Isaac Chittenden, and Lt. Buck, on one side and John Damon, John Turner{ Senior}, John Turner,Jr., and John Bryant,{senior}, on the other side. It is readily seen that they easily deadlocked. This was true upon the application of Elder Hatch for his allotment. In the argument which insured Damon, being deserted by John Bryant, won over Buck, and Chittenden from the opposition and reported a layout for Hatch to the Court. It was not the fault of this majority of the committee that the Magistrates acted unfavorably upon this report. It served Elder Hatch to no purpose but to make Damon himself the target for retribution at the hands of his opponents on the committee. When his turn came for a layout of 50 nacres a majority of his fellows refused his request weakly alleging " that he had land on that account before." He appealed to the court which returned this advise:--" Therefore we request and think he ought to be considered, and desire you so do." He was thereupon " Accommodated".
He was a deputy to the Colony Court, one of the council of war, a Selectman
and performed his full part in those other public services to which he was from time to time assigned.
He was twice married, his second wife being Martha Howland, a relative of his friend Authur. He was the father of twelve children evenly divided as to the sexes. Of those which survived adolescence, John and Zachery each did exemplary services in the King Phillips War. Another son Experience was the pioneer at Pincin Hill and the daughters Silence, Martha, Hannah, and Margaret thru marriages with Scituate neighbors has established the Damon strain in the families of Chittenden, Merrit, Stetson, Eells, Woodworth, and others.

Damon, John (I20694)

808

John George Bloss, eldest son of Conrad, was born Oct 15, 1744. He was a farmer, miller, and distiller. On June 29, 1767, he purchased his father's farm, consisting of 278 acres and sixty-three perches for which he paid 250 pounds. On May 20, 1800, he was granted four acres and 137 perches - this tract of 215 acres and he was granted another tract of 215 acres and 130 perches, bordering on Mahoning Creek, in Penn township, Carbon county. On Dec 9, 1784, he took out a warrant for ten acres. George Bloss and David Wyant took out a warrant bearing date Dec 9, 1784, for 220 acres. In 1772, he paid Proprietary tax amounting to three pounds and eight shillings. In 1785 he paid Federal tax on 283 acres of land, three horses and five head of cattle, amounting to two pounds, five shilling and five pence. On March 7, 1806, John George Bloss sold all the land he then owned; but he continued to reside on the homestead with his son Henry until his death. His farm in Washington township, Lehigh county, he sold to two of his sons, John George, Jr.bought 137 acres, fifty perches paid 850 pounds; Henry bought 141 acres, fifteen perches, paid 850 pounds; John Lentz, his son-in-law bought the tract of 215 acres and 130 perches in Penn township,
Carbon county, for which he paid 250 pounds.

During the Revolutionary War, John George Bloss served in the Northampton County militia. In 1778 he was second Lieutenant of the Fifth Company in the Third Battalion.
In 1780, he served as a private eight days on the frontier against the Indians in the Sixth Battalion as is shown in the pay roll of Capt. Conrad Reder's company. In 1781, he served as private in the Sixth Battalion, seventh class as substitute for John Reedy, from May 16 to July 16. Again, in1782, he was a private in the Sixth Battalion. John George Bloss was married two times. His first wife's name is Anna Barbara.

John George Bloss' second wife was Elizabeth --, who survived him at his death, which occurred April 19, 18185, after an illness of about four days. In his will which was made April 15, and probated in Allentown, May 16, 1815, his sons, Christian and John George, Jr. were appointed executor.
In the old cemetery adjoining the Heidelberg church a tombstone still marks conspicuously the resting place of the last remains of John George Bloss:
Her Rehen die Gebeine der verstorbeuen Johan Georg Bloss ist Gebohren den 15ten October Jur Jahr 1744 ist gestorb Enden 19ten Aprill in johr 1815 ist alt worden 71 johr 7 monant und 4 tag.

Notes from FindAGrave.com:
The original tombstone is located in the Old Cemetary on the left side of the Heidelberg Union Church. There are many graves in that part of the cemetary but few surviving headstones. Sadly, this headstone was recently hit by a car and destroyed, but generously replaced by the Church Congregation. It is now a beautiful white marble headstone.

Bloss, Johann Georg (I72954)

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John H. Fredericks
John H. Fredericks, 66, loving husband, father, grandfather and brother, of Lehighton, passed into eternal rest on Friday, June 6, in the Lehigh Valley Hospital, Salisbury Township. He was the husband of Marilyn D. (Heffelfinger) Fredericks. They were married for 43 years on Jan. 16 of this year. Born in Lansford, he was a son of the late Howard and Helen (Sibb-ach) Fredericks. Prior to retiring, he was a laborer for Silberline Manufacturing in Lansford and later in Hometown.An accomplished musician, he was a member of Holy Cross Evangelical Lutheran Church, Bethlehem, where he served as the organist and choir director.
His whole life encompassed playing music and giving piano instruction, most recently to his granddaughter.
He enjoyed taking his other two grandchildren to the movies, miniature golfing and shopping.
He was dedicated to his loving family and, in his spare time, enjoyed dining out, the casinos and shopping.
Surviving in addition to his widow are a daughter, Megan D., wife of Jeff Repsher Jr. of Lehighton; two sons, Todd J., and his wife, Kate, of Lehighton, and Christopher J., and his wife, Jessyca, of Palmerton; a brother, Robert G., and his wife, Judy, of Summit Hill; three grandchildren, Christopher Fredericks, Abigail Fredericks and Emma Rep-sher; an aunt, Lois Sibbach of Lansdale; and nieces and nephews.
Service: Funeral service 11 a.m. Wednesday, June 11, Andrew P. Ovsak Funeral Home, Fourth and Iron streets, Lehighton, with the Rev. Anthony P. Pagotto officiating. Interment, Franklin Heights Memorial Park, E. Weissport. Call 6-8 p.m. Tuesday and 9:30-11 a.m. Wednesday. Contributions in his name may be made to Holy Cross Evangelical Lutheran Church, 2700 Jacksonville Rd., Bethlehem, Pa. 18017. Online condolences can be offered at www.ovsakfh.com.
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Published in Times News on June 9, 2014

Fredericks, John H. (I10018)

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JOHN SIMPSON came from Long Island, and settled on No. 27 of the Eliza bethtown lots, above the 1st mountain, drawn by Daniel Potter, where John M. Parsons, now lives ; he had children, Alexander and John, and died 10th July, 1773.

Simpson, John (I85079)

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John spent time in Havana, Cuba and settled in Cambridge, MA after marriage.

Damon, John Wade (I966)

812

John was born, raised and died on the farm passed to him from his father Issac.
The foundation of the original home and other buildings were evident in 1947. Since, erased by strip minning. A new home was raised 100 yards south, along the Pittsburgh-Erie Road. He appeared on the census of 1880 at Irwin Township, Venango County, Pennsylvania. He appeared on the census of 1900 at Irwin Township, Venango County, Pennsylvania, a farm laborer. He appeared on the census of 1910 at Irwin Township, Venango County, Pennsylvania, a farmer, with parents. He appeared on the census of 1920 at Irwin Township, Venango County, Pennsylvania, a farmer. He appeared on the census of 1930 at Pittsburg Road, Irwin Township, Venango County, Pennsylvania, a farmer.

Galloway, John Alvin (I84203)

813

John was shot and killed by a mob

Sturtevant, John (I16108)

814

Johnston, Henry P. The Record of Connecticut Men in the Military and Naval Service During the War of the Revolution 1775-1783. Vol. I-III. 1889.

Source (S691)

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Jonathan was a soldier in the French and Indian war. He settled in Buckfield, Me. before Jan 1. 1784.

Philbrick, Jonathan (I15589)

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Jordan Smith Family Cemetery

Turlington, Elizabeth Ann (I421)

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Jordan Smith Family Cemetery

Smith, Jordan (I4604)

818

Joseph died in a New Jersey prison ship in the New York harbor in 1780.

Delano, Joseph Jr. (I1021)

819

Joseph was a Civil War veteran. He was with the Maine volunteers. He was called "JB". by both family and friends. He was a farmer, and a woodsman and the last Civil War veteran in Buckfield. When Veterans Day came around each year the parade would stop In front of Alton's house with JB on the porch when he could no longer walk in the parade and they would stop and play a song out of respect for what he had done. He would often remind his children of the values of loving your country and your town. He was a very patriotic and a good family man, and a church goer. Geneva Damon his granddaughter talked very respectfully of JB and his two sons and the values they shared. JB lived in the house that Jonathan had built and his granddaughter Geneva was the last Damon to live in the Damon homestead near the Damon Cemetery.
Joseph enlisted August 15, 1852 from Bridgton, Me. to serve 3 years as a private in Co. I, 11th Reg., Maine Volunteers Infantry. While in the service and while in the line of duty, he was taken sick with chills and fever and sent to the hospital at Hilton Head, South Carolina where he remained for 4 weeks. When he returned to his Reg., while building tents, he fell striking his right side and was sent to Beaufort, South Carolina, where he remained in the hospital for about 1 year, serving in the 2nd battalion of the Invalid Corps. He was then sent North to Central Park Hospital, New York City, and then came home on a furlough. He returned to Augusta and later to Central Park Hospital. He rejoined his Reg. at Deep Bottom and did some light duty, when he was again taken sick and sent to Reg. Hospital, then went on board transport and proceeded to Fort Schuyler, after which he was sent to Augusta, Me. where he was honorably discharged May 15, 1865 by reason of disability. Following is a section at the bottom of his record. This picture of the Easel Chapel Monument bearing the personal record of Joseph B. Damon was dedicated to him December 1, 1894, by his wife Ester M.

This is a story written by Geneva V Damon about her grandfather, Joseph Bradbury Damon.
Gramp, by Geneva Damon

I think I remember Gramp most often in church. Whenever the minister strikes an especially telling blow on the side of the angels, I can hear Grandfather's ringing "Hallelujah!" or "A-a-men!" I can also feel myself squirm with embarrassment and wish I might drop through the floor. It made no difference to Gramp that nobody else in the congregation did this. If he felt it, he said it!

For that matter, I doubt if anyone else raced horses on their way home from church. Perhaps Gramp didn't consider it racing, exactly. Certainly no money changed hands over the outcome. It was just that he liked fast horses, and he had a fast horse. It happened that we had a neighbor about a half-mile up the road who also had a fast horse. I don't think that she ever went to church, but Vestie always seemed to be in the village on Sunday morning, and just starting for home when we came from church behind Black Billy.

I'm sure both horses looked forward to these encounters. Billy's ears would prick up when he spotted Black Sambo in the Square, and people and dogs learned to scramble for the sidewalks when the two blacks headed across the Bridge and made the turn for High Street.

My legs were still so short that when I sat back on the wagon seat, as instructed by Gramp, my legs could only stick straight out in front of me. So my place was in the middle, with a death-grip on Grandfather's arm on one side and that of my sister on the other. I was scared half to death, but wouldn't have missed it for the world.

After the long up-slope of High Street, there was a short level stretch, then a long down hill sweep where we really picked up speed. Gramp hardly tightened the reins but spoke softly to Billy, "Woosh, back now, Whoosh, back!" Billy knew that this didn't mean for him to slow down, only to be careful how he stepped.

At the foot of this hill was our house, but we whizzed on by with no thought of stopping. Then we were on the plains with a clear straightaway. Here was where you had to watch out for Vestie and Sambo. They'd pass us if they could, before we got to the steep pitch beyond the cemetery. The wagon swayed from side to side and the dust rose in clouds as we thundered down and swooped across the Pond Brook Bridge, and on past Vestie's house.

It was really a horse race. I don't think either driver ever used the whip. Whoever was in the lead making the turn around the watering trough in the Upper Village, about two miles from the starting point, was considered the winner for that day. Going back, Vestie would drop out at her place and we rolled on home to Sunday dinner.

Grandfather must have been in his seventies when I first remember these excursions. He was a fine looking gentleman in his Sunday best. A broad-shouldered, rugged man, just under six feet in height, Blue eyes, white hair and a well-trimmed white mustache. One occasion, probably an Old Home Sunday, when the Honorable John Davis Long, who had been Sec. of the Navy in Pres. William McKinley's administration, had returned to town for the celebration. He and Gramp stood outside the church talking together, and they looked enough alike to be brothers. Furthermore, you could not have told at a glance which was the farmer and which the politician.

I do not think Gramp would have been a success as a politician, and I never heard that he had any ambitions in that direction. He was a firm believer in a man's right to run his own affairs as he saw fit and expected neither help nor interference from anyone. When the government first began legislating how many acres one could plant on this and that, and paying farmers not to farm, my brother would often remark, "It's a lucky thing that Gramp isn't around now and trying to farm. He'd be in jail half the time!"

By the time I can remember him, Gramp's temper was under better control than in his younger days. I do know that he was not patient with animals when they didn't do just as he expected them to. Once when a colt kicked him and broke his wrist, my brothers were far from sympathetic, and said it served him right.

I recall hearing about one incident involving Mr. Atwood, the store keeper, and a pair of rubber boots. Evidently, Gramp felt he had been gypped on the deal. He marched into the store and said as much, and probably more, to Mr. Atwood. I don't know what, if anything, the store keeper said, but Grandfather reached across the counter, grabbed him by the ears and had a good start at hauling him over the counter by these handles before other customers rescued the poor man. I believe it took four of them to subdue Gramp.

Church and Grange meetings were about the only social affairs Gramp attended. He and Grammie would occasionally go to visit relatives and old friends, when she was feeling well enough. She suffered terribly from asthma and this was a great distress to all of us, because we adored Grammie Esther. This was also an area where we did not think Gramp showed a proper concern. He was accustomed to having "Et", as he called her, wait upon him hand and foot when he was in the house. I well remember one Sunday morning when she was struggling for every breath, but still helping Gramp get ready for church. She had just sunk into her chair exhausted, when he called, "Et! my hat needs brushing!" Well, that did it! My sister and I spoke as one indignant voice, "Brush your own hat! Can't you see she's sick?"

Well, the sisters did not attend church that morning. (We told each other we wouldn't have gone with him anyway.) Mother brushed the hat, and probably smoothed over our disrespectful utterances somewhat. But she did not need to punish us. Nothing could have been worse than seeing Grammie sitting there with tears rolling down her cheeks, just sadly looking at us and shaking her head. Gramp and Grammie never practiced women's lib.

Gramp had brought the Plains Farm, where my sister and I were born and grew up, when he was in his fifties, I believe. The original Old Homestead was up on a high ridge, several miles from the village. Of course, there was no village there when Gramp's grandfather received his homestead grant after the Revolutionary War. It was a typical rocky New England hill when Johnathan started to clear the fields.

Evidently the men in our family, generation after generation, had had a "thing" about rocks. By the time Johnathan, his son, Joseph, and then his son, J.B. (Gramp) and my father had finished with those fields, no rock dared show its hear to interfere with plow, harrow or mower. The rocks were wrestled out and became sturdy foundations and deep rock-walled cellars under houses, barns and outbuildings. Or they lined the walls of deep, cool wells and springs, or formed stone culverts under the road. Tons of rocks were laid deep underground for miles of drainage ditches and more tons were stout boundary walls.

When our men were not moving their own rocks, they were moving rocks for other people. For miles around they built the foundations and cellars of houses, lined wells, built fireplaces, laid stone culverts and built bridge abutments.

I never knew whether Gramp finally got tired of wrestling rocks or just wanted to be nearer town, but whatever the reason, he bought the Plains Farm. Some of his old neighbors were fond of joshing him about it. "Well, J.B., I hear you're retiring. No more hills and rocks, eh? Just smooth level sand on these plains. Easy to work in the spring, and not a darned thing to do in the fall, 'cause you sure won't raise anything but dust on this sand pile."

They didn't know J.B. as well as they thought they did. Besides the sandy plains there was a flat intervale, through which a little river flowed, and overflowed. It had thick, rich, black muck a foot deep. With horses and cart, muscle and stubborn determination, that much was removed from the flat and deposited on the sandy plains. And things grew. They wouldn't have dared not to!

In fact, Gramp must have been a pretty good farmer and manager, as they seemed to live quite comfortable and he was able to "lay by" a little through the years. He and Dad were practising woodlot management and selective cutting before most people had ever heard of it. And many of the bits that Gramp had "laid by" were dispensed, from time to time, without fanfare, to many different people, in many different sorts of emergencies. Some of these we learned about years later, from the recipients - never from Gramp.

J.B. also had a cemetery. If I ever did know, I've forgotten what sore of a disagreement he had with the Village Cemetery Association. Whatever it was, he started a cemetery of his own, on his own land, right beside the other cemetery and in competition with it. He laid out blocks of lots and sold them, laid out roads, had water piped in from the town water supply, and was his own Sexton. He opened graves, mowed the grass and tended the lots as long as he was able. Then the job descended to Dad and thence to my brothers. We kids were all brought up in the cemetery, more or less, as we helped with the mowing and trimming of lots, especially just before Memorial Day. I shall never forget crawling on my knees, trimming the grass from around the small headstones, until I had blisters on top of my blisters, and black fly and mosquito bites wherever there was room for another on my aching carcass.

Gramp was one of the youngest of a family of thirteen children. He never saw his oldest brother, who died in California at the age of 104. The strain must have been diluted somewhat by the time J.B. came along, as Gramp lived to be only 93.

He was in his seventies when I can first remember him, but in his eighties he was still moving rocks. When Dad took over most of the management of the farm, Gramp didn't exactly retire. He had a few acres about a mile from the house, on another road, which is still known as Gramp's Orchard. Part of it he had set with apple trees, and the rest was woodlot. Any rocks that got in his way in the orchard were moved. They either went farther underground and became drainage ditches or went into the magnificent retaining wall he built along the side next the road. This wall sloped from about eight feet high at the highest part of the lot, to only about two feet on the low end. That wall stands as true today as it did sixty years ago.

Mother used to worry about Gramp taking Black Billy and going up there to the Orchard to work all alone, a man in his eighties! So quite often, when we were not in school, we girls were delegated to go with him. I don't recall that we helped him. We weren't invited to. And we were not what you could Call company for him, because he promptly forgot we were there. He worked, and we played. But we found it was a good idea to keep one eye on what he was doing. One day he dropped a tree so nearly on top of us that the outside branched knocked us flat. As we scrambled out from under the assessed the damages, he noticed us and called out, "Take care there or you'll get a heist!" Whereupon we promptly deserted him and walked home in high dudgeon. We informed Mother that we were thought taking care of Gramp, that he was a darned sight safer then we were.

J.B. was a veteran of the Civil War, and it was a source of great satisfaction to him, I remember, to have his pension check arrive regularly every month. I am sure it was a very small amount then, and would seem even smaller now, but it was his, and he'd jolly well earned it!

He marched proudly in the Memorial Day parades for a good many years. Then he consented to ride to the cemetery, though he was more than likely to walk back from the cemetery to the house. Finally, the last few years, he'd just sit on the porch and watch the parade. They would halt in the road in front of the house and the band would play a number, just for him. He was one of the last of the G.A.R. veterans in the town.

In his cemetery, he laid out four lots, one for each of his children, and graded them all together into one square, forty feet to a side. When Grammie Esther dies, Gramp bought a family monument and set it right in the middle of this block. It is immense, but plain. A tall, sturdy square of grey New England granite, not too highly polished. A fitting symbol for Gramp.

Damon, Joseph Bradbury (I681)

820

Joshua and Susannah were warned out of Rockingham, VT April 24, 1806 and Joshua and Susannah and their child; Joshua were warned out of Rockingham 5-19-1808

Damon, Joshua (I8056)

821

Josiah was a veteran of the War of 1812, taking part with Battery at Groton, CT; afterwards sailor, making several voyages to close the war. He and the family settled in Otsego County, NY, thence to Elba, Genesee County; thence to Allison, Orleans County NY; thence to Wisconsin Territory, four miles from Oskosh, Winnebago County, near son Matthias Nelson, who proceeded him to the territory.

Moulthrop, Josiah (I19600)

822

Joyce was originally named Delores June, but her name was changed before her baptism in January. No one remembers why.

Obituary
Joyce C. Reed, of Jim Thorpe, went home to be with the Lord on Sept. 17. She was the wife of the late William C. Reed, who passed away in 1979. Joyce was born in Mauch Chunk and was the daughter of the late Dorothy (Moulthrop) and Bruce Melber. She worked for many years as a secretary/bookkeeper at Neast & Co and later became secretary/bookkeeper for Penn Hill Furniture. She graduated from Mauch Chunk High School Class of 1952 for which she was one of the speakers. She loved her family and enjoyed the time spent with her brothers and sisters and her many nieces and nephews. She loved her church family at St. John's Lutheran Church In-The-Heights, Jim Thorpe, where she taught Sunday school for more than 55 years and loved every minute that she spent with the children. She was an inspiration to all, both students and teachers, whose lives she had touched. Her favorite pastime was playing the piano, which provided her with hours of entertainment, putting puzzles together, gardening and nature, and coming up with crafty projects that she would make and give to her family and friends. She had good neighbors and friends, and appreciated everything that they would do for her, and always tried to be there for anyone that needed a friend, even people that she didn't know. When she was in rehab in the Mahoning Valley Nursing Home, her goal was to see a smile on everyone she met, so she would stop to talk to everyone, or just reach out and touch them and give them a big smile and tell them to have a nice day. Joyce will be missed dearly by her many friends and family. The world is a better place for her having lived. Joyce is survived by sisters, Phyllis Esrang of Jim Thorpe; Doris Farrell of Bethlehem; Sharon, wife of Al Damon of Manchester; Donna, wife of Richard Armbruster of Jim Thorpe; brothers, Bruce Melber, Donald Melber and wife Dianne; all of Jim Thorpe, and many nieces and nephews.

Published in (Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania) Times News on Sept. 19, 2015

Melber, Joyce Corine (I50)

823

Juliette United Methodist Church Cemetery

Holt, Barbara June (I309)

824

At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.

Chambers, R. (I85267)

825

At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.

Morris, K.L. (I11019)

826

Keene Cemetery

Bisbee, Beulah (I56832)

827

Keene Cemetery

Benson, Captain Joseph (I56833)

828

Kensington Parish

Family: Hooker, Elijah / Seymour, Susanna (F2716)

829

Killed by a robber named John Brooks

Bradley, Richard (I3455)

830

Killed while unloading logs from a truck

Dolloff, Eldon Guy Jr (I1224)

831

King, Marquis F.. Publishments, Marriages, Births, and Deaths from the Earlier Records of Gorham, Maine. 1913. digital images. Archive.org. http://archive.org.

Source (S706)

832

Laborer

Welsh, Charles (I4944)

833

Lake Park Cemetery

Howard, Harry Charles (I58166)

834

Lake Park Cemetery

Windle, Mary Alice (I83390)

835

Lake Park Cemetery

Lewis, Annabell (I83392)

836

Lake Park Cemetery

Windle, George Lyas (I83370)

837

Lake Park Cemetery

Howard, Jack Robert (I58155)

838

Lakeside Cemetery

Lewis, John (I15846)

839

Lakeside Cemetery

Lewis, John Warren (I4640)

840

Lakeside Cemetery

Lewis, Marcia (I4641)

841

Langley Cemetery

Bowen, Rachel (I88068)

842

Langley Cemetery

Holt, Andrew Jackson (I15)

843

Langley Cemetery

Cleckley, Daisey (I292)

844

Langley Cemetery

Holt, James Otis (I3485)

845

Lapham, William B.. Family Records of Some of the Descendants of Thomas Besbedge, (Bisbee,) of Scituate, Mass., in 1634. 1876. digital images. Google Books. http://www.books.google.com.

Source (S780)

846

At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.

Lovett, L.J. (I15401)

847

Last name ("Meber") is spelled incorrectly on one version of his Birth Certificate

Melber, Bruce Robert (I52)

848

Laurelwood Cemetery

Hontz, Warren James (I79504)

849

Lebanon Cemetery #2

Turlington, Henry Samuel (I79633)

850

Lehigh Valley Hospital

Solomon, Shirley (I26822)