The ancestors of the Jaquith family settled in Connecticut. Although the descendants of that name are numerous, those residing in Earlville and New Berlin are the only relatives of the New Woodstock Jaquiths in New York state.

    Perry Jaquith was born in North Otselic and came here nineteen years ago with his wife, one son and two daughters. He kept a general merchandise store in the old glove factory, afterward moving into the Esq. Lathrop store which was burned in 1890. Soon after, he bought the Harvey Morris store, carrying on business there until 1898, when he was succeeded by his son, Willard E. Jaquith, and his son-in-law, Harry I. Miller.

    W. E. Jaquith was graduated at Cazenovia in '93. He was associated with Mr. Wildman, of South Otselic, in the dry goods and clothing business for three years prior to becoming a partner of the present firm. In 1896 he married Anna Doremus, of Cazenovia.

    H. I. Miller attended Cazenovia Seminary in '92 and '93. In 1896 he married Miss Ada Jaquith, who graduated at Cazenovia Seminary in '92.

    Miss Grace Jaquith resides with her parents. She is organist at the Baptist church and is possessed of fine musical ability. She has taken lessons of the late Prof. Henry W. Davis, of Syracuse, A. B. Kingsley, of Cortland, and has attended the Ithaca Conservatory of Music one and one half years.

    Albert N. Wheelock was born in Lincklaen, Chenango Co., March 2, 1837. He was educated at the old DeRuyter Seminary, DeRuyter, N. Y. He remained in DeRuyter until 1876, and then, after a residence of four years in Rhode Island Settlement, came to New Woodstock, where he has since resided.

    When the Civil war broke out, Mr. Wheelock enlisted with the 114th regiment of New York volunteers. He was wounded at the battle of Fort Bisland, taken prisoner at Brashear City and experienced the hardships of the Red River campaign and that of the Shenandoah Valley. In 1863, he was detailed to the commissary department, and remained in the service until the close of the war.

    In 1867, Mr. Wheelock married Miss Susan R. Healey, of Otselic. The older of their two children, H. Edson Wheelock, who was a telegrapher and stenographer, died in 1892, at the age of twenty-three. The younger, Effie Adelia, is the wife of Olin C. Kellogg.

    During the last twenty-five years Mr. Wheelock has been actively engaged as a dealer in eggs.

    Olin Clay Kellogg was born in Spafford, N. Y., in 1870. In 1872, his parents removed to Homer, N. Y., where he was graduated in 1887 from the well known Homer Academy in the literary and scientific course. In 1888, he completed the college preparatory course at the same institution. In 1892, he was graduated from Syracuse University with the degree of A. B. In 1893, upon examination, he was awarded the degree of A. M., and in 1894 in like manner, he received the degree of Ph., D. He has made a specialty of the English language and literature together with oratorical and dramatic expression, which he has studied in New York and Philadelphia under some of the best instructors in that particular department of work, and has made extensive researches and investigations in several of the largest and most famous libraries of the United States. He has taught in various institutions of excellent reputation and is now an instructor in Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill.

    In 1894, Dr. Kellogg married Miss Effie A. Wheelock, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. N. Wheelock, of New Woodstock, N. Y., where he frequently spends the greater part of his summer vacation.

    Homer Edson Wheelock, only son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert N. Wheelock, was born in Lincklaen, March 1, 1869. He died in New Woodstock, March 12, 1892, aged twenty-three years.

    He was educated at Cazenovia Seminary, at Eastman's Business College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and at Chaffee's College of Phonography, Oswego, N. Y.

    Always a diligent and thorough student, he completed the comprehensive course at Eastman's Business College in the unusually short period of eleven weeks, leading his class with the high average of 96 credits.

    After giving promise of marked executive ability, he was summoned to another realm, and a bright and ambitious career came to an untimely end. His life, although short, was not essentially incomplete. "There is a world elsewhere."

    C. A. Buckingham has been the proprietor of the New Woodstock Cheese Factory since 1885, and is also the manager of the Perryville, Cazenovia and New Woodstock milk stations. The combined average output is five hundred fifty cans of milk per day. A portion of the milk from the three hundred cans received at the factory is made into cheese and butter. The balance with the two hundred fifty cans received at the different stations is sent to New York.

    The number of cans controlled by Mr. Buckingham is 2500. Eleven families are supported by the work given the employees in handling milk. The pay roll for the hired help averages $500 per month. The total amount received annually in New Woodstock for milk is $100,000.

    Mr. Buckingham is a native of Otselic, N. Y. His paternal grandfather was one of the early settlers of Georgetown, N. Y.

    Mr. Buckingham's popularity is evident. Though a Democrat and not an office seeker, he has twice been elected supervisor of the town of Cazenovia, which is strongly Republican. He belongs to the DeRuyter Lodge of Masons, and is one of six of that order in New Woodstock. He married in 1882, Maude L. Perkins, of South Otselic. They have four sons and two daughters.

    Ervin E. Cummings was born August 13, 1875, at Preble, Cortland Co., N. Y. He received a common school education at Tully and Homer, and moved to New Woodstock from Tully, N. Y. Since 1890 he has been in the employ of his uncle, C. A. Fox, except during the year 1893, when he was employed by Westcott & Stanton of Truxton, N. Y., in a general store. In April, 1901, Mr. Cummings commenced business in C. A. Fox's store as a general merchant.

    Mr. Cummings married Mary T. Byer, January 23, 1895, and they have one daughter. He was appointed postmaster June 18, 1898, joined the Maccabees and was elected Record-Keeper, January 27, 1896, and served two years. He was then elected commander and held this office for two years. On October 18, 1899, was organized the Owahgena Division Uniform Rank of the K. O. T. M., and he was elected captain, which position he now holds.

    H. K. Stoddard was a native of the town of Otselic, Chenango County, being born there in 1875. His parents moving here in 1888, however, has made him more or less associated with New Woodstock since that time. In 1891 he left the New Woodstock school to engage as a district school-teacher for a year; subsequently attending school at Cazenovia Seminary and Cortland Normal school.

    Since leaving Cortland Normal, he has taught three years at North Pitcher, N. Y. Graded School, and until April, 1901, as principal of the New Woodstock village school. He resigned that position to engage in the mercantile business as successor to C. A. Fox, under the firm name of Cummings & Stoddard.

    Mr. Stoddard is very fond of out-door sports, his favorite pastime being hunting and fishing. When asked whose writings he most enjoyed, he replied, "The sort that most pleases me." He is, however, very fond of Whittier's poems. In politics he is an ardent Democrat.

    Donald Parker, M. D., born at Stamford, Ont., Canada, April 29, 1874, was the seventh son of William and Jane Parker. He lived on the old homestead until the death of his father in 1891, his mother having died ten years before.

    When twelve years old, owing to his father's feebleness he was compelled to work on the farm. In 1891, guided somewhat by the old adage of the "seventh son" and by a natural inclination in that direction he began at the district school to lay the foundation of a medical education. In 1892 he entered Niagara Falls South High School, completing its four years course in three years. In 1895 he began the study of medicine in the University of Buffalo, and after taking the three years course, graduated in the spring of '98, at the age of twenty-three, with the degree of M. D., and from the state Board of Medicine in the following May. While in college in 1895, the Omega Upsilon Phi Medical fraternity, of which he is a member, was organized with forty members. There are now over four hundred members.

    In August, '98, he began the practice of medicine in New Woodstock, where he still resides, becoming an able physician from a poor lad by untiring energy and love for the cause. Dr. Parker is one of the two state surgeons for the K. O. T. M. belonging to that order and the Uniform Rank in New Woodstock.

    Dr. Parker married in 1899 Miss Anna L. Byer youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Byer.

    Stephen S. Pratt was born at Homer, N. Y., October 23, 1869. His early days were spent on his father's farm. At the age of sixteen, he entered Homer Academy. Later, he attended Cazenovia Seminary, a college in New York City, and Syracuse University. He was called to the ministry of the Methodist church, and began preaching in 1895 at Eaton, N. Y., where he remained three years. From there he came to New Woodstock, where he is now pastor of the Methodist church.

    Eugene Emmett Manning was born in Broadalbin, Fulton Co., N. Y., April 2, 1857. He was educated at Colgate University, Hamilton, N. Y., leaving that institution in 1887. He was ordained at Hagadorn's Mills, N. Y., on May 29, 1888.

    Mr. Manning's pastorates have been as follows: November 27, 1887 to April 1, 1891, at Hagadorn's Mills, N. Y. From April 1, 1891 to May 1, 1892, at Schuylerville, N. Y. From May to November, 1892, Sunday school missionary in Saratoga county. From November 1, 1892 to October 6, 1895, was pastor at Corinth, N. Y. From that date to October 12, 1899, he was at Warrensburg, N. Y. Since October 12, 1899, he has been pastor of the First Baptist church at New Woodstock.

    Philander S. Buell was born in the town of Truxton in 1850. He was the oldest son of Loren and Harriet Keeney Buell. His father dying when he was a young boy, his mother came to New Woodstock and Philander attended the select school here and Cazenovia Seminary. At the age of twenty-one he married Ella Twogood, bought his brother's interest in the home farm at Truxton and lived there several years. Reverses came and the farm was sold to Mr. Buell's half brother, Mason K. Blanchard. After a few years, Mr. Buell purchased that part of E. L. Buell's farm known as the Ebenezer Corbin place. He lived there twenty-one years, and was a successful, practical farmer.

    He belonged to the New Woodstock Grange, was a loyal Prohibitionist, and having united with the Baptist church in Truxton, he transferred his membership to the New Woodstock Baptist church, serving faithfully as treasurer for nine years, during which time over ten thousand dollars passed through his hands.

    Mr. Buell died January 2, 1901, after a brief illness. His wife and only daughter, Gertrude E. Buell, survive him.

    William H. Cardner purchased in 1883 the dwelling and mill known as the Wightman property, formerly the old wool-carding factory. He remained here nine years, then sold to his cousin, K. E. Cardner, removing with his family to the vicinity of Delphi, where his four sons carry on an extensive business manufacturing cheese boxes.

    K. E. Cardner was born in DeRuyter. His parents moved to Pennsylvania when he was two years old, where he remained until he was sixteen. At that time he went to Kansas and Nebraska. After two years he returned east in company with an older brother, making the journey overland in a prairie schooner, the trip taking nine weeks. His home was in Delphi, from that time until he came to New Woodstock, except two years in Bingley, where he had charge of Atkinson's mill, and two years in DeRuyter.

    Mr. Cardner's first wife was Ann Howe, who died of consumption in December, 1897. His daughter, Aurelia, died in October, 1898; the older daughter, Myra, in May 1899. In the fall of 1899 he married Mrs. Sarah Maxson, who had been the New Woodstock milliner for several years.

    In 1895, three years after purchasing the property, Mr. Cardner's mill and house were burned. He soon rebuilt the mill, and in July 1897, owing to the frequent heavy rains, the dam was washed away. This was replaced and in 1898 Mr. Cardner's mill was again burned and again rebuilt. He carries on an extensive business in grinding feed, also making a specialty of buckwheat flour, doing custom work for farmers within a radius of fifteen miles. Mr. Cardner has the most modern machinery, and in addition to his grist mill has a shingle and planing mill.

I came as a traveler,
Who is seeking a place of rest;
As a bird with wearied wing
Flying homeward to its nest.

The evening shades were falling;
It was a low-hung autumn sky;
And bird to its mate was calling,
Where the woodland shadows lie.

The pastures brown were lying,
For the year, it was growing old;
It was beautiful in dying,
For the trees were trimmed in gold.

Ripe was the corn on the hillside,
And crimson the orchard's store,
As the drifts of an ocean's tide
Lay glowing as ruddy ore.

The peace of God seemed bending
O'er a land of wondrous gift;
As my pathway slow descending,
I saw through the roadway's rift.

A vision of rarest beauty,
'Twas a picture of rest and peace;
Where pleasure e'er waits on duty,
And jarrings of warfare cease.

'Twas a village soft embowered
In a green cup among the hills,
Where nature is richly dowered
And the air with music thrills.

The sky of that autumn even
Grew soft as the day grew old,
And fair was this gate of heaven,
With crimson, purple and gold.

Now as my days are fleeting
And the hour of twilight I see,
Sweet memories come to my greeting
Of the things that used to be.

And oft I see that village,
Bright gemmed as a pearl of the sea;
And often I see the faces,
That were wondrous fair to me.

Now angels guard they treasures,
And peace be an abiding guest;
Thy drink the wellspring of pleasure.
And thy meat be Righteousness.

    [The first visit of O. D. Sherman was made to New Woodstock over forty years ago, when the stage route was from Chittenango down Coley Hill to DeRuyter.]

    The following lines were written upon the occasion of the first church tea after the building of the Baptist kitchen in 1886-87 and are here inserted by request.

Once more old earth on axis true
Has traveled through the pathless blue.
Successfully her course has run.
And eighty-seven's well begun;
Eventful has her journey proved,
Dread earthquakes to her center moved.
Fierce cyclones o'er the western world
Swift death and desolation hurled.
While not by Nature's freaks alone
Were old-time customs quite o'erthrown,
But oft-recurring noise and strife
'Tween capital and labor rife
The strike, with sequent loss and pain,
Where anarchy and terror reign:---
All these and more of similar kind
Have left grave memories behind;
Enough in weakest minds to fix,
The year of eighteen-eighty-six.

Yet not Calamity alone
Has marked this twelve-month for her own,
For Progress on its onward way
Has made swift strides from day to day.
Stern toilers in the realm of thought
Have never greater triumphs wrought;
While Truth and Right, with firmer tread
Have conquering hosts to victory led
And Liberty, with torch divine,
Doth to earth's darkest corners shine.

Ah, well, mid all the stir so great
Which outer world does thus create, 
One quiet vale we all can name---
New Woodstock jogs on just the same.
Toward his retired and sheltered nook
No wandering cyclone dares to look;
Nor to upset old landmarks dear,
Do e'en rude earthquakes venture near.

How oft, when, on his homeward track,
The longtime wanderer hastens back
Along the old familiar ways,
Our friendly steeple meets his gaze.
And, as it towers above the hill,
He greets it with a grateful thrill,
And feels that, though in form most strange,
He has one friend that does not change,
And when, as in the days of yore,
He hears the bell ring out for four, 
He seems a school-boy once again,
And almost thinks, with credence vain,
That surely, in this peaceful spot,
Change, grief and turmoil enter not.

Ah, no! What wrote my foolish pen?
Erase! Repeat it not again.
New Woodstock plodding on the same?
Oh, yes, and yet 'tis not the same.
The same well-kept, well-shaded street;
The same snug cottages so neat;
The same array of village store,
Each evening changed to cuspidores
For groups of idlers sitting near
The cheerful fire to tell and hear
Of all that's thought or said or done,
Beneath the much-enduring sun.

But, Oh, the change in those we meet
While sauntering down the quiet street,
And, passing through the pleasant porch
To enter the familiar church,
We turn about with eager gaze
To find the friends of other days,
Wishing, above all earthly joys,
To meet the old-time girls and boys.

Alas, they throng the aisles no more, 
Nor gaily crowd through chapel door,
To where, in all its fine array,
A nice new kitchen stands to-day.
We find at last some forms we know,
Who move with stately tread and slow,
Or sit, with grave and solemn air,
And threads of silver in their hair, ---
While round them crowd, with cheerful noise, 
A strange new throng of girls and boys.

At last we seek, with mournful tread,
The silent city of the dead,
And there, with eyes made dim by tears,
We read that friends of other years
Have gone to that eternal home
Where change and parting never come.

O, friends still gliding down the years,
We died with every waning day.
There is no waft of Sorrow's breeze,
But bears some heart-leaf slow away.
Up and on to the vast To-Be,
Our lives are going eternally.

Less of earth than we had last year
Throbs in your veins and throbs in mine,
But the way to Heaven is growing clear
While the gates of the City fairer shine,
The day that our latest treasures flee,
Wide may then open for you and me.

A. D. E. 1887.

    The tract given for military purposes by John Savage extended west on the north side of Main street, from the cemetery to the Floodport road. The local cavalry and riflemen met to drill on the first Monday in September preparatory to the general training which they were obliged to attend on the fifteenth of September at Cazenovia. Among those who belonged to Militia at different periods were Col. Ralph Bell, Captains Salmon Gage, John Hendee, Roswell Savage, Philetus Peck, Terrel Fuller, Ezra Jenkins, and Willard Carpenter. Drum Major, John L. Underwood. Privates, Marcus Underwood, Jerman Smith, and Deloss Greenman. The last mentioned lives in Fenner, and is the only one living, as far as known, who belonged to the New Woodstock State Militia.

    The Anti-Slavery question agitated the Baptist church and probably the whole community from 1843 to 1846. Daniel Lathrop, Philetus Lathrop's father, could not walk with the church because it was not an "Abolition church." Another prominent member was refused a letter of dismission as he did not assent to resolutions against slavery but asserted that 'the church of Christ was not the place to decide either for or against slavery to the grief of brethren." After much discussion and many resolutions made, rescinded and amended, it was finally decided that "it was not intended to coerce or control the private judgment or action of any member, but that every person should be left to judge and act without restraint."

    Among the prominent members of the New Woodstock Woman's Anti-Slavery Society were Mrs. Nathaniel Pierce, and Mrs. Burton, wife of Henry Burton, who came to this place from Madison less than sixty years ago and purchased the farm where John Freeborn now resides. Under the auspices of the society. Mr. and Mrs. Burton were induced to take a mulatto girl, Ellura Curtis, then about eleven years of age. They educated and clothed her and when she reached the age of eighteen, wished to pay her wages. She, however, would not accept them, preferring to be considered one of the family. As time rolled on, the daughter, Laura Burton, married Wilbur Rugg, who died when her second child was a babe of a week. Faithfully Ellura performed the part of nurse and sister, and as Mr. Burton grew old and lost his property, she remained the tireless, faithful worker, performing not only the household duties, but frequently doing a man's work in garden, field and forest. In 1899 the life that had been so full of hard work went out, and the name of Ellura Curtis will be remembered and handed down to future generations as one, who for nearly fifty years, by duties well done and by countless sacrifices, richly repaid those who befriended her in her youth.

    In "ye olden" times the little girls thought they were nicely dressed if they wore white aprons to church.

    Shoes and stockings were economically worn. The late Eliza Smith used to say that, when her father, David Smith, lived where Frank Hunt now lives, she used to bring her shoes and stockings as far as the watering-trough, and then put them on to walk into the village.

    On very cold Sundays, Elder Peck used to preach wearing his overcoat and striped mittens.

    Ralph Knight was known as an eccentric man. When others, though warmly clad were shivering with cold, he would attend church wearing neither coat nor vest.

    A letter written November 11, 1818, gives interesting items. Elder Peck was very ill at that time, and had three attending physicians, Dr. Smith, probably Hubbard Smith of DeRuyter, Dr. Mitchell, and one from the village. A council was called of seven physicians, Drs. Smith, King, Bass, Mitchell, Moffett, Gibbs, and one from Cazenovia Village.

    The same letter states that a meeting was held at Isaac Morse's and an assembly formed called "The Cazenovia Ladies Reasoning Assembly, No. One." Miss Sally Noble was "Directress," and Miss Lucy Fiske, "Recordess." They reasoned upon the question, "By which can a person gain the most useful information, reading, or frequenting good society?" Mr. Faxon and Mrs. Morse reasoned on the side of frequenting society. Misses Noble, More, Moffett, and the Recordess defended reading, and Miss Lansing stayed in the kitchen with Dr. Milliand, as she chose to frequent society. Question decided in favor of good society. Assembly was opened by Miss Noble reading Prov. 8th chapter. Adjourned to meet at Daniel Fiske's in two weeks. Question, "Can a person do a good deed from a bad motive?"

    Jonathan Shed, after whom the village of Shed's Corners was named, once lived in New Woodstock. He was a Justice of the Peace and frequently married couples, always ending the ceremony with the words, "What God and Jonathan Shed have joined together, let no man put asunder."

    Ely Gunn, brother of Horace Gunn is remembered as a very good man. He used to sing with a strong nasal tone, and with his hands on the railing in front of him, would keep time to the music by swaying his body back and forth.

    After the baptism of E. L. Abbott and P. B. Peck, May 5, 1813, both of the young men went home with Elder Peck. While at the dinner table Father Peck laid down his knife and fork, and in his calm but impressive manner, said "This is not the first time I have baptized two ministers in one day." His words were prophetic, as both of them became preachers of note, one carrying the gospel to the heathen.

    The following is an extract from the Baptist church records, "Elder Benjamin Harvey, of Utica, was here January 30, 1845, to address the church. He was one hundred ten years old during the month. Has been a minister about seventy years. His many striking and original ideas and his illustrations of Scripture remind one of apples of gold in pictures of silver."

    In 1829, Marvel Underwood took care of an aged member of the Baptist church called, "Old Sister Goodell," receiving $43.00 per year. The town paid him $.31 ½ per week and the church raised the remainder by assessment.

    When Dr. Zenas Corbin, son of the pioneer, Henry Corbin, who lived on the farm now owned by George Dixon, went to Liverpool, N. Y., to practice medicine, there was only one house in Syracuse.

    The village of West Eaton, known in its infancy as Leeville, derived its name from one of the early settlers, Philip Lee, a Revolutionary soldier who served as a private in a Massachusetts regiment seventeen months. His three sons, George P. Lee, of Jackson, Minn.; Jermain, of Cazenovia, and J. Warren Lee, of New Woodstock, were born in Leeville. It is doubtful if there are three other brothers living who can claim the distinction and furnish the proof of being sons of a Revolutionary soldier.

    Henry C. Day, formerly of Syracuse, now living on the place built by Daniel Stone, familiarly known as the Lownsberry Place, was one of the actors in the famous Jerry Rescue in 1851. He helped to mislead Jerry's pursuers by attracting their attention in the wrong direction, thus giving more time and chance for Jerry's escape.

    The Baptist bell used to ring steadily a few minutes to announce a death and then toll the age in tens, ending with the number of strokes necessary for the age. A woman noted for quaintness and originality of speech used to say she did not want the bell tolled at her death because it would say,

    January 13, 1842, Wilson Lamb and Lucinda Gardner, Silas Lyon and Susan Holmes were married at Dwight Gardner's by Rev. Daniel Putnam under one ceremony. A unique case, for it is doubtful if any other double wedding was ever celebrated when one of the grooms was a Lamb and the other a Lyon.

    Rev. John Fulton, pastor of the Baptist church in New Woodstock from 1850-58 was greatly beloved by the children, as well as by older people, and the awe usually felt for ministers seems not to have existed in his case. Mr. Fulton always spoke to every one, and, being exceedingly absent-minded, frequently repeated his words. As he was walking one day, he met two little boys and said to them, "How do you do? How do you do?" The reply, more forcible than elegant, was "You go to ----" to which he replied, "Yes, yes, yes." The same little boys on another occasion were stirring up a mixture, and Mr. Fulton asked them what they were doing. One of them replied, "We are making a meeting house, and if we have enough left, we are going to make a minister."

    Henry Fulton, son of Rev. John Fulton, once climbed the lightning rod on the Baptist church and turned the fish around which serves as a weather vane. An even more daring feat is related of a man whose name is unknown to us who stood head downward between the three tines at the end of the rod that crowns the steeple.

    During the Lincoln campaign in 1860, at a large mass meeting in Cazenovia, a huge log was drawn to Mill street and placed near the store of Hobbie and Rouse. Warren Williams, of New Woodstock, impersonated "Old Abe," and while the band played "Split the Rails and Fence Them In," he wielded the axe so vigorously that the chips flew fast and wide. During the same campaign, there was so much enthusiasm in New Woodstock, that eight little girls became so patriotic that they formed a company, each carrying a flag, and taking the lead they marched through the mud with the men as bravely as any of them.

    The national base ball game is not of recent date. Nearly forty years ago, on the ball grounds between the Baptist church and parsonage, a game was played by two sets of girls, the winners to have a pound of candy provided by Compton Ferguson. The walk was lined with people and party feeling ran high. When the umpire had made a decision, the candy was produced, and to soothe and sweeten the defeated party, another pound was procured and given to them. The winners were satisfied with the glory.

    About one hundred years ago, there resided on the west side of Cazenovia lake a family from New England consisting of the parents and two daughters, Lucy and Ellen Dutton. The nineteen beautiful years of Lucy's childhood and girlhood were to be crowned on her birthday by her marriage. The eventful morning dawned, the day passed, and at evening the fickle, faithless lover and the heartless Ellen, who had been supplying Lucy's place as teacher, appeared and announced their marriage on their way to the home where Lucy, the anxious parents, and assembled guests awaited their arrival. The day that had dawned so brightly for Lucy indeed ended in darkness. The knowledge of the perfidy of those she loved and trusted was more than the overwrought brain could bear. The once bright intellect became clouded, and Lucy, "Crazy Luce," as she was called, possessed with a spirit of uneasiness, roamed unceasingly over the hills and through the valleys of Madison and adjoining counties.

    Some of the older inhabitants of New Woodstock still remember and describe her as a person of medium height, possessing some traces of beauty, and having a remarkably sweet voice. Her gown, sometimes ragged, was always patched with many colors, and trimmed with balls of yarn. In summer, her bonnet was covered with flowers, which she dearly loved. Her bible, surplus clothing, and bundles of rags and herbs were carried on her arm. Harmless in her insanity, at places where she stayed over night her resting place was perferable the wood-house or cheese room rather than the living rooms if there were men about the house, whom she always avoided if possible.

    Mrs. Hammond states in the Madison County History that Lucy Dutton, after wandering thirty years, was taken suddenly ill, and carried to the house of a friend to die. A few hours before death, her reason returned. She awoke from the "long night of years." All the intervening time from her nineteenth birthday was a blank. But it was soon told her that the terrible dream was a sad reality. The sister who had so terribly wronged her, as well as the parents who cared for her during their lifetime, were dead. The recreant lover, with his family, had removed some time before to the west. A few former friends gathered at her bedside, and a Christian minister offered a prayer for the dying Lucy, in which she feebly joined. After a little, the lips grew still, and the sorrowful earthly life of Lucy Dutton was ended.

C. A. BUCKINGHAM, term expires Dec. 31, 1901 . . . . . . . . .	Supervisor.
C. A. FOX, term begins, Jan. 1, 1902 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	Supervisor-elect.
C. B. HUGG, "       "        "      "      " . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	Constable and Collector.
M. C. WOOD, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	Justice of the Peace.
F. L. HUNT, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	Road Commissioner.
James Elmore, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	Assessor.
George Barber, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	Poor Master.
H. K. STODDARD,	Inspectors of Election for First Dist. Of Cazenovia.
W. E. JAQUITH,
CHARLES SLOCUM,
CHARLES HUNTLEY,

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