Some of the ancestors and descendants of Samuel Converse, jr., of Thompson parish, Killingly, Conn.; Major James Convers, of Woburn, Mass.; HonHeman Allen, MC., of Milton and Burlington, Vermont; Captain Jonathan Bixby, srof Killingly, Conn . education in the pubhc schools, supplemented bya few terms at Newbury Seminary, and spent several years in teaching. She wasmarried at Lyndon, Vt., 30 August 1865, by Rev. G. H. Bickford, to A\illiamStrong Atkins, farmer, of Cabot, Vt., only son of Col. Jeremiah and Sarepta (Hin-cher) Atkins of Cabot. Col. Jeremiah Atkins was an officer in the State milit
Some of the ancestors and descendants of Samuel Converse, jr., of Thompson parish, Killingly, Conn.; Major James Convers, of Woburn, Mass.; HonHeman Allen, MC., of Milton and Burlington, Vermont; Captain Jonathan Bixby, srof Killingly, Conn . education in the pubhc schools, supplemented bya few terms at Newbury Seminary, and spent several years in teaching. She wasmarried at Lyndon, Vt., 30 August 1865, by Rev. G. H. Bickford, to A\illiamStrong Atkins, farmer, of Cabot, Vt., only son of Col. Jeremiah and Sarepta (Hin-cher) Atkins of Cabot. Col. Jeremiah Atkins was an officer in the State Sarepta (Hincher) Atkins was a native of Bethel, Vermont. William StrongAtkins died 14 May 1887. The following obituary sketch of him then jniblishedincludes some of the principal events of his life: William S. Atkins was born 23 February 1S34, on the old Atkins homestead,Cabot, Vermont. Here, amid the hallowed associations of an honored ancestry,he spent his boyhood and youth, and to this place he brought his bride in received a good practical education in the schools of his native town, supple-mented by several terms at Peacham Academy and Newbury Seminary, and all ?0 1. \ -» ** ? ^J N f/. ?J ./ H HH J %i ?i. Mrs. Mary Louisa (Converse) Atkins. William Stronj; Atkins. his life was interested in education, secular and religious, during the last threeyears being a member of the school board. At the age of sixteen he sought and found the Saviour and united with the Meth-odist church, of which he was ever after a stanch supporter and earnest worker,and for many years a faithful steward. For more than twenty years he was super-intendent of the Sunday-school. In the midst of an active and very useful life, he was prostrated, February 12with a disease of the brain which culminated March 12 in apoplexy. Contrary tothe expectations of physicians, he partially recovered and was spared a few moreprecious weeks to his family, when the disease assumed a more violent form
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