. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. l years, and has served as Lecturer in his homegrange—Daniel Webster, No. 100,—and in the Merri-mack County Pomona Grange. Mr. Gerrish has been twice married—to Sarah of Penacook, December 22, 1864, by whomhe had three children, two now living, Edwin C, agraduate of the New Hampshire Agricultural College,now employed in the office of a large corporation ; and Mabel A., in school at Brookline, first wife died a few years since, and January 9,1894, he married Mrs. Mary S. Kenevel of Fort Scott,.Kansas. BELA GR
. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. l years, and has served as Lecturer in his homegrange—Daniel Webster, No. 100,—and in the Merri-mack County Pomona Grange. Mr. Gerrish has been twice married—to Sarah of Penacook, December 22, 1864, by whomhe had three children, two now living, Edwin C, agraduate of the New Hampshire Agricultural College,now employed in the office of a large corporation ; and Mabel A., in school at Brookline, first wife died a few years since, and January 9,1894, he married Mrs. Mary S. Kenevel of Fort Scott,.Kansas. BELA GRAVES,East Unity. Eighty-seven years ago John Graves, a young man ofcourage and character, settled near the south-easterncorner of the town of Unity upon a farm, the larger por-tion of which was covered with heavy hemlock he established a home, reclaimed the land, andreared a large family. He was twice married, his firstwife being Rhoda Gilman ; his second, Phebe Way, thelatter a daughter of John Way, an influential citizen of ^ ^^ \ h^. Bela Graves. 74 NEW HAMPSHIRE AGRICULTURE. Lempster. He lived to see smooth and productive fieldswhere he had cut and burned the forest, and of histwelve children, six reached adult life, the youngest bythe second marriage being the subject of this sketch. Bela Graves was born June 23, 1836, in the housewhere he now resides, was educated in the districtschool at East Unity, with a few terms of academicinstruction, the last two being at the Newbury (Ver-mont) seminary. Commencing at eighteen he taughtdistrict school winters, lor twelve years, the balance ofhis time being devoted to farm work. He has beentwice married, first, October 15, 1862, to Emma M.,and, after her death, November 5, 1873, to Eliza M.,daughters of Reuben Shepardson, of Claremont. Hehas five children living: Stella M., wife of E. , of Walpole ; John F. Graves, of Newport;Grace E., a pupil in the Newport high school, andRichard C. and Helen L., the li
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