. Early years in Smyrna and our first Old home week. f Benjamin, who mar-ried Laura, a daughter of Joseph Hunt, among whose childrenwere Isaac, so many years a resident of the town, whose wifewas Eliza Stone, by whom were two children, a son and daugh-ter, who still reside here. ClitTord B., with his family, are atUpperville; and Augusta became the wife of Henry Crouch, aprosperous farmer of Smyrna Hill, where they now reside witha large and interesting family, several grown to manhood andwomanhood. Still another Wilber family, was that of which Samuel wasthe head, whose son, Benjamin, was onc


. Early years in Smyrna and our first Old home week. f Benjamin, who mar-ried Laura, a daughter of Joseph Hunt, among whose childrenwere Isaac, so many years a resident of the town, whose wifewas Eliza Stone, by whom were two children, a son and daugh-ter, who still reside here. ClitTord B., with his family, are atUpperville; and Augusta became the wife of Henry Crouch, aprosperous farmer of Smyrna Hill, where they now reside witha large and interesting family, several grown to manhood andwomanhood. Still another Wilber family, was that of which Samuel wasthe head, whose son, Benjamin, was once a respected residentbut now deceased. His daughter was the wife of the late Mar-sena Stebbins, and his sons were Emmons L., now a hotel man,a resident of Kentucky, and Charles, now a resident of daughter of Samuel, named Hannah, was born in Smyrna,and still resides here, living at present with Mrs. William - John Sprague and Fannie West, his wife, whose grand-father was a native of Connecticut, came to Smyrna in the early 102. JOHN M. PRESTON. Our First Old Home Week forties, settling in the Northup district. They were a well-to-do,industrious and respectable family, who always had a high stand-ing in the community. Of their family were Peter, who mar-ried Electa, a sister of the late Benjamin Conkey, by whom wereseveral children. Among them were Thomas, now of Sidney,N. Y., whose wife was Rachel Messenger; William, now of Ith-aca, whose wife was Mary Ellsworth; Cynthia, who marriedIsaac Collier, a soldier of the Rebellion, and John and Hannahwho reside in town. Ervin H. married Martha Champlin, andwas in later years an honored deacon of the CongregationalChurch of which his wife and family were faithful only son, Hiram, died in his sixteenth year; Mary, whomarried Robert Vanderhoof, and her young sister, Katherine,now reside in Ithaca. Two other brothers were Warren andHiram, and the three other sisters were Sabra, Fanny and Mar-cia, the la


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