. Early years in Smyrna and our first Old home week. o the house so long knownas the Eastman home, where they remained over thirty 1851 during a revival of religion conducted by Rev. EphraimBrown there were two converts of which Mr. Eastman was one,and the same year he united with the Methodist Church and hasever since been a most faithful member, serving as class leaderfor over thirty-one years and superintendent of the SundaySchool for eighteen years. He was greatly missed when he tookup a new field of labor as a preacher in the spring of 1887. Inthat year he preached in the Free Wi
. Early years in Smyrna and our first Old home week. o the house so long knownas the Eastman home, where they remained over thirty 1851 during a revival of religion conducted by Rev. EphraimBrown there were two converts of which Mr. Eastman was one,and the same year he united with the Methodist Church and hasever since been a most faithful member, serving as class leaderfor over thirty-one years and superintendent of the SundaySchool for eighteen years. He was greatly missed when he tookup a new field of labor as a preacher in the spring of 1887. Inthat year he preached in the Free Will Baptist Church at WestSmyrna, and the year following supplied that church and alsothe church at Otselic Center. Since then he has supplied thefollowing Methodist churches: Oakland, Pa., l889-93; Haw-leyton, N. Y., 95-97; Uniondale, Pa., 98-01; South Canaan,Pa., 02-04. He retired from the work at the close of the pres-ent conference year on account of age and failing health, and isliving in a home of his own in the village of Lestershire. Mr. 108. ALFRED EASTMAN. Our First Old Home Week Eastman and his most excellent wife and family will always bewelcome among the people of Smyrna, with whom they havespent the most of their lives and where their influence has al-ways been on the side of right and humanity. Two childrenwere born to them; Nettie A. who became the wife of Rev, FredP. Taylor, and Clarence, an infant son, who died at the age ofone year, and is buried in the East Burial Ground, his grave atender spot, where the affections of the family will never ceaseto be drawn. Lottie Warner Eastman, an adopted daughter ofthirty years ago, whose mother was Miss Lottie Wilbur oncea resident here, makes her home with the family and has becomehke one of them. Joshua Hemenway was born in New Salem, Mass., Octo-ber 17, 1780, and was married to Rebecca Harrington in 1802,coming to Sherburne the same year. They had six children,among them Delia H., who married John Kershaw, of Sherburn
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