Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Berkshire County, Massachusetts . he had so long resided. It was felt that both thetown and the county had lost one whose life had been an example,the memory of which would be an inspiration to those coming afterhim. Mrs. Sonthworth, who was a woman universally beloved, sur-vived her husband a number of years, passing away in 1892. THOMAS P. WELCH. The genial and popular proprietor of the Greylock hotel, Adams,is a native of Berkshire county and was born in the town of Cheshire,August 2, i860. His parents were the late Pa
Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Berkshire County, Massachusetts . he had so long resided. It was felt that both thetown and the county had lost one whose life had been an example,the memory of which would be an inspiration to those coming afterhim. Mrs. Sonthworth, who was a woman universally beloved, sur-vived her husband a number of years, passing away in 1892. THOMAS P. WELCH. The genial and popular proprietor of the Greylock hotel, Adams,is a native of Berkshire county and was born in the town of Cheshire,August 2, i860. His parents were the late Patrick and Charlotte(Ryan) Welch, who were natives of county Tipperary. Ireland, andemigrated to the United States at an early age. Soon after their arrivalthey came to Berkshire county, where they resided for the remainderof their lives, and died in Cheshire, which had l)een their home for manyyears. Patrick \\elch was a tanner by trade and followed that usefulcalling industriously during his active life. His wife, Charlotte (Ryan)Welch, became the mother of seven children, namelv: Richard, who is te. c^^Y> /Ml BERKSHIRE COUNTY 349 residing in Adams; x\lice, who died in childhood; James, also deceased;Thomas P., the principal subject of sketch; Ellen, who is now thewife of Martin McShehan; Mary, the wife of John Ford; and FrankWelch, whose heroic death while endeavoring to save property at a firein Cheshire some ten years ago is well remembered by residents of thattown. Thomas P. Welch was educated in the Cheshire pul)lic the early years of his actix-e life he was engaged in agriculturalpursuits in his native town, hut life upon a farm was far too sluggish fora young man endowed with an earnest desire for a more rapid advance-ment, and he accordingly utilized his inherent resources for the pur-pose of adopting a more congenial calling. In 1883 he opened a cafein Adams, which was a successful \enture from the start, made so inno small measure by his genia
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