History and directory of Newton and Ransom townships, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania; . Northfield, Minn., now aflourishing city. John \^an Buskirk was abrother of Christopher \au Buskirk, whose pro-))erty adjoins the Ross lot. Across the wayfrom the Ross house is .Standing a tree worthyof note. It forms an arch across the road, manyof its branches growing up right from the arch loine in time to get dinner, which was a walkof about twenty miles. Where is there a girltoday who would care to do that? She saysthat when a girl, working in Hamburg, NewJersey, she would many times walk up homeafter
History and directory of Newton and Ransom townships, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania; . Northfield, Minn., now aflourishing city. John \^an Buskirk was abrother of Christopher \au Buskirk, whose pro-))erty adjoins the Ross lot. Across the wayfrom the Ross house is .Standing a tree worthyof note. It forms an arch across the road, manyof its branches growing up right from the arch loine in time to get dinner, which was a walkof about twenty miles. Where is there a girltoday who would care to do that? She saysthat when a girl, working in Hamburg, NewJersey, she would many times walk up homeafter finishing her days work a distance ofeleven miles and then walk back in time to getbreakfast by daylight the next morning. The Bible which she holds in the pictureaccompanying this sketch has been her treasur-ed possession since she was eighteen years ofage, having purchased it with five weeks laborat $1 per weelc. She has read it through aljoutthirty times, and it is in excellent her advanced age, she reads her Bible andother books and papers without si^ectacles. RESir)ENCE OF DENNIS MICHAELS See page 137. good-sized trees in themselves. Mrs. Rolosonknows its story. In the; winter of 1836 this treewas a sapling. A very heavy fall of snow whichlay on the ground until well into April weighedthe slender tree until today it stands a monu-ment to the truth of the proverb, Just as thehvig is bent the tree is inclined. Mr. Roloson,who came to the farm before bringing his wife,sowed timothy seed upon the snow that Ross projierty had for many years been apart of the Roloson farm until purchased withthe original a few years ago. Mr. Roloson died JNIarch IS, 1872, and foryears after her husbands death, Mrs. Rolosondid much of the farming, many times carryingthe hay into the barn upon her back. Her but-ter-making abilities were known all over thecountry, and her butter always demanded agood price. She was accustomed to carry herbutter in pails to Scranton to
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