Thomas Solley and his descendants : the story of a hunt for an ancestor . and and Martha lived in the old-fashioned way, laying in forthe winter supplies of pork, hams, corned beef, dried beef,sausage, as well as vegetables and fruit. Martha was a modelhousekeeper, and could always set a fine table at very shortnotice. I remember distinctly the preparations for winter;the curing of hams, the making of sausage, the pieces of driedbeef which were hung about the old kitchen, the great amountof preserves and pickles of all kinds, together with home-madesoap, wine, and cider. Grandmother w
Thomas Solley and his descendants : the story of a hunt for an ancestor . and and Martha lived in the old-fashioned way, laying in forthe winter supplies of pork, hams, corned beef, dried beef,sausage, as well as vegetables and fruit. Martha was a modelhousekeeper, and could always set a fine table at very shortnotice. I remember distinctly the preparations for winter;the curing of hams, the making of sausage, the pieces of driedbeef which were hung about the old kitchen, the great amountof preserves and pickles of all kinds, together with home-madesoap, wine, and cider. Grandmother was also considerableof a doctor, both grandparents being believers in the old-fashioned Thompsonian method of doctoring by roots andherbs. Marthas brother, Willis Treat, was a regular physi-cian of that school. Grandmother had a room, in the housewhich was always filled with the different roots and herbswhich she dried for medicine, and people often came to herto be doctored. She was what was called a facultized per-son, and seemed equal to any and all emergencies. 136. HIS DESCENDANTS Grandfather and grandmother became identified in everyway with the life of the village. They were still ardent Meth-odists of the old school, and in this they found congenialcompany at Bethel. It was hard for the people to go to Dan-bury to attend the Methodist services, and so the earnestsouls of that faith got together for class meetings at thehome of one Horace Trowbridge, where each brought a can-dle for light. The work grew, and soon after this regularMethodist meetings were held at the old Grassy Plain schoolhouse, grandfather and grandmother taking part in foundingthe movement, and being always the most ardent supportersof its work. Not long after this a project was set on foot to build achurch. The cost was estimated and all of the Methodistswere taxed according to their several abilities. Grand-fathers tax amounted to seventy-five dollars, and althoughhe had not yet paid for his homestea
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