Bethany and its hills; . WILLI A At LOUNSIUKV. Later it was owned bv Lewis Thomas, who occupied it withhis family. T,ater it l)ecame the property of ( )rrin Wheeler,who occupied it with his family till his death in 1874. HisAvidow, son and unmarried daughters continued to occupy itmitil the death of Mrs. Wheeler in i8(j8. and the death of theson in i8(;(;. The Misses Mary and Christina Wheeler stillcling to the associations which make the ( )ld Homesteaddear to them, and remain under the roof which has withstoodthe storms of the nineteenth century and enters upon the. BETHANV AXn ITS
Bethany and its hills; . WILLI A At LOUNSIUKV. Later it was owned bv Lewis Thomas, who occupied it withhis family. T,ater it l)ecame the property of ( )rrin Wheeler,who occupied it with his family till his death in 1874. HisAvidow, son and unmarried daughters continued to occupy itmitil the death of Mrs. Wheeler in i8(j8. and the death of theson in i8(;(;. The Misses Mary and Christina Wheeler stillcling to the associations which make the ( )ld Homesteaddear to them, and remain under the roof which has withstoodthe storms of the nineteenth century and enters upon the. BETHANV AXn ITS 4^ twentieth still i)nitectino- a fniniework of massive oak. but littlethe worse for time and wear, hut which must inevitably succumbin time if not ^iven thai protection which has so beenafforded it till death and adversity have the hands whichwould have kept the outside as neat and beautiful as the family in P-ethany seem difficult to seemed to settle near the center, Lysias near thechurches, north. 1 lis father. Captain David, lived on the cross-road east, where he had built a g-rist mill. Darius built on thecorner ()ne Darius sold to Ebenezer Ilatt, about iScx), a housewest near Harrv l-renchs. and Calvin Ueecher built on the mamroad north, near Lebanon Hill. His wi<low married EsquireKimberlv. from West Haven. She had seven children and hehve One daughter married Major Lounsbury (son of Eliasand Alarv IVrkins). His son Henry eventually owned thepropertv,^and his widow resides in the <.ld home. The Ivimberl
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