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From: Harriet E Cady <>
Subject: Re: [VT-L] BLOOMFIELD, VERMONT
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:47:40 -0500


Tucky,
I am really interested in finding this Roger Couture. My great
grandmother was Georgianna Couture from St Bernard's parish in Quebec. I
have the names of all her brother's and sister's and am wondering if this
Roger might be one of their children.
Harriet

On Tue, 04 Jan 2000 21:48:25 -0500 Tucky Sancibrian <>
writes:
> Here's a bit more from "Bloomfield, News and History", Edited by
> Roger
> Couture.
>
> December 21, 1900 - Island Pond Herald.
>
> Monday morning the community was again saddened by the news of the
> death
> of another one of our highly respected young men, Leon JOHNSON, son
> of
> N. M. JOHNSON, a brakeman for the Grand Trunk Railroad, who was
> killed
> in a railroad accident last Sunday night in Gorham. His roommate,
> D. D.
> MATHERSON, was killed the Monday previous. John was a member of the
> 1st
> Vermont Infantry during the last Spanish War.
>
> 1900 - DIRECTORY: From Walton's V. Registser
>
> Livery Stable: R. L. ROWELL
> Society: Women's Christian Temperance Union, Mrs. Kate BURBANK,
> President
> Boarding Houses: Fannie WILLETT, Thomas GRAHAM, John SCOTT
> Merchants: LEWIS Lumber Company, STEVENS and MORSE.
> Boots and Shoes: Joseph GOSSELIN
>
> 1901 - DIRECTORY Walton's Vt. Register
> Livery Stable: Fred NUGENT
> Carriages: Joseph LOMBARD
> Hardware: A. TAYLOR
>
> 1902 DIRECTORY - Walton's Vt. Register
> Plumber, Alvin TAYLOR
>
> May 14, 1902 - Leonard WILLIAMS of Bloomfield has died at the age of
> 56.
>
> April 22, 1903 - George BUNNEAU'S body was found Sunday by the river
> drivers at Smith's Island.
>
> July 8, 1903 - Harry EVANS, a blacksmith doing business in
> Bloomfield,
> was os severely burned in the fire which has destroyed the Coos
> Cottage
> (located just north of the present Catholic Church in North
> Stratford)
> that he has died from his injuries.
>
> December 9, 1903 - Daniel DALEY of this village and Miss Phoebe
> BERGERON
> of Bloomfield were united in matrimony at the home of the bride last
> Sunday evening.
>
> 1904 - Taken from "Successful Vermonters" by William H. Jeffery,
> Caledonia, Essex and Orleans Counties - by Rev. Asa Fuller.
>
> MARTIN, Sumner T., was born in Bloomfield in 1872 and is a son of
> Alonzo
> A. and Linda A. (Holbrook) Martin. He received his education in the
> public schools of Bloomfield, has always been a farmer of the
> progressive type, and together with his father they have 600 acres
> of
> farm land.
>
> SILVER, Albert Allen, son of Arad and Sophia E. (Nichols) Silver,
> born
> October 1, 1834 in Bloomfield. His father, Arad Silver, was born in
> 1793 the son of Samuel and Abigail Buzzell Silver. As a lad of
> eleven
> years, Arad Silver moved from Concord, NH to Bloomfield. His
> mother,
> after the death of Arad's father, had married Hiram CLOUGH, wo was,
> like
> her first husband, a veteran of the Revolutionary war. Albert A.
> Silver
> was the ninth in a family of ten children. He married September 22,
> 1857 to Sarah Warren JENNE of Derby. Their six children are: Edgar
> Oscar, Elmer Ellsworth, Jennie Laura (died March 1884), Albert
> Allen,
> Jr., Annie Adeline (died December 1885) and Sarah Warren, wife of
> Dr.
> Walter H. PARKER of Boston. In 1872 Mr. Silver removed his home
> from
> Bloomfield to Derby in order that his children might have the
> advantages
> of instruction at the Derby Academy.
>
> SILVER, Albert A. Jr., son of Albert A. and Sarah W. (JENNE) Silver,
> was
> born at Bloomfield, Vermont, March 5, 1865. He was educated in the
> public schools of Bloomfield and Derby, and at the University
> Grammar
> School of Providence, RI. He entered Brown University in 1885 but
> his
> college course was interrupted by illness. In December 1898, Mr.
> Silver
> was married to Blanche PRAY of Cambridge, MA. She died three years
> later.
>
> April 6, 1904 - Charles LYON, keeper of an alleged disorderly house,
> was
> shot and instantly killed near his home in Bloomfield, Vermont last
> Thursday evening. Reuben BRONSON, a neighbor of the dead man, is
> bound
> over for trial by Grand Jury as a result of the preliminary heaing.
>
> January 4, 1905 - Married in Stratford Hollow, Wednesday, December
> 28,
> of last year were Carl BURBANK of Bloomfield to Miss Marion MERRIAM
> of
> Stratford Hollow.
>
> January 11, 1905 - Fred NUGENT, our popular livery man and Mrs.
> Georgia
> HAPGOOD of South Columbia were united in marriage Wednesday at the
> bride's home. Rev. Mr. WEYBURTON performed the ceremony..
>
> May 3, 1905 - Some of our young and able-bodied men have enlisted to
> the
> U. S. Army for a term of three year. Lester HOUSE, Everett and
> Wendall
> WILLIAMS and John CONNALLY.
>
> June 7, 1905 - Mrs. Elenor STEVENS of Bloomfield died at her home
> last
> Thursday morning after long and wasting illness. She was 90 years
> old
> and the oldest person in town.
>
>
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Harriet from New Hampshire

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