Historical Wyoming County September 1949 - Old Fulton History

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jptenber 19^!-9 Pane 2 historic ;L t:c:;i:tg published six tines annually at Arcade, Nor; York, by 1-Iarrv S. Douglass, <strong>County</strong> Historian; Robert "". HcGowan, Associate Editor;and Students ox '.rc.de Central School. EARLY DAYS IN COVINGTON - CONT, The first homes •/ore log cab- ; fireplace. R. Smith was an early ins. Some families lived for \ teacher. A man taught for four months without floors or windows ? months in the winter, and, as the in order that all possible time record out it,a "female teacher, 1 ' could be spent cutting and burn- | taught sometimes seven months ing timber to make a clearing in \ The winter teacher received as which to get in a crop of wheat, f high as $15.00 a month and board- The furnishings were scant. In • ed around and the woman teacher one corner stood the"Genesee Bed", = about one-fourth as much. During made b v inserting small ooles in- f one year,92 pupils were taught in to holes which were bored in the f the district. Slates and pencils wall at the head. At the foot, f were used for most of the school blocks or crotched sticks, were j work. One of the teacher'3 duties the supports. Crosswise on these i was making and "mending" quill side nieces, small sailings were f pens. However, poor a penman, he laid. Evergreen branches were j "set the copy" for the children, piled quite high and the bed was f ready for blankets. The other 1 Ho gum found its way to the furnishings were equally crude, I school room but there is little Various iron kettles simmered over | doubt that spruce, slippery elm the fireplace. The long-leg; ed I and mouse ear answered the same bake kettle was set in the coals | purpose, mainly to annoy the teaof the hearth. I'ore coals we re | cher. The pupils must have given placed 0:1 the cover. | the first school-house rough usage ' | for after thirteen years it was At a surprisingly early date, I replaced by what we know as the frame houses appeared. Sprague's f "Ole Red Schoolhouse." For the 3awmi 1 1 accounted for this. Cap- I new building, $225.00 was raised tain Levi Beardslev, in l3l0 or ! by equal tax. After the sale of 1311, took UP 600 acres of land f the old building for >26.00, the at what was afterwards called f cherry table and brass andirons "?aine' s Corners." The first wed- I for $3.36, the taxnaners received", ding in the town was in the 1 a '/J4.5.OO refund. Beardsley home upon this home- f stead when Sylvia became the f During pre-school age every bride of Calvin Davis in I81J4.. In | little girl learned to knit, lat- 181t, Thatcher Beardsley was the f er to spin and sometimes to weave, first teacher in the district f Candy was a very rare treat in school house,just south. I am un- jpioneer homes. An old Day Book of able to find the clerk's record | the Gordon store,dated lBl^.3,showfor this district. In the forties fed the largest single sale of or early fifties,Harriet ?ollard, I candy to one person amounted to Polly Hamilton, Eliza Taylor,Mary I six cents. Possibly some imorov- Ann Squires, and Kate Fisher were | ident youth was going to call on teachers. | his girl. The children, however, 1 had very free access' to the mol- The Center school was built 1 asses jug, too free, one mother in 1017. It was a frame building, fthought. Her small son was told 2lpc2o feet, and was heated with a f that darkies lived where that was 5 made and if he didn't let it alone Cont. on next page
<strong>September</strong> 19l|-9 Page 3 "" IH.H i.imiHM. IHUliP|M.>n early days in covington-CONT. some day he would find a darkey's^ about to pay his bills, he was toe. To prove her point she drop^-| told that all expenses had been ped into tie jug a few plump rai- f met by a number of young men, sins. Nothing daunted, the jug I workers on the canal,I think, who was again tipped up, when "plunk, § had been their fellow boarders . plunk", out popped a molasses-f Their work having been finished, coated raisin. A round-eyed boy I they had gone away ..leaving n o beat a hasty retreat. I opportunity to even thank them. The neighbors vera often to- | The population of the town getter. It was almost imperative f reached its peak, about the that the men change work. Thef time that the Paines arrived, women frequently got together for | This was before the division of a day of dyeing. There were also f the town . Business flourished, chopping bees and husking bees, | On Pearl Cr3 Jk were a saw mill, paring bees and quilting bees. \ grist mill and carding mill. At 1 the Center, store, hotel, ashery, My Grandfather Townsend i> I blacksmith shop, cabinet and wagvited my Grandmother, then Sally I on shop. A place where chairs and Burt, to attend a te"ra of singing f spinning wheels were made. The school at Peoria, '-'hen he rushed § store drew trade for man - miles, up to the door in his lumber wag- | on, she bashfully refused to go f Shoes were made to measure and unless Luthenia Parsons could go f an occasional cobbler went from along, so an extra kitchen chair I house to house. His trade was was added to the two already in. § known as "'..hipping the cat". Mrs. I never heard of Grandfather's f True was a tailoress living on singing but o ice. I think the f this road. An Irish woman east tune he used was the same that he § of the Center made shirt bosoms hanuad down to me. f which she sold for 13ct apiece. | Laca pleat was made by drawing To illustrate the kindness | two threads each side of t he that prevailed: Mr. & Mrs. Daniel | crease. These were folded so "toward came early to LaGrange.Al- | that one came over the other and most immediately both were striken § sewed,two threads at a time, over with fever. For eight weeks tPoy § and under,the length of the seam; were critically ill. They ware 1 then turned and the alternating wholly dependent for care upon f stitches taken up. This look-e d women who gladly rode miles through | like our present machine stitch - the woods on horseback. In 1.82!.|_, | ing. Eight of these pleats were my great*-grandparents, Isa, c and fmade. Sally Wellman,coming from Vermont | i ith an ox team and settling near | The town house, then the Ccnthe Morrows,vere halted at Greags- | gregational Church, had rocentville by the serious illness of § ly been completed,On Jan. 7, 1335 their four year old daughter. The f John and Sumner Paine wore refamily of seven had to put up at f ceived by letter from the York the tavern. A few days later the § church. The record shows also baby died. They ••ere overcome f the names of Lucy,Rodney and Seth with grief. Besides this, the f Paine. Seth and Sophronia were little money they had was melting fmembers of the choir. The tuning away. Their poverty must have' | fork was the only musical instrjibe an apparent, When father was | ment and the preacher lined off
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