Historical Wyoming County July 1956 - Old Fulton History

July 1956
MEMORIES OP PEARL CREEK (cont.)
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Among the families of the place were the Morgans, Powers,
Griffiths, the Pond boys and Gortens, both John and Sam, and the
Lemley boys. Bert Lemley would drive very fast, and Win would
say, when drawing in grain, "Raise her down a notch, she is going
over." Bert had a fine voice and how he could s,ing, Causey Jones!
The old school house was the meeting place of most of the
folks. At one time, so I have been told, they thought marrow beans
could not be raised in any place but Pearl Greek. I think Edith
Parks is about the oldest resident. The others, marked by their
tombstones over in the graveyard with the daisies and the goldenrod
waving over them. And as we brought nothing into this world, we can
take nothing out.
But Ben Brooks got back home up the East road or took the
(railroadK track and then back through the woods. Mrs.Coonley-Ward
put him in charge of the building of the Wyoming Village Hall, a
$50,000 job. it is one beautiful building, few larger places have
anything like it. He loved his friends. I remember this coming to
our home on the old Bradley farm in Pavilion; winter snow was piled
high, banks six to eight feet deep. Mother had asked father to take
off the screen door. Ben came in about dark: "Squire, do the flies
bite you?" The screen door was off the next day. He told of two
men of Wyoming, Charles Shaw and.Dave Huhbapd--Charles hit Dave, so
they swore to, and David said, so^ The jury brought in a verdict of
"no cause for action." The judge allowed it* It was a miscarriage of
ustice 0
Mr. Sprague, author of the above account, was a former resident of
Pearl Creek, and now lives in retirement at Caledonia, N. Y.)