“ [18] virtue. I have heard my grandfather tell of her cooking always just what the children needed, and no more, and they always ‘licked their trenchers,’ when they had done with knife and fork. They all grew up to respectability. Their average age was considerable, that of five of them being seventy years, and I forget how much more.” Of the sons of these parents, John — afterwards known as Deacon Brown--lived many years in New Hartford, and died there. Abiel lived and died on the old homestead in Canton, Connecticut, while Frederick and Owen both lie buried in the State of Ohio.
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“ [18] virtue. I have heard my grandfather tell of her cooking always just what the children needed, and no more, and they always ‘licked their trenchers,’ when they had done with knife and fork. They all grew up to respectability. Their average age was considerable, that of five of them being seventy years, and I forget how much more.” Of the sons of these parents, John — afterwards known as Deacon Brown--lived many years in New Hartford, and died there. Abiel lived and died on the old homestead in Canton, Connecticut, while Frederick and Owen both lie buried in the State of Ohio.
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