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A very early memory is the marching through the streets of soldiers bound for the Mexican War. Off and on, I lived in Boston till 1849, when my father left for California and the family returned to Leominster. My first school in Boston was in the basement of Park Street Church. Hermann Clarke, son of our minister, Rev. James Freeman Clarke, was a fellow pupil.
Anson Johnson and Beriah Curtis drove to Worcester; Addison Parker, Henry L. Lawrence, Stephen Corbin, John Webber, and his son, Ward, drove to Lowell; the brothers Abiel and Nathan Fawcett, Wilder Proctor, and Abel H. Fuller, to Nashua; Micah Ball, who came from Leominster about the year 1824, drove to Amherst, New Hampshire, and after him Benjamin Lewis, who continued to drive as long as he lived, and at his death the line was given up.
"No, no," answered Theo, bounding to her side, while Madam Conway forgot to scream, and bent eagerly forward to listen, her symptoms of dissolution disappearing one by one as the strange narrative proceeded, and ere its close she was nearly dressed, standing erect as ever, her face glowing, and her eyes lighted up with joy. "Gone to Leominster! Henry Warner's half-sister!" she exclaimed.
It was at one time even matter of grave dispute whether it would not cost as little money to make that between Leominster and Kington navigable as to make it hard. Passing still further west, the unfortunate traveller, who seems scarcely able to find words to express his sufferings, continues:
"He'd 'a' said, 'Hain't I seen you down Kennebunk way som'eres? And when I said, 'No, I'm from Leominster! or where-ever I was from if I was green, he'd say, 'Oh yes, so it was Leominster.
My father's mother was a Moore, also of Scotch ancestry. She died young, and on my father's side there was no family home to visit. My mother's father was Deacon Charles Hills, descended from Joseph Hills, who came from England in 1634. Nearly every New England town was devoted to some special industry, and Leominster was given to the manufacture of horn combs.
Mary; who every day read the Psalter through, and so persevered in good and holy works to her life's end," the "devoted friend of St. Mary, ever a virgin," who enriched monasteries without number, Leominster, Wenlock, Chester, St.
At the same time supplies were liberally dispensed; and all the paymasters of regiments were directed to send in their accounts without delay, in order that there might be no arrears, Thomas Coningsby, Member of Parliament for Leominster, a busy and unscrupulous Whig, accompanied the King, and acted as Paymaster General.
You must carry me home and bury me in dear old Leominster, where my childhood was passed, and where I learned to love you so much oh, so much!"
"A year will not be very long," she said, "and in the new scenes to which you are going it will pass rapidly away;" and then, in her childlike, guileless manner, she drew a glowing picture of the future, when, her own health restored, they would return to their old home in Leominster, where, after a few months more, he would bring to them his bride.
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