March 7 it is a pretty bad snow, storm all hands invited to a party to A. Holways. we came to the debate last evening had a very interesting meeting not so many attended as would if it had not been for the drifts but they did not have much as the expected minister did not arive until until about 9 o'clock so that the adress is to be delivered to night. our question was decided on the farmers side and that was the right way.

March 14th last evening we had our last speaking school there was a Noble. Collection but not so many as would have been had it not been bad walking it was very muddy but some do not stand for trifles. to night we are again invited to Mr. Holways as the party has been postponed on account of stormy weather.

March 15 we all went to the party last night excepting Cordelia Eliza and Russel we had quite a smart time injoyed it much but should have injoyed it better had they all been there had apples and candy carred round the same as any body would. got home between 11 and 12 o'clock safe and sound to-day we have visitors, Joseph Hall Joseph Hoxie and Abigail Hall. to morrow we expect the committe.

March 16 It is very pleasant we have not had any company to-day and to morrow our school closes. Yes tomorrow our school will close and we shall have to part with our teachers who have spent so many happy hours together. I hope we shall all remember the hours we have spent so happily together in this house I shall for one.

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We present here these leaves from an old Diary found among the relics in the Old Fort House because it brings to our vision so clearly the life in East Sandwich of the young people of that time, which time must have been prior 1838. They suggest "Mr. Pepys" in style; are written on the blank pages of an account book, the ink is brown, the pages yellowed by time and they are evidently from the pen of a young school girl. The names are all familiar Sandwich names today, Hoxies, Holways, Halls, Nyes, Wings and it takes us back to the time of evening schools as well as

day schools, when speaking pieces and spelling matches were popular features, to the time of parties at the homes along the country road, to the days of sleighing, now in many localities a forgotten sport, and to many another joy of which our fathers and mothers told.

"Cordelia" was Cordelia Phinney, who was afterwards married to Seth B. Wing and who was the mother of our treasurer, Alvin P. "R. K. A."-Rebecca K. Atkins-was a close friend of Cordelia. "Brother Charles, home from sea" was Charles Holway. He had a sister Hannah, who, quite possibly, was the writer of this diary. The father was Allen Holway, and the family lived in a small house next to what is now the Sandwich post office. Cordelia must have had the diary in her possession and carried it to her new home when she married Seth.

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It appears that visitors to the school both day and evening were frequent. One day, we notice, that the list is given of four Holways, with an additional "&c, &c," and we can but wonder how much longer would have been the list had all the names been written. Mary Holway. one of these visitors. married Joseph Hoxie, Oct. 8, 1838 which makes it probable that this record was written before that date. Joseph is another visitor. on another day, and also several Halls, notably "Mr. Isac Hall from the Citv".

He was the son of Mr. Winslow Hall, where there was to have been a "meting" one evening, but the Parson was called away. Mr. Isac must have brought his city polish with him when he came to visit his father, and having a surplus of time on his hands worked some of it off by visiting schools. We fancy he greatly impressed the pupils, or else they recognized that he was trying to impress them, for evidently he took it upon himself to read to them-perhaps to show them how it should be done-and in doing this he "took all their eyes."

We note that the next entry makes mention of the fact that the schoolmaster is cross. Had the date followed more closely we might have thought that the schoolmaster felt he had reason for exasperation

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with his "City" visitor, and which he permitted to show in his conduct towards his pupils. But doubtless the reason was to be found nearer at hand, perhaps in a general restlessness felt throughout the school because of the exciting prospect of a choice of dissipations for the evening, a temperance address in the Town Hall and a "debating meeting" in the Academy at Cedarville, or possibly, because Hannah-if Hannah it was would spend her time in scribbling in a blank book when she should have been studying her spelling lesson. There is no clue to the name of the "schoolmaster." We find that Paul Wing, of late Boy's School fame, taught in the district schools of the town somewhere about this time, but from what we learn of him we cannot believe that he was one whose serenity could have been ruffled by such small matters.

Hannah chose to attend the "debating meeting" in Cedarville, which seems to have had a small attendance on account of snow drifts, and not to have been a wholly successful evening because the minister was late in arriving, however, the debated question was decided in favor of the side she advocated, which, of course, was the right side and that made it a satisfactory evening for her.

But parties seem to have been the social events of the winter. No less than four are mentioned in these pages. There is no after account given of the one at Warren B. Nye's. At Paul Wing's -all hands having been invited--they had a very good time, but why there ought to have been twenty-five present we are unable to surmise, unless it means that twenty-five were invited, and these all attended. The party broke up at ten o'clock. The party at Eliza Hoxie's was too far for Hannah to walk. The one at A. Holway's seems to have been more of a dissipation. It is recorded that it was a "smart" affair-which sounds decidedly modern. Cordelia and others of the old "crowd" were absent, which detracted from the "injoyment", but they had "apples and candy carred round the same as anybody would", and this

reminds us that ice cream, salads and fancy cakes have not always been a necessity for an evening's entertainment. Of course it was a matter to record thankfully that having staid until the unearthly hour of between eleven and twelve o'clock they, nevertheless, "got home safe and sound."

And then the sleighing! Can't you hear the bells? Mr. Ebenezer Holway takes Miss Hannah Fuller and her sister to town to see the folks. Perchance Ebenezer and Hannah left "sister" with the folks and took a longer drive by themselves. Who knows? We are curiuos to know where Mr. Isac Bodfish and Miss Hannah Jones went on their sleigh ride. Possibly the later Town Records might indicate what occurred during that ride in the frosty air, amid the sound of jngling bells. Small wonder that Hannah-watching all this go by, was "peeved", and did not care if "some of our folks" were "froze", since they did not come to give her a sleigh ride. while the sleighing was so good.

But the school term draws to a close. There was the last "speaking" evening, when those who came were those who did not stand for trifles, like a muddy road, and a "Noble Collection" was received (which must have been caused for thanks and congratulations). Hannah-if Hannah it was-has forgotten that the schoolmaster was ever cross, and remembers only the happy hours spent together.

"And so goes that day", and that time -never to return!

Record of An Old Gift

This may certify all to whome it may concern that I Deborah Wing of Rochester in the County of Plymouth Widow Woman do give or bequeath and out of love and good will make my son Benjamin Wing of Wareham in said county, mariner, a present of one feather bed containing about thirty or forty pounds of feathers when I myself have done with it and after him to go and Descend to the heirs of said Benjamin Wing. in confirmation wherof I set my hand and

Seal this 18th day of April A. D. 1831. Interlining was done before Signing or

Sealing

Witnesses

Butler Wing

Debborah Wing (Seal)

Thankful Wing "Debborah" Wing was the widow of Timothy Wing, of the line of Daniel, the great grandmother of Mrs. Merwin Lincoln, Washburn, Wis., of Oscar B. Wing, Manchester, Mass., of Mrs. Alexander Warr, Dora M., Mary G. and George F. Wing, Wareham, Mass. Butler Wing is of the line of Steuhen.

The feather bed has vanished, but much more precious is the document itself, signed by their great-grandmother, now in the possession of the heirs of Benjamin Wing.

Genealogical Notes

In the June 1923 Owl there is a letter from Mrs. Alice Riley Kellogg, which is supplementary to No. 3363, giving an account of her mother's family-Hannah Wing, daughter of Israel and Elsie (Sherman) Wing. Continuing the line of her immediate family, she writes that she has six children, five of whom were University students. Four girls were of the University of Chicago and three of these were Chi Rho Sigmas. The son was an Alpha Delta Phi, of the University of Illinois. The oldest daughter, Marie, married Jas. B. Miller, 415 Lincoln St., Evanston, Ill., and has three children, Evelyn, ten years, Blair, eight, Kellogg, six.

The second daughter, Erna, married: Capt. W. G. Strongquist of the public health service, and has two children, Walter Kellogg, eight, and Annie Elizabeth, three, and lives in Memphis, Tenn.

The son, Chester A., is with the Keystone Steel and Wire Co., of Peoria, Ill. Leslie E., the fourth, is unmarried and lives in Chicago.

The youngest are twin girls, Ethel is married to Henry Wiersema, a structural engineer, of Memphis, Tenn., and and Evelyn is married to Lawrence

Tibbits, of the Better Paint Store, Dixon, Ill.

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Mrs. Jas. B. Miller, daughter of Mrs. Alice R. Kellogg, is trying to trace her family history for the purpose or admission into the D. A. R. Her line runs, Alice Riley Kellogg, Hannah (Wing) Riley, Israel, David, Daniel, John, John, Daniel, Rev. John, Matthew. She has been unable to find the dates of birth and death of Elsie (Sherman) Wing, wife of Israel Wing-her great-grandmother; of Dorcas (Burdick) Wing, wife of David Wing--her great-grandmother; and of Rebecca (Clifford) Wing-her great-great-great-grandmother. She has heard it said that Elsie (Sherman) Wing was a descendant of Roger Sherman, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Has any one information in regard to these matters?

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Mr. Franklin O. Rose, Santa Monica, Cal. sends this information which is supplemental to No. 357. A book called "Early Settlers of Nantucket", by Lydia S. Hinchman, contains the following. "The child of Samuel Barker and first

wife, Deborah Wing, was Deborah Barker, who married Aug. 15,1738, Jonathan Burnell, of Boston, from whom descended the family of that name in Nantucket." It says also that "Samuel Barker married first Deborah Wing and, in 1718, second Bethiah Folger." From the Folger records at the Nantucket Historical Society we learn that Jonathen Burnell was born Nov. 2, 1714 and died May 13, 1799. Deborah Wing Barker, his wife, died Jan. 29, 1792. Their daughter Judith married Peter Folger, son of Peter Folger and Christian Swain.

Deborah Wing Barker was the greatgreat-great-great-great-grandmother of Mr. Rose. His grandmother, Elizabeth Starbuck Rand, married Henry Ryder, of Wareham, Mass., in Nantucket in 1858. He has a daughter, Elizabeth Starbuck Rose, whose ancestry on all lines he is endeavoring to trace.

Daniel Wing, of Stetson, Maine, son of William and Cynthia (Cooper) Wing, had two lines of Wing ancestry. William was the son of Samuel (Elnathan, Ananias, John, Rev. John Matthew). and Cynthia Cooper was the daughter of Amy Wing (Elnathan, Ananias, John, Rev. John Matthew), who married William Cooper for her first husband. Cynthia Cooper, therefore, was a halfsister of Allen Rogers, and is said to have brought him up, for his mother, Amy, and his father, Samuel (Amy's second husband), returned to Harwich, where Amy died, and after which the father went to Castine, Me. Cynthia Cooper married her cousin, cousin, William Wing. Allen Rogers married Mary Wyman, the daughter of his cousin Ruth.

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Mr. Justin Frank Raines, Battle Creek, Mich., is in search of the cestry of his grandmother, Mrs. Mary A., wife of Loring Wing. She was closely related to Tobias Lear of Portsmouth, N. H., General Washington's secretary for many years. Her mother (name unknown) was married to Godfrey Graham (Gardiner) at Kittery, Maine. Her father's-Godfrey Graham's-real name was Gardiner. Coming to America from England, he took his mother's family of Graham. He was a member of the U. S. Marine Corps for years, and died, in Philadelphia about 1837.

THE DEATH RECORD

David Warner Wing

(From a Marshall, Mo. paper)

At 3 o'clock Monday morning, November 16, 1925, David Warner Wing passed away at his residence on East North street. Mr. Wing's health had been fairly good for one of his age until about six weeks ago he was stricken with a chill at the Marshall Christian church his religious home which he loved and his seat in this sanctuary was rarely ever vacant when he was able to be there. He had served on the church board of the Marshall congregation and also at Lamine and was a valued help in the councils of his chosen denomination.

He was taken to his home from the church after his attack six weeks ago and has never been able to be up for any length of time since and has gradually grown worse until the end. During all of his illness he was patient, cheerful, and optimistic and enjoyed the visits of his relatives and friends and talked to them almost to the end.

The wife and four children survive, and the latter are Mrs. T. A. Harris, Mrs. Ray Cramer and Mr. Moss Wing, all of Lamine, Cooper county, and Mrs. Wm. Cott of Okmulgee, Okla., and they all with Doctor Cott arrived at the Wing home and the father knew them.

Mr. Wing was the son of the late Freeman (John, John, Ananias, John, Rev. John, Matthew) and Catherine Jones Wing and was born at the old family homestead in Lamine township, Cooper county, Jan. 5, 1849. He was reared on the farm and was educated at the University of Missouri, at Columbia and at an Eastman College Poughkeepsie, N. Y. He was married first to Miss Mary Ella Parker of Columbia in 1869 and she died in 1883 and November 5, 1884, he was married to the surviving wife who was before her marriage, Miss Lucy C. Brown, the daughter of the late Col. Wm. B. Brown.

The forefathers of the Wing family came from England in the William and Frances, the second ship to arrive after the Mayflower and they were early settlers of the old Dominion. One sister survives Mr. Wing, Mrs. Mary Bernard who lives at Webster Grove, a suburb of St. Louis and is several years past 90 years of age and will be unable to get to Marshall, a brother, Wm. Wing, also survives and he lives at Bartlesville, Okla., and is also unable to be here.

Mr. Wing was a truly good man having inherited all the sturdy, strong and better qualities of his Puritan ancestors and added to those he was finely educated, happy and genial in disposition and ever ready to be helpful in every good work and word that would advance the interests of his home town and central Missouri.

The funeral took place Tuesday morn