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Brookfield, VT 05036
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Brookfield Historical Society
Brookfield, Vermont
Hi,
I just read the latest Brookfield Historical Society News and appreciated Beth DeForge’s article on Education – A General History. I could envision my grandmother, Marcia Peck and her sisters, attending one of the one room schools in the 1880′s. I don’t have a birthday, but she had her first child in 1899, so I don’t know if she was young enough to have been in one of the first HS classes at the Pond Village School.
Thanks,
Peter Griswold
We are currently updating and revising the original Brookfield History Book that was published in 1987. I have been working with the family histories and of course the Peck and Griswold names are many. I would like to get in contact with you.
Elinor Gray
Historian of Brookfield Historical Society
Hello, we are in receipt of your invoice for 2009 Annual Membership fee of $15.00. We need to be able to send you a Vendor Form asap to be filled out and returned to us. We’ll be happy to mail it, however, if you have an e-mail address we could send the form as an attachment to expedite the matter. Without this form on file we will not be able to process a payment to you. Please respond and let us know if e-mailing is a possibility.
Many thanks,
Hi
I just came across a few pictures of the floating bridge dated august 27th 1936. They are very small. They are only 3 by 2 inches. If you would like them I will send them to you,no charge. I live in Pa and did find the pictures at a local estate sale.
Barbara Denis
Family Histories – S through T
I cannot open the above-mentioned file. The file is apparently damaged.
Thanks for letting us know. The file should work now. Greg
David Pennington, co author of ” Spinning wheels & Accessories” informs me you
have a flax wheel with initials BK incised on it. I am interested in learning anything
about this wheel maker. Is there any information on the family the wheel came
from?/My “BK” wheel is handed down from early Tunbridge family of Daniel Hackett. The last flax spinner & weaver was my g.g.grandmother Hannah
Richardson Hackett Tenny. 1815-1864. I’ve given samples of her fine tablecloth weaving to the Vermont State Museum.
Pennington says they know of BK wheels from Springfield and Holliston, MA.
Please call for interview on exhibit for Memorial Day and about the town soldiers . Wlad News either Debbie or Jillian 203 792 9523.
You may have us confused with another Brookfield Historical Society. We are in Vermont. Are you trying to contact the one in Connecticut? Their URL is http://www.brookfieldcthistory.org/.
I have Parker relatives who sometimes lived in Brookfield. Benjamin Staples, father of Mary Staples Parker, is mentioned as elected as a freeman in the first Brookfield Historical Book. Mary Staples married James Parker and had 4 children: Ellen, James Munroe Jr, George (our family line) and Mary B. By the 1850 census, Mary seems to have been born in 1847. However, a death record that I have indicates she died in 1841 at 8 yrs, 3 mos.
While visiting the Town Clerk, I got a photocopy of something called Index To Family Records, book dist No Page 14. The Town Clerk did not know what this document was about.
All information on the Staples and Parkers would be appreciated. How may I obtain this?
Karen Burzdak (member of the society)
I am looking for information on a person “resting” at Brookfield Center Cemetery. Is there a contact for the cemetery or a resource to which you could refer me?
Many thanks for your assistance,
Kevin
Dear Elinor – Myself and other members of David Whitney’s family are hoping to attend the October 16 event in Brookfield, including my brother Dr. David Whitney. David Whitney was our great grandfather and we are most eager to see where he spent his early days. Please let us know of a nice Bed and Breakfast or motel in your area or around Turnbridge as we would like to tour the old Whitney farms. Any info would be much appreciated – Thanks, Terri Whitney Jackson PS We now all live in Iowa, where he farmed after leaving Vermont
Hi
Recently came across a 1919 American Impressionist painting of a Dr Ellis , of Brookfield , Vermont. I bought it at an antique fair in Scotland , and when I googled the name came across your website which has a lot of info on Dr Ellis.
I have the painting for sale on ebay but am unsure as to the artist, maybe some of your followers can help. May also be of interest to your readers.
It can be seen at ebay 380388973917
Thanks
David R Howard
Hello! I am looking for any information you could give me about my ancestors who lived in Brookfield. Clifford Lewis and his family lived there from 1900 until about 1930 and James Swane and his family lived there between 1910 and 1930. Clifford’s son and James’s daughter married and were my great great grandparents. I know James, his wife Effie, and their daughters Lena Pearl Swane-Lewis and Mayfred are buried in Brookfield but I’m not sure of which cemetery. Any information would be greatly appreciated!!
Danielle