Re: OBIT: Samuel H. WILMOT, 1909

Dear Diane and others,

Thank you for sending the obituaries from the early 1900s to the list. I
find them fascinating --even if I do not know who the people are! I was so
surprised to see the death notice for a "Wilmot" in Shulie. It more than
rang a bell. Every day I use a bread board that a "MR. WILMOT" made in
Shulie!

I do feel compelled to share with the list the tiny bit I know of "Mr.
Wilmot" as he was known as in my home.

My grandparents, Alvin Parker Freeman and his wife Grace (Mollins) Freeman
and their young family lived in Shulie in the early 1900's. We were brought
up to know of a "Mr. Wilmot" who lived there at the same time. We had a meat
board, a bread board and a butter trough that he made.

In 1987 "The Citizen" in Amherst ran a series called "The Shulee I remember"
by Elmer Brown. In the September 12, 1987 issue is this----

"Back across the road now, to the Mr. and Mrs. Sam Wilmont house. The family
was father and mother, one son and two daughters. I don't recall the names
of the boy and oldest girl. The youngest girl was named Addie. Mr. Wilmont
was not a healthy man. They kept a small confectionary and school supply
store. Sam died about 1910 or '11. The family moved away shortly after."

In the October 14 issue of The Citizen is a picture of my mother Eva Freeman
Trueman with some artifacts she had from Shulie. There is a picture of some
things Mr. Wilmot had made. Under the picture is written--

----"Shown in front are a butter trough, meat board and bread board, all
believed to be handiwork of Sam Wilmot, known to be "jack -of-all-trades' in
the early years of the former sawmill community."----

Please note the two different spellings of "WILMONT" in the series.

I will certainly be printing and keeping this death notice of Samuel Wilmot.


Margaret Moorehead



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From: Diane Shaw [mailto:diane.shaw@...]
Sent: February 5, 2005 6:46 AM
To: OBIT: Samuel H. WILMOT, 1909