History of Swansea, Massachusetts, 1667-1917; - citizen hylbom blog

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History of Swansea
Farming was rather distasteful and he worked much of the time at
house carpentering, March 5th 1877, he was elected selectman, assessor
and overseer of the poor. These offices he held nineteen consecutive years
the last three as chairman of the boards. He was defeated for a twentieth
term by Philip H. Manchester. He died very suddenly in the early morning
of July 9, 1896 passing while he slept without a struggle. Both he and
his wife were members of the First Christian Church many years. He was
buried in the Hale cemetery on the farm.
Their Children Married Died
1. Daniel Mason 1862 Apr. 19 1874 Aug. 16
2. WiUiam Jonathan 1866 Mar. 30 Mary A. Douglass 1894 Sept. 25
(VIII) Daniel M. a handsome boy and brilliant student died at twelve
years of age of malignant scarlet fever after an illness of three days.
William J. Hale (1866- ) unlike his father was very fond of the old
farm and had no desire to leave it. He built a new house near the highway
in 1894, the date of his marriage. The old house stood on a highway laid
out to the river, but as it lay wholly within the Hale farm it is probable it
was never improved. He has been a farmer all his life unlike his ancestors
having no trade. He served three years as selectman, assessor, and overseer
of the poor, 1901-04 scoring three wins out of seven trials, although
an active Democrat in a town Republican about five to one. He has been
one of the Democratic candidates for the General Court eight times but has
yet to win an election although he carried the town in 1903, obtaining the
highest vote on the ticket. He married at Newport, R. T. Mary A. daughter
of William H. and Rebecca A. (Winslow) Douglass; born at Bristol, R. I.,
1855 July 13.
Their children are:
1. Beebe Douglass 1895 Sept. 25
2. Daniel 1897 Aug. 23
3. Harold Winslow 1901 Aug. 21
Two are graduates, the other a pupil of the Durfee High and Technical
High, of Fall River, Mass.
From Kingsley Genealogy by Leroy Brown
OF St. Paul Minnesota, 1907
Of the origin of the family and name of Kingsley, tradition says that
as William II of England or William Rufus the Red King was one day hunting
in the new forest, he became separated from his companions and attendants
and wandering aimlessly about the forests and glade became hopelessly
lost. But just as night was closing in with its darkness and gloom he
espied a friendly light gleaming from the cabin of one of the yeoman who
lived on the confines of the forest.
Hastening thither he begged shelter for the night, without making
known his identity. He was kindly received and hospitably entertained so
far as the means at hand in the humble abode would allow. The man of the
house at once slaughtered a young goat from which with other means at
hand, his good wife prepared a savory repast whose delightful odors
reached the nostrils of the hungry King and whose delectable flavors
greatly pleased his palate.
The King of course being weary from the arduous sports of the day,
the humble couch provided him brought most refreshing slumbers from
which he awoke to partake of another bounteous repast which the wife had
;