Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

98 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
man, by taking in his old age a young woman for his second
wife, forty-three years j'^ounger than himself, and fifty-seven
years younger than his first wife.
During the closing period of his life, a term of nearly
six years, Elisha Blush enjoyed all those comforts and conveniences
of life of which he' had been deprived for forty
years, and to which a man having a competent estate is entitled.
This great change in his mode of living did not, however,
afibrd him unalloyed happiness. One remark which
he made at this period is worth preserving ; it shows the
effect which habits of forty years growth have on the human
mind. Some one congratulated him on the happy change
which had taken place. "Yes," said he, "I live more comfortably
than I did," but he added with a sigh, "my present
wife is not so economical as my first."
Note.—I read the manuscript of this article to the only persons now
living whom I presumed would have any feeling in regard to its publication.
They are relatives of Aunt Beck, and when young were frequent
visitors at her house. I altered whatever they said was not literally
true, excepting things of which I was myself an eye witness. They requested
me to say nothing of her eccentricities. I replied that Aunt
Beck and her museum, like Sarcho and Dappie, were born for each other,
and if the account of the museum was omitted, Aunt Beck sunk into
insignificance.