Lydia's sister, Lucea Adalaide Swartz, came to live with Lydia and Web in 1869 when she was 15 years old. She stayed and helped Lydia until she married Milton Young in 1875. Milton Young was born in Easton, NH on April 7, 1851. He was the son of David Young of Canada.

In 1870 Milton bought the Zebulon Carey farm near Haverhill. It was located on Pond Road, near the Meader farm. It was here that their five children were born; Hattie, who married Ernest Thayer and gave birth to five children. Guy W., Herman I., Leslie T., who died infancy of spinabiffitea, Angeline L., and Moulton W. born just before Hattie died in 1905. He died at birth and was buried with Hattie.

Mary Jane was their second child, she married Lemuel Russell Barton and raised a family of twenty children; Earle Agustus, who married Myra A. Clark; Dora A., who after the death of her older sister Hattie, married her sisters widower, Ernest C. Thayer and raised her sister's three children. Lucea Adelaide, always called Adda and Aunt Adda, was an invalid in her later years and for three years prior to her death was in a wheel chair with rheumatism, until an attack of pneumonia carried her away in 1889

After her death Milton married a widow, Alice Swain. She was half sister to Myra Clark who was the wife of Milton's eldest son, Earle. They had two children; Maurice and Carl.

This is the Young Family. They are from left to righ, Moulton, Alice, Earle, Morris, Milton and Dora. Dora was only 6 when her mother died so the second marriage of her father was felt hardest by the little girl. She never learned to love her step-mother.

When Dora was born she only weighed about 2 pounds. It is said that when she was born they put her in a small box and put her on the window sill behind the couch. Two days later when the doctor came to check of Adda, he looked at Dora and found she was still alive so told Adda she had better feed the baby since she insisted on living. Adda was an invalid all of Dora's life. She tells of going to school with her older sisters from the time she was two years old. She had to sit quietly in the front seat while school was in session. In this way she was not a burden to her mother. She loved her mother dearly and carried her memory with her all her life.

This is Earle and Dora when she was very little.

This is the last picture of Dora with her brothers Moulton, Morris, and Carl when they came to visit her from CA.

This is Hattie as a young woman. After the turn of the century, Web's life was centered around his niece and her family. Hattie was the daughter of Lydia's sister, Addy and Milton Young. This is Milton Young as an old man. I don't have any of Addie.

This is Milton with his team of oxen.

In 1897 Hattie married Ernest Thayer.

These are their wedding pictures.

By 1900 they had two sons, Guy and Herman. This was taken in the side yard at Web's home on Main Stree in North Haverhill. They lived here untill her death in 1905.

Ernest owned a store in North Haverhill. This picture was taken in 1900. It was used on the calender of 1901 to advertize Ernest's store.

This was the store that Ernest owned and operated. >

This is the same street that Ernest's store was on but it is taken looking south from Depot Street and the other is taken looking north.

This picture was taken much later, in the 1940's, I would guess. It is important because it shows the store the my grandfather owned at the turn of the century. X marks the spot.

This is a picture of the four generations. There is Phoebe and her mother, Gram Wright, Ernest and his son, Guy.

This picture of Ernest was taken when he married Dora.

These are two pictures of Hibbard and Phoebe Thayer in their later years.

When he went lost the store the family moved to Harrisville and Ernest married Hattie's younger sister, Dora.

Milton and Addy had five children in all. Besides Hattie and Dora, there was one older sister, Mammie. Mammie married Lemuel Barton and they had 20 children. There were no twins and all except one grew to maturity. One son died of lockjaw in his late teens. When this picture was taken, there were only 19 children. Mammie was pregnant with her last child, a girl. When the baby was born they had a picture of her supperimposed into the picture and that is the baby you see in the lap of the adult girl on the left. This explains why the girl doesn't seem to pay any attention to the baby in her arms.

This is the list of the 20 children and when they were born.

This is a list of the grandchildren of Mammie and Lemuel that were born at the time this list was made about 1935.

This is Dora and Ernest's wedding picture.

This is the family in 1911 in Harrisville. There is Dora, Angie, Herman, and Guy. In the back row are two mill workers who boarded at their house and the lady is the school teacher who boarded with them also. Ernest had died in 1911 so was not in the picture

In 1917 Web died and Guy finally found a town that would let him enlist in the army.

In the 1920's both Guy and Herman married. This is Bing (Herman) and his wife Emma.

This is Guy and his wife Helen.

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go to the tools that Web would have used

go to the notes that Web left to us I have been collecting tools like the ones that Web used. Here are a few I have found.

This is a cradle reaper. It is a sythe with the cradle attached. The sythe cuts the hay and the cradle holds it so it can be dumped into a pile or wagon as it is cut.