Vermont
Books Available From Rebecca Woodbury Tucker
I’ve gone out of business, but still
have a few of my Ludlow VT
Cemetery books, as well as my indexes to the Baltimore
and Ludlow
Histories (old issues). This list
is what I used to have. Please
contact me if there are any you’d like to have, I’ll see if I still
have it..
Cemetery Inscriptions in Ludlow Vermont
History of Ludlow, Vermont,
Joseph N. Harris
History of the Town of Baltimore VT
with Separate Index
The Sons of Caroline Brown &
James Brown Tucker
Hemenway’s Local History of Andover VT
1886 (Photocopy)
A History of Black River Academy
Historical Markers on the Crown Point Road
INDEX
for 3rd Edition of Joseph N. Harris’ History of Ludlow Vermont
INDEX
for Annie M. Pollard’s History of Baltimore
Vermont
Rev. McClintock’s Journal 1759 (See Crown Point Road
web site for description.)
Descriptions of books are below, and
payment & shipping instructions are at bottom.
Cemetery Inscriptions in Ludlow
Vermont
- While researching the
ancestry of James, William, & Frederick Tucker who came to Ludlow
from Massachusetts and Nova Scotia in early 1900, I formed an
interest in old cemeteries. With
encouragement from the Vermont Old Cemetery Association (VOCA), I began to copy
the gravestone inscriptions in my own town in 1995 before time, the elements,
and vandalism made it impossible.
Genealogists
and historians who are researching ancestors in the Ludlow area will find Cemetery
Inscriptions In Ludlow Vermont a useful reference volume in conjunction
with the usual
town and state vital records.
This 492-page collection holds more
than 8,000 names of persons who died and/or were buried in Ludlow.
In many cases, information is included about birthplaces, parents, and
other family members of those who died in Ludlow
1795 through 1998. There are two
indexes, one for persons buried, the other for maiden names and family member
mentioned on stones, but not necessarily buried here.
During my copying of
the (sometimes hard to decipher) stones commemorating the lives and deaths of
more than 8,000 persons, I was referring constantly to Joseph N. Harris’ History
of Ludlow, Vermont. An
index to that book was a natural outcome from this use of the book as a
reference. Ludlow’s History is now available with
that index bound inside.
I’ve
also got Annie M. Pollard’s History of the Town of Baltimore VT and an index to it that I prepared. The 1954 history was reprinted by the
Vermont Historical Society in 1994.
Vermont towns are, as a rule, a
six-mile square on the map, but Baltimore was
cut off from its original town of Cavendish
(established 1761) by Hawks
Mountain, so they formed
their own town in 1793. Many of the
first settlers of the town came from Lunenburg MA. This book has much local genealogy and
photographs, with family names PIPER, LELAND, WOODBURY, FOSTER, LITCH, SHERWIN,
many more. Baltimore
also borders on towns of Weathersfield, Chester
and Springfield. This book is 6” by 9”, paperback,
dark blue cover, 208 pages.
Includes extra, separately published 2004 index of all names with 51
pages. Both NEW
The Sons of Caroline Brown & James Brown Tucker is a small family history of the Ludlow
Vermont Tuckers and some of their ancestors, including family names Doyle,
Stromberg, Hill, Cole, Benson, Wyatt, Baker, Frost, Pierce and Warner.
A town history is
made infinitely better if it has an index.
If you are looking for your family names in Ludlow or Baltimore,
or if you already have the history.
- INDEX
for 3rd Edition of Joseph N. Harris’ History of Ludlow Vermont
- INDEX
for Annie M. Pollard’s History of Baltimore Vermont
I also have a few photocopies of Local
History of Andover VT 1886, Abby Maria Hemenway, Ed.
This is a General History of the town by Hiland
H. Gutterson, Town Clerk, with an autobiography of
the Founder of the Adams Express, other biographical Sketches, Abby Maria Hemenway,
editor, 95 pages. Miss Hemenway did not live long enough to publish her famous
Historical Gazetteer for her home county – Windsor, and her manuscripts
were burned in a fire. But Andover was special, as
members of her early family, the Bartons, settled
there. This photocopy of the
original includes several lithographs of early settlers, including that of Miss
Hemenway’s mother Abigail Barton. Lots of genealogy. Family names: ADAMS, WARNER, BARTON, many others. This information is not included
in the CD of Miss Hemenway’s works put out by
the Genealogical Society of Vermont.
It is used as a source in Carleton E. Fisher’s Soldiers, Sailors, and Patriots of the Revolutionary War
Vermont. New. Bound in a 3-ring
binder.
A HISTORY of BLACK
RIVER ACADEMY
(Ludlow Vermont)
As Seen Through Various Publications.
Publisher William L. Bryant Foundation 1972 with preface by Milton G.
Moore, President Black River Academy Historical Society. BRA is the alma mater of President
Calvin Coolidge, who graduated in 1890.
John Garibaldi Sargent, a U. S. Attorney
General graduated in 1883.
The last class to graduate was that of 1938, when a new high school of
the same name was built on lower Main
Street.
Today the school is home of the Black River Academy
Museum.
This is a great book
for researching graduates, principals and teachers as many lists of students
and instructors from the 1870s on up are listed here, showing the years they
attended and, in many instances, their home towns. The light gray cover shows the first Black River Academy building engraved by Sarah E.
Washburn in 1836, quite like it looks today. This book is new, paperback, 8.5”
by 5.5,” 150 pages, but the center staples have rusted.
RAMBLING REMINISCENCES
Springfield Vermont Richard Whitcomb, self-published, A Wonderful Collection of
One Man’s Memories. This is a
lively collection of 86 articles on living and farming in Springfield
(Windsor County)
Vermont from
the date of Whitcomb’s birth in 1911 and before. Some of these stories were published in
the Springfield Reporter over the years. Some titles are Crossing Ashley’s
Ferry, Harvesting Ice, Lindbergh’s Visit, The 1938 Hurricane, Taverns of
Old Springfield, Monument Hill, Harvesting Wood, Dispensers of Lacteal Fluids,
The Russian Orphanage. No
genealogy, but many old Springfield
family names remembered: BARNARD,
BUGBEE, GOULD, LaFOUNTAIN, ESTEY, KENTFIELD, CUTLER,
WHITCOMB, GUTTERSON, BISHOP, many more. 86 pp 8.5 by 11” paper and
plastic comb binding. I have one
copy left, but Richard Whitcomb died June 14, 2007.
Also a few NEW 2004 Crown Point Road
Markers book for $21.
Follow the old 1759 – 1760 Road from Charlestown
NH through Windsor,
Rutland, Addison counties across Lake Champlain
to Crown Point NY
Shipping will be via media mail (4th
class) unless requested otherwise, and you add another few dollars to the
check.
Make your
check out to Rebecca W. Tucker and send to 72 Paddock Road, Springfield
VT 05156-9132
Updated Thursday, October 15, 2009 7:41:18 AM
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