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Title: Thomas Solley and his descendants, the story of a hunt for an ancestor
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Solley, George Willis. 1n
Subjects: Solley family
Publisher: (Fitchburg, Mass.) E.J. Morgan
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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hewas twenty-one, at four dollars a month, to Cyrus Tuttle,who lived on this very estate. In the course of time he mar-ried Mr. Tuttles daughter, a most capable and efficient youngwoman. He went to live in his present house at Georges Hillin 1833, and afterwards inherited the property from, his father-in-law. Though now in his eighty-second year, age seemed tohave told but little upon him. I can drive a horse as well asyou can, said he to John Todd Andrews, and I have alwaysdone my own mowing with the machine until this year, whenmy son would not let me. As we made this interesting trip,Mr. Gray interspersed the conversation with quaint sayings.Speaking of horses being hard to manage and trying onestemper, he said, A mad man and a mad horse, is two badthings to get together. He was very desirous that we shouldobserve some fine stone walls near the house, which he toldus he had built of huge boulders taken by oxen from the sur-rounding meadow. Some of these stones weighed as much as 20
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G. W. SOLLEY A.ND E. J.MORGAN AT THE GRAVE, 1909. RESETTING THE GRAVESTON OF THOMAS SOLLBY, 1905. HIS DESCENDANTS six tons, and were moved several rods with two yoke of cattle.One immense corner stone he moved with three yoke, and soexactly had he calculated it that one turn of the huge boulderhad put it in the place where it had since lain. We lookedastonished at the great wall, and when I asked him how hedid it, he replied, By knowing just what to do, and thendoing it. Here was a man a whole biography of successin himself, a lesson stronger than a whole volume of sermons.A man who though isolated in a lonesome and difficult regionto cultivate, upon the mountain top far removed from growingtowns and cities, with no facilities of the railroads, ormodern influences; who, although surrounded by change, de-generation and decay, and the trend of modern progress sweep-ing away from him, still kept good health, lived wholesomely,thought nobly; who had dared great things and accomplishedthem

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