Ethel Tibbets York
New Ipswich Historical Society
Ethel with her enormous cat - 1968
On this day - October 9, 1897
William Jurian Kaula diary - no entry
On this day - October 9, 1908
James Roger diary entry
9th (Friday)
Cloudy morning fine day. Wind W. to S.E. David and Henry Royce at John Preston’s cabin. I fixed the Davis lot and seeded it down and sowed grass on Marshall lot, and took some soil up to Gordon lot. Mrs. Lowe called today.
Mildred Elvira Hastings (additional information)
Born Nov 7, 1891 and died Mar 12, 1990 in West Paris, Maine. Obituary states she was buried in Central Cemetery. She also was a the Vice-President of the New Ipswich Historical Society.
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Nice write-up on Mildred. I enjoy these little mental escapes into New Ipswich's past. It's either because I'm old, or I now have time to spare, or both. I'm always amazed to learn how talented & interesting some NI residents were. I took them for granted and never knew their. I worked with WWI and WWII veterans for example and never knew their past. One of the them I knew only as Mack. Never knew his last. He was the night watchman at Tricnit. There are many NI residents that I came into contact with as a young man and never asked them about their past. What a missed opportunity!
So now I enjoy reading these NI Historical Society bio briefs of people that were part of my daily life in the 40s, 50s, and 60s.
Ethel's cat reminds me of a cat I rescued in 1973. It was a 22 lb white male shorthair that had been donated to Columbia's College of Physicians & Surgeons for research. The name on the cage in the animal room was Skeeker. It had been an apartment cat. It became a NJ housecat and companion for my 2 children. I discovered it in the animal room because I had rabbits in that room that were part of my MG research, I never used cats in research.