Robert B. Walker

New Ipswich Historical Society

Robert B. Walker

Resident of Gibson Village.

Update on Gibson Village Group

Names for the the folks in the following photo that was posted yesterday.

Back Row - Emma Wheeler, Mrs. Myron Taylor, Ella Walker, Nettie Whittemore, Abbie Howe, Lena Walker. Second Row - Mrs. Clark Ober, Caroline Francis Jones, Mrs W. O. Cabett, Mrs. S.E. Howe. Seated Arthur Wheeler, Unknown, May Haldah Howe, Milton Howe

Newspaper Clipping

PERSONAL PROPERTY AT AUCTION IN NEW IPSWICH, N. H.

Saturday, Nov. 18, 1933 AT 12.30 O'CLOCK

At the home of the late John Parmenter on the Daniel Farwell farm on the road leading from Smith Village to the old New Ipswich poor farm.

The goods are partly listed below: 1 Savage rifle, 1 Marlin safety rifle, 1 single-barrel shotgun, 1 double- barrel shotgun, 2 revolvers. All are in good condition. 100 traps of all sizes and description, one-half of them brand new, 2 pair snowshoes, fishing reels, lot of carpenter and mason tools, including saws, planes, hammers, bits, etc., carpenter bench, 1 vise, 2 chests, several flashlights, 1 cot bed, bedding, clothing, 1 Glenwood range, 1 parlor stove, 1 oil stove, 3 antique chairs, kitchen utensils, lamps, 25 lbs. sugar, 10 bu. of potatoes, 1 boat in good condition, 8 hives of Italian bees, 2 clocks, 2 watches, 1 ladder hook, ladders, roofing paper, scythes, snaths, rakes, shovels, axes, forks, and many miscellaneous articles.

Terms cash. Sale positive.

WALTER S. THAYER, Administrator.

Note: John Parmenter died September 22, 1933 (suicide)

James Roger diary entries

5th September 1912

Fair and cloudy; wind going west. David ploughing at Chauncey Perry’s in forenoon and choring round after, harrowing in incubator field, pulling grapes & working on signboards. I swept Vestry and filled laps in Hall, etc.; went to Mail. Got p.c. from Hamish and paper with report of Election petitions. Sewing Circle today and Church supper. Lighted Hall lamps by mistake. Mrs. Spofford & S. Brown having practice in Church.