Lucy Cutler

1781 - 1853  (~ 72 years)

• Name	Lucy Cutler
  Born	Jan 1780/81	Guildhall, Vermont
  Gender	Female
  Died	28 Nov 1853	Carlisle, Lorain County, Ohio
  Buried	Oberlin, Ohio
  Notes	Letter addressed to: Mrs. Lucy Bassett, Napoli, Cattaraugus Co., N.Y. (Postmarked Oberlin, O., Nov. 29) Russia, Nov. 25th, 1847 My dear grandmother We have been reading a letter from Uncle Gordon tonight and it made us think of you all so much that I thought I must write to you. One year ago you and Grandfather were here with us to eat Thanksgiving supper--tonight we ate alone--not in silence though for we had enough to talk about. Uncle Gordon and Aunt Jane are expected here in the Spring and that makes us feel very happy just now. We want to know if you and Grandpa are not coming to You don't know how much we want to see you -- sometimes I sit a think just how you used to look when you sat in the corner smoking your pipe - and Grandpa when he walked in with a stack of wood on his arm. But I must tell you all about our affairs. It has been very wet this fall but not cold. Pa will finish husking corn tomorrow if pleasant. They will have nearly fi hundred bushels of ears. Pretiss says tell Grandpa that the piece of old ground north of the barn will have 90 bushels of shelled corn to the acre (at that rate he moans there is not quite an acre in the piece). Uncle Kenaston has purchased Esq. Fletcher farm and father expects to work that next year. We have had our old chimney taken down and the room plastered with lime - a new door made - which makes it very warm. Pa has got one of Stewart's air tight cooking stoves. Ma says she can sit down without having her 'elbows' cold now. She is weaving as usual - her health is better than when Aunt Jane was here. Uncle Mathews has not moved into his new house yet - they expect to soon - Aunt Laura was here last week - said she wanted to go to Elyria to get paper to paper the dining room and bed room when they should moved. You will think it strange perhaps that I am at home now - when I was teaching school when our friends were here. I had to leave on account of sickness. This was a severe trial - for I had hoped to teach all winter - but it was not so to be. I have been home six weeks and have not been as far as the gate in the time. I was almost sick when Aunt Jane was here - but I tried to get over it - and I thought I should until I commenced haveing chills and fever. The last time I went from home to my school I shook all the way from home there. I had a chill three mornings in succession when I concluded I had got the ague like all the rest - and Uncle David went for the Doctor. He said I was threatened with a fever but had nothing of the ague - gave me an enormous dose of calomel which with other things broke the fever up - b still I had a dredful pain in my head and side and should have coughed all the time if it had not hurt me so badly. They examined my lungs with their instruments and hurt me very much trying to find the most tender places in my spine - at last they came to the conclusion that the spinal marrow was diseased and was injureing my lungs. I was told that I must have an issue made on the spine or near it or I would never get well - if I would have it done they thought it might help me. I consented to have it done because I thought anything to get well. So you see they burned a place with caustic - which was not a very cool operation. I can assure you I told them I would scream as loud as I could - but I kept waiting to have it hurt a little more - till it was over with - and then I thought it would not do any good. It is more than five weeks since it was made and it is not one bit better yet - and not likely to be very soon. My health is much better than it was and so I will be patient. I cannot read aloud any length of time without my voice failing me almost entirely. I see I have written a great deal about "I" - perhaps you will think I am getting to be like Aunt Sally Hall - but I don't want quite so much "tea" yet - nor write any "poetry" for the "Dear brethern and sistern." Cynthia is married and gone to Cleveland to live. Her husband is just as old again as she is - forty seven and seven children - she is his third wife. He looks quite young and smart - they had a great wedding. There were near sixty there. Mrs. Stevens says she feels Cynthia has got a good husband and a good home. They have been out twice to spend the Sabbath. Catherine is at home - there is some talk that she is going to be married to a man younger than she is. Week before last Aunt Hall - Abigail and Permeliua came to see us. They were all as well as usual. Abigail cannot walk without assistance yet. Heman has taken a school in Sandusky City - has thirty dollars per mont George is "whistling about town" and thinks he is rich enough not to teach this winter. I suppose you will have the 'exquisite' pleasure of seeing the "Right Hon. Bill McCollom" who hails from Fredonia. He promised to let us know when he was to leave but he did not - I presume he had more important business to attend. Nov. 26. It is snowing beautifully today the first we have had this year. I do hope we shall have more sleighing this winter than we did last and th shall be able to enjoy it. There has been quite a number of deaths since you left here - as many as six or seven students through the summer and fall with fever most of them typhus. Diana Hull (Dea. Hulls' daughter) has been sick for a long time & I expect she is not liveing. We heard they did not expect she could live through Sabbath day - have not heard since. Her disease w enlargement of the heart. Mr. McRoberts died this fall in Pittsfield. He had been a very wicked man all his life. He was converted after he was taken sick. Mrs. Bacon was there a great deal and she said she never saw so great a change in any person before. He suffered great pain haveing one lung entirely decayed and the other partially before he died - the only way he could breathe was to have the air kept in motion all the time night and day with a fan before his face while he was propped up in bed with pillows. But he never complained - instead of that he would thank the Lord for every pain he had. He left a wife and seven sons. Leavitts Penfield has been sick this fall - his leg had to be opened twice and the bone appears to be diseased the whole length of it - for some time his back was very bad which rendered him perfectly helpless. "Proffessor Beam" is our nearest neighbor now and we see some of the sisterhood with the old teapot pretty often - they pop their heads into the door and say "Mother wants some milk today" or "Please Mother like a piece of butter today" their politness increasing according to the value of t article wanted. But they are not as troublesome as we expecte Now I believe I have told you all about friend and foes and if you will get Grandpa to write and tell him all the news we shall feel much pleased. Give my love to Grandma Clark and tell her I will write to her the next time the spirit moves. How does "little" Mr. Bassett look, will he be as hansome as Harriet is. Tell Aunt Jane if they don't come we shall be very much disappointed indeed for we all want to visit her in her own house and I am thinking she will see me pretty often - perhaps she will not like my family visits but I shant mind that. My love to all the friends. This from your affectionate granddaughter Harriet Clark
  Person ID	I02668	1A William Bassett of Plymouth
  Last Modified	14 Jul 2016

  
  

  Father	Captain Benoni Cutler,   d. Deceased
  Mother	Laurana Leavens,   d. Deceased
  Family ID	F01225	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Joel Bassett,   b. 29 Oct 1781, Oakham, Massachusetts ,   d. 26 Nov 1859, Inland, Cedar county, Iowa  (Age 78 years)
  Married	Guildhall, Vermont
  Children	1. Jane Bassett,   b. 1801,   d. Deceased  [Natural] + 2. Sarah Bassett,   b. 1803,   d. Deceased  [Natural]   3. Mary Bassett,   b. 6 Jun 1805, Granby, Vermont ,   d. 14 Apr 1881, Tabor, Iowa  (Age 75 years) + 4. Erastus L. Bassett,   b. 11 Jul 1807,   d. 20 Nov 1888, Inland, Iowa  (Age 81 years)  [Natural]   5. Laura Bassett,   d. Deceased  [Natural] + 6. Persis C. Bassett,   b. 5 Apr 1817, Brattleboro, Vermont ,   d. 1 Oct 1890, Randolph, New York  (Age 73 years)  [Natural]   7. Elizabeth Bassett,   b. 1822,   d. Deceased  [Natural]   8. Melinda Bassett,   b. 1824,   d. Deceased  [Natural]   9. Mary Orpha Bassett,   b. 13 Jun 1825,   d. Deceased  [Natural]
  Family ID	F01224	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart