PECK, G.G.
[Source: Middletown Daily
Times-Press. Monday, August 29, 1910 Middletown, New York]
COUPLE AT 86 WEDDED 63 YEARS
Mr. and Mrs. G. G. Peck of Delaware
County, are to Celebrate
One of the
pleasures of life is to see and admire the beautiful as represented
in old age, and, when we see a couple hale, hearty and happy at the
age of eighty-six
years, and about to celebrate their sixty-third
wedding anniversary, surrounded by
children and grandchildren well
may we say their life has been successful, and the
couple are
distinguished citizens. Such is the record of Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester G.
Peck, whom the Times-Press representative lately had the pleasure of
meeting at
their home in Granton, Delaware
county.
Mr. Peck was born in Manless,
Chenango county, May 22, 1825, is the only one
living of seven
children, the average age of the sixth at death, having been 72 years.
They were William, Phebe, Orange, Polly, Samuel and Emma, all of
whom lived and died
in Delaware county. Mrs. Peck is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Lyman Dibble, and was
born in Cortright, Delaware
county, October 12, 1824. She was married to David W.
Foster at
Cannonsville, in 1842. Mr. Foster died in 1843, leaving a son, George D.
Foster, who was a veteran of the Civil War, who died in Binghamton,
in 1907, leaving
a widow, Dolly Owens, of Cannonsville, and two
sons, Willis and Fred, and a grandson,
Ray, son of Fred. Mr. and
Mrs. Peck were married at Cannonsville, Delaware county,
May 18,
1848, and there had five children: Robert, who died in 1881; Emma, who
died
in 1882; Charles A., Willis G. and Horace G.
Charles A. married Harriett Wakeman. They
have four children: Vesey. Robert,
Anna and Hildred. Charles has a
very productive farm which joins his
father’s.
Willis G. married Ada Grant, of
Granton. Willis is also a well-to-do farmer and
has land joining
that of his father. Horace G. Peck married Alice Loveless of Granton.
They have four children: Abel, Kennon, June and Mildred. Horace is
one of the best
known farmers in Delaware county, having over 200
acres: an extensive maple bush, with
an equipment costing over $500,
from which he annually produces over 200 gallons of
syrup, and about
200 pounds of sugar. Mr. Peck makes the syrup and sugar under a
practical and scientific principle and never allows the syrup to
weigh over eleven
pounds to the gallon. At this weight the syrup
does not sugar and will always remain
in excellent condition. Horace
also has a fine herd of Jersey cows and there may be a
better
cow-dog than Dash, a collie, but we doubt it. At the word, “cows,” Dash
will
start after the animals and going through the fields for a half
mile will drive home
every cow. At one exhibition of his
intelligence he was told to bring the cows and
leave the calves in
the pasture. He did so and when the calves attempted to follow
the
cows he without any command drove them back.
Mr. Peck, Sr. has been a member of the M.E. Church at Cannonsville 70
years and
Mrs. Peck, a member of the Baptist Church, Cannonsville
since 1843. Mr. and Mrs. Peck
have lived on the present farm for 47
years; have always been active in church work
and are so beloved by
their neighbors that many never fail to call daily and several
always present the dear old folks with beautiful
flowers.
