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Title: Mary Mattoon and her hero of the revolution (General Ebenezer Mattoon)
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Walker, Alice M. (Alice Morehouse), 1855-1929
Subjects: Mattoon, Mary Dickinson, Mrs. 1758-1835 Mattoon, Ebenezer, 1755-1843
Publisher: Amherst, Mass. (Press of Carpenter & Morehouse)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ton every year to draw his pension, upon which he lived.His granddaughter, Mrs. Vannevar, mentions the factthat he visited her in Boston the spring before he died,when he must have been eighty-seven years old. He alsotravelled to Philadelphia and had a visit with Mrs. Wol-cott, his granddaughter. She found him as amusing andcheerful as of old, and heard him repeat with delight thestories which he used to tell the little East Street girl.He never repined or complained about his blindness, butsaid that he considered it to be one of the greatest bless-ings that had ever come to him. He seemed to feel thathis ambitions had for a season occupied too large a sharein his life. In 1840 Levi Stockbridge heard General Mattoon speakin College Hall at the time of the Harrison campaign.In ringing tones the old Revolutionary hero of eighty-fivedeclared that if he had a son who would not vote forHarrison he would disown him. The old soldier was notdead yet! Henry Jackson remembered that when there /
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BURIAL LOT IN WEST CEMETERY. Her Hero of the Revottitioii 8i was some trouble in the East Street school, the blind oldGeneral came over, and rapping violently with his cane,said, I have come to see about this ! This quelled thedisturbance. A party of boys were playing ball east ofthe Generals house. The General appeared and shakinghis cane ordered them to leave. They ran away sofrightened that two boys tried to get through the samehole in the fence and one had to back out. The com-manding voice and figure compelled obedience thoughthe old man was blind and helpless. Sept. 12, 1843, we find in the Hampshire Gazette: Another hero gone. It becomes our melancholy dutyto record the death of another revolutionary patriot.General Ebenezer Mattoon departed this life in Amherstyesterday afternoon, Sept. 11, at 4 oclock, after a sick-ness of about four weeks. Mrs. Vannevar says: Grandfather died in the oldhouse and my mother (the wife of his son Ebenezer)took care of him. He was sick from the 4

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