♀ Martha WASHBURN
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Stepen Thayer and Martha when they settled in the Glades already hada
family of nine children. They built a comfortable log house and cleared
the land. The women spun and wove flax for table cloths, towels, ticking
and summer clothing, and wool for winter wear. Their school was at
Rinehart and the store at Red House, kept by a man named Caston. Salt
was brought on pack horses from Cumberland or from the Big Kanawha salt
works. Every family made its own sugar from the abundant maple trees.
Here the pioneer Thayer passed away in 1842, and his wife following him
in 1865. They were buried in theMcCarty graveyard, but about 1885 their
remains were removed to the Oakland cemetery, where a suitable monument
on the Thayer plot marks their resting place.
There were seven daughters are said to have been the prettiest dancers
and the best cooks in Western Maryland, long years old. Six of them
married and reared large families. When Martha Thayer died in 1865, it
is said she left 165 descendants.
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