— A Southwick Time Machine Original | Tribute     Sylvester Lambert Meagher, Jr., married Marion Grace Chambers in a single-ring service at St. Mary’s Rectory in Westfield, Massachusetts, on November 28, 1929. For their honeymoon, they traveled to Washington, D.C. Upon their return on December 15, 1929, they made their home at 41 Pochassic Street before eventually moving to 9 and then later 42 Montgomery Street. Sylvester Jr. had to return as he was called to report for jury duty for the trial of cases of the Superior Court criminal sitting on Monday, December 23, 1929. That same year, Sylvester Jr. became manager of the grocery department at the First National Stores on Elm Street in Westfield. Marion was a telephone exchange operator. (First National Stores grew into a major New England supermarket chain. It eventually became Finast. The final Finast store closed in 1993.)   A First National Stores, Inc. grocery store (location unknown) as seen in 1928   In ...

  — A Southwick Time Machine Original | Tribute Felix H. Robtoy married Eileen M. Baker in the bride’s hometown of St. Albans, Vermont, on April 26, 1941. The ceremony was a joyful spring occasion. The bride carried Easter lilies and wore a princess-style white satin gown with a long tulle veil. Following the wedding, the newlyweds traveled to New York City, Boston, and Springfield, Massachusetts, for their honeymoon before moving to 2994 Main Street in Springfield to begin their married life. On November 19, 1942, they welcomed their first child, Donna Ann. Donna’s proud parents took her on a trip to Vermont for a few days on May 4, 1943, to meet her paternal grandparents. In 1946, a second daughter, Doreen Jean, was born. Not long afterward, the young family relocated to 19 Prospect Street in Westfield, Massachusetts, where they would put down deeper roots. Several years later, on November 4, 1951, a son, Wayne J. Robtoy, completed the Robtoy family. They later moved nearby to 4 ...

 📜 UNEARTHED — This story has been reconstructed from scattered reports and archival fragments. — A Southwick Time Machine Original This story continues the account of the Stiles family of Southwick, Massachusetts, following the life of Jason Elbridge Stiles’s son, whose name briefly appears in Criminal Intimacy: The Southwick Scandal of 1888 .   Troubled Inheritance The Life of Jason Lewis Stiles Jason Lewis Stiles, the son of Jason Elbridge Stiles and Hattie (Stevens) Ladd Stiles, was born on October 5, 1893, in Southwick, Massachusetts. Like his father, he became a carpenter and was connected with the Berkshire Ice Company. His adult life, however, was repeatedly marked by legal trouble and violence. On November 30, 1912, Miss Lillian M. Elsey of Southwick brought a statutory action against Stiles. A Westfield District Court judge ordered him held for the superior court. When his father died in 1915, Jason L. Stiles - still a young man - was given his father’s horse. ...