The pages above are from Adin Ballou's History of Milford. |
The Gaskill Family of Hopedale, Mendon and Milford, Massachusetts More on the Gaskills in Mendon Memories Menu HOME . |
realized that although they were primarily interested in separating the village of Hopedale, they'd need more area than that to comprise a town. To do that, they proposed an area that included what had long been known as South Milford. Many of the residents of that section probably had no particular interest in becoming part of the new town. Recruiting Lewis Gaskill to become a selectman was likely, in part at least, a way of making South Milford residents feel that they weren't being totally neglected. |
Gaskill and Gould stones at Bicknell Cemetery, Hartford Avenue East, Mendon. |
Portraits of Gaskill girls, Bancroft Memorial Library. |