In our ninth “A Glimpse of the Past” with The Barton Chronicle, we told a story about historic families in Orleans County with four photos. These pictures show:

(1) The Town of Albany, Vermont Band assembled for Old Home Week 1906.

(2) The family of Mr. William Henry Hayden II circa 1890 Back row left to right: Unknown, Carrie Hayden. Front row left to right: Mrs. Henry Hayden, Mr. Henry Hayden, Mamie Hayden. Mamie was the last of the Hayden family passing away impoverished in Maine in 1927, and fulfilling her great grandmother’s curse.

(3) The Infamous Hayden House of which much has been written regarding a curse put on the family by Merci Dale, the mother-in-law of the first William Hayden, that foretold the family would die out in poverty in the third generation.

(4) Members of the Sanders and Rogers families posing for pictures at the Hayden House while on a picnic in 1919. Ancestors of the Rogers family had taken in Merci Dale prior to her death, when she thought her son-in-law was poisoning her in order to get her money.