Clarks, Stevens, Moores and other matters

A Colloquy

Sharry Stevens and Margie Clark Towle

Sharry Stevens

“I understand that Rosa Duncan Sharpe Stevens, was the college classmate or roommate of one of the Moore family.  Although I don't have any definitive proof of the connection, found a picture of Barbara Moore of Sunnyledge New Britain, Connecticut, in Rosa's yearbook The 1916 Vassarion.  Penciled underneath was the  name Mrs. Maurice Pease.  I believe Rosa and her husband Yale Stevens were invited to buy property in Harthaven.  Maybe there is a Moore or Pease that can confirm this.

 

They bought the piece of property at 241 Sea View Ave and summered there.  Eventually the properly was split.  Her daughter Margaret Sharpe Stevens Clark, my Aunt Peg, got the piece with the house.  Her son, my Dad, got the other piece at 9 Farm Pond Rd, where he built the house called "The Beehive" in 1949.  There was a well worn trail between the two houses. 

 

Simeon and Ann Hyde bought property at about the same time. Sim was a high school and college friend of my fathers'.  They were Aunt Ann and Uncle Sim to me and Patty Pease was Aunt Martha,(was Barbara her mother?). 

Margie Clark Towle:

Rosa Stevens was a Vassar] friend of Barb Moore Pease and she used to visit with the Peases before buying Eddy's (?) house in HH. Patty Pease and mom [Peggy Stevens Clark] became fast friends through their vineyard days together. They used to ride Patty's [Martha] pony, "Tarbaby" all through the farmland which is now Farm Neck. Peggy was good friends with all of Martha's brothers, especially on the Edgartown golf course.  Patty, as we knew her as kids, used to drive us [Ben and Margie Clark, Jeff Young, Beth Hyde, Kim Abbot....have I left anyone out?] all over the island in her Nash Rambler convertible, choosing suitable sights for her once a week art class with us - Menemsha, Brick Factory, Chilmark Church....  We always stopped for ice cream cones afterwards!!  Another memory:  one summer, our gang of cousins and neighborhood friends built a raft with uncle Bills "raw materials." We painted it bright pink and called our club HACS or CASH [I think Beth Hyde’s choice]...the initials stood for C lark, A bbot, S tevens, H yde]....if some of the younger members of these families don't remember, you were probably excluded because you were too young,  SORRY...  

Ben Clark and Jeff Young - above

Ben Clark at Crab Pond Below

c. 1945