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"Hume Shimpan [8] was one of the few men who could give one something of the atmosphere of pioneer days in this section. As a boy, Hume had been a chum of his grandfather Israel Shipman, who was born in 1816 in a log cabin on the Job Shipman farm. As a boy Hume had run his plow against the stones of Job's fireplace. Hume tells how Israel enjoyed the forced drill of his State Militia because it gave him opportunity to practice his fife. Isreal wore a sash as a mark of his rank as Fife Major and trained all the Fife and Drum Corps of his Regiment. Nearly all of Isreal's descendants inherited his musical ability. Isreal told Hume how he once ran across a deer, lassoed it, and tied it to a tree until he could kill it for food. As a boy, Isreal said he joined other boys in watching for rattlers coming out of hibernation in the spring and killing all they could find."
Albion, New York newspapers.
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