The Dec. 13, 1935 edition of the Somerville Journal ran an article on Miss Simpson. It was part of a series on the oldest living Somerville natives. Abby Paulina Simpson was born in 1846. At this time Somerville had only been a separate town for five short years. She spent her whole life on her family farm. Her father, Jesse, had moved from Belmont in the 1840's to work on the farm he would later purchase. The farm produced fruits, vegetables and cattle.
This farm extended from Broadway to the Cambridge line and from and from the city ledge to Wallace St.. They lived in several house on the property at different times. She was born in an eight room house on Broadway opposite the old Walnut Hill Primary school. Later this house was replaced by a more modern one on the south side of Broadway half way between Powderhouse Sq. and Teele Sq. When the property was sub-divided she moved to a house at 10 Paulina St. on the corner of Holland st. Miss Simpson still lived there at the time of the story. One of the memories she recalled for the Journal was how soldiers at Camp Cameron often made raids on her fathers farm stealing his vegetables. In her words "The soldiers were raising the old boy all the time." A lot of the stolen squashes would be recovered after the soldiers moved south.
DAN SULLIVAN
This farm extended from Broadway to the Cambridge line and from and from the city ledge to Wallace St.. They lived in several house on the property at different times. She was born in an eight room house on Broadway opposite the old Walnut Hill Primary school. Later this house was replaced by a more modern one on the south side of Broadway half way between Powderhouse Sq. and Teele Sq. When the property was sub-divided she moved to a house at 10 Paulina St. on the corner of Holland st. Miss Simpson still lived there at the time of the story. One of the memories she recalled for the Journal was how soldiers at Camp Cameron often made raids on her fathers farm stealing his vegetables. In her words "The soldiers were raising the old boy all the time." A lot of the stolen squashes would be recovered after the soldiers moved south.
DAN SULLIVAN
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