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THE ATTIC |
1897 FIFE & DRUM CORPS: Killingworth, Conn.
 Members of the Killingworth Fife & Drum Corps
gathered on the steps of the Branford Congregational
Church in 1897 for this photo. Joining Drum Major Charles
Redfield, front and center, were four members of family.
Over the centuries in Killingworth, Parmelee men often were drummers who summoned the faithful to church and served in military units. As late as the 1990s, one member of the family was a bell-ringer at the local Congregational Church. |
| Top row: Andrew Legere, left,
Arthur Parmelee with a drum, Charles Wilcox to the right of the drum major, Oscar Stevens, G. Redfield with a drum and Wilber Kelsey. Bottom row: Melvin Stevens, left,
Elmer Parmelee with a drum, Bert Davis with a drum, |