Correspondent photo / Sean Barron

ABOVE: Arlo Sirochman, dressed as Thankful Ford Humason, shares information about the Humason family, who settled in the area from Connecticut in the 1800s during a walk through Paynes Corners Cemetery on Saturday in Brookfield. BROOKFIELD — Many Alderman family members made the nearly 500-mile trek to Trumbull County from Connecticut, but they didn’t have the luxuries of a car, motel, plane or elaborate highway system.

“I am not sure what exact route they took, but the most popular way from Connecticut was to walk across New Jersey to Philadelphia, then to Pittsburgh and to Youngstown and Warren. This trip took about five or six weeks,” Marilyn Lees-Yensick of the Brookfield Historical Society, said.

En route to the Vienna and Brookfield areas in 1804,

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