Riverview Cemetery Life Stories in Order

      Area 1

Allen Francis Wheeler     (1879-1952)(R1 #3), son of Henry W. Wheeler and Mary Ingraham Adams,  married, IN 1908,  Ethel Mae Purinton (1882-1922)(R1 #4) and they had Paul Purinton Wheeler(1916-1964)(R1 #1) and Francis Adams Wheeler (b. 1919). In 1940 Paul  was living with his father, a mechanical engineer in a textile mill and had been an inspector of government vessels.  Paul was an artist and married Maxine Crooker Wheeler(1919-1996)(R1 #2) who was the daughter of Harold Oliver Crooker. Allen had a brother Carl who died young.

(R1 #5) Purinton Monument

Charles Thompson(1789-1866)(R1 #6)married Anne E. Purinton Thompson (1802-1873)(R1 #6) They had: Emery Thompson(1822-1826)(R1 #6) Stone laid by Sarah A. Thompson  1907; Charles W. Thompson (1824-1880)(R1 #6) ; Sarah A. Thompson (1826-1913)(R1 #6) Eugene Thompson (1828 – 1850)(R1 #6); Humphrey P Thompson (1838 – 1903)( R1 #6);Henry H Thompson (1841 -1917)(R1 #6) and Emery P. Thompson (1831-1876)(R2 #6).  Charles Woodbury Thompson (1824-1880). Charles was married in 1849 in Topsham where he was born and died. He married Jane Hunter Whitney who had been born in (1829) Lubec, Maine and died (1866) in Topsham, Maine.  He also married Ann Eugenia Thompson (1853) in Topsham and died (1919). She had been married to Edwin Albert Scribner. In October 1873 there was an estate action by the Court:

”The plaintiffs who were foreign bankers having accounts with Charles Thompson of Kennebunk Me and also with Charles Thompson of Topsham, Me by mistake credited on their books to Charles Thompson of Topsham the defendant’s intestate a considerable sum received by them instead of to Charles Thompson of Kennebunk to whom it belonged. Before either account was settled Charles Thompson of Topsham died and his original administrator as such drew from the plaintiffs all the funds standing on their books to the credit of his intestate including the amount erroneously credited as above neither party being aware of the error. Subsequently the original administrator resigned and the defendant was appointed administrator de bonis non Afterwards on settlement of the account of Charles Thompson of Kennebunk the error was discovered and thereupon the plaintiffs brought this action against the defendant as administrator de bonis non to recover the amount erroneously paid to the original administrator. The defendant contended that the only claim of the plaintiffs was against the original administrator personally and that the action did not lie. SC Strout HW Gage for plaintiffs William L Putnam for defendant Shepley J. Whatever property or money is lawfully recovered or received by the executor or administrator after the death of his testator or intestate in virtue of his representative character he holds as assets of the estate and he is liable therefor in such representative character to the party who has a good title thereto This doctrine was established by the Supreme Court of the United States after full consideration of the conflicting cases upon the subject in the case of De Valengiris AdmWs v Duffy 14 Pet 283 290 This money was deposited with the plaintiffs and was placed on their books to the credit of the intestate prior to his decease and so stood at and after his decease No one but the personal representative of Charles Thompson could withdraw the funds and it was the duty of his administrator to collect the balance which he found standing to the credit of his intestate In the absence of any knowledge on the part of the administrator of the mistake he acted lawfully and in the pursuance of his duty in the execution of his trust and not tortiously in collecting the money He could only do this upon proof of his appointment and qualification as administrator No credit was given to him personally nor was any money paid to him in any other way than in his representative character The old doctrine seems to havebeen that upon any promise made after the death of the testator or intestate the executor or administrator was chargeable if at all as of his own goods and not in his representative capacity More recent cases have settled that an executor or administrator may in some cases be sued in his representative capacity on a promise made by him in such capacity and a judgment had against the assets of the estate This however is limited to cases where the transaction which constituted the cause of action arose in the lifetime of the deceased and does not extend to actions for goods sold and delivered to an executor or work and labor done for him as executor In such cases the defendant is charged personally and not in his representative character. If after the decease of Charles Thompson the Barings had by mistake placed this sum to the credit of HP Thompson as executor and he had collected it a different question would have been presented which it is not necessary in the present case to decide as the case of De Valengins Adm rs v Duffy 14 Pet 283 is in the opinion of the court conclusive when applied to the facts in this case Judgment for plaintiffs with interest from date of demand made upon the estate

Charles was born in Topsham  and moved to Lisbon.  At 21 returned to Topsham as a  clerk in a store. He served in he War of 1812 and was President of the Androscoggin Bank and a  Representative  to the State Legislature.

Hans Hemkes     (R1 #9) married Dorothy P. Aldred (R1 #8). He was from Mexico City, Mexico. They were married in 1947. He was a martial instructor in Ramona, California and was in La Cruces, New Mexico. Dorothy bought a home to restore for investment purposes in the Almeda-Depot Historic District in Las Cruces. In 1912 Mr. and Mrs. Hans Hemke returned to Pittsburgh after several weeks with her parents  Mr and Mrs. J.A. Aldred, on Longfellow Avenue. He was Hans Hemke Jr. They had: Mark Hemkes (1947)    (R1 #7)

Humphrey Purinton        (1847-1915)(R1 #12,15). He was a Coal and lumber dealer who married Mrs. Lizzie Harding Crosby in Boston in 1904.  Humphrey was the son of Francis F. ( a master builder) and Susan T. Tebbetts Purinton. He had a sisters Elizabeth W. (1855), Harriet A. Purinton(1856-1923)(R1 #11) and a brother Woodbury (1858) as well as a another brother, Paul C.T. Purinton(1852-1895)(R1 #18), a farmer, who married Emma Fisher and had: Carl T. Purinton(1880-1903))R1 #17).

Woodbury B. Purinton   (1814-1885)(R1 #15) married Rebecca M. Purinton (1821-1903)(R1 #14) and Elizabeth Walker  Purinton (1854-1927)(R1 #10).He and Elizabeth had Annie E. Purinton (1908) (R1 #13),  Wildes P.W. Purinton(1865-1942)(R1 #16)and Walter K. Purinton(1859-1894)(R1 #20) who married Lucy B. Purinton (1865-1888)(R1 #19). Wildes was  a carpenter, who married Carrie J. Brennenstul Purinton (1868-1934)(R1 #16) and they had Dorothy C. Purinton(1902-1916)(R1 #21). Woodbury took over a flour mill in Topsham from Francis T. Purinton and ran it with Isaac P. Tebbets, then by himself.

Elizabeth Purinton Aldred (1895-1945) (R1#22)    was the wife of Joseph Addison  Aldred (1898-1972) (R1 #23).  She was born in Topsham, the daughter of Wildes W. P. Purinton and Carrie Brennenstul. She attended schools in Topsham and Brunswick, Gorham Normal School and Columbia and Cornell Universities. For a brief period she taught in the Topsham schools. In 1925 she married Joseph A. Aldred and they lived in Reading, MA for a time before making their home in the Purinton home in Topsham. She was a member of the Society of Bowdoin Women and at the time of her death, she was Health Officer of Topsham, having succeeded her father in that office. She was survived  by her husband, a daughter, Dorothy Purinton Aldred; a son, Joseph Addison Aldred Jr., both students at her death. Her husband Joseph was born in Lawrence MA. His father was John W. Aldred (1871) and his mother, Helen (1870) and they were both born in England. He had a sister Grace (1908) and a brother Thomas (1900). Joseph, in 1947, married   Dorothea F. Hutchins Leland (1907-2001) (R1 #23). She had been a summer resident in Brunswick for several years. She was  a former resident of Hopedale, MA. and was the niece of S. Chester Breese of Hope Farm Inn on the Mere Point Road in Brunswick. She had lived for a time in Lima, Peru.

Paul Vernon Hazelton    (1919-1996)(R1 #24)Granite bench with inscription on top. Paul Vernon Hazelton was born on July 22, 1919, in Biddeford, Maine, and prepared for college at Thornton Academy in Saco, Maine. He was graduated from Bowdoin College in 1942 then served in the U.S. Army during World War II, attaining the rank of corporal. After teaching at Staunton Military Academy in Virginia and Loomis School in Windsor, Connecticut, Hazelton became assistant director of admissions and instructor in English at Bowdoin in 1948. He held these positions until 1957 when he became assistant professor of education, rising to associate professor in 1960 and full professor in 1966. He retired as professor of education emeritus in 1985. He received a Master of Education from Harvard in 1958 and spent the 1963-1964 academic year in England studying the relationships between politics and education in Great Britain.Hazelton was the recipient of the 13th annual Distinguished Educator Award of the Maine State Superintendents’ Association in 1984 and Bowdoin’s Alumni Award for Faculty and Staff in 1987..Paul Hazelton married Jane Desaulniers Hazelton(1919)(R2 #24) in 1942; they had three children, Stephen Lee Hazelton (1943)(R1 #24), Mary Leslie (1948) (R2 #24) , and Anne. Paul Hazelton died on January 28, 1996, in Topsham, Maine.

Valentine Green  Colby(1815-1855)(R1 #25)married Mary Ann Carvill Colby (1818-1866) (R1 #26). She became his widow and married Heman Pettingill . She and Heman had : Malville (1861). Mary and Valentine had : Charles E.(1847-1857)(R1 #27) who drowned,   and Harrison (1842). Valentine was the son of Ebenzer and Mehitable Colby. He owned and managed a wood mill. Valentine G and Eben Colby commenced business near the Androscoggin Bridge in Topsham in January 1849 for the manufacture of sash doors and blinds under the firm name of VG & Colby This firm continued in business until 1850 when the senior partner sold out to Sampson Colby and the business was continued by S & E Colby until May 27 1859 at which time they moved Brunswick The building in which their business was carried on was afterwards moved across the street and is now used as the machine and repair shop of the paper mill.

James Rogers     (1776-1853)(R1 #32,33)Rogers monument North Face. He was a lumberman. He married Hannah P. Rogers (1776-1857)(R1 #32,34), Rogers Monument North Face.They had : Rufus Rogers(1802-1973)(R1 #28),a lumberman, who married Hannah T. Rogers (1813-1882)(R1 #29) and Rufus  had Maria Louise Rogers (1836-1867)(R1 #30) and Mary Ann Tebbetts Rogers (1839-1847)(R1 #31). James constructed , in 1807, a wooden sluice on upper dam and across the Island to th River just below Granny ole Mill. He became one of the proprietors of the Topsham Sluiceway. That construction provided much information and and research on Mineralogy by Professor Parker Cleveland of Bowdoin College. James and Hannah also had:  Frances Rogers Hersey(1806-1854)(R1  #35)was the wife of Ira Hersey .. Ira was born in 1802 in Topsham. They had: Benjamin H. Hersey (1835-1836)(R1 #37) ; James R. Hersey (1835-1838)(R2 #37 ; Anne C.R. Hersey (1842-1843)(R1 #37)and Mary F. Hersey (1844-1844)(R1 # #37).

Area 2

Leonard Blondel (1784-1857)(R2 #6).  He married Sarah H. (1795-1867) (R2 #5) and they had: Lucy M. T. Kelley (1828-1853)(R2 #2)who married Townsend and the was the wife of John A. Kelley;  Mary Elizabeth (1826-1842) (R2 #1)who married Cook; James A. (1831) who was  a shoemaker and married Sarah Alden of Lynn MA.; Emery P. (1833-64)(R2 #4)  of Co. D. 5th Me. Regt. Wounded in the Battle of the Wilderness, Va. Died in Lincoln Hospital Washington D.C. June 3,1864 and who married Betsey A. (1841-1860) (R2 #3)

Benjamin Jaques(1790-1878)(R2 #7)        Rev.  He was the Grand Chaplain of the Masons in Topsham in 1852. He was the son of Deacon Benjamin (1758-1835) and Elizabeth Graves (1759-1849) who were from Topsham, Massachusetts. They had in addition: Sarah (1782-1882) who married William Graves of Bowdoin ME; Hon. Johnson (1786-1857) who married Hannah Purinton (1789-1876); and Laura (1802). Bejamin married Sally Jaques (1789-1851)(R2 #7).Sally and Benjamin had: Laura (1815); Crispus L. (1820); who married Mary A. Brewer and had Sarah Brewer ;  Crispus G. (1827-1853)(R2 #7) who married Mary A. and had Eugene (1852-1852)(R2 #7).  There was also a Benjamin Jacques who was the toll taker on the Bridge between Brunswick and Topsham and lived with his wife in the Tool house on the Topsham side. (Since he was there in 1841 and fairly old it seems it was Rev. Benjamin.)

Jane Rideou t     (1781-1860)(R2 #7)North Face of Jaques Monument. In the 1860 census she was living in Augusta, Maine. She lived with Benjamin Marston and his family. She was born in Bath, Maine and married Stephen Rideout. She was the daughter of Stephen Work. They had Susan (1808); Louisa (1810); Belinda (1812); Step[hen (1815); Olive (1817) and Annie (1821)who married Benjamin Jacques of Topsham.

George K. Curtis (1882-1955)(R2 #8)         Maine Pvt Co A 101 Engineers World War I. He was a farmer in Bowdoinham married (1928) Alice A. Brown and in 1931 Stella H. Clary. Probably a son of Joseph P. Curtis  (1820-1876) (R2 #9) who was the first ice-man in the two towns of Topsham and Brunswick.

Daniel  S. Curtis (1820-1851)(R2 #10)was the son of Caleb & Ann Given Curtis who also had:  Robert G. Curtis (1811); Joseph Potter Curtis (1820); Caleb Curtis Jr.. Caleb married three times. His first wife was Hannah Seavey and they had Moses (1780); Mercy (1782-1860) who married Ebenezer Barnes; and Ruth. With his 2^nd wife Hannah Carr he had no children; with his 3^rd wife, Anne Given they had three sons.

Enoch Perkins    (1820-1890)(R2 #16) was a lumberman and married Frances J. Perkins (1819-1851)(R2 #15) and married Georgianna E. Perkins (1829-1865)(R2 #14). Enoch and Frances had: Annie G. Perkins (1848-1860)(R2 #13); Enoch and Georgianna had: George A. Perkins (1859-1864)(R2 #12). Enoch also married Ellen Y. Kingsley and they had:  Alfred Scwell Perkins (1879-1880)(R2 #11) who died of cholera in Bloomfield, Vt.

Gardner Greene(1787-1840)(R2 #19) had a nail factory.He married Mary W. Greene (1799-1867)(R2 #18).They had: Daniel S. Greene (1826-1831)(R2 #17); Alfred G. Greene (1830-1831)(R2 #17); Albert H. Greene (138-1828)(R2 #17); Frederick G. Greene (1832-1848)(R2 #20) and James C. Greene (1822-1850)(R3 #20).

Leonard W. Tedford       (1816-1881) (R2 #22) married Harriot M. Tedford (1823-1898)(R2 #22) They had  Rev. Charles E. Teford who  was born in Topsham Me Sept 24 1850 He was converted when about nineteen years of age He prepared for college in Nichols Latin School and studied in Bates College He was licensed in June 1872 and was ordained Feb 22 1887 by a council called by the church at Limerick Me He has been pastor at East Livermore Chesterville and North Freeport He has been superintendent of schools in Limerick three years He married Dec 10 1885 Miss Eva M Mears. They also had Hollis F. (1844-1852)(R2 #22); William H. (1859-1868)(R2 #22); Urania E. Tedford (1842-1900)(R2 #21). Woodbury Alvah  Tedford (1851-1905)(R2 #23);Corris Ann Tedford (1856-1878)(R2 #23); Wellington (1848); Charles (1850); Mary F.  (1854), who worked in the Box Shop.

Area 3

George Berry     (1772-1848)(R3 #1,2)East Face of Berry Monument. He married Lois Berry (1789-1877) (R3 #2) They had George (1823); Andrew I. (1835-1864)(R3 #2) who was in the 19^th Maine Regiment and was killed on the N. Anna River in 1864; George F. (1825) who married Sarah Danforth; William (1816) who married Cheloa Truphant and had William (1842), Samuel Henry (1852), Mary Ella (1855), and  Fannie Augusta (1856).; Mary (1821); and Eliphalet who married in 1848, Amanda  Trufant (1827-1892)(R3 #32): they had George Albert (1848), Lois M. (1850-2), Lois Emma (1853), Dunham (1853),Lucy (1850), Frank (1851), and James Henry (18953); Franklin West (1853-1912) (R9 #71) who married Addie A. Cripps and they had Ralph O (1886), Ralph Beaumont (1888),Dunham (1855), Louis Emma (1857) and Fred Ernest who married Essie Curtis Haskell and had a son Orson (1879). George Berry was the son of Lt. Thomas Berry, an officer in the Revolutionary War. He married Abigail Coombs in Brunswick in 1773. They lived in Brunswick, Portland, and Rockland where he died. George and Lois also had:  Thomas Coombs  Berry(1816-1864)(R3 #2) who was in the 13th Mass. Infantry  and died in New Orleans Sept 13, 1864. His name appears on the West Face of monument

George E. Stinson(1833-1926)(R3 #5)”Father” , and a ship carpenter,married Matilda P. Stinson (1843-1908)(R3 #3) and they had Carrie B. Stinson (1884-1908)(R3 #4)”Sister”; Martha (1877) and Grace (1881). They lived at 42 Elm Street in Topsham.

Stephen Cram was born in 1796 and died in 1885. He was a farmer that was born in Litchfield, Maine. He married (2) Mary W. His first wife Hanna Cram Wilson (1798-1844)  (R3 #6) was the daughter of James and Ann Henry Wilson of Topsham. They had two daughters: Mary Jane (1820-1844)(R3 #7) and Catherine P. (1822-1844)(R3 #8) and a son William C. Cram (1833)and another daughter, Olive Ann, b. 1826, and married in Vermont in1855 to Christopher  M. Gilman(1831-1873)(R3 #9)

Moses Shaw       (1800-1873)(R3 #12)was born in Franklin, Merrimack, NH and died in Saco, York, Maine. He married Martha Jane Hoag (1805-1879)(R3 #11)June 17, 1824 in Salisbury, Merrimack, NH.  She was born in Stratham, Rockingham, NH, and died in Saco, Maine.  After living a few years in Kensington, they moved to Monmouth, Me., and a little later to Topsham, Me. Mr. Shaw was a skillful mechanic, especially in carpentry and housebuilding. He was prominent in military circles — having been commissioned by Gov. Dunlap as Captain of the Monmouth Company of State Militia, (the Bulwarks,) and was Corporal in the company of Coast Guards, which was stationed at fort McLeary, Kettery, Me. They had :Parker Dow Shaw, born April 28, 1825 in Kensington, Rockingham, NH; died February 9, 1889 in Castle Hill, ME. He married Lydia Varney October 14, 1849; born Unknown; died Unknown. Military service: Civil War Union Army in Co. F, 8th Regt. of Maine Infantry, losing an arm in the battle before Petersburg;  George Washington Shaw(1826-1847)(R3 #10), born in Kensington, Rockingham, NH; and died in Gray Corner, Cumberland, ME. His Cause of Death: Injuries received in a cotton mill; John Webster Shaw, born May 25, 1829 in Monmouth, Kennebec, ME; died August 5, 1857 Mobile, Baldwin, AL, Cause of Death was Yellow Fever;  Benjamin Franklin Shaw, born March 12, 1832 in Monmouth, Kennebec, ME; died December 11, 1890 in Lowell, Middlesex, MA.;Joseph Howard Shaw, born May 31, 1835 in Monmouth, Kennebec, ME; died Aft. 1903;Martha Jane Shaw,, born December 15, 1837,; died April 10, 1893 in Saco, York, ME; William Henry Shaw, born December 13, 1839; died Unknown. He married Cecilia SymondsUnknown; born Unknown; died Unknown.Military service: 2nd Lieut. of Co. C, 5th Me. Regt. of Infantry

“Benjamin Franklin Shaw was born at Monmouth Me on the 22d of November 1832 Monmouth during his boyhood was a woodsy lonesome town and its houses were few and far between Whatever may have been its charms in summer it was dreary enough in winter and I shall never forget the picture he presented to my mind when he told me that here as a lit the boy he would sometimes lie awake at night to hear the barking of wolves in the distance and the ticking of the old fashioned clock in his room In 184 1 he went with his parents to live at Topsham Me Though the years were few that he passed atMonmouth after he had become old enough to receive impressions or to be affected by his surroundings he often thought of the picturesque old town and delighted to describe it In a letter written in the last year of his life in acknowledgment of an editorial notice he said I am glad you mentioned my birthplace Monmouth Towns have turned out sons of infinitely greater ability to make names for themselves but no birthplace ever inspired greater love than I bear for the old farm in Monmouth near the head of Winthrop Pond When he was ten years of age he was sent to Bow doinham to do light work on a farm He went in seed time and remained until harvest receiving for his services in addition to his board the stupendous sum of nine dollars He had worked about four and a half months for it When he was twelve years of age he was employed during the winter in a match factory on Shad Island receiving matches in the spring in return for his work But matches were looked upon as a luxury then and those received by him if they were not sold must have been very economically used by his parents He managed however to attend the district school at Topsham during its winter sessions with few interruptions until he was fifteen years of age when he was sent to Saco Me to earn what he could as a clerk for a dealer in dry goods Here he remained two years returning to Topsham in 1849years returning On returning to Topsham he assisted his father during the summer at house building and learned enough of carpentry in one way and another to be able to say that he had nearly mastered a trade But hefound he was not rugged enough to be a carpenter and wanting to get knowledge get understanding and living almost in the shadow of Topsham Academy he wished he could attend that institution but the circumstances of his parents were such he did not see how he could He comforted himself a while with the thought that a person can teach himself something and had a room in his father’s house set apart for a study and borrowed books from a neighbor In this room he pored over these books night after night adding much to the store of his knowledge but it was natural that the more he learned the more he wanted to learn and he looked again with longing eyes at Topsham Academy and not in vain he was told by some one having influence at the academy that he might have tuition there during the winter free of cost if he would ring the bell build the fires and sweep the floors He at once promised to do this work not caring for the humiliation which his sensitive nature would be sure to feel He was quick to comprehend and his memory was good At the end of the term he had learned all there was to be learned at the academy But his desire was not satisfied Bowdoin College was not far awaj and he began to wish he could regard a college education as possible for him His uncommon intelligence and capacity for learning had impressed his neighbor Rev Dr Wheeler who had lent him books and given him free access to his library and this scholarly gentleman told his parents that he would like to send him to college with his son William A Wheeler who became famous as a lexicographerrapher and that he would bear the expense of his tuition But his parents felt obliged to say that the family was a large one and that he must contribute what he could to its support He knew that he could do very little if anything in this direction if at college and sorrowfully giving up the hope of receiving a polite education went to work for a bookseller in Brunswick Me in whose employ he remained until late in 1850 when fortune favored him a little and he was engaged to keep the books of a prosperous dealer in lumber at Gardiner Me whither he went with a light heart wearing the first full suit of good clothes that he ever had He was now eighteen years of age He was married in Gardiner Jan 20 1853 to Harriet Nowell Howard who was born at Haverhill Mass and whom he had met in Topsham in 1852 and earlier He had given so much satisfaction to his employers here that late in 1853 when he was twenty one years of age they sent him to act as their agent in a sash and blind business at Philadelphia Either this sash and blind business did not pay well or he wearied of it for in the fall of 1854 he quitted it as its creditor and was in the city of Brotherly Love with nothing to do and almost a stranger But it was not long before he found employment and entered the office of the publishers Lippincott Grambo & Co now j B Lippincott & Co beginning his work here as under clerk but showing so much ability that he was soon promoted and in a few years given general chargeof all the clerical work and paid a handsome salaryIii 1859 when he was twenty seven years of age he built a beautiful villa in Fisher’s Lane Germantown now part of Philadelphia employing his father and younger brothers to do the work There were now prosperous days but the haunting dream of better would not suffer him to be content He did not want to do clerical work all his life but what he should do to get awa T from the desk and better his circumstances he did not know He had invented a number of useful things including an inkstand which I am now using a penholder and I am told a letter press but he had been too busy in the discharge of his duties at the office to turn any of these devices to account What should he do It was hard to say but casting about as it were he found there was need of improvement in the text books used for primary instruction in geography and he believed that he could supply it though he knew he could do nothing to this end during the day time He went to work burned his taper and in 1862 issued his Primary Geography on the basis of the object method illustrated with numerous engravings and pictorial mapsThis excellent work was highly commented upon by eminent educators and introduced into many of the schools in Pennsylvania and western states He was not publicly known as the author of this work It bore the name of Fordyce A Allen principal of the Chester County Normal School West Chester Pa The reason will be obvious doubtless The author who could boast of no higher Alma Mater if he ever regarded it as such than the academy at Topsham and who was very nearly self taught had not gained areputation in any department of educational work On the other hand the gentleman whose name was used was widely known as a person of accurate scholarship who had been for fifteen years an educator and had been connected with county institutes in every section of Pennsylvania as well as in other states Encouraged by the reception that this work met with its author began the compilation of his Comprehensive Geography combining mathematical physical and political geography with important historical facts designed to promote the normal growth of the intellect This important work characterized as original and progressive was published in 1864 when he was only thirty two years of age and was as well received by educators as the Primary Geography had been and as widely introduced It was compiled as the Primary Geography had been at night and for nearly three years kept its author from his bed until two or three o clock in the morning and nearly made a recluse of him for it prevented his participation in any social event or pleasureIt was put forth as the work of Benjamin F Shaw and Fordyce A Allen Professor Allen did nothing in its production further than to make some suggestions as to what its general arrangement would better be In 1866 he accepted the position of general manager of the outside operations and investments of Dr JC Ayer & Co Lowell Mass which he held until the summer of 1868 continuing to reside at South Danvers To most men the discharge of the duties of this important position would have been work enoughbut in addition to it he invented a seamless stocking and an automatic loom for its production which involved a radical departure from any method of making stockings that had been known and which as perfected by him some years later raised him to the distinction he enjoyed as an inventor Though this stocking which was patented to him April 23 1867 was destined to be made in the course of some years by many manufacturers to be widely marketed and to become known commercially as the seamless stocking it did not satisfy him mainly because its heel did not fit perfectly and fearing it would not be salable he laid it aside with the loom which was the first circular knitting machine capable in itself of producing a stocking without seams having a rounded heel and toe On resigning the position of manager for Dr JC Ayer & Co he entered upon the most unsatisfactory period of his life during which he sold his beautiful home in South Danvers at auction and moved to Cambridge Mass and after a number of reverses became nearly discouragedThis period of nearly eight years though so unsatisfactory was not barren but was productive of much that was highly creditable He seldom referred to it yet I sometimes think that during this period he best showed his uncommon attainments and extraordinary versatility so many and so various were the kinds of work he did He invented processes for making glue gelatine and superphosphate two of which were successfully used by concerns with which he was connected invented a process and apparatus for destroyingstroying the offensive gases of rendering establishments which were used in factories at East Cambridge with the most gratifying results and did some literary work a portion of which was commercial He had literary talent in an artistic degree and the stories essays sketches and poems of his that have been preserved incline me to regret that his circumstances and duties were such he could not give more time to its cultivation In 1876 through the pecuniary assistance of a gentlemen who had faith in his ability to materialize his dreams Mr Shaw was enabled to resume work on his invention Another loom embodying the principles of the earlier one and so ingenious as to seem almost imbued with human intelligence was constructed and on it in the summer of 1877 was produced what has since been known as the Shawknit Stocking differing from the earlier one in having gussets in its heel and instep This stocking which was patented to him February 12 1878 satisfied his ambition which was to make the best fitting stocking art could produceIn October 1877 the Shaw Stocking Company was incorporated with a capital of $30,000 to build and operate the knitting loom and manufacture the stocking invented by him and he was chosen manager In 1880 a desire to introduce the loom into England and Germany having been manifested by hosiery makers in those countries he visited Europe He took the loom to London patented it and sold the right to manufacture under it to an English company for $75,000 The loom made quite a seusation among thehosiery men of Leicester Within two years after that people from all parts of Europe were coming to see the loom and riots were threatened in Leicester if the loom should be shown there In 1875 he purchased a natural park of five hundred acres among the mountains of New Hampshire of which John Greenleaf Whittier who with other noted guests was entertained there wrote Surely there is nothing in all New England mountains to compare with thy place From this New England Paradise as it was termed by Professor Foy of Tufts College Mr Shaw was carried in an enfeebled condition after a painful sickness of four weeks to his home in Lowell where he soon suffered a relapse and on the nth day of December 1890 at the age of fifty eight years departed this life Of Mr Shaw it has been truly said in tribute to his memory that he was one of the best types of New England cultivation He was talented and had educated himself in the truest sense of the word He had filled his mind with useful knowledge and had developed by exercise its highest facultiesdeveloped by highest The Rev Dr Hersey president of the College of Letters and Science St Lawrence University who had known him twenty five years said in the address at his funeral that he had never seen a man so well informed that was not thoroughly educated in the schools Of Mr Shaw’s five brothers two are still living Joseph H in Saco Me and William HH in Haverhill Mass.”

Jesse Davis Wilson(1801-1885)(R3 #13,14)North Face Wilson Monument. He had a son F.H. Wilson (Pharmacist) in Brunswick. He married Clarissa Wilson (1808-1886)(R3 #13,15). They had Eliza Ann (1834-1853)(R3 #13,16), Henry C. (1846-1847)(R3 #13,17) and Almira (1833-1917)(R3 #13,18) Who lived on Summer St. in Topsham at the old homestead and was daughter of Jesse D. Wilson one of the oldest businessmen in Topsham. She had two living brothers: Albion Davis Wilson of S. Portland (1842-1923) died in Portland and married Lunnette Emily Potter who was born in 1853 in Weld, Me; and G.E. of Fairfield;  sister Mrs. E.W. Thompson.

Nettie (Genette) Farrin   (1848-1873) (R3 #19) She worked in the cotton mill and was the daughter of George W. (a farmer) and May.

Martha Wilson Furrin(Farrin) (1763-1838)(R3 #20) was thewife of Ebenezor(Farrin) Furrin. Ebenezer voted agains separaton from MA. In 1787 he married Martha Wilson and his father was Job Farrin that moved to Brunswick in 1755. He had brothers Winthrop, Richard, William, and David.

Benjamin J. Barron (1805-1864) (R3 #21) married Olive D. Barron (1818-1888) (R3 #22). Benjamin Barron married Olive O. and they had: Margaret E. (1842-1863) (R3 #27); Gilbert E. (1856-1867) (R3 #26)(Bertie); Gilbert (Bertie) (1866-67); Olive M. (1848-1937) (R3 #24) who was a  school teacher and went to Mt.Holyoke Seminary in 1867-68; Francis G. (1849-1943)(R3 #23) who was a school teacher also; Benjamin Frances (1816-1817 (R3 #28)); and Frederic W. (1854-1934) (R3 #25), a grocery store clerk.

Charles A. Knight (1870-1956) (R3 #29) died at his home in Gardiner. He was one of the oldest practicing attorneys in the state. He was born in Brunswick, was graduated from Bowdoin College in 1896 and began his law practice in 1889. He was a former mayor and city solicitor of Gardiner. He was survived by his daughter, Mrs. Katherine  K. Fassett of Madison, Wis, and a sister, Mrs. Lydia Chandler of Newcastle.Charles was born in Gardiner, Maine and he and Edith M. Moulton (1873-1953)(R3 #29) had Katherine. He was the so of William B. Knight and Josephine S. Knight.

William B. Knight(1837-1914)(R3 #31)was born in Topsham, Me and died in Brunswick, Me.He lived on School St. in Brunswick. He was the son of Samuel and Miriam (Whitten) Knight  and  brother of Samuel Knight of Tosham. He lived in Brunswick and was in the milk business;  He was a Past Grand Master of Odd Fellows and a Director of Topsham and Brunswick 25 cent Bank. He had:  Hon. Charles A. Knight of Gardinerand a daughter, Mrs. John S. chandler of Newcastle. He married Josephine S. Knight (1845-1918)(R3 #30) who was born and died in Brunswick. She had a home on School Street in Brunswick and was the daughter of John and Ann Maria Marsh Brown She  married in 1868 and had 2 children: Ex Mayor Charles A. Knight of Gardiner; and Mrs. Lida Chandler of Newcastle; a sister Mrs. Martha Libby of Brunswick She was involved in the Brunswick Festival Chorus.

Eliphalet Berry married Amanda Berry (1827-1892) (R3 #32) They had:  Lois M. Berry (1850-1852)(R3 #33).  He was the son of George and Lois Berry.

Joseph S. Drinkwater (1819-1895)(R3 #38)            “Father”.  He was a tanner and a currier. He married Mary Elizabeth Drinkwater (1824-1898)(R3 #37)”Mother”.  He testified that he saw the Bowdoinham  Bank Robbers carragie go by his house at 3:00 A.M. in 1866 in June 22^nd.They had had Joseph H. 1843-1847)(R3 #35); Millard F. (1849-1890)(R3 #34); Mary C. (1857); Lizzie J.(Elizabeth Jane )(1860-1945)(R3 #36)  She lived on High St. in Brunswick. She as born in Topsham, daughter of Joseph S. and Mary E. Drinkwater Miss Elizabeth Jaen Drinkwater and spent the early years of her life there, moving to Brunswick after the death of her parents to make her home with her sister, Mrs. William B. Woodward. Toward the end she lived with her sister, Mrs. Carl M. Day. ;  and Affie M. (1862-1918);Edward H. (1848); john J. (1853).

Edward Welch   Jr.(1821-1851)(R3 #39)died in Durango, Mo. He married Elbina L. Welch               (1826-1847(R3 #39).

Artemas Felt was born in Rumford Maine Oct. 15, 1800 and died in Woodstock Aug. 2, 1885. He married in Woodstock in 1819 Desire Stephens who was the daughter of Capt. Samuel and Desire. The place of Artemas Felt’s birth was given by the compiler as Woodstock as also that of several other of Joshua Felt’s children but this is evidently Harlow Stephens of Plymouth Mass. She was born in Plymouth Jan. 3, 1798 and died in Portland Maine April 10, 1869. Mr. Felt moved from Woodstock a few years after his marriage to the adjoining town of Greenwood and kept a tavern and store on Felt’s Hill. These were burnt and he rebuilt them but after a time he sold out his tavern and bought a farm in 1868 and removed to Milton Plantation and in 1884 to Woodstock where he died;  Their children: Desire Harlow (1820) in Greenwood; Jesse Stephens (1822); Lucy Spoffort (1836) who married Abner C. Libby; Elbina (1828) born in Greenwood and deid in Lowel Mass in 1847. She married in 1845 in Topsham Maine Edward Welch who died in Durango, Mexico Sept. 6, 1851. They had no children; Samuel Stephens (1832); Artemas Elizur (1833); Lizzie (1835) who married Octavius K. Yates; and Eliza Roberts (1838) who married Mrtin V. Stevens.

Lydia E. Welch   (1819-1889)(R3 #40)was the wife of William D. Welch . They had Edward B. Welch (1851-1861)(R3 #41) ; Patten T. Welch (1854-1855)(R3 #42)and Milton W. Welch (1846-1864)(R3 #42)Co. B 9th Me Vols. killed at Drury’s Bluff, Va., Frances H. (1835) and Franck M. (1842). Lydia was Lydia Jones and they married in 1845. William was the son of Edward Welch and Sabriana Tate. He worked in the cotton mill.

William E. Maxwell (1838-1901)(R3 #43) He married Mary Prebble and was a painter.  In 1860 he was a ferryman and living with James (probably their son )

James  Maxwell (1811-1975)(R3 #47) married Susan J. Maxwell (1811-1860)(R3 #45) and then married Louisa C. Maxwell (1808-1856)(R3 # 46) James was a blacksmith in 1860 with Susan and in 1870 with Mary was still a blacksmith. He and Louisa had James Orlando Maxwell (1840-1841)(R3 #44). Mrs. Jams Maxwell, of Topsham, was fatally burned, in consequence of the overflowing of a lighted lamp containing camphere. She lived but a short time.

Elvira Amanda  Hubbard(1829-1865)(R3 #48)       was the wife of Dimon Hubbard. The Census of 1850 lists head of household Edward Hubbard at 26 and Elvira (21) and Anna Augusta  (0) and George Clough (17) and Elizabeth E. Clough (29).  Elvira was the daughter of Josiah Clough and Eunice Haskell. Elvira and Dimon had Frances J. Hubbard (1848-1849)(R3 #49. A Francis J. Hubbard had George C. Hubbard (1847-1847)(R4 #95)

James Jameson (1805-1847)(R3 #51) Captain who died at New Orleans. He married Charity M. Jameson (1802-1866)(R3 #50).

Samuel Jameson (1815-1880)(R3 #56) , a blacksmith and Harriet W.Jameson  (1818-1901)(R3 #55)  had George Onsville Jameson  (1840-1863)(R3 #54) who died at Hong Kong China and was a Seaman; and Benjamin R. Jameson (1840-1844)(R3#52)  and Samuel  R. Jameson (1848-1855)(R3 #53).

Samuel  James  (b. 1842) , a ship joiner, son of Harriet James (1817) and brother of John D. James (b. 1856) and sister to Ella L. James (b. 1856) married Annie D. James (b. 1848) had Cora James (1870-1876)(R8 #60); Mabel (b. 1877) and Harding M. (b. 1871).

J.E. Howland      (R3  #57)Co. D 5 Me Inf.   He was the son of Abraham and Lydia Kidder Howland and grandson of Abraham and Anne Howland. He was a carriage maker and brother of William M. Howland with whom he patented the bench dog.

Jane Patten Merrill(1811-1849)(R3 #58)was the wife of Hon. Joseph Merrill. She was born in Bowdoin, Maine and married Joseph in 1836 and they had Terrasena who was born in 1845. He remarried Elmira Merrill from New York and he died in Waterloo, Iowa in 1882. He was born in 1808. His parents were Abel Merrill and Lois Harding.

Deborah  Haskell(1772-1863)(R3 #59) was the wife of Jonathan Haskell .Jonathan Haskell was born in 1776 in Gloucester, MA and died in New Gloucester, Maine in 1857. Johnathan had also married Elizabeth Arnold,  daughter of Bildad Arnold and Mercy Seabury on 31 Dec 1789 in New Gloucester, Cumberland, Maine. Elizabeth was born about 1769. She died before Jun 1794. Jonathan and Elizabeth had: Pamelia Haskell was born on 21 Mar 1791; Bildad Arnold Haskell was born on 15 Aug 1792; Charles Curtis Haskell (1795); Deborah Allen Haskell (1797); Betsey Gray Haskell (1797); Jonathan L. Haskell (1801); Roxanna Haskell (1803); Samuel Arnold Haskell (1805); Medifer I. Haskell (1808); Alden Bradford Haskell (1812)

Herbert A. Haskell(1857-1900)(R3 #63)married Harriet G. Haskell (1859-1914)(R3 #62)and also married Mary J. Haskell       (1829-1869)(R3 #60). Herbert and Mary J. had William H. Haskell (1859-1939)(R6 #117).He died at he home of Mrs. George Naugler on Summer St. in Topsham where he had been boarding. He was born in Topsham, the son of Mary Jane and Henry A. Haskell. He married , Nellie Idella  Harmon (1864-1939)(R5 #117). He resided in Topsham and Brunswick all of his life and conducted a trucking business in the two towns for many years. He lived in Brunswick for twenty years returning to Topsham in 1918 where he had resided on Pleasant Street. He and Harriet had Edith C. Haskell           (R3 #62) aged 4 mos.

Rhoda Johnson (1753-1853) (R3 #64) was the wife of Isaac Johnson . She  had Charlotte Thomson (Thompson)(1785-1849)(R3 #65) was the daughter of Benjamin Thomson (Thompson) & Rhoda  Ham. Benjmain was born in 1753 and died in 1793). He was the son of Captain James Thompson of New Meadows and his second wife, Lydia Brown Harris of Ipswich, MA.

Benjamin T. Roberts(1804-1882)(R3 #66) was a wood sawer and married Susan.

Josephine P. Work Dennett (1840-1903)(R3 #67) was the wife of Alfred W. Dennett 1840-1903. She divorced him in 1884. Alfred (1832-1908).He died in Stockton, CA. He married her in 1861 and in 1870 he was a retired grocer in Topsham. Josephine was the daughter of David Work, a farmer, and his wife Mary;  She had brothers, David Jr. and Oscar O., and a sister Mary. Alfred married Josephine Van Dorn in NYC (she died in 1907 and was previously married to Rev. Swain and his widow.

Although the restaurants run by Alfred W. Dennett in the 1880s and 1890s were popular and earned him a cool million in just a few years, some people took a strong dislike to them because of the framed bible quotations which covered the walls. Newspapers regularly ridiculed them, noting for instance that burglars who cracked the safe at the Park Avenue Dennett’s in New York City did so right under a sign that read, “Be ye strong, therefore, and let not your hands be weak, for your work shall be rewarded.” But no one took such a negative position against the Northeastern coffee/dairy/beans & fishcakes-based chain as did Terrence Powderly, head of the Knights of Labor. In a talk in Brooklyn he offended some audience members when he declared, “I, temperance man as I am, would go into the lowest rumhole in the city, and get blind, rolling drunk, rather than go into that restaurant where they have such signs as ‘Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself,’ to get a cup of coffee.”

Founder Dennett, born in 1840 the son of a storekeeper in Topsham, Maine, was a zealous religious believer and temperance advocate who required his waitresses to attend daily prayer services and took a leading role in citizen vice squads. In New York City he disguised himself — as streetcar conductor, laborer, or man about town — to conduct surveillance and collect evidence against suspected sites of immorality. He gave away his fortune to charity, was forced out of his company by stockholders, and had numerous mental breakdowns, culminating in a declaration of insanity after being found wandering the streets of San Francisco with a pillowcase over his head. When the Childs brothers took over the chain in 1900 evidently they retained the Dennett’s name and left the bible verses on the walls. The chain of about 16 outlets continued until at least 1912.

At various times Dennett and his son George tried for a comeback on the West Coast, operating several places in San Francisco and Los Angeles in the early 20th century (and possibly earlier) but they did not succeed and some of the San Francisco locations were taken over by the Puritan restaurant chain, which continued in a religious vein under the management of the appropriately named Mr. Goodbody.

The Sinking Springs land changed hands several times after the Lincolns left in 1811. In 1894, Alfred W. Dennett, a New York businessman, purchased 110 acres of the property and shortly thereafter began to create a park known as “Lincoln Spring Farm” and “Lincoln Birthplace.” In 1895, Dennett acquired a nearby, aging log cabin, which according to local tradition contained some of the original logs from the Lincoln cabin, and moved it to the site. Dennett dismantled and displayed the log cabin in a number of places. In 1905, he had to sell the property at auction.

Dennett, Alfred W. – 1839-1908

Born in New York. He first came to California in the Gold Rush days, then returned East. He was the inventor of the quick lunch idea, starting his first place in New York City in 1880. In 1897 he displayed logs from Abraham Lincoln’s birthplace at the Tennessee Centennial Exposition. He returned later to California and settled in Stockton where he retired. .

In 1894 Alfred W. Dennett of New York, a restaurateur and philanthropist, purchased 110 acres of the property where Thomas Lincoln’s farm once stood and shortly thereafter began to create a park known as \”Lincoln Spring Farm\” and \”Lincoln Birthplace.\” In 1895 Dennett acquired an aging log cabin standing on nearby property and reerected it near Sinking Spring, on the approximate location of Thomas’ cabin. According to Dennett and local opinion, the cabin incorporated some of the same logs that had been used in the Lincoln cabin, though the latter apparently had been moved and rebuilt after the departure of the Lincolns.

Apparently Dennett’s plans to create a commercially successful park failed, for in 1897 he dismantled the cabin and transported it to Nashville, where it was reassembled and displayed as part of the Nashville centennial celebration. He then placed the logs in storage in New York City until 1901, the year they were exhibited at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo. Subsequently, some of the logs were lost while being transported; the remainder lay untouched for several years in the basement of an old mansion on Long Island. During that time, Dennett lost title to them which has been the starting point of almost every known survey of the Rock Spring farm. When Alfred W. Dennett bought the Old Creal Place in 1894, a chain of events was set in motion which, within a few years, involved a number of interesting characters. Dennett was the inventor of the quick-lunch. In the eighties his famous place on Park Row, New York, was opened, and it was here that William and Samuel Childs, the founders of Childs Restaurants, received their training. Dennett was extremely religious and was co-founder of the Florence Crittenton Mission and other important mission organizations. He helped support them all with a wide open pocketbook. The outstanding reformers of the eighties and nineties, in the East and on the Pacific Coast, were his close, personal friends. Gold mining in California had his attention for a number of years. His bankruptcy in 1901, was the genesis of protracted litigation over a fraudulent conveyance of the Lincoln birthplace farm, and, as will be seen, the records of this litigation provide much of our story. The conveyance was set aside by the court at a time when Dennett was a patient in a California mental institution in 1905.

His restaurants were open around the clock except for Sundays. He and his associate invested in a Mexican mine (La Trinidad Mining Co.) with a purpose of using all the profits for evangelization. In 1901 he filed for bankruptcy. His creditors who were missionaries were promised 6% interest. He had invested about 1/3 of 3,000,000 with his associate in the mining company. He had liabilities of $92,667.88. He ;;was putin to an asylum in 1904.

From the Jan. 24, 1908 New York Herald:

A.W. DENNETT DIES, HIS FORTUNE GONE

Founder of a Chain of Lunch Rooms in Many Cities Succumbs in Stockton, Cal.

VICTIM OF RELIGIOUS MANIA

Mind Affected by Heavy Losses, he was Once Found Wandering and Place in an Asylum.

Alfred W. Dennett, known throughout the country as “Angel” Dennett, who amassed a fortune through a chain of lunch rooms in many of the larger cities, died yesterday at Stockton, Cal.

At one time reputed to be worth more than $300,000 he died in humble circumstances, a victim of financial enterprises that were impelled by religious enthusiasm.

Mr. Dennett was well known in New York through the establishment of a series of small restaurants in which proverbs and scriptural mottos hung side by side on the walls with the prices of food and coffee. Beginning in the business in Boston on a small scale in 1882, in the course of fourteen years he had a string of restaurants from New York to California. The salaries alone in one year aggregated to more than $210,000. His first place of the kind was in this city was opened in 1891.

Through unfortunate investments in gold mines Mr. Dennett failed in 1899 and judgements for large amounts were entered against him. He went to California, and in 1901 it was reported from there that he had failed, owing $92,000, most of his creditors being women and missionary societies.

Again in 1904, he suffered such heavy losses in Oakland and Los Angeles that his mind was affected and he was found one day wandering in the Piedmont Hills, waving his arms and shouting “Glory, Glory!”. He was placed in an asylum , but afterwards was discharged as cured, and since then little has been known of him and his affairs. He was seventy two years old and was a son of William Dennett who kept a general Store in Topsham Maine.

Josephine and Alfred had: Alice (R3 #67), Edward H. (1862)(R3 #67) and Alfred R. (1872)(infant)(R3 #67) and Alice L. (1868-1958)(R3 #68) and Charles B. (1871-1945)(R9 #29,33). He died at his home on Winter St. He was born in Topsham, the son of Alfred W. and Josephine Work Dennett. He attended the schools of Topsham and Gray’s Business College in Portland. He lived for more than 40 years in Haverhill, MA. where he was employed in a shoe factory and also did hotel work. He operated restaurants in Boston and New York. In 1912 he married Grace Priest Dennett (1875-1936)(R9 #29,32) of Haverhill. For the past nine years he had resided with his sister, Miss Alice L. Dennett of Topsham in the house in which he was born. Miss Alice L. Dennett (1857-1958) died in a Topsham nursing home and was buried at the Varney Cemetery in Brunswick. She was the daughter of Alfred W. and Josephine Work Dennett. She graduated from Topsham High School in 1886 and attended Douglas Seminary at Waterford. She taught at a girls school after which she returned to Topsham and was employed as a sales clerk in Stetson’s Dry Goods Store in Brunswick and later worked a the J.F. Will Store. She was employed for 19 years at the W.F. Senter Store retiring in 1941. She resided until 1917 in the Dennett Homestead on Winter Street built by her father in 1870. Josephine and Alfred also had Herman W. Dennett (1864-1883)(R9 #29,3 Josephine and Alfred had: Alice (R3 #67), Edward H. (1862)(R3 #67) and Alfred R. (1872)(infant)(R3 #67) and Alice L. (1868-1958)(R3 #68) and Charles B. (1871-1945)(R9 #29,33). He died at his home on Winter St. He was born in Topsham, the son of Alfred W. and Josephine Work Dennett. He attended the schools of Topsham and Gray’s Business College in Portland. He llived for more than 40 years in Haverhill, MA. where he was employed in a shoe factory and also did hotel work. He operated restaurants in Boston and New York. In 1912 he married Grace Priest Dennett (1875-1936)(R9 #29,32) of Haverhill. For the past nine years he had resided with his sister, Miss Alice L. Dennett of Topsham in the house in which he was born. Miss Alice L. Dennett (1857-1958) died in a Topsham nursing home and was buried at the Varney Cemetery in Brunswick. She was the daughter of Alfred W. and Josephine Work Dennett. She graduated from Topsham High School in 1886 and attended Douglas Seminary at Waterford. She taught at a girls school after which she returned to Topsham and was employed as a sales clerk in Stetson’s Dry Goods Store in Brunswick and later worked a the J.F. Will Store. She was employed for 19 years at the W.F. Senter Store retiring in 1941. She resided until 1917 in the Dennett Homestead on Winter Street built by her father in 1870. Josephine and Alfred also had Herman W. Dennett (1864-1883)(R9 #29,31).1).

Samuel Knight   (1825-1914)(R3 #72) was President of Topsham an Brunswick 25 cent Bank for 20 years. Born in Topsham the son of Samuel and Miriam (Whitten) Knight he  lived in Topsham all his life. Brought up a a farmer and also engaged in the Lumber business and in the purchase of wood lots. He was the Topsham member of the first Board of Trustees of the Brunswick and Topsham Water District  serving 4 yrs.. He  served on the Topsham Board of Selectmen and held other town offices. His son  Samuel Knight Jr. was the Chairman of the Brunswick Board of Selectmen. He had a  daughter: Mrs. A.H. Merriman of Topsham; a brother William B. Night of Brunswick and two sisters: Mrs. Myra Whitten and Mrs. Philena S. Richardson of Brunswick.  He lso had a son George C. Knight (1856-1905)(R3 #70), a clerk in a store,  who died earlier. He married Florence P. Pettingill Knight (1827-1894)(R3 #71)of Wayne, Maine. They also had: Samuel Jr. (1852) who was retail grocer; Hannah P. (1851); The 1850 census: Miriam was head of household  (1810) had Mary A. (1828); Eliza J. (1831); John (1834) who was John S.(1833-1908)(R3 #74) and married Cornelia(1859-1924)(R3 #73) who was born in Pownal and lived at 45 Elm St., Topsham, and had Miriam; Rebecca L. (1836); William B.( 1838) who married Josephine

Eliza J. Knight     (1831-1855)(R3 #75)

1. Palmer Knight(1829-1846)(R3 #76)

Miriam Knight   (1800-1855)(R3 #77)May be mother of Samuel N. Knight(1838-1913) famous inventor and California Foundry owner, and mother of Mary J. (1841) and wife of William (b. 1808) who’s father John came to Bowdoinham and died there.

Samuel Knight   (1796-1839)(R3 #78) may have been the husband of Miriam.

Ellen J. Chase    (1848-1933)(R3 #79)worked at the Box Factory. Ellen Chase was for many years in the employ of the Dennison Manufacturing Company at the Brunswick branch and later in Framingham. She had a brother Alfred Chase, antother veteran Dennison employee with whom she lived in Framingham, MA where she died.

Sparrow Chase  (1814-1851)(R3 #83)He married Olive W. Rideout Chase (1819-1893)(R3 #82). They had : Olive Annn (1846-1926)(R3 #80) worked in the Box factory; Alfred S. (1852-1931) who worked in the box factory; George E. (1844-1864)(R3 #81) killed in Civil War in Co F 19^th Maine infantry Regiment; Chase died and buried at Petersbug Va. Oct. 22, 1864 aged 20 yrs. and Ellen G.(J.) (1848-1933)  who worked in the Box Factory.

Lyman J. Ricker (1843-1846)(R3 #84) was the son of William & Harriet M.Ricker. Harriet was a Morrill and they had Lyman and Harriet (1845). William was a postmaster.(1845 appt.) Harriet Newell Morrill was born in 1823 in Dexter, Me and died in 1896 in Starke County Ill. She married William in 1840. William was born in Parsonfield, ME and died in Chillicothe, Ill in 1878. Harriet (1845) married Asal C. Wilmot.

Eloisa(Eliza) Abigail  Morrill Ricker(1819-1851)(R3 #85)was the  wife of John Ricker), a millman,  and died in Topsham and was born in Dexter, ME. She married John in 1831. John was born in 1803. They had: Sarah H. (b. 1832) who married William Merrill of Topsham in 1851; and Abbie E. (Augusta) (b. 1841). Who married John Ames.   John Ricker married (2^nd) his cousin Mary Jane Ricker who was born in 1802.

 James Wilson    (1826-1846)(R3 #86), a butcher, was a son of John and Mary Wilson. His father was  John Wilson 3d (1796-1850)(R3 #87. He married Cynthia (1826) and they had: Jennie E. (1846); John W. (1851); Ella P. (1853); Charles E. (1857) and Anna (1866).

James N. Ranlett (1812-1849)(R3 #88)     immigrated from Scotland in 1857 to Boston on the Mary Eliza at the age of 45.

Hannah Green Holden           (1767-1801)(R3 #89) erected AD 1845 by Major Daniel Holden in memory of his wife Hannah Holden. Daniel Holden (1771-1854)) married Hannah and also married Abigail Foster.  He and Abigail had Erastus Holden (1809-1811)(R3 #89) and his father erected the monument in 1845 also.

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James  W. Cornish(1848-1917)(R4 #1), in 1880, lived with his wife Hattie E. Coombs (1854-1900)(R4 #2) in Lewiston and boarded at Stevenson the junk dealer. He was a peddler and Hattie worked in a photographer shop. They had Belinda B. Cornish(1881-1881)(R4 #3). In 1900, Hattie had died and James was a farmer in Topsham living with his mother in law Belinda B. Hall. In 1910 he was a grocer in Topsham and had married Annie G. who was a salesperson in the grocery store, he was 63 and she was 38. They had a servant Viola Goody (58).

Rosilla Grover    (1848-1917) (R4 #4) married George F. Grover (her 3^rd and his 2^nd marriage). George was born in 1861 and they married in 1904. He was a farmer and her maiden name was Cobb. She may have been George W. Cobb’s sister.

George W. Cobb (1852-1897)(R4 #5) was born in Minott, ME and the son of Otis C. Cobb and Lucy W. Carson. They were married in Bangor in 1837, He was a farmer. His father was born in New Gloucester and his mother in Canaan, Me.

Martha A. Flagg Lawry  (1803-1861)(R4 #6)was the wife of Samuel K.Lawry.  Samuel K. Lawry was born 11/18/1801 in Anson, Maine. His parents were Samuel and Rachel Lawry of Wiscassett, ME; Martha A. Flagg was born in Topsham and was married in 1826.  Samuel was a laborer in Topsham in 1860 and again in 1870. They had: Calvin E. (1836) died in infancy; Calvin E. (1828) died in Minnesota; Charles H. 1830); Samuel K. (1832) a musician  in the 29^th Maine; Martha A. (1834); David F. (1836); Robert W. (1839); Mary L. (1841); George F. (1843); and John M. (1847).

James Thompson (1765 -1852)(R4 #10)who was born in Brunswick, married Mary Wilson Thompson (1763-1839)(R4 #9) who was born in Kittery.  They had: Ruth Thompson (1804-1879)(R4 #7)and Dorcas Thompson (1786-1802)(R4 #8); Rebecca (1793); Samuel (1797); Mary (1796); Ezekiel (1798); and James (1801).

Daniel Small who was born in Provincetown, MA in 1736 and died in Wales, Maine in 1830 was captured by Indians while living with his parents in Castine in 1756.  He was a  captive for 11 months.He was sold to a French Colonel and rescued in Quebec by General Wolffe.  He married Joanna Cobb in Cape Elizabeth. She was born in 1742 and died in Wales, Maine. They had: Deacon Joseph (1769-1836) who was born in Milbridge, Me and married Mary Jackson; Mary (1774-1816) who married Benjamin Rackcliff and lived in Unity, Me; Ebenezer (176-1850) who married Elzabeth Jackson; Anna (Hannah) (1776-1864) in Unity, Me who married Dominicus Rackcliff in Limington, Me; Daniel (1780) of Scarboro who married Sarah Jackson in Unity, Me and lived there; Lemuel Cobb (1774-1849) (R4 #11)who married  Betsey Howard Small(1782-1868)(R4 #12) who died  in Bangor, Maine. They had George H. Small (1819-1856)(R4 #13).

Arthur L. Wilson(1811-1892)(R4 #14,19), a farmer, married Henrietta Wilson (1807-1884)(R4 #14) and married Elizabeth Wilson (1808-1839)(R4 #14,18).Arthur and Elizabeth had: James Wilson (1834-1835)(R4 #14,15) and Mary A. Bailey Wilson  (1834-1892)(R4 #14,16).

Ephriam Richardson (1793-1846)(R4 #20) was a shoemaker. On his gravestone is S. Smith  Hallo! He married Charlotte Wellington Richardson (1793-1842)(R4 #21). He was the  son of Joseph and Mary Richardson and was  born in Baldwin, Me. He married (1^st) on  Oct. 22, 1822, Charlotte Wellington,the daughter  of Enoch and Sarah [from the Ezekiel Richardson line. ] (Richardson) Wellington, of Cambridge, was a son of Joseph Wellington, of Lexington. She died June 9, 1842 and he married (2^nd) , on Jan. 12, 1843, Mary Sprague who was  born May 10, 1803. She was the daughter  of John and Charity Sprague, a descendant of Francis Sprague, who arrived at Plymouth, in the ship Ann, July, 1623. She was living in April, 1874. He was a tanner and shoemaker. He lived at Monmouth and Lewiston, both in Maine. He and Charlotte had: Cornelius Wellington Richardson (1824); Harriet Wellington Richardson (1826) Harriet W.Davis (1826-1867)(R4 #22)was the wife of J.H.Davis and had a son, Henry W. Davis (1867-1867)(R4 #22) ; Anne E. Richardson (1828) who married Ira L. Hale and they had Hattie W. Hale(1849-1868)(R4 #23);  and Sarah A. Richardson (1831) Sarah A. Jordan (1831-1906)(R4 #24). She was the wife of Rufus Jordan.

Joseph R. Coombs(1777-1838)(R4 #28)He married Elizabeth D. Coombs (1778-1845) (R4 #27) a and Elizabeth J. Clough Coombs (1821-1858) (R4 #35), daughter of Josiah Clough and Eunice Haskell. They had Thomas W. (1801); Isabella (1803); Joshua (1895); Harriet T. (1807); Deborah S. (1811); Seth Chandler (1817) and Joseph Van Rensalear Coombs (1814)  who married Lydia W. Coombs (1821-1846)(R4 #25). They had: Seth C. Coombs (1842-1846) (R4 #26).

Hanna Phillips    (1818-1855)(R4 #29) was the wife of Isaac Phillips (1817) a laborer. His parents were Edmund Phillips of Wayne, Livermore and Gardiner and Sarah Paul. Hanna was Hannah Ford of Lewiston.  They had Lydia Ellen (1841) in Topsham. Isaac had the following siblings: Edmund Phillips Jr. (1812-1832) of Wayne; Sewell Merritt Phillips (1815), a shoemaker wh married Laura Ann Fuller (Livemore); Algernon Sidney Phillips (1821) who married Martha C. in Oldenburgh, Prussia and he was a farmer and stone mason in Livermore; and Esther who was born in 1828).

Darius Cook and Mary Cook had: Jane Mary Cook (1834-1834)(R4 #30) and Joseph W. Cook (1840-1845)(R4 #31). They also had Frances Helen (1832).

Nathaniel Quint  (1775-1845)(R4 #32) was born in North Berwick, ME. and died in Tosham . He married Elinor Staples Purinton(1787-1847)(R4 #33) 1802, daughter of Samuel (Jr.) Staples. He also married Lydia Wells .Nathaniel Quint had a mill. They had: Rebecca (1804-1805); Alden (1804-1910); Mary Ann (1808) who married Steven Scribner; Eleanor (1810); Alden (2^nd) (1811-1871); Charles Porter (1813-1880)who married Lavina Rideoutr; Eleanor Staples (1815-1841) who married William Gross; Nathaniel Winslow(1817-1891)(R8 #149) who married Lois C. Goddard (1820-1872)(R8 #150)and had: George E. Quint (1853-1853((R8 #152); and Susan Foster; Dorothy Perkins (1819-1916) who married George Whitefield Lord; Elizabeth (1823-1882) who marred Joseph Reed; Samuel Perkins (1825-1870) (R9 #57)who married Mary C. Goud(1832-1881)(R9 #57).

Lucy Staples(1789-1864)(R4 #34). Possible the sister of Eleanor Quint (Staples) buried next to her. They were both children of Samuel Staples of Topsham.

Delano L. Ivnes  (1839-1842)(R4 #35) was the daughter of Nathaniel & Isabella H. Ivnes.There was in 1870 a Sarah E. Ivnes  in  Biddeford and worked at the cotton mill and was born in NH.

Green Foster (1807-1865)(R4 #36)He was a  laborer in 1860. He married Lucy H. Foster (1810-1888)(R #37).They had: Jones Foster (1837-1938)(R4 #38) and Daniel Foster (1842-1844)(R4 #39)

Capt. Alvah Marston, of artillery,  was born in Parsonfield, Maine (1805) and died in Union ,Penn. He is buried in the Keister cemetery there. He was lived in Durham and Topsham. He was in the lumber business in Pennsylvania. He was also selectman of Durham in 1843, 44, 46-8 and 1849. His parents were James Marson (1781-1811) and Sarah Doe.  He married (1) Mary Scribner(1804-1834)(R4 #42) from Harrison, Maine  in 1832 in Topsham, Maine.  She was the daughter of David Scribner and Iseletherea Howard.  He married (2) Sarah Ann Purinton from Bath, Maine in 1835).  He and Mary had Joanna Marston (1833-1833)(R4 #40) and James A. Marston (1834-1834)(R4 #41) as well as Charles (1833). He and Sarah had: Mary Ann (1837); James (1939); Vesta A. (1841); Alvah (1843); Charles Henry (1844) and Addie (1847).

William S. Skolfield (1814-1893)(R4 #43,44) Skolfield Monument West Face. He married Sarah Ann Skolfield (1826-1913)(R4 #43,45)who died at home in Topsham and  was born in Topsham, the daughter of Jabez and Nancy Pray Perkins. She attended Gorham Seminary and was married to William at a very young age.  She visited with her husband the principal ports of the world.

Ann Graves(1811-1844)(R4 #46) was the wife of Isaac Graves & daughter of George& Eliza Crawford. .Isaac Graves (1803-1879) married (2) Rebecca Prince of Detriot, Me (1846-1888) and they moved to Burnham Maine in 1866. They had Emery O.( 1847) who married (1) Tillile M. Blaisdell and (3) Cora A. Cross; Helen O.  (1849) who married Lucius E. Reed of Richmond, ME; Clara E. (1852) who died in 1866 in Burnham; Georgia A. (18545) who married Albert E. McNelly of Clinton; Carrie J. (1856-1857) in Topsham; and Nellie P. (1860). Isaac and Ann also had Frances L. Graves(1839-1842)(R4 #47). . He had three brothers, Henry B. (1837-1885) and Daniel A. (1840-) who married (1) Waite M. Cavis in 1867 and (2) Maggie E. Sweetland in 1886. And Isaac E. b. 1944) who married Lizzie M Rice in 1867; a sister, Sarah E. (1841-1858)

Bernard Ashley Cromwell (1890-1913)(R4 #48)    was the son of Ashley H. and Abbie Tate Cromwell (1859-1936)(R10 #62). She died at her home on the Breadley Pond Road. She was born in Topsham at the Bradley homestead, the daughter of William R. and Mary Bradley Tate. In 1889 she married Ashley H. Cromwell of Eddington, who died in 1893. Bernard Cromwell, their son and only child passed away in 1913. She served as bookkeeper in Norway for ten years. After the death of her husband she accepted a position in the officer of the Pejepscot Paper Company, which she held for 37 years. She was a member of the Topsham School Board for 12 years. She was survived by two sisters: Mrs. Alice Hawthorne of Veazie; and Miss Nellie Tate of Topsham, one brother, William Tate of Topsham. Ashley H. Cromwell was born in 1867 and died in 1893. He married Abigail Tate (1859-1936), sister of Actor Patten Tate . She was a bookkeeper and Stenographer in the Mill office. They had Bernard Ashley (1890-1913). Ashley was from New Brunswick and lived in Brewer Maine as a child. Bernard Sr. had blood poisoning from a fly bite on the right hand. He graduated from Topsham High School in 1909 and lived with his uncle William Tate; farming and poultry business; active in the Grange.

Foster Bradley    (1788-1873)(R4 #48) He married Mary Bradley (1794-1879)(R4 #48).They had Mary A.E. (1814-1831)(R4 #48), and Mary L. (R4 #48)who married, in 1858, William Ray Tate (1834-1900(R4 #48)), a farmer, and has a son William Foster Tate. Granite curbing engraved on top surface with these initials  BAC  MLT  WRT  MD  FB

William Ray Tate (1834   -1900)(R4 #48)   Tate/Cromwell Monument West Face.  His parents were Patten Tate (1801-1886)(R4 #87) and Mehitable Thompson (1807-1856)(R4 #86) who was born in Lisbon and died in Topsham. He had a brother, Actor Patten Tate (1829-1888) and Chaffen Weston Tate (1837-1841)(R4 #83) and a sister, Tamsin Maria Tate (1842-1847)(R4 #84) ;Anna Maria Tate (1848). He married Mary Louisa Bradley (1832-1913)(R4#48)They had: Abby M. Tate (1859) who married Ashley Cromwell and was a bookkeeper at Bowdoin Paper Mills and a teacher; Actor Patten  Tate (1861) who was a house carpenter and lived in Portland; William Foster. Tate (1863-1937)(R10 #62) worked on the home farm . He was born in Topsham, the son of William R. and Mary Bradley Tate. He was educated in Topsham schools and passed all of his life there except for brief intervals when he went to sea. He passed most of his life in farming and carpentry. From 1914 to 1918 he served his district as a state representative in Augusta. He was also a town selectman and acted as moderator at one time. He was survived by two sisters, Miss Nellie Tate, of the Bradley Pond Road, with whom he made his home, and Mrs. Fred Hawthorne of Veazie. ; Alice Lewis Tate (1869) lived in Veazie and married Frederick G. Hathom; and Nellie Edith Tate (1875-1963) (R10 #62) who lived at home

David Alexander (1776-  1844) (R4 #49) (R4#50) East Face of Monument. He married Mary Haley Alexander (1783-1857) (R4 #49) (R4 #51).They had: Louisa Alexander (1802-1884) (R4#49)(R4 #52)  Alexander monument North Face; Esther Ann  Alexander (1812-1890) (R4#49)(R4 #54); and Sophronia Alexander (1814-1885)(R4#49)(R4 #53); Alpheus D. Alexander (1825), William Gower Alexander (1817); John H. Alexander  (1804); and Pelatiah Lewis Alexander (1820).  Mary Haley was the daughter of Pelatiah Haley who was born in Kittery, Oct 8, 1740. He m. Elizaabeth Lewis, who was b. April 9, 1743, and d. Feb. 19, 1836. They came to Topsham in May, 1761. He d. in Topsham, Oct. 29, 1819. Ch. were:- Pelatiah; Susannah, m. Lemuel Thompson, Sept. 27,1792; Elizabeth, m. Andrew Whitehouse, April 3, 1795; Mary, m. David Alexander, Nov. 30, 1800; John, m. Nancy Higgins, Sept. 1827, and d., without issue, Oct. 23, 1832.

Samuel Thompson(1735-1798)(R4 #55)  Brig.Gen.; Me. Mil. Rev.War. he was buried in 1797 in Ferry Pt. at Burial Ground but afterwards removed and placed in the same grave with his son Humphrey in the village burial ground. Representative  from Topsham to the  Constitutional Ratification Convention in Boston in 1788. Carried out a raid on British ship officers in Portland causing later attack on Falmouth by British ships.  He was involved in businesses in Topsham. He married Abial Purinton in 1757; they had Reliance (1785); Rachel (1761) died young; Rachel (1763) m. John Wilson; James (1765) m. Mary Wilson; Humphrey (1767-1804) m. Mary who d. in 1835) Aaron (1769) lived 7 days; Aaron 91770) m. Mary Cushing of Cape Elizabeth; Thomas Cheney (1774) never marr.; Samuel Jr.  never marr. Schoolteacher and drowned; Thankful m. William Wise; and Elizabeth who marr. John Mallett.     Samuel was a champion of the Bill of Rights and refused to agree to the Constitution because it did not contain any.

Brig.-Gen. Samuel Thompson, was born in New Meadows, Brunswick, Me., March 22, 1735 and died in Topsham, Me., 1798. He was buried in the old cemetery at Ferry Point, Topsham, Me. When he had laid out thisgraveyard he said, “It is where I can go by land andwater.” But when the railroad bridge was placed across the river all those who had been interred in this,  quiet place were removed to River View Cemetery inTopsham. The general’s remains were easily identified, as he had been buried in a coffin bound in brass andadorned with a brass plate. His bones were placed inthe same grave as those of his son, Humphrey. In1903 a Revolutionary soldier’s marker was placed on his grave by the Sons of the American Revolution. He is said to have moved to Topsham, Me., in 1784. He was licensed to sell tea in 1773, as a retailer in1772 and 1774 and as an innholder in 1773. He was very successful in business and is said to have been worth $35,000 when he died. A little less than one halfof this amount was in real estate, of which he owned the most in Topsham, though he possessed considerablein Bowdoin, and some in Bath and Brunswick. (4 The children of Brig.-Gen. Samuel Thompson:

Reliance Thompson, b. March 31, 1758; m. ^say family),June 12, 1779, John Mallet as his second wife.(G) Samuel Thompson Mallet, lived Lisbon, Me;  Rachel Thompson, b. Feb. 19. 17C1; d. young;  Rachel Thompson, b. July 9, 17G3, alive in 1843; m.,March 10, 1783, John Wilson; James Thompson, b. June 15, 17G5; m.. Dec. 3. 1790, Mary Wilson;  Dorcas Thompson, b. Sunday, Sept. 4. 1791;

Rebecca Thompson, b. Feb. 12, 1793; m. Charles E.White; Samuel Thompson, b. Oct. 9, 1794;  Mary Thompson, b. Sept. 13, 179G; m.. May 15, 1814,William Mustard;  Ezekiel Thomp-son. b. Sept. 30, 1798; James Thompson, b. Sunday, March 22, 1801;  Ruth Thompson, b. April 19, 1803; unm.; Humphrey Thompson, b. Dec. 11, 17G7; d., Topsham, Me.,May 29, 1804; m. Mary, probably Mary Strout, who d.Sept. 25, 1835 (6G y.) ; marriage intention, Oct. 10, 1798;  Harry Thompson.(7) C. H. Thompson, b. Dec. 5, 1841; m. Mary C. Colby,b. Jan. 5, 1841; Luella May Thompson, b. Jan. 1. 1867; d. March18, 1897; Charles Edgecomb Thompson, b. April 18, 1869;  John Albert Thompson, b. Feb. 23, 1872;  Annie Maud Thompson, b. Sept. 4, 1874; Sarah Jane Thompson Lessure, b. June, 1835; d. Dec.2.5, 1892; Aaron Thompson, b. Oct. 18, 1759; d. Oct. 25, 1769; Aaron Thompson, b. Nov. 16, 1770; marriage intention,1828, to Mary Gushing of Cape Elizabeth; Thomas Cheney Thompson, b. July 14, 1774; d. ;unm; Samuel Thompson, Jr., b. Oct., 1780; d. March 2, 1858.Drowned. A schoolmaster;  Thankful Thompson, m., 1803, William Wise of Sacarappa.Me; Elizabeth Thompson. Nathan Goold of Portland, Me.,says the m. John Mallet.

According to Miss Sarah A. Thompson of Topsham, Me.,daughter, who tl. in July, aged about 18 years. (4) James Thompson, b. Feb. 22, 1737; d. June 14, 1757;  Reliance Thompson, b. June 27, 1738; d. about 1810; m.(first), Nov., 1756, James Edgecombe, who d. Jan. 25, afterthey had lived together about twenty years. They resided in Saco, Me. There were 12 children. M. (second), June 6, Capt. Joseph Woodman and they lived together13 years. M. (third), Lieut. Benjamin Brown, with whom  she lived eight years.

In 1792 Brig. Gen. Samuel  kept a public house in the building next occupied by Harvey Thompson near the  entrance to the old Topsham Depot grounds.

James Thompson was born in Kitttery ME in 1707 and d. 1791, he married Reliance Hinkley and they came to New Meadows and Brunswick in 1739; They had Elizabeth (1733) marr. Weed; James (1737) d. as infant; Reliance (1738) m. James Edgecomb; Adrian (1740); Rachel (1741) m. J. Curtis ; Ruth (1743) m. D. Curtis; Aaron (1745) went to Ireland and gone; Isaiah (1747); James (1750) and Samuel (Brig. Gen) 1735-1797);

Humphrey Thompson    (1767-1804) (R4 #59)married Mary (Strout)Thompson (1769-1835)(R4 #58).They had Hannah (1799); Harvey (1801) and Mary (1804). Mary Thompson(1825-1850)(R4 #57) was the daughter of Harvey Thompson and Elizabeth.  Esther Tibbetts           (1810-1854)(R4 #56)is buried right next to Mary Thompson.

David Foster (1779-1867)(R4 #60) He married Susan (Susanna) Haley Foster (1782-1845)(R4 #61) (G. Pullen Augusta). They had Susan J. Foster (1821-1842)(R4 #62), a son Charles (1826); and Benjamin Steele (1813) who married Martha Fay; Horatio H. (1805-6); Samuel T. (1809) who married Julia A. Brown; Horatio (1816) who married Mary N. Waters; Sarah (1824-1886) who married Benjamin Upton who was a photographer; and David H. Foster(1807-1850)(R4 #63) who  married Mary Frost  Foster (1856) (R4 #64)who died in Hallowell in 1856. David and Mary had: George H.; Jane B.; and Edward F. Foster(1833-1872)(R4 #65) who died                in Boston. David H. was a full professor of music and died in Richmond, Va.

Stephen S. Stinson(1795-1864)(R4 #67)  He married Lydia Harmon (2^nd) widow of Benjamin Harmon. Buried in Pine Grove Cemetery in Brunswick.  He also married Deborah Stinson (1797-1853)(R4 #68). They had: Albion Stinson (1826-1840)(R4 #66) and William H. Stinson (1831-1933)(R4 #66) who married Mary H. Stinson (1834-1897)(R6 #22)who was the widow of Abiel Brown. William H. Simpson was in Brunswick and worked at the shoe factory.

Edwin D. Hall(1834-1871)(R4 #69)Member of 1st Me. Cavalry; He was the son of William N. Hall and Harriett Noyes and was born in Topsham, Maine, and died in Portland, Maine. He married Margaret C. Sturtevant in 1858 in Freeport, Maine, daughter of Moses Sturtevant and Margaret (Peggy). The 1860 Census shows Edwin D. Hall and Margaret S. (for Stureivant) Hall living in Milo Maine on property adjacent to her parents. On July 1860 they showed a son Charles W. one month old. Since their son Frank was born in June of 1860 it was obviously the same child.How Edwin got to Milo a farming community to meet and marry Margaret, the youngest daughter of Moses Sturtivant, a farm girl is a mystery. He was supposedly born in Topsham, near Portland on the coast of Maine and Milo is in Piscataquis County in central Maine.His Service record shows his prewar occupation as “Carpenter”Edwin D. Hall, a resident of Durham, Maine at the age of 29 (in 1863) enlisted as a private in the Union Army. He was mustered into the DC Cavalry on February 19th, 1864 subsequently he tranferred into “A” Company of the Maine First Cavalry. He was discharged on June 5, 1865. Citation Historical Data Systems, Inc.His Service Record shows he was injured in an accident aboard a Troop Transport on May 20th 1864 when another soldier fell on him. He injured his side and back. That injury worsened after the war, causing him to apply for disability pension and ultimately he died of the injury in 1871. An autopsy showed that adhesions from the injury encircled his intestine and colon.The 1st District of Columbia Cavalry was organized in the later part of 1863 and early 1864 for the express purpose of providing protection to Washington D. C. 8 Companies of this unit were organized in Augusta Maine. It appears Edwin was paid a “Bounty” of $300 by the Army to get him to enlist. He was 29 at the time he joined and had a 4 year old son. It seems likely that the bounty was the reason he enlisted.When his unit arrived at Washington, D. C. it was ordered to report to Norfolk and it was in transit to Norfolk that he was injured. A month later he was transferred to the 1st Maine Cavalry (One of the most decorated units in the army. More 1st Maine members were killed in action during the war than any other cavalry unit). However, he spent the rest of the war in their “Dismounted” camp, probably in rehab for his injury.The 1870 Census show Edwin D. Hall, Age 35 living in Portland, Ward 1 with wife Margaret age 34 and sons Franklin E (10) and William (4). His occupation was listed as “Grocer.” He died a few months later in early 1871 at age 35. They had Frank Edward Hall (1860) born in Brunswick and died in 1911 in Collins, Minnesota; and William H. Hall who was born in 1866 in Brunswick and died in 1936.
Joseph Hall Jr. (1803-1825)(R4 #70)died in Mobile. On West side of the  Veazie monument.  He married Nancy J. Hall (1803-1885)(R4 #70). Nancy J. Hall was, in 1870, in Camden, ME a housekeeper for the Thad R. Simonton (a lawyer) family. There was a severe Yellow Fever epidemic in Mobilein 1825 with over 108 fatalities.

Samuel Winslow(1769-1833)(R4 #70,75)  He  married Sally Johnson and raised a family in early Topsham where he became a Deacon in the Church. Samuel and some, if not all, of his family are buried in Riverview Cemetery in Topsham. Samuel and his wife, Sally Johnson(1771-1855)(R4 #70,74) are names on one side of the large stone. On the otherside is who some  believe to be their chidren: George(1796-1812)(R4 #70)who drowned, John(1804-1816)(R4 #70) who also drowned, Samuel Jr.1795-1822)(R4 #70), Jonathan(1797-1824)(R4 #70,73), Sally(1800-1862)(R4 #70,71) and Betsey1808-1867)(R4 #70,72), most of who died as children or young adults. On another side is named Mary Jane (Winslow) Veazie who is buried in Bangor and apparently was instrumental in setting this stone as a memorial to her parents. On the last side is name Joseph Hall and Nancy J. Hall, his wife. Some are  trying to establish that the Jonathan Winslow named above is in fact the Jonathan Winslow who in 1821 in Bath , Maine married Ruth Ann Wales and subsequently died about a month before their only child, a daughter named Martha Johnson Winslow, was born. Ruth married second about three years later to John Stockbridge Eaton and had three more children. Some are  also trying to establish that Martha Johnson Winslow is the Martha J. Winslow who in 1848 married John Pinkham and had four children: Amelia, Carrie,George, and Annie.

Mary Jane Veazie(1810-1863)(R4 #71)     Veazie monument  North  Face; This monument was dedicated by Mary J. Veazie to her affectionate parents and their children. Mary Jane Winslow, wife of Jones P. Veazie,died in was buried at Mt. Hope.  The monument also states: P. Bradbury & Co. Manufacturers Bangor. (R4 #72-5) Veazies’ children.

Lewis Whitehouse(1846-1847)(R4 #76,80)was the son of Andrew L. Whitehouse (1809-1895)(R4 #76,78) and Martha F.  Whitehouse(1811-1847)(R4 #77,79); Whitehouse monument North Face. Andrew also married Hester A. (Ross) Whitehouse (1820-1897)(R4 #76).(R4 #81). Andrew was a brick mason and Martha was Marth F. Easton of Lewiston. They had Lyman E. who married Sarah E. Houlton and had: Mary E. (18660an Annie E. (1874). Andrew and Hester had: Belle P. (1863).  

Florence  Whitehouse marker stone.  Florence Belle Mercy  Dunklee(1884-1958)(R4 #76  She was a resident of Topsham for 50 years. She was born in Somerville, MA., the daughter of Daniel D. and Jennette Whitehouse Dunklee. She received her education in the Somerville schools. For a time after coming to Topsham she was employed as a clerk in the post office after which she became a clerk in Scribner’s Grain Mill working there for about 20 years. She had then been employed at the Pejepscot Paper Mill. She had been the financial secretary for the local union. She resided on Winter Street with her aunt, Mrs. Belle Rackley, whom she cared for. She was survived by her brother, Lorimer Dunklee of Cranston, R.I.

Dunklee, Daniel Denney, son of William A. and Mercy (Joy) Dunklee, was born in Boston, June 23, 1S43. He was educated in the public schools of Boston and Charlestown, and in the West Brattleboro, Vt., Academy. March 29, 1864, he enlisted from Boston in the U. S. Signal Corps, in which he served for two years. After his return, he was employed by: Poor, Towne & Co., druggists. Later he was for seventeen years with Matthew P. Elliot in the hat business. He established himself in that business in 1873, continuing in it until 1883. In 1885 he entered the employ of G. C. Dunklee & Co., his father being the head of the firm. In 1892 he purchased the business and has continued it to the present time at 113 Blackstone street, Boston, under the name of Dunklee & Co. In 1870 he married Miss Jeannette R. Whitehouse, of Topsham, Me. They have had three children, of whom Florence and Lorimer Claude Dunkle were living. His son Fred W. died, August 26, 1892. Mr. Dunklee is active in the Treniont Temple Church and Society, he is a member of Post 139, G. A. R.; Soley Lodge, F. A. A. M.; Royal Arch Chapter; and Orient Council, all of Somerville; and of De Molay Commandery, of Boston. He is a 32d degree Mason in Massachusetts Consistory. He has lived in Somerville ten years, and his residence is at 9 Oakland Avenue. Jennie Ross Whitehouse (daughter of Andrew L. Whitehouse and Hester A. Ross) was born October 16, 1850 in Topsham, Maine, and died December 5, 1912 in Topsham, Maine. She married Daniel Denny Dunklee on December 29, 1870 in Topsham, Maine, son of William Arnold Dunklee and Mercy R Joy.
Wilson  Marhy   (Martha?)(Mary?)(R4 #82)(Stone broken and mostly wasted away) Footstone M.W..

William Ray Tate (1834   -1900)(R4 #48)   Tate/Cromwell Monument West Face.  His parents were Patten Tate (1801-1886)(R4 #87) and Mehitable Thompson (1807-1856)(R4 #86) who was born in Lisbon and died in Topsham. He had a brother, Actor Patten Tate (1829-1888) and Chaffen Weston Tate (1837-1841)(R4 #83) and a sister, Tamsin Maria Tate (1842-1847)(R4 #84) ;Anna Maria Tate (1848). He married Mary Louisa Bradley (1832-1913)(R4#48)They had: Abby M. Tate (1859) who married Ashley Cromwell and was a bookkeeper at Bowdoin Paper Mills and a teacher; Actor Patten  Tate (1861) who was a house carpenter and lived in Portland; William Foster. Tate (1863-1937)(R10 #62) worked on the home farm . He was born in Topsham, the son of William R. and Mary Bradley Tate. He was educated in Topsham schools and passed all of his life there except for brief intervals when he went to sea. He passed most of his life in farming and carpentry. From 1914 to 1918 he served his district as a state representative in Augusta. He was also a town selectman and acted as moderator at one time. He was survived by two sisters, Miss Nellie Tate, of the Bradley Pond Road, with whom he made his home, and Mrs. Fred Hawthorne of Veazie. ; Alice Lewis Tate (1869) lived in Veazie and married Frederick G. Hathom; and Nellie Edith Tate (1875-1963) (R10 #62) who lived at home.

Diana Thompson (1845-1885)(R4 #85) was the daughter of Franklin and Cordelia Thompson . Franklin was born in 1818, the son of Phineas Thompson and Mary Metcalf (his 2^nd). Franklin had siblings: Wooster (1804-1892); Sabrina (1811-1894) who married George Lewis; Elizabeth (1812-1892) to married Atkins Hinckley; and John A (1823-1905) who had Weston Thompson of Brunswick as his son.

William Tate(1771-1843)(R4 #89)married Abigail Tate(1773-1863)(R4 #88).

Actor Patten 1st, was the father of Actor Patten, 3rd, He was the son

of Robert Patten of Arundel (Kennebunk) and brother of Mary, wife of William Wilson.  He

married Jane McLellan of Gorham (who was born Dec. 29, 1748) in Nov., 1766; died Aug. 28,

5. He died July 26th,1816, aged 79, was born in Ireland Jan. 22, 1737. Their children were:

1-Elizabeth, wife of Benj. Patterson of Saco.

2-Robert married, resided in Palermo.

3-Actor Patten, 3rd, mentioned before and who after his father’s death was called Actor

Patten 2nd.

4-Mary, whose first husband was Thos. Buckminster of Saco, and her second, Dr.

Shannon of Saco.  Died at the mouth of the Passadumkeag of croup in Jan., 1834.

5-Abigail, wife of William Tate, of Topsham.

6-Jane, wife of John Marston of Monmouth.

7-Rebecca, widow of Robert McLellan of Gorham.

8-Hugh, who married Lucy Green, sister of Nathaniel and Gardiner Green.

9-Rachel, unmarried.

10-Capt. William Patten, mariner

11-Margaret, married Joseph Levett, first, and second Noah Melche

12- Actor Patten 1st, was born in Ireland.

. Margaret⁵ Wallingford was born probably in Dover, New Hampshire about 1749. The date is illegible in Tate’s record but her name is listed as the first child before all the others born from 1750 through 1770. The next child was born in December 1750, and since her parents were married in May 1748 it seems likely that she was born in 1749.

She married Robert Tate, 10 August 1767 Robert was born 10 August 1744, probably in Dover, New Hampshire. Robert was the son of Master Joseph Tate and Elizabeth Saunders. Robert died in November 1827. Shackford says he died before 1796. Canney’s Strafford County Marriages states that Robert married Alice Spinney on 22 August 1770 , but this seems unlikely. Master Tate’s records do not indicate any such marriage for Robert, and the family listing has just Robert and his wife Margaret Wallingford and their eight children. And Master Tate would have known if there was another marriage, as he was Robert’s father. If this other marriage did occur it would mean that the last four children are not in the Wallingford line. Canney’s work is very unreliable so in this case is likely wrong. According to Robert’s father Joseph’s diary, they moved to Lebanon, Maine on 29 May 1771. His diary has another entry concerning Robert that is hard to comprehend: “Tuesday July 12, 1774. My son Robert Carried to York Goal pr. Mr. Joseph Prime. Rong Dr. pr. yt. Notori[worn] Infernal Devil (Lydia Lord)”. It sounds like Tate believed his son was wronged by a woman named Lydia Lord. On 17 March 1775, again in the words of his father, “My Son Robert Narrowed [sic] Escaped of Being Drown’d”.

Margaret Wallingford and Robert Tate had the following children:

David⁶ Tate was born probably in Somersworth, New Hampshire 24 June 1769. The family record kept by schoolmaster Joseph Tate, who was also Robert’s father, gives the date as “Sunday June 24, 1767 1769”, with both dates given in the original record. As his parents were married in 1767 it seems that 1769 would be the correct date, but in neither year was June 24th a Sunday. It was a Wednesday in 1767 and a Saturday in 1769.

William Tate was born probably in Somersworth, New Hampshire 14 September 1770. William died 12 April 1843, in Topsham, Lincoln County, Maine.  He married Abigail Patten, 26 August 1798, in Topsham, Lincoln County, Maine. Abigail was born 9 July 1773, in Topsham, Lincoln County, Maine. Abigail was the daughter of Capt. Actor Patten and Jane McLellan. Abigail died 4 January 1863, in Topsham, Sagadahoc County, Maine.

Sophia Tate was born 17 April 1773.

Margaret Tate was born 19 October 1775.

Penethia Tate was born 6 March 1778. The spelling of this name is uncertain, and it could even be a male. Could this be the Palatiah Tate who married Anna Hanson in Lebanon on 15 May 1799? Church records give her name as Amy.)

Betsey Tate was born 23 April 1781

Eunice Tate was born in October 1783

Sabra Tate was born 29 July 1786.

Lydia P. Hinkley (1827-1856)(R4 #91) Mrs. Lydia P. Hinkley was the daughter of James & Elisabeth Dunning of Brunswick . She, with her husband Joseph had an infant (1855-1855)(R4 #90)

Nathaniel Hinkley(1835-1835)(R4 #92)    son of Aaron & Rachel C. Hinkley. Aaron Hinkley was born 1772, a blacksmith, in Topsham and married Rachel C. (1800) and they had Ezekiel 91821); Willam (1823); Anne M.C. (1827); Rufus A. (1832); Cornelius E. (1829) Charles E. (1839) and James H. (1842). The daughter Elizabeth (1836-1836) with Jordan Hinkley is a mystery since it would not seem to be the Rachel of the Aaron marriage.

George E. Drew (b. 1814) and Harriet T. Drew (b. 1814) had Edwin Drew (1858-1886)(R4 #93) and Lillie Drew (1855-1877)(R4 #94). George was a farmer in Topsham and they also had: Emma T. (1850); Annie M. (1853) and Kate (1850).

A Francis J. Hubbard (R3 #49) had George C. Hubbard (1847-1847)(R4 #95)

Lucy Williams     (1823-1834)(R4 #96) was a daughter of William & Rachel Williams.

William J. Williams (1819-1853)(R4 #97)married Sarah Ann Fulton Williams (1823-1904)(R4 #97). They had: Anne (1850) and William L. (1853).

Sarah S. Williams(1800-1881)(R4 #98)      was the wife  of William  Williams(1784-1868)(R4 #99)

Alexander Thompson     (1806-1851)(R4 #102), a millman,married Sarah Thompson (1807-1867)(R4 #103) they had George E. Thompson (1843-1847)(R4 #100); and Hannah A. (1838) and Alice J. (1841).

Joseph R. Alexander (1838-1915) (R4 #101)died in Winthrop MA; and was  born in Topsham, the eldest son of William S. and Nancy (Merryman) Alexander. He died of asthma and heart trouble; he had 3 daughters: Nettie M., Alice  T. Alexander (1866-1938)          (R4# 107) and Mrs. Lena Dexter; and  two brothers: John, William S. (Topsham). He married Hannah A. Thompson Alexander (1838-1927) (R4 #101). Hannah was born in Topsham daughter of Alexander and Sarah and was the widow of Joseph R. Alexander of Roxbury, MA. She had a sister Mrs. Alice J. Adams of Winter St. She was the first daughter of Alexander and Sarah Thompson. She was educated in the Topsham Village schools and attended the private school of Miss Mary B.H. Wheeler who kept a school in the old bank building. She married in 1865 and went with her husband to East Boston. They had two daughters: Mrs. Lena E. Dexter and Miss Alice T. Alexander of Roxbury

Lydia Thompson (1803-1863)(R4 #104) was probably the sister of Abigail Thompson and Alexander Thompson.

Maria Roxanna Nott (1810-1866)(R4 #104)was the daughter of Jehiel & Cynthia Abell and was born in Topsham and died  died in Wareham, Mass

Abigail Thompson (1794-1865)(R4 #105)

Lena Alexander Dexter   (1867-1927)(R4 #106)     She died after a long illness caused by a tumor. She was born in East Boston, the daughter of Joseph and Hannah Alexander, natives of Topsham. She had a son, Philip S. Dexter of Rosindale, MA and a daughter, Mrs. Helen A. Lindemann of New York.

Alice T. Alexander (1866-1938) (R4 #107) She was the sister of Joseph Alexander and aunt to Phillip S. Dexter of Rosindale, MA.

 Broken Stone (R4 #108)

Maria Roxanna Nolt(1810-1866)(R4 #109) was the daughter of Jehiel and Cynthia Abell. She was born in Topsham, Maine and died in Wareham, MA.

Abell      Jehiel     (R4#112) (1777-1879)      was a blacksmith in Bowdoin, Maine in the 1850 and was blind. He lived with his wife,  Cynthia  P. (R4 #111)  (1778-1866) , Oakman S. (1816) and a mariner at that time, Almeda (1928); Cynthia P. (1848);  and a James V. Judkins (1836). Jehiel’s son Oakman was a Bowdoin famer in 1870 and lived with his wife Almeda (1828) and George Peck (1814-1837) R4 #110); Harriet M. (1854); Cyril O. (1863); Abbie H. (1806)) a seamstress; and Cynthia P. his sister (1818) who was a housekeeper. In 1880 Oakman was still a farmer in Bowdoin with Almeda and Cynthia. Cyril was a far laborer.

Helen E. Gioielli (1918-1997) (R4 #113) was a member of the Gioielli family. Helen was born on August 26, 1918. Helen died on January 31, 1997 at 78 years old. Helen E Gioielli’s last known residence is at Collinsville, Madison County, IL 62234. There was a Helen Elizabeth Burgess, daughter of Mark Burgess and Ruth Hayward (1899) that had a Helen Elizabeth Burgess that married Albert Gioielli in 1975 in Clark County, Nevada. He was born in 1905 and died in 1996 in Ocala Florida where Helen E. was the librarian for Clubhouse 1. Her husband had been a hairdresser.

Rev. Charles Bean, a Baptist Minister in Topsham in 1836 married Salome and they had Edwin J. (1846), a carrraige maker; Priscilla E.(R4 #114); George E. (1869); Sarah D. (1854); Albion(R4 #119); Nellie F. (1846); and Mary E.(R4 #119).

Janet Derby (1923)(R4 #115) daughter of Ray V. Hayward and Dorothy.

Frank Leslie  Hayward (1857-1925)(R4 #116) He died in Harpswell, ME. He  was  the son of J.P. Hayward, a farmer in Topsham, and a Methodist  Reverend. He  married Helen F. Hayward (1858-1934)(R4 #116).They had: Bertha V. Hayward (1884-1966)(R4 #116); Raymond V. Hayward (1890-1988)(R4 #118).Ray married Dorothy P. Hayward(1899-1991)(R4 #118)     . They also had Ruth W. Hayward who married Mark Burgess. Ray was a teacher  and had a daughter Janet who married Beggs and Derby. Ralph Hayward had a daughter Hazel who married Donald Perkins. They had Donald, Jane and Nancy.

Ruth W. Burgess (1890-1991 (1891?)(R4 #117) the daughter of Frank and Helen F. Hayward. She gave birth to Helen wo married Gioielli. She died in Baton Rouge and had a daughter April.

Collins Mallett   (1841-1850)(R4 #120)was an adopted son of H.P. & P.P. Mallett . Humphrey P. Mallet (1810-1886) was a farmer and a grocer  with William Mallett. Priscilla P. (1812-1893) was Humphrey’s  wife. Humphrey was a early member of the Temperance Society.

Martha J. Winslow(1810-1937)(R4 #122)was the wife of Wm. H. Winslow . They had Jones H. (1835-1836)(R4 #121)and Mary E. (1836-1837)(R4 #121). William H. Winslow ran a tin shop in Topsham starting in 1836 that mad air-tight stoves.

Arabella R. Howland      (1825-1845)(R4 #123,124), daughter of Abraham & his first wife Lydia, Howland died Jan.28, 1845 Ae.19 yrs. 6 mo. & 14 dys.

Jonas Bowman and Polly Jennk had  Abijah Bowman (1803-1887)(R4 #125,130), a farmer. Bowman Monument; he married Susan Haskell Bowman (1796-1843) (R4 #125,129) and also Mary B. Gowell Bowman (1814-1880) (R4 #125,127) who was born in Litchfield and died in Plymouth, MA. Abijah and Susan had: Mary Ann (1830-45)(R4 #125,128); Henry R. (1837-8)(R4 #125); Charles H.; Henry F. (1837-1838)(R4 #126); and Susan Marie who married Rev. Charles Chaplin Watson, a 1863 graduate of Bowdoin and 1866 graduate of Andover Theological Seminary.  He was a pastor in Lynn, Ma and the Superintendent of Schools in Dover, MA.

Lorenzo D. Berry, a blacksmith, married Aphia T. Whitney, born in Lisbon, and they had Ellen S. (1850), Olive M. Berry (1844-1845) (R4 #131) and Florence (1847).

Albert G. Foster(1830-1871)(R4 #134) was a ship’s carpenter, and in 1870 lived with Holman Foster, a farmer and his wife May; along with Susan Foster, a homemaker.

Joseph Foster    (1787-1862)(R4 #136)     He was a farmer. He married Mary Foster (1791-1876)(R4 #135) who married again to Robert Hunter. They had Daniel Baker Foster (1815-1838)(R4 #132) who died suddenly; and Isaac Foster (1823-1869)(R4 #133); They also had Susan (1815); Holman (1825) a laborer ; and Martha Ellen M. (1834) and Albert G. (1830-1871); Robert H. (1817-1878); when his mother married again he had a step father Robert Hunter and step sisters Lucy and Mary.

Franklin O.  Griffin (1851-1933)(R4 #137) a straw hatter in 1870, married Anna M. Woodside Griffin (1860-1905)(R4 #137). They had a daughter, Sarah B. who married a Crossman and later in 1906, Albion Jack, a Topsham farmer; and Ada (1885); Earl T. (1895).

John Cushing (1767-1863)(R4 #141)         was born in Abington, Plymouth, Massachusetts and died in Durham, Maine. He married Elizabeth “Betsey” Goodwin (1767-1843)(R4 #140) in 1791 in Durham, Maine.           They probably were the parents Louisa F. Cushing  (1802-1876)(R4 #138)and John Cushing Jr. (1815-1840)(R4 #139) who died unmarried.

Ebenezer Dunlap (1796-1859)(R4 #143)married Mary Loomis Dunlap (1800-1869)(R4 #142)of Lewiston in 1824. The State of Maine Legislature passed a bill in 1860 to give Mary $6 a month in consideration of her late husband’s injuries received in military service. Ebenezer was the son of John Dunlap and Dorcas Spear.

Enoch H. Hine    (1807-1828)(R4 #144)     He  taught here prior to his death in 1828. He taught district schools, but may possibly have taught a private school also. In the 1850 census there is a Enoch Hines who was 17 (1833) and son of Hollis  (1772) and Ruth (1778) and sibling to three sisters born (1820-1828). It is possible that they had an older Enoch and then a younger one after Enoch of Topsham teaching died. Also in the Hartford, Oxford County records of births there is an Enoch H. that was born in 1806. In addition there is an Enoch H. Hines that is buried there with the dates 4/16/1928; but all the others near him are 1828. He is stated as being 21 years, 6 months and 27 days old. It is possible he is buried there but a memoriam stone was set in Riverview in Topsham. The title of Mr. is perhaps a clue to his relationship to the community.

Jesse Richards (1769-1832)(R4 #145)        The manufacture and sale of hats and caps was carried on in this Topsham by John Coombs, from about 1812 to 1820. He was quite celebrated in his business. He lived in the old red house in the Walker lot, and had his shop just below. At the time of the rush of emigrants to Ohio, he sold out and went to Cincinnati, where he became a rich and influential citizen. Subsequently Jesse Richards was engaged in this business. The exact time Richards was here is not known, but it was probably between 1820 and 1830. He carried on business in the same place that Coombs did.

Patricia Mains    (1800-1860)(R4 #146)     .

Row 5

Charles H. Fuller               (1818-1840)(R5 #1)

 Jairus Fuller       (1772-1834)(R5 #3)          .In 1804, Jairus Fuller sold to Gideon and Nathaniel Walker, for three hundred and fifty dollars, one-fourth part of one saw in the Great Mills. The owners of the rest of the saw privilege were William King and Thomas Thompson.Lived on Pleasant St. Topsham. He married  Eunice Fuller (1773-1864) (R5 #2) They had Jarius and Charles H.  (1818-1840).

John Tedford  (1776-1826)(R5 #4)Tedford Monument West Face, He married Olive Scott Tedford (1775-1860)(R5 #4). John Tedford and Olive Scott were from Nova Scotia and he was a laborer in Lisbon and Minot Maine. They had Olive (1797) in Minot; John (1798) in Poland, Ellis (1800-1850)(R5 #4), Horatio (1809) Minot who married Augusta Soule and they had Chansonetta (1839 in Topsham ); John Sewall (1843); James Alfred (1846) Ellen (1849) and Melissa (1851);….John Sewall (1812-1841)(R5 #4)(in Minot); and Martha Ann (Lisbon) who married a Morse.

Alanson  C.B. Tedford    (1813-1835)(R5 #4)Tedford Monument East Face. Probably the son of John and Martha Tedford.

Nancy  J. Tedford (1835-1882)(R5 #4)was the daughter of John and Martha Ann Morse Tedford  and Martha  (2^nd)  married Mark Sylvester.

Rebeca S. Hazelton (1846-1928)(R5 #5)was the wife of  Clarence H. Hazelton. She died at the home of her daughter Mrs. Arthur Johnson on Elm St. She was born in Manahawkin, N.J., the daughter of Hull and Elizabeth Fitz Randolph. She was one of 12 children. She spent most of her life in NY. She came to make her home with Mr. and Mrs. Johnson about 15 years before her death.  She had two sons: Clarence Hazelton of Philadelphia; John Hazelton of London, England. She had a daughter Mrs. Arthur Johnson of Topsham. She has a sister, Mrs. Seymour Patterson of Philadelphia.

Arthur Berry Johnson     (1876-1942)(R5 #7)

Arthur B. Johnson—originally a resident of New York City and vicinity, Arthur B. Johnson held several positions in that metropolis before 1918, when he came to work for the Pejepscot Paper Company , in Brunswick, Maine. Not only was he in charge of the purchasing department of this company, but he had several additional business interests in Brunswick, and held an important place in the ranks of the Republican party in the section.

The son of Samuel E. Johnson, who was a native of Maine and a lumber dealer by occupation and of Joanna P. (Tebbetts) Johnson. Arthur was born in Queens County,  Long Island, September 2, 1876. He attended the public schools of New York City, and for two years held jobs as office boy and other minor positions on Wall street. Then after having been engaged for some time in the contracting business with his brother, he dame, in Nov. 1898, to Brunswick to be stenographer for the Pejepscot Paper Company. He held several position with this company until 1914, when he was put in charge of the purchasing department, which was formed at that time. He was also a trustee of the Water Company and president of the Maine Concrete Company. He served as the Chairman of the Topsham Committee of Twelve. On April 14, 1901 he married Angela Hazelton of New Jersey. They had : Helen R. a graduate of Mt. Holoyoke  and M.A. from Brown University; Clarence Hazelton Johnson (1906-1973)(R6 #46) a graduate of Bowdoin college who married Mary Chamberlayne (1912-1965)(R6 #46); Ruth W. studied with Lelix Winternitz of Boston and violin study at University of Michigan Music School; Angela (1879-1962)(R5#7; Mary E. and  Arthur B. Johnson Jr. (1904-1907)(R5 #6)

Arthur  and Johanna had also: Samuel  L. Johnson who became a very prosperous businessman in Ft. Worth, Texas. He was born in Topsham in 1878 and went to Texas in 1906 wit the Texas Bitulithic Co. and became manager. He married Alda Darter in 1912 and had Ada Darter Johnson in 1913.

Samuel E. Johnson(1842-1892)(R5 #10)  married Joanna Perkins (1843-1932)(R5 #9) They had Charles Tibbetts Johnson (1868-1887)(R5 #8).

Abraham Howland(1762-1853)(R5 #11)  married Ann Staples  Howland (1767-1846)(R5 #12)He was born in Plymouth, MA. They were married in 1787 in Topsham, Maine. They had: Islethera Howland who was born in 1802 in Topsham, Maine and died there in 1843.  She married (1^st) David W. Scribner, in Topsham in 1821, who was born in Waterborough, Maine in 1795.  Abraham and Ann Staples had: Benjamin; John (1793-1931) married Margaret Hunter (1796); Abraham (1794); Althea(1802); George(1795) and Stockbridge (1801). Stockbridge,  a millwright marred Louisa M. and they had Frances H.  (born in New York) and Rebecca D. (born in Topsham). Abraham and Lydia aslo had James E. (1844).Their son George was a farmer and married Mary R. (1801) and they had Mary L. (1833); Angelia (1833); Elizabeth (1837); Edwin H. (18335); William M. (1844); Frederick R(H.?). (1849);and George L. (1833) who married Harriet (1846). It was this William M. and George L. who patented an improvement in Derricks in 1871 after inventing it in 1867.Abraham was the son of Benjamin and Experience Howland of Pembroke, MA. Benjamin was a mariner and was shipwrecked on the island of Eleuthera in the Bahamas and his wife thought him lost. When he returned they had a daughter that they named Isletherea, a  misspelling of the island who married Caleb Barker of Dresden, Maine. Abraham named his daughter after his sister.

Stockbridge Howland had a daughter Frances Howland. There was a healing of Frances Howland by Ellen Harmon, a Seventh Day Adventist pioneer in Topsham on Elm Street.This took place in the mid 1840s. Here is a direct excerpt:

Miracle In Topsham

Ellen continued her travels, always with at least one other woman and a trusted man, or a couple. This was the case when she went to Topsham, Maine, where her dear friend Frances Howland lay stricken with rheumatic fever. Her hands, swollen twice their size, were so large that the joints of her fingers couldn’t be seen. Several people had come to pray for Frances, including James White.

Mr. Howland brought them up-to-date on is daughters’ condition. As the doctor could do nothing else for her, the little group decided they must pray for Sister Frances’ healing. After their prayers someone asked, “Is there a sister here who had the faith to go and take her by the hand, and bid her arise in the name of the Lord?”

Immediately Sister Curtis turned and made her way up the stairs. Going into the darkened bedroom, she spoke softly to Frances, then gently took her crippled hand in hers, “Sister Frances,” she said, “in the name of the Lord arise, and be whole.”

Instantly Frances’ body filled with new strength. She pushed off the covers and rose from the bed, walking about the room and praising God for her healing. Mrs. Howland heard her voice and hurried into the room, clasping her daughter against her heart and kissing her over and over. How wonderful it was to see her dear child so strong and healthy.  With a happy heart she helped Frances bathe and slip into a new spring dress of pink muslin printed with dainty white flowers. With her dark hair tied back by a pink ribbon, Frances radiated joy, happiness, and health as she walked down the stairs where she was met with fervent amens…..

Seventh-day Adventists believe church co-founder Ellen G. White (1827–1915) was inspired by God as a prophet, today understood as a manifestation of the New Testament “gift of prophecy“, as described in the official beliefs of the church.^[1] Her works are officially considered to hold a secondary role to the Bible, but in practice there is wide variation among Adventists as to exactly how much authority should be attributed to her writings. With understanding she claimed was received in visions, White made administrative decisions, gave personal messages of encouragement or rebuke to church members. Seventh-day Adventists belie Next we need to deal with Ellen White 1827-1915 (and to a lesser degree her husband Elder James White). Originally known as Ellen Harmon, at age 9, she was hit on the head by a rock and spent three weeks in a coma. When she “recovered,” she was left with emotional and health problems for the rest of her life.

This event tends to give at least some explanation for the preoccupation with the extreme forms of vegetarianism etc. that the Seventh Day Adventists are today also known for. In 1840, at the age of 12, her family joined the Millerite movement. There was a tidal wave of enthusiasm over the impending return of Christ that likely contributed to what I would describe as a psychosis. She began prophesying as Ellen Harmon. But she is better known for her married name, Ellen G. White. At one time she was known as the “imitation of Christ.” Today the Seventh Day Adventists refer to her as “the Lord’s messenger.”.

For example, there was that spring day when a number of believers were assembled in Topsham, Maine, at the home of Stockbridge Howland. His daughter, Frances, in an upstairs bedroom suffering from rheumatic fever, was under the care of a physician. Her hands were so badly swollen that the joints could not be distinguished. Ellen White reported:

“As we sat together speaking of her case, Brother Howland was asked if he had faith that his daughter could be healed in answer to prayer. He answered that he would try to believe that she might, and presently declared that he did believe it possible. We all knelt in earnest prayer to God in her behalf. . . . One of the brethren present cried out, ‘Is there a sister here who has the faith to go and take her by the hand, and bid her arise in the name of the Lord?’ . . . Before he ceased speaking Sister Curtis was on her way to the stairs. She entered the sickroom with the Spirit of God upon her, and taking the invalid by the hand, said, ‘Sister Frances, in the name of the Lord arise, and be whole.’ New life shot through the veins of the sick girl, a holy faith took possession of her, and obeying its impulse, she rose from her bed, stood upon her feet, and walked the room, praising God for her recovery”.Frances dressed and came down to where the group was, “her countenance lighted up with unspeakable joy and gratitude. “The next day she rode three miles in rainy weather, sustained no injury, and continued to improve.”

In the same report, Ellen White spoke of William Hyde, who was gravely ill with dysentery. She wrote: “His symptoms were alarming, and the physician pronounced his-case almost hopeless.”–Ibid., p. 75.Shortly thereafter those of faith united around his bedside pleading with God for his healing. Ellen White continued:

“I have seldom known such a reaching out to claim the promises of God. The salvation of the Holy Spirit was revealed, and power from on high rested upon our sick brother and upon all present. Brother Hyde immediately dressed and walked out of the room, praising God, and with the light of heaven shining upon his countenance.”–Ibid., p. 76.

He joined the family at the dinner table, ate heartily, and Ellen White reported that “his recovery was complete and permanent.”

James and Ellen probably first met in the summer of 1844. Both were Millerite Adventists, who eagerly looked for Christ’s return in 1844. Despite ill health, 
Ellen spoke in meetings and shared her faith in other ways. James was an energetic young preacher who on a four-month preaching tour in deep snow in early 1843 converted 1,000 people.   In terms of their beliefs, the two of them shared much in common.

A few weeks after October 22, 1844, when Jesus did not return as expected, Ellen received her first vision. Exactly when James first heard about it is unknown, but however it happened, James soon joined the group of Ellen’s friends who traveled with her as she shared her visions.

On August 30, 1846, James Springer White, 25, standing a little more than six feet (1.8 meters), and Ellen Gould Harmon, 18, standing five feet two inches (1.57 meters) tall, were married by Charles Harding, a justice of the peace in Portland, Maine. It was the beginning of a nearly 35-year partnership that ended with James’s death on August 6, 1881.

Autobiographical Sketch of Ellen G. White

In the spring of 1845 I made a visit to Topsham, Maine. On one occasion quite a number of us were assembled at the house of Brother Stockbridge Howland. His eldest daughter, Miss Frances Howland, a very dear friend of mine, was sick with the rheumatic fever, and under the doctor’s care. Her hands were so badly swollen that the joints could not be distinguished. As we sat together speaking of her case, Brother Howland was asked if he had faith that his daughter could be healed in answer to prayer. He answered that he would try to believe that she might, and presently declared that he did believe it possible.

We all knelt in earnest prayer to God in her behalf. We claimed the promise, “Ask, and ye shall receive.” John 16:24. The blessing of God attended our prayers, and we had the assurance that God was willing to heal the afflicted one. One of the brethren present cried out, “Is there a sister here who has the faith to go and take her by the hand, and bid her arise in the name of the Lord?”

Sister Frances was lying in the chamber above, and before he ceased speaking Sister Curtis was on her way to the stairs. She entered the sickroom with the Spirit of God upon her, and taking the invalid by the hand, said, “Sister Frances, in the name of the Lord arise, and be whole.” New life shot through the veins of the sick girl, a holy faith took possession of her, and obeying its impulse, she rose from her bed, stood upon her feet, and walked the room, praising God for her recovery. She was soon dressed, and came down into the room where we were assembled, her countenance lighted up with unspeakable joy and gratitude.

The next morning she took breakfast with us. Soon after, as Elder White was reading from the fifth chapter of James for family worship, the doctor came into the hall, and, as usual, went upstairs to visit his patient. Not finding her there, he hurried down, and with a look of alarm opened the door of the large kitchen where we were all sitting, his patient with us. He gazed upon her with astonishment, and at length ejaculated, “So Frances is better!”

Brother Howland answered, “The Lord has healed her,” and the reader resumed his chapter where he had been interrupted: “Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him.” James 5:14. The doctor listened with a curious expression of mingled wonder and incredulity upon his face, nodded, and hastily left the room.

The same day Sister Frances rode three miles, returning home in the evening, and although it was rainy, she sustained no injury, and continued to improve rapidly in health. In a few days, at her request, she was led down into the water and baptized. Although the weather and the water were very cold, she received no injury, but from that time was free from the disease, and in the enjoyment of her usual health.

Experience Howland(1789-1865)(R5 #13)was the daughter of Abraham and Anna Staples Howland.

Benjamin Howland (1791-1833) (R5 #15) married Margaret M. Howland (1802-1831)(R5 #14). He was the son of Abraham and Anna Staples Howland. They were married in Gorham (Freeport)in 1827.

Angerome C. Henderson (1835-1855) (R5 #16)     On East Face of Tedford Monument under Ann E.Tedford.  Angerone C. was the daughter of Jonathan and Caroline C. Tedord and married Robert W. Henderson in 1852. He remarried and was a house carpenter in Lewiston Maine in 1870.

Jonathan  E. Tedford(1802-1893)(R5 #16)married Caroline C. Tedford (1808-1840)(R5 #16) and married Mary Mosley Tedford (1812-1887)(R5 #16). He and Caroline had: Anne E. Tedford (1832-1847)(R5 #16) and Alanson (1837-1847)(R5 #16). He and Mary had: Albion E. Tedford (1848-1930)(R5 #16); Maria E. (1851); George (1852) and Caroline (1855). Albion was a farmer on his brother George Tedford’s farm .  George was married to Etta M. Tedford. They had a sister Mrs. Angeline  Morse(1852) of Nevada.

Actor P. Tate (1828-1888)(R5 #17), a farmer, was the  son of Patten Tate and Mehitable  married Martha E. Tate (1838-1908)(R5 #18). His sister was Annie M. Tate.

Mary Pray Lewis (1805-1829)(R5 #19)      wife of George Lewis who died and their son aged 5 days.

 Annie M. Tate (1848-1922)(R5 #20) was the daughter of Patten Tate and Mehitable and granddaughter of William and Abigail Patten Tate

George Patten Lewis       (1832-1833)(R5 #21)was the son of George & Sabrina

James Barron     (1829-1896)(R5 #22)married Irene Curtis Barron (1840-1914) (R5 #23) and married Martha M. Barron (1831-1855) (R5 #25). He and Martha had John R. Barron (1855-1855) (R5 #23). His father was John Barron. James was a lumberman, as was his father. He and Irene had             Fred Barron        (1865-1866)(R5 #21)and Edgar Barron     (1868-1911)(R5 #24).

Mehitable Barron(1765-1839)(R5 #26)     was the widow of Jotham Barron . She and Jotham had: John, Harriet, Lucinda, Charles, William, Joseph, Hosea and Benjamin. Jotham (1760-1814) was a private and corporal in the Mass. Continenal Army (1777-1778) and was born I Dracut, MA and died in Danville, ME.

Lucy Barron (1818-1885) (R5 #27)

Martha Barron  (1797-1872(R5 #28) was the wife of John Barron

John Barron(1793-1860)(R5 #29) John Barron was born in Dracut, MA  and went with his father to Danville, Maine about 1796. He lived there until he moved to Topsham in 1813; but not permanently until 1820. He married, in 1817, Martha Crockett of Danville, Maine. He was a member of the State Senate in 1850 and engaged successfully in the lumbering business. His last illness was of internal cancer that lasted for the last two years of his life.They had the following children: Lucy (1819); Charles (1821) a seaman; James (1829-1896) who married Martha M. (1831-1855); George (1824), a merchant;  and Irene Curtis. He and Martha had John (1855-1858).

Oliver H. Quinby(1819-1842)(R5 #30) was a  Clergyman in Universalist Church Lisbon Maine.  Preached for 3 years.

Thomas Finnety marrie   Eunice   Ann Clough(1845-1889)(R5 #31), daughter of Jeremiah Clough and Elizabeth McManus Quinby. Thomas was from Brunswick and was born in 1841 it is possible he was born in Ireland or England; They had Eliza Ann (1876) an Mary Quimby (1879) who went to Brockton, MA.

Nathaniel Quint  (1775-1845)(R4 #32) was born in North Berwick, ME. and died in Tosham . He married Elinor Staples Purinton(1787-1847)(R4 #33) 1802, daughter of Samuel (Jr.) Staples. He also married Lydia Wells .Nathaniel Quint had a mill. They had: Rebecca (1804-1805); Alden (1804-1910); Mary Ann (1808) who married Steven Scribner; Eleanor (1810); Alden (2^nd) (1811-1871); Charles Porter (1813-1880)who married Lavina Rideoutr;  Eleanor Staples (1815-1841) who married William Gross; Nathaniel Winslow(1817-1891)(R8 #149) who married Lois C. Goddard (1820-1872)(R8 #150)and had: George E. Quint (1853-1853((R8 #152); and Susan Foster; Dorothy Perkins (1819-1916) who married George Whitefield Lord; Elizabeth (1823-1882) who marred Joseph Reed; Samuel Perkins (1825-1870) (R9 #57)who married Mary C. Goud(1832-1881)(R9 #57).

Jeremiah Clough (1795-1849)(R5 #37)was born in Danville and was disowned in 1817 (maybe a quaker)He married Eunice Haskell Clough (1800-1844)(R5 #36), daughter of Stephen and Rebecca Marston Haskell. He also married Mr. Elizabeth McManus Quimby and Sarah Almira Chick. He was a public house tavern keeper on Winter Street known as the Lincoln Hotel and the Temperance Hotel in 1837. He and Eunice had: Henry A. (1835-1837)(R5 #35); Henry Augustus (1822-1833)(R5 #35) who drowned; Frances Anne (1826-1842)(R5 #34); Elizabeth Jane (1820) who married Joseph R. Coombs; James Franklin (1824); Elivira Amanda (1828); Charles Alonzo (1831-1902)(R7 #16) a farmer; and he and Elizabeth ? or he and Eunice had  had George Haskell (1833); Ellen Augusta (1838); Sidney Alphonso (1840) . His other wife must have had Frances Alvaredo (1844) and Eunice (1845) who were born after Eunice’s death. Charles Alonzo Clough married Abbie S. Clough (1834-1863)(R7 #16) and Sarah E. Clough (1834-1901)(R7 #16). Charles and Abbie had George E. (1858-1880)(R7 #16) ,Annie J. (1871-1873)(R7 #16, William A. (1875-1895) (R7 #16) and Charles S. Clough (1862-1895)(R8 #132), a farm worker who married Gusta M. Clough (1869-1920) (R8 #32).

Stephen and Sarah Jewell had: Nancy L. Jewell (d. 1812)(R5 #38)as well as Charles (a mariner) (1831); Corrisan 1843); George (1840; and William M. He was an owner of the Great Mill in Topsham

 Stephen D. Jewell (1844-1844)(R5 #39)was the son of Stephen and Mary I. McCopbb  Jewell. They also had Isabella (1846) and Lecilla (1848).

Stephen and Lucy  Aubens Jewell(1792-1839)(R5 #44) had: ; Corrizan Jewell (1822-1823)(R5 #40);Charles H. Jewell (1828-1830)(R5 #41); Aborine Jewell (1818-1838)(R5 #42) who married Calvin Wincheser and had Annie Jewell Allen; Priscilla Jewell (1810-1839)(R5 #43).

Frances A. Mallett (1828-1852)(R5 #48)   was the wife of Isaac E. Mallett who also married Mary Purinton.

Daniel Graves (1796-1867)(R5 #54,56) War of 1812. He married Susan (1798-1831)(R5 #51,55) and they had Wiliam E(1827-1891)(R5 #51), a farmer and lived with his sister Corris A.(1825-1903)(R5 #51,53)., and Daniel A.(1830-1939)(R5 #51,53); Emery (R5 #53)

Isaac Mallett (1801-1886)(R5 #57) he married Priscilla Mallett (1802-1881)(R5 #57). They had Octavia Mallett              (1829-1888)(R5 #57,59)and Mary T. Mallett(1831-1888)(R5 #58,58) as well as Isaac W. (1842), William A. (1844) and Alvah Mallett(1839-1916)(R5 #75)West Face Mallett Monument. He lived on Mallett Road and married Adella Mallett (1867-1897)(R5 #70).

William Mallett (1757-1844)(R5 #57)west face of Mallett monument. He married Deborah Mallett (1762-1844)(R5 #57). They had William  Mallett  Jr. (1778-1856)(R5 #50). Bernice Mallett      (1813-1835)(R5 #45) was the daughter of William Mallett,Jr. (1778-1856)(R5 #50) War of 1812, and Betsy (1789-1865)(R5 #49)his wife.  They had: Deborah C. Mallett (1823-1843)(R5 #46); Melissa Ann (1837-1843)(R5 #47).

R5#60    Mallett                                                              Father

R5#61    Mallett                                                              Mother

R5#62    Mallett                                                              Grand Mother

R5#63    Mallett                                                              Grand Father  marker; S.A.R. 1775

Hugh Wilson(1789-1860)(R5 #69)was a cabinet maker in Topsham; He was the son of Hugh Wilson and was born and died in Topsham. He married (1) Susan StapleWilson  (1797-1846)(R5 #68) in 1818 in Topsham. She was born in 1798 in Brunswick and died 1846 in Vassalboro, Me. He married (2) Nancy Felch in Topsham in 1849. She was born 1804 in Wayne,Maine. He and  Susan had: Charles L. (1818); Elizabeth Ann (1820) who married William H. Whittier in 1838 who was born in Vassalborough, Maine.; Francis (1824-1831)(R5 #64); Mary Jane (1826) marr. John Nowell who was born in Vassalborough Maine ; Althera (1828); Frances Jane (1831) married John H. Humphreys in 1851.; Angella D. (1834-1841)(R5 #66); William H. (1837-1837(R5 #65); Ellen Maria (1838-1842)(R5 #67)

Ralph A. Mallett               (1892-1957)(R5 #70,76)He married Ada Mallett (1894) (R5 #70,75).

Isaac E. Mallett  (1834-1899)(R5 #70) married Frances A. and Mary Purinton and  Sirena Frances  Mallett (1850-1926)(R5 #70).

R5#71    Mallett                                                              Woodbury marker

R5#72    Mallett                                                              husband marker

R5#73    Mallett                                                              wife marker

R5#74    Mallett                                                              Mother marker

(R5#78) Walker                 Elizabeth marker stone

Nathaniel Walker(1781-1851)(R5 #77,79) was the son of Gideon Walker (1758-1828)  and Mary Perkins(1758-1845). He was born in Arundel; He married Betsey Burnham and had Obed Walker.He also married Jane T. Walker    (1785-1851)(R5 #77,80). His grandfather was John Walker. Nathaniel was in the war of 1812 and town clerk of Topsham as well as  Postmaster of Topsham He served on the  Citizens’ Fire Dept. and was a Lumber surveyor and businessman.In  1809 he built the Walker Homestead. His children: Wildes Perkins (who marr. (1) Catherine Pulton Patten fo Bath; and (2) Priscilla I. McManus of Brunswick ; Katherine who married Thomas Patten; Elinor (d. at 15) ;Elizabeth J. (Elizabeth J. Purinton)(1818-1853)(R5 #77) who married Woodbury Bryant Purinton of Topsham; and  Oliver  A.. Walker     (1811-1826)(R5 #77).Monument  East Face.

(R5 #80) Mother marker

Charles White    (1794-1854)(R5 #81,85)married Rebecca A. White (1793-1834)(R5 #81,83,84) and Mary M. White(1814-1902)(R5 #81). He and Mary had George R. White (1839-1862)(R5 #81) who died in New Orleans . A member of Co. D 14 Me. Regt. ;  Frances White (1840-1841)(R5 #81,2); Mary E. White (1866-1866)(R5 #81) ; an infant (1844-1844)(R5 #81).

Rachel Patten    (1784-1874)(R5 #86)

Actor Patten      (1771-1829)(R5 #87) West Face of Patten Monument.  Actor married Anna Wilson Patten (1780-1832)(R5 #87)and they had Charlotte (1801-1801); John Stockbridge (1802-1892); William Wilson (1805-1888); Mary Jane (1809-1893); Rachel Caroline (1811-1834); Bryce McLellan (1814-1891); Thomas Wilson (1816-1865); Eliza Swett (1819-1893); Otis (1821-1893); and Charles Tate (1824-1898);Hugh Patten,(1790-1860)(R5 #93,91), a lumberman, married Lucy G. Patten (1794-1879)(R5 #93,92) They had Mary C.G. Patten (1838-1838)(R5 #93).

Isaac W. Patten (1807-1883)(R5 #87,90) son of Actor and Ann Wilson Patten.         South Face Patten Monument married Mary J. Patten (1809-1893)(R5 #87,89)     and they had: Eliza S. Patten   (1819-1893)(R5 #87,88)  ;Sarah M. Patten  (1828-1857)(R5 #93)    died Aug. 4, 1857; aged 29 years; Roger G. Patten   (1837-1874)(R5 #93)Captain and  James M. Patten (1833-1845)(R5 #93).

Benjamin S. Swift(1838-1893)(R5 #93,97)married Caroline A. Swift (1841-1934)(R5 #93,94). Mrs. Caroline Amanda Swift died at her home of Middle Street in Brunswick. She was born in Houlton the daughter of Phoebe Amanda (Dow) and George Gardner Green. She was educated in the public schools of Topsham, where she spent most of her youth and in Quebec where she lived for a few years. In 1870 she married Benjamin S. Swift of Brunswick. At the same time her only sister, Kate Green, was married to Edward Beaumont, who subsequently was very prominent in Topsham and Cumberland County business and political affairs. This double ceremony took place in Mrs. Swift’s grandfather Green’s homestead on what was then known as “the Island” in Topsham. This is where the site of the offices of the Pejepscot Paper Company was later located. After her marriage Mrs. Swift moved to St. Louis, Mo where a son and a daughter were born.  Later another daughter was born in Topsham and a third in Brooklyn and a son in New York. She lived in New York City for many years until her husband died (1883) when she moved with her two daughters to Brunswick. She was survived by her daughter, Margaret Amanda(1875-1959)(R5 #93,95) and by her only son, Thomas B. Swift of Martinez, Calif.  They also had: Kate B. Swift (1880-1903)(R5 #93,96) Patent and Green Momument.

Henry W. Green (1824-1888)(R5 #93,99) married Phoebe Amanda P. Green (1821-1890)(R5 #93,98)She was born in  New Brunswick,Canada. He was the son of Nathaniel Green and Margaret Rogers and was a sea captain and merchant. They had Alexander Rodgers Green; Caroline (1841) and Kate (1843). His father was  a member of the convention that formed the Constitution of Maine in 1820, was a member of the Senate from Lincoln County and the House of Representatives from the town of Topsham for five or six years. He was sheriff of Lincoln County for one year. Register of deeds for several years and at the time of his death a member of the Board of Commissioners of Lincoln County. Abner B. Thompson, a Brunswick merchant, wrote to Brig. Gen. George F. Shepley, a Maine native, introducing ship captain and merchant Henry W. Green of Topsham.Thompson wrote, “He goes out in the ship “Genl Shepley” to New Orleans, with a view of engaging in some Mercantile affairs, should opportunity arise.”
Shepley was military governor of Louisiana. He had enlisted as colonel and commander of the 12th Maine Regiment in 1861 and soon was promoted to command the 3rd Brigade.

William Whitten(1803-1877))R5 #100,105)was born in Topsham. He married Myra Rowell Whitten (1804-1886)(R5 #100,104) who was born in Madison , Maine. They had: Mary Ellen Whitten (1834-1952)(R5 #100,101)and Emily J. Whitten (1832-1919)(R5 #100)who was a teacher in the public schools for 43 years. She also taught in Topsham and Skowhegan and in Brunswick. For a short  time she was one of the teachers of the Freedman Bureau in West Virginia; Sarah E. Whitten (1845-1941)(R5 #100,103)and their only son  Benjamin F. Whitten (1836-1912)(R5 #100)Captain. He was born in Topsham, Me. and  died in Dotham.  He enlisted Sept. 1861 and served to close of War in  July 1865. He was  in the 9th Me.Regt. and was in capture of Hilton Head, Fernandena, Drewrys Bluff, Morris Island and at Cold Harbor was taken prisoner and held 9 mos. He was  in Lynn Haven, FL and went to Dothan to enter the Blackshear Infirmary, He enlisted in Brunswick in 1861 in Co. B 9^th Maine Infantry, First was an orderly Sargent but after 10 months commissioned a 2^nd Lt.; 1863. He was promoted to 1^st Lt.; 1864  and Capt of Co. F. His  last promotion came while he was a prisoner of war . In 1865 he was exchanged. He was  mustered in as Capt. At Raleight, NC.

Robbie Whitten(1870-1871)(R5 #101)      was a son of Frank& Abby Whitten .

Emily J. Whitten (R5 #105) was a school teacher of 43 yrs.; 13 yrs. In Topsham; Also taught school in Skowhegan and Brunswick and in Massachusetts. She taught in the Freedman’s Bureau in the West. She had one sister Miss Sarah Whitten of Topsham when she died.

R5#106 Whitten              

Edward Beaumont (1842-1894) (R5 #107) was a miller and born in England. He married Kate Amelia Beaumont (I1843-1925)(R5 #107).

Harry Gaukroger (1859-1888)(R5 #108)   from England.

Nathaniel Greene Esq.  (broken stone)(R5 #110) married Margaret Greene (1784-1875)(R5 #109)

Alexander Ridley(1824-1894)(R5 #111)”Father”. He married Sarah Hinkley Ridley (1829-1905)(R5 #112)”Mother”. RIDLEY Alexander – ” a box was left at the door of Alexander’s residence containing a fine girl babe three months of age” LWJ 9 June 1881      Alexander Ridley of Topsham ME, m 1 Feb 1848, Sarah Hinkley.  Children: Aaron H b 5 Nov 1850 at Topsham ME d.y.; Annie C b 1 Jan 1858 at Topsham ME; Charles T b 14 Feb 1869. [VR Bowdoin

Martha Ann Lund(1820-1860)(R5 #113)  South Face of Ridley monument. She was the daughter of Mark & Rhoda Ridley and wife of William  B. Lund. In 1860 her parents lived with her husband William B. who was a seaman. Mark Ridley was 65 and his wife Rhoda was 62. Mark Ridley was a farm laborer at that time. William B. was 41 in 1860.

Mark Ridley        (1793-1880)(R5 #115)married Rhoda R. Ridley (1798-1869)(R5 #114).

Jordan  Alexander (1815-1860) (R5#118) was a farmer.   Alexander monument. He married Abigail Goddard Alexander (1823-1856) (R5 #115). They had: Alva Jordan Alexander (1853-1885) (R5 #118); Louisa (1848); Marietta (1851); and Warran (1859).

Howard Lesley Hobson (1946-1975)(R5 #116,117)BM 2 US Navy; Mar. 28, 1946 Feb 6, 1975; Marker:U.S. Vietnam Veteran. He was the Grandson of Charles H. and Louise H. Rackley and son of Lesley M. and Alvia Hobson.

Charles H. Rackley (1889-1985)(R5 #117) Rackley monument North Face. He married Louise H. Rackley (1900-1994)(R5 #117). He was the son of Fred A. Rackley and Carrie Campbell Rackley.

Fred A. Rackley (1858-1926)(R5 #121)Rackley, Cambell Monument  North Face. He was born in Topsham on the place where he died. He was the son of John William Rackley and Eunice Weymouth Rackley.  He was educated in the public schools in Topsham and graduated from Topsham High School. Following his graduation he lived on the farm with his father until he married Miss Carrie Campbell (1864-1914)(R5 #121)of Bowdoinham and daughter of Henry and Alvira (Raymond) Campbell. He took up residence on the farm. Later he came back to Topsham where he again lived on the farm with his father. They had four children: Mrs. Jessie Edgecomb (Mrs. John Edgecomb); Mrs. Doris Edgecomb, Charles H. Rackley and Harry Rackley. They lived on Mallett Road. In 1902 he was injured when a well caved in on him. Although he recovered he had never been in perfect health since. His son Harry lived with him. He was a deacon in the Free Baptist Church of Topsham.

Alexander Monument (R5 #118)

Samuel Royal (1805-1889)(R5 #119), a farmer, married Olive Mason Royal (1805-1862)(R5 #119). They had Samuel N. Royal (1835) who died in 1906 in Vermont; George H. (1837) who was a tailor and a brick mason.

James B. Barron (1844-1909) (R5 #120)   He married Emma B. Reed (1835-1924)(R5 #120) who lived with her neice Vernie Rea in the 1910 Census. Home on Elm St.; native of Topsham, Son of Joseph and Angeline (Rolllins)( Barron). Previous to living in Topsham she lived in Freeport. She was born in Freeport the daughter of Jacob and Abbie G. Reed

Hervey Campbell (1824-1917)(R5#121)   was a farmer in Bowdoinham and in 1910 in Topsham. He was the son of Alexander and Patience Campbell of Bowdoinham. He married Alvia M. Raymond (1836-1919) (R5 #121)and they had Carrie (1884) who married Fred A. Rackley and had Charles H. and Doris E.

Christopher E. Thurman(1877-1953)(R5 #122) was a bookkeeper in 1900 and a farmer in Norridgewook in 1920. His father was born in New Brunswick. He married Flossie M. Christopher (1879-1959)(R5 #123). She died in Tackoma Park, MD. She was a former resident of Topsham. She was the daughter of Lincoln and Sarah Brown Cilley. She was born in Clinton. She attended schools in Topsham and Brunswick. Following her marriage to Thurman they made their home in Topsham and he was employed at the Pejepscot Paper Mill. The later resided in Wisconsin and Ontario. In her last years she made her home with her daughter, Mrs. J.E. Edwards in Takoma Park, MDThey had :  Geraldine V. (1908). They were married in 1898.

Lincoln  Cilley(1860-1931)(R5 #125)was the manager of the Topsham Town farm (1901, 1910….)  He first married Sarah I. Brown (1856-1914)(R5 #124) She died in Turner; from Topsham to Turner 2 years before her death; one daughter Mrs. Christopher.He then moved by 1920 to Lisbon and married Sophia  F. (born in 1890) and was a  farmer there.

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John B. Larrabee(1809-1898)(R6 #1)was a machinist.  He married Eliza Hebbard (Hibbard) Larrabee (1815-1874)(R6 #2);His was born in Georgetown and his parents were Robert Larrabee and Hannah Beath. They had: Caldwell (1835); (Sarah (1842) Eben Jordan  (1853-1921)(R6 #4)married Sarah P. Larrabee Jordan (1842-1922)(R6 #4); and George (1835-1891)a seaman ; William Herrick (1837-1837; Mary Ellen (1839); Colden Benjamin (1851). Robert Larrabee whose mother was Mehitable Larrabee father’s name unknown was born in North Yarmouth June 3 1785 and brought up by his uncle Capt Samuel Larrabee the tavern keeper He learned the carpenter’s trade with Deacon John, another uncle, and settled in Phippsburg He married Hannah Beath of Boothbay Me Jan 6 1807. She born there June 19 1786 and died at Bath Me June 1 1873. Mr Larrabee died at Phippsburg May 1 1863 aged 78. Children as follows:  William P.  b Aug 1 1807 in Georgetown m Ann Smith Dec 24 1832. He was a sea captain lost at sea with two daughters in 1852 after sailing from Philadelphia bound for Cuba The vessel was never heard from He commanded on board of many Maine vessels including the ship Hamburg and the ship Moro built in Bath in 1847 widow d in 1878.  Children as follows  Margaret A. was  lost at sea in 1852; Hannah J.  was  lost at sea in 1852;  Charles S. b Mar 10 1839 in Phippsburg m Ellen M Conant at Bath Aug 17 1862.  He early engaged in the publishing business ness as a partner with his cousin Appleton and uncle Seba Smith;  Major Jack Downing in New York In May 1862 was mustering officer of Maine stationed at Bath went out captain of Company K 19th Maine Regiment and resigned Mar 10 1863. He was  Companion of Military Order of the Loyal Legion Maine Co mandery  and was vice consul of the United States at Mayence under the administration of President Arthu.  After his resignation from the army he was a member of the gold exchange and from 1868 to 1871 and was member of a firm importing chemicals.  From  1872 he had been abroad introducing American machinery established a firm at Frank fort on the Main Germany in 1872 under name CS Larrabee & Co in America the firm known as The Larrabee Machinery Co, exporters previous to 1872. Their European house was  well known as they introduced so many specialties in machinery and other American products.  Mr Larrabee established his home at Bath Me.  He was a gentleman of liberal education extensive business experience and unfaltering energy whose success was a just measure of his ability as manager of a great enterprise;  Emma E.  m John H Little, lieutenant in the United States Revenue Marine,  deceased in 1891. She resided  in Brooklyn NY with issue two sons and a daughter  Clara AP. who married Charles P Johnson of the New York custom house and resided in Brooklyn NY had issue three daughters and a son: Maria C. who  married  Charles J Seymour and  resided in Brookly ;  John B. who was born  Mar 5 1809 in Georgetown Me and Married  Eliza Hibbard Apr 13 1834 and resided in Topsham to the age of 85.  He remembered  that he went to school in a little red schoolhouse in North Yarmouth near a tavern kept by Capt Sam Larrabee Children as follows

Sarah  married  Eben Jordan Jr of Boston firm of Jordan Marsh & Co

George  who died   July 1891.

Caldwell died  in California.

Hannah A.  wh was born  Oct 15 1810 and Married Joseph Bowker Feb 6 1837. She died  Nov 6 1837.

Deacon  Samuel W., son of Robert, was born  Nov 13 1812 and married Rachel Knigh.t He was a carpenter by trade and after settling at Portland in 1847 worked for some time with his tools He then engaged as surveyor for the lumber firm of Knight & Pool and was afterwards admitted a member After the death of the original members he succeeded to the business and continued it to the end of his life For several years latterly his son was associated with him under the name of SW Larrabee & Co He united with the Second Parish church soon after coming to Portland and served as deacon over forty years He had long been a member of the Bible Society and was its president for several years Deacon Larrabee was an ardent Republican and great admirer of Hon James G Blaine He served in the common council in 1859 60 and as alderman in 1861-62 and 63. During the latter year he acted as mayor several times and often declined a nomination for that office served one term in the Legislature He died quite suddenly at his home in Portland May 22, 1893

Captain George Landon Hill and Anne C. (Larrabee) of Phippsburg, Maine had: Mary Pelham Hill (1865-1943)(R6 #3) She was born in Phippsburg, the daughter of Captain George Langdon and Anna C. (Larrabee) Hill. She moved to Bath when a child and graduated from Bath High School in 1886. She was employed at the Bath National Bank and other banks in Bath for a number of years. She moved to Topsham in 1911 and resided on Elm St. She was an authority on historical and genealogical subjects. She was survived by two sisters, Mrs. Frank Bristol and Miss Hannah Hill of Topsham. They also had: Hannah Larrabee Hill (1866-1946)(R6 #3). Capt. George was a master mariner from Phippsburg. In 1880 his wife Annie was in Portland living with her two daughters Mary and Hannah. In the 1900 and 1910 census Mary and Hannah were living with their aunt Betsy Delano in Bath.She was survived  by a sister, Mrs. Frank Bristol of Topsham.

R6#5                     Mary     Ellen     

Patten Monument (R6 #6)

Edwin C. Patten(1872-1941)(R6 #6,7)married Millward Gowell  Patten (1882-1963)(R6 #6,8). They had an infant son Edwin Leon Patten (1905-1906)(R6 #6,9)      He was a farmer  that owned a farm “The Willows”. He was prominent in the affairs of Topsham Fair.

Charles Tate Patten (1824-1898)(R6 #12), a farmer; Patten Monument North Face. He married Cynthia J. Patten (1838-1908)(R6 #6,11) He was the son of Actor Patten and Ann Wilson. He and Cynthia had: Alice S. Patten           (1861-1900)(R6 #6,10)who was a school teacher; Charles Actor (1863); Gregory Amory (1867) and Edwin Curtis (1872).

Ellen Augusta Eliot(1836-1836)(R6 #14)   Ellen could well have been the daughter of Stephen M. Elliott(1808-1845)(R6 #13)There was a Stephen M. Ellis (born in 1808) who married Abigail and was in Prospect Maine and had a daughter Ellin Marie in 1831.

Francis L. Hicks  (1856-1933)(R6 #15)was married to Myrtie A. Hicks (1859-1943)(R6 #15) She died in her home on Main St. Topsham. She was born in Topsham, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Harrington.  For many years she was employed by the Pejepscot Paper Company.

Amos Robinson Nickerson(1827-1904)(R6 #16)   married (1) Evans;  (2) Susan J. Danforth Harrington Nickerson (1830-1914)(R6 #17) former wife of Charles Harrington who was born in Litchfield, the  daughter of Isaac and Margaret (Coombs) Danforth. Amos was a son of Amos Nickerson, a harness maker and Hannah Merrill. He was in charge of the Brunswick Alms House . He was born in Bowdoinham. Susan married Amos in 1879. They had two sons.   His obituary is in Jan. 29, 1904 paper.

Charles  D. Harrington    (1830-1875)(R6 #18)“Father”. Co. F. 19th Me.Vols.

Charles W. Merriman     (1844-1920)(R6 #19) married Jane S. Merriman (1841-1918)(R6 #19). She was born in Topsham, the daughter of Philip and Rachel Foster.

George M. Nickerson     (1846-1915)(R6 #20) married Frances A. Nickerson (1849-1919)(R6 #20) and lived at Elm St., Topsham. He was the  son of Moses Merrill & Clarissa P. (Colby) Nickerson. He had two brothers: Capt. E.B. Nickerson and Amos R. Nickerson; Had 6 sisters: Mrs. Elvira B. Clark; Mrs. Charles Strout; Mrs. Charles Farwell (Brunswick); Mrs. Charles Morang; Mrs. Thomas Wilkinson; and Mrs. Angie F. Bennett of Manchester, NH.

Annie Erras(1839-1874)(R6 #21). Edwin Chester Randall  of Harpswell married (2) a Mrs. Mary A. Erras of Biddeford Maine in 1905; She had been Mary A. Clary of Ireland. The Erras parents came from Scotland.

Abiel Brown       (1803-1870)(R6 #23)        He was married to Mary  (R6 #22) who, after his death married W.H. Simpson.  He was born in Topsham.

(R6 #24) Quint

Elder Clarkson Goud (1805-1906)(R6 #25) was born in KennebecCounty ,Maine. Clarkson married Betsey Gray Haskell (1799-1887)(R6 #25), daughter of Jonathan Haskell and Deborah Arnold, 16 September 1826 in Topsham,Sagadahoc,Maine,USA. Betsey Gray Haskell  was born 1 April 1799 in New Gloucester,Cumberland,Maine,USA and died 14 September 1887 in Topsham,Sagadahoc,Maine,USA.

A preacher for more than 40 years; Mr. Goud’s views of the future life were according to  the Adventist doctrine. “The Church is wrong, and its difficulties are due to the failure to study the Bible. The subject of redemption is entirely misunderstood . the idea of immortality, that the soul goes to heaven after death is the biggest falsehood every told. The soul which is flesh and blood , goes into the grave, which is Hell, and remains there until the second coming ofChrist. There is no punishment in Hell; that is all a delusion. The Hell for the wicked is in the burning up with this earth. That is the eternal end for the wicked and they will not inhabit the new heaven and the new earth.  I expect that in a few short years Jesus Christ will make his personal appearance here with the saints glorified.

He outlived his six children (younger son Clarkson Goud Jr.).Surviving him was his wife and his grandson George Quint of Topsham; and Mr. Quint’s daughter Mrs. Fred Jack of Bowdoinham.  His wife was Mrs. Susan Knight of Bath became his wife 9 years before his death.

He was born in Wayne in 1905. His parents moved to Dresden where later his two brothers enlisted as soldiers in the War of 1812. He was 15 when his father moved to Topsham to take charge of the Rogers Mill which was located on the upper dam. He worked in sawmills as a young boy. His first marriage was in 1825 to Betsey Haskell who died in 1887. He spent a number of years clearing  up a farm, and contined as a farmer until 1843 when he became a preacher. Before becoming a preacher he was a member of the Fre Baptist Church of Topsham.  He had joined in 1825.  Rang the bell in that church for the first time.  In 1840 he changed his belief and became interested in the Adventist faith. 1843 ordained.  His 2^nd marriage was to Susan McFadden Knight Goud (1829-1910)(R6 #25)

Clarkson and Betsey had: George L. Goud (1827-1891)(R6 #25)who died in California; Mary C. Goud (1830-1831)(R5 #25,26); Frances Goud (1^st) (1834-1836)(R6 #25); Frances Goud (2^nd) (1839-1866)(R6 #25)

Martha Dyer (1790-1872)(R6 #27) was the mother of Calvin (1815-1896)(R6 #27) a gardener and farmer, who married Betsey (1817-1897)(R6 #27) and they had Angeline (1852-1865)(R6 #27); Albert (1856-1856)(R6 #27); Addelade (1856-1856)(R6 #27) and Orlando (1857-1888)(R6 #27), a teacher; and Elbridge Gerry, a tailor, who married Martha (1850-1870) and they had a Orlando.

Alfred White      (1799-1881)(R6 #30)married Eunice White (1811-1892)(R6 #31.  Alfred also married Lovina White (1811-1830)(R6 #29).Alfred and Eunice  had Alfred White (1834-1844)(R6 #28) and Francis A. White (1850-1926)(R6 #32) who was born at the White homestead on Winter St. in Topsham, the daughter of Alfred and Eunice White. She was educated in the public schools of Topsham. After the death of her mother she lived with her sister, Mrs. Eunice Alexander on a farm on Meadow Road.

Alpheus (Alphonso)  Alexander (1825-1899) (R6#34) was a farmer.  He married Eunice J. White Alexander (1836-1919) (R6 #33) . She was one of 10 children. One of them was Miss Frances White who lived with her on the home farm. Eunice was survived by three sons: Charles H., George L. and William, all of Topsham.

Wiliam Graves   (1797-1863)(R6 #35) married Zilpah Graves (1805-1847)(R6 #37) and married Sarah M. Graves (1812-1872)(R6 #38).

Rebecca Greaves(1810-1834)(R6 #36)      was the  wife of William Greaves, Jr.

Charles A. Graves(1850-1918)(R6 #40) married Catharine Graves (1849-1891)(R6 #39)

Hezekiah F. Stinson         (1828-1909)(R6 #41)was a native of Topsham and a  cabinet maker.He married Ruth Ann Hersey Stinson (1833-1911)(R6 #42).

Paul Hall (1830-1909)(R6 #44)”Father”, a painter,  married Hannah P. Hersey Hall (18331-1897)(R6 #43)”Mother” They had: Alice H. (1865) and Frank E. Hall (1872).

Angela Johnson Peckenpaugh    (1942-1997)(R6 #45) was born in Richmond, Va. Was an Assoc. Professor or English and a performing poet. She married Bill Peckenpaugh in 1970. She taught at Univ. of Mass; University of Wisconsin at Milwauklee. Published: A Book of Charms (1983); Remembering Rivers (1991); A Heathen Herbal (1993) etc.  She committed suicide in 1997. Was survived by her life partner and best friend James McPerson and she was the sister of Arthur Johnson, John, and Paul Johnson and sister Elizabeth Kellenberger. She was the mother of Beth Burlingame. She was a Quaker.

Arthur B. Johnson—originally a resident of New York City and vicinity, Arthur B. Johnson held several positions in that metropolis before 1918, when he came to work for the Pejepscot Paper Company , in Brunswick, Maine. Not only was he in charge of the purchasing department of this company, but he had several additional business interests in Brunswick, and held an important place in the ranks of the Republican party in the section.The son of Samuel E. Johnson, who was a native of Maine and a lumber dealer by occupation and of Joanna P. (Tebbetts) Johnson. Arthur was born in Queens County,  Long Island, September 2, 1876. He attended the public schools of New York City, and for two years held jobs as office boy and other minor positions on Wall street. Then after having been engaged for some time in the contracting business with his brother, he dame, in Nov. 1898, to Brunswick to be stenographer for the Pejepscot Paper Company. He held several position with this company until 1914, when he was put in charge of the purchasing department, which was formed at that time. He was also a trustee of the Water Company and president of the Maine Concrete Company. He served as the Chairman of the Topsham Committee of Twelve. On April 14, 1901 he married Angela Hazelton of New Jersey. They had : Helen R. a graduate of Mt. Holoyoke  and M.A. from Brown University; Clarence Hazelton Johnson (1906-1973)(R6 #46) a graduate of Bowdoin college who married Mary Chamberlayne (1912-1965)(R6 #46); Ruth W. studied with Lelix Winternitz of Boston and violin study at University of Michigan Music School; Angela (1879-1962)(R5#7; Mary E. and  Arthur B. Johnson Jr. (1904-1907)(R5 #6) Mary Elizabeth Johnson Butler (1921-2012). Brunswick-Mary Elizabeth Johnson Butler died on October 16, 2012 in Brunswick. Born at the family home on 16 Elm Street, Topsham, Maine on September 28, 1921 to Arthur Berry and Angela (Hazelton) Johnson, she attended Topsham schools and graduated from Brunswick High School in 1938. Mary attended Wellesley College, graduating in 1942. Mary started as a cub reporter and photographer for The Brunswick Record. Mary went on to serve as the Editor of The Connecticut Alcoan, the house organ for Aluminum Company of America in Bridgeport-Fairfield, Connecticut during World War II, and then served as a radio writer at Station WRNL in Richmond, Virginia. In 1947, Mary returned to Brunswick, Maine to become the Executive Director of the Brunswick, Maine Chapter of the American Red Cross, where she met Edward Eric Butler, one of the many WWII veterans attending Bowdoin College. Mary and Eric were married in 1947 and Mary turned her talents to raising their three children, Katherine, Elizabeth, and Edward Eric Butler, Jr., living in Maryland, Delaware, North Carolina, Michigan, Massachusetts and her beloved Mere Point, Maine. Mary eventually returned to her professional career as Director for Alumnae Giving for Wellesley College, strengthening her lifelong love for the college, and its mission of educating strong women. In 1986, Mary and Eric retired to Brunswick, Maine, where Mary pursued her lifelong love of learning, sailing, gardening, painting, and writing, ever devoted to her family and many friends. Mary was survived by her husband, Edward Eric Butler, her three children, Katherine, Elizabeth, and Edward Eric Butler, Jr. (Jay), and grandson, Benjamin Allen Butler. She was predeceased by her brothers Arthur Berry Johnson, Jr. and Clarence Hazelton Johnson, and sisters Helen Johnson Dudley, Angela Johnson Fellows, and Ruth Johnson McCarter

Wiliam F. Atkinson  (1854-1925) (R6 #47,51) North Face of Atkinson monument. He was born in Topsham. He was the son of Benjamin F. (1825-1870)  (R6 #47) South face of Atkinson monument  and Martha Atkinson. In his early years he was a well known clerk in several local stores. Then he turned his attention wholly to his trade as an interior painter and worked in that trade as long as his health would permit.  He had one brother, Fred W. Atkinson (1856-1933) of Topsham.He married Etta M. Starkey Atkinson (1857-1944) (R6 #47,50). She died at the Stevens Home for the Aged. She was born in Ellsworth, the daughter of Alvin Starkey and Charlotte Moore Starkey. Frederic W. Atkinson (1856-1933) (R5 #47,48) was a painter and a deputy sheriff. He married Maria Warrant Atkinson (1861-1947) (R6 #47,49). She was born in Denmark, Maine, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Warren. She was survived by two sisters, Mrs. Harriet Farnsworth of New York; and Mrs. Alwilda Ward of Freeport. Frederick W. was Atkinson a painter and served as secretary of the Topsham Board of Health in 1902. Had a a home on Main St. He was born in Topsham on Pleasant St. He was the son of Benjamin F. and Martha Miller Atkinson. He was educated in the Topsham schools. After leaving school he began work as a general painter and later specialized in sign painting. In 1889 he married Maria Warren.From the time he was 21 until a few years before his death he served as a police officer. When he was 221 he was appointed constable. He served as deputy sheriff for 20 years and as a game warden.

David Scribner   (1795-1890)(R6 #54,55)Scribner monument East Face. He married Islethera Howland Scribner(1803-1843)(R6 #54,56). She was born in Topsham, Maine and died in Topsham. She was the daughter of Abraham Howland (1762) and Anna Staples (1867). She married David in 1821 in Topsham.  They had  Charles Edward Scribner(1823-1885)(R6 #54,67) born in Topsham, Sagadahoc, ME who married Sarah A. Scribner (1818-1910)(R6 #54,66) who had a home on Perkins St. She was born in Brunswick.  She was daughter of William N. and Harriet (Noyes) Hall. She had 3 daughters: Mrs. H.E. Tebbetts of San Diego, CA; Miss Alice Counce (1853-1936)(R6 #54,65) was born in Oxford. She came to Topsham as a young girl and was educated in private school in Brunswick.  She had a son Franklin E. Scribner(1850-1851)(R6#54,62).   She had two sisters: Octavia Scribner of Topsham and Mrs. Hattie Scribner Tebbets of California. Mrs. Annie Thompson Scribner who was the widow of Edwin A. Scribner passed summers with Alice and Octavia of Perkins Street. Annie had been previously living in Topsham. She died at her daughter’s (Mrs. R.W. Seabury of Boontoh, N.J. ; and Miss Octavia Scribner (1859-1936)(R6 #54,64)of Topsham who died at her home on Perkins St. She was born in Topsham. She was educated in the Topsham schools and always lived there.  She had a sister, with whom she lived, Miss Alice Scribner. She was survived by another sister, Mrs.Harriet Ella Tebbetts(1838-1937)(R6 #54,63) of San Diego, Calif.;Mary Ann Scribner (1825-1843)(R6 #54) b: in Topsham, Sagadahoc, ME; Albert Scribner(1827-1828)(R6 #54,61) b: Topsham, Sagadahoc, ME;Sarah Alice Scribner b: 26 SEP 1829 in Topsham, Sagadahoc, ME;Son Scribner b: 23 JUL 1831 in Topsham, Sagadahoc, ME; Daughters Scribner b: 31 MAY 1832 in Topsham, Sagadahoc, ME Frances Ellen Scribner b: 21 FEB 1834 in Topsham, Sagadahoc, ME;James McKeen Scribner b: 19 FEB 1836 in Topsham, Sagadahoc, ME ; Octavia M. Scribner(1838-1862)(R6 #54,59) born in Topsham, Sagadahoc, ME ;David Alba Scribner b: 30 NOV 1840 in Topsham, Sagadahoc, ME;Infant Son Scribner b: 13 MAR 1843 in Topsham, Sagadahoc, ME. ;David Alva Scribner died in 1912 in Brooklyn NY. and married Virginia Augusta Hale b: 22 AUG 1848 in Baltimore, Baltimore, MD in Groton CT in 1876. David, after Islethera, married  Mary A. Scribner (1809-1887)(R6 #54,58). They had Mary Ann (1846-1851)(R6 #54,60).

R6#57    Scribner               Mother marker stone

Jabez Perkins (1775-1864)(R6 #68) Deacon. Married Nancy Perkins (1794-1839)(R6 #69). They had: Nancie Perkins (1845-1857)(R6 #70); Frances Elizabeth Perkins (1829-1830)(R6 #71); and William B. Perkins (1828-1828)(R6 #72).

Nahum Perkins (1787-1865)(R6 #74)

Nahum Perkins was born in Sandford, Maine, April 25, 1787, and was one of a family of ten children. He belonged to a very athleticrace. He was brought up to hard work and good habits. He had nothing with which to commence life but good health and his hands.
When a boy, he went to live with a farmer, who, having no children,wished to adopt him and make him his heir; but he preferred, with his pack on his back and a shilling in his pocket, to seek his own fortune.
He came to Topsham in 1807. He at first drove a stage from Portland to Augusta, then engaged in monthly labor on the land and at the mills, till he accumulated sufficient means to engage in trade and Iumbering. During the prostration of business occasioned by the war of 1812, he returned to the farm and, at considerable expense, repaired the buildings and put it in order; but upon the revival of business he returned to his cherished pursuits in Topsham. Being of a retiring disposition, he rather avoided than sought public position. He commanded the battalion in this vicinity in the latter part of 1820, and
was for some time member of a general court-martial, convened on the Penobscot. He was a member of the State legislature in 1825, and for three subsequent terms. While there, his store, stock of goods,
and account books were all destroyed by fire, causing a huge loss of property, and leaving him considerably in debt. So strict was his sense of obligation to his creditors that he turned oyer to them all his property, even to the family Bible. Such was the regard of the members of the legislature for him that they presented him with fifteen hundred dollars. He at one time, with other parties, contracted to build a vessel. When the vessel was partly completed, she took fire on the stocks and
was destroyed. The contract with the master builder, who was a poor man, was not made in writing, and the parties were not legally held to him. Major Perkins, however, and one other gentleman concerned,
considered themselves morally responsible, and footed the bills. [His father, Jabez Perkins, at the age of ninety-six, cut, sharpened, and carried out of the woods on his back, a hundred fence-stakes in one day.] Major Perkins was a very industrious man. From sixteen to seventy-
nine he did a man’s work, and died of work. He was a generous man. No legitimate charity appealed to him in vain. His generosity was carried to the poiut of self-denial. His life was filled up with neighborly acts of charity. His home was the centre of a large liberality
and unstinted benevolence. In 1840 he made a public profession of religion, uniting with the
Congregational Society of Topsham, of which he continued an active and useful member until his death, which occurred in October, 1865.

Francis A. Hussey(1832-1908)(R6 #73)     Was born in Greene and at an early age moved to Durham where he lived until he was 18. At that time he began his seafaring life. At the age of 23 he took command of his first ship, the H. H. Boody. He followed the sea for about 30 years after which he lived in the West for a number of years. He was survived by his daughters, Mrs. Alice Vander Weyde of New York; Miss Claire Hussey of Topsham and a son S.A. Hussey of Platte, South Dakota. He, with Spear invented the elevated tank for Railroad engines to load water. He married Melisssa E. Perkins Hussey (1835-1911)(R6 #76). They had Sanford Augustus Hussey who married Bessie May Carter (1868-1956). Besie was the daughter of James Otis Carter and Mary Eunice Annice Ellyson. She moved to Platte, SD with the Schoonover family. Bessie May  was born June 24, 1868 in Iowa and died October 8, 1956. She was married March 18, 1891 to Sanford Augustus Hussey. Sanford A. Hussey was born July 2, 1869 in Maine and died November 10, 1935 at Platte, South Dakota. His father was Captain Francis A. Hussey, and his mother was Melissa Perkins. Captain Francis Hussey, a sea captain, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Aaran Burr Hussey, and Melissa Perkins was born to Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Perkins of Topsham, Maine. Captain and Mrs. Hussey had three children: Sanford, Clare, and Alice. Sanford was fourteen years old when his parents moved to Van Horne, Iowa. Sanford’s Uncle, Captain William Flye commanded the Monitor after the Civil War. He took the flag from the Monitor. It was in the family for years until Sanford sold it to be placed in the museum of the University of California.

  Almira Saunders Robbins           (1809-1856)(R6 #75) Her stone was  erected by Rev. Austin Robbins in 1857. Rev. Austin Robbins was the son of Samuel and Zilpha (Whitman) Robbins, and was born February 15, 1812 at Thompson, Connecticut. He married (1) Almira Saunders of Rhode Island on November 1, 1832. Their only child, Julia A. Robbins, born September 12, 1833, married Rufus A. Sampson in February, 1857 at Topsham, Maine. Almira died at Topsham on September 10, 1854. Two years thereafter, Rev. Robbins married (2) Emily P. Work at Topsham on September 20, 1856. They had three children: Myra S. Robbins, born May 16, 1858; W. Austin Robbins, born December 25, 1860; and Rufus S. Robbins, born June 25, 1862. Rev. Robbins died at East Killingly, Connecticut on July 14, 1873. His widow resides in Waterbury, Connecticut.

Nahum Perkins  married Betsey Perkins (1781-1854)(R6 #78). They had Alfred S. Perkins (1813-1878)(R6 #81); Sandford Perkins; Mary E; Susan Mare; Alfred S. ;Celia A. and Susan A. (Tibbetts).

PERKINS, MAJOR NAHUM.

Nahum Perkins was born in Sandford, Maine, April 25, 1787, and was one of a family of ten children. He belonged to a very athletic race.1 He was brought up to hard work and good habits. He had nothing with which to commence life but good health and his hands.

When a boy, he went to live with a farmer, who, having no children, wished to adopt him and make him his heir; but he preferred, with his pack on his back and a shilling in his pocket, to seek his own fortune. He came to Topsham in 1807. He at first drove a stage from Portland to Augusta, then engaged in monthly labor on the land and at the mills, till he accumulated sufficient means to engage in trade and lumbering. During the prostration of business occasioned by the war of 1812, he returned to the farm and, at considerable expense, repaired the buildings and put it in order; but upon the revival of business, he returned to his cherished pursuits in Topsham. Being of a retiring disposition, he rather avoided than sought public position. He commanded the battalion in this vicinity in the latter part of 1820, and was for some time member of a general court-martial, convened on the Penobscot. He was a member of the State legislature in 1825, and for three subsequent terms. While there, his store, stock of goods, and account books were all destroyed by fire, causing a large loss of property, and leaving him considerably in debt. So strict was his sense of obligation to his creditors that he turned over to them all his property, even to the family Bible. Such was the regard of the members of the legislature for him that they presented him with fifteen hundred dollars.

He at one time, with other parties, contracted to build a vessel. When the vessel was partly completed, she took fire on the stocks and was destroyed. The contract with the master builder, who was a poor man, was not made in writing, and the parties were not legally held to him. Major Perkins, however, and one other gentleman concerned, considered themselves morally responsible, and footed the bills.

. His father, Jabez Perkins, at the age of ninety-six, cut, sharpened, and carried out of the woods on his back, a hundred fence-stakes in one day.

Major Perkins was a very industrious man. From sixteen to seventy-nine he did a man’s work, and died of work. He was a generous man. No legitimate charity appealed to him in vain. His generosity was carried to the point of self-denial. His life was filled up with neighborly acts of charity. His home was the centre of a large liberality and unstinted benevolence.

In 1840 he made a public profession of religion, uniting with the Congregational Society of Topsham, of which he continued an active and useful member until his death. which occurred in October, 1865.

Nahum Perkins was born in Sandford, Maine, April 25, 1787, and was one of a family of ten children. He belonged to a very athletic race. He was brought up to hard work and good habits. He had
nothing with which to commence life but good health and his hands. When a boy, he went to live with a farmer, who, having no children, wished to adopt him and make him his heir; but he preferred, with his pack on his back and a shilling in his pocket, to seek his own fortune. He came to Topsham in 1807. He at first drove a stage from Portland to Augusta, then engaged in monthly labor on the land and at the mills, till he accumulated sufficient means to engage in trade and Iumbering. During the prostration of business occasioned by the war of 1812, he returned to the farm and, at considerable expense, repaired the buildings and put it in order; but upon the revival of business he returned to his cherished pursuits in Topsham. Being of a retiring disposition, he rather avoided than sought public position. He commanded the battalion in this vicinity in the latter part of 1820, and was for some time member of a general court-martial, convened on the Penobscot. He was a member of the State legislature in 1825,
and for three subsequent terms. While there, his store, stock of goods, and account books were all destroyed by fire, causing a huge loss of property, and leaving him considerably in debt. So strict was his sense of obligation to his creditors that he turned oyer to them all his property, even to the family Bible. Such was the regard of the members of the legislature for him that they presented him with fifteen hundred dollars. He at one time, with other parties, contracted to build a vessel. When the vessel was partly completed, she took fire on the stocks and was destroyed. The contract with the master builder, who was a poor man, was not made in writing, and the parties were not legally held to
him. Major Perkins, however, and one other gentleman concerned, considered themselves morally responsible, and footed the bills.
[His father, Jabez Perkins, at the age of ninety-six, cut, sharpened, and carried out of
the woods on his back, a hundred fence-stakes in one day.]

Major Perkins was a very industrious man. From sixteen to seventy- nine he did a man’s work, and died of work. He was a generous man. No legitimate charity appealed to him in vain. His generosity
was carried to the poiut of self-denial. His life was filled up with neighborly acts of charity. His home was the centre of a large liberality and unstinted benevolence. In 1840 he made a public profession of religion, uniting with the Congregational Society of Topsham, of which he continued an active
and useful member until his death, which occurred in October, 1865.

Alvah Jameson               (1809-1850)(R6 #79)        died in San Francisco. He married Celia A. Perkins Jameson (1816-1899)(R6 #80).Alvah died in San Francisco, California on board the ship Birningham of abscess of the lungs.

Vital records and local history volumes indicate that Alvah Jameson was born in Topsham in 1809. At age 25, Lieutenant Jameson commanded one of the local militia infantries. From 1845-47 Colonel Jameson served as a Selectman for Topsham. And he married Celia Ann Perkins (b.1816), June 6, 1849

On October 31st, 1849, Col. Jameson added two revealing records to the documentary evidence of his sea tale:

• He traveled to Bath where he applied for his Seaman’s Protection Certificate at the Customs House. On his application he was described as 40 years old, 5′ 9″ tall, with brown hair, hazel eyes and a light complexion.
• Then, he ventured further up the coast to Wiscassett where he filed his Last Will and Testament at the Lincoln Co. Courthouse. Being mindful of the “uncertainty of life” he bequeathed his “honored parents” the sum of $400 and the remainder of his estate to his “beloved wife, Celia Ann.” He also nominated Isaac P. Tibbets to administer his will.

His journey continued four days later (November 4th), when the 407 ton ship Birmingham (1836, Bath) sailed from Bath, bound for San Francisco. Under the command of Capt. James Winchell, the ship carried a crew of 27 and “most of the company that owned her” including Col. Jameson with his two shares in the ship and her contents. Historian William Baker wrote that “the Birmingham had in her hold 21 house frames and ‘all the material for erecting and finishing the same’, 100,000 bricks, 200,000 shingles, six ‘lighters’, three wagons, and “a variety of other articles’”They arrived in San Francisco April 7th, 1850. With a stop in Valparaiso (Chile), the voyage around the Horn had taken 156 days.Imagine San Francisco during the Spring and Summer of 1850: The City of San Francisco had just been formally established. Heavy rains had turned the streets to thick mud. Over 600 vessels lay rotting in the harbor, abandoned by crews run-off to the gold fields. Fires devistated the city in May and again in June. Levi Strauss had just introduced “bibless overalls” to the miners. And 2000 women had recently arrived, much to the relief of the almost entirely male population of about 25,000. Unfortunatley for Col. Jameson and his business partners, early hoarding had lead to overstocked markets and the price of lumber had plummeted.

Finally, his gravemarker tells us that on September 4th, 1850, Col. Jameson died in San Francisco. His journey ended just days before California became a state and a month before a cholera epidemic would kill hundreds in the city.

When the Col.’s estate was first inventoried, March 31, 1851 “some of the [ship’s] cargo had been sold and a part [remained] unsold at California”; the Birmingham was on her way home. When the estate was finally settled in September of 1855, the Col’s share was worth just over $2000.

This sea tale is not quite finished. Further research may explain why a 40 year-old militia commander would marry only to head for the Gold Rush four months later. Perhaps there is a connection between his wife (nee Perkins) and the company that financed the venture, A.S. Perkins & Co.

William Flye (1815-1898) (R6 #83)Capt. He was born in Newcastle, October, 1814. On taking his degree he engaged in teaching one year as principal of St. Alban’s Academy, and two years as master of the Young lien’s High School at Eastport. From 1838 to 1841 was attached to the United States seventy-four “Ohio,” Commodore Isaac Hull, as captain’s clerk, on the Mediterranean station, and was then appointed by the commodore acting professor of mathematics. On his return after a three-years’ cruise he passed examination, his appointment was confirmed, and thus he was permanently connected with the navy. From 1841 to 1857 he served in that capacity in the “John Adams,” during a cruise of three years on the coast of Brazil, again for the same time in the ”Jamestown” on the west coast of Africa, and then was attached six or seven years to the United States Naval Observatory, Washington. While in Europe in 1855 he took command of a large clipper ship on a voyage around Cape Horn to the west coast of South America. Resigning his commission in 1857, he connected himself with the merchant marine in command of large-class vessels.

At the opening of the war he returned to the navy as a volunteer lieutenant, and served in various positions involving at times important responsibilities, as commander of gunboats and ironclads on the North Carolina coast and the Mississippi. Wrecked on the ” R. B. Forbes “on the North Carolina coast, and taken off with officers and men by the frigate “Roanoke,” he was on board that frigate when the rebel “Merrimac” sank the United States frigates ” Cumberland ” and ” Congress,” and the United States ” Monitor” to the astonishment of friends and foes appeared for the rescue. After Capt. Worden of the ” Monitor” was wounded, Flye was ordered to join her as first lieutenant and executive officer, and served in her several mouths. Subsequently he served for a time as first lieutenant, United States Navy Yard, Memphis, on the ironclad “Benton,” as commander of the fifth division of the Mississippi squadron, and again on the gunboat ” Lexington ” and seventh division of the same. After the surrender of Gen Lee, sixty-four vessels of that squadron were placed under his command to be dismantled and prepared for sale out of the service. In 1866 he was honorably discharged from the service “with the thanks of the department.” Capt. Flye passed through the exposures and perils of such active service unharmed by shot or shell, but was unfortunate in suffering serious injury to his hearing caused by the discharge of heavy guns. From 1866 to 1871 was engaged in business in Georgia, and from 1872 to 1879 has been cashier of the First National Bank, Damariscotta.

OBITUARY IN BOWDOIN COLLEGE: For the decade ending 1 Jun 1909, published 1911.

William Flye, son of Daniel and Huldah (Barker) Flye, was born 25 October, 1814, at Newcastle, Me. He was probably prepared for college at Lincoln Academy. On completing his course at Bowdoin he was for a year preceptor of the academy at St. Albans, Me., and for two years principal of the Young Men’s High School at Eastport, Me. In 1838 he went to the Mediterranean as captain’s clerk on the “Ohio,” Commodore Isaac Hull commanding the squadron. While in this service he was appointed by the commodore Acting-Professor of Mathematics in the U. S. Navy. Returning to the United States, he passed the required examination: the appointment was confirmed, and he held this position till his resignation in March, 1857. During this period he made two long cruises, each of three years, one in the “John Adams” off the coast of Brazil, the other on the west coast of Africa in the “Jamestown,” and was for seven years attached to the Naval Observatory at Washington. After employment for four years as a captain in the merchant marine, Mr. Flye returned to the U. S. Navy at the outbreak of the Rebellion as a volunteer. He was placed in command of the U. S. gunboat “R. B. Forbes,” which was lost on the coast of North Carolina in February, 1862. With his officers and men he was on board the U. S. frigate “Roanoke” and under fire when the rebel steamer “Merrimac” came out of Norfolk harbor and destroyed the U. S. frigates “Cumberland” and “Congress.” The following day after the defeat of the “Merrimac” by the U. S. “Monitor” he was ordered to the latter as her first lieutenant and executive officer, a position he held in October of that year. He subsequently commanded the gunboats “Underwriter” and “Kensington.” In 1864 he was transferred to the Mississippi squadron under Admiral D. D. Porter and commanded successively the monitor “Osage,” the ironclad “Benton” and the fifth division of the squadron, the gunboat “Lexington” and the seventh division of the squadron. At the close of the war sixty-four vessels were placed under his command that they might be dismantled and sold out of the service. In January, 1866, he was honorably discharged with the thanks of the Navy Department and the rank of lieutenant commander. The next five years were spent in business in Georgia. From 1872 to 1879 he was cashier of the First National Bank at Damariscotta, Me. He then retired to his home in Topsham, Me., where the most of the closing years of his life were spent. Though he had passed through his long and active war service untouched by shot or shell, his hearing had been seriously affected by the close discharge of heavy guns. He died of old age at Ashland, Boyd County, Ky., 12 June, 1898.

His service on the Monitor is dated in 1862.  He graduated Bowdoin College 1835, Prof. of Math 1841 – 1857 USN; and Lt. Commander 1861 – 1866 USN.

He married Mary Elizabeth Perkins  Flye (1818-1892)(R6 #83). They had: Nahum Perkins Flye (1847-1896)(R6 #83,85), who with his wife adoped a daughter Jennie M. (b. 1857).and Willie Edwin (1852-1866)(R6 #83).

Sandford A. Perkins        (1812-1893)(R6 #83,86)married Eunice Soule Perkins (1812-1881)(R6 #83,87). They had: Celia Eudora Perkins (1840-1842)(R6 #83,82) Flye/ Perkins Monument East Face.

TOPSHAM PAPER-MILL.

This mill was erected in the latter part of 1868, on the property and under the superintendence of Sanford A. Perkins, for the Topsham Paper Company, a corporation of which Samuel R. Jackson was the president. This mill is from two hundred and twenty-five to two hundred and fifty feet long, and sixty-five feet wide. The main building is three stories high, with an extension two stories high.

This company failed, and the property was purchased at auction by W. H. & A. W. Parsons, September 16, 1874, for the sum of $80,000. Sandford was a representative from Topsham to the Maine House of Representatives in 1828. He was the son of Nahum Perkins. He and Eunice had: Melissa (1835); Letitia (1837) and William (1850).

Jabez Perkins     (1755-1853)(R6 #88)of Sanford, Me. Married Joannah Pray Perkins (1750-1829)(R6 #89). They had: Jacob Perkins1788-1844; Joseph Perkins1780-Unknown; Samuel Perkins1782-Unknown; Josiah Perkins1785-Unknown; Mary Perkins1788-1828; Nahum Perkins1787-1865; Enoch Perkins1791-Unknown; Noah Perkins1791-1874; Jabez Perkins1795-1869).

Samuel Perkins (1782-1875)(R6 #90)Deacon. He married Dorothy Perkins (1781-1846)(R6 #91) He was a Topsham Selectman from 1831-34. He was a brother of Jabez Perkins.

Charles Johnson(1806-1836)(R6 #92)       Erected by the Baptist Church in Topsham in memory of Rev. Charles Johnson their Pastor.

Collamore Mallett(1796-1870)(R6 #93,98)a farmer; War of 1812. He married Comfort Mallett (1815-1898)(R6 #93,97) They had: Corris A. Mallett (1841-1873)(R6 #93,96); Mary E. Mallett (1843-1915)(R6 #93,95) who lived on Mallet Road and became the last of the family of four children; Fannie C. Mallett (1845-1895)(R6 #93,94; and George F. Mallett (1847); Emory Collamore (1839); Frances and Mary were unmarried.

Ezekiel Purinton(1783-1841)(R6 #99). Captain.  He married Isabella Wilson Purinton (1788-1879)(R6 #100). They had: Priscilla (1811); Mary (1813); Silence (1813) Isabella (1821) and Israel Collins (1826).

Priscilla  Purinton McManus (1811-1844)(R6 #101)was the wife of Capt.Robert McManus and daughter of Ezekiel and Isabella Purinton.

Rufus Sampson (1786-1859)(R6 #102)was born  in Bowdoinham , the son of James Samson who was born in Plymouth MA and died in Topsham in 1825. He married Mary/Polly Chase(1797-1853)(R6 #102), daughter of Capt. Isaac Chase and Lucy Rideout in 1815. Mary was born in 1797 and died in Topsham in 1853. They had: Mary J. Sampson who was born on 5 Jun 1816 in Bowdoinham, Sagadahoc Co., Maine and died on 8 Jun 1835 at age 19. Mary married Edward Larabee on 27 Nov 1831. They had no children; Clarissa Sampson was born on 27 Mar 1818 in Bowdoinham, Sagadahoc Co., Maine and died before 10 Sep 1854.Clarissa married Alden B. Fish  on 31 Mar 1850. They had no children.; Sarah Sampson was born on 20 Oct 1820 in Bowdoinham, Sagadahoc Co., Maine.Adeline G. Sampson was born on 18 Jul 1823 in Bowdoin and died on 16 Aug 1887 inFramingham, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts at age 64.She married Lewis Work; Adeline married Alden B. Fishon 10 Sep 1854. They had no children. George Sampson was born on 22 Jan 1825 in Bowdoinham, Sagadahoc Co., Maine and died on 23 Dec 1828 at age 3. He never married and had no children.Emily P. Sampson was born on 24 Jul 1828 in Bowdoinham, Sagadahoc Co., Maine.Rufus A. Sampson was born on 30 Apr 1831 in Bowdoinham, Sagadahoc Co., Maine.Elizabeth M. Sampson was born on 24 Apr 1834 in Bowdoinham, Sagadahoc Co., Maineand died poss. 1893 in poss. Braintree, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts at age 59; John G. Sampson (1839-1860)(R6 #102)  was born in Bowdoinham, Sagadahoc Co., Maine.”died  Havre (Civil War) . Rufus married also Maria G. Sampson (1834-1856)(R6 #102).

James Purinton (1777-1862)(R6 #103,104)            East  Face of Purinton Monument. He married Miriam Melcher  Purinton(1777-1866)(R6 #106,105). They had James Treat Purinton (1821-1840)(R6 #103); Rebecca Purinton  (1814-1892)(R6 #103,106)and Fanny E. Purinton (1818-1908)(R6 #103,107),only survivor of seven children of James and Miriam (Melcher) Purinton and Member of the Congregational Church of Topsham.

Mary Phalon      (1739-1817)(R6 #103,108).Maybe 1774-1847; could be sister or sister in law of James (1777) or Ezekiel (1782-1841); she is buried next to Rebecca and Fanny the daughters of James and Miriam Purinton.

Eben Stinson(1790-1863)(R6 #110) married Lucy and they had:      Martha Stinson (1877-1973)(R#6?);       William A. Stinson (1845-1890)(R6 #109); Mary C. Stinson(1847-1873)(R6. #109); George Ellis; Franklin and Oliver Scott.

James Cook Jr.   (1777-1865)(R6 #111) He married Jane Farnham Cook (1774-1850) (R6 #112)They had Elbridge G. (1814-1838), and Mary (1816-1894) who married Samuel Spear Wing and is buried at Pine Grove Cemetery in Brunswick, Maine.

Mercy Jones  Cook(1790-1856)(R6 #114)was the daughter of Thos. Jones Esq. and wife of Isaac Cook .  She and Isaac L. Cook, who was a cabinet maker with Charles White in Topsham, had Charles L. (1829) who married Reliance S. Morse (1830-1854)(R6 #115), daughter of Joshua Morse Esq., and Mary A. (1824).

Elbridge G. Cook (1814-1838)(R6 #116)   was the son of James & Jane Cook .

Mercy Ann Cook  Baldwin(1824-1855)(R6 #116)  adopted daughter of Isaac L. Cook and wife of Peter Baldwin died Oct.5, 1855; Aet.31 yrs. Also their infant daughter Aet 3 weeks. Issac Cook was a trader in Bath, Maine and he and his wife Sophia had no children in the 1860 census.

Herbert A. Haskell(1857-1900)(R3 #63)married Harriet G. Haskell (1859-1914)(R3 #62)and also married Mary J. Haskell       (1829-1869)(R3 #60). Herbert and Mary J. had William H. Haskell (1859-1939)(R6 #117).He died at he home of Mrs. George Naugler on Summer St. in Topsham where he had been boarding. He was born in Topsham, the son of Mary Jane and Henry A. Haskell. He married  Nellie Idella Harmon (1864-1939)(R5 #117). He resided in Topsham and Brunswick all of his life and conducted a trucking business in the two towns for many years. He lived in Brunswick for twenty years returning to Topsham in 1918 where he had resided on Pleasant Street.

Joshua Haskell  (1794-1866)(R6 #118)(Major) War of 1812. Married Deborah Allen Haskell (1797-1886)(R6 #118). Joshua was the son of Stephen Haskell and Rebecca He died in Topsham, Sagadahoc, Maine. He was buried ⁶ in Riverview Cemetery, Topsham, Maine. Joshua was born on 15 Sep 1794 in Topsham, Sagadahoc, Maine.  They had the following children: James L. Haskell (1819-1851)(R6 #118) He died at sea.. He was unmarried; Charles Ellis Haskell (1821-1885)(R6 #118) He was born in 1821 in Topsham ; Ann Maria Haskell (1823), in Topsham and married Stephen Whitmore in 1858 in Topsham; Frances J. Haskell (1825) in Topsham and married Horace P. Hubbard in 1844 in Topsham; Harriet T. Haskell(1827-1011)(R6 #118) who married Edwin Drew in 1853 to Topsham; Deborah Allen Haskell (1829-1831) in Topsham; Henry Allen Haskell (1831-1868)(R6 #118); William Dennett Haskell (1835); Ellen Melissa Haskell (1837-1905)(R6 #118) born and died in Topsham and was unmarried; Alice McKeen Haskell  (1839-1928)(R65 #118) was born and died in Topsham and attended Topsham Academy and then the Maine Seminary in Lewiston, now Bates College of which her father was a director. At the age of 10 she went to live in California with a sister.  She returned to Topsham after two years and lived there the rest of her live.

Almira  Pray(1806-1855)(R6 #119) was the of wife of  James Pray. They lived at the James Pray House at 10 Elm St. (1790) and  she was daughter of Rev. Jonathan Elllis. They had Sarah M. Pray(1829-1851)(R6 #120)and Samuel Ellis Pray (1827-1831)(R6 #121).

Mary E. Reynolds Colby (1855-1927)(R6 #122)     was the wife of Walter Colby

Isaac Coombs    (1819-1892)(R6 #122)married Hannah Coombs (1820-1888)(R6 #122).They had Clement W. (1843), James H. (1847-1864)(R6 #122) in 1^st Cav. Co. A; and Mary A. (1845-1845)(R6 #122), Woodman (1843) and a stone mason; Ella 1855); and Lucay A. (1861) Issac was a stone mason and cutter.

William Mustard (b. 1792) married in 1820 Rebecca Cushing (1796-1835)(R6 #123) and they had Delia Estabrooks (1828-1835)(R6#126). Rebecca was born in Rochester, NH.

Celia Hawes        (1831-1832)(R6 #125)     was the daughter of Rev. Josiah T. and T.H. Hawes.  The Rev. J.T. Hawes, pastor of the Congregational Church at Litchfield Corner, In May, 1836, Reverend J. T. Hawes, who had been settled over the First Parish in 1831, resigned, and was succeeded by Reverend Mr. High, who supplied the pulpit for eight weeks, by Reverend Mr. Cleaveland for eleven weeks, and by Professor Smyth, of Bowdoin College, for eight months. A new house of worship was erected this year by voluntary subscriptions.Josiah T. Hawes was  a congregational minister and ended up in Litchfield. He was 81 in 1880 and his wife Dolly C. was 61 and they had: Charles T (1854) and Addie R. (1857) T.H. Hawes could have been his first wife.

Ellen Rosilla Atkins (1857-1862)  (R6#127)  was the daughter of William & Mary Atkins died Nov.14, 1862; Aet.5 yrs.20days;Just in the morning of her days when hope was the brightest and we loved her best,she passed away her loss we deeply feel but he…..her again. (Stone broken)Mary A. Atkins   (1827-1900)(R6 #128)     “Mother”; William R. Atkins (1822-1896)(R6 #129) “Father”.

John R. Tebbetts(1825-1852)(R6 #130)    was a cook in Bath.

John Tebbetts (1789-1882)(R6 #130) A granite stepping stone on the East and West ends of this doublelot I(Stone R#6 130 through R6#141) is marked Tebbetts on the edge facing the access road. He married Hannah Rollins Tebbetts (1792-1856)(R6 #130)

Isaac P. Tebbetts (1819-1895)(R6 #130,135) married Susan M. Tebbetts (1820-1896)(R6 #130).

R6#131 Tebbetts                                                                          Father marker

R6#132 Tebbetts                                                                          Mother marker

R6#133 Tebbetts                                                                          John marker

R6#134 Tebbetts                                                                          S.M.T.marker

Isaac Tebbetts   (1773-1816)(R6 #136,140)was born in Somersworth, NH and died in Lisbon . He married Reliance Tebbetts (1785-1856)(R6 #136,141)who died in Topsham.  He died in the Androscoggin River. They had:Charles Tibbetts(1804-1806)(R6 #136)who died in Lisbon; Charles Carr Tibbetts (1814-1834)(R6 #136) who died in Charleston, S.C.; Albert Tibbetts(1805-1863)(R6 #136)who died in Dallas,Oregon ;Harriet Tibbetts(1807-1884)(R6 #139);Octavia Tibbetts(1809-1884)(R6 #138);Priscilla Elizabeth Tibbetts;Sarah Richardson Tibbetts

Sarah R. Tebbetts Chase(1816-1892)(R6 #137)     was the wife of Hall Chase M.D.

Franklin P. Whitney(1867-1882)(R6 #142) was a son of Robert P. & Ruth F. Whitney  and broter to Edward L. Whitney.

Edward  L. Whitney(1859-1927) (R6 #143)Edward Lincoln Whitney was one of the Maine Central’s oldest employees in time of service. He was born on Winter St. in Topsham, His father was postmaster of Topsham. When he was nine years old his mother Ruth Sprague died and his father later married Miss Margaret Haley. While a boy he became newsboy on the Maine Central trains. Later he became connected with the Maine Central restaurant located in Brunswick next to the old depot. At the age of 28 he began work as brakeman on the main line passenger train until he became a conductor in 1890.  In 1905 he became a member of the Order of Railroad Conductors. In 1901 he married Miss Matilda Irene Crocker (1867-1925)(R6 #144) of Topsham. One daughter, Margaret Whitney Haley of Topsham was born of this union. His wife died in 1925 from which he never fully recovered.  He was from a family of eight brothers and one sister: Mrs. Carrie Farrar, wife of Edwin L. Farrar of Hartford, Ct. Matilda Irene had four sisters and a brother. Sylvia J. Crocker, May S. Harrington; Marcia G. Purington of Brunswick, Mabel E. Trufant and William A. Crocker of Topsham.

James F. Mustard (1806 -1881)(R6 #152) Capt. James Mustard married Charity Reed and had Charles Mustard (1779) who married Margaret Peggy Fulton (1783); They had James Mustard (1805-1881 who married Agnes M. Hunter (1822-1868)(R5 #151) the D/o Arthur Hunter(1784-1829) and Hannah Mustard (1796-1882) who had Anna Louisa, Ella Fulton, James Edward, and Frank, and Joseph Everett as well as Jennie May (1857-1862);Capt James Mustard and Charity also had John (1753) who married Abigail Randall; William (1755-1775); James (1757-1784) who married Priscilla Hinkly; Samuel (1770); Margaret; David who married Elizabeth Stetson; Charles who married Peggy Fulton; Joseph who married Agnes Fulton; and Charity wh married Samuel White. James and Agnes Mustard  had: James Edward Mustard (1850-1862)(R6 #150); Anna Louisa Mustard (1842-1853)(R6 #149);Joseph Everett Mustard (1857-1862)(R6 #148); Jenny May Mustard (1861-1862)(R6 #147); Frank (1853-1853)(R6 #146); and Ella F. Mustard(1846-1871)(R6 #145).

Jonathan Baker (1789-1839)(R6 #153)    m. Betsey Nesmith Davidson, of Windham, N. H. Moved to Topsham, Me., a leading business center. A merchant, held office of postmaster and acquired a goodly property. Lived in colonial house on Main St. and died there. Buried in adjoining cemetery. Widow moved to Boston and Cambridge, Mass., and died there 1871. She is buried in the Colby lot at Forest Hills. Their children, all born in Topsham, were: George, b. Oct. 21st, 1818, M. Frances Augusta Beals. He d. July, 1854; Sarah, b. July 10th, 1820, d. Feb. 1821; John, b. May, 1829, lived in Roxbury, m. Elizabeth Brooks, d. 1861; James, b. June 12th, 1828, d. in New Orleans, early; Charles, b. Jan. 13th, 1832, m. Mary Jacobs, Boston, d. in N. Y., 1880 and Mark, b. May 25th, 1836, d. Aug. 1836.

Infant Williams               (1836-1836)(R6 #154)was ason of …Williams & Betsy…Baker

Robert P. Whitney(1819-1897)(R6 #159)married Ruth F. Whitney (1824-1868)(R6 #160). They had: Mabel Eugenia  (1875-1875)(R6 #155); Israel Nash (1861-1863)(R6 #156); Frederick Myrtillo (1850-1877)(R6 #157). Robert also married Margaret P. Whitney (1835-1903)(R6 #158).

William Frost(1781-1857)(R6 #161), Major  was a trader, lumbering and shipping;President of theUnion Bank Brunswick, and rep. to Legislature. The grandfather of the late William E. Frost of Elm street, husband of the deceased, Mrs. Augusta Chase Swift Frost, was one of Topsham’s most prominent citizens in the early part of the 19^th century. Major William Frost from young manhood was one of a group of men who became leaders in various enterprises in the early part of the 19^th century. His contemporaries, such as Governor King, Dr.Porter, and Major Nathaniel Walker were all enterprising leaders in the affairs of a growing community. Major Frost was president of the Union Bank of Brunswick, served the town in the Legislature, was a major in the militia, the owner of sawmills on the river, the owner and builder of several ships and was engaged in lumbering and other enterprises. He was also a prominent Mason and was a donor of the bell at the Unitarian church of which he was a member.For most of his life he resided at his residence just east of the court house lot, now the school lot on Elm street. And there he died in 1857 at the age of 76 at his residence now owned by his great-grandson, Major John W. Frost of Pleasantville, N.Y. After his death, this residence was purchased by Warren Johnson, and became the Franklin Family boarding school, for which purpose it was used for a number of years.

His first wife was Anne Emery (1774-1840) (R6#162)whose sister, Sarah Emery, was the wife of Humphrey Purinton of Topsham. Major Frost’s second wife was Mrs. Phebe Greeley, who survived him.

He had three children, a son Obadiah Emery Frost, and two daughters. One daughter, Octavia married Dr.James McKeen, and lived many years in a house which Major Frost had built fronting on Green street, which is now owned and occupied by Robert Miller. Another daughter, Sarah, married Dr.Israel Putnam of Bath, and the their son, William L. Putnam, was a United States District Judge in Maine for many years.

Obadiah Emery Frost (1807-1883)(R6 #165), the eldest son, and father of William E. Frost, was graduated from Bowdoin College in the class of 1826. He studied law and was a lawyer and merchant in Topsham. For ten years, 1830 to 1840, he was Register of Deeds of the county. He married Jane P. Hunter (1809-1883)(R6 #164), daughter of Captain William Hunter, of Topsham. A malady thought to have been typhus resulted in his death at the age of 42. He had built, in 1839 and 1840, as his residence, the house since occupied by members of his family west of the present Fair Hall on the north side of Elm street.He and Jane had Obed Emery (1840-1845)(R6 #166).

Dorothy Y. Sandford (1817-1847)(R6 #169)was the wife of James Head  Sandford. James was born in 1814 in Topsham and died in 1898 in Corona, Calif. James Head Sandford was a retired famer in Wabasha County, Minnesota. He had been born in Topsham, Maine in 1814. His parents were Thomas Gelston Sandford (1781-1832)(R6#167) and Maria Halsey Head (1796-1832)(R6 #168). James was the eldest of seven children born to Thomas and Maria. The children were:

“1) James

2) Thomas H. Sandford  (1816-1880)(R6 #170) b. in Topsham, Me., April 11, 1816, marr. first Caroline Mary Bond, Sept. 6, 1837 and had 2 children. He then marred  his cousin, Ellenore Waller Head,and had three more children.

3) Frances Head, b. Nov. 12, 1817, marr. Sept. 7, 1836 Nehemiah Ordway Pillsbury, of Bangor, Me. and d. abt. 1852, leaving a son, Thomas Sandford Pillsbury.

4) William Hovey Sandford (1819-1827)(R6 #172)was drowned .

5) Joseph Head, b. Sept. 17, 1820, d. April 30, 1891 in Chelsea, Mass. He marr. Mary Jane Valentine of Bangor, Me. July 17, 1843. They had five children.

6) Gelston Sandford (1826-1837)(R6 #171)son of Thomas G.& Martha H. Sandford, was drowned at Warren, Maine.

7) Maria Head b. Dec. 31, 1830, marr. Henry M. Snell of Boston and had Joseph Dix, b. Feb. 11, 1864, and Mary Sandford, b. Feb. 21, 1870. Mrs. Snell and her son resided later in Ashmont, Massachusetts.

James was kept at school until fifteen years of age, when, shortly after, his father died and he went to sea, entering the foreign merchant trade. For about twenty-seven years, his principal occupation was that of sailor. Occasionally, however, he would stop at home for a time, and on those occasions, he would make a trip or two in some coasting-vessel. He also made several trips into the western wilds in the employ of the fur traders. In 1856, he immigrated to Minnesota, and settled in the town of Mazeppa, where he pre-empted one hundred and sixty acres of land in section 29, on which he continued to reside up to 1882, when he rented his farm and removed into the village of Mazeppa. Mr. Sandford was full of amusing and interesting reminiscences of the early days.

He saw much of the Indians, as his place was near the Zumbro, which afforded fine camping grounds for them, and who frequently called at his house for handouts. In those days, he had to carry his supplies on his back for some four miles, and the idea that the Indians had the cheek to beg frome him, when they knew he had to pack his provisions, annoyed him, so he told his wife, within the hearing of several of them, that he would not give them anything more, whereupon they, seeming to understand, at once left.

Shaska, one of the Indians, came to his house one day and said he was sick, so Mrs. Sandford offered him a bottle containing No. 6, composed of gum myrrh, brandy and capsicum, a very hot, powerful medicine; but Shaska would not take it until Mrs. Sandford assured him by appearing to take some herself, whereupon he raised the bottle to his mouth and gulped down a good dose, before he was aware of how hot it was. It was down, though, and he had to stand it, but his grimaces and antics were amusing for a few moments. It seems that Shaska had faith in Mrs. Sandford’s ability as a doctor, for he repeated the dose for several days, till finally one day he came and said he was all right.

On one occasion during the winter, when Mr. Sandford was away, a lot of Indians called at his house to warm themselves, leaving their guns outside. Finally, when they left, Mrs. Sandford went to the door with her son, George, a small boy, when they suddenly drew up their guns and aimed at Mrs. Sandford, who, instead of darting into the house with fear, stood and laughed at them, believing they meant no harm, while her little boy thought it meant business, and was considerably alarmed.

In Mr. Sandford’s declining years, he enjoyed the fruits of an industrious life as he justly deserved, being the owner of several farms and his means were ample. He was married twice, and had twin sons by his first marriage to Dorothy Y. (Burton) Sandford; James Sandford and Edward T. Sandford. Edward T. Sandford was a Baptist minister in St. Johnsbury, Vt. who moved to California. Edward died in 1922 and is buried in Bellevue Cemetery, Ontario, Ca. (see memorial #20878977). After the death of his first wife, Mr. Sandford married Miss Arabella Pierce, of Bath, Maine, by whom he had one son, George. They moved to Minnesota, where George became postmaster of Mazeppa.

George moved to Long Beach, California, sometime after 1885 and James eventually moved to California as well, undoubtedly to be closer to his sons, George Dwight Sandford (1850-1939) and Edward and their families.”

James Coffin      (1799-1833)(R6 #173)M.D. He died at Pittston, He married Sarah T. Coffin (1804-1882) (R6 #173). They had a daughter Martha (1833).

Francis Tucker (1765-1838)(R6 #173,178)Coffin/Tucker Monument erected by D.R. Coffin 1864; Francis was a blacksmith. He married Peace Emery Tucker (1769-1838)(R6 #173,177). They had: Daniel E. (1794-1830)(R6 #173,176)who died at New Orleans; Rebecca Tucker(1800-1850)(R6 #173) died in Boston;  Rebecca(1792-1797)(R6 #173); Sarah (1797-1799)(R6 #173) and Francis (1797-1808)(R6 #173).

John H. Thompson(1795-1860)(R6 #179)married Rebecca S. Thompson (1798-1843)(R6 #180) and married Harriet S. Thompson(1800-1873)(R6 #181).

Albert T. Thompson(1824-1895)(R6 #183)married Elizabeth J. Thompson (1824-1898)(R6 #182).

Hannah Thompson(1800-1867)(R6 #184,189) Thompson/Barron Monument South Face

Joseph Barron (1802-) married Mary S. (1804-1873) (R6 #184,185) and Angelina G.R.(1806-1841) (R6#184,186). He and Mary had Samuel B., a seaman (1841) and Mary (1844-1860) (R6 #184,187)and he and Angelina had Martha Hale (1839-1846) (R6 #184,188).

Ezra Sawyer (1788-1848)(R6 #192)married Sarah Sawyer (1792-1863)(R6 #192)     . They had:

Sawyer, James
Birth : 12 APR 1815 Topsham, Sagadahoc, Maine
Death : 24 MAR 1864 New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana
Sawyer, Eunice L
Birth : 25 APR 1814 Topsham, Sagadahoc, Maine
Gender: Female
Sawyer, Stephen F
Birth : 18 MAR 1816 Topsham, Sagadahoc, Maine
Gender: Male
Sawyer, Ann F
Birth : 10 MAY 1820 Topsham, Sagadahoc, Maine
Gender: Female
Sawyer, Justus B
Birth : 4 JAN 1823 Topsham, Sagadahoc, Maine
Gender: Male
Sawyer, Elijah P
Birth : 25 DEC 1825 Topsham, Sagadahoc, Maine
Gender: Male
Sawyer, Ezra
Birth : 23 NOV 1828 Topsham, Sagadahoc, Maine
Gender: Male
Sawyer, Elizabeth
Birth : 10 MAY 1831 Topsham, Sagadahoc, Maine
Gender: Female
Sawyer, Sarah D
Birth : 10 MAY 1831 Topsham, Sagadahoc, Maine
Gender: Female
Sawyer, Hannah G
Birth : 30 MAY 1833 Topsham, Sagadahoc, Maine
Gender: Female
Sawyer, Charles H
Birth : 3 OCT 1835 Topsham, Sagadahoc, Maine
Gender: Male
Sawyer, Albert
Birth : 9 FEB 1838 Topsham, Sagadahoc, Maine
Gender: Male

Benson Morrell (1803-1867)(R6 #193)married Philenia Morrell (1801-1851)(R6 #194) and Lucina Morell (1814-1872)(R6 #195). He and Philenia had: Olive B. Morrell (1824-1843)(R5 #196); Diana P. Morrell (1827-1847)(R6 #197); and John S. Morrell (1831-1857)(R6 #198). Philenia Berry was born in Minot (or Lewiston) December 1802 and married Benson Morrell in Topsham, March 24, 1824. Her daughters, Olive and Deanna died at age 19 and 20. In 1850 she lived with her husband and son, John, both were “millman.” Philenia died at age 49, August 6, 1851.

The documentary evidence of her life fails to indicate any specific maritime connection, yet her memorial presents the dramatic figure of a woman waving while standing in front of an anchor. What does this enigmatic imagery mean? Perhaps her next journey begins as she waves from the deck of a ship on which the anchor is stowed for sailing.

Philena Berry was the daughter of Jedediah Morrell and Joanna Beal. Benson married (2^nd) in 1854, iSusanna Wait. (b. 1814) who was born in Dixfield, Maine.

Daniel Johnson  (1824-1911)(R6 #203) married Nancy L. Johnson (1826-1901)(R6 #202). He worked in saw mill and was a joiner. They had Ellicltar (1849) who worked in cotton mill and was one time foreman of the Topsham Engine Company; Sanford J. (1854-1881)(R6 #200); Etta E. (1849-1876)(R6 #201);  Martha A. (1853) who worked in a grocery store and later in the box shop and James M. (1859-1877) (R6 #199)Daniel was foreman of Topsham Engine Company and always had an interest in the fire Department. Lived with his daughter  Mrs. W. H. Haley.

Isaac D. Johnson (1798-1852)(R6 #204)   died in California. He married Martha H. Johnson (1797-1864)(R2 #204)who died in Topham. They had had Henry (1834) a laborer; and James G. (1828)/

1. Purinton(1843-1917)(R6 #205) Purinton Monument North Face. He died while working at a lathe at the Bowdoin Mill of Pejepscot paper Co. He was  born in Topsham and  worked for the Pejepscot Paper Co. He married Carrie  Emma G. Purinton (1843-1877)(R6 #205).  They had : Mrs. John Lang of Sank Center Minneapolis; Sanford of Va. And  Helen of N. Berwick. John had  a sister Mrs. Zeller Bartlett of Brunswick. He had a brother J.M. Purinton who died in San Francisco in 1916 and was East Weymouth, Mass. They had: E. Gertrude Purinton (1873-1876)(R6 #105) and Grace L. Purinton (1870-1892)(R6 #205).         employed by the Potosi  Silver Mining Company; and another brother James T. of  Sacramento, CA. He was the son of Cyrus  M. and Mary G. Purinton. Mrs. Carrie Emma Purinton died in Hollis, NH. She was born in West Bowdoin, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Salley. She was a former resident of Topsham until she went to live with her daughter in Hollis. She was survived by two daughters, Mrs. Gertrude Lange of Sausilito, Calif. and Mrs. Helen Denault of Hollis, NH. , and a son, Sanford Purinton

(R6#200)                            Johnson Monument

Joanna Norby Johnson  (1875-1907)(R6 #206)wife of Alfred H. Johnson (1872-1935)(R6 #208).  She died of Tuberculosis. Alfred was the son of Mrs. Joanna Johnson of Topsham.  Joanna  was born in Dakota, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John J. Norby. Mr. Johnson was the general manager of Warren Brothers company one of Boston’s best known firms. He then married: Freda B. Johnson (1880-1969)(R6 #209)

John Alexander (1782-1840)        (R6#210)   Father. He married Mary Alexander (1789-1888) (R6 #210)

William A. Alexander (1862-1948) (R6#211)(R6 #212).  He was the son of Alpheus A. (a farmer) and Eunice Alexander. He married Addie M. Mallett (1868-1928) (R6 #211) (R6 #213).  She was born in Topsham, the daughter of John F. and Elizabeth Mallett. She went to Topsham public schools and graduated from Topsham High School.  She was survived by her husband, a son, Phillip G. Alexander (1892-1977)(R6 #211)(6 #215) who married Elizabeth J. (1898-1951) (R6 #211)(R6 #214), her mother Mrs. Elizabeth Mallett and a brother Frank Mallett of Topsham.

Martin Brown    (1826-1908)(R6 #216)     Co. E. 87 N.Y. Regt.  Marker Post 22 G.A.R. He boarded at the Alphonso Alexander  (farmer) home and was a farm laborer from Prussia (Germany).

Charles Ward(1819-1917)(R6 #219)Co. A. 24 Reg; Marker Post 22 G.A.R.  He ad a daughter Nancy Matilda who married William Henry Strout of Brunswick. She was born 1858 and died 1932 in Brunswick.  He was a  farmer;. They had: Flora A. (1852); Charles A. (1856) and Nancy M. (1858). Born in Lisbon 1829? Parents moved to Brunswick and then moved to Topsham. 1852 married Nancy L. Smith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Smith of Brunswick. She died in 1903. He lived with his son Albert at the old Topsham Homestead. Charles was born in Lisbon. His parents moved to Brunswick when he was a small boy but a short time later moved to Topsham. He was a civil war veteran. He was among the brave soldiers who went up the Mississippi and after a siege of 43 days captured Fort Hudson, taking 7,500 Confederate prisoners.  He was the keeper of the alms house in Topsham and Brunswick for 15 years.  He was survived by six children: Mrs. L.A. Walker of Brunswick; Albert and Milton Ward of Topsham; Mrs. W.H. Strout of Brunswick, Mrs. H.A. Ellis of North Weymouth, MA. and Mrs.  A. M. Penney of Waterville. Charles and Nancy L. Ward also had: Nancy M. Ward (1853-1957)(R6 #217)and Zenie Ethel Ward (1872-1892)(R6 #218).

Row 7

Arthur L. Stockman         (1867-1927)(R7 #1)

WILLIAM ADOLPHUS WHEELER, son of Amos Dean and Louisa A. (Warren) Wheeler. Born at Leicester, Mass., Nov. 14, 1833; died at Roxbury, Mass., Oct. 28, 1874. Married at Duxbury, Mass., July 13, 1856, Olive Winsor Frazar, who was born Oct. 25, 1835, dau. of Samuel Alden Frazar and Maria (Winsor) Frazar, He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1853. He assisted Dr. Joseph E. Worcester in the preparation of Worcester’s Dictionary, and was a contributor to Noah Webster’s Dictionary in 1864, and prepared for it an ” Explanatory and Pronouncing Vocabulary of the Names of Noted Fictitious Persons and Places, including Familiar Pseudonyms, Surnames, etc.,” which was issued separatelv, 1865.
Among his other works are an abridgement of Webster’s Dictionary for school purposes, a ” Dickens Dictionary,” ” Mother Goose Melo- dies,” etc.  They had: ALICE WINSOR WHEELER; WALTER KENDALL WHEELER, born Oct. 19, 1860. EDITH FRAZAR WHEELER, born at Dorchester. Mass., Jan. 12, 1863;
m. Roxbury, Mass., Sept. 10, 1884, Percival Wayland White, son of Nelson Davis White and Julia Davis (Long) White. They res. at Winchendon, Mass. Ch : 1 Percival Wayland W , b. Jan, 8, 1887;  Richard Frazar W , b. Dec. 26, 1890.;ALVAEO SANTOS WHEELER, born Aug. 1, 1865.; ETHEL WHEELER, born at Dorchester, Mass., Sept. 24, 1868; m. Oct.  14, 1891, Arthur Lewis Stockman, son of John Baker Stockman and Frances Loraiue (Putnam) Stockman.; and  MARY EARLE WHEELER, born at Boston, Mass., April 27, 1874. Arthur L. Stockman’s obituary in Brunswick Record Oct. 27, 1927 page 3. He and Ethel had Earl Frazar Stockman.

 Mrs. Sarah Berry Thorn(1823-1889)(R7 #2) was the wife of  Barnett Thorn. They were married in 1862 in Bowdoinham. She had been married before.

Samuel Thorne, born November 05, 1743 in Gloucester, England; died February 10, 1828 in Lewiston, Andros Co., Maine. He was the son of Samuel Thorne and Abigail Cram. He married Hannah Hoyt June 23, 1760.

Hannah Hoyt, born July 05, 1743 in New Glouchester, Maine; died July 27, 1821 in Lewiston, Andros Co., Maine. She married Samuel Thorne and they had: Barnett Thorne, born March 12, 1770 in New Glouchester, Maine and died April 23, 1815 in Androscoggin County, Maine. He married Jane Lane on November 9, 1793; Samuel Thorne Jr., born 1772; Abigail Thorne, born 1775; Benjamin Thorne, born 1779. Barnett Thorn was born in 1804 in Mass. and He and Mrs. Berry had: Georgia A. Small (18990 and Allie F. Berry (1856) her son and his stepson. He was a farmer and a shoemaker.

Sanford  Palmer Rounds (1873-1955)(R7 #4)married Gertrude M. (Berry) Rounds (1882-1903)(R7 #3). He was a section hand on the Maine Central Railroad. They had a daughter Blanche.

Alphonso Berry (1856-1930) (R7 #6) married Georgianna M. (1856-1939) (R7 #5) and he was a day laborer in Bowdoinham and they had Charles A. (1893).

Walter S. Cash   (1857-1929)(R7 #7)Cash/Harrington monument  east  face. Walter was a carpenter. His parents were Washington and Hannah Cash. He was born in Raymond. He came to Topsham when he was 22 years old. For several years he worked at the Pejepscot Paper Col plant in Topsham. He was survived by his widow, Mrs. Myra E. Cash of Topsham (1857-1944)(R7 #7). She had one brother William Caash of Andover, Maine. She died at the home of her neice, Mrs. Harry O. Howland of Main St. Lewiston.  She was born in Topsham, and lived there most of her life.

Turner C. Harrington       (1819-1889)(R7 #7) was a stone cutter. He and his wife Mary C.(1819-1866)(R7 #7) had : Ari (1842) and Rosella (1847-1917).W. Rosella married George Franklin Grover (1860-1919).  They were married in 1904. Turner also marred Elizabeth Harrington (1820d-1892)(R7 #7)

               Walker  Wildes   P.(1814-1888)(R7 #8)was in involved in glass making for a while. Kept the old homestead but removed the 100+ year old tavern and office occupied by so long by Dr. McKeen. He was born in Topsham and died there . He went to Boston in 1850, and to New York city . He was a prominent merchant in Boston, then a lawyer in New York. He married (1) in Boston (1840) Catherine Patten (B. Bath 1821) and died 1875 on a steamer on the Bay of Naples and daughter of George Ferguson Patten and Hannah Thomas; and married (2) Priscilla I.  McManus of Brunswick, daughter of Robert McManus and Priscilla Purington—no children. He had a lurid divorce trial in New York with his wife Catherine Patten based on Adultery.

Children with first wife: Catherine Patten Walker, b. Boston (1841) marr. Edward Warden whodied in London in 1892. They had : Francis Warden b. Paris 1865 and Clarence Patten Warden in Nice (1870); William b. Paris (1870) Reginald in Brighton, Eng. 1872; Katherine Patten in Brighton, Eng. (1874) married 1904 Sir Peter Leicester; Edward in Brighton ; Julian in Paris 1877; Vera Lydia (1877). Wildes and Catherine other children: Georgianna Veazie in Bath, died in Bonn, Germ. 1897; who had Caroline Sears Walker b. Bath 1844.

Lizzie E. Davis     (1847-1913)(R7 #9)was the wife of Chas. Davis  and the stone was erected by her  sister Esther. Charles B. was a farmer who was born in 1825 and they had Addie M. (1879); and Edward  6 months old in 1880.

Freddie O. Glover(1867-1868)(R7 #10) was the son  of  Marcus & Lizzie E. Glover.  There was a Marcus Glover of Holland that married Lizzie E. in Jan. 1867.

Mary Alice Fuller(1838-1880)(R7 #11)      was the wife of Alonzo M. Fuller . Alonzo was a stone mason in Brunswick and then  in Topsham. They had Mary M. (1861); Edward W. (1869), Elmer W. (1869) and Lucy H. (1863).

Lizzie McHugh   (1848-1934)(R7 #12) Obit. Feb 1, 1934 pag. 4 Brunswick Record

Frances E. Stelle (1857-1883)(R7 #12)on the Stelle/Fall monument. She married a Stelle and was the daughter of Jonathan Fall.

Stephen Fall (1790-1867)(R7 #12)Steele/Fall monument  East Face. He was a farmer and he and Mary (1787-1873) (R7 #12) had Jonathan C.(1824-1904)(R7 #12) who was a milliner and married Hannah (1826-1905)(R7 #12) and had Hannah B. (1848). He was a Capt. of Co. B 9th Me Inf. and Co. H. 30th Me. Infantry. Hannah was born in Durham. She was married to J.P.C. Fall in 1848 and lived in Topsham most of her life. Member of Free Baptist church of Topsham; Death to to cancerated stomach from which she suffered a good deal; Three sons: George O. of Lynn, MA; John C. of Lynn; W.A. Fall of Bath and one daughter: Mrs. L. H. McHugh of Rockland. Two sisters Mrs. John Moone and Mrs. Harriet Weaver of Portsmouth and one brother George McIntosh of Portsmouth.

Lucretia W. Robinson     (1819-1848)(R7 #13)was the wife Ira Robinson . They had Franklin Robinson (1847-1847)(R7 #14.); Annette Jackson (1845). Ira and Caroline had Abner H. Robinson (1859-1885)(R7 #15); Josephine, Sarah, George, and Susan.

William Barron  (1798-1866)(R7 #25) was a Deacon who married Betsey Barron (1798-1872) (R7 #25).William Barron moved to Topsham in 1816 and with his brother John  was in the lumbering business. At the time of his death he was President of the Pejepscot National Bank in Brunswick. He was a Deacon of the Topsham Baptist Church.

William Barron  (1832-1899)(R7 #25) married Mary Noyes Hall Barron (1837-1917) (R7 #25)       They lived on Winter Street in Topsham. She was the daughter of William Hall, formerely of Brunswick; had 2 daughters: Miss Hattie (Harriet) S. Barron (1862-1931) (R7 #2,29). She lived on Winter Street. Her death followed that of her only sister, Miss Bessie M. Barron (1874-1931) (R7 #25,28)by exactly four months. Miss Harriet S. Barron was born in Topsham. She was the last member of her family. She graduated from Topsham High School.

Jeremiah Clough (1795-1849)(R5 #35)was born in Danville and was disowned in 1817 (maybe a quaker)He married Eunice Haskell Clough (1800-1844)(R5 #36), daughter of Stephen and Rebecca Marston Haskell. He also married Mr. Elizabeth McManus Quimby and Sarah Almira Chick. He was a public house tavern keeper on Winter Street known as the Lincoln Hotel and the Temperance Hotel in 1837. He and Eunice had: Henry A. (1835-1837)(R5 #35); Henry Augustus (1822-1833)(R5 #35) who drowned; Frances Anne (1826-1842)(R5 #34); Elizabeth Jane (1820) who married Joseph R. Coombs; James Franklin (1824); Elivira Amanda (1828); Charles Alonzo (1831-1902)(R7 #16) a farmer; and he and Elizabeth ? or he and Eunice had  had George Haskell (1833); Ellen Augusta (1838); Sidney Alphonso (1840) . His other wife must have had Frances Alvaredo (1844) and Eunice (1845) who were born after Eunice’s death. Charles Alonzo Clough married Abbie S. Clough (1834-1863)(R7 #16) and Sarah E. Clough (1834-1901)(R7 #16). Charles and Abbie had George E. (1858-1880)(R7 #16) ,Annie J. (1871-1873)(R7 #16, William A. (1875-1895) (R7 #16) and Charles S. Clough (1862-1895)(R8 #132), a farm worker who married Gusta M. Clough (1869-1920) (R8 #132).

George L. Wilson (1838-1877)(R7 #18)     In the 1860 census he was living with his father Arthur L. Wilson in Topsham as a farm laborer.  His mother was Henrietta Wilson.

Mary E. Wilson  (1841-1864) (R7 #19)

Lavina C. Wilson(1839-1885)(R7 #20) had a daughter Hattie E. White        (1874-1893)(R7 #21)and Jennie M.

Jennie M. Pierce (1871-1958)(R7 #22) Mrs. Jennie Pierce was born in Topsham, the daughter of George and Lavinia Thompson Wilson. She attended Topsham schools and ws married in 1882 in Brunswick. She married Nathan H. Pierce (1868-1943)(R7 #23). She was survived by a son, Dwight W. Pierce of Bath.

Charlie Gurney  (1862-1864)(R7 #24)        was the son of Rev. L.P. & S.A. Gurney . Rev. L. P. Gurney was a Baptist minister in the only church located on Elm Street in the Town of Topsham from May 1860 until he resigned March 1, 1866. Rev. Gurney was born in Massachusetts. He married Sarah A. Packard October 30, 1842 in Abington, Massachusetts. They had a daughter Cordelia born in Maine, who became a music teacher. In 1880, he was also a Baptist minister in Corinth. Rev. L. P. Gurney was a Baptist minister in the only church located on Elm Street in the Town of Topsham from May 1860 until he resigned March 1, 1866.
Harriet B. Johnson           (1799-1875)(R7 #29)        Sister to Lucinda A. Barron.

William L. Jordan             (1847-1847)(R7#25) was the son of Harriet  S. and Lyman died 2 months..

Lucinda A. Barron (1806-1880)    (R7 #25,30) Aunt Lucinda

Harriet S. Jordan (1825-1847)(R7 #25,33)was the wife of Lyman . She had Willie Jordan (R7 #34)

`              Aunt Harriet Johnson (R7 #35)

Clement M. Giveen(1870-1938)(R7 #36) was son of Thomas M. a lawyer,and Adelaide Purinton Giveen, with his brothers Harry M. Giveen (1875-1947)(R13 #19) who was a caterer and later a salesman at hardware store. He was born in Brunswick. The family moved to Topsham when he was a very young boy. He was survived by one sister, Miss Mary Giveen(1878-1971) (R13 #18),a school teacher;  and Charles I. (1872-1944)(R13 #21), a bank cashier.  Clement M. Giveen died in Millis, MA. He was born in Brunswick, the son of Mr. & Mrs. Thomas M. Giveen. He graduated from Topsham High School in 1887 and for many years was employed as an accountant for Maine Central, Boston and Maine and New Haven railroads. He was one –time foreman of the Androscoggin Engine Company. He was survived by his wife Charlotte M. Giveen of Millis, MA; two brothers, Charles I. and Harry M.

Joseph Harden Purinton (1812-1886)(R7 #41)Captain.  He was the son of James Purinton and  Meriam Melcher. He married Lettice Reed Purinton (1817-1896)(R7 #40). They had: Joseph R. Purinton (1838-1864)(R7 #37) and George H. Purington (1844-1907)(R7 38) and Eliza (1841)’; and Georgett. Though we know less about her, we have an extraordinarily complete bridal ensemble for Lettice Reed, who on September 10, 1837 was given away by one Topsham captain, her father Joseph O. Reed, to another Topsham captain, Joseph Harding Purinton. The bride was 20, the groom 24. Factually, Lettice Reed Purinton remains the most hidden of these five brides; we know that she was to survive her husband by ten years, dying in 1896 at 79. They had two daughters and two sons, one of whom died at 26. Captain Purinton is noted for having lost a Skolfield vessel, the Brandywine, through navigational carelessness off Ireland in 1861, as well as having a reputation for being slow.

Carrie Ann Purinton Larrabee     (1848-1900)(R7 #39)was the wife  of Lorenzo Larrabee. He was in Brunswick in 1880 and a carpenter living at Josephine Larabee’s; (she was 80).

Mark Morse (1798-1854)(R7 #42) was born in Gray Maine. He marred Betsey Whitten Morse (1798-1883)(R7 #42)His father was Reuben Morse (1776) iin Gray maine and mother was Hulda Sweetser Morse whose father was Mark Morse and mother was Sara Sweetser. That Mark’s father was Anthony. Reuben and Hulda had : Mark, Thomas (1800) Reuben Jr. (1802-1828); Mose Truman (1805-1893) and died in Grand Rapids Mich.; Judith (1810) and Alvah (1812). Mark and Betsey had: James A. Morse (1828-1829)(R7 #42); Martha E. Morse (1839-1934)(R7 #42) who died at her home in Somerville, MA. She was born in Topsham.

Thomas Whitehouse      (1801-1885)(R7 #43), a brick mason, married Ann Dunning  Alexander Whitehouse (1807-1881)(R7 #43). They had George Knox Whitehouse (1844-1846)(R7 #43); Alfred;  William;  Elizabeth B. and Mary E. Ann daughter of  William Alexander was born April 4 1806. Thomas Whitehouse of Topsham Me. was bom 1801 died Sept 15 1885 . Ann died on July 8 1881. They had five children: Aletta Ann ( Dec 9 1831); Lizzie B;Alfred (1835) lost at sea April 19 1864;  George Knox(July 21 1844 died March 21 1 846); and Jeffery (May 9, 1847).

Alfred Whitehouse(1835-1864)(R7 #43)son of Thomas and Ann Whitehouse;  Lost at  sea ; Anna May Whitehouse (1862-1864)(R7 #43,47) was a daughter of A. & S.E. Whitehouse

Solomon Davis (1831-1890)(R7 #43) was a painter in 1860 and living with the Whitehouses in Topsham; he was a painter and living in Brunswick in 1870 and in 1880 he was  a retail grocer and living again with the Whitehouses. He married Aletta A.Whitehouse Davis (1831-1917) (R7 #43) who  was the daughter of Thomas Whitehouse and Ann who had Lizzie B; Aflred; George Knox  and Mary Ellen. Solomon and Aletta A. had: George Alfred (1835-1855) (R7 #43) and Thomas W. (1866).

R7#46    Whitehouse                                                                   George K. stone marker

R7#48    Whitehouse                                                                   George A.stone marker

John Wilson Jr.  (R7 #51)3 Mass Militia  War of 1812;

James Wilson     (R7 #52) John Wilson’s Co. Merrill’s Regt War of 1812.

Daniel Hall(1789-1865)(R7 #53), a miller, married Elizabeth Hall (1791-1875)(R7 #54) They had Anthony A. Hall             (1833-1893)(R7 #57,58) who married Arobine J. Hall (1838-1906)(R7 #57,59); and Paul Hall, a painter, who married Hannah Hersey and they had Annie C. Hall. Anthony and Arobine had: Frank, a hack driver, Charles and William who worked in the box factory, and Harry H. Hall.

Edwin Melville  Brown (1854-1916)(R7 #56) worked in  a saw mill and later was an electric car conductor. He married Annie C. Hall (1856-1932)(R7 #55) She was born in Topsham the daughter of Paul and Hannah (Hersey) Hall. She was married to Edwin M. Brown of Brunswick in 1880. She was survived by her daughter Mrs. Gladys Furbish and one sister Mrs. Alice McKenney of Brunswick and one brother Elmer F. Hall of Orlando, Fla. He was appointed in 1909 by Gov. Bert M. Fernald to fill the unexpired term of John A. Fisher as register of deeds of Sagadahoc County. He was born in Brunswick and died in Topsham. He was the son of Trueworthy and Ardelia Cargill Brown. He was educated in the Brunswick public schools and then entered the lumber business in partnership with his brother, under the name of S.T. and E.M. Brown. At the time of his appointment as register of deeds he was a clerk in the office of the signal department of Maine Central Railroad. He had a daughter that survived him: Gladys.

Harry H. Hall       (1870-1946)(R7 #57,61) married Helen M. Hall (1877-1952)(R7#57,60) They adopted a daughter, Marie T. Hiller Hall (1890)(R7 #57) (obituary May 9, 1946 pg. 4). Harry was the son of Anthony A. and Arobine Hall.

Frederick R. Howland (1849-1925)(R7 #62)  was a farmer. He married Alfreda C. Dill (1855-1920)(R7 #62) they had a son Leon F. Howland  and a son Harry O. Howland(1884-1969)(R7 #63)who married Meda May Cobb (1886-1961)(R7 #63)

Leon F. Howland(1888-1967)(R7 #64) married Florence L. Howland (1888-1973)(R7 #64)They had a son Leon F. (b. 1926)

Joseph P. Nash  (1801-1873)(R7 #65)married Adaline Nash (1809-1888)(R7 #66) They had: Joseph B. Nash (1844-1866)(R7 #68), a member of Co. F 30^th Regiment; Melvin P. Nash (1838-1841)(R7 #69); Joel B. Nash (1839-1841)(R7 #70); Thomas Nash (1835-1841)(R7 #71); and Mark R. Nash (1838-1872)(R7 #73), and Caroline. Joseph P. Nash was a shoemaker, b. in MA. His son Mark in 1860 was a factory operative in Lawrence, MA and in 1870 worked in a saloon in Worcester, Ma.  Adaline was a nurse in Norwalk Ct. in 1870 and was keeping house in 1880 at the age of 70 with a daughter Caroline G. Emus. She was the wife of William Emus and is buried here. There was a Carrie Emus Fund in Topsham as a Cemetery Fund.

William Emus     (1829-1878)(R7 #72)        He was born in England as was his sister Nancy (1829 who was living with them . He and Caroline (b. in Maine) She was Caroline G. Nash(1842-1889)(R7 #67) had Thomas N. (1866) and Sarah J. (1863). He was a farmer. The Carrie Emus Fund is in Topsham Cemetery Fund.

John F. Blondel (b.1824) a brickmason,  married Lucinda Blondel (1839-1869) (R7 #74) and they had: Nancy A. (1852-3); Martha A. (1861-64) (R7 #78) ; William E. (1864-64)(R7 #79); Annie M. (1865-66)(R7 #79); Nancy A. (1852-1853) (R7 #78) Abbie J (1859-1910) (R7 #77); and Frederick Herbert (1865-1900) (R7 #76) who married Martha Lucretia Beal (1871-1848) (R7 #75) who later married Alden C. Whitmore M.D. John F. Blondel married (2) Roxana ( b. 1853) and they had Grace (1871) and Blanche (1873).

In 1872, John F. Blondel of Thomaston (?), Maine, sea captain and baker,  is said to have patented the first doughnut-hole machine, in which a spring-loaded tube pushed the dough out of the cake’s middle.

Chapter I66 An Act  to incorporate the Mount Ararat Memorial Cemetery Association Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled as follows Sscr 1 Charles E Scribner Isaac P Tibbets WB Purring ton George Barron Robert P Whitney HW Green Charles E White John F Blondel Joseph Barron William Whitten Joseph H Purrington William Dennett HP Mallet Warren Johnson their associates successors and assigns are hereby created a body politic and corporate by the name of the Mount Ararat Memorial Cemetery Association to be established and have its place of business in the town of Topsham in the county of Sagadahoc with power to sue and be sued to have and use a common seal to make Cerpente name Location Power CHAP 167 First meeting how called by laws for the government of its affairs not repugnant to the laws of the state and to take hold manage and dispose of for burial purposes real and personal estate to an amount not exceeding in value the sum of ten thousand dollars Sscr 2 Charles E Scribner Isaac P Tibbets and WB Purrington or either of them may call the first meeting of the corporation by giving five days personal notice to each of the corporators named in this act Sscr 3 This act shall take effect when approved Approved February 24 1869

Class of 1882 FREDERICK HERBERT BLONDEL son of John Frederic and Lucinda Higgins Blondel was born 7 August 1856 at Topsham Me He was prepared for college in the schools of his native town and at Phillips Academy Exeter NH After graduation he taught at What Cheer Iowa and was superintendent of schools at Port Washington Wis About 1889 he entered the employ of Leach Shewell and San born of Boston Mass publishers of school and college textbooks  books as their general agent in the northwest a position he filled with marked success residing at Minneapolis Minn The failure of his health in 1896 caused his return to his native town After a long illness from diabetes he died while on a visit to his brother at Stamford Conn 11 March 1900 aged 43 years 7 months and 4 days Mr Blondel was a self made man and his own thirst for knowledge made him eager to help others to gain what he himself prized so highly To those who knew him intimately he seemed possessed of an exhaustive fountain of sunshine and good cheer and he retained his old time cheerfulness long after disease had marked him as its victim Mr Blondel married first Laura Nevins of Iowa and second Martha Lucretia daughter of George and Man Elizabeth Beal who survives with one daughter Hannah Blondel

Robert Tate (1799-1878)(R7 #80,81), farmer, married Harriet Tate (1800-1887)(R7 #80,82). They had: Charles M. Tate (1828-1875)(R7 #80,84); Mary C. Tate(1838-1874)(R7 #80,83); Woodbury E. Tate(1834-1890)(R7 #80,85); and Abigail (Abby)(1830).

R7#86    Tate                                                                   Abbie marker stone

Ephraim Griffin (1814-1878)(R7 #87,88), who ran a livery stable,  married Hannah Toothaker Knight  “Mother”(R #7 #89) and they had: Udora Griffin (1847-1847)(R7 #87,91) and (Ephriam) Edwin E. Griffin (1849-1849)(R7 #87,90) who married Judith Blaisdell and they had Ephriam Griffin III; and Franklin Oscar (1851-1933) who married  Anna Mabel Woodside. Ephriam was born in Poland, ME of Isaac Griffin and Elizabeth (Betsy) Pulsifer.

Mary Emma Knights       (1856-1866)(R7 #92)        daughter of Charles A. & Achsa J. Knights.

There was a Charles Knights that was born in Topsham and died in 1862 in a military prison in Richmond Va; but he married a Mary Fales Allen. There was a Mrs. Achsa Clark Knight b. in 1800 and died in 1830 who married Charles Knight in New Jersey.

There was a Jenny or Jannet Toothaker b. in Topsham in 1792 and died in Topsham in 1863 (buried in Maquoit Cemetery); she married William Knights who died in 1844; They had: Elizabeth B. (1815); Mary J. (1917); Sarah A. (1819); Priscilla R. (1820); Hannah T. (1825); Charles A. (1828); Catherine W.(1831) and William James (1835).

Sarah H. Gibson (1855-1877)(R7 #93) was the wife of William G.Gibson.  Th ere was a William G. Gibson (b. 1858), an upholster in Calais, Maine who married Helen (1856).

David Stover was born November 01, 1799 in Harpswell, ME, and died June 27, 1818 in Orr’s Island, ME. He was  killed by a falling tree.. He married Lettice Reed on December 21, 1816 in Orr’s Is., ME, daughter of John Reed and Lettice Orr. Their children were: Lettice Stover (1817) and David Stover(1817-1856)(R7 #94). He was born in 1818 in Orr’s Island, Maine.1271 He was lost at sea when quite a young man. He was married to Jane Ross Stover (1818-1858)(R7 #94) (daughter of Capt. Robert Ross). They had : Letitia Stover of Medford, OR.  who married to a Cummings. They had another daughter who married to O.T. Despeaux . (daughter) STOVER and O.T. Despeaux had the following children: Mae Despeaux was married to A. G. Chancier; and Hester Ann Stover died at the age 66.

Hester A. Stover Bradley  (1848-1914)(R7#95)      was the wife of Anthony F.Bradley who was found dead in thefields adjacent to her home in Buganuc by her husband. She went to pick berries, was in feeble health due to fright she suffered when her  clothing caught fire; son Charles in Portland, sister Mrs. Oren Depeaux; she was the daughter of David Stover of Harpswell.

William Stanwood Alexander (1813-1904)(R7 #96) He married Nancy Merryman (1815-1906) (R7 #96). They had: John (1847); and Wiliam S. Alexander Jr. (1844-1925) ( R7#96)He married Melissa M. (1851-1925) (R7 #96) and Joseph Ruffle (1838-1915) who married (1) 1860  Mary Emma Ward of Minneapolis, Minn., and  (2) Hannah Abigail Thompson of Topsham, Maine.  He and Mary had Nettie Alexander (1861-1928)( R7#96);William Ulmer (1863—died in infancy). He and Hannah had: Alice Thompson (1866); Lena Estelle (1868) who married James S. Dexter of East Boston, MA;  William  Stanwood (1844) who married Melissa Moore of Boston; and John (1848) who married Abbie Boynton of Bath, Maine.

Celia Merriman(Merryman)  Martin (1808-1880)(R7 #96) was the wife of John Martin. She was rooming at William Alexander’s in Topsham (blacksmith) at age 71 in 1880. She was the daughter of Waitstill Merryman and Eunice Hall and born in Harpswell. She and John had Rebecca (1834-1843). Her sister was Nancy Merryman.

John S. Ayers     (1862-1912) (R7#97) married Esther G. Keay Ayers (1851)(R7 #97).She passed away at the home of Mrs. Leon Merrill of Topsham. She was born in Bowdoinham, the daughter of Thomas and Lovinia Barnes Keay. She was educated in the Brunswick schools and was employed at the Cabot Manufacturing Company in Brunswick for twenty years. She married Mr. Ayers in new Durham, NH where they resided for ten years, until after his death when she moved to Topsham to keep house for her brother, Cyrus Keay at his home on Elm Street.

Thomas C. Keay               (1801-1868)(R7 #97) was born in Berwick, Me and married  (1) Rebecca Grant (1809-1833) and (2) Lovinia M. Barnes (1816-1883)(R7 #97). He and Rebecca had Darius (1830-1912) and Hiram (1828). He and Lovinia (Bowdoinham) had Rebecca (1837-1863); Mary Alice (1836/9-1880) who married Alonzo Fuller; Harriet S. (1842) b. in Hartland, Me; Sarah M. (1849-1865) Bowdoinham; John H. (1844); Esther Graves (1851) married Ayers and Cyrus U. (1855-1930)(R7 #102).

Harry Chase        (1866-1868)(R7 #97,100)was a son of Geo.& Harriet Chase. Harriet was the daughter of Thomas C. Keay.

Cyrus U. (1855-1930)(R7 #97,102) Keay at one time was a collector of taxes in the Boston and married Lydia A. Crowley (1862-1908)(R7 #97,101) and was the oldest member of Androscoggin Engine Company in  Bowdoin Maine. Lydia’s stone was erected by her sister Esther (R7#101). They had a home on Pleasant Street in Topsham and she was survived by her husband and one son Lawrence.

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Edwin Roland Starbird (1853-1921) (R8 #1)”was the son of Amos and Mary Jane Gilkey Starbird, was born on September 15, 1853, in Freeman, Maine. Amos Starbird operated a saw mill there which made shipping boxes for various food products. He also had mills at New Portland and Solon, Maine, and in Apopka, Florida; the Florida mill made boxes for shipping fruit.
Edwin Starbird started his working life as a teacher in towns near Freeman, but in the early 1880’s he began studying photography with Francis E. Stanley in Lewiston, Maine. Stanley, along with his twin brother, Freeman O. Stanley, was an inventor and photographer from Kingfield, Maine, who maintained a photography studio in Lewiston from 1880 to 1889. There he developed a formula which improved on the recently invented photographic dry plate process and began to manufacture the plates with his brother. The Stanleys then set up a factory in Watertown, Massachusetts, to manufacture the plates and later went on to develop and manufacture the Stanley Steamer automobile.
After his training with Francis E. Stanley, Edwin Starbird returned to Farmington, Maine, and opened a studio with his brother, Albert W. Starbird, in 1882. Albert left the business within two years, giving Edwin full control of the studio, which did both portrait and landscape photography. He soon began to take stereo views and photographs of the area around Rangeley Lake, including the wildlife and sporting camps in the region. Around 1883 he began a series of photographs known as the Woods of Maine series which came to include nearly 600 views of the Rangeley area as well as Moosehead Lake, the West Branch of the Penobscot River and other wilderness places. Starbird described the series as “… Photographic views of scenes in the hunting and fishing resorts in the interior, or woods of Maine. It is intended that this series shall cover all points of interest to sportsmen and hunters.” This photo project, which lasted until around 1903, required Starbird to spend months living in the woods and traveling to remote areas by canoe or on foot.
In 1892 Starbird left Farmington and opened a business in Brunswick, Maine, where he continued to work until 1911. While there he photographed many buildings at Bowdoin College as well as other scenes in the nearby towns of Bath and Topsham.
After closing his studio in Brunswick, Starbird moved to Apopka, Florida, where he died on July 23, 1921.” Edwin married Mattie A. Starbird (1854-1900)(R8 #2) whose maiden name was Thompson. Thye had Ralph H. Starbird (1883-1966)(R8 #3)who married Edith F. Starbird (1886-1969)(R8 #3).She was the daughter of Frank W. & Mary E. Willis

Frank W. Willis   (1863-1934)(R8 #5)In the 1910 census he was a laborer. He was the son of Cornelius Tarbox Willis (1839-1914) and Susan L. Perkins (1840-1919). He had a brother Herbert A. (1861); Frank married marrie Mary Ellen Oliver (1866-1949)(R8 #4)and had Edith F. (1886-1969) who married Ralph H. Starbird (1883-1966); and Harold W. (1891-1978)(R11 #37) fire chief of Topsham; who married Bernice Higgins (1892-1979(R11 #37)); and Mildren (1893) and Ethel;

George F. Grover(1861-1919)(R8 #6)        was born in Harpswell and then moved to Topsham. He was the son of John and Julia Ring Grover. He married Mrs. Rose Cobb and had a brother Herbert of Everett, MA and a ½ sister nd ½ brother. He was a carpenter. He also married Martha J. Grover (1847-1901)(R8 #7)

David H. Green  (1817-1902)(R8 #9)”Father”.  He marred Mary  Purinton Green (1822-1905)(R8 #8)”Mother”. They had Martha J.(1846) who married George F. Grover (1860), a farmer. David was a ships carpenter and was born in Bowdoinham of William Green and Priscilla Booker.

In the 1900 census: George F Grover, 39 (born Jun 1860), and Martha J Grover, 53 (born Oct 1846), who have been married only one year, are living with Martha’s parents, David H and Mary Green, in Topsham, Sagadahoc, Maine. Martha has no children. Both George and Martha Grover are born in Maine, as are their parents. George Grover is a farmer (see farm schedule 106). David H Green is 82, born in Dec. 1817. His wife, Mary, is 78, born in 1822. They have been married 57 years, and had three children; 2 are living in 1900. Both are born in Maine. David H Green’s father was born in New Hampshire; Mary’s parents and David’s mother were born in Maine. David Green owns his home and farm, free and clear, and is no longer working.

Josiah Orr (1832-1901)(R8 #10)   “Father”. Co. D 35th Me Regt. Vol. He married Sarah E. Orr (1835-1917)(R8 #11)”Mother”. They had Joseph W. Orr (1867-1888)(R8 #12); Addie M. (1857); Bertha M. (1861); Charles E. (1864); and Frank H. (1881).

Charles E. Niles  (1832-1917)(R8 #13) of Auburn was  born in Topsham and the son of Erastus and Deborah Gammon Niles. He moved to Auburn on Center St. and  married Hannah S. Blondel Niles(1835-1906)(R8 #14,15) who died 12 years before his death. He lived with his son Frank Niles. He had a sister, Mrs. Francis Deane of Malden, MA.

Georgie E. Bonnell           (1883-1905)(R8 #16,21) was the wife of W.W. Loring who was the son of Charles R. Loring.

Charles R. Loring (1843-1913)(R8 #16,17) U.S. Navy 64-65. He  was an overseer in the pulp mill in 1800 in Topsham.  Had William W. in 1876 and Arabella in 1880. He retired to N. Yarmouth In 1910. He died in Yarmouth, ME. He was a farmer and resident of Topsham and  superintendent of Androscoggin Pulp Mill.  He was born in Yarmouth, the son of Jermemiah and Jane Leonard Loring. He was in the Navy in the Civil War He was employed the Forest Paper Company of Yarmouth,Superintendent in Topsham, Livermore Falls,  and Saint St. Marie, Ontario. He retired in 1905. He was married in 1874 to Tryphose E. DeBeck (1847-1935)(R8 #16,18) of Westbrook; a son: William W. of Yarmouth; a daughter Mrs. Arabelle Leighton of Saint Ste. Marie and a neice Mrs. Edna Buckham of Yarmouth. They had: John R. Loring (1877-1879)(R8 #16,19) and Hattie M. Loring(1882-1891)(R8 #16,20).

George Barron (1824-1905)(R8 #26) , a lawyer, married Caroline A. (1835-1905) (R8 #25) and they had: Annie L. (1877) who was a school teacher; John (1858-1891)(R8 #23) who was a grocery store clerk and then worked in the box shop; Caroline (1855); Frank (1861); George Jr. (1869-1888)(R8 #24); Carrie (1865); harry (1872) who married Josie A. and was a day laborer; Martha Barron  (1865-1910)(R8 #22)( Mattie); Charles (1874); and Walter (1869).

Amos Dean. Wheeler (1803-1876)(R8 #27)Rev. D.D.; erected by former parishioners and friends. He married Louisa Wheeler(1807-1896)(R8 #27) and they had; William Adolphus who married Edith; George A.; Charles Henry Wheeler(1831-1888)(R8 #27)Rev.; and Henry W. Wheeler(1840-1894)(R8 #28). Henry married Mary I. Wheeler (1847-1923)(R8 #28)and they had: Fred A. Wheeler (1871-1921)(R8 #28).

The Court house in Topsham was converted into a school building and occupied by the Topsham Academy. Among the teachers the first year was Charles H. Wheeler, class of 1847 at Bowdoin college.  Charles was the son of Amos Dan and Louisa A. (Warren) Wheeler.  He was born at Salem, MA June 11, 1831. He married in 1854 to Ella Gardner Gage (1828-1888) (R8#27)who was born in Nashua, NH (1828). Both he and his wife were killed by a locomotive while driving. He was a teacher and minister.

“Charles Henry Wheeler was a son of Rev Amos Dean Wheeler DD and was born in Salem Mass June ii 1 83 1 He entered Bowdoin College at the age of twelve and was graduated with the class of 1847 He then taught for a time at the Topsham Me Academy and subsequently at Westford Mass In 185 1 he became a member of the Divinity School at Cambridge and pursued his theological studies there for a year He then spent a year at the University of Gottingen and in travels on the Continent Returning to America he rejoined his class at the Cambridge Divinity School and was graduated with them in 1854 He was ordained as pastor of the Unitarian Church in South Danvers now Peabody Mass October 4 1854 being the faithful minister of that parish for eight years Mr Wheeler married October 5 1854 the day after his ordination Miss Ellen Gardner Gage daughter of Rev Nathaniel Gage and grand daughter of Hon Stephen P Gardner by this marriage he had one son Charles Gardner Wheeler now teacher of Art and Mechanics at the Mur dock School Winchendon Mass Miss Gage was born in Nashua NH July 9 1828 Her earlier years were spent in Nashua NH and Haverhill Mass where her father was settled as a Unitarian minister She was graduated at Bradford Academy and afterwards for a while taught Latin at that institution subsequently she was assistant teacher at Westford and Deerfield Academies She was a fine French scholar and had a remarkable aptness for mathematics easily solving problems considered difficult by others She had also a thorough musical education and played the piano and organ and could sing with fine taste In 1865 Mr Wheeler received a call to the Church of the Unity Winchendon Mass which he accepted on the condition that the newly organized Society would during the first year of his labors with them adopt measures for the erection of a suitable house of worship This condition was complied with and Mr Wheeler entered at once upon his work as pastor of this church The fine edifice which was soon built and the rapid growth and the continued prosperity of his church attest to his faithfulness and ability His influence was not confined within the limits of his parish but permeated the entire community He was deeply interested in the welfare of the town in which he lived and in the cause of education In 1867 he was elected a member of the School Committee and served in that capacity twenty one years or until his death At the end of each successive term of office he was re elected without opposition and during the latter and larger part of his membership he was Chairman of the Board His associates on the Board recognized his rare qualifications for the work confided to him the faithfulness of his service the purity of his life and the Christian courtesy which ever characterized him and they deferred to him to a great degree in the plans and work of the Committee By the teachers and pupils he was respected and beloved graduates counted it a happy circumstance to receive their diplomas from his hand or to hear from him words of encouragement commendation or advice The scholars universally regarded him as a benefactor and friend so thoughtful was he of their interests and their wishes so kind and considerate ever toward them in all his words and ways these children whose unfolding natures he watched with so fond a care and to serve .”

During the greater part of her wedded life Mrs Wheeler was afflicted with an incurable mental malady which brought ceaseless responsibility and much solicitude to her husband in whose society and under whose immediate and sole care she passed these years of her affliction Possessed of superior mind and culture of finest tastes and accomplishments while blessed with mental health she was an ornament and a charm to the social circle in which she moved and when this mental disease came upon her she found in her husband to the last a tender and loving sympathy and a faithful and devoted service thoughtful patient and changeless As Mr and Mrs Wheeler were riding together through the town on the 30th of June 1888 their carriage was struck by a freight train at the State Line Crossing and both were almost instantly killed No more sad or tragic event has ever occurred in the history of Winchendon the whole town was moved by inexpressible distress and grief The funeral services were held at the Church of the Unity on the following Tuesday July 3d at 1 o clock Prayers were offered at the parsonage at 12 o clock where had gathered the relatives the people of the Church of the Unity many clergymen of the Unitarian faith and the pastors of the other churches in Winchendon.

Charles Henry and Ella had Charles Gardner Wheeler (1855-1946)(R8 #27) He had been chairman of the Topsham School Board and former teacher in the Brunswick and Topsham school workshops, author of several books, and an authority on woodworking. He died at the old Wheeler Homestead  in Topsham. He was born in South Danvers, MA., the son of  Charles Henry and Ellen Gardner (Gage) Wheeler. He lived, worked and studies in Cambridge, Winchendon, and Boston as well as Brunswick and Topsham .   He came to Brunswick in 1908. He had graduated from Bowdoin College in 1876. When he finished his college course, he went to Boston, where he worked for a time on Webster’s Dictionary, for which his uncle, the librarian of the Boston Public Library worked. He made the maps and sketches that appeared in “The History of Brunswick, Topsham and Harpswell.”In 1909 he was placed in charge of the school workshop in Brunswick and some years later of a school shop in Topsham. During this period, the boys, under his direction built a workshop in Brunswick, and a Domestic Science building near the school in Topsham.  He was survived  by no near relatives.

R8#30    Wheeler                             Edith  was the wife of William Adolphus Wheeler.

William Wheeler(1827-1901) (R8 #32) married Sarah (R8#31 ) Winslow Wheeler                                                                Sarah  marker stone

R8#33    Wheeler              Nehemiah marker stone

Abel Merrill        (1776-1857)(R8#29,35) was a Colonel and was  born at Topsham. He married Louise Harding Merrill (1783-1863)(R8 29,36) who was born in Brunswick, Maine. Abel married Lois Harding and had 14 children: among them: Mary Jane 1817-1906); Emeline (R8 #40); Hon. Joseph (1808-1882) (Justice of the Peace) who married Jane Patten in 1836; and Octavius (1813-1880)(R8 #39)

(R8#34) Merrill   Harding marker stone

R8#37    Merrill                                                               Father marker stone

R8#38    Merrill                                                               Elizabeth marker stone

Mary Jane Merrill(1817-1906)(R8 #41)  died at the home of her neice Mrs. Lottie Whitney in Brunswick; youngest daughter of Col. And Mrs. Lois Harding Merrill of Topsham. She was born in Topsham and lived there most of her life. Her parents had fourteen children (11 sons and 3 daughters). The last act of her life was to write the history of her branch of the Merrill family. Miss Mary-Jane Merrill, granddaughter of John Merrill, wrote, 17 May, 1905: “I remember very distinctly hearing Dr. McKeen, son of the first President of Bowdoin College, say, ‘Your grandfather was the man of both Brunswick and Topsham.’ . . . The farm was one of the loveliest in town, to me the loveliest – – – my childhood’s home a paradise. After brother Obed’s death it passed into brother William’s hands, and he sold it, much to my sorrow. I have never seen it since, nor do I wish to. I have never recovered from the shock.” Miss Merrill died in 1906 at the age of eighty-nine years. She spent the last years of her life in Brunswick, two miles from the old homestead.

John Merrill marr. Susanna Haley and they had: Jeremiah (1756); Humphrey (1758-90; Peletiah (1760-1766); Susanna (1768-1853); Mary (1770); John (1772-1818); Joseph (1774-1798)In 1795 Joseph Merrill of Topsham published a small booklet filled with country dances that had been published in 1793 in England  “New Country Dances From Maine (1795) and added six more of his favorites;  Abel (1776-1857); Hannah (1778-1778); Obed (1770-1782) Merrill               (R8#42) ;

Alpheus L. Graves(1833-1884)(R8 #44)married Nancy J. Stuart Graves (1840-1913)(R8 #43) She was born in Bowdoinham; daughter of William and Elziabeth (Jack) Stewart; Charter member of Topsham Grange; had daughter: Mrs. Fannie M. Grant; and son Appelton Melcher Graves whom she lived with after the death of her husband. Appelton Melcher Graves (1878-1944) died in his home in Rochester, NH. He was born in Topsham, the son of Alpheus and Nancy Jane Stewart Graves and made his home in Topsham for many years where he conducted a grocery store on Main St. He was married to Miss Ethel L. Paine in 1910. He was survived by his wife and daughter, Mrs. Maurice H. Greenfield of Rochester;.

George Arris (1886-1895)(R8#45)died of acute meningitis. He was the son of Eurgen Arris, a paper maker born in Topsham and Etta McFaddin from Lubec, Maine.

George M. Lee   (1851-1882)(R8 #47) a physician in Weld, Maine in 1870. He married Cora A. Greenhulgh Lee (1851-1882)(R8 #46). Cora was the daughter of  Moses B. Greenhulgh. George and Cora had: Lester Lee (1880).

William Emerson . Dunlap(1843-1890)(R8 #50)    married Mary J. James Dunlap (1844-1869)(R8 #49) of Brunswick. She was the daughter of Samuel James and Harriet Stanwood. He was a railroad worker and was the son of William, a farmer, and Charlotte (1815). He had the following siblings: Harden M. 91`846); Dorcas (1848); Joseph (1859); and Lizzie J. (1844).

Oliver Brawn (1804) married Nancy H. and they had Oliver Jr. (1829-1882)(R8 #48) A member of Co. H 30 Me Regt. markers: Post 22 G.A.R.;W.S.R.C. 1883 Corps 24 ; Lorenzo D. (1831-34)(R 8 #52); Wilber F. (1850-2)(R8 #52) and Irwin (1860-1871)(R8 #51)

Amos Nickerson(1790-1871)(R8 #56)married Hannah Merrill Nickerson (1791-1879)(R8 #57).  They had Mary P. Stone Nickerson (1831-1884)(R8 #59). Amos was a harness maker. They also had: Carlos Pierce Nickerson(1853-1873)(R8 #58)      See Amos Nickerson earlier.

Elizabeth Brimigion (1801-1875)(R8 #63) Thomas Brimigion was possibly born in Philadelphia around 1754 to Samuel and Mary Brimigion. During his lifetime he was soldier in the Massachusetts Company Line under Captain Daniel Lane, under the Regiment command of Col. Ichabod Alden during the Revolutionary Warb from 1775 to 1783. He was first married to Ruth. Together they had eight children. Ruth died in 1844 in Bowdoin, Maine at the age of 76. Thomas died in 1843 in Bowdoin and they are buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Bowdoin Maine. They had: Samuel J. (1785-1873) in West Bowdoin, Maine; William (1789-1860); Phebe Brimigion  (1795-1870)(R8 #62); Ruth (1798); Hannah (1803); Elizabeth (1807) and Job (1810).

Peter Baldwin    (1825-1883)(R8 #66) He was born in New Brunswick, Canada. He was a ships carpenter and married (1) Mercy Ann Cook and they had an infant who died with her mother. Peter married (2) Mary J. Baldwin (1831-1901) (R8 #65) and they had: John C.; Alice (1854-1875)(R8 #64); Nellie F.; Lucy; Frank; Jeanne; Sandford and Eddie(1847-1859) (R8 #66)

Samuel James    (1842-1915)(R8 #61)  In the  1880 Census: Samuel, in Portland, was a ship Joiner,  his wife Annie D. (1847-1900)(R8 #61), 32, Harding W 9; Mabel (3); Ethel 1 and mother Harriet was 63 and working in a shoe factory.

Joseph Melcher (1802-1875)(R8 #67)       was buried at Lincoln, Neb. and a brother of James H. Melcher.  He had: Nathaniel Melcher               (1837-1902)(R8 #67,72) married Hattie A. Gurney (1846-1923)(R8 #67,71) and they had Harry Merton (1868-69)(R8 #67,70).

James H. Melcher(1800-1868)(R8 #67,68)married Nancy A. Melcher (1803-1871)(R8 #67,69) They had: Rebecca J.; Mary W., Nathaniel; Staples.  He had a brother Joseph (1802-1875) a farmer in Lincoln, Neb who died and was buried there.

John and Mary (Hewey) James had: Arthur (1799) who lived in Lewiston; Elliza (1801) who married Moses Thompson (b. 1801); Morril P. (1805-1893) d. in Calif., marr. 1) Lucinda Stuart and (2) Patience Longfellow and they had Charles G. (1834) who marr. Lucy Ann Tarr (b. 1857); Given (1807) a farmer, and Topsham Selectman who marr. Sarah (Sally) Winslow who died in 1862, and (2) Elthera H. Sanborn who was the widow of John Jameson; Alva (1809-1850) who marr. Celia A. Perkins, d/o Nahum Perkins who in 1860 was living with her parents, they had no children;Sally (1817-1866) marr. W. Purinton of Bowdoin and they had Melissa who married a Mallett, Sarah who married  a Williams, Mary who married Mallett, and John A. who mar. Emma; and Mary *1814-1878) in Lewiston, who married  Capt. Luther Lombard and lived in Webster Maine.

Samuel Thompson(1794-1868)(R8 #73,74) married Sophia Thompson (1800-1868)(R8 #73,75).               In the 1860 Census they were living with Clara Flagg (b. 1846) who, in 1878, married Frederick A. Motley, manufacturer of novelties and electrical supplies as well as treasurer of the Jordan Manufacturing company in Portland.

David A. Scribner (1840-1911)(R8 #77)married Virginia A. Scribner (1848-1940)(R8 #77). Mrs. Virginia Hale Scribner was the widow of Capt. David A. Scribner and a former summer resident of Topsham. She died at her home in Brooklyn, NY. She was born in Mystic, CT. and married Capt. Scribner of Topsham and sailed on sea voyages with her husband for many years. She was survived by one daughter, Miss Mary Scribne r(R8 #77) of Brooklyn, NY, and a former summer resident of Topsham, and a son, Harry Scribner of Long Island, NY. They also had:  Wallace F. Scribner(1877-1882)(R8 #77) and Ella V. Scribner (1888-1935)(R8 #77).

Gould Jewell (1815-186)(R8 #78) was  a merchant in Brunswick in 1850. He and Elizabeth F. (1823-1890)(R8 #78,80) had Fanny (1848-1890)(R8 #78,81); Araline L. (1844); Frances W. (1846); Fred A (1852) and Hattie (1856)(R8 #82). He probably was the son of Stephen and Lucy Jewell.

August J. Nilsson (1845-1903)(R8 #78,79,83)was born in Sweden 1845 and died in Cambridge Mass. He married Harriet Jewell Nilsson (1857-1931)(R8 #78)who was the daughter of Gould Jewell.

Blanche Allen     (1870-1870)(R8 #84)  was the daughter of C.W. & Arobine  Louise  Jewell  Allen . She was the daughter of Gould Jewell and the wife of Calvin Winchester Allen, the owner of Allen’s drug store in Brunswick.  They are buried at Riverside cemetery in Brunswick. They had three other children.

Melville C. Hall   (1853-1922)(R8 #85)was an insurance agent. He was born in Topsham, son of Daniel A. and Mary J. Hall. He married Annie E. Stone (1853-1934)(R8 #85), daughter of  Stephen Stone of Topsham. They had; Mrs. Frank Leh (Ida Mae Hall) of New London. Ct.;  Mrs. Ralph Merryman, Arthur C.  and Walter S. of Topsham; and Frank R. of Jacksonville, FL. He had two sisters: Mrs. William Haskell and Mrs. Mae Church and three brothers: Alfred E. , Edward C. and Fred E. Hall. He had been town clerk for several years. They had: they had Mattie E. (1879-1880)(R8 #85) and Nellie E. (1882-1937); Ida M. (1881); Arthur C. (1885); and Walter S. (1888). Edwin’s father was William N. Hall and mother was Harriet Noyes.

Ida Mae  Hall Hayes(1881-1957)(R8 #86)was the wife of Horton P.Hayes and Wife Of Frank D. Leh  ( marker United States Spanish War Veteran 1898-1902 who served in  Cuba, Philiphine Islands, Portorico.U.S.A. Ida and Frank had a daughter Eleanor L.  who married William G. Hepburn. Eleanor died in 2013.

Frank D. Leh (1878-1930)(R8 #87)Staff Serg. 11th Co. C.A.C.; World War U.S. Veteran  and married Ida M. Hall of Topsham.

Carl H. Whittier  (1910-2002)(R8 #88)was theson of Robertr Pope Whittier and Bertha C. Goodwin. He had a sister Margaret G. who married Plummer. Robert Pope Whittier was the son of George H. Whittier and was born 12 Jan 1879 in Maine. He married Bertha C. Goodwin in 1901. She was born 1883 and died in 1884. Carl H. Whittier was born iin Lisbon Falls, Maine and married Emma S. Abbott(1911-1989)(R8 #88) in 1932. They had: Constance Whittier (1934) and died 1996 she married Holmes.They had two other children, one married a Rozowksi.Carl  graduated from Bates college and worked for Central Maine Power company for three years before going into the gasoline business. He worked as a merchandising manager for the Shell Oil Company and ince 1942 owned and operated his own service station in Topsham (Whit’s Shell) Sold to Leclerc later.

Jabez B. Minott (1829-1903)(R8 #90) Captain Jabez was the son of George Minott and Susie Morse. He married Octavia M. Whitehouse(1851-1877)(R8  #89). They had John (1854) b. in Boston, John Henry (b. 1862) in Topsham who married Ida Alice Jumper; and Andrew born in 1864. Minot sold his house to Andrew L. Whitehouse at 12-10 Pleasant  St., Topsham. Jabez Minott sailed many times around Cape Horn not only to San Francisco but to Shanghai, Sydney, and Calcutta.

James E. Walker (1831-1867)(R8 #91,92)married Frances S. Morse (1834-1918)(R8 #91,92). They had Frances May Walker (1859-1945)(R8 #91,93).She was born in Topsham the daughter of James and Sarah F. (Morse) Walker. She received her education in the Topsham schools and at Lewiston Businesss College. She made her home for many years wit her mother and step-father, Mr. and Mrs. John Rolfe, who conducted a grocery business on Main St. and for several years she lived in Auburn. James and Frances also had Charles S. Walker (1856-1867)(R8 #91).

Oliver F. Thompson         (1840-1918)(R8#94) a carpenter, married Sarah H. Small(1852-1879)(R8 #94) and Edla H. Small(1855-1894)(R8 #94). Oliver and Sarah had Leona E. Thompson (1886-1982)(R8 #94). Oliver was the son of Moses Thompson and Eliza Jameson.  He had a sister Frances Ellen Thompson.

Daniel A. Hall     (1824-1917)(R8 #95)        He was born in Brunswick and son of Daniel and Elizabeth Hall. He moved to Topsham when he was 8and at 12 begain building shingles in one of the big lumber mills on the Androscoggin in Topsham.He  ran a Shingle machine and learned the lumber business. With Woodbury Purinton he had a saw mill on Granny Hill Stream that was destroyed by fire 13 years later.  In Topsham he was interested in fire department and was foreman of handtub Androscoggin; School Board. He married, in 1847, Mary Jane Morse  Hall (1827-1876)(R8 #95) of Topsham and they had six children: Alfred E., Melville C., Edward C., Mr. Addie Haskell; Mrs. Mary G. Church and Fred Hall. Commissioned to have charge of building an  iron bridge connecting Main St. of Topsham and Brunswick.  They also had: Frederick L. Hall (1850-1855)(R8 #95); Herbert Hall (1862-1862)(R8 #95); Carrie Hall (1862-1862)(R8 #95)and Milton Hall (1867-1869)(R8 #95).

Adelaide Hall Haskell(1856-1950)(R8 #97) was the wife of William H. Haskell of Topsham. She was born in Topsham, the daughter of Daniel and Mary Morse Hall. She was survived by one sister, Mrs. Mary H. Church, and one brother, Edward C. Hall of Topsham. She married (1^st) William H. Piper (1893) in Topsham and (2^nd) William H. Haskell in 1913. Her father was a New Brunswick lumberman and her mother was born in Topsham. William H. Piper was the son of George T. Piper and Cynthia A. Shurtleff and was born in Leeds, Maine and died in 1904 in Auburn, Maine. William H. Haskell was born in 1851 in Paris, Maine.

Mary Hall Church (1866-1958) (R8 #97). She lived on Elm St. Topsham. She was born in Topsham, the daughter of Daniel A. and Mary Morse Hall. She attended Topsham High school after which she was employed at the Brunswick Box Company in Brunswick and in Auburn. She was married in 1889 to Charles W. Church. They were married just 15 months when he died. She returned to Topsham to care for her father and was employed as a clerk at the J.F. Will Store for 35 years. She resided for the last 8 years of her life with he niece and her husband, Mr. and Mrs. Howard W. Cushing and her brother, Edward C. Hall.

Donald O. Wilson(1920-1987)(R8 #98,99) EM1 US Navy World War II. He was the son of William P. Wilson and Maretta. ; and William P. Jr. (1919). Donald was an electrician’s helper in 1940. He married Frances Carr.

Charles W. Wilson(1847-1876)(R8 #100) married  in 1870 Dorcas Miller Colby who was born in 1842 in Topsham.  She was the daughter of Mary Kilmore and Samson Colby. Sampson Colby in business with Eben Colby in Topsham 1850, after buying out Valentine G. Colby.
Later made wood building products at a mill in Brunswick until it
burned in 1871. Buried Colby family tomb in Topsham, Maine  Dorcas and Charles  had Harry L. (1871) and Charles P. (1873). There is a diary of Delmer Charles Wilson “Shaker Boy” which dates from Jan1-August 13, 1887 and Sept. 1-December 22, 1888. These were dept at Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village in West Gloucester, Maine.

“It was snowing heavily on January 7, 1882 the night that Elder William Dumont went to the train station in Lewiston to fetch the two lads. The boys’ mother, Dorcas Colby Wilson, had fallen on hard times and was not longer able to care for her 10 year-old Harry Linwood Wilson and 8 year-old Delmer Charles Wilson. With a heavy heart, Dorcas packed up her sons few belongings from their home in nearby Topsham, Maine. Kissing them good bye, she tearfully promised to come and get them and take them home when things were better. Very soon,she promised. But it took five years befoe Dorcas came to retrieve her boys.  Elder Dumont was a leader of a Shaker community, a celebate religious sect known for its nurturing of orphans and children of parents  who could no longer afford to taker care of them. When Harry and Delmer met Elder Dumont at the train station they thought they would be living with the Shakers a short time. But after six montss of living there, young Delmer decided he had found the home of his heart.  When Dorcas and “a man” finally went to Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village on Feb. 1, 1887 to get her sons, 13 year old Delmer did indeed refuse to leave.  Dorcas and the man returned home with her oldes son Harry Wilson. The man was probably Dorcas’ husband David Stanwood.  Delmer’s diary notes that his mother came for him again in July and again he refused to go.  In 1888, at 14 he was not only in charge of the community’s dairy herd, he was a knowledgeable horticulturist. He joined the Shaker community in 1894 at the age of 21.  His mother attempted to dissuade him; but he said no. Delmer died in 1961. He was a woodworker, oil painter, writer and photographer.  He established a successful commercial postcard business for the Sabbathday Lake Shakers…publishing dozens of postcard images of the community.

Abiezer Holbrook(1808-1862)(R8 #101)was a carpenter in Brunswick.         He married Thankful Price Holbrook (1820-1913)(R8 #101) in Lewiston in 1849. She was born in Topsham and live  later  on Franklin St. in Brunswick; She was the daughter f Barnabas Price and Rebecca Holbrook.

Barnabas Price  (1781-1844)(R8 #101,103)married Rebecca Holbrook Price (1785-1884)(R8 #101).

Celia Price(1817-1881)(R8 #103) was dressmaker and  a sister of Thankful Price.

Flora B. Whitney (Huntington)Leavitt (1852-1900)(R8 #101)          was the wife of Ellis J.Leavitt (1850-1930)(R8 #104) Flora B. Leavitt (1881-1925)(R8 #106) was the wife of of Ellis Leavitt. Ellis J.  Leavitt (butcher) and Flora B. Whitney married in 1913. He was born in Brunswick the son of Mr. and Mrs. William Leavitt. He attended schools of Brunswick and Topsham. He learned the trade of a butcher and was at one time employed in the Topsham Pulp Mill. He was survived by one son: Frank   Augustus Leavitt (1874-1956)(R8 #108)

Kenneth D. Kelley Jr.(1946-1969(R8 #102) Maine Corps of Engineers Vietnam died in Woolwich, ME.

Mary A. Leavitt (1887-1906)(R8 #107)(LeBeau) (Gordon) was the wife of A.A. Leavitt (Augustus, son of John Leavitt)a laborer in the paper mill.

Benjamin B. Wilson(1822-1908)(R8 #109) died at the resident of his daughter Mrs. Emerson H. Nye in Roxbury, MA of  a paralytic shock; He was born in Topsham , the son of John and Mary (Hodgkins) Wilson. Had a son Edward and a daughter Mrs. Nye.  His home place was on Winter St. He was with the pioneers who sailed around Cape Horn to California in 1849 and remained in the gold fields for about two years. His wife was Priscilla Buzzell (1822-1877)(R8 #109) of Withrop who died 20 years before him. He was a carpenter by trade and built the paper mills in Topsham and also the old red mill which burned. He was the first in this vicinity to manufacture match blocks, as an industry. In addition Benjamin and Priscilla had: Harriet Eliza (1846-1899)(R8 #109) and Mary Emma (1853-1896)(R8 #109).

Elbridge Cornish (1838-1908)(R8 #110,114)was a teamster in Topsham in 1870 and a house carpenter in 1900; He married (1) Angelia A. White Cornish (1840-1885)(R8 #110,113).They had: Charles Hubert Cornish(1866-1919)(R8 #110,112); Elbridge Angier Cornish(1885-1970)(R8 #110) ; Marriner Lincoln (1865);and Hester Gertrude Dickinson (1881-1900).  He then married Sara Francis Wentworth(1863-1937)(R8 #110,115) Mrs. Sarah Frances Trufant was born in Hallowell, daughter of Reuben and Phoebe Wentworth. She married Elbridge Cornish of Topsham in 1888 and lived there and later Hardings. Mr. Cornish died in 1908 and she married Isaac M. Trufant in 1919 and lived at Hardings.She was survived by two daughters: Mrs. Robert W. Baker of Hardings, and Mrs. Wilbur F. Browne of Brunswick. They had Allan D. (1891); Alfred G. (1893) and Dorris Wentworth (1899) who married Wilbur Fiske; and Jane who married Capt. Frederick Curtis.

Frederick E. Wagg (1864-1946(R8 #116,117)  lived on Pleasant St. in Topsham. He died from results of injuries sustained when he was struck by an automobile on Elm Street in Topsham. He was born in Lewiston, the son of Charles and Louise Nevers Wagg. He attended the schools of Lewiston and Brusnwick and for serveral years was overseer of weaving in the Achushnic Mills of New Bedford, Ma. He them moved to Lewiston where he was employed by the Hill Manufacturing Company for 33 years and during the last ten years was an agent for the Hill Company. For several years he was a director of the First National Bank of Lewiston. He as survived by his wife, Mary  E.  Goud(1865-1958)(R8 #116,118), one daughter, Mrs. Harold Hamburg of Leonia, NH; and one sister, Mrs. William J. Frost, of Brunswick. Mary Goud Wagg was born in Topsham,the daughter of Alden and Lucy Arris Goud. In the last years of her life she resided at the Stevens Home in Brunswick. She was survived by a daughter, Mrs. Helen W. Hamburg of Bay Head, N.J.

Alden Q. Goud(1836-1930)(R8 #116,122). He was a Civil War veteran. He was born in Topsham and lived there all of his life. He served in the 24^th Maine Regiment during the Civil War.He was survived by three children: Mrs. Fred Wagg and Charles A. Goud(1870-1934)(R8 #119,116)  of Topsham, and Irvin B. Goud of Arlington, MA. He married Lucy A. Goud (1844-1922)(R8 #116,121). He and Lucy also had Arthur W. Goud (1873-1906)(R8 #116,120)

Charles  Goud(1845-1923)(R8 #128) Passed away in a Westbrook hospital. He was a Civil War veteran and for many years was employed at the Bowdoin mill of the Pejepscot Paper Co. He had two sons: John (1874-1934)(R8 #125) of Portland; and Fred of Westbook. He had a brother Alden Q. of Topsham. He was one of eleven children. Charles married Rose E. Crowley Goud (1854-1922)(R8 #123). Fred A. Goud (1875-1938)(R8 #126) died in his home in Portland. He was born in Topsham, the son of Charles  A. and Rose E. Crowley Goud of Winter St. He received his education in the Topsham grade schools and Topsham High School. As a young man he was employed by the Scribner Grain Co. of Brunswick, after which he was employed as a street car motorman for the remainder of his life. He worked for the Lewiston, Augusta, and Waterville Street Railway. For his last 30 years he had been employed in Portland by the Cumberland Light and Power Company as a street car motorman from Portland to Westbrook.  He maintained his childhood home on Winter Street in Topsham since the death of his father in 1923.

Katie Goud (1870-1940)(R8 #125) She was born in Bowdoin, the daughter of Nathaniel and Nettie Graves Beals. She received her education in the Bowdoin and Lisbon Falls schools and married John P. Goud of Topsham. She resided in Topsham for a number of years while her husband was employd by the Pejepscot Paper Company and was proprietor of a grocery store, located on Maine St. in Topsham. She was survived by a son, Alton I. Goud, a brother, Lester I. Beal, both of Portland, three half-sisters, Mrs. Clarence Proctor of Lisbon Falls, Mrs. Carrie White of Bowdoin and Mrs. George Graves of Orr’s Island.

(R8#127)             Goud     Mother

(R8#128)             Goud     Father  marker Post 22 G.A.R.

Benjamin Flagg (1815-1884)(R8 #129)     was a farmer and he and Catherine F. Cushing (1814-1871) (R8 #12 #130) had: Emma Louise  (1848-1931)(R8 #131).

Jeremiah Clough (1795-1849)(R5 #35)was born in Danville and was disowned in 1817 (maybe a quaker)He married Eunice Haskell Clough (1800-1844)(R5 #36), daughter of Stephen and Rebecca Marston Haskell. He also married Mr. Elizabeth McManus Quimby and Sarah Almira Chick. He was a public house tavern keeper on Winter Street known as the Lincoln Hotel and the Temperance Hotel in 1837. He and Eunice had: Henry A. (1835-1837)(R5 #35); Henry Augustus (1822-1833)(R5 #35) who drowned; Frances Anne (1826-1842)(R5 #34); Elizabeth Jane (1820) who married Joseph R. Coombs; James Franklin (1824); Elivira Amanda (1828); Charles Alonzo (1831-1902)(R7 #16) a farmer; and he and Elizabeth ? or he and Eunice had  had George Haskell (1833); Ellen Augusta (1838); Sidney Alphonso (1840) . His other wife must have had Frances Alvaredo (1844) and Eunice (1845) who were born after Eunice’s death. Charles Alonzo Clough  married Abbie S. Clough (1834-1863)(R7 #16) and Sarah E. Clough (1834-1901)(R7 #16). Charles and Abbie had George E. (1858-1880)(R7 #16) ,Annie J. (1871-1873)(R7 #16, William A. (1875-1895) (R7 #16) and Charles S. Clough (1862-1895)(R8 #132), a farm worker who married Gusta M. Clough (1869-1920) (R8 #132).

John Pitman(1840-1886)(R8 #133)was a farmer, at first in Lewiston, then in 1880, in Topsham. He had a daughter Augusta A. who was born in 1869.He married Priscilla A. Edwards Pitman (1842-1929)(R8 #133).

Charles Barron   (1821-1871)(R8 #134), a gentleman,  married Nancy Ann Crockett Barron (1830-1904) (R8 #135). They had: Charles Winfield Barron (1866-1868) (R8 #136); Minnie May Barron (1870-1888) (R8 #137) and Mary (1870).

The collection consists of six letters from Charles Barron to his family in Maine. He writes after his arrival in New Orleans from Maine, stating that the voyage took twenty days and providing other details concerning the weather and crew. Barron comments on the success of the Whigs in New Orleans and mentions that Sunday is a holiday for the slaves (Nov. 8, 1840). In another letter, he comments on the crew, Captain McMannus’ ship Mount Vernon in the port of New Orleans; Captain Purenton’s activities; and requests news of home (Dec. 12, 1841). He writes to his parents prior to his sailing on the ship Sharon for Liverpool, England, describing other ships in port including the Rhappahannoc, General Veazie, and the Tyrone, commenting on the large amount of cotton to be carried on the Rhappahannoc and the Sharon, and mentioning various friends from Maine working on the ships. He also inquires about the abolition cause at home (Jan. 12, 1842). In a letter from New York, Barron mentions going to sea if freight can be secured that pays enough. He explains that Capt. Richard McMannus refused to take the ship to sea without getting proper rates, and that they are unable to secure passengers for New Orleans because of the fear of yellow fever (Oct. 4, 1842). Barron also writes from New York listing the general cargo the ship is carrying to New Orleans, and mentions that Captain N.T. Thompson is now master of the Sharon (Dec. 15, 1843). In a final letter, Barron mentions the poor condition of the Sharon because of mismanagement by Captain Thompson and complains of the Captain’s refusal to teach Barron navigation (Jan. 10, [apparently about 1845]).

Charles Barron served as a seaman on the trade ship SHARON.

Eugene H. Small (1850-1895)(R8 #139)    “Father”. He was a carriage painter.He was the son of Howard and Rhoda H. Small. He married Harriet  Emma Small Kane (1852-1934)(R8 #141)”Mother”. 

Gilbert G. Kane (1833-1911)(R8 #140)    Captain Co. H  4 Me Vol. He married Harriet  Emma Small Kane (1852-1934)(R8 #141)”Mother”.  She passed away at the home of her daughter, Mrs. O.B. Ingalls of Pejepscot. She was born in Bowdoin, the daughter of Stephen and Lucy Small. She was educated in the schools of Bowdoin and married Eugene H. Small, a painter, of Topsham in 1870. They resided on Main Street in Topsham.  Mr. Small died in 1895. She married, in 1903, Gilbert Kane, a tailor of Brunswick. He died in 1911. She was survived by one daughter, Mrs. Benjamin Ingalls of Pejepscot, three sons, Willis Small of Houlton; Herbert O. Small of Topsham; and Howard Small of Richmond., one stepdaughterg, Mrs. Lizzie Ames of Bucksport; one sister, Mrs. John Card of Lisbon Falls, two brothers, Herbert Small of Topsham and Wallace Small of Bowdoin.

Rhoda H. Small  (1800-1892)(R8 #142) There was in the 1850 census in Topsham a Howard Small (45) and his wife Rhoda H. (38) and daughter Ann 11. In the 1860 Census in Topsham there was a Amos H. Small, a laborer and his wife Rhoda H. (40);

Howard A. Small (1805-1880)(R8 #143)married Rhoda and they had Eugene; Harriet E.; Wilis; ;Herbert L.; and Bertha M. Harriet Kane Small was the mother of Herbert O. who married Bessie G. and had Vera and Merton O.; Herbert S. (1863-1939)(R10 #94) and Huldah C. Hyde Small (1853-1944)(R10 #94) ;Cora I. Hollis E.; Edith E. and Elmer H. and Hollis S. (1889-1952)(R13 #150)     He was born in Topsham. He attended the Topsham schools and was employed by the Rogers Fuel Company for 10 years. He was survived by his wife, Coral  I. Dodge(1888-1039)(R13 #106), one daughter, Mrs. Edith E. Nevells of Stonington; two sons, Elmer H. Small (1927-1980)(R13 #104),Cpl. US Army World War II,  of Topsham and Hollis E. small of West Haven, Conn.; three sisters, Mrs. Fred Anderson of Rockland, Mrs. Eugene Babb of Canton, and Mrs. Minnie Hackett of Brunswick; two half-sisters, Mrs. Edith Prince of East Brunswick, and Mrs. Bessie Small of Brunswick.

David Y. Dudley (Co. I,  Me.Cal)(R8 #144) (b. 1822), a farmer,  married Sarah Dudley (b. 1821) and they had David B. (1850) and James Freeland Dudley (1854-1855)(R8 #145).

Samuel T. Whitten (1828-1879)  (R8 #148), a store clerk, married Myra (Mira) A. Whitten (1827-1921)(R8 #147. They had Myrtie A. (1871-1873)(R8 #146).

Nathaniel Quint (1775-1845)(R4 #32) was born in North Berwick, ME. and died in Tosham . He married Elinor Staples Purinton (1787-1847)(R4 #33) 1802, daughter of Samuel (Jr.) Staples. He also married Lydia Wells .Nathaniel Quint had a mill. They had: Rebecca (1804-1805); Alden (1804-1910); Mary Ann (1808) who married Steven Scribner; Eleanor (1810); Alden (2^nd) (1811-1871); Charles Porter (1813-1880)who married Lavina Rideoutr; Eleanor Staples (1815-1841) who married William Gross; Nathaniel Winslow(1817-1891)(R8 #149) who married Lois C. Goddard (1820-1872)(R8 #150)and had: George E. Quint (1853-1853((R8 #152); and Susan Foster; Dorothy Perkins (1819-1916) who married George Whitefield Lord; Elizabeth (1823-1882) who marred Joseph Reed; Samuel Perkins (1825-1870) (R9 #57)who married Mary C. Goud(1832-1881)(R9 #57).

Bell Dillingham Patten    (1878-1885)(R8 #151)was the  daughter of  Henry H. (1845) , a mariner, & Fannie M. Patten (1855). They also had Lilian (1874).

George Whitten (1805-1870)(R8 #153)    , a farmer, married Abigail Whitten (1813-1870)(R8 #153)They had Edwin G. Whitten (1841-1868)(R8 #153) A member of Co A 24 Me regt. ; Milton G. Whitten (1846-1863)(R8 #153); Ella F. Whitten (1854-1882)(R8 #153).

Elwyn Hennessey (1908-1960)(R8 #154) was the grandson of Fred H. Ward and Grace Ward. He was the son of Gertrude L. Ward Hennessey. He died in Bath, Maine. Obituary in January 21, 1960 Brunswick Record, page 4.

Humphrey P. Mallett (1810-1886)(R8 #156) He married Priscilla P. Mallett (1812-1893)(R8 #155). They had Susan Stover Mallett. (1849)

Albert P. Mallett (1846-1873)(R8 #157)    died at sea. He married Hannah M. Mallett (1841-1933)(R8 #158). He was the son of Humphrey and Sarah Mallett and father to Allies S. Mallett  (1872-1889)(R8 #159).

William H. Mallett(1818-1885)(R8 #161) He married Elizabath M. Mallett (1823-1889)(R8 #160). He was in business with his brother, Humphrey P. Mallett  in Topsham.

Darius Keay (1830-1912)(R8 #162)  and Ellen Mitchell Keay (1841-1928)(R8 #162) had Olive T. Keay (1862-1889)(R8 #162,163);); Zilphia(1870-1882)(R8 #162) Roland(1878-1882)(R8 #162); Edwin(1857-1882)(R8 #162);Florence J. (1859-1861)(R8 #162); Sumner (1864-1866)(R8 #162); Elsie J. (1867-1910)(R8 #162) who worked in the Box Shop; and Merrill G. (1857-1928) (R8 #162) a contractor and builder b. in Canaan, Me and he marred Benjamin  E. Churtis and had 4 children. Ellen Mitchell Keay Ellen was born in Skowhegan, the daughter of David and Eliza Jewett Mitchell. In 1856 she married Darius Keay and settled in Canaan and they later moved to Topsham. When Darius died she went to live with her son Merrill Keay, where she died. She was the mother of eight, two of whom died at Canaan of Diptheria and later at Topsham the same disease took three children under the age of 15. These three deaths came all in one week. She became an invalid for over 30 years.

Richard Harvey Smith (1860-1931) ( R8#167) was born in Boston and came to Topsham when he was about eight years old. He was educated in the schools of Topsham and married Ida M.Cannon (1869-1928)  (R8 #167) when he as 24 years old. She was born in Bowdoinham the daughter of Isaac L. and Mary Cannon. She was educated in the schools in Bowdoinham and Topsham. She married Richard H. Smith 44 years before her death. He had been engaged in the market garden business for the greater part of his life. For several years he was the janitor at the First National Bank in Brunswick. He was survived by three sons: Herbert of Worceser, MA; Edgar of Worcester, MA; and Richard Harvey Jr. (1907-1960) (R8 #167) of Topsham. who married Helen F. Smith Aiken ( 1911-1991) (R8#167) ; a daughter Mrs. Myrtle Hall Kenniston of Longmeadow, MA. ; Lillian M. (1889) (R8 #167); and Winford A. (1890-1899) (R8 #167). Richard H. Jr. had Richard H. Jr. (1932-1999) (R# 168) a 1^st Lt. in the U.S. Army.

Thomas Canon (1805-1885)(R8 #169)  was from Ireland and married Betsey (1820-1879)(R8 #169). They had Wesley (1847); George (1850) a farm worker; Eliza A. (1845) a domestic servant and married John Grady. Pearl (1872-1935)(R8 #170)

Isaac L. Canon   (1841)(R8 #173) L. Canon (1841)  married Mary Francis Hatch (1845-1916)(R8 #172) of Bowdoinham,  and they had Edward L.  (1866); Carrie L. (1874-1889)(R8 #171; Mary J. (1876); Ellen (1880); Ida May (1869) and Eliza (1868).

Swansey G. Wilson(1879-1952)(R8 #176)was a nephew of William J. Wilson of Topsham.  He was born in Braintree, MA, the son of Willard and Julia Husands Wilson. He lived most of his life in Tospham, and was employed in local sawmills and similar occupations. He was survived by two brothers, Wallace W. of Braintree, and William A. of Topsham, and a sister, Elizabeth Desaulnier of Augusta.

Susan Curtis (R8 #177)   Aet. 99 yrs. 2 mos, 25 dys buried with the Wilsons.

Sarah Wilson (R8 #178)  Aet. 60 11mos, 23 d

Annie L. Wilson (R8 #178)Aet. 1 yrs.24d

Swansey Wilson (R8 #179)(1823–) died at Aet. 65 yrs. 7 mo 23. He was the  son of Swansey Wilson. He married Sarah Nickerson who was born in 1828;  They had: Anna (1857); Charles (1865); Annie (1861-1934 who married Eugene Tempe; Willard T. Wilson (1850-1898)(R8 #174)     who married Julia F. Wilson (R8 #175).; William J. (1853-1912(R10 #108) Captain, who married Amelia A. Wilson (1851-1930)(R10 #108).

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James M. Howland          (1832-1918)(R9 #1,2)married Mary E. Smith (1841-1876)(R9 #1,3)They had:  Willie S.(1863-1870)(R9 #1,5)  and Thomas Frederick (1862) James was a millwright.James married also Martha J. Fenton (1848-1929)(R9 #1,6)

Maria  J.Howland  Thomas (1822-1856)(R9 #1,2) was the wife of  E. Thomas who had: Frederick W. Thomas (1854-1876)(R9 #1,3)

Daniel Howland(1799-1884)(R9 #1,8) was a millwright. He married Charity Staples (1797-1868)(R9 #1,9).They had Mariah J. (1822);Georgiana (1829); Dorothy Ellen (1827-1828)(R9 #1,10); and William S. Howland (1834-1838)(R9 #1,11); and James Howland.
(R9#4)   Howland                                                                         W.W.H.

(R9#7    Howland)                                                                        M.A.F.

1. W. Melvin(1850-1898)(R9 #14) He married K. Alice Melvin (1877-1899)(R9 #15)

Alvah Burton Dearborn. (1842-1906) A.M., 1866; M.D., 1870. b. 3 Aug., 1842, Topsham, Me. Teacher, California, 1863-65. Physician, E. Salisbury, Mass., 1870-74; Newburyport, Mass., 1874-84; Somerville,
Mass., 1884-1906. d. 19 Aug., 1906. He was the son of Frederic William and Elvira Day Dearborn. He went to Bates in 1858 and Bowdoin Medical School with a MD in 1870. He may married first  Mary E. Thomas Dearborn (1849-1879)(R9 #16)  of Topsham and then 2^nd  Hannah Abbie Morrill in 1854 in Newburyport, MA. His siblings were Abbie Ann (1838); Elizabeth Jane (1840); George H. (1844); and Fred W. (1849).He had a son Burton (R9 #24) .

Grave L. Dearborn (1873-1874)(R9 #16)

Alvah B. Dearborn (1879-1883)   (R9 #16)

 (R9#19)               Dearborn                                                                        Children

George H. Dearborn        (1844-1915)(R9 #16,17) He  kept a boarding house in Harpswell.               He married Mary E. Blake Dearborn (1846-1914)(R9 #16,18). She  died in Somerville, MA  and had 2 daughters: Mrs. Joseph Bolter of Somerville, MA; and Mrs. Hary D. King of Wollaston, MA. and Freddie W. (Frederic W.) 1874-1882)(R9 #16,18), Effie M. Dearborn (1877-1882)(R9 #16,18,25).

1. W. Dearborn (1809-1889)(R9 #16,28) who married Elvira Dearborn (1807-1879)(R9 #16,27). They had Abby A. Dearborn (1838-1841)(R9 # 16) and Freddie Dearborn (1849-1852)(R9 #16,26).

Fanny Dearborn (1849-1852)(R9 #16) was the daughter of Geo. R .Dearborn  the son of David and Nancy Gilman Dearborn and brother of Frederic William. George was born ( 1811-1881) in Monmouth, Maine and married Susanna Foster.He was a farmer and wool puller in Monmouth and in 1860 was a laborer in Topsham. They had : George (1845); Sarah Ann (1846) and Francis (Fannie) Ellin Maria (1849-1852) in Topsham.

Elizabeth J. Dearborn      (1840-1909)(R9 #16,20)

(R9#22) Dearborn                                                                        Mother

(R9#23) Dearborn                                                                        Gracie

Harry D. King(1885-1953)(R9 #21)married Nellie G. King (1884-1983)(R9 #21)

William S. Merryman      (d. 1909)(R9 #29)married Fannie E. Merryman (R9 #29)    .She died in Haverhill, MA. She was born in Topsham and before her marriage was Fannie Dennett the daughter of William and Eliza Dennett. She had two daughters: Mrs. George Blanchard of Highland Falls, NY and Mrs. W. H. Page of Haverhill, MA. She had a sister: Mrs.Valeria McDonnell of New Haven, Ct.

William Dennett (1804-1888)(R9 #29,34) married Eliza S. (1813-1881)(R9 #29,35).They were the parents of Alfred W. and they ran a grocery store in Topsham.

George T. Dennett (1875-1933)(R9 #29,30).

(R9#36  Dennett)                                                                         Wife

(R9#37  Dennett)                                                                         Husband

Lewis Morse (1805-1882)(R9 #38) ) was  the son of Paul and Lucy Morse (daughter of Jesse and Joanna Holbrook). He was a farmer in Brunswick and  married Lucy Holbrook Morse (1821-1886)(R9 #38) They had an Infant (1852) (R9 #38 and George Morse (1854-1923)(R9 #38),a stonecutter,  who was born in Brunswick and was a stone cutter by trade. He married Josephine Prout Morse (1853-1921)(R9 #39) They had two sons: Fred and Irving Morse and a daughter, Josie L. Morse (1892-1893)(R9 #38).

Henry W. Preston  (1855-1888)(R9 #44)   was the son of John W. & Mary E. Preston. John was a Teamster. His mother was born in Topsham and daughter of John and Susan (Eaton) Preston.

Samuel Stockman           (1816-1892)(R9 #44)

Rachel P. Stockman        (1824-1894)(R9 #44)

John W. Stockman(1823-1897)(R9 #44,45)  Mary E. Stockman Preston (1821-1913)(R9 #44,46)who had been the the wife of John W.Preston. They had Albert W. Stockman (1851-1851)(R9 #45); Herbert W. Stockman (1855-1855)(R9 #44); and Ella Stockman (1857-1897)(R9 #55,48).

R9#47    Stockman                                                                       Henry

R9#49    Stockman                                                                       Mother

R9#50    Stockman                                                                       Father

George L. White(1845-1890)(R9 #51)married Nancy Adelia White (1841-1929)(R9 #51).

R9#52    White                                                                Grandma

R9#53    White                                                                Grandpa

Rufus Patten      (1805-1895)(R9 #51) married Susan Merrill Patten (1803-1890)(R9 #51)had:  Capt. Oscar Patten, Mrs. George L. White of Medford , MA and Mrs. Frank Snow of Brunswick. Oscar was born in Topsham . He went to sea quite young and was Captain nof the S.S. India of Bath for several years.  At one time he worked for the M.C.R.R at Union Station in Portland. He married Mrs. Harding, the daughter of Mrs. William Maxwell of Topsham. He He had two brothers, Capt Abel and Octavius who were lost at s Mary Emeline Patten              (1841-1922)(R9 #51)

R9#54    Patten                                                               Emma

R9#55    Patten                                                               Father

R9#56    Patten                                                               Mother

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Nathaniel Quint  (1775-1845)(R4 #32) was born in North Berwick, ME. and died in Tosham . He married Elinor Staples Purinton(1787-1847)(R4 #33) 1802, daughter of Samuel (Jr.) Staples. He also married Lydia Wells .Nathaniel Quint had a mill. They had: Rebecca (1804-1805); Alden (1804-1910); Mary Ann (1808) who married Steven Scribner; Eleanor (1810); Alden (2^nd) (1811-1871); Charles Porter (1813-1880)who married Lavina Rideoutr; Eleanor Staples (1815-1841) who married William Gross; Nathaniel Winslow(1817-1891)(R8 #149) who married Lois C. Goddard (1820-1872)(R8 #150)and had: George E. Quint (1853-1853((R8 #152); and Susan Foster; Dorothy Perkins (1819-1916) who married George Whitefield Lord; Elizabeth (1823-1882) who marred Joseph Reed; Samuel Perkins (1825-1870) (R9 #57)who married Mary C. Goud(1832-1881)(R9 #57).

George L. Quint (1856-1928)(R9 #57,63)married Susan Hawthorne Quint and they had Wallace G. Quint (1883-1954)(R14 #84).  Wallace died in his home in BostonHe was survived by his wife, Mrs. Eliza White Quint;  and a sister, Mrs. Mary Q. Jack of Bowdoinham.

Alden P. Quint   (1852-1912)(R9 #57,61)was a brother to George Quint and died in Boston.

Samuel G. Quint(1864-1902)(R9 #57,60)

Lillian M. Quint  (1868-1938)(R9 #57,62)

R9#58    Quint                                                                 Father

R9#59    Quint                                                                 Mother

Holman Weymouth(1822-1896)(R9 #64,65)married Rebecca J. Weymouth (1832-1911)(R9 #64).

Joseph S. Reed  (1820-1903)(R9 #66) As a young man he married Miss Elizabeth Quint (1824-1882)(R9 #67) who died  29 years before his death. They had two children: Miss Ida Reed and Robert Reed. He was a long time carpenter. He had been one of the “forty-niners” going to California in a sailing vessel of which he was part owner. He was educated at Kent’s Hill. Ida C. Reed(1857-1929)(R9 #68) was born in Topsham. She was a graduate of Brunswick High School. When a young woman she went into the millinery business establishing parlors at her home on Pleasant Street in Brunswick. In 1907 she opened a business in Post Office Square, where she was located until she retired in 1923 because of ill health. She was survived by a brother, Robert G. Reed(1863-1950)(R9 #69) of Wollaston, MA, who married Susan O. Rideout(1867-1945)(R9 #69).

John G. Reed     (1906-1974)(R9 #70)

Marian Baker     (1906) (R9 #70)

Franklin Berry(1853-1912)(R9 #71)            May 28, 1853; Oct. 2, 1912; blind for 20 years as a result of explosion of a cannon; had  wife and 2 sons. He married Addie A. Cripps Berry (1853-1934) (R9 #71) She was born in Litchfield, the daughter of George and Hannah Bubier Cripps. At the age of 14 she moved with her parents to Brunswick. She was educated in the schools of Litchfield and Brunswick and married Fran Berry in 1875. She made her home with her son Frank Berry after her husband died. She was survived by two sons, Fred E. Berry of Topsham; and Ralph B. Berry of Brewer.

John Crowley     (1819-1903)(R9#72,74) He was a butcher. He married Sarah A. Crowley (1822-1871)(R9 #72,73) They had: Elizabeth P. (1842); George A. (1844); Martha A. (1848); Sarah A. (1852); Rosetta (1854); Hattie (1859) and Lydia (1863).

Alfred B. Purinton           (1811-1892)(R9 #75)Captain. He married Mary Alexander Purinton (1806-1884)(R9 #76). They had Lettice Emma Purinton  (1845-1847)(R9 #76).

Cyrus M. Purinton(1806-1891)(R9 #78)   He married Mary G. Purinton (1809-1898)(R9 #77).

Warren W. Goud(1839-1914)(R9 #79)      served in Company D, Third Maine and was in the Civil War for three years. He served at the frsit Battle of Bull Run. Became sick and was captured and taken to Savage Station and then to Libby Prison in Richmond.  Because he was so ill he was kept there where many of the others were sent to Andersonville.  He was paroled in August 1862. He returned to his regiment and fought at Gettysburg, Chancellorsville and Manassas as well as ther Wilderness. He was relieved and sent home during the battle of Winter Harbor. Before the war he was a grover clerk and a shoe maker, working the latter trade for A.F. Cox. Upon his return from the front he became a grocer clerk for Charles E. White and then entered into partnership with H.P. Mallett. Later for seven years he worked in the paper mill an for four years on the Maine Centrall RR . In 1883 he entered the employ of ther Dennisons in the Box shop and remained there until the factor was moved from Brunswick to MA in 1893. After that he opened a shop for general repairing where he remained until it was burnt out. He was elected Town clerkin 1896 and held that office until he died. He married, in 1879, to Miss Alice S. Crowley (1851-1938)(R9 #79) and they had three children: Lester E.Goud(1881-1956)(R9 #81) of Waltham, MA; Mrs. Burt M. Dyer of Bath and Jesse W. Goud of Bangor. Alice and Warren were married in 1879. She was born in Topsham, the daughter of John and Sarah Aris Crowley. She was brought and educated in Topsham. She was survived by three children: all of Topsham: Postmaster Lester E. Goud, Mr. Edna Dyer; and Jessee Goud. They also had: Dane E. (1881-1882)(R9 #80)

(R9#82) Mallett monument

George F. Mallett (1847-1908)(R9 #83)    He lived on Mallett Road. He  Was survived by his wife, Fannie E. Mallett (1852-1930)(R9 #84), and one son and by his sister Miss Mary E. Mallett. Fannie  was born in Topsham the daughter of Paul and Hannah P. Hersey Hall.

Bernice Graves Mallett   (1843-1921)(R9 #85)was the wife of Emery C. Mallett.

Emery C. Mallett              (1839-1906)(R9 #86))      He was a farmer and married Bernice Graves Mallett (1843-1921)(R9 #85).

Jacob Merriman(1843-1918)(R9 #87)Captain. He married Mary Ella Cox (1850-1926)(R9 #87). She was born in Bath and her parents moved to Topsham when she was 14. For a number of years whe went to sea with her husband. were married in 1868. Jacob was the son of Simon Merriman (1816-1869) and Isabel M. Curtis Merriman (1817-1901). Jacob had a  sister Hannah who married (1) Alvah Mallett and (2) Arthur Merriman and a brother Charles W. Merriman(R9 #89) who married Jennie Foster of Topsham.  Jacob and Mary had: Clara Belle Merriman (1874-1882)(R9 #87); Florence Priscilla Merriman (1876-1949)(R9 #87); Henry Failing Merriman (1878-1954)(R9 #87)who married Alice Patten(1882-1949)(R9 #87); James Guy Merriman (1880-1905)(R9 #87,88) a conductor on the Maine Central Railroad; Ray Sawyer Merriman (1883-1961)(R9 #87) who married Mary E. Merriman (1884-1961)(R9 #87); and Ralph Merriman (1883-1883)(R9 #87). He  had three sisters: Anna L. Cox, Mrs. William Dunning; and Mrs. W.M. Mallett. In the West Bowdoin Baptist Church the  pipe organ was presented to the church in 1918 by Captain Jacob Merriman and Walter M. Mallett of Topsham, in memory of Mr. and Mrs. James Cox, who were members of this church before making a home of their own, and were the parents of their wives. This Vocalion organ made by Mason and Risch of Worcester, Massachusetts, had been aboard Captain Merriman’s ship and had sailed many times around the world before it came “back home” to West Bowdoin.

Isaac E. Mallett  (1829-1890)(R9 #90)       He married: Frances A. Baker Mallett (1828-1852)(R5 #48);  Mellissa  A. Mallett (1838-1866)(R9 #90); and Mary P. Mallett (1841-1892)(R9 #90).

John P. Mallett  (1869-1945)(R9 #90)died in Providence RI. He was born in Topsham the son of Isaac and Mary Mallett of Mallett Road. He received his education in the Topsham schools and graduated from Brunswick High School and was a graduate of Tufts College. He was an electrical engineer and lived for many years in Elizabeth, NJ before moving to Providence. He was survived by his wife, a daughter, Miss Priscilla Mallett, R.N. of Elizabeth, NJ; two sons, Russell of Elizabeth NJ and Walter of Long Island, NY. A son, John Purinton Mallett died in service in Belgium; a brother, Edwin W. Mallett living on the old homestead in Topsham. Among other brothers were Capt. Walter Mallett of Topsham and Wilbert Mallett, for many years principal of the Farmington State Normal School. A sister, Mrs. Lillian Rogers of North Bath died earlier in the year.

Edwin W. Mallett (1861-1946)(R9 #90)    died at his home on the Mallett Road in Topsham. He served the town as first selectman for 32 years. He was born in Tosham, the son of Isaac E. and  Melissa Ann Mallett, on the farm where he always lived, with the exception of one year he spent in Portland, Oregon. He received his early education at the Mallett School and was graduated from Topsham High School. He taught school for two years on Bailey Island. He married Alice Sampson Mallett (1868-1952)(R9 #90,91) of Phillips. He was the last of a family of seven children and was the brother of Wilbert mallet, principal of the Farmington Normal School and of Captain Walter Mallett of Elm St. in Topsham.

Moses  Adams Graves    (1810-1862)(R9 #191),son of Moses and Martha Graves,  married Annie Field Sawyer  Graves(1820-1885)(R9 #190). They had: Alfarata W. (1847); Julia A. (1849); Annie E. (1857) who married Edward Fishley; Edwin Adams (1855); Alpheus M. (1843); Willis H. (1851); and Eita M. (1847) who married Merry.

Nancy Graves    (1811-1811) was the daughter of Moses and Martha and sister to Moses Adams Graves.

Walter M. Mallett(1859-1931)(R9 #96)    first went to sea at age 17. First he went with Capt. Jacob Merriman on the barque Belle of Oregon. At 23 he was given command of large sailing ships “Henry Failing “from San Francisco to Liverpool. He quit the sea in 1917. He married, in 1886, Katherine M. Cox Mallett (1859-1953) (R9 #96). His last command was in WWI—a four masted ship Dirigo—to Sweden. He became Chairman of the Topsham Branch of the Red Cross, served as County Commissioner, Town Clerk and on the School board. He was born in Topsham.Having lost his early home in 1904 by fire he rebuilt on the same site on Elm St. in 1919. He was survived by his wife, a sister; Mrs. Lillian Rogers of North Bath; four brothers: Edward W., first selectman of Tospham; Wilbert G., principal of Farmington Normal School; John P. of Elizabeth, NJ.; and Harry D. of Lexington, MA.

Samuel E. Curtis (1834-1898) (R9 #102) He married Elizabeth L. Goud Curtis (1835-1885)(R9 #103) in 1856. Samuel Curtis (1834-1898) was born in Harpswell and died of softening of the brain and was a carpenter. He and Elizabeth had Carrie E. (1858); Fannie E. (1860); Alice E. (1862); and Lizzie A. (1866-1898)(R9 #104) who was lost on the sinking of the Portland. She was the daughter of Samuel E. Curtis was born on 20 November 1833 at Bowdoin, Sagadahoc Co., ME. Harry W. Curtis(1871-1883) (R9 #104) was the son of Samuel E. Curtis and Elizabeth Curtis. He was the son of Nehemiah Curtis and Jane Douglass.  Samuel E. Curtis died on 20 January 1898 at Brunswick, Cumberland Co., ME, at age 64.  She had a sister Fannie Ellen Curtis who was born in 1860.

Tena Lincoln      (1868-1910)(R9 #106). Wife of Will R. Lincoln . Marcena Lincoln died in 1910. She may be the Tena (had mar. William R. Lincoln of Lewiston); Her husband found her dead; the room was filled with gas from an open gas jet. It was a case of Suicide.  She was the daughter of Mr and Mrs. Samuel Curtis.

James F. Bartlett (1847-1934)(R9 #108)    married Clara S. Bartlett (1852-1911) (R9 #108).and they had: Mabel Eva (1868) who married Stone and had Lawrence, a paper mill teamster; Ernest Leroy (1886) who married Sadie F. Butler and they had: Freeman L. (1913); Lawrence F. (1915); Mabel L (1918); Clara M. (1887) who married James Wescott Colby and they had: Charles (1925) who married McDowell and had Ronald, Betty, and Robert; Ronald had Kathleen Colby who married Chonko; Linnie B. Miller         (1891-1972)(R9 #110) who married Austin E. Smith in 1936; and Josephine B. (1093) who married Willis Baker in 1940). James was the only surviving  Civil War veteran in Topsham when he died as well as being Topsham’s oldest man.  He lived at 40 Bridge St.  He was a member of Copany B, 17^th Maine Volunteeer Infantry. He was, for many years, employed by the Brunswick Electric Light and Power Company and later was a workman with the Pejepscot Paper Company. He was survived by six children: Mrs. Mabel Stone, Miss Josephine Bartlett of Topsham; Frank R. of Naples; Ernest L. of Lisbon Falls; Mrs. Clara Colby of Pejepscot; and Mrs. Linna Mack of Auburn.

Albert B. Stone (1859-1893)(R9 #112)was was a house carpenter and married Mabel E. Bartlett Stone (1841-1868)(R9 #111). They had Helen V. Mabel could have been James F. Bartlett’s sister.

John Plunkett    (1833-1905)(R9 #113,114)  Co.F.13 Me. Vols. was a  Junk dealer in Topsham. He married Mary Plunkett (1836-1901)(R9 #113,115). They had John Plunkett (1847-1884)(R9 #133,116); Sarah and Etta.

Aaron O. Houghton(1845-1926)(R9 #118)He married Sarah E. Plunkett (1856-1918)(R9 #117). Aaron was the son of Aaron Houghton and Betsy Farris of Oxford, Maine. His first wife was Belle Pratt of Bridgton, Me. He married Sarah in 1887 in Harpswell, Me. They were in Auburn, Me in 1910. Aaron and Belle Pratt Had: Arthur B. Houghton (1869-1935) and Lillian Houghton (1872).

James B. Hunter (1864-1917)(R9 #123), a merchant,“Father”. He married Etta M. Plunkett Hunter (1864-1945)(R9 #122)”Mother”.T hey had Jessie B. Hunter(1893-1893)(R9 #119.

Walter T. Sargent (1809-188)(R9 #124) was born in Metheun, MA and died in Freeport, ME. He was the son of John Sargent (1749) and Elizabeth Bodwell (d. 1803) who were married in Topsham in 1841. Walter married Joanna G. Quint Sargent(1820- 1880)(R9 #124) who was born in Bowdoinham in 1820 and died in Freeport in 1885. Thye had:      nMary E. (1842-)Maria F. (1844-)Susan J. (1845-1878)(1845-1878)(R9 #124), she was unmarried; Sarah E. (1848-)Anna L. (1852-)Emma C. (1854-1931)(R9 #124)William Edward  (1856-1922)(R11 #58) who married   (1) Ella C. M. Hale who was born in 1856 in Baltimore, MD . He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1878.Alice C. (1860-1906)(R9#124) and Kate G. (1866-1866)(R9 #124).Alice C. Sargent  died at her home in Freeport.She  went to Freeport with her parents about 1866.  She had been sick for three years with great suffering. She had  four sisters: Mrs. Lilzzie Moore of Whitefield; Mrs. David Scribner of Topsham; Mrs. Edward Wight of Seattle, Wash.; Miss Emma Sargent, a teacher in the Freeport schools and a  brother Prof. W.E. Sargent, principal of Hebron Academy.

Rev Walter T. Sargent was born in Methuen Mass February 3 1809 He entered Waterville College Colby in 1834 but owing to ill health was unable to finish his course Becoming a licensed preacher of the Baptist denomination in 1836 he labored in the following fields Great Falls NH 1836 37 Buxton 1837 38 Damariscotta 1838 where he was ordained Nobleborough one year Bowdoinham one year Mount Vernon 1842 48 Acton 1850 55 Sanford 1855 57 and Greene and Freeport He died in Freeport May 13 1886 His first wife was Mary L Hayden of Waterville In June 1H41 he married Joan S Quiat of Topsham who died February 15 1885 Of their several children a daughter Mary Ellen married Hon Andrew It G Smith of Whitefield William Edward Sargent son of the foregoing was born in Sanford May 23 1856 He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1878 In April of that year he became principal of the Topsham High School which position he held for two years and then went to Free port where he was principal of the High School for five years In 1885 he became principal of Hebron Academy where he still remains and for fifteen years has labored unceasingly in building up the institution giving it a high rank among preparatory schools

George E. Bancroft (1877-1961)  (R9 #120) a woolen mill worker,  married  Sadie  M. Hunter Bancroft ( b. 1891)(R9 #120). He came from Poland, Maine. She was the daughter of Edgar L. and Amelia S. Hunter and sister to Lithgow Hunter of Topsham.

Irvin Plunkett     (1887-1887)(R9 #121)     was the son of Edward B. (b. 1862) & Emma G. Field Plunkett. They were married in 1887 in Bowdoinham. Edward worked in the paper mill.               Edward was the son of John and Mary and had the following siblings: Sarah E. (1856) who married Aaron Houghton; and  Etta (1864) who married James B. Hunter.

Randall William Bartlett (1940-1942)(R9 #125)     He was the youngest of a family of four and was accidently run over by a car operated by his brother, James, 16 as he was backing out of the family driveway in Pejepscot. Randall was playing with a ball in the yard and had crawled underneath the car unobserved by his brother. He was born in Pejepscot, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bartlett. Isaac Henry  Bartlett (1901-1968)(R9 #126) (b. 1902) was a truck driver at the paper mill. His wife was Alice Haigh Bartlett (1905-1993) (R9 #129). They also had Arthur (1924) and Richard (1930).

Elizabeth Edelmar Bagley             (1869-1940) (R9 #128)    was the wife of Victor Bagley (1869-1940)(R9 #128), an electrician. They had Florence Anna (b. 1901) and Jacob D. (1896-1896); Helen Veniene (1895-1973)who married Ormsby; and Jennie Mabel (1899-1982) who married Jackson.

Charles  F. Thomas (1857-1876)(R9 #?) was the son of George H.,( b. 1816) a merchant and trader in Richmond, and Rebecca W. (B. 1823). He had the following siblings: George A. *1845); John H. (1849); William W. (1853) and and infant (1859).

Charles Purinton(1790-1826)(R9 #130,136)married Thankful Purinton (1771-1885)(R9 #130.135). They had Francis J. Purinton (1824-1886)(R9 #130.133). Charles’ father was Nathaniel and mother was Hipsibah. They had Charles W. Purinton(1826-1897)(R9 #130,131), a farmer,  who married Margaret P. Maxwell Purinton (1827-1900)(R9 #130,132). Charles W. was a Topsham selectman in 1859; 1872-1877.

John W. Rackley (1819-1890)(R9 #137,141)married Eunice Rackley (1828-1906)(R9 #137,142) She died of heart disease and was  born in Lisbon. She became a resident of Tospsham for 51 years and  outlived her husband by 16 years. They had three sons: Charles  T., Fred of Topsham and John Rackley of Portland.Belle R. Rackley (1863-1959)(R9 #137,138) was a Whitehouse. And was the wife of Charles T. Rackley]Sarah Weymouth(1821-1900)(R9 #137,143)was the sister of Eunice Rackley.            Charles T. Rackley (1849-1928)(R9 #137)married Mary E. Rackley (1854-1900)(R9 #137,139).

Edwin M. Stone (1825    1901)(R9 #144) He and Diana had Albert, Lizzie and Alice Carolyn (Carrie) (1855-1935)(R9 #144) who was born in Topsham. She was employed as a bookkeeper in Brunswick for many years. Edwin married Diana S. Sanborn (1827-1878)(R9 #144) and Kate W. Knight Stone (1833-1911)(R9 #144).

Harry A. Christopher (1851-1929) (R9 #145,146) was born in Canada, and married Emma Lois Berry Christopher (1857-1908)(R9 #145,147),the daughter of Eliphlet Berry and Amanda Truffant. They had: Frankie (1886-1890) (R9 #149), Walter B. (1881-1922) (R10 #8) who married Alice Maud (1884-1959)(R10 #8); Gertrude; Thurman; Carabell (1898); Ruth  E. Christopher(1900-1975)(R9 #145,148); and Harry A.

1. K. Paris McIver1882-1958)(R9 #150,151), a papermaker, married Blanche M. McIver (1885-1967)(R9 #150,151) They had: Verna M. (1905); Gladys E. (1907) and Forrest Roberts (1910).Forrest was a paper mill worker in Livermore Falls and married Dorothy (1910) and they had Beverly (1931); Parris (1936) May (1940) and Wendell McIver (1929-1931)(R9 #152)

Humphrey Mallett (1851-1934)(R9 #154). A papermaker, married Sarah F. Mallett (1851-1886)(R9 #155). They had:   Avis E. Mallett Damren (1882-1915)(R9 #156) was the wife of Millard E. Damren and died in Pasadena, Cal. Ma.21, 1915. She married Millard E. Damren in 1904. He was born in Lewiston the son of Robert G. and Esther and had two brothers and a sister. He was a motorman. He was born in 1879. In 1910 he was a boarder in Pasadena and was a house electrician. Avis was an inmate in a sanitarium. In the 1920 census was a Frank E. Damren, born in Maine, who was a carpenter born in Maine. Avis was the daughter of Humphrey and Mary E. Patten Mallett of Topsham.

Frank  H. Purinton(1845-1899)(R9 #158), a steam fittler, married Ellen C. McManus Purinton (1846-1924)(R9 #157). She was born in Brunswick. She was the daughter of George and Abigail Stone McManus.  Fank was the son of Cyrus M. and Mary G.

Eva Orr (1887-1918)(R9 #159) was probably Fred Orr’ sister.

Fred Orr(1882-1950)(R9 #159) was born in Topsham. For 15 years he was employed at the Scribner Grain Company and entered the painting business in 1916. For his last 15 years he was employed by the Austin Paint Company in Brunswick. He had: Alice (1905); AHelen (1907) and Hazel (1910). He was survived by his wife, the former Lola M. Furbish(1894-1958)(R16 #3); two sons, Alfred Orr of Brunswick and Donald Orr of Topsham; and two half-brothers, Charles Berry of Brunswick and Frank Berry of Randolph. Lola was born in Topsham the daughter of Allison and May McEachern Furbish. She attended Topsham schools and had been employed at Bowdoin College for 25 years having worked at the Moulton Union for 20 years. She was survived by two daughters, Mrs. Dorothy Coffin of Brunswick, and Mrs. Gladys Weybrant, of Bath; a son, Donald A. Orr(1925-1997)(R16 #2,5) who married Lucille Carr Orr (1924-1982)(R16 #4) He was a Sgt US Army World War II Topsham; and a brother, Melvin C. Furbish of Topsham.

George Henry Goud        (1847-1920)(R9 #160)”Father”.  He was superintendent at the paper mill. He  married Virginia(Jennie) D.(1854-1942)(R #161)”Mother”.,  and they had Blanche E.(1878-1924)(R9 #161) and Cora M. and Jessie D.

Frank L. Hill(1895)(R9 #163)  was a house carpenter and he married Cora M. Goud (1885-1954)(R9 #163). She died at her home on Green St. She was born in Topsham, daughter of George H. and Jennie Grant Goud. She was survived by her husband; a son Frank Hill Jr. (1922-1992)(R9 #163), of Portland; who married, in 1954, Marion R. Harrington;  two daughters, Mrs. Harmon Rogers and Mrs. Avery Trufant, both of Topsham.  : Frank L. Jr.; Dorothy B. (1916); and Christine M. (1913).

Mrs. Lydia Ellen Cunningham lived on Elm Street and was born in Brunswick near Cook’s Corner, the daughter of Rufus and Maria Groves. She was educated in Brunswick and married Joshua W. Cunningham  (R9 #164) in 1878.  She was a laundress at home. He was from Brunswick and a Civil War veteran (Co. B   11^th Me. Infantry) who passed away in 1894. They had resided in Massachusetts, Rockland, Hallowell, and Gardienr where he was a member of the police force. They resided in Augusta as  well. For their last 50 years they lived in Topsham.  She was survivedby two sons, John Cunningham of San Francisco; and Forrest Cunningham of Topsham. She had three sisters: Mrs. Emily Mason, Mrs. Hattie Austin and Mrs. Ina Craig all of Brunswick. She had five brothers: James Groves of Billerica, MA; Henry Groves of Fall River, MA; Charles Groves, Joseph Groves and Frank Groves of Brunswick. Internment was at the Riverview Cemetery. John R. Cunningham died in San Francisco. He was born in Boxford, MA the son of Joshua and Lydia Groves Cunningham. When he was a small boy they moved to Topsham. He was survived by his wife, Hazel of San Francisco, a son Ernest A. and a brother Forrest E. Cunningham (1892-1949)(R12 #92) all of Topsham. Forrest  lived on Elm Street, Topsham. He died in Lisbon Falls. He was born in Topsham. He lived all his life in Topsham and was a fireman for the Maine Central Railroad for 20 years. He was also employed at the Bath Iron Works and at the time of his death by the Farnsworth Mills in Lisbon Falls. He was survived by his wife, Lulu Greeley Cunningham.

Mary Elizabeth Parsons (1850-1932)(R9 #165,171)(R9 #165)She was a Pettie and her obituary is in the Brunswick Record on May 19, 1932 pg. 4. She married, in 1879, Francis Clark Whitehouse (b. 1845) and they had: Frances Ada (1874) Frances Whitehouse MacKinnon(1899-1971)(R9 #165) ; Abbie Etta (1876); Frances Ada (1878) and Mary Susan (1879).

Norman  MacKinnon      (1862-1919)(R9 #165)Rev. Norman MacKinnon (who committed suicide by taking a  razor to his neck after a nervous breakdown at William Muldoo’s Hygenic Institure in Purchase, NY). He had been pastor of the Presbyterian Church, Franklin, Mass when hehad a nervous breakdown. He  married Etta Abbie McKinnon (1876-1949)(R9 #165) She was born in Brunswick, the daughter of Frank and Elizabeth Pettie Whitehouse and attended Brunswick schools. She was survived by a sister, Mrs. Preston Kyes of North Jay; two sons, Francis MacKinnon of Bath and Dr. Donald W. MacKinnon of Berkeley Cal.; four daughters, Mrs. Charles B. Peck of Lexington, MA; Miss Mary Wallace (1905-1970)(R9 #165) and Miss Normena MacKinnon (1906-1952)(R9 #165,170) of Topsham and Mrs. Robert DeWick of Woolwich. They also had a (McKinnon Baby (1908-1908)(R9 #165)

1. Mack MacKinnon (R9 #166)

Baby MacKinnon (R9 #167)

A.E. Mack MacKinnon   (R9 #168)

1. Mack MacKinnon (R9 #170)

                            William Cann     (1824-1903)(R9 #172,173)was a miller and the son of George & Mary Cann, born in Farmington Devonshire Co.Eng.Dec.19,1824. He died in Topsham . He married Frances A. March Cann(1836-1905)(R9 #172,174) She was the  daughter of John & Amanda March,born in Stafford,N.Y. Dec.21, 1836 and died in Brunswick. They had: Florence Cann             (1859-1952)(R9 #175) was the wife of  A. W. Townsend  in Stafford, N.Y.  Albert  W. Townsend(1859-1902)(R9 #176)was the  son of Wm. & M.D. Townsend and born in Brunswick. He married Florence and had a  Variety store. They had a son Frank D. (b. 1886).

George Leonard Colby   (R9 #177)was in Co.D 5 Me. Inf. Marker Post 22 G.A.R. He married Clara J. Courson Colby. He was a painter with F.A. Colby and Sons.  He had: Howard S. Colby (1875)(R9 #179) who married Elsie M. Colby (1885-1952)(R9 #179). She was born in Durham, the daughter of  Mr. and Mrs. Luke Shepard.

Francis  J. B. Morse (1820-1882)(R9 #178,  a farmer in St. Albans, married Jane Swift Morse (1824-1896)(R9#178) and they had Sue B. Morse (1862-1892)(R9 #178); Frank A., who married Carrie Jaques Morse  (1857-1906)(R9 #178) and Susannah J. (1867).

Caleb C. Ridley  (1828-1902)(R9 #180,181) a farmer, and pipeman for the Androscoggn 2 Fire tub,married Ruth Morse Ridley (1831-1882)(R9 #180,182). They had: Edward T. Ridley (1871-1899)(R9 #180,183); Lucy E. Ridley(1853-1882)(R9 #180); Henry H. Ridley (1858-1877)(R9 #180).; Ernest Ridley (1876-1877)(R9 #180); and Sarah A. Ridley (1862-1865)(R9 #180)

R9#184 Ridley                                                                Nellie

R9#185 Ridley                                                                Baby

R9#186 Ridley                                                                Bertie

Clara M. Cripps Winslow(1893-1918)(R9 #187)     was the wife of Chester E. Winslow who diedof pneumonia  at Camp Upton, New York and is buried in the Cemetery there. 10 th Co. 152 Depot Brigade.

Lucien Howe  White(1868-1955)(R9 #188)married Irene Myrtille Trout White (1871-1961)(R9 #188). They had: Mary Alma; David Walker, Irene Mildred, and Edward Everett. Lucien’s parents were: Charles Edward White and Mary Ellen Colby.

 Everett L. White(1876-1897)(R9 #189)

Roland H. White(1864-1887)(R9 #190)

(R9#191)Colby/White Tomb; Family Tomb of Samson Colby,Wm.H.Colby ,Eben Clolby,  Chas.E.White; Mary E. Colby

Ebenezer Colby (R9 #191) He married  Mehitable Cowan. Colby(R9 #191)They  had William E.Colby (1858-1883)(R9 #191) and William Hannibal Colby (1883)(R9 #191)who married  (1^st) Sally Pinkham Colby (d. 1857)(R9 #191) William H. served as Quartermaster on the Potomac, commanded by Com. Downes when he bombarded and reduced to submission the natives of Quallah Battou on the island of Sumatra, for some murderous rascality of theirs. William H. listed his occupation as “Circumnavigator of the globe” which indeed he was. His ship, the Potomac, after crushing the Pepper Pirates” continued on to the Philippines, China and the Sandwich Islands. Then to the West Coast of South America where they became the station ship calling on various ports and showing the flag. The entire voyage took three years. There were 500 people on the ship when they left New York. 25 were lost from various causes during the voyage. This was considered an unusually low number for that time. They had: Valentine Green (1852); Lucretia Jane (1840); Samson (1843) and Elizabeth Griffin (1846); he married (2nd) Clarissa M. Pray and they had Walter J. (1859) and Lincoln Hannibal (1861).

John P. Colby    May 3, 1869 (R9 #191) was the son of William Hannibal Colby and Sall Pinkham. He served in the Civil War from 1861 to 1864. Company D, 5th Infantry Regiment Maine.

Hiram Kendall  Colby      (1845–1869) (R9 #191)was the son of Ebenezer George and Mary Ann Gage Colby.  Hiram was in the Class of 1866 at Bowdoin College and died at 24 of consumption.

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John Grady(1850-1911))R10 #1) was  born in N. Whitefield and married Elizabeth A Cannon(1849-1930)(R10 #1) and they had Augusta Mae who married James Philip Scribner.Elizabeth died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Moses Chandler of Popham Beach. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Cannon. She was survived by her two sisters: Mrs. Chandler and Mrs. S. Scribner of Lisbon Fals; four sons: Harry of Topsham; William of Dexter, Samuel of Cleveland, Ohio, and Charles of Mt. Savage Md. and a brother, Henry Cannon of Bowdoinham and her sister.

Jennie Murray Brooks    (1853-1937)(R10 #2) Mrs. Jennie Murray Brooks was born in St. John N.B. Canada. For several years she was employed in Topsham. At the end of her life she was living with Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hunt on Union St. She left no relatives.

Sara A. Sawyer  (1861-1944)(R10 #3) was the daughter of Horace B. and Clarissa J. Sawyer. She was a graduate of the Boston Conservatory of Music and taught music in the schools of Framingham, Ma. She graduated from Morse High School in Bath and from a women’s seminary. She was survived by a sister, Mrs. William Copithorn.

Mary E. Savage (1839-1917)(R10#4) In 1910 at 72 was a cook for a private family in Brunswick.

Wallace Annis    (January 1917) (R10#5).  He died very suddenly at the residence of W.S. Soule. He had been rooming at the house for about two weeks.He left a wife who was living in Topsham.

Alex B. Moore    (1878-1926)(R10 #6) His obituary is on page 8 of he November 25, 1926 Brunswick Record. He was a hired hand that was born in Canada. He was a laborer at the ship yard.

Kate Taylor(1851-1933)  (R10 #7 died at the home of Miss Alice Dennett. She was born in Richmond, Va. She came to Topsham at the age of 15 and lived with William and Eliza Dennett at the old Dennett homestead on Main St., later owned by Bruce White. After they died she worked as housekeeper in several homes in Topsham and Brunswick. In her later life she was employed as housekeeper for Dr. Cumston.

Henry Haley (1841-1920)(R10 #11)            He was  in Bowdoin, was son of Harvey and Phoebe Potter Haley and  moved to Pejepscot. He married Alvena M. Haley (1856-1937) (R10 #11).  He had a son Harry of Portland and Clarence who lived at home.

Marshall E. Haley(1890-1918)(R10 #12)   Co. A. 115 Inf.  He died in Neirve France: Private in Co. A 115^th Infantry. He died of pneumonia in France. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. William H. Haley of Topsham. He served 3 times in the trenches, was fired on by snipers. He left a wife and infant son and two brothers: Harry and Clarence.

Manfred Moses Riggs (1845-1929)(R10 #13)married Anne Octavia Frost (1843-1929)(R10 #13). She was the eldest daughter of Obed E. Frost of Topsham and sister to Capt. William E. Frost. She died in New York City. She was born in Topsham and attended school there. She also went to the school for young ladies at the Ursuline Convent at Quebec to which school several Topsham families sent their daugters prior to the Civil War. She married Manfred M. Riggs of Georgetown and they resided in Portland until 1889 and later at St.Joseph , Mo.,  El Paso, and since 1922 in New York. Manfred was City Controller of the City of St. Joseph, Mo. and a leading Democrat. He died at the home of his daughter Mrs. J.J .Wallwork in Englewood, NJ .  Mr. Riggs had also been secretary of the Southwest Smelting and Refining Company during his residence in El Paso, Tex. He was born in Riggsville, Me, named after his family. His children: Orville Riggs (1865) marr. Emma Florence Hazen and no children; Leon Riggs 91870) died in 1884 when his sister was born.; June Pearl Riggs (1884) married Julius J. Wallwork.  Manfred was born in Georgeown, Maine. Before he was a controller he had been a bookkeeper and lumber bookkeeper in Portland, Maine.

Captain William E. Frost was born in Topsham in 1848, and resided here all of his life. He went to school in Farmington, after which he went to sea and followed the sea all the early part of his life, commanding a ship at the age of twenty-six. As master of the “Midas” and “Pleiades,” he sailed the seas in the merchant trade to various parts of the world until he retired. Later Captain Frost became agent of the railroad in Topsham and occupied that position until a few years prior to his death. For about forty years he was clerk and one of the trustees of the First Parish Congregational Church of Topsham.

Captain Frost married Augusta Chase Swift (1848-1938)(R10 #13) she died at her home of Elm St., Topsham. She was the widow of Capt. William E. Frost. She was born in Brunswick, the daughter of Elizabeth M. Chase of Minott and John L. Swift who was instrumental in establishing the First Universalist Church in Brunswick. In 1877 she married Capt. Frost of Topsham and the first years of their marriage were spent at sea. One of her four sons was born at sea. Her grandfather was Maj. Lemuel Swift. She was survived by two sons, Alton S. of Merrimac, MA and John W. , major of Pleasantville, NY., sons survived them, Alton S. Frost(1879-1941)(R10 #13) of Merrimac, Mass. and John W. Frost(1885-1963)(R10 #13), who married Christina Gurlitz Frost(1885-1971)(R10 #13) and was  an attorney of New York City and the Mayor of Pleasantville, N.Y. where he resides, who recently purchased the Major Frost residence on Elm street as a summer home.He was the son of Capt. William E. Frost.  He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1904. He was elected mayor of Pleasantville, New York. He served on Board of Overseers of Bowdoin over 20 years and served as its President.  His children:  John William Jr. (1917); Stevens Landon (1920); and Hunter Swift (1925). His summer resident  on Elm Street.He had three children, a son, William E.(1848-1928)(R10 #13),who married  Marjorie Pangburn Frost (1920-1996)(R10 #13).,and two daughters, Anne Octavia, who married M.M. Riggs and lived in the West, and Sarah Elizabeth(1846-1925)(R6 #163), who resided in Topsham and died here in 1926.

Amy Landon Frost (1915) (R10 #16)

Inez G. Mariner (1902-1918)(R10 #25)was the daughter of Herbert Q. Mariner and Edith Lancaster who were married in 1899 in Boston, MA. She died o tuberculosis while a sophomore at Topsham High School.

Norman J. McCabe         (1886-1943)(R10 #26)  died at his home on Elm St. in Topsham. He was born in Parrsboro, Nova Scotia. For several years he was the proprietor of the Topsham Trailer on Main St. and at the time of his death he was employed by the New England Shipbuilding Co. in South Portland. He was survived by his wife, Edith L. Marriner McCabe(1885-1960)(R12 #24), two daughters, Mrs. Clifford Creed and Mr. Herbert Marriner of Topsham; two sons, Norman J. McCabe, Jr. and Earl McCabe of Bath; A sister, Mrs. Marie Kenick of New York and several sisters, an a brother, Charles in Canada.

1. Albert Lancaster (1860-1936)(R10 #27)worked at Shipyard. Ora Albert Lancaster died at his home on Elm St. He was born in Richmond, the son of William and Eliza Cook Lancaster. H received his education in Richmond and in 1884 married Miss Elta Umberhind of Richmond, where the couple made their home for 16 to 17 years before coming to Brunswick for a year. They then moved to Topsham. Surviving was a daughter, Edith Marriner of Topsham. Elta M. (1864-1935)(R10 #26) She as born in Richmond, the daughter of Margaret H. and George B. Umberhind. She was educated in the schools of Richmond and in 1884 married O. Albert Lancaster who was born in Richmond where they lived for 17 years. They then moved to Brunswick and lived there a year before coming to Topsham for 33 years. She was survived by her husband, one daughter, Mrs. Edith Marriner of Elm St., one brother E. Lister Umberhind of Richmond and one sister, Mrs. Irville Cheney of Monmouth.

Justus R. MacKay (1889-1964)(R10 #29)  married Eleanor P. (1891-1985)(R10 #30). His mother was Arvilla B. MacKay (1860-1919)(R10 #31). She was Mrs. Arvilla Ripley. She was born in Belfast, March 7, 1860. She had a brother, William  Norwood of Hope and five children: Mrs. Mary Merriman of New York; Mrs. Bertah Holesworth of Somersworth, NH ; Mrs. Lillian Brown  of MA; Fred Ripley of Rockland, and Justus  Ripley of Topsham.

Frank H. MacKay (1911-1991)(R10 #33)   married Katherine E. (1916-1973)(R10 #31) in 1940. She was Katherine E. Ripley, the daughter of Justus and Eleanor P. Ripley  MacKay.

7. Frank Mallett (1842-1919)(R10 #34,35)died at the home of his brother Humphrey Mallet on Main St.. His wife: Miss Elizabeth P. Crowley (1841-1935)(R10 #34,36) was the daughter of John Crowley; they had two children: F. Lester Mallett and Mrs. Addie Alexander, the wife of William Alexander of Topsham; He had a brother Humphrey; He had another daughter who married Edwin C. Hall of Topsham. He was born in Topsham, the son of John F. and Elizabeth Crowley Mallett. He was employed by the Pejepscot Paper Company for twenty-seven years and after that worked in the Maine Central Railroad yards in Brunswick for twenty-four years , retiring in 1937. He was survived by two sons: Edward of Portland, and James of Penns Grove, NJ; a daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Alexander of Topsham.They also had Hazel M. Mallett (1891-1914)(R10 #34)Who went to Hebron for treatment and graduated from Topsham High School in 1909.  She had 3 brothers and 1 sister.

Frank L. Mallett (1870-1939)(R10 #35)was the son of John F. Mallett and Elizabeth Crowley. He worked as an engineer at the  Pejepscot Paper Company and then Maine Central Railroad. He has a son Edward and a daughter, Mrs. Philip Alexander. Frank married: Carrie B. Blake Mallett(1869-1934)(R10 #34). Frank and Carrie had:  Hazel Mallett (b. 1891)(R10#37); Ernest A. (1889); Edward B. (1894); Elizabeth J. (1897)and  James L. Mallett (1900).

R10#38 Mallett                                                              E.P.M.

R10#39 Mallett                                                              J.F.M.

Sumner Strout(1848-1924)(R10 #40,44)married Eliza G. Strout (1853-1917)(R10 #40,43) She was born in Rutland, MA, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Green. They  had : Claude(1879-1949)(R10 #40,41) and Ardella M. Strout(881-1961)(R10 #40,42). Sumner worked in the paper mill.

William A. Dolloff (1872-1930)(R15 #3) He lived on Mallett Road in Topsham. He was born in Webster, the son of Wiliam F. and Clara P. (Kimball) Dolloff. He came to Topsham when a boy and made his home with Mr. and Mrs. Emery C. Mallett. He married Lizzie Allen Dolloff (1860-1920)(R10 #48) of Bath in 1916 who died a few years before he did.She  ; died of influenza; was daughter of Warren and Martha (Pearce) Allen; She was born in Bath and taught scool there for 30 years; moved to Topsham.In 1922 he married Amy C, Marston Dolloff (1885-1957)(R15 #4). He was survived by his second wife, two sons: William and Arthur; a sister, Mrs Lizzie Small of Lisbon; and two brothers: John of Topsham, and Charles of Augusta.

Arthur D. Dolloff (1926-2000)(R10 #46)   1st Lt. US Army World War II. He graduated from Bowdoin College and BU law school and was an attorney. He  married Carol Louise Locke. Son of William A. and Amy Marston Dolloff. They had an infant (1957-1957)(R10 #46).

R10#48 Dolloff                                                             

Cyrus E. Graves (1837-1912)(R10 #49)    Co. K 33rd Mass Vols.  He died in Melbourne, FL and  was a Major in the Civil War, lived in Melbourne Beach for 24 years. He was in charge of Post Office there. He was born in Bowdoinham, ME. His  body was brought to Topsham and he  had a   sister Mrs. B.G. Mallett of Topsham.

Alvaro Santos Wheeler(1865-1918)(R10 #50) was the son of William Adophus Wheeler and Olive Winso Frazar.He married Helen Hall Lee and they had: Harold Francis Wheeler (1888) and Francis Cecil Wheeler (1896). He died in Brunswick, Maine. Alvaro Santos9 William Augustus Amos Dean7 Amos6 Amos Thomas Thomas3 Thomas was born in Roxbury Mass 1 Aug 1865 He married 4 Oct 1887 Nellie Lee Hall daughter of David F and Sarah Abbott Cram Hall of Roxbury. He was educated in the public schools of Boston at the Franklin Family School in Topsham Me and at the private school of John P Hopkinson in Boston In 1880 he entered the employ of Messrs Houghton Mifflin & Co publishers and for six years was the cashier of their Boston office in 1891. He was appointed by the same firm business manager of the Atlantic Monthly .He was liberal in his religious views and non sectarian In politics he was an independent leaning in National affairs toward Democrats of the Cleveland sort a believer in free trade and an advocate of the single tax theory as advanced by Henry George.

Charles K. Stoddard        (1872-1947) (R10 #51)married Lucy M. Stoddard (1876-1917)(R10 #51). He also married Alberta T. Stoddard (1878-1944)(R10 #51)who died in Portsmouth, NH. She was born in Newcastle, N.B. the daughter of Robert and Olivia Dixon Libby. She had been a resident of Portsmouth for 18 years. She was survived by her husband who lived in Brunswick for many years and was employed by what was then the Ridley Hardware Company. The had a daughter.

James C. Purinton(1865-1933)(R10 #52) lived on Elm Street, Topsham. He was born in Topsham, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Israel Collins Purinton. He was educated in the Topsham Schools and at the old Franklin School. For 18 years he was employed as bookkeeper at the D. & C.E. Scribner Grain Mill in Brunswick. He held the office of selectman in Topsham for eight years. He was also town clerk and health offier. For several years he was supervisor of the public schools in Topsham. He also served several terms as postmaster at the Topsham Post Office. After retirement he devoted his time to agricultural pursuits. He married Annie A. Purinton(1871-1913)(R10 #53). He was survived by his widow, Mrs. Martha Purinton, two daughers, Alberta and Mary, two sisters, Mrs. Ellery Day and Miss Jennie Purinton of Brunswick.

1. Collins Purinton (1826-1916)(R10 #56)married Margaret E. Chase  Purinton (1842-1917)(R10 #55).  She was born in Topsham and was daughter of Smith and Tamson Jane Hibbard Chase. They had 3 children: James C.; Mrs. Ellery C. Day; Miss Jennie I. Purinton(1871-1953)(R10 #54). She had been a resident of Brunswick for many years before going to live with her neice in Portland the last seven years of her life. She was born in Topsham. She attend the Franklin Family School in Topsham.

Roy T. Woodward (1911-1989)(R10 #57)a pipe coverer at the Iron Works,  married  Adele B. Woodward(1911-1964)(R10 #57)and then married Natalie G. J.Kidder Theberge Woodward (1910-1997)(R10 #57). Natalie  Theberge Woodward died at  the Freeport Nursing home, where she had been a resident for the past two years. She was born in Concord, NH., the daughter of Charles and Grace Simonds Kidder. She attended Bath Schools and graduated from Morse HS in 1929. As a young woman she worked for the telephone company and lived in Bath until hee marriage to Philip Theberge in June 1934. He died in 1963. In 1965 she married Roy T. Woodward. He died in 1989. Until her retirement in 1976 she was a bookkeeper for Theberge Bros. Inc. In 1957 she instituted and became the charter president of the Brunswick Emblem Club. She served as state president and held many offices. In 1965 she received a life membership. She was a former member  of the the Order of Eastern Star. She was  survived by a stepdaughter, Jane Bailey of Orrs. Island.

Frank A. Colby   (1854-1928)(R10 #58,61) He was a carpenter. He lived on Green St. He was born in Somerville, the son of Charles and Abbie Colby. He was educated in the schools of Somerville and before he came to Topsham 46 years before his death, he was a farmer. For several years, with his son Clarence, he was in the contracting business. He was survived by his wife, Wealthy A. Colby (1856-1940) (R10 #58,60)who  worked in the cotton mill, and they had three sons, Clarence (Bud) W.(1920-1995)(R10 #97) PFC in WWII and he was a carpenter, architect and paper maker as well as a builder who married Beulah E.Colby (1923-1980)(R10 #99). They had Margaret Maines and Margaret Colby (1907-1979);Charles E. Colby(1882), a paper maker and meat wagon driver who married Annie J. Colby; and  Frank A. Colby Jr. (1886-1916)(R10 #59), and a daughter Mrs. Agnes Perry of Bath. Frank was a well known contractor and builder and lived on Green Street. He was born in Somerville, the son of Charles and Abbie Colby. He was educated in the schools of Somerville and before coming to Topsham 46 years before his death he was engaged in farming. His son Clarence was associated with him in the contracting business. When her husband died in 1928 she went to Bath to live with her daughter.

William Ray Tate (1834   -1900)(R4 #48)   Tate/Cromwell Monument West Face.  His parents were Patten Tate (1801-1886)(R4 #87) and Mehitable Thompson (1807-1856)(R4 #86) who was born in Lisbon and died in Topsham. He had a brother, Actor Patten Tate (1829-1888) and Chaffen Weston Tate (1837-1841)(R4 #83) and a sister, Tamsin Maria Tate (1842-1847)(R4 #84) ;Anna Maria Tate (1848). He married Mary Louisa Bradley (1832-1913)(R4#48)They had: Abby M. Tate (1859) who married Ashley Cromwell and was a bookkeeper at Bowdoin Paper Mills and a teacher; Actor Patten  Tate (1861) who was a house carpenter and lived in Portland; William Foster. Tate (1863-1937)(R10 #62) worked on the home farm . He was born in Topsham, the son of William R. and Mary Bradley Tate. He was educated in Topsham schools and passed all of his life there except for brief intervals when he went to sea. He passed most of his life in farming and carpentry. From 1914 to 1918 he served his district as a state representative in Augusta. He was also a town selectman and acted as moderator at one time. He was survived by two sisters, Miss Nellie Tate, of the Bradley Pond Road, with whom he made his home, and Mrs. Fred Hawthorne of Veazie. ; Alice Lewis Tate (1869) lived in Veazie and married Frederick G. Hathom; and Nellie Edith Tate (1875-1963) (R10 #62) who lived at home

Bernard Ashley Cromwell (1890-1913)(R4 #48)    was the son of Ashley H. and Abbie Tate Cromwell (1859-1936)(R10 #62). Abbie  died at her home on the Breadley Pond Road. She was born in Topsham at the Bradley homestead, the daughter of William R. and Mary Bradley Tate. In 1889 she married Ashley H. Cromwell of Eddington, who died in 1893. Bernard Cromwell, their son and only child passed away in 1913. She served as bookkeeper in Norway for ten years. After the death of her husband she accepted a position in the officer of the Pejepscot Paper Company, which she held for 37 years. She as a member of the Topsham School Board for 12 years. She was survived by two sisters: Mrs. Alice Hawthorne of Veazie; and Miss Nellie Tate of Topsham, one brother, William Tate of Topsham. Ashley H. Cromwell was born in 1867 and died in 1893. He married Abigail Tate (1859-1936), sister of  Actor Patten Tate(1861-1935)(R10 #62,63) who married  Martha E. Whitemore. Abbie was a bookkeeper and Stenographer in the Mill office. They had Bernard Ashley (1890-1913). Ashley was from New Brunswick and lived in Brewer Maine as a child. Bernard Sr. had blood poisoning from a fly bite on the right hand. He graduated from Topsham High School in 1909 and lived with his uncle William Tate; farming and poultry business; active in the Grange.

Milton A. Cromwell         (1898-1968)(R10 #64)     Probably the brother to Ashley and husband of Ellen J. Cromwell       (1896-1970) (R10 #64)

R10#65 Tate                                                                   W.F.T.

R10#66 Tate                                                                   N.E.T.

Angier C. Merriman(1881-1924)(R10 #67)Capt. Battery B 54th Art.  U.S.A.. He passed away in Biddeford. He was  the son of Angier H. (1839-1915)(R10 #69) and Hannah P. Knight Merriman (1850-1919)(R10 #68), born in Topsham the daughter of Samuel and Florence (Pettingtill) Knight. She accompanied her husband on his voyages. Angier H. and Hannah had four children: Miss Minnie J. Merriman of Topsham; T. Olin Meriman of Topsham; Miss Rena K. Merriman(1877-1953)(R10 #70) of Topsham. She was born in Brunswick but was a life long resident of Topsham.;Dr. Angier C. Merriman of Kennebunk; and a brother Samuel Knight of Brunswick.  Angier H. Merriman was a Captain and Captain; born in Harpswsell, at 17 he went to sea; since the age of 21 he was a commander of sailing vessel; many hears in his own vessels engaged int trade with Cuba, transatlantic ports and around Cape Horn; Portland Lodge of Masons ; joined in 1863. Twice married: (1) Octavia Crawford; (2) Hannah P. Knight of Topsham and they had  four children: Miss Minnie J. Merriman of Topsham; T. Olin Merriman of Portland; Miss Rena E. Merriman of Topsham; A. Clarence Merriman of Kennebunk.  Two brothers: Hiram M. of Framingham, MA; Augustus of Harpswell and a sister Harriet Lemond of Bath. His son Angier C. received his early education in the Topsham grade schools and Brunswick High School. He graduated from the Dental Department of the U. of Penn in 1906. During the war Dr. Merriman served as a captain in the C.A.C. He had two daughters: Katherine and Barbara and one brother T.A. Merriman of Portland and two sisters Miss Minnie J. Merriman (1866-1925)(R10 #71) of Auburn a daughter of Angier H.; and Miss Rena K. Merriman of Topsham. Minnie had lived in Topsham from the age of 6. She was a registered nurse. She had brother, Thomas O. Merriman and a sister Miss Rena Merriman. She never married.     Angier Hyde Merriman married (1) Hannah Pettingill Knight (1843-1869) and they had Minnie Jane (grad from Maine General Hospital in Lewiston in 1902) and Thomas Olin (1869) lived in Portland and was a clerk in a hardware store and married Martha L. McDonald. Angier married (2) in 1865 Octavia Becker Crawford (1850-1919) buried in Harpswell; thery had Rena K (1877-1953) and Angier Clarence (1881-1924) who married Marion P. Stetson.

John Albert Purinton(1846-1919)(R10 #72,73)was born in  W. Bowdoin, son of Rev. and Mrs. Albert Purinton and was a deacon in Baptist Church. He married Emma Page Purinton (1846-1926)(R10 #72,74). She was born in Woolwich the only daughter of Ezekiel and Lydia Walker.  She was educated in the public schools there. In 1875 she married John A. Purinton. After their marriage they lived on Montsweag Farm in Woolwich for 36 years until they moved to Topsham in 1911. They had: Miss Mabel Rebecca Purinton(1877-1954)(R10 #72,75), a teacher, of Topsham; Miss Lois Purinton , a teacher at the  School of Ethical Culture, Central Park West, NYC;  Mrs.  Stella Huff of  Southport and Lynfield Center, MA. and Angie Lois Purinton (1879-1958)(R10 #72,76).

Charles P. Edgecomb(1849-1934)(R10 #77,81) married Elizabeth (Lizzie) S. Booker Edgecomb (1859-1932)(R12 #77,80)who was the daughter of Joseph Warren and Zelora Coombs Booker. Lizzie and Charles had : John Coombs (1892-1913)(R10 #77,79) who died at the age of 20 of blood poisoning when he fell and cut his wrist, who married Sarah Card; Betsey Coomb (1878-1932)(1878-1955)(R10 #77,8), a graduate of Maine Nursing training school in Porland; Arthur Coombs (1879-1959)(R12 #72) who married Jessie M. Rackley (1) (1886-1924)(1886-1924)(R12 #72) who was  was born in Bowdoinham the daughter of Fred A. and Carrie E. Rackley. She graduated from Topsham High School in 1902. She had two sons: Frederick and Ralph and a daughter Dorothy. She had two brothers: Harry and Charles Rackley and a sister, Mrs. Dorothy Edgecomband; and Arthur married  (2) Ruby Johnson (1890-1935)(R12 #27) who was born in Troy, NY. In June 1929 she married Arthur Edgecomb of Topsham. They lived in Vershire, VT for three years and then came to Topsham where they resided on Pleasant St, later moving to Bowdoinham. She was survived by her husband, two daughters: Mrs. Raymond Parker of West Fairlee, Vt.; and Mrs. Ralph Edgecomb of Montpeilier, Vt. She had four sisters: Mrs. Alex Schroth of Long Island, NY; Mrs. N.A. Wallace of Manchester, NH; Mrs. Fred Merrill of Ware, MA; Mrs. John Tears of Brooklyn, NY; and one brother, George Johnson of West Fairless, Vt; and Charles and Elizabeth also had: Harry (Harold) Charles (1881-1959)(R12 #91) who married Harriet E. (1884-1943)(R12 #91) She lived on the Meadow Road, Topsham. She was born in Topsham, daughter of Leonard W. Tedford and Rebecca Lunt Tedford of Brunswick. She married Harry C. Edgecomb of Topsham. She was survived by her husband, her mother and a brother, Ernest Tedford of Topsham.; ande  Lillian (1883); Gilbet (1887); and Velzora Booker (1889)

Orland A. Barker (1846-1917)(R10 #82)   died at home of his son F.C. Barker on Elm St. in Tospham; he was born in Farmington and was the son of Daniel and Mary (MacIntire) Barker; He was a machinist and blacksmith and worked in the car shops in Waterville and later in Livermore Falls for 30 years and then went to Topsham. His wife was Fannie L. Whitcomb Barker (1846-1915) (R10 #82)of Mercer who died in 1915, daughter of Asher D. and Sarah (Curtis) Whitcomb . Five children; three survived him:  F.C., E.D. and Charles E. married in 1887; 5 children:  F. Chester; Edward D.; Lewis L. (1872-1878) (R10 #82), Charles E. and Mildred E.(1883-1898) (R10 #82).F. Chester Barker (1868-1929)(R10 #82) worked for D. & C. Scribner in 1910. He was born in Skowhegan, the oldest son of Orland A. and Fannie Whitcomb Barker. When he was a small boy, the family moved to Livermore Falls, where he attended school. He attended high school at Breton’s Mills. In 1897 he married Elva A. Goding Barker (1875-1957) (R10 #82) of Livermore. They came to Topsham in 1903. He was employed for many years as mechanic by the Cabot Mfg. Co until poor health forced him to retire. He had a son, Louis w. Barker of Newark, NJ, a daughter Mrs Madeline Litchfield of Augusta and two brothers, Edward of Auburn, and Charles E. of Wollaston, MA.

William J. White (1866-1944)(R10 #83) lived on the Meadow Road, Topsham. He was born in Kellynoel, Ulster County, Ireland, the son of Robert and Elizabeth Lucas White. He was a farmer and wood dealing who had lived in Topsham from the age of 19. He married Isabelle C. Downs (1890-1959)(R10 #85) He was survived by his wife, Mrs. Charles Blackly Clinton; had seven sons, William, Ralph B. and Theodore, all of Topsham, Harry B. and John of Bath, Westley G. of Boston and Warren H. who was in the Army in India; one step-son, James Rogers.       William J. White also married Ada Densmore White (1866-1912)(R10 #84).

James C. Rogers  (1908-1968)(R10 #86);  Hannah P. Rogers( d. 1919)was the daugher of James Rogers. James was the step son of William J. and Isabella White.

Isabella C. Rogers(1909-1928)(R10 #87)     was the daughter of Mrs. William White on the Meadow Road.  She drowned in the Kennebec River .She was a nurse and had been swimming with friends at Minot’s grove. Her step-brother, Harry B. White, a Bath Councilman, grappled and recovered the body.  There was a strong current. She was a graduate of Topsham Grammar School after which she attended Brunswick High School for two years. She then entered training at the Bath City Hospital as a nurse. She would have graduated in Sept. 1929. She was survived by her mother, one brother, James Rogers of Topsham, a half sister Mrs. Charles Blackie of Clinton and 7 step brothers: Harry E. White of Bath; Ralph, William and Thomas White of Topsham; Robert White of Harpswell; Leslie G. and John G. White of Boston.

Jesse W. Goud   (1889-1970)(R10 #88) son of Warren Goud and Alice Goud, married Ina Higgins Goud (1889-1918)(R10 #88)in 1914. Printer and owner of the Lisbon Enterprise in 1945 with John Gould. He had been connected with the Brunswick Record. Jesse had a brother Lester E. and sister Alice E. His father was the postmaster and his brother worked in the Post Office as a clerk.

Daniel H. Higgins (1859-1914)(R10 #89,91)  was  born in Lisbon, the son of Daniel H. and Mahalia Jones Higgins. He was a 16 yrs a resident of Bath and a  foreman in the North end shipyards. He had a  large farm in Tospham;. In 1888 he married Miss Annette Beal (1861-1936)(R10 #89,90) of Bowdoin. They had four children: Mrs. Jesse W. Goud of Bangor; Mrs. Harold W. Willis, of Dorchester MA; Miss Dora E. Higgins of Topsham; Brother Dexter A. Higgins of Quincy, MA and sister Mrs. George  Andrews of Lisbon.

Eva Courson Tebbets (Tebbetts) (1854-1949)(R10 #92)     was the wife of Jonas M. Tebbets(1853-1911)(R10#92)      They had Walter Scott Tebbets. (Tibbetts) Jonas was a laborer and Walter worked in the paper mill.

Frank E. Avery   (1883-1965)(R10 #92) married Lottie Tebbetts Avery (1882-1963) (R10 #92). They had: Madelyn H. (1905-1908) (R10 #92); and Ferdinand (Eugene)  F. Avery (1901-1918)(R10 #92).He died at 16 and a sophomore at Topsham High School of typhoid pneumonia; house on Elm Street. 3 brothers: Kenneth, Arthur, and Walter; and 3 sisters: Dorothy, Vivian, and Shelly.Frank E. Avery was a Foreman on the Railroad. In 1910 he lived in Topsham and in 1920 in Brunswick  They had: Ferdinand E.; Arthur S.; Kenneth F.; Hattie M; Madelyn H.; Walter M.; Dorothy E. (1901-1998) (R10 #92); Vivien Avery Pitman (1912-1994)(R10 #92,93) 1st Lt. US Army; World War II , and Shelley F.

Howard A. Small (1805-1880)(R8 #143)married Rhoda and they had Eugene; Harriet E.; Wilis; ;Herbert L.; and Bertha M. Harriet Kane Small was the mother of Herbert O. who married Bessie G. and had Vera and Merton O.; Herbert S. (1863-1939)(R10 #94) and Huldah C. Hyde Small (1853-1944)(R10 #94) ;Cora I. Hollis E.; Edith E. and Elmer H. and Hollis S. (1889-1952)(R13 #150)     He was born in Topsham. He attended the Topsham schools and was employed by the Rogers Fuel Company for 10 years. He was survived by his wife, Coral  I. Dodge(1888-1039)(R13 #106), one daughter, Mrs. Edith E. Nevells of Stonington; two sons, Elmer H. Small (1927-1980)(R13 #104),Cpl. US Army World War II,  of Topsham and Hollis E. small of West Haven, Conn.; three sisters, Mrs. Fred Anderson of Rockland, Mrs. Eugene Babb of Canton, and Mrs. Minnie Hackett of Brunswick; two half-sisters, Mrs. Edith Prince of East Brunswick, and Mrs. Bessie Small of Brunswick.

William H. Metcalfe(1885-1959)(R10 #96)was a paper maker in the paper mill. He married Laura Estella Small  Metcalfe(1886-1950)(R10#96) She was born in Topsham, the daughter of  Herbert and Hulda Hyde Small. She attended local schools and married, in 1905, William H. Metcalfe. She was survived by her husband), one son, Marshall H. Metcalfe of Topsham, a daughter, Mrs. Christine Bacon of Stoneham, MA; a brother, Hollis S. Small of Topsham; five sisters, Mrs. Minnie Hackett of Brunswick, Mrs. Fred Anderson of Rockland, Mrs. Herbert Babb of Canton, Mrs. George Prince of Brunswick; and Mrs. Bessie Small of Topsham. They also had Margaret W. Metcalf (1910-1914)(R10#95).

Cyrus C. Galusha (1841-1910) (R10 #98)  Sgt.30 Me Inf. Marker; Post 22, G.A.R. He married Sarah A (1835) and they had Fred (1869); Charles (1878) and Corydon (1879) Cyrus was a brickmaker. He droppeddead of heart disease; had a son Corydon; had 2 daugers: Mrs. Nellie Bake of Lynn, MA; and Mrs. Herbert Berry of Lisbon Falls.

Charles E. (Chub) Colby (1881-1956)(R10 #101) A driver for a meat wagon and then a paper worker. He married Annie Stebbins Colby (1883-1961)(R10 #101) They had: Margaret Colby Maines  (1907-1979)(R10 #100); and Clarence (b. 1920).

Alfred E. Hall      (1850-1935)(R10 #102)   married Ellen S. Stevens Hall (1856-1814)(R10 #102) of Harpswell in 1875. Alfred and Ellen had a son Daniel E. who received a patent on an invention: a steering apparatus for motor carriages. It was known as the screw and nut type. It was simple in construction, compact, noiseless, easily disconnected, and every part adjustable. It was called “The Hall Steering Gear and Check for Automobiles”. He was a trained machinist in Somerville, MA. He was a designer with Crestmobile. Co.  Alfred was born in Topsham and was educated and lived the greater part of his life here. In 1875 her married Miss Sarah Ellen Stevens of Harpswell who died in 1914. He worked for over 49 years with the Pejepscot Paper Company working his way up. When he died he was the oldest papermaker in the country. He had two brothers, Edward C. Hall (1859-1959)(R11 #59)of Topsham, who married Bertha S. Mallett (1864-1905)(R11 #59)and Fred E. Hall of Brunswick. E.C. Hall and Bertha had James E. (1895-1919)(R11 # 59)who died at Bordeaux France Feb.26, 1919; Battery E 303rd F.A.  Markers: Springvale Fire Dept;U.S. Veterans of Foriegn Wars U.S. American Legion.He  died at 24 in France in 1918 of pneumonia. He was a1913 graduate of Topsham High School. He was in the WWI Field Artillery and  overseas in 1917. He was a driver of munition truck; and buried in Bordeaux, France. They  brought the body back to Topsham. He was a graduate of Topsham High School in the class of 1913. He served in the 103d Field Artillery.

George L. Alexander       (1861-194) (R10#103, 104) He died at his home on Main St. Topsham. He was born in Topsham, the son of Alpheus and Eunice White Alexander. He had always lived in Topsham. At one time he was the proprietor of a grocery store in Topsham and for 35 years was employed by the Grand Union Tea Company as a salesman. He was survived by his wife, Mrs. Susan Alexander, a son Irving Alexander of Auburn; a daughter, Mrs. Harold Hildreth of the Foreside Road, Topsham, a brother, William Alexander of Main St., Topsham. He married Susan H. Robinson  (1867-1946) (R10 #103, 105).She was married to George L. Alexander and died at her home on Main St. Topsham. She was born in Topsham, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ira Robinson. She attended Topsham schools and graduated from Topsham High School and later taught for a short time in Topsham. In 1887 she married George who died in 1942. She was survived by a daughter, Mrs. Harold Hildreth of Topsham, a son, Irving  E.Alexander  (1892-1965) (R10 #106) of Auburn; a sister, Miss Sarah B.  Robinson of Topsham. Irving had married Sarah Whipple Drew (1888-1966)(R10 #106) who was born in NH and the daughter of William and Ruby J. Drew. She had siblings: Mabel A.; Christina L. Harlon W. Isabel I. Pauline B. and Margaret L.

Elizabeth F. Desaulniers (1882-1954)(R10 #107)   She had been a Wilson. Her obituary is on page 4, May 20, 1954 in the Brunswick Record.

Swansey Wilson (R8 #179)(1823-1888) died at Aet. 65 yrs. 7 mo 23. He was the  son of Swansey Wilson. He married Sarah Nickerson who was born in 1828;  They had: Anna (1857); Charles (1865); Annie (1861-1934) who married Eugene Tempe; Willard T. (1851) who married Julia F.; William J. (1853-1912(R10 #108)  a Captain, who married Amelia A. Wilson (1851-1930)(R10 #108).

Charles H. Pennell  (1848-1913)(R10 #110)Co.A. 20th Me.; veteran of 20^th Maine;. Was also a USA soldier in war with Spain (1898-1899) in Cuba, Philliphines and Porto Rico. He died at the home of his daughter Mrs. J.W. Cornish. He was born in Chicopee, Maine, the son of  Jeremiah and Susan (Tibbetts) Pennell.  He married Emma J. Pennell (1851-1911)(R10 #109). They had one son: Holman P. Pennell and their daughter.

William Dunlap (1805-1881)(R8 #55) a laborer married Charlotte B. (1815-1884)(R8 #54) and they had Harding (1845-1910)(R10 #111,112), a freight conductor on the RR,  who married Elle L. Hale (1852-1923) and they had Elroy (1881-1916), a brakeman on the RR; and Edna A. (1883);William and Charlotte also and Dorcas A. (1848); Lizzie J. (1853-1875) (R8 #53) and Joseph (1850). Harding lived in Brunswick. And married Ella L. Hale Dunlap (1853-1923)(R10 #111,113)and they had: Elroy E. Dunlap (1881-1916)(R10 #111,114).

Edna D. Nielsen (1883-1963)(R10 #115)  was the daughter of Harding W. and Ella AL. Hale Dunlap. In 1914 she married John M. Nielsen and lived in Portland and South Portland and Saco. They  had Francis D. Nielsen  of Biddeford (WWII)

Elisha Potter Jr. (1842-1914)(R10#116)    was the son of Elisha and Eliza (Adams) Potter of Bowdoin. He married Cornelia A. Potter (1846-1919)(R10 #110). They had a daughter, Mrs. Maud Lynch of Glens Falls, NY and Mrs. Winifred Hamilton of Topsham. He was Superintendent of Feldspar Mill at Cathance and well know among horsemen.

Clarence L. Proctor Jr.(1896-1985)(R10 #117)married Hannah Blondel Proctor (1897-1988)(R10 #117)in 1925. He was the son of Clarence L. Proctor( b. 1866) and Elizabeth M. (b. 1866). His father was a paper mill foreman in Lisbon Falls and he was a machinist in the paper mill. He had siblings: Dewey L. (1899; Iona A. (1905) and Phylllis M. (1907). Hannah parents were Frederic  Blondell and Martha Beal.

Melvin A. Tarr (b.1849)(R10 #118)married Flora E. Tarr (1849-1912)(R10 #118).      Their home was Bowdoin Center. She was born in Topsham, daughter of Lewis F. and Margaret Alexander. She and her husband bought a farm at Bowdoin Center after living in Topsham. She had two Brothers: David Alexander of Vicksburg, Mississippi; Fred Alexander of Rosendale, MA.

John B. Tarr (1828-1893)(R10 #118) Co. B 15th Regt. Me.Vol.  He married Abigail Tarr (1829-1862)(R10 #118). They had: James Tarr (1860-1862) (R10 #118)and and infant (1862-1862)(R10 #118).

R10#119              Tarr                                                                    F.E.T.

R10#120              Tarr                                                                    Mother

R10#121              Tarr                                                                    Father

Clarence J. Hall  (1895-1916)(R10 #122) was the son of Joseph R. Hall, (b. 1869) a farmer and Lilla E. Hall (b. 1870). He had a brother Rollant J. (1901). His father was a farmer in Bowdoinham. He married Myrtle Smith in 1916. His obituary is in the Brunswick Record Aug. 11, 1916. He and Myrtle had a daughter Clara (1917).

Martin S. Howes(1861-1930)(R10 #123) Reverend who married Addie Louise Kennedy Howes (1859-1941)(R10 #123). They had Herbert Martin Howes (1890-1919)(R10 #130,132) 1st Lieut.U.S.A.  M.D. Bowdoin 1913 and Bowdoin Medical School 1917. Martin S. was a former pastor of Brunswick Baptist Church. Herbert married Miss Jane H. Mountfort (1892-1969)(R10 #130,131)who graduated from Topsham High School and Gorham Normal Schooll and was a school teacher. She remarried Mar.1, 1938 to Ralph Alvah McIntire(1883-1964)

Isaac T. Allen      (1840-1913)(R10 #124,125) a farmer who had: Hannah, Ethel T., Theodore and Mary. From Pejepscot; Thrown from a laod of hay and had a broken leg;; marr. Miss Hannah Snow; had a son T.S. Allen and daughter Miss Ellen Allen; successful farmer; 3 sisters: Miss Betsey Allen and Mrs. Matilday Merriman of Hsrpswell and Mrs. Lucinda Knapp of Auburn. He married Hannah A. Allen (1851-1945)(R10 #124, 126) She was born in Harpswell, the daughter of Active and Mary Toothaker Snow. A son, Theodore  S. (1874-1931) (R10 #124,128) was accidently killed in a gunning accident in Merrymeeting Bay. She was the mother of Miss Ethel T. Allen (1885-1927)(R10#124,127). Ethel was principal of the Topsham Grammar School.  She served for 25 years as a Topsham teacher. Theodore S. Allen was killed instantly while duck hunting in Merrymeeting Bay. He received a full charge of a short gun in the back of his head. The gun was discharged by his cousin, John Allen of East Harpswell, companion in a gunning  float, wh was drawing at a flock of ducks.  According to the story John Allen aimed the gun over the head of Allen, a customary procedure in shooting from a gunning float, but the first man stood up unexpectedly, just as the trigger was pulled. He died at once. Theodore Allen was born in Topsham, the son of Isaac and Hannah Snow Allen. His folks came from Harpswell, but he had lived in Brunswick and Topsham all of his life. For many years he conducted a garage business in town, first on Dunlap Street, and later where the Buick Garage was located. He then did garage work for a few years in Pejepscot, where he made his home. He was one of the best of local sportsmen. He was survived by his wife and mother.

William Mountfort(1842-1922)(R10 #129) was born in Brunswick, th son of William and Margaret Mountfort. He was a resident of Brunswick for many years, working for the M.C.R.R as bridge builder. In 1881 he moved his family to Bowdoin, where he lived until he came to Topsham, fifteen years before his death.  He had  three daughters; Mrs. Harry Bailey, Mrs. Ernest Small, and Mrs. Herbert Howes; and one sister, Mrs. Ada Coombs. He married Clara Hall Mountfort (1853-1937)(R10 #129).

William H. McMackin     (1870-1927)(R10 #133,134)          He married Caroline I. McMackin (1875-1917)(R10 #133,135). She died at Maine General Hospital. A native of Lisbon Falls, she was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jordan of Topsham. they had 2 daughters: Mrs. Herbert Berry; and Althea McMackin and one son Lyndon and a sister Mrs. Charles Pierce of Topsham. William also married Rose J. McMackin (1873-1938)(R12 #133,136).

Earler McMackin Gottschalk(1898-1980)(R10 #137) Earler was the daughter of William H. McMackin (a foreman at the pulp mill) and Caroline. William H. and Caroline had: Earler Alena Zola (1898); Lyndon (1908) and Atlhea (1913). Earler married, in 1817, Herbert L. Berry(1881-1967) (Brunswick) and they had Audrey Elenor and William Albert. Earler and Herbert divorced in 1934. Hebert remarried Elizabeth Whitney in 1937 who died in 1942. Earler remarried …….Gottschalk and died in Lynn, Massachusetts.

Ernest J. Small   (1878-1962)(R10 #138)married Carrie A. Small (1886-1967)(R10 #138).               He was a carriage maker and painter on Mill Island.

Edith Grace Jordan (1955-1960)(R10 #139)

Lilla Mae Hunt   (1958-1959)(R10 #140)   Our daughter

James H. Toas    (1870-1958) (R10 #141) died in St. Petersburg, FL, where he and his wife were spending the winter. He was born in Dover, N.H. He was a retired textile superintendent. He was survived by his wife Blanche C. Toas (1876-1970) (R10 #141).

Alonzo T.Bickford (1853-1937) (R10 #142) lived on Winter St. He was born near Dover, NH. He married Miss Fannie Buzzell of Dover, whose father was a well-known surgeon. To sons were born to that union. After Mrs. Bickford’s death he moved to Lynn, MA where he was proprietor of a hotel for 30 years. In 1914 he married Miss Clara E. Bliss (1858-1933/4) (R10 #142)of Richmond, Maine. They came to Topsham and purchased a farm on Winter St. She passed away in 1933/4. He was survived by two sons, James and Frank of Boston. Clara died at the home of her niece Mrs. E.C. Lewis. She was born in Dresden, the daughter of Edmund W. and Sarah J. Bliss. She was educated in the schools of Dresden. She was twice married and lived for many years in Lynn, MA. John Clark, her first husband passed away in 1904. Later she married Mr. Bickford and came in 1910 to llive on Winter Street in Topsham. She was survived by her husband, two stepsons, James Bickford of West Roxbury, MA; and Frank Bickford of Boston.

Roy L. Dean (R10 #143)(1910-1959)was born I Chipley, Florida, the son of Charles and Annie Dan. He attended Chipley schools. He died in Brighton, MA. In 1929 he joined the U.S. Coast Guard and served for 25 years, retiring in 1954 as a chief warrant officer. At the time of his retirement he was serving on the Cutter Yankton in South Portland, Maine. In 1932 he married (1^st) Gladys V. Leighton of Florida and had a son Robert (1934) and two daughters, Diana (1940) and Alice (1943). He divorced his wife in 1958 and remarried to Mrs. Dorothy F. Dean of Saco, Maine, formerly  of Brunswick. He was survived by his mother, Mrs. Annie Dean Gross of Chipley, Florida, and his son and daughters, all of Florida. He had a brother J.C. Dean and a sister, Annie Dean.

Walter O. Powers (1890-1973)(R11 #1,2)who married Velzora Edgecomb Powers (1889-1987)(R11 #1). They had Winfield E. Powers (1916-1969)(R11 #1) Sgt. 103^rd Infantry Division in WWII who married Carolyn F. Powers (1920-2002)(R11 #1).

R11#3                                                                               Walter O.

R11#4                                                                               Velzora E.

R11#5                                                                               Carolyn F.

R11#6                                                                               Winfield E.

Richard “Dick” Palmer    (1922-1994)(R11#7,8)married Elizabeth S. Powers Palmer (1917-2000)(R11 #7,9). He ran a propane gas business.

Marshall G. Powers(1865-1941)(R11 #10,12)married Sarah H. Powers (1868-1944)(R11 #10,11).

John H. Drew(1862-1942)(R11#14) married Rubie J. Whipple Drew (1860-1932)(R11 #15). They had Margaret S. (1901); William Edward married Rubie J. and had a daughter Sarah Whipple Drew who married an Alexander.  1860; Drew William  Edward.(1857-1933) (R11#16)Merrimack, Mass. They also had  Christine Drew Tirrell (1892-1966)(R11 #13); Mabel A. (1891); Harlon W. (1899); Iabel I (1886); Pauline B. (1888); and Margaret L. (1891).

George E. Potter (1868-1939)(R11 #17)   married Laura D. Potter (1869-1932)(R11 #17). She was born in North Hudson, NY, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Deming. She attended schools in Elizabethtown, NJ and later Springfield, MA. She came to Brunswick in 1887 and two years later married Mr. Potter. She was survived by her husband, a son Elmer D. Potter (1895-1967)(R11 #18,19,22), both of Topsham. Elmer was a Sgt. In the Medical Department in WWI and married Joan K. Potter (1904-1965)(R11 #20,21) ; and they had Elmer D. Potter Jr. (1931-1990)(R11 #20).  George also had  a brother, Dr. George W. Deming of West Broookfield, MA and a sister Mrs. Minnie D. Gouldof San Francisco, Calif.

George L. Wright(1869-1952)(R11 #23,25) died at his home on the River Road in Brunswick. He was born in Bath, the son of George and Mary Tarr Wright. For several years he operated the old Tontine Laundry in Brunswick and later worked for the Pejepscot Paper Company, then in the feldspar mill in Topsham. Later he had been a fire warden at the Mount Ararat fire tower before his retirement. He was survived by his widow, the former Eliza Johnston, a son, Floyd M. Wright of Brunswick; a sister Mrs. Mabel Andrews of Auburn.          He had married Anna B.Hughes Wright (1869-1932)(R11 #23,24). They had Floyd M. Wright (1899-1953)(R14 #76) who lived on Maine Street in Brunswick. He was born in Topsham.He was employed as a mill hand at the Pejepscot Paper Company. He was survived by his wife, the former Bertha E. Richards(1899-1966)(R14 #76); a daughter, Mrs. Pauline Belanger; and a son, Floyd M. Wright Jr. (1924-1998)(R14 #77) He lived on Maine Street in Brunswick. He was born in Topsham, the son of George L. and Annie Hughes Wright. He was employed as a mill hand at the Pejepscot Paper Company. He was survived by his wife, the former Bertha E. Richards; a daughter, Mrs. Pauline Belanger; and a son, Floyd, all of Brunswick., all of Brunswick.

Eleonora H. Totman (1892-1960)(R11 #26,28) Mrs. Eleanora H. Blanchard was the widow of George L. Blanchard of Topsham. She came to this country as a young woman and married Hiram W. Totman, a Topsham Diary farmer. They had: Edward H.; Eleanor Clark; Majorie Philbrook. Hiram had a milk route. He was president of the Fair Assoc. in 1923-4 and supt. Of Cattle Department at the Fair.

Phyllis E. Totman             (1992-1996)(R11 #27)

Hiram W. Totman (1887-1932.)(R11 #29) was a Topsham Selectman. He was born on Great Island I Harpswell, the son of Mrs. Dolly Pennell Totman and Walter Scott Totman. He was educated in the schools of Harpswell and lived there until his marriageto Eleanora Hurst in 1915. They came to Topsham and lived on the Meadow Road. He was for many years best well-known as the breeder of the finest herds of Jercey cattle in New England. He acted as judge of Jersey cattled for many years in the Fairs of the State.  When he died he was serving his 11^th year as selectman. Largely through his efforts the electric power line was made accessible to farmers on the Meadow Road. He was survived by his wife, and three children: Eleanora, Edward, and Marjorie; and two brothers, Alonzo of Brunswick, Harry of Lowell, MA; and a sister Mrs. Margaret Miller of Lowell, MA.

Robert French  (1870-1941)(R11 #30,33)He married Marion D. French (1872-1944)(R11 #30,32).She died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Leon B Hawkes where she had been living for three years. She was born in Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, the daughter of James and Sarah Mosely Adams. She as married in Harbor Grace and moved to Topsham soon after, where Mr. French was employed by the Pejepscot Paper Company for about 48 years. They resided on Winter St. and for many years lived in a company house on Summer St. After her husband’s death, and before moving to Portland, she resided on the farm owned by her son Norman on the Great Island Road. She was employed at the Cabot Mill for 27 years. She was survived by five daughters, Mrs. Myra Hawkins of Portland, Mrs. Bertha Pennell and Mrs. Virginia Dunham, both of Brunswick, Mrs. Myrtle Puffer of Malden, MA, and Mrs. Lucy Dunning of Portland: one son, Norman R. French (1907) (R11 #31) of Stoneham, Ma. who married Alice S. French (1904-1968)(R11 #31).

Marion D. Dunham (b. 1932)(R11 #30).

Lewis B. Jordan (1869-1940)(R11 #35)    He was born in Mapleton, son of John and Tressa (Porter) Jordan. He came to Topsham in 1919 and lived for a time on the Meadow Road, later moving to the Mallett Road, and for the last six years of his life, the Mill Road. He was survived by a son, Edward W. Jordan (1899-1974)(R11 #34)  who married Dorothea D. Jordan (1899-1982)(R11 #34) and lived on the Mallett Road. Lewis married Catherine M. Jordan (1863-1935)(R11 #35).

Robert J. White ( 1888-1937)(R11 #36) died at his home in North Harpswell. He was a native of California and was born in Petuluna. He lived in North Harpswell for 25 years. He was survived by his father, William J. of Topsham, six brothers: Wesley of Medford, MA; John of Cambridge, MA; Harry of Bath; William, Ralph and Thomas of Topsham; and a sister, Mrs. Lillian Blackie of Clinton; and four sons: David, Robert Jr., Edwin and Donald all of North Harpswell and a daughter Rachel of Bethel. He married Annie D. White (1894-1974)(R11 #36).

Frank W. Willis   (1863-1934)(R8 #5)In the 1910 census he was a laborer. He was the son of Cornelius Tarbox Willis (1839-1914) and Susan L. Perkins (1840-1919). He had a brother Herbert A. (1861); Frank married marrie Mary Ellen Oliver (1866-1949)(R8 #4)and had Edith F. (1886-1969) who married Ralph H. Starbird (1883-1966); and Harold W. (1891-1978)(R11 #37) fire chief of Topsham; who married Bernice Higgins (1892-1979(R11 #37)); and Mildren (1893_ and Ethel;

Alice M. Eastman Adams (1906-1985) (R11#38)(R11#40) was born in New Hampshire.  She was the wife of Howard F. Adams (1903-1960), the son of Wallace O. and Etta, who is buried at the Adams Cemetry. They were married in Bowdoinham in 1928. They had Caroline (1931) and Carl E. (1929-1947) (R11 #38)(R11 #39).

Alfred L. Rackley (1907-1978)(R11#38,42)married Irma M. Rackley (1910-1938)(R11 #38,41) Mrs. Irma Rackley died at her home on Mallett road. She was born in Livermore Falls, the daughter of Charles and Rose (Jordan) Pierce. At the age of two she moved to Topsham where she attended the Topsham Grammar School and was graduated from Brunswick High School in 1929. In 1930 she married Alfred and sicne then resided on the Rackley farm on the Mallett Road. She was survived by a daughter, Elaine; two sisters, Mrs. Erla Craven of Lawrence, MA; and Mrs. Althea Theberge of Brunswick; and a brother, Lyndon McMackin of Surrey. Alfred was an EM1 in the U.S. Navy in World War II.

Allison P. Furbish(1873-1939)(R11 #43,47)  died at his home on Winter Street in Topsham. He was born in Topsham, the son of Melvin and Drucilla (Fogg) Furbish. He lived here all his life except of a few years in Webster. He was educated in the schools of Topsham and later learned the trade of carpentry. For a number of years he was employed by the Maine Central Railroad in Brunswick, and the last 25 years of his life working  for the Pejepscot Paper Co. He was survived by his wife Mary J.Furbish(1872-1958)(R11 #43,46). She was born in Charlottetown, P.E.I., the daughter of Cornelius and Elzabesth McEachern. She was educated in the Charlottetown schools. She was a resident of Topsham for 66 years. She was married there in 1893. She resided in the family home on Middlesex Road until she moved to the village in 1918. She and Allison had George E. Furbish 1897-1955)(R11 #43,45) Obituary on July 28, 1955 pg. 4 Brunswick Record. : She was survived by a son, Melvin Furbish and a daughter, Mrs. Lola Orr, both of Topsham. He was also survived by a daughter, Mrs. Lola Orr of Brunswick; two sons, Melvin of Topsham and George of Kittery Point, a brother, George of Topsham.

Allison Penelope Furbish              (1939-1939)(R11 #44,47)

Clarence M. Haley (1899-1961)(R11 #48.50)married Margaret M. Whitney Haley (1903-1953)(R11 #48,49) She died at her home on Winter St. She was a life long resident of Topsham where she was born. She was the daughter of Edward and Mathilda Crocker Whitney. She graduated from Brunswick High School and Shaw’s Business College in Portland and for 20 years was employed at the First National Bank of Brunswick.

Harry L. Haley    (1884-1937) (R11 #51). was born in Topsham, the son of William Henry and Martha Alvena Johnson Haley. He graduated from Topsham High School in 1901. In 1908 he married Miss Susan L. Murray(1887-1963(R11 #51) of Brunswick anda was employed for several years in the Maine Central Freight Office of Brunswick and for a number of years in the office of the Pejepscot Paper Company and served as paymaster for the Bowdoin Paper Mill and the Pulp Mill, Topsham. Later he moved to Boston where he worked for the Park and Pollard Grain Company and for the past 15 years of his life he had been employed as a traveling salesman for paint and varnish concerns of Boston, although he made his home in Portland. He was survived by his wife, one son, Alfred H., both of Portland, a brother, Clarence M. Haley of Topsham.

James M. Scribner(1836-1888)(R8 #77)married Maria F. Scribner (1845-1909(R8 #77). Maria (“Fanny”) was the daughter of Rev. Walter Sargent and was born in Methuen, MA. She was survived by two sons: David W. of Topsham and James Philip Scribner of Lisbon Falls. She had a brother Prof. W. E. Sargent of Hebraon and two sisters: Mrs. Emma Sargent of Freeport and Mrs. Elizabeth Moore of North Whitefield.  David W. Scribner(1875-1925)(R8 #77)  was born in Topsham, the son of James M. and Frances Sargent Scribner. All his life he had been indentified with the grain business.  He was appointed as a trustee of the Brunswick and Topsham Water District. He was the first trustee to represent Topsham on the Board.  He was appointed by Gov. Milliken to fill the vacancy as County Commissioner  made by the death of Charles H. Mason.  He was then elected for a full term of six years.   In 1915-16 he was President of the Sagadahoc  Agricultural and Horticultural Society.  He had a son James Hale Scribner and three daughters: Miss Elinor , a teacher at Longfellow school; Miss Doris, a teacher in Topsham; and Miss Mary. He married Emma A.Cannon Scribner (1877-1965)(R8 #77) who had a son Sargent who died of influenza and pneumonia at the age of 17. He was a senior at Topsham High School; had sisters Elinor and Doris and a brother James H. Scribner (1905-1945)(R11 #52). David W. and Emma also had a son David S. Scribner (1901-1918)(R8 #77). James H. Scribner  was born in Topsham, son of Mrs. Emma Canon Scribner and David W. Scribner. He attended the Topsham schools and was a graduate of Brunswick High School and Hebron Academy. H had been manager of the Scribner Grain Comp[nay in Brunswick for several years until his health failed, being the fourth generation to carry on the business. He married Miss Janice Benson (1906)(R11 #52)of Wilton in 1929. He was survived by his wife and two daughters, Emmy Lou and Sara Jane, his mother, three sisters, Mrs. Harold Littlefield, Miss Doris Scribner, and Miss Mary Scribner.

Lowell M. Williams(1846-1928)(R11 #53,54) was a former selectman of Topsham. He was born in Bowdoin the son of Jonathan and Lydia Williams.  He was educated in Bowdoin. He came to Topsham in 1874. He did stair-making and other carpenter work and during the latter part of his live devoted considerable time to farming. He was the last of nine children. He was survived by his son Walter M. Williams (1874-1959)(R11 #53,56) a Topsham Selectman for many years. He married Flora Ella F. Williams (1850-1925)(R11 #53.55). Walter M. Williams  served as Topsham selectman for more than 40 years. He was better known as “Pop” Williams. He was born in Bowdoinham. He came to Topsham with his parents, Lowell M. and Flora Ella Merrill Wiliams, when an infant. He resided in the family home on the Augusta Road, built by his father, until five years before his death. He attended Topsham schools and graduated from Brunswick High School in 1892. After attending Bowdoin College for two years, he taught school for a time or until his interest in athletics led him into professional baseball. He first joined the Lewiston Club, New England League, under Mike Garrity and later played for Toronto for five years with the Eastern League. He coached during the winters at Brunswick High School. His careet as selectman when he was elected in 1912 and with the exception of one year, he served continuously until 1957. In 1955 the elementary school was name after him.  In his last years he lived at the Griffing Nursing Home of Main St. in Topsham.

Charles H. Alexander(1859-1923)(R11#57)He married Harriet B. Crowley (1858-1922) (R11 #57). She was an invalid for several years. She was the daughter of John and Sarah Crowley and lilfe long resident of Topsham. They had: Mrs. George Clifford, Mrs. Fred Hall, and Mrs. Carl Hessell. She had three sisters: Mrs. Elizabeth Mallett, Mrs. Lemont Stimpson of Brunswick, and Mrs. Alice Goud.

Walter T. Sargent (1809-188)(R9 #124) was born in Metheun, MA and died in Freeport, ME. He was the son of John Sargent (1749) and Elizabeth Bodwell (d. 1803) who were married in Topsham in 1841. Walter married Joanna G. Quint Sargent(1820- 1880)(R9 #124) who was born in Bowdoinham in 1820 and died in Freeport in 1885. Thye had: Mary E. (1842-)Maria F. (1844-)Susan J. (1845-1878)(1845-1878)(R9 #124), she was unmarried; Sarah E. (1848-)Anna L. (1852-)Emma C. (1854-1931)(R9 #124)William Edward  (1856-1922)(R11 #58) who married   (1) Ella C. M. Hale who was born in 1856 in Baltimore, MD . He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1878.Alice C. (1860-1906)(R9#124) and Kate G. (1866-1866)(R9 #124).Alice C. Sargent  died at her home in Freeport.She  went to Freeport with her parents about 1866.  She had been sick for three years with great suffering. She had four sisters: Mrs. Lilzzie Moore of Whitefield; Mrs. David Scribner of Topsham; Mrs. Edward Wight of Seattle, Wash.; Miss Emma Sargent, a teacher in the Freeport schools and a  brother Prof. W.E. Sargent, principal of Hebron Academy.

William Edward Sargent (1856-1922)(R11 #58)married Ella C. M.Hale Sargent (1856-1925)(R11 58)He was principal of Topsham  High School 1878-1880 and  Freeport High 1880-85 and Hebron Academy (1885-) ”The story of Hebron is often the story of dedicated individuals–trustees, headmasters, teachers, and others–who devoted their lives to the school and its students. Hebron owes its longevity and in part to its founders who were certain and clear about the school’s mission, and to many others who have guarded the school’s mission. William Sargent. Among the most revered was William Sargent, Principal from 1885 to 1921,36 years in all. Sargent led the school into the 20th century and oversaw the school’s physical expansion. Many buildings that stand across campus today were constructed during Sargent’s era. He played a strong role in the everyday guidance of students and was known as someone who was truly devoted to Hebron and to educating boys and girls.”

“He was born in Sanford, York County Me. His father was Rev Walter Taylor Sargent who was born in Methuen, Mass in 1809 and his mother Mrs Joan G. Quint Sargent was born in Bowdoinham Me in 1829 The Rev Walter Taylor Sargent was a well known divine in his day his life being devoted to preaching the gospel in many localities He died at Freeport Me in 1886 his wife having gone before him 1885 They were the parents of nine eight of whom are yet living Mary Ellen Maria Frances Susan Sarah Elizabeth Anna Louise Emma William Edward and Alice Sargent An only son William E Sargent passed boyhood in many different towns of as his father moved from one place to in attending to ministerial duties staying in the towns of Greene Dexter and Freeport Young Sargent his early education in the public schools of towns in which he resided and prepared himself for college under the supervision of Rev JJ Bul finch of Freeport who was friend of his father He entered Bowdoin College in 1874 was graduated in the class of 1878 In of that year he accepted the position of principal of the high school of Topsham which held for a period of two years at the of which time he went to Freeport he had charge of the high school until when he was called to Hebron Here he has remained ever since What Professor Sargent has done for the academy in these years must be seen to be thoroughly understood and appreciated but it might be well to say a few disinterested words on the subject He has from the very first given his strict attention to building up the school in every desirable way To day Hebron Academy is universally acknowledged as one of the best fitting schools in all New England Its high standing is in a great measure due to the utter devotion and strenuous labor that Professor Sargent has spent upon the work for over a decade and liberal support has been accorded the dear old school by its numerous and generous friends who were influenced by the stirring appeals and untiring efforts made by Professor Sargent in its behalf and by his example of devotion and self sacrifice William E Sargent was married on August 20 1883 to Ella CM Hale of Mystic Conn They have no children Mr and Mrs Sargent are earnest as well as active members of the Baptist church In politics the Professor is a stanch Republican He is a member of Freeport Lodge No 23 AF & AM at Freeport Me also a member of Harraseeket Lodge No 30 of the Knights of Pythias at Freeport and of Pejepscot Lodge No 13 Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Brunswick”.

Alfred E. Hall      (1850-1935)(R10 #102)   married Ellen S. Stevens Hall (1856-1814)(R10 #102) of Harpswell in 1875. Alfred and Ellen had a son Daniel E. who received a patent on an invention: a steering apparatus for motor carriages. It was known as the screw and nut type. It was simple in construction, compact, noiseless, easily disconnected, and every part adjustable. It was called “The Hall Steering Gear and Check for Automobiles”. He was a trained machinist in Somerville, MA. He was a designer with Crestmobile. Co.  Alfred was born in Topsham and was educated and lived the greater part of his life here. In 1875 her married Miss Sarah Ellen Stevens of Harpswell who died in 1914. He worked for over 49 years with the Pejepscot Paper Company working his way up. When he died he was the oldest papermaker in the country. He had two brothers, Edward C. Hall (1859-1959)(R11 #59)of Topsham, who married Bertha S. Mallett (1864-1905)(R11 #59)and Fred E. Hall of Brunswick. E.C. Hall and Bertha had James E. (1895-1919)(R11 # 59)who died at Bordeaux France Feb.26, 1919; Battery E 303rd F.A.  Markers: Springvale Fire Dept;U.S. Veterans of Foriegn Wars U.S. American Legion.He  died at 24 in France in 1918 of pneumonia. He was a1913 graduate of Topsham High School. He was in the  WWI Field Artillery and  overseas in 1917. He was a driver of munition truck; and buried in Bordeaux, France. They  brought the body back to Topsham. He was a graduate of Topsham High School in the class of 1913. He served in the 103d Field Artillery.

Edith Jewell  Hildreth(1877-1922)(R11 #60) of Bath, Maine  married Edwin Randall Hildreth(1879-1931) in 1907 who was born in 1879. Edwin married (2nd) Lily P. Price (1878-1960), daughter of Dr. Charles w. and Alving Colbath Price. Edwin and Edith had Marian Jewell Hildreth. Edwin was the son of William Randall Hildreth, a farmer and ferryman between Topsham and West Bath, and Julia M. Adams. Edward’s obituary is in the Brunswick Record  January 15, 1931 p. 1

George B. Ridley (1856-1927)(R11 #61) For many years he was engaged in the hardware and plumbing business. He was born in Topsham. After his retirement he lived on his farm at Mere Point and passed  the winters in Topsham. He married Miss Mary L. Minot and had five children: Miss Ethel B. Ridley(1881-1945)(R11 #62) of Boston; John C. Ridley(1890-1964)(R12 #1) of Topsham; Miss Isabel C. Ridley, Frank H. Ridley and Miss Ruth Ridley of Topsham.  Mrs. Mary L. Ridley (1872 -1955). She was born in Brunswick, the daughter of Alexander B. and Lydia Ramsdell Minott, and attended local schools. She was survived by a half-brother, John A. Minott of Brunswick. He also married Elizabeth W. Ridley (1856-1919)(R11 #62).  John C. Ridley married Elvira S. Nason Skolfield (1882-1977)(R12 #1)They had Margaret F. Ridley (1915-1933)(R12 #1)

William Cheetham(1894-1975)(R11 #63,68) married Eliza Hall Cheetham (1897-1995)(R11 #63,67) They had : Donadl (1927); John H. (1902-1922)(R11 #63); William (1919); Marion M. (1924) and Henry F. (1904-1985)(R11 #63,64) who married Elizabeth Sawyers (1907-1967)(R11 #63,65) and had John H. (1921-1921)(R11 #66).

Cyrus Flagg (1818-1904)(R11 #69)suceeded his father David in the Brickyard business.  He had been a long time resident of Topsham with the exception of one year in California. He married Abbie Flagg (1820-1896)(R11 #69). They had: David H. Flagg (1846-1922)(R11 #69) and Ellen H Flagg (1848-1882)(R11 #69).He had two brothers: Benjmain and John (1811) who married Nancy.

Stone Monument   (R11 #70)

Harrison Morton Stone (1855-1918) (R11 #71)    Had pneumonia and influenza. He and his father came to Topsham from Charlotte, Vt. eleven years before his death. They purchased the farm of John Alexander on the Meadow Road. In 1915 he sold his farm and since that time was manager of the farm owned by Walter S. Holdsworth. He was born in Charlotte, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ovette Stone. He married Miss Annie Wilson Patten in 1907, daughter of Mrs. And Mrs. Bryce Patten. He had two sisters: Mrs. Minnie Root of Middlebury,Vt.; and Mrs. Frances Forsythe of Binghamton, NY; also four brothers: Henry J. of Prophetstown, Ill; Porter O. of Tipton, Iowa; Charles G. of Southwick, MA; and Clayton O. of Elmhurst, NY. Harrison received his education in the public schools of Charlotte and later attended Montpelier Seminary. Anne Wilson Patten Aldrich (1884-1964) (R11 #72) married 2^nd, Everett H. Aldrich of Rhode Island, an investment businessman  who was born in 1888 and died in 1957, buried with his parents in Rhode Island.

Ralph J. Patten  (1880-1960)(R11 #74)     was the town road commissioner and married Nellie E. Patten  (1879-1960)(R11 #73). He was the son of Byrce M. Patten.

Curtis A. Fickett (1851-1924)(R11 #75). was a farmer in Durham and he married (1) Julia and had a son Henry Greenfield who married Ada Sarah Davis and is buried in Durham. He married (2) Sarah M. Newell (1872-1947)(R11 #75). She was a resident of Durham for most of her life. She died in the Philip Forcier residence in Durham. She was born in Durham, the daughter of Edward and Jane Richardson Newell Jr. She was survived by one sister, Mrs. Alice Parker of Kennebunkport.

   (R11#76)          Patten Monument

Bryce M. Patten (1850-1915)(R11 #77)    died in S. Freeport and  born in Topsham, the son of William W. Patten. He was a President of the Sagadahoc & Horticultural Society and  had a farm in S Freeport. He married Martha Curtis Patten (1855-1917) (R11 #78) who was was born in Bowdoin,  Maine, daughter of John and Pauline Hall Curtis. She graduated from Litchfield Academy and was a successful teacher in the towns of Bowdoin and Topsham. She married Bryce Patten 38 years before her death and moved to Topsham. They had one son and five daughters:  Ralph J. Patten; Mrs. Wilbur L. Hunter; Mrs. Harrison M. Stone of Topsham; Mrs. Elmer W. Nickerson of Auburn; Mrs. John Minot of Malden, MA; and Miss Margaret Patten(1893-1923)(R11 #79) who lived with her parents.

Charles E. Stoddard        (1849-1931)(R11 #81)married Josephine R. Stoddard (1857-1921)(R11 #80).

Sarah B. Robinson (1866-1958)(R11 #82)was the daughter of Ira and Caroline Haley Robinson. She graduated from Topsham High School in the class of 1883 and taught school for two years. She spent all her life in Topsham and resided for many years in the family homestead on Winter St. She was a seamstress.

Freeland  N. Jones (1848-1923)(R11 #83) was born in S. Paris, ME and was the son of Silas and Mahala Hathaway Jones. He came to Topsham 50 years before his death and had been in employ of Pejepscot Paper Co. for 48 years. He had a daughter Mrs. Sinclair A. Thompson of Portland. He had three sisters:  Mrs. Harry I.Dodge of Providence RI; Mrs. Lena Green of Miami, FL; and Mrs. George Cuskley of Plymouth, MA.      He married Annie C. Jones (1858-1932) (R11 #83)

Benjamin D. Arris (1848-1918)     (R11#84) He married Augusta E. Stuart (1848-1921) (R11 #84).

Edward H. Phinney (1858-1936)(R11 #85,89) died at his home on Elm Street, Topsham. He was born in Canning, Nova Scotia, the son of John H. Phinney and Mary S. Smith. He lived in Portland when a boy, later coming to Topsham. He was educated in the schools of Portland and was a graduate of Gray’s Business College of Portland. He married Miss Mabel E. Colby (1878-1951)(R11 #85,88)of Topsham in 1897 and the lived on the Meadow Road at Beechwood Farm for many years. In 1920 they moved to the village on Elm Street. For over 15 years he was Collector of Taxes and Town Treasurer. He was also Vice President of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of Topsham. He was engaged in the real estate and insurance business. He was survived by his wife, a daughter, Mrs. Clara Eaton, wife of Dr. Clyde H. Eaton of Portland, a son Edward Dana Phinney and attorney of New York City, residing in Mount Vernon, NY.  Mrs. Mabel E. Phinney passed away at the home of her son-in-law and daughter, Dr. and Mrs. Clyde H. Eaton of Deerfield Road, Portland. She was born in Lisbon, the daughterof Dana S. and Clara Weymouth Colby. Besides her daughter she was survived by a son, Edward D. Phinney of Crestwood, NY.

Samson Colby   (1804-1891)(R9 #191)He was in business with Eben after buying out Valentie in the wood building product I Brunswick. The mill burned in 1871. He married Mary Kilgore Colby (1807-1883)(R9 #191)They had : William Pitt Fessenden (1854-1868)(R9 #191); Dana Samson (1850)(R11 #85); Celia Jane (1847); Dorcas Miller (1842); Mary Ellen (1840); Ursula (1837); George Leonard (1835); and James Henry (1834).

Dana Samson Colby(1850-1935)(R11 #85,86)was one of the oldest Topsham residents at his death. He was born in Webster, the son of Mary Kilgore and Samson Colby. At the age of 10 he came to Topsham with his parents to live. He was educated in the schools of Topsham and learned the trade of wood working and cabinet makere in the old Colby Mill owned by Samson and Eben Colby situated in the Cove in Brunswick. In 1875 he married Miss Clara J. Weymouth Colby (1853-1921)(R11 #85,87) of Brunswick who died in 1921. They lived in East Boston for ten years, where he was foreman of the Bardwell Anderson Cabinet Company. They returned in 1885 to Topsham and lived on Elm Street until Mr. Colby’s death. In 1908 he built a woodworking mill on Main Street near the Grange Hall. He conducted a successful business until he retired in 1930 when he sold the mill to Colby and Sheils.  He had daughter Mrs. Edward Phinner of Elm Street, Topsham. They also had a son, Dana Fessenden Colby .

(R11#90)             Blackie monument

Charles E.Blackie (1861-1918) (R11 #91)

Herbert A. Blackie            (1902-1924)(R11 #92)     son

Frances A. LeClair(1917-1990)(R11 #93)   daughter

Charles W. Blackie           (1895-1979)(R11 #94)married Lillian A. (I1895-1987) (R11 #95).They had: Henry A. Blackie (1926-1944)(R11 #96)     Wooden Cross  209871; S/2 Cambridge England Marker: World War II, John W. Blackie and Frances.

James I. Berry    (1885-1971)(R11 #97) a farmer, married  Lizzie (Elizabeth)  M. Berry (Prout) (1890-1977)(R11 #98).

Baby Leavitt       (R11 #99)

Charles E. Leavitt (1890-1953)(R11 #100) was the son of John ( a farmer) and Emma Leavitt. He married Lizzie M. Prout of Freeport in 1912.  Charles had the following siblings: Walter C. (1884); Lewis C. (1887); Josie (1883); Guy (1886); and Orien (1889).

Omar F. Newell  (1875-1964)(R11# 101)   married Lettie M. Newell (1891-1971)(R11 #101). They had Raymond F. Newell (1910-1918)(R11 #101) who was killed white playing at the Topsham Pulp Mill of the Pejepscot Paper Co. Hewent in to the mill where his father was foreman teamster to play and ride back andforth between the pulp mill and the paper mill on the company’s teams. He climbed to the trestle on which the RR is supported and slipped and fell into the conveyor, by which the pulp wood is carried to the machine to be ground up. Before the machinery could be stopped he had been terribly mangled. His left leg was torn off above the knee. His left hand was so badly lacerated that had he lived it would have been necessary to have the amputationof that limb.  He remained conscious until a few minutes before his death. He had two sisters, Beatrice (1909) and Madeline (1914) as well as a son Raymond Newell (1910)(R11 #102).

Merton  A. Snipe             (1911-1992)(R11 #103)   was a water district employee and married Madeline F. Snipe  (1913)(R11 #101). They had: Jacqueline (b. 1933).

John R. Blackie  (1899-1976)(R11 #106)   married Katherine M. Blackie (1901-1983) (R11 #105)They had: Robert Ward Blackie (1923-1923)(R11 #104).

1. Edwin Eaton (1846-1923)(R11 #107) married Gertrude Willis Eaton (1875-1933)(R11 #107) Who died  at her home on Lewiston Road. She was survived by two children of her first husband, Alton W. Thompson of New York City; and Mrs. Gladys Morse of Brunswick. She had a sister Mrs. Maria Coffin of Auburn. She lived alone at her death.

Ethel  G. Willis Leighton (1896-1982)(R11 #108)   she  married Chester F. Leighton (1895-1985)(R11 #108) (From Bath) ; she was from Topsham and married In 1919.They lived in Newcastle, Maine.

Frederick H. Ward(1859-1921)(R11 #109)married Grace I. Ward (1875-1935)(R11 #109,110).          Mrs. Grace Ward Stevens died at her home on Winter St. She as born in Dexter, the daughter of Rebecca and Sumner Ward. She moved to Bath when she was a small girl with her parents where she was educated graduating from the High School in Bath. In 1890 she married Frederick Ward of Brunswick where they lived 9 years, then moved to Quincy Ma for two years. Later they came back to Topsham where she remained for the rest of ther life with the exception of three years.  Mr. Ward died in 1922. In 1925 she married Marshall Stevens of Weymouth, MA. and they lived in Bath until he passed away in 1928. She was survived by four daughters: Mrs. Fred Sprague of Topsham, Mrs. Gertrude Short of Topsham; Mrs. Marion Erikson of Gardiner; and Mrs. Katherine Blackie of Georgetown, one son Harold Ward of Topsham. She was also survived by one sister: Mrs. Alice McDonald  of Bath and a brother, Arthur Brawn of West Bath.

Hortense S. Ward(1896-1934)(R11 #109,111) was a native of Brunswick the daughter of Fred H. Ward and Grave I. Brawn. Her father was a native of Brunswick and her mother of Bath. She was educated in the Topsham schools and graduated from Topsham High School in1914. She was a frequent participant in amateur dramatics, especially the macrinas. She was survived by four sisters and one brother; Fred Sprague and Gertrude Short, Harold S. Ward, all of Topsham; Marions Ericson of Gardner, MA; and Katherine Blackie of Georgetown.  She never married.

Andrews Monument (R11 #112)

               George. Andrews (1858-1921)  (R11#113)  married Mabel Andrews (1876-1963) (R11 #113).         He was farmer in 1900 and he and Mabel had Walter S. In 1910 he was a salesman for the grocery store and in 1920 worked as a laborer at the Feldspar Mill.

Robert Libby      (1839-1919)(R11 #114)   married Olevia Dixon Libby (1849-1928)(R11 #114)

John Libby born abt 1806 in Liskeard, Cornwall, marriedPhilippa (Maynard) Libby born abt 1810 in Redruth, Cornwall married May1829. They had ten children named 1. Caroline married Thomas Stone in England2. John married Elizabeth Flowers in New Brunswick (NB). 3. Addie Maria died at the age of ten in England4. Elizabeth Margaret little is known of her. Richard married (1) Sarah Nightingale in NB(2) Susan B. Porter in Limestone, Maine  6. Robert married Olivia (Dixon) Dickson in NB. 7. William Henry married Margaret Chapman in NB. 8. Walter S. married Anna Dorcas Reese (Reec) in NB  9. Philippa married William H. Chapman in NB.10. Jacob married Martha Steward Graham in NB.  Robert Libby and Olivia lived in Norway Maine in 1910 and had Alberta T. and Olivia L. who worked in the shoeshop and were born in New Brunswick.

Samuel R. Libby               (1876-1925)(R11 #115)   Veteran of World War I Served as Corporal in C Co 49th Inf. at home and in France.

Olivia L. Wright  (1891-1974)(R11 #116)   married Ruel S. Wright   (1889-1955)(R11 #117) who was a cutter in a shoe factory.

Joseph M. Higgins(1871-1942)(R11 #118)  died in his home on Wilson St. in Topsham. He was born in Ellsworth, the son of Ephraim and Katherine (Smith) Higgins. For many years he was in the grocery business, having stores in several towns in the state and for the last ten years had conducted a real estate business on Wilson Street. He was survived by his wife, Marie T. Higgins (1888-1967)(R11 #118); a brother Ruel Higgins of Green Lake.

Laurence S. Crosman      (1908-1972)(R11 #121) was the   son of Ira A. and Elizabeth V. Crosman. He married Helen M. Packard of Dixfield, Maine in 1916. He had the following siblings: Annie M. (1888); Harold A. (1900); Provington C. (1902); Raynor (1904); and Estella E. (1906). He married Frances E. Galloway of Brunswick in 1943.

Thomas C. White(1916-1985)(R11 #124) was the son of Thomas (1892) and Elizabeth Curtis White (Annie G. White       (1898-1920)(R11 #120)).  His father was a retail clerk. His siblings were: William L. White Jr., and Jack T. White.  He has a son: Thomas C.White  III (1940-1988)(R11 #119)               GMG 3 US Navy and a daughter:  Melinda White(1942-1943) (R11 #122)She was the 13 month old and they lived on Elm St. Topsham. Thomas married Helen M. White (1919-1991)(R11 #123) who was the daughter of Clair S. Tasker and Hazel R. Tasker and had a sister Joyce A. (1927).

Pearl E. Metcalfe (1881-1945)(R11#125)Obituary in Brunswick Record, p.4, January 11, 1945. Her maiden name was Oliver. There was a Pearl E. Metcalf living in Portland in 1940 with her son-in-law and daughter: Paul  S. Davis and Dorthy F. Davis.

Harry W. Bailey (1873-1939) (R11 #126).  He was born in Topsham, the son of Timothy and Emma Kimball Bailey. He married Miss Lula B. Mountfort (1882-1967) (R11 #126) of Bowdoin in 1906. He had been employed as a paper maker at the Pejepscot Paper Company for many years and as a young man was employed as a motorman by the Lewiston, Brunswick and Bath Street Railway.

Row 12

George B. Ridley (1856-1927)(R11 #61) For many years he was engaged in the hardware and plumbing business. He was born in Topsham. After his retirement he lived on his farm at Mere Point and passed the winters in Topsham. He married Miss Mary L. Minot and had five children: Miss Ethel B. Ridley(1881-1945)(R11 #62) of Boston; John C. Ridley(1890-1964)(R12 #1) of Topsham; Miss Isabel C. Ridley, Frank H. Ridley and Miss Ruth Ridley of Topsham.  Mrs. Mary L. Ridley (1872 -1955). She was born in Brunswick, the daughter of Alexander B. and Lydia Ramsdell Minott, and attended local schools. She was survived by a half-brother, John A. Minott of Brunswick. He also married Elizabeth W. Ridley (1856-1919)(R11 #62).  John C. Ridley married Elvira S. Nason Skolfield (1882-1977)(R12 #1)They had Margaret F. Ridley (1915-1933)(R12 #1)

Clarence B. Smith(1866-1953) (R12 #2,3) lived on Pleassant Street in Topsham. He was born in Harmony. He resided for many years in Bowdoin here he was a lumber dealer and farmer. He married Rachel M. Smith (1864-1932)(R12 #2,4).  She lived on Pleasant Street in Topsham.. She was born in East Noel, Nova Scotia the daughter of James and Mary Elizabeth Densmore. She came to Portland when she was 18. She married Mr. Smith in Auburn in 1891. They moved to Bowdoin in 1899 and lived there until they came to Topsham in 1921. She was survived by her husband, a daughter, Miss Hazel Smith of Topsham, a brother, Andrew Densmore of Noel, NS; and three sisters: Mrs. Naomi Hinds, Densmore Mills, NS; Mrs. Christie Laffin, Lower Selmah, NS, and Mrs. Selina Neil, Lower Selman, NS.

Ralph  Percy Merriman  (1882-1937)(R12 #6,8) married Nellie Hall Merriman (1882-1962)(R12 #6,7) They had: Dorothy (1911); Elizabeth (1912); Randall H. (1914); Frances (1918) and Eleanor (1915) who married Phillip  L. Goggins(1914-1996)(R12 #5) T Sgt.US Army World War II  in 1945.

Marguerie Williams(1931-1931)(R12 #9)

Erland Arthur Williams   (1929-1930)(R12 #10)

Joseph Arthur Beaulieu  (1876-1934)(R12 #11)married Lillian I Beaulieu (1898-1962)(R12 #11)and immigrated from Canada in 1881, married Lillian I and they had: Ernest A.  (1917)(R12 #12); Josephine (R12 #13); Ralph E. (1916); and Alice L. (1922).

Aldrich monument  (R12#14)

Elllis Leeds Aldrich  (1874-1968) (R12 #22) was the son of Charles H. Aldrich and Josephine McDonald Aldrich (1841-1933) (R12 #15) of Riverhead, Long Island, New York. He became one of the leading attorneys in Maine. He was born in Brooklyn and attended public school and then matriculated in Cornell University, where he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1897. Two years later, from the same institution, her received the degree of Bachelor of Laws. He was admitted to the bar in New York City in 1900 and commenced the practice of law with the firm of Baldwin and Slater, where he remained until 1903. He then opened an office of his own, practicing under his own name until 1923, when he came to Maine and entered the practice of law in Brunswick. He was member of the Board of Education at Monclair, New Jersey, and was also active in various Liberty Loan campaigns. He was elected and served in the Maine State Senate . In 1901, he married Jane E. Norton (1874-1933) (R12 #16). She was born in New York City, the daughter of Thomas and Frances S. Norton. She was educated in the schools of New York City and at Hunter’s College. Following her marriage they lived in New York City and Monclair, NJ. The came to Topsham and took up residence on Elm street in 1923 with her husband resuming his law practice in Brunswick. She was survived by her husband, a daughter, Mrs. Janet N. Hudson of Cambridge, MA; and a son Sherwood who went to Boston University Law School as well as another daughter, Nancy W. Aldrich (1920-1994) (R12 #17). In 1941  Ellis  married Edith Purinton. Ellis Leeds Aldrich’s  obituary appears below: Ellis also married Edith H. Coombs (Hennessey) Aldrich (1895-1976) (R12 #21) in 1941. Sherwood Aldrich (1908-1971)R12#18 married Constance Libby and they had Jane (1938) who married Lauder; and Sherwood Jr. (1937).

Charles J. Coombs (1926-1950). (R12 #19). He was the son of Edith H. Hennessey and Frank M. Coombs.  His siblings  was Florence E. Coombs (1919-1992) (R12#20); Evelyn (1924); and Katherine (1922).

Irene M. Coffin  (1925-1956)(R12 #24)     was the wife of Brunswick Attorney Robert T. Coffin;. She was born in Bowdoin, the daughter of William Angus and Veronica Michael McIver. She attended schools in Bowdoin and Brunswick. She was survived by her husband and three children, Robert T. Coffin II, Lawrence T. and Joan; two brothers, Angus W. McIver of Lexington, MA., and Kenneth Gl McIver of Prospect; three sisters, Mrs. Hope Mae Enman of Durham, Miss Ione McIver of Orono, and Mrs. Gloria Tessier of Summit, NJ.

(R12#23)             McIver Monument

Ernest J. McIver (1928-1940)(12 #26) was the son of William A.(1892) (a farmer) and Veronica M. McIver(1898) and had the following siblings: Angus W. (1924); Irene H. (1925); Kenneth (1927); Hope M. (1931); and Iona M. (1938) and possibly Bernice L. McIver (1940-1942) (R12 #25).

William A. McIver (1891-1944)(R12 #28) World War Veteran. He married Veronica M. McIver (1898-1952)(R12 #27). She was born in Montpelier, Vt, daughter of George and Irene Michaels. She married William McIver. She was survived  by four daughters, Mrs. Irene Springer and Miss Ione McIver of Bowdoinham, Mrs. Hope Enman of Durham, and Mrs. Glorida Pesslei of Glouceser, NJ; two sons, Angus W. of Lexington, MA; and Kenneth G. McIver of Sandy Point; two sisters, Mrs. Hope Cornish of Newtonville, MA and Mrs. Ione Blennerhasset of St. Albans, Vt.

(R12#29)             Cone Monument

John Albert Cone(1859-1928)(R12 #30)   Superintendent of Schools for Brunswick and Topsham for 17 years.  President of he Maine State Teachers Association 1922-24. He was born in Bowdoinham and the son of Rev. Charles C. and Margaret Butterfield Cone. He went to Litchfield Academy and planned on attending Bowdoin College but was offered a position as first assistant in the high school in Honolulu, Hawaii. He spent three years there rising to the post of principal. He spent a year in California, but returned to Bowdoinham because of illness in his family. He became principal of Bowdoinham High School. He pursued special work at Harvard and later was admitted to the Senior class at Mt. Union College in the class of 1898. For 12 years he was the principal of Topsham High School and the last two as Superintendent. He became superintendent of schools for the Freeport/Brunswick District for one year. For 17 years he was superintendent of schools for Topsham/Brunswick.  He authored several short stories and a volume of essays, “The Man Who Pleases and the Women Who Charms”. He also authored several educational articles including a “Superintendent’s Suggestions to Teachers” which was widely used.H had a brother, James Cone who two sisters: Mrs. L.B. Small and Mrs. Lou Sparks of Bowdoinham.

Joseph Peter Tenneson  (1900-1975)(R12 #31) was born in Arlington MA and married Cleo Alberta Swett (1901-1979)(R12 #32) of Bethel Maine who was the daughter  of Peter and Cleo Swett. They had Joseph P. Tenneson Jr. who was born in 1921 in MA and died 2007. He went to BHS and was in the Air Force; He married Barbara Lewis of Brunswick and  worked for MCRR as a telegraph operator and retired in 985. His brother was Alfred in Topsham who had a wife Pauline; his sister was Joan P. Johnson. They also had Barbara Elizabeth Tenneson (1825-1975)(R12 #32)and Beverly Pauline Tenneson (1928-1928)(R12 #32).

R12#32 Tenneson            Monment

(R12#33)             Chapman Monument

Helen Sloan Hewke (1877-1950)(R12 #34)Sister of Janet Sloan Chapman, wife of Charles D. Chapman. Near the Chapman monument.

Charles D. Chapman(1876-1953)(R12 #36).He  lived on Elm St. in Topsham. He had been a Topsham resident for 20 years. He was born in Rushville, NY, the son of George W. and Emma Dunton Chapman. He was employed with the Western Electric Company of New York City for many years, retiring in 1928. He married Janet Sloan Chapman (1872-1952)(R12 #35) . She died at her Elm St. home. She was born in Bronxville, NY, the daughter of David and Mary Agnew Sloan.

Mary E. Smith(1851-1939)(R12 #37) died at the Topsham Nursing Home where she had resided for four years. She came  to Topsham from Gardiner in 1895 and was employed in the cutting room of the Pejepscot Paper Company during that time. She was survived by a sister: Mrs. Bartlett of Geneva, Switzerland, a neice, Miss Alice Bartlett, librarian of the League of Nations in Geneva. She was unmarried..

Walter B. Cressey(1893-1973)(R12 #38), a paper mill worker,  was the son of Ulysses and Willa A. Cressey who also had Willard L. (b. 1899). He had Walter B. Cressey (1922-1928)(R12 #40) He was born in Topsham and was a student in sub-primary. His parents were Mr. and Mrs. Walter Cressey of Summer St. He had sister Eleanor. He was killed in a sledding accident. He was with  Annie Murray (6 yrs. old) and his sister Eleanor coasting down  Quint’s Hill on Winter St.  Howard W. Perkins, a traveling salesman from Medford, MA was driving a car up the hill and hit them head on when they lost control of their sled. Walter B. Cressey Sr. married  Olive M. Cressey (1905-1964)(R12 #39) and they had: Willard  R. Cressey (1931-1931)(R12 #40)

William L. Tripp (1873-1941)(R12 #41)married Jennie C. Tripp (1872-1947)(R12 #41,43).  She was a resident of Topsham. She died at the home of her daughter Mrs. Ruth Croston of Elm Street. She was born in Doaktown, New Brunswick, the daughter of David and Hannah Ward Doak. She attended the schools of Doaktown and was married in Brownfield in 1892. She was survived by two daughters, Mrs. Croston, and Mrs. Arlene Allen of Augusta; one sister, Mrs. Benjamin Stuart of Durham Bridge, N.B.; three brothers, George and Howard Doak of Doaktown and Gordon Doak of Brookline, Mass.

John Campbell Tripp(1878-1930)(R12 #42) Brunswick Record Obituary; Feb. 26, 1931, pg. 5. He was the brother of William L. Tripp (1874) who married Jennie C. Loak of Canada (1873). He worked at the Pejepscot Paper Mill and was described in his WWI draft registration form as “deaf and dumb” in 1918.

Dorothy Thayer White   (1907-2000)(R12 #44) Dorothy T. White, 93, of Thornton Way died June 3, 2000, at  Mid Coast Hospital. She was born in Providence, R.I., a daughter of Edwin F. and Mabel I. Cobb Thayer, and attended school in Attleboro, Mass. She graduated from Connecticut College in New London in 1929, majoring in botany and attended Katherine Gibbs College in Providence.Mrs. White
was a secretary to the manager of L.G. Balfour Co. in Attleboro for several years. On Dec. 7, 1935, she married Herbert F. White(1904-1968)(R12 #44) and moved to Topsham  . He was an insurance man in Brunswick on Pleasant Street.  He died Feb. 3, 1968. White was a former trustee of Regional Memorial Hospital andserved as a former secretary of the board of trustees and the executivecommittee. She was a former member of the finance committee. Shewas a member of the hospital auxiliary and was a coordinator of thecoffee shop volunteers. She was a past director of the Pine TreeSociety for Crippled Children and the American Red Cross. She was aformer Gray Lady and was a past president of the Topsham VillageImprovement. White was a current member of the First Parish Churchand was a member of the flower committee. She was also a member ofthe Topsham Garden Club and the A.A.U.W. Survivors include two nieces, Patricia Crandall of Strongsville, Ohio and Barbara Thayer of Twinsburg, Ohio.

Herbert L. Perry (1918-2006)(R12 #45)  married Jeanne Belanger Perry (1926) (R12 #45) in 1952. They had: Alden N. Perry (1943)(R12 #45)who married Pamela J. Perry(1950)(R12 #45).

Emily F. Brown  (1908-1996)(R12 #46) married Edmund Brown (1908), a electric lineman. They had Donald (1935).

George E. Belanger(1890-1932)  (R12 #48) married Cora E. Belanger (1881-1958) (R12 #49).She died at the home of her son Edward C. Belanger of Woolwich. She was born in Advocate Harbor, N.S. and came to Bath as a young woman. She later resided in Topsham and for her last 18 years she was the housekeeper for Dr. Alaric W. Haskell of Brunswick. She was survived by her son, Merton F. Belanger (1908-1936) (R12 #50),  and a sister, Mrs. Charles Morse of Bath. They had another son, Edward C. (1904-1977) (R12 #52) who married Madeline F. (1903-1990) (R12 #51).Edward and Madeline had an infant son Edward C. Jr. (1927) (R12 #53).

George E. Chandler (1870-1928)(R12 #54) was an engineer at the Paper Mill. He married Mary J. (1869-   )(R12 #54) and they had: Hazel J. Chandler(1882-1963)(R12 #54); Edna L (1882); Maurace V. (1885); and Thurman (1905). His mother was Nancy J. Doyle Chandler (1840-1932)(R12 #46) who died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Nellie Eaton of Topsham. She was born in Bowdoin and came to Topsham in 1907 with her daughter. She was survived by two daughters: Nellie; and Miss Lottie Chandler(Laura L.)(1865-1953)(R12 #46)ofTopsham.  She was born in Bowdoin. She was educated in the Bowdoin schools and moved to Topsham in 1886.; two sons: George E. Chandler of Topsham and Henry Chandler of Apponaug, RI.

John W. McMillin (1869 1932)(R12 #55) was for several years the proprietor of a grocery store in Topsham. He was a native of Prince Edward Island and came to the United States as a boy to reside with his family in Brownville Junction. He came to Topsham in 1907 and established himself in the grocery business in the building that later Patrick Raymond resided. After a year he opened the store in the building later occupied by the Topsham Post Office. After his retirement he engaged in the life insurance business. He later was the proprietor of the Tydol Flying Station in Topsham. He was survived by a sep-daugher, Miss Jennie Richardson of Topsham and a step son Guy Richardson of Boston, a brother James of Brownville Junction, and a sister, Mrs. Mary Barnes of Brownville Junction. He married Emma Gomez McMillin (1862-1926)(R12 #55). Emma was born in Liverpool, Nova Scotia, the daughter of Josephine and William Gomez. She was educated in the public schools of Liverpool. At the age of 21 her parents moved to Stonington and she married John K. Richardson who died in 1902. In November 1906 she married John W. McMillin of Rockland. In August 1908 they came to Topsham where John opened up a grocery business from which several years later he retired. She had a son: Guy P. Richardson of Brunswick; Jennie P. Richardson(1897)(R12 #55); a sister, Hannah Gardner of Stonington. Her husband was employed at Little and Coffin Co. when she died.

Zina B. Clifford  (1859-1950)(R12 #56) married Media L. Clifford (1858-1933)(R12 #56).Mrs. Media L. Clifford was of Auburn and died at her summer home at New Meadows. She was born in Bath, the daughter of Mrs. Ralph Morse McIntire. She married Zina B. Clifford in 1882 and lived in Bath, moving later to Pejepscot and to Auburn. She was survived by her husband of Auburn, a daughter Mrs. Grace Cobb of Auburn, and son George M Clifford of Topsham.

Samuel T. Cobb (1876-1949)(R12 #56,57) He was a commercial traveler for flour and grain. He lived in Auburn in 1920 with Grace M. Clifford (1885-1974) (R12 #56,58) and his inlaws. Graces parents: Zina and Media Clifford..

(R12 #59,60) Father and Mother

(R12#61)             Libby     Monument

Edward R. Libby (1858-1926)(R12 #62)    was a woolen mill worker in Oldtown in 1900.  He and Mildred L. (1865-1935)(R12 #63)had Effie L. and Harold (1886). Mildred Lucretia Libby died at the home of her son, Harold Libby St. on Elm Street. She was born in Dexter, the daughter of Lucretia Moores and James Stott. She was educated in Dexter. In 1879 she married Edward R. Libby who was employed as a loom fixer in Lisbon Center. After he died in 1926 she passed nine years in Brunswick at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Donnell and in Topsham with her son and wife. She was survived by two sisters: Mrs. Mary Crockett of White Plains, NY and Miss Harriett Watson of Topsham; Three brothers, George Stott of Oakland, William Stott of Florida, her son Harold and a daughter Miss Effie L. Libby (1889-1986)(R12 #64)of Augusta.

William Henry Smith(1849-1933)(R12 #65,67) was a resident of Brunswick for 35 years. He died at the home of his daughter in Malden, MA. He was born in New Brunswick, but lived in Maine the greater part of his life, moving to Malden the last five years of his life. He was a paper maker. He married Helen E. Smith (1845-1928) (R12 #65).               She was born in Campbellton, N.B. the daughter of James and Sarah Gerard Christopher. She married William in 1873. They came to Topsham to live in 1898 and her last six years they lived in Brunswick. They had two sons and seven daughters: Robert D. Smith (1874-1939)(R12 #65,66) of NB; Albert Smith of Haverhill, MA., Mrs. Grace Young of Auburn; Mrs. Sarah Gatchell ofGorham; Mrs. Tina Larrabbe of Sabatus; Mrs. Bertha Bryant of Melrose, MA; Mrs. Stella Doucett of Malden, MA; Mrs. Gertrude Darrah of Malden; and Mrs. Mellie Richardson of Brunswick. She had a brother: Harry Christopher of Lisbon.

Charles H. Barnes(1866-1947)(R12 #68), a farmer, married Marcia A .(Green) Barnes (1864-1926) (R12 #68) and they had Alice G. Barnes (1888-1888) (R12 #68) and Arthur J. Barnes (1894); Marion E. (1902); Angie D. (1891) and Helen G. (1882) who married Arthur Ricker.

Harry W. Jordan (1844-1929)(R12 #69)    He was born in Millbury, MA, the son of William and Roselinda Jordan. He lived in difference places in Maine and Massachusetts and his family finally went to Berlin, NH. He was employed there as a mill worker when the Civil War broke out.  He served for three years in the Ninth Company commonly called the Coos County Company in the Fourtheenth New Hampshire Regiment.  He returned to Maine and followed the occupation of a farmer for several years. In 1872 he married Isabella Merrill (1855-1929)(R12 #69)of Norway. They lived in Mechanic Falls and Livermore Falls for several years where he followed the trade of a carpenter. He retired from the position of carpenter for the Pejepscot Paper Co. at the Topsham Pulp Mill about 11 years before his death.  He was survived by his daughter, Mrs. William H. McMackin on Perkins Street. Isabella Merrill was born in Norway, the daughter of Stephen and Angelina Merrill. She married Harry J. Jordan in  Minot in 1872. They resided in Mechanic Falls for server years and then to Livermore Falls. They came to Topsham in 17 years before her death. She was survived ty her husaband, a daughter, Mrs. Rose A. McMackin of Topsham, her stepmother Mrs. Hannah Merrill, two half bvrothers, Chandler and Oliver  Merrill and a half sister, Mrs. Myrtelle Brown of all Norway.

Pembroke Edgecomb (1885-1956)(R12 #70) a millwright in he paper mill, married Doris E. Rackley Edgecomb (1892-1972)(R12 #70). They had Marjorie  Edgecomb (Randall); George ,Leroy and Stanley.

Carl E. Randall (1911-1981)(R12 #70)married Marjorie Edgecomb Randall (b. 1912)(R12 #70). Carl worked for Fox Lumber Co. in Brunswick  and served in the Topsham Fire Department.  Marjorie Edgecomb Randall, 95 of Linwood, N.C. and formerly of Topsham and Yarmouth Maine, died Sunday April 1, 2007. She was born in Topsham on MArch 26, 1912, to Pembrook and Doris Rackley Edgecomb. She was a member of the Topsham Grange No. 37, The Topsham Fire Department Auxiliary and the United Baptist Church in Topsham, and for the past year and a half attended Jersey Baptist Church.She worked for many years for the Town of Topsham, icluding service as the town Treasurer and bookeeper for the Topsham Sewer District, retiring at the age of 82. She married Carl D. Randall on March 23, 1937. She was predeceased by her husband in January 1981; and three brothers George Edgecomb, Stanley Edgecomb and Leroy Edgecomb. Surviving was a daughter Linda Allen and her husband Donald , of Casco; a son Ralph Randall and his wife Debra, of Linwood; and five grandchildren.

Fred Eugene Daggett      (1877-1956)(R12 #71) He married Katherine A. Knight (1871-1955)(R12 #71) She died at her home on Winter St. in Topsham. She was born in Brunswick, the daughter of William and Hannah Wilson Knight. After being educated in the Topsham schools she taught for several years in Topsham. She was employed for a time at the office of the Brunswick Telegraph and was also employed at the J.F. Will Co. Both parents died when she was a child and she was brought up by a family named Griffin. Until her marriage to Mr. Daggett in 1906 she was known to most people as Kate Griffin. She was survived by her husband and a son Dr. Malcolm David. Daggett of Burlington, Vt. who married Frances Hutchinson Lintner.  Malcolm was born in Pasadena, CA. Fred’s parents were Tristam and Phoebe Cummings Leavett Daggett. He was a market farmer with a large farm on Winter Street. Fred was born in Ripley, the son of Tristam and Phoebe Leavitt Daggett. He graduated from Monmouth Acemcy in 1898 and from Kent’s Hill School in 1901. He was a well-known market gardener. He supplied the markets of Topsham, Brunswick and Bath and raised seedlings in his hot house for his gardens and for markets. He was survived by his widow, the former Mrs. Laura Smith Nichols, whom he married in 1853 in Nashua, NH.; a son, Prof. Malcolm D. Daggett, Ph.D. fo the unveristy of Vermon faculty at Burlington;. His first wife, Katherine A. Daggett died in 1955.

Charles P. Edgecomb(1849-1934)(R10 #77,81) married Elizabeth (Lizzie) S. Booker Edgecomb (1859-1932)(R12 #77,80)who was the daughter of Joseph Warren and Zelora Coombs Booker. Lizzie and Charles had : John Coombs (1892-1913)(R10 #77,79) who died at the age of 20 of blood poisoning when he fell and cut his wrist, who married Sarah Card; Betsey Coomb (1878-1932)(1878-1955)(R10 #77,8), a graduate of Maine Nursing training school in Porland; Arthur Coombs (1879-1959)(R12 #72) who married Jessie M. Rackley (1) (1886-1924)(1886-1924)(R12 #72) who was  was born in Bowdoinham the daughter of Fred A. and Carrie E. Rackley. She graduated from Topsham High School in 1902. She had two sons: Frederick and Ralph and a daughter Dorothy. She had two brothers: Harry and Charles Rackley and a sister, Mrs. Dorothy Edgecomband; and Arthur married  (2) Ruby Johnson (1890-1935)(R12 #27) who was born in Troy, NY. In June 1929 she married Arthur Edgecomb of Topsham. They lived in Vershire, VT for three years and then came to Topsham where they resided on Pleasant St, later moving to Bowdoinham. She was survived by her husband, two daughters: Mrs. Raymond Parker of West Fairlee, Vt.; and Mrs. Ralph Edgecomb of Montpeilier, Vt. She had four sisters: Mrs. Alex Schroth of Long Island, NY; Mrs. N.A. Wallace of Manchester, NH; Mrs. Fred Merrill of Ware, MA; Mrs. John Tears of Brooklyn, NY; and one brother, George Johnson of West Fairless, Vt; and Charles and Elizabeth also had: Harry (Harold) Charles (1881-1959)(R12 #91) who married Harriet E. (1884-1943)(R12 #91) She lived on the Meadow Road, Topsham. She was born in Topsham, daughter of Leonard W. Tedford and Rebecca Lunt Tedford of Brunswick. She married Harry C. Edgecomb of Topsham. She was survived by her husband, her mother and a brother, Ernest Tedford of Topsham.; ande  Lillian (1883); Gilbet (1887); and Velzora Booker (1889)

Dorothy E. Gould (1913-1975)(R12 #73) was the wife of Ralph C.Edgecomb

Ralph C. Gould  (1915-1996)(R12 #73,74)1st  Lt. US  Army World War II   Capt. US Army. He had been a welder before the war.

Victor E. Sprague (1880-1943)(R12 #75)He was found dead at his camp in Phippsburg where he had made his home for several years. He was a former resident of Topsham. He was born in Machiasport. He was survived by his daughter, Viola Sprague of Richmond and a son Russell Sprague of Topsham. He married Grace E. Sprague (1877-1932)(R12 #75).

Ralph W. White Sr. (1893-1972)(R12 #76)married Eva G. White(1898-1986)(R12 #76)and they Clarabell White (1925)(R12 #79)and Ralph W. White Jr. who married Shirely G. White and had  Linda R. White (1943) (R12 #78).

Robert C. Lavallee Jr.      (1947-1967)(R12 #77)     PFC 2 BN 173 Airborn BDE Vietnam PH

Alden B. Rowe(1911-1992)(R12 #80,83)married Alice C. Rowe (1910-1998)(R12 #80,82) they had Carole E. Rowe (1938-1938)(R12 #80,81).

Joseph L. Hasty (1905-1964)(R12 #83,85) married Clara L. Hasty (1876-1935)(R13 #84)She was born in Providenc, RI. She married Joseph L. Hasty 1904 and he died in 1925. They came to Topsham in 1920. She was survived by a son Louis Hasty and a daughter Mrs. Virginia Foster.

Warren L. Adams (1907-1986) (R12#85) was an electrician at Bath Iron Works and lived in Topsham with his wife Beatrice D. (1905-1975) (R12 #85). They had Dopnna Lou in 1937. Warren  married Celia M. McManus in 1979.

Harris O. Curtis  (1861-1924)(R12 #87)M.D. His father was Obidiah, a farmer in Richmond, and Elizabeth. He had a sister Lottie O. Harris was born in Richmond. He went to the Richmond public schools and graduated from Litchfield Academy in 1890 and from Bowdoin Medical School in 1891. He married Laura Doouglas Curtis (1867-1943) (R12 #88) in 1892. Upon his graduation from Bowdoin he went to Boston for a year as a physicial in a hospital.  He returned to Topsham to practice his profession. He had a son Dr. Harry L. Curtis physician at Maine General Hopsital; and a daughter Miss Elizabeth E. Curtis of Topsham. He had a brother: Millard Curtis of Portland and one sister, Mrs. Lottie W. Tarbox of Topsham. Laura was born in Bowdoin, daughter of Daniel and Mary E. Douglas. She married Dr. Curtis in 1893 and came to live in Topsham. She was survived by a daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth White, also of Topsham, and a son, Dr. Harry L. Curtis of Portland; a sister, Mrs. Henry Carleton of Bath.

(R12#86)             Curtis    Monument

Thomas C. White (1892-1942)(R12 #90)  died in his home on Main St., Topsham. He was born in Westbrook, the son of William J. and Ada Densmore White. He came to Topsham as a young boy and spent his boyhood days at his father’s farm on the Meadow Road. He was employed at the Consolidated Feldspar Corporation for 22 years. He was survived by his wife, Elizabeth Curtis White(1894-1978)(R12 #89), one son, Thomas White Jr., his father William J. White; all of Topsham.; five brothers, William and Ralp of Topsham, Harry of Bath, Wesley of Medford, MA.; and John of Cambridge, MA; and one sister, Mrs. Lillian Blackie of Clinton.

Charles P. Edgecomb(1849-1934)(R10 #77,81) married Elizabeth (Lizzie) S. Booker Edgecomb (1859-1932)(R12 #77,80)who was the daughter of Joseph Warren and Zelora Coombs Booker. Lizzie and Charles had : John Coombs (1892-1913)(R10 #77,79) who died at the age of 20 of blood poisoning when he fell and cut his wrist, who married Sarah Card; Betsey Coomb (1878-1932)(1878-1955)(R10 #77,8), a graduate of Maine Nursing training school in Porland; Arthur Coombs (1879-1959)(R12 #72) who married Jessie M. Rackley (1) (1886-1924)(1886-1924)(R12 #72) who was  was born in Bowdoinham the daughter of Fred A. and Carrie E. Rackley. She graduated from Topsham High School in 1902. She had two sons: Frederick and Ralph and a daughter Dorothy. She had two brothers: Harry and Charles Rackley and a sister, Mrs. Dorothy Edgecomband; and Arthur married  (2) Ruby Johnson (1890-1935)(R12 #27) who was born in Troy, NY. In June 1929 she married Arthur Edgecomb of Topsham. They lived in Vershire, VT for three years and then came to Topsham where they resided on Pleasant St, later moving to Bowdoinham. She was survived by her husband, two daughters: Mrs. Raymond Parker of West Fairlee, Vt.; and Mrs. Ralph Edgecomb of Montpeilier, Vt. She had four sisters: Mrs. Alex Schroth of Long Island, NY; Mrs. N.A. Wallace of Manchester, NH; Mrs. Fred Merrill of Ware, MA; Mrs. John Tears of Brooklyn, NY; and one brother, George Johnson of West Fairless, Vt; and Charles and Elizabeth also had: Harry (Harold) Charles (1881-1959)(R12 #91) who married Harriet E. (1884-1943)(R12 #91) She lived on the Meadow Road, Topsham. She was born in Topsham, daughter of Leonard W. Tedford and Rebecca Lunt Tedford of Brunswick. She married Harry C. Edgecomb of Topsham. She was survived by her husband, her mother and a brother, Ernest Tedford of Topsham.; and  Lillian (1883); Gilbet (1887); and Velzora Booker (1889)

George F. Cotton(1868-1938)(R13 #92)   married Bertha M. Preble (1904) (R12 #92) in 1924 and they had Clarence E. (1928-1947)(R13 #92); Ruby M. (1926); and Elsie M. (1927). George Franklin Cotton died at his home on Winter St. He was born in Lisbon, son of Samuel F. and Martha J.B. (Goddard) Cotton. H attended Lisbon schools and was employed as a carpenter for a number of years. In 1916 he came to Topsham to make his home on Winter St. and married Bertha Preble of Bowdoiham in 1924. He was survived by his wife, two daughters, Riby and Elsie, and two sons: Clarence and Ernest, of Topsham.

Mrs. Lydia Ellen Cunningham lived on Elm Street and was born in Brunswick near Cook’s Corner, the daughter of Rufus and Maria Groves. She was educated in Brunswick and married Joshua W. Cunningham  (R9 #164) in 1878.  She was a laundress at home. He was from Brunswick and a Civil War veteran (Co. B   11^th Me. Infantry) who passed away in 1894. They had resided in Massachusetts, Rockland, Halloell, and Gardienr where he was a member of the police force. They resided in Augusta as  well. For their last 50 years they lived in Topsham.  She was survivedby two sons, John Cunningham of San Francisco; and Forrest Cunningham of Topsham. She had three sisters: Mrs. Emily Mason, Mrs. Hattie Austin and Mrs. Ina Craig all of Brunswick. She had five brothers: James Groves of Billerica, MA; Henry Groves of Fall River, MA; Charles Groves, Joseph Groves and Frank Groves of Brunswick. Internment was at the Riverview Cemetery. John R. Cunningham died in San Francisco. He was born in Boxford, MA the son of Joshua and Lydia Groves Cunningham. When he was a small boy they moved to Topsham. He was survived by his wife, Hazel of San Francisco, a son Ernest A. and a brother Forrest E. Cunningham (1892-1949)(R12 #92) all of Topsham. Forrest  lived on Elm Street, Topsham. He died in Lisbon Falls. He was born in Topsham. He lived all his life in Topsham and was a fireman for the Maine Central Railroad for 20 years. He was also employed at the Bath Iron Works and at the time of his death by the Farnsworth Mills in Lisbon Falls. He was survived by his wife, Lulu Greeley Cunningham.

(R12#93)   Crockett monument

Milton Aton Crockett  (1898-1968)(R12 #94)married Ellen Jane Farren Crocker (1896-1970)(R12 #95)  and they had Jane and another child. He was the son of Edgar H. Crockett and Marion E. Stolt Crockett.

Edgar H. Crockett (1866-1959)(R12 #97) . He died in Lexington, MA where he was visiting his granddaughter.  He was born in Dexter, the son of George and Mary Crockett. For many years he lived on the Old Bath Road. He was married to Marion E. Stolt Crockett (1869-1938)(R12 #96).  Mrs. Marion E. Crockett  was the wife of Edgar Crockett of White Plains, NY. She died there. She was born in Dexter and lived for the last 40 years of her life in White Plains, NY. She spent her summers at her summer homein East Brunswick. He was survived by a son, Milton A. of Brunswick; two daughters, Mrs. Florence M. LeMan of Arlington, Va., and Mrs. Helen  L. Smith of Lexington, MA.

James C. Cox      (1820-1910)(R9 #96) Deacon; at his death the oldest resident of Topsham; (90 yrs 8 mos and 15 days) He was born in Bowdoinham and the son of James and Desire (Estes) Cox; He went abroad for 17 years; was employed in Bath shipyards shere he took sub contracts; Came to Topsham in 1869 but worked in Bath; married in 1843 to Priscilla Purinton Cox  (1824-1930) (R9 #96 )of Bowdoin. They had six children: Frank, Mary Ellis(1850-1926), wife of Capt. Jacob Merriman; Annie Louise (1852-1930)(R9 #96) She was nearly a life time resident of Topsham. She as born in Bath but moved to Tsopsham at 12 years old. She spent most of her time at home next to the Topsham Grange Hall. She stayed with her sister Mrs. Walter Mallett and her cousin Miss Mabel Purington.; Lizzie E. wife of Capt. William Dunning; Caroline(Katherine M) (1859-1953) wife of Capt. Walter Mallett (all of Topsham). He was Deacon  of Free Baptist Church.

Jonathan Page Hildreth) was born in 1805 in Brunswick, ME, and died in  1881 in Topsham, ME. He married Margaret J Randall in 1835 in Topsham, ME, daughter of William Randall and Jane B (Randall). She was born in 1816 in Topsham, ME, and died in 1896 in Topsham, Me. They had William R. Hildreth (1850-1931)(R12 #98,99) was born on a farm on the Foreside Road.  He had always lived within sight of his birthplace where he had been most successful as a farmer. He had served as a selectman in Topsham and as collector of taxes.  He married Julia Adams Hildreth (1849-1925)(R12 #98,100)She lived on Foreside Road. She had two sons: Edwin R. and George W.. She had one sister who survived her: Mrs. I. A. Pennell. William was survived by two sons: George W. Hildreth (1875-1964) (R12 #98,102) who married Mary L. Hildreth (1882-1975)(R12 #98,101)and Edwin R. Hildreth. George William Hildreth who was born in 1875 in Wheeling, WV and Edwin Randall Hildreth who was born in  1879 in ME. Jonathan and Margaret also had Alvah Jameseon Hildreth (1841-1926) (R12 #109,110) who was born in Topsham. He was ill for the last few years of his life.  He had a daughter; Mrs. Robert Ferguson of Bowdoinham; and a son Harold Hildreth of Topsham . Alvah married Annie E. Patten (1849-1995)(R12 #109,111), of Bowdoinham in 1874, daughter of Wesley Patten and Sarah Eliza Reed. They had Emma P. (1881) and A. Harold Hildreth (1889-1973)(R12 #109,113) who married Ruth B. Alexander (1895-1995)(R12 #112,112)

Karl Denton Sewall(1892-1966)(R12 #103,104,105) Maine Pvt. 1 101 Engrs Yankee Div  World War I  married Verna M. Sewall (1904-1981)(R12 #103,106)(Roberts)(McIver) they had:               LLoyd    A. Sewall (1938-1938) (R12 #107)  and Rita B. Sewall I(R12 #108) (1932=1938). In 1918 he was a chauffeur in Brocton, MA.  In 1920 Karl was a bookkeeper at an auto dealer in Boston and, in 1940, was an elevator operator in a bank building in Portland and lived there. (Sewall Monument) Karl had a sister Gladys and, was the nephew of Mr. and Mrs. John Burque of Boston.           He was born in Brockton, Massachusetts, the son of Austin M. Sewall and Maggie James. Verna had married Phillip A. Roberts of Livermore Falls first in 1923 and then Karl. She was the daughter of Paris K. McIver and Blanche M. McIver of Topsham. She had a sister Gladys E and brother Forest L.

Herbert Q. Mariner Jr.    (1907-1977)(R12 #114)   SP1 US Navy World War II. He was the son of Herbert Q. Mariner Sr. who was born in Bowdoinham in 1882 and married (1) Pansy B. Hayward and (2) Edith L. Lancaster of Boston who divorced him. He married , in 1951 in Orono, Maine Muriel W. Mariner (Brown)(Burns)(1922-1985)(R12 #114)  Herbert and Pansy had a son Carleton R. Mariner. Herbert was a State Police Officer in Maine. He may have also married Marguerite and had Ellen and Norma Mariner.

Mary Lenard Goncy(1904-1995)(R12 #116) was born Hungaryand died in Topsham .

Terka Gonczi Julay          (1904-2001)(R12 #117)   was born in Hungary and died in Topsham. She lived at the Highlands and was a psychotherapist in New York City 1946-1995. She was the aunt of Esther Lacognata of Topsham. She had a sister Anne Marton and a nephew Dr. J. Osvath and another neice Kalalin Diossy.

Charles C. Leavitt (1846-1932)(R12 #119) was a farmer. Charles Cushman Leavitt was one of Topsham’s Civil War veterans. He had been blind for four years. He was born in Brunswick, the son of William  and Ann Leavitt. He attended Prince’s Point Schoolhouse near his home. He enlisted in Company A of the 16^th Maine Regiment. A few years after his return from the war, he came to Topsham to live. He was for many years foreman at he feldspar quarry in Cathance. While working there he lost he sight in his left eye from an accidental explosion of powder. Following his recovery he took up farming. He was survived by his wie, Mrs. Lettie V. Leavitt(1850-1932)(R12 #119), two sons, John P. and Charles Leavitt Jr. both of Topsham. Lettie died at the home of her neice, Mrs. Omar Newell of Brunswick. She was born in Brunswick. After her marriage to Mr. Leavitt they went to reside at his home in Topsham on the Middlesex Road.

Raymond  F. Vigue (1903-1968)(R12 #120)married Frances M. Vigue (Froton)(Eaton) (1907-1994)(R12 #120). In 1941.He was born in Hallowell, the son of David Vigue (Canada) and Eva J. Peno (Vt).  He had the following sibllings: Evangeline (1903); Alford D. (1909); Annie V. (1911); Forest P. (1913); Donald L. (1916); and Ernest C. (1918).

William C. Eaton(1861-1918)(R12 #46)     Sept. 21, 1861; Aug.22, 1928. He was born in Phippsburg the son of Emery W. and Emily Tarr Eaton. He was educated in the schools of Georgetown where his family moved when he was a boy. He was a laborer in the paper mill. He married Nellie Chandler in 1894. He resided in Georgetown until 40 years before his death when the came to Topsham where he was employed by the Pejepscot Paper Co, until ill health forced him to retire. He was survived by his wife, Nellie T. Eaton (1869-1935)(R12 #46), two sons, Ernest and Ralph W.Eaton, Sr. and he had Ralph W. Jr. and a daughter, Miss Emily Eaton(1908), all of Topsham. Nellie T. Eaton was born in Bowdoin and daughter of George and Nancy Jane Chandler. She was survived by her two sons: Ernest Russell Eaton (1899-1971)(R12 #46), Ralph William Eaton; a daughter, Mrs. Edmund Brown all of Topsham and a sister Miss Lottie Chandler and a brother, George Chandler, both of Topsham and a brother, Henry Chandler of Priovidence, RI. In 1880 J. Edwin was a clerk in a store in Waldoboro and married to Melia Miller with a child Matta. Ralph W. Eaton Sr. (1902-1940)(R12 #120) died at his home on Green St., Topsham. He was born in Topsham, the son of William C. and Nellie (Chandler) Eaton. He had resided in Topsham all of this life until 1937 when his family moved to Brunswick. He attended Topsham High School and was graduated from Bliss Business College in Lewiston after which he was employed in Lewiston fo a short time. He had been employed for a number of years at the Pejepscot Paper Mill in Topsham. His survivors included his widow, Frances, Three sons, Ralph W. Eaton Jr.(1927-2000) (R12 #120), Gerald and Robert of Brunswick; a brother, Ernest and a sister, Mrs. Cmily Brown, both of Topsham

Sarah O. Cook   (1855-1942)(R12 #121)   Sarah was for twenty years (1916-1936 ) the Brunswick Police Matron and a one  woman welfare office. She added Topsham in 1919.

R12#124              Cook                                                                 Mother ???

Benjamin Ingalls(1875-1936)(R12 #121,122)         was superintendent of the paper mill. May have been step son of Harry Cook? He married Bertha M. Ingalls (1878-1969)(R12 #121,123)

John F. Hinds (1872-1948)(R12 #125) He had been a resident of Topsham for 50 years and lived on Main St. He was born in Randolph, the son of Charles and Fannie Noyes Hinds. He attended the schools of Gardiner and was employed by the Pejepscot Paper Company for 28 years. For several years, and until his retirement in 1945, he was the proprietor of the Pejepscot Filling Station. IN 1892 he married the former Nellie L. Reid (1873-1967)(R2 #125). His was survived by his wife, a son, Walter C. Hinds, a daughter, Bernice F. Prosser, both of Pejepscot; two brothers, Harry E. Hinds of Portland and Raymond Hinds of Gardiner.

William N. Field (1900-1942)(R12 #126). He lived on Pleasant St. in Topsham. He was a master mechanic with the Pejepscot Paper Company for 20 years. He was born in Old Town, the son of William and Mercie Field. He graduated from Old Town High School and the University of Maine. In 1922 he married Alana Corliss (1899-1976)(R12 #126) of Cherryfield who was then employed in the Pejepscot Paper Co. office. They moved to Topsham in 1923. He served as a member of the Topsham School Board and was chairman of the building committee during the construction of John A. Cone school. He was survived by his wife, three sons, William Jr. (1924-1977)(R12 #126,7) Pvt. US Army World War II; Gordon E.(1933-1951)(R12 #126) and James; three daughters, Barbara, Phyllis, and Priscilla, all of Topsham, his mother, a sister, Mr. Mertie Chapman of Kittery, two brothers, Melvin of Old Town and Charles of Akron, Ohio.               William Nathaniel Field Sr. (son of William Henry Field and Mercy “Mertie” E. Spencer) was born 11 Oct 1900 in Old Town, Penobscot, Maine, and died 03 Jun 1942 in Brunswick, Cumberland County, Maine. He married Allana A. Corliss on 04 Sep 1923 in Brunswick, Cumberland County, Maine, daughter of George H. Corliss and Myrtie “Mertie” Tracy. William attended Old Town High School, Class of 1918? and University of Maine at Orono, Me; Class of 1922. He was a Master Mechanic at Pejepscot Paper Co., Topsham, Sagadahoc, Maine and later in Management. He grew up in Old Town, Penobscot, Maine, from 1923 unit his death. He lived in Topsham,Sagadahoc, Maine; (1923-1929 on Winter Street, 1929-1942 at 16 Pleasant Street). William and Allana were married at the Baptist parsonage, Brunswick, Cumberland, Maine (Pastor H.H. Bishop). The 1930 U.S. Census shows William (29) and Allana (30) living in Topsham, Sagadahoc, Maine. William is listed as an Engineer at the Paper Mill. Living with them is William N. Jr. (5), Barbara L. (4) and Phyllis A. (3). Survivors included his wife, three sons, William Jr; who graduated on Thursday from the Old Town High School, Gordon and James; three daughters, Barbara and Phyllis both students at Brunswick High School and Priscilla, all of Topsham, his mother, Mrs. Mertie Chapman of Kittery, two brothers, Melvin of Old Town and Charles of Arkron Ohio. Children of William Nathaniel Field Sr. and Allana A. Corliss are: William Nathaniel Field Jr., b. 01 Jul 1924, Topsham, Maine, d. 22 Dec 1977, Portland, Cumberland County, Maine.Barbara Louise Field, b. 05 May 1926, Topsham, Maine.Phyliss Allana Field, b. 26 May 1927, Topsham, Maine, d. 24 Apr 1963, Machais, Washington, Maine.Priscilla Jeanne Field, b. 01 Sep 1930, Topsham, Maine.Gordon Elwyn Field, b. 28 Jun 1933, Topsham, Maine, d. 17 Oct 1951, Gardiner General Hospital, Gardiner, Kennebec County, Maine.James Field, b. 17 Feb 1938, Topsham, Maine

Hiram A. Ellis(1862-1940)(R12 #118)married Nettie W. Ellis (1861-1926)(R12 #118)Hiram’s parents were John (b. 1834) and Mary (1836) (he was an iron machinist). Hiram was in Portland Maine in 1900 with Nettie and he was a machinist on the Railroad.  One might speculate that Lewis O.(1889-1941)(R12 #128) may have been his son and Mabel S. Lewis’(1899-1979)(R12 #128) wife with daughter Carolyn Jean(1928)(R12 #128) their infant.

George Ellis(1830-1831)(R12 #116)was the son of William (b. 1801) & Miranda Potter Ellis. William was the son of Rev. Jonathan Ellis of Topsham and had a brother Asher(b. 1805) who married Clarissa Shepherd in Brunswick .

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Walter H. Mason(1890-1977)(R13 #1)      He married Affie May Mason (1892-1941)(R13 #1) He had 2 step daughter: Rose Farmer and Alice E. Farmer in 1920 and was a coal teamster.

Howard B. Small(1881-1967)(R13 #2)married Anna M. Small (1891-1941)(R13 #2)He was as assistant  judge for a racing association and she ran a lodging house. Howard’s mother was Harriet (1852) a dressmaker and he had siblings: Herbert Q (1873); and Ivan R. (1885). Howard and Anna had Thelma (1922) and Ray I (1931). Harold was a horse trainer as well.

Harold Grant Littlefield  (1901-1939)(R13 #3)married Elinor Scribner Littlefield (1903-1980)(R13 #3) Elinor was a public school teacher. They had: John H. (1927) and William (1934). He was a cement salesman in Connecticut in 1930.

Stanley Edmund  Davidson          (1902-1981)(R13 #4) married Mary Scribner Davidson (1919-1980)(R13 #4) He was a Boston Architect and they had: Stanley E. Jr. (Bartlett, NH); and three daughters: Temple of Topsham, Ruth Whipple of Vt. and Janet Madison of California. His parents were Harry E. and Grace W. Davidson of Massachusetts.

(R13#5)                Hedges monument

Philip E. Hedges(1900-1984)(R13 #7) married Robina M. Hedges(1904-1996)(R13 #6)They  had Philip E. Hedges Jr. who married, in 1954, Evenlyn M. Barnes and lived in Topsham.Philip Sr. was an insuance salesman.

Elton W. Noyes (1888-1972)(R13 #10)

Roy Hennessey, a senior at Topsham High School, son of William Hennessey, produced the first wireless outfit in Topsham, and having interested his chum, William  Elton Noyes in the plan they worked together to perfect two sets of apparatus in order that they might communicate with each other. Their homes were only a few hundred feet apart. His father was William Edward Sprague Noyes (1858-1942)(R13 #8), a college accountant, who lived on Winter Street. His mother was Ellen Clapp( Ellen H. Noyes) (1885-1939)(R13 #8) of Norton, Ma. William lived in Sudbury, MA and had a brother Maj. Frank Earl Noyes of Columbus, Ohio. His aunt was Mrs. Hattie Hennessey of Brunswick. He had sister Hazel M. born in 1893. His father had a second wife (1911) Nellie. Elton married Daisy Wade they had a child in 1917 given up for adoption. (Earl E. Noyes)( Earl E. Noyes)(1917-1973)(R13 #9). Roy Hennessey was the son of the second wife of Charles B. Hennessey who was the son of William Hennessey and Hattie May Noyes, his aunt. William S. Morgan (1858-1942) was a watchman with a dredging company in Portland. William’s wife was Nellie and earlier Emily. He had a granddaughter Dorothy Morgan who married William E. Morgan.  His son William Edward Noyes (1911-1993)(R13 #15)married Dorothy Carr Noyes (1917-1989)(R13 #14).

The aerial wire which receive and transmit through the air the wireless messages are rigged above the roofs of each house, and consist of two pieces of heavy stay wire parallel to each other and guyed to the chimney a few feet above the top of the house. From these aerial wires others are led to the ground and into the rooms where the apparatus is installed.

An induction coil, a half dozen dry batteries, a comparatively simple contrivance made from two files to produce the arc, a telegraph key and a telephone receiver are the main features of the outfit. But all of these things would be ineffectual without the little tube of iron filings.  That is one of the essentials of wireless communication. Wires enter at each end of a small glass tube filled with iron filings, and the electric current passes through the little particles of iron. Somehow this does the business. To secure the desired results it is necessary also to have a correct system of wiring and a somewhat delicate adjustment of the various parts. Naturally this requires considerable experimentation.

Mr. Hennessey learned from a magazine article something about the wireless system and in a trip to New York on the Fall River line had an opportunity to see the system in actual operation.  Having some knowledge of electricity and a natural genius for mechanics he set out to work to make an outfit on a small scale.

He and Mr. Noyes had both systems complete and for the first time in working order.

When the key is pressed at one station a buzzing sound is heard through the telephone received at the other station. This sound can readily be made long or short, thus giving the dots and dashes of the Morse code. These two men, however, are not satisfied with their present achievement. They are anxious to develop wireless telephony, and they are now experimenting with that in view.

Frank Earl Noyes              (1896-1999)(R13 #11)     Col. US Army World War I and II Korea.

R13#12 Noyes                                                               Father

R13#13 Noyes                                                               Mother

(R13#16)             Giveen monument

Clement M. Giveen(1870-1938)(R7 #36) was son of Thomas M. a lawyer,and Adelaide Purinton Giveen, with his brothers Harry M. Giveen (1875-1947)(R13 #19) who was a caterer and later a salesman at hardware store. He was born in Brunswick. The family moved to Topsham when he was a very young boy. He was survived by one sister, Miss Mary Giveen(1878-1971) (R13 #18),a school teacher;  and Charles I. (1872-1944)(R13 #21), a bank cashier.  Clement M. Giveen died in Millis, MA. He was born in Brunswick, the son of Mr. & Mrs. Thomas M. Giveen. He graduated from Topsham High School in 1887 and for many years was employed as an accountant for Maine Central, Boston and Maine and New Haven railroads. He was one –time foreman of the Androscoggin Engine Company. He was survived by his wife Charlotte Giveen (1875-1960)(R13 #17) of Millis, MA; two brothers, Charles I. and Harry M.

Katherine Seward Smith Merritt  Giveen (1879-1964)(R13 #20) married Charles Ingraham Giveen (1872-1943) (R13 #21) on 5 September 1917 in Brunswick, Maine. He was a cashier at the Pejepscot National Bank in Brunswick. They had: Robert Martin Giveen (1918) who married (1) Marilyn Louise Tennyson andf (2) Nancy; and Samule Merritt Giveen (1920) who married Laura Ann Cram. Katherine was the daughter of John P. Smith and Eunice Marietta Purinton and Charles was the son of Thomas  Martin Giveem amd Eliza (Adelaide) Purinton.

(R13#22)             Powers monument

Wallace M. Powers         (1882-1968)(R13 #23) married Sarah Merriman Powers (1878-1953)(R13 #24)

Benjamin R. Merriman   (1880-1949)(R13 #25) was born in West Harpswell, the son of Paul S. and Susan Randall Merriman. He attended Brunswick schools and for many years was employed in Shoe manufacturing in Freeport and Augusta. In early 1920 he joined the staff of the Augusta State Hospital where he remained until three years before his death. He was survived by two sisters: Mrs. Wallace Powers of Jackson Heights, NY.; and Mrs. Bruce Bitler of Northhampton, MA; a brother, Alden D. Merriman of Brunswick.

R13#26 Sprague Monument

George A. Sprague          (1887-1955)(R13 #27) was a farmer who married  Freda P. Sprague (1890-1941)(R13 #28). They had: Frederich F. (1913); Virginia H. (1919); George A.  Jr. (1926); Gloria K. (1929)

William H. Hall   (1887-1979)(R13 #29,33)               in 1920 was a laborer in paper mill, Livermore Falls. He married Helen H.Hall (1891-1979)(R13 #29,32)

Kenneth E. Hall  (1897-1986)(R13 #29,30) in 1920 was in Bath and a machinist at BIW. He married Rena M. Hall (1900-1981)(R13 #29,31).

Harvey L. Mackay (1883-1974) (R13 #34)was from New Brunswick Canada  He was married to Willa E.(1879-1941)(R13 #34).; they had a son Frank H. who was 18 in 1930. He also married Harriet M. (1895-1995)(R13 #34). Harvey, of the Lewiston Road died at a local nursing home, following a long illness. He was born in Northfield, Nova Scotia, January 11, 1883, the son of William and Deana Fancy MacKay. He moved to Livermore Falls as a young man and had lived in Topsham and worked as a mill wright at Pejepscot Paper Company since 1922. He retired May 11, 1956 after 35 years of service.
He was married to the former Harriet Rexford in Topsham, September 19, 1942. His first wife, Willa Corkum MacKay died in 1941. She died in New Germany. She was born in New Cornwal, the daughter of Samuel and E. (Nauss) Corkum. She had three brothers, Rodney of New Cornwall, William of Rockingham and John and a sister Beatrice.  Surviving besides his widow of Topsham was  a daughter, Mrs. Gerald Keith Cabot, Vt.; a son, Frank H. of Topsham; two step-daughters, Mrs. Viola Reed, Bowdoin and Mrs. Katherine Marr, Livermore Falls; a step-son, Arnold Tremoss, Manchester, N.H.; two grandchldlren and three great-grandchildren.Frank’s wife was Kataherine E. Ripley b. 1915 in Topsham and died 1973 in Brunswick; her father was Justus Richardson Ripley and her mother Eleanor Bertha Powers . (They appear in the MacKay Lot).

Howard W. Cushing (1901-1975) (R13 #35) married Martha F. Cushing (1900-1987)(R13 #35,39). His mother was Una A. Cushing (1874-1947)(R13 #35,37).There was a Una Cushing that married Arthur E. Buzzo in Bath in 1920. His sister was Lydia A. Cushing (1897-1975)(R13 #35,36)

John Graham Carrick and Enid Ambrose Smith had John Graham Carrick Jr. who was born in 1925 in Bellingham, Washington and died in 2002 of a stroke at South China,Maine. He married (1) Phyllis Adele Eggers Carrick (1823-1988)(R13 #38) in 1945 in New York City. She was the daughter of Edward Eggers and Lydia Dewing Cushing. They had: Diane Lee who married Daniel Rissell (1) and (2) Alistair David Keith-Hardy; Laurel Adelle who married Alan Roy Davis; and John Graham III (1956-1958)(R13 #38), who drowned in South Harpswell and was born in Bath, Maine. John Graham Carrick Jr. worked for IBM for 8 years and the as Chief of Data Processing for the Bureau of Accounts for the State of Maine. He divorced Phyllis in 1970 and remarried to Idona Marian Lawrence.

Howard F. Cushing (R13 #40)was born in 1901 in Cambridge, MA. He died in Topsham in 1975. He married Martha F. Hall. His father was Clarence H. Cushing, born in Pembroke, ME. in 1850,  and his mother was Mary Ann McManus born in Cambridge in 1861

Albert I Croston (1890-1944)(R13 #41,43)              was born at Groton, CT, son of John T. and Margaret Donley Croston. He was well known to Brunswick and Topsham people and came here from Hartford, CT in 1919 and was with H.C. Baxter and Bro as traffic manager in charge of shipping for 25 years. He also operated the Essex Junction, Vt. canning factory branch of H.C. Baxter and Bro for a while. He married    Ruth Tripp (1897-1982) (R13#41)of Topsham. He was an active member of the American Legion for 25 years, serving as finance officer for that organization in 1935 and 1936. He had one son George.

Richard E. Small  Sr.        (1941-1988)(R13 #45)     married Nancy Jean Mooers  Small               (1965)(R13 #46)

Herbert O. Small (1873-1939) (R13 #47)was the son of Bertha Harriet Kane Small and  grandson of Howard A. Small. He married Bessie G. Small (1880-1960)(R13 #48). They had: Florence A. Small(1919-1990)(R13 #49)and           Merton O. Small(1915-1995)(R13 #50)

Fred I Hall(1882-1955)(R13 #51,55) married Esther B. Alexander (1887-1953)(R13 #51,54). She was the daughter of Charles and Hattie Crowley Alexander. She attended local schools in Topsham and was married in 1909. She was survived by her husband and one son, Charles E. (1813-1980)(R13 #51,52) of Topsham who married Ruth P. Hall (1915-1995)(R13 #51,53); two sisters, Mrs. Edith Clifford of Portland and Mrs. Florence Laura of Malden, MA.  Fred  died at his home on Pleasant St. in Topsham. He was born in Topsham, the son of Alfred and Ella Stevens Hall and attended schools in Topsham. He was employed by the Pejepscot Paper Company for more than 30 years. He was survived by a son, Charles E. Hall(1913-1980)(R13 #51) who married Ruth P. Hall (1915-1885)(R13 #51) of Topsham; two brothers, Kenneth of Nashua, NH and Harry of Brunswick.

Norma L. Silver  (1938-1979)(R13 #56)     Not Forgotten. She was born Feb. 26, 1937(8) and died May 1979 in South Portland. There was a Norma L. Silver who was married to John  S. Silver and divorced him in 1978. They lived in Scarborough, Maine.

Margaret Silver (1895-1937)(R13 #56 ?)  There was a Margaret Silver who lived in Augusta and was the daughter of Michael and Mary Silver. She had siblings: Samuel (1874) Helen E. (1886); Thomas E. (1880); Jzames (1888); and Francis (1884). Her father was a shoemaker. A  Margaret Silver (Malia) died in 1937 in Portland, Maine. She was the wife of Leon W. Silver (1893) who was a conductor on the steam railroad. They had Barbara (1921); Virginia (1923) and Marie (1928). They were married in 1919.

Edward Charles Preble   (1881-1942) (R13 #58,57)  was born in St. Johnsbury Vt., the son of Charles and Nina (Bonnette) Preble of St. Johnsbury. He had lived in Topsham for two years and at the time of his death he resided in a house at the rear of Main Street and was employed at the Cabot Mill. He was a carpenter by trade. He was survived by his wife, Annie Shaw Carpenter Preble (1898)(R13 #57) of Topsham and four children: Virginia, Nina, Ella and Charles, all of St. Johnsbury, Vt.

Joseph F. Bartos Jr.(R13 #59)“Father” married Barbara A. Bartos (R13 #59) “Mother”. They had: Joseph F. Bartos III (R13 #59); Patti J. (R13 #59); Vicki L.(R13 #59); Robert E.(R13 #59);  and Trudi A.(R13 #59).  Patti had a daughter, Stephanie L. Bartos (1977-1977)(R13 #59,60).

Robert M. Wardwell       (1944-1996(R13 #61,59)SSG US Army  Vietnam   married Katherine E. Stonier in 1966 and Doris T. Saucier in 1983, from Augusta.

Barbara  A. Barrows(1938) (R13 #62)was the daughter of Russell and Thelma Barrows and sister to Patricia and Carolyn.

Zina B. Clifford  (1859-1950)(R12 #56) married Media L. Clifford (1858-1933)(R12 #56).Mrs. Media L. Clifford was of Auburn and died at her summer home at New Meadows. She was born in Bath, the daughter of Mrs. Ralph Morse McIntire. She married Zina B. Clifford in 1882 and lived in Bath, moving later to Pejepscot and to Auburn. She was survived by her husband of Auburn, a daughter Mrs. Grace Cobb of Auburn, and son George M Clifford of Topsham.

Elijah and Lydia A. Clifford of Bath had Zina Blair Clifford who married Media L. He was a millwright at the paper mill. They had: George M. (1884-1951) (R13 #63,59)who married Edith M. Clifford(1885-1958)(R13 #63,60)  She died at the home of her daughter Mrs. Maraguerite Winslow in Portland. She was born in Topsham, the daughter of Charles and Harriet Crowley Alexander. She attended Topsham schools and graduated from Topsham High School. She was active in the Topsham Grange for 40 years. She was survived by her daughter, a son, Cmdr. Georg M. Clifford, Jr.; one sister, Mrs. Florence Tauro of Malden, MA. They had George M. Jr. (1914-1988)(R13 #63) Cdr US Navy World War II  Korea Marker US, who married Jean B. (1925-) (R13 #6)and Grace M. (1886) who married Samuel Cobb.

Florence C. McDowell Colby        (1893-1979) (R13 #65) married Charles S. Colby (1924-1974)(R13 #65) and they had:  Ronald Charles  Colby Sr.(1925)(R13 #65) who worked at Pejepscot paper mill and ran Colby’s store. From 1967-85 was the postmaster of Pejepscot. Married Kathleen V. Chonko(1928) (R13 #65); They were famous for kielbasa. The had Ronald Jr.,Kevin M. Colby(1959-1988)(R13 #65,66);Gary and Scott.

James Coffin      (1799-1833)(R6 #173)M.D. He died at Pittston, He married Sarah T. Coffin (1804-1882) (R6 #173). They had a daughter Martha (1833).

Guy Parker Richardson  (1886-1957)(R13 #67)married Millicent D. Smith Richardson (1890-1967)(R13 #67). They had Helen Elizabeth Richardson (1915-1934)(R23 #67,68); Guy Parker Richardson Jr. (1919)(R13 #67); Ann Richardson(1920-2002)(R13 #67,69).

Robert W. Baker(1883-1973)(R13 #70) He married Belle Cornish  Baker (1891-1974) (R13 #70) in 1919.  He  was a researcher for the Maine Historical Society Survey in 1940. They had Robert C. Baker who married Barbara H. Baker (1915-1975) (R13 #70. Belle was the step daughter of Isaac Trufant who was a widowed carpenter.

William  Hughes (1889-1954)(R13 #71) Massachusetts;Pvt.Co.B 23 Infantry  World War I.

John Darrah (1884-1974)(R13 #72) married Gertrude E. Darrah (1895-1979)(R13 #72). She died in Sanford, Maine and had lived in Limerick, Maine.

Ralph A. Hascall Jr.          (1917-1981)(R13 #73)was the on of Ralph Sr. and Goldie M. of Auburn, He had a brother Frank M (1920) and sisters Evelyn O. (1914) and Shirley M. (1916). He had been an auto salesman and ran a hotel. He died in his home in Limerick, Maine.He  retired several years ago after working 30 years as a salesman for Smyly Buick in Saugus, Mass.He was a native of Auburn, Maine, and returned to Maine five years before his death, and for a time operated the Lincoln Hotel in Cornish, Maine. He served in the Army in World War II and was at Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attacked Dec. 7, 1941. He leaves his wife, Ruth (Darrah)(1920-1990)(R13 #73); a daughter, Diane Riggillo of Limerick; a brother, Frank M. of New Gloucester, Maine; a sister, Evelyn Wardwell of Carthage, Maine, and two grandchildren.He was born in Auburn, the son of Ralph Hascall Sr. and Goldie Miller Hascall. He was a U.S. Army veteran of World War II and was at Pearl Harbor at the time of the Japanese attack. Mr. Hascall moved to this area in 1975 and had previously resided in Saugus, Mass., where he retired from Smilie Buick after 30 years of employment. He owned and operated the Lincoln Hotel in Cornish for five years. John (Diane) Riggillo of Limerick; a brother, Frank M. of New Gloucester; a sister, Mrs. Evelyn Wardwell of Carthage; and two grandchildren.

Percy E. Pendleton  (1896-1972)(R13 #74)married Martha B. Pendleton (1897-1978)(R13 #74). He was a trucker for a hardware store. He had two step daughters: Alberta  Purington (1920) and Mary Purington (1923). They lived on Wilson street in Topsham. Martha had married James C. Purington prior to her marriage to Percy Pendleton.

Lewis T. Williams(1892-1966)(R13 #77)  was born in Bowdoin, the son of Moses and Mary Batten Williams. He had lived in Topsham for 40 years. He was well known as an oxen pulling contestant. He was survived by his wife, Mrs.  Retta D.Lewis Williams (1869-1960)(R13 #76), two sons, Elmer A. (1893-1972)(R14 #64), who married Annette D. Williams (1908-1949)(R14 #65), and Ralph Williams(1895-1956)(R13 #75), both of Topsham; two daughters, Mrs. Percy Pendleton of Brunswick and Mrs. Edward Kent of Port Chester, NY.

Avard Justin Doucett      (1876-1964)(R13 #78)     The 1900 census shows a Avard Justin Doucett in Augusta with wife Nattie(Henrietta) Austin and children Pauline (1899) and Mazie Elinor (1901); He was a box dealer there. In the 1920 census he is in Everett Mass. with wife Stella M Smith Doucett (1892-1978)(R13 #78) and no children. It could be with Stella he started a new family with Justin T. Doucette (1922-1945)(R13 #78,9) World War II  Cpl. First Marine Division Killed in action June14,1945 at Okinawa. Avard was superintendent of a box factory. He came from Prince Edward Island.

Herman C. Holbrook (1906-1974) (R13 #80,81) married Esther L. Holbrook  (Thompson) (1909-1984)(R13 #80,82). He was the son of Isaac H. and Georgia M. Holbrook. They had the following siblings: Georgia (1900) and Charles I (1904). Esther had two brothers: Augustus (1911) and Roland (1912). Herman and Esther had Herman Holbrook Jr. who married Gertrude Rancourt in 1948.

Maurice O. Thompson (1888-1943)(R13 #80)married Elsa F.(Kennedy) Thompson (1888-1953)(R13 #80). They had six children, one of whom was Ronald W. Thompson (1912) born in Durham, Maine and went to school in Lisbon Falls, Maine; and other was Esther L. (1910). Elsa was the daughter of Alexander and Esther J. Kennedy. Her parents were from Canada.

Julia Etta Watts (Petterson)Hasty              (1899-1964)(R13 #86)married Joseph L. Hasty of Topsham in 1951. Joseph had a pig farm at the Town farm and collected garbage. His father was Joseph Lewis Hasty and died in 1925. She was the daughter of George J. Watts and Julia Etta Hoyt of Brunswick.

Charles C. Chesley(1888-1953)(R13 #87) He married  Elizabeth Ingalls Chesley (1884-1952)(R13 #87). They lived on  School Street, Brunswick. She was born in East Wilton, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Luther Ingalls. She attended schools in Wilton and Farmington and taught beauty culture at Boston for many years.

Frank E. Carver(1881-1980)(R13 #88), in 1910, was an agent  for Tarbox express. In 1910 he had a wife: Gertrude A. Carver(1876-1955)(R13 #88) Hattie B.(?)  He held many offices in Topsham: Fire chief, Police Chief. He had been police chief in Topsham for over 27 years. He was born in Lewiston and came to Brunswick in 1916 when he was employed by the Atlantic Express Co. for 21 years. Aftrer selling the express business he and his wife ran a grocery store and sold when the renovation work began on the St. Ongre Block. They moved to Topsham and opened a grocery business and started a homemade bakery and later moved across the street into a building known as Carver’s Doughnut Sho. He was a well known orchestra leader util his illness in 1954 when his son began to conduct the orchestra. Frank was an accomplished musician specializing on the violin, drums and paino. He also worked as a conductor on the trolley and at the gates of Topsham Fair.

Guy Elmer  Cotton (1888-1937  ) R13 #89) was of Harpswell. Maine  Pvt. 151 Depot Brig. Feb. 23, 1937; Marker: US World War Veteran. Married Marjorie Preble(1902-1978)(R13 #90)  in 1924. He was appointed special police officer in Topsham In 1936. His parents were  Samuel F. Cotton and Martha J.B. Cotton (d.1928). Guy had a brother George Cotton.

Octave L. Pelletier (1922-2001)(R13 #91)Pfc US Army World War II. He married Marie Noella Chasse who was the daughter of Levy and Anne Chamberlain Chasse of St. Agatha. They moved to Brunswick in 1940. She married Octave in 1942. Her sister, Priscilla (1922-2005) married Wallace Pelletier in the same year. Marie had other siblings: Norman, Mabel Gaudreau, and Theresa Morin.  Judy K. Pelletier (1953-1978)(R13 #90) might well have been Octave and Marie’ daughter.

Roy Dickinson(1920-1988)(R13 #93,97)TEC 4 US Army World War II. He married, in 1945, Arlene A. Dickinson (1921) (R13 #97). They lived in Pejepscot. BRUNSWICK — Arlene Amber (Flaig) Dickinson, 90, passed away peacefully on Thursday, January 26, 2012 at Bodwell Hospice with family by her side.

She was born in Topsham on September 20, 1921, the daughter of Felix and Grace (Arno) Flaig. She was married to Roy Dickinson, Sr. December 1, 1945 in Lisbon Falls. Prior to her retirement in 1983 she was employed for 23 years by the Hearst Corporation, Pejepscot Paper Co.

She was survived by two daughters, Roberta Connolly and partner, Jack Driscoll, of Enfield, NH; Nancy Johnson and husband, David Johnson, of Orange Park, FL; three sons Roy Dickinson, Jr. and partner, Glenda Seagers, of Mt. Vernon, ME; Ronald Dickinson and wife, Linda, of Topsham, ME; Robert Dickinson of Brunswick, ME; a stepson, Bruce Dickinson and wife, Clarice, of Glenburn, ME; two brothers, Peter Flaig of Topsham, ME and Paul Flaig and wife, Mary, of Canton, GA; eleven grandchildren, seventeen great- grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by husband, Roy Dickinson, Sr., a brother, Charles Tarr, and a grandson, Timothy Johnson.

In earlier years she enjoyed camping with her family. She also enjoyed gardening, bird watching, walking, reading, listening to country music and attended local country music concerts with her friends. She was an avid Boston Red Sox fan.

Raymond J. Toothaker (1904-1981)(R13 #94)married Ida M. Toothaker (1905-1945)(R13 #94).              They lived on Elm Street in Topsham. She was born in Cundy’s Harbor the daughter of Joseph and Winifred Snow Murphy. She attended the schools of Harpswell and was graduated from Portland High School. In 1929 she married Raymon and they made their home on the River Road in Brunswick until in 1940 they moved to Topsham. She was survived by her husband.

Elizabeth M. Sedgley(1872-1944)(R13 #95)was a Levigneur and was born in Canada. She was the second wife of William S. Sedgley, a foreman at the Topsham Pulp mill.  He married Leulla S. Magoon in 1907; and then Pearl C. Wing (Denbow) in 1949. In 1931 he disappeared after he had an auto accident and went home and then took off. They dragged the river thinking a suicide. He was found in a hospital in New London Conn. Where they said he was brought in with a loss of memory.  He had taken a train from Brunswick on Labor Day and was not heard from until news came from the Conn. Hospital. Topsham Police Chief Carver went and got him. William was born in 1884. His last wife was 88 in 1953 . Pearl is buried in Bay View Cemetery in Bowdoinham her dats were (1895-1965). William died in 1970.

William F. Flaig  (1873-1937)(R13 #96)     who married Grace A. Flaig (1885-1975)(R13 #96). They were the parents of Arlene Dickinson  who married Roy Dickinson.

Harold B.Ridley (1888-1949)(R13 #98)     was a Maine Cpl 103 Infantry 26 Division World War I.  He was a former resident of Brunswick and died in Guilford. He was survived by his wife, Mrs. Louise Ridley, two brothers, Charles Ridley of Guilford and Woodbury Ridley of Concord, NH; two sisters, Mrs. William Hall of Livermore Falls, and Mrs. Mary Trufant.

R13#99 Wilson/Trufant/Hennessey Monument

Samuel Wilson  (1868-1940(R13 #100) died at his home on Maine St. in Brunswick. He was born in Cathance, the son of Horace and Josephine Trufant Wilson. He was married to Mabel Morang of Topsham in 1893 and they resided in Cathance for about twelve years. Later they moved to Topsham village until 1934 when they moved to Brunswick. He was employed by the Maine Central Railroad and the Maine Feldspar Company for many years.  He was survived by his widow, Mabel and a son Wilbur of Brunswick; three daughters, Mrs. Bertha Furbish and Mrs. Doris Hennessey of Topsham and Mrs. Gould Ruggles of Reading, MA; two sisters, Mrs. Maurice Luce and Mrs. Harry Grady both of Topsham.

Mabel Wilson(1876-1955)(R13 #101) was born in Brunswick, daughter of Charles and Abbie Nickerson Morang. She had resided in Topsham most of her life, in recent years on Pleasant St. She was survived by her daughters, Mrs. Melvin D.Furbish, Mrs. Elroy Hennessey, Topsham, and Mrs. Gould Ruggles, Reading , MA. a son Wilbur F. Wilson, Brunswick and a sister, Mrs. Lura Stimplson of Freeport. She was Mrs. Mabel M. Trufant, widow of Converse Trufant.

Converse P. Trufant(1872-1950)(R13 #102) He was the son of John A. Trufant and Sarah Abbie Stinchfield. He had the following siblings: Daisy (1861-1861); Nellie Ann (1`863); George O. (1869) and Leon May (1874). He married (1) Grace Caroline Blanchard. They had: Merle Etta (1906-1986) who married a Mace; and Anna Ellen, who married a Hague. He then married (2) Mabel Morang Wilson Trufant and had three step daughters; Mrws. C. Melvin Furbish; Mrs. Elroy Hennessey; and Mrs. Gerald Ruggles;  as well as a step-son Wilbur Wilson. Converse was, for 30 years, a blacksmith in Francistown, NH and was the blacksmith in charge of the electrified farm at the New York Worl’s Fair in 1935.

3. Elroy Hennessey (1910-1960)(R13 #103)married Doris W. Hennessey (1910-2003)(R13 #103.) He married the daughter of Mabel Wilson and Samuel Wilson. C. Elroy was an automotive salesman and Doris was a stenographer at the Cottle Mill. They had: Cynthia A. Hennessey (1933).

Howard A. Small (1805-1880)(R8 #143)married Rhoda and they had Eugene; Harriet E.; Wilis; ;Herbert L.; and Bertha M. Harriet Kane Small was the mother of Herbert O. who married Bessie G. and had Vera and Merton O.; Herbert S. (1863-1939)(R10 #94) and Huldah C. Hyde Small (1853-1944)(R10 #94) ;Cora I. Hollis E.; Edith E. and Elmer H. and Hollis S. (1889-1952)(R13 #150)     He was born in Topsham. He attended the Topsham schools and was employed by the Rogers Fuel Company for 10 years. He was survived by his wife, Coral  I. Dodge(1888-1039)(R13 #106), one daughter, Mrs. Edith E. Nevells of Stonington; two sons, Elmer H. Small (1927-1980)(R13 #104),Cpl. US Army World War II,  of Topsham and Hollis E. small of West Haven, Conn.; three sisters, Mrs. Fred Anderson of Rockland, Mrs. Eugene Babb of Canton, and Mrs. Minnie Hackett of Brunswick; two half-sisters, Mrs. Edith Prince of East Brunswick, and Mrs. Bessie Small of Brunswick.

James E. Vannah(1874-1946)(R13 #107)  died at his home on the Augusta Road in Topsham. He was born in Gardiner, the son of Creighton and Jane Dow Vannah. He had lived in Topsham for nearly 50 years and was employed by the Bowdoin Division of the Pejepscot Paper Co. for 42 years. He was survived by his widow. Mrs. Elizabeth Arris Vannah(1876-1958)(R13 #107) of Topsham, two brothers, Foss Vannah of Litchfield and Eugene Vannah of Gardiner. Elizabeth was the daughter of Eugene and Etta McFadden Harris. She attended Topsham schools. For several year she resided in New York State, returning to Topsham 40 years before her death.She was survived by a sister, Mrs. Ivie Mabee of Lubec; a brother, William Harris of Georgtown.

William H. Arris (1881-1959) (R13#108)    was the son of Eugene and Etta (1854) Arris. Etta was working in the cotton mill and William a laborer in the paper mill. He had siblings: Lizzie (1877) and Ivey N. (1878).

Benjamin P. Look (1863-1954)(R13 #109) was born in Madison and the son of Davis and Elizabeth Pettingill Look. For about 30 years he farmed on the Meadowbrook road in Topsham. He moved to Bath 6 years before his death to reside with a neice, Mrs. Louise Brown. He married Annie M. Look   (1855-1944)(R13 #109) of Canada.

Leslie J. Brown   (1876-1948)(R13 #110)   He married Gladys E. Morse Brown (1885-1947)(R13 #110) who lived in Richmond and died at her home on the Langdon Road. She was born in Litchfield, the daughter of Robert and Nora Little Morse. She was survived by her husand, Leslie Brown of Richmond, two daughters, Mrs. Frankllin Thorne of Topsham and Mrs. Herbert Higgins, Jr. of Bowdoin; two sons, Ernest Washburn of Freeport, and Wentworth Washburn of Durham; two sisters, Mrs. Bell Mitchell and Mrs. Ina Lovering; one brother, Charles Morse of Brunswick.

Mrs. and Mrs. Ernest E. Gammon had twin sons: Harold Gammon (R13 #111) and Harwood Gammon (1947)(R13 #111). Ernest (1910-1977) is buried at Haley Cemetery in Topsham.

(Joseph Theophile) Teophile  J. Harvey(1880-1952)(R13 #112) was a teamster at Pejepscot Paper Company. His sister was Mrs. Marie (Harvey) Gamache of Oak Street in Brunswick . He was naturalized from Canada in 1904. He was the brother  of Pauline A. Harvey who married George L. Field Jr.

George L.eon  Field Jr. (1909-1944)(R13 #112,113)married Pauline A. Field (1912-1962)(R13#112,114.) they had William H. (1942-44) (13 #112) and George Leon Field III, (1940-2012).He was born in Topsham to George L. Field, II and Pauline Harvey Field. George lost his grandfather, George Field, I; his father, George Field, II and his brother, William Field in a fire at the family home. This event led to George’s passion to serve his community on the Warren Fire Department. He attended schools in Warren, Brunswick and Florida. He was raised by his mother and step-father, Herbert Day.

(R13#115)           Field                                                                  Son (William H. Field)

(R13#116)           Field                                                                  Uncle (Theophile J. Harvey).

(R13#117)           Belanger              Monument

Roland J. Belanger           (1916-1985)(R13 #120)   He was the son of Micheal and Emma Belanger from Canada. He had siblings: Alfred (19150; Raymond (1921); Constance (1923); Lucien (1927) and Lorette (1930). Roland was a weaver at the cotton mill. He married Pauline R. Belanger              (1921-2001)(R13 #119) who was Pauline R. Wright, daughter of Floyd M. (1900) and Bertha E. (1900) and sister to Floyd M. Wright Jr. (1925) They had J. Raymond Belanger               (1942-1963)(R13 #118)   .

George A. Patten(1867-1946)(R13 #121) was the son of C.T. & C.C. Patten. He died at the White Gable Sanitorium in South Natick, MA. where he had been a patient since 1944. He was born in Topsham, the son of Charles T. and Cynthia Curtis Patten. He attended Topsham schools and the Franklin Boarding School in Topsham. He went to Boston in 1888 and was associated with the Linscott Motor Company until his retirement in 1930. In 1905 he married Florence Smalley of Chelsea, MA who died in 1907. From 1930 until the time he entered the sanitorium in 1944, he spent his summers at Topsham with his brother, E.C. Patten.

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Harvey H. Mahar (1881-1947)(R14 #1)  was born in Wiscasset, the son of Wiliam and Louise Groves Mhar. He was a paper-maker for 40 years, retiring from Pejepscot Paper Company because of ill health 6 months before his death. He was survived by his eife, the former Beulah Curtis Mahar (1878-1966)(R14 #1), a daughter, Mrs. Rught E. McCord of New York; and a brother, Dexter Mahar of Braintree, Mass.

Daniel J. McCord (1903  -1971)(R14 #1)   He married Ruth E. Mahar McCord (1904-1990)(R14 #1) in 1933. His residence was Boston, MA.  Ruth was the daughter of Harry H. and Beulah Mahar (he was a papermill laborer).

Harold J. McManus         (1879-1952)(R12 #2) He was born in Brunswick, the son of Daniel and Emma Pride McManus and attended the Brunswick schools. In 1914 he married Miss Minnie Neil McManus (1888-1969)(R14 #2).  He was employed by the Pejepscot Paper Company for 35 years until his retirement in 1946. He was survived by his wife and two daughters, Mrs. William Powers and Mrs. Albert Saindon, both of Brunswick; two sons, Daniel McManus of Harpswell Center and Harold F. McManus of Topsham, and one brother, Charles F. McManus of Arlington, MA.

Capt. Robert McManus (1800)(1905) married Mary D. Purinton (1813-1905) they had Priscilla T. who was born  in Topsham in 1842 and married  Wildes Perkins Walker; Joseph R. Mcmanus (1819) a farmer in Topsham married Esther (1819) and they had Ella (1852); Albert F. (1854); and Daniel (1850) who married Emma and they had Harold  H. (1880) who married Lydia (1890) and then Minnie A. (1888). With Lydia he had Etta L. and Daniel A.; and with Minnie he had Priscilla T. (1927).

John Decoven Berry(1883-1972)(R14 #3) married Ruth Davenport Berry (1887-1944) (R14 #3). She lived with her husband on   the Mere Point Road, Brunswick. She was born in Boston, the daughter of Rubin Winslow Davenport and Alice Windsor Wheeler Davenport. She married Mr. Berry in 1930 and came to Brunswick to make her home on Decoven Farm, where she died. She had been active in writing for various publications and contributing poetry. She was survived by her husband, her brother, Llewellyn Dana Davenport of Santa Barbara, Calif.; and a sister, Miss Edith Davenport of Topsham.

Herman C. Douglas(1915-1992)(R14 #6)  married Anna I. Douglas  (1922)(R14 #5). He worked as an assembler in the shoe shop. Herman was the son of Albert M.Douglas and Adella . He had siblings: Minnie (1896) who married Walter S. Plummer; Albert B. (1900); Clifton (1902); Laura E. (1905); Lynwood (1908); Edward L. (1910); Daniel F. (1912); Winifred (1918); and Stanton S. (1920). His wife was Anna I. Griffing, daughter of Clarence E. and Ione E. Griffing.

(R14#4 )               Griffin/Douglas Monument

Clarence E. Griffing         (1900-1955)(R14 #8). He was born in Long Island, NY, the son of George C. (1876-1950) (R14 #10)and Ione E. Terrell Griffing(1879-1967)(R14 #9) . He graduated from Brunswick High School and in 1921 married the former Wilhelmina Griffing (1902-1975)(R14 #7) (Minnie) Fitz. He had been employed at the Pejepscot Paper Mill, the Maine Central Railroad and Bath Iron Works. Since 1947 he and his wife had operated ther Griffing Nursing Home in Topsham. He was survived by his wife; his mother, Mrs. George C. Griffing of Topsham; one son, George C. Griffing II; two daughters, Mrs. Joseph Kachinski of Topsham and Mrs. Herman C. Douglas of Topsham; one sister, Mrs. Thelma Martin of Topsham.

Thomas C. Cutler(1877-1958) (R14 #12)was a clerk with Maine Central Railroad Company.            He was a resident of Topsham for 50 years. He was born in Bowdoinham, the son of Alonzo and Katherine Peasley Cutler. He received his education in the Bowdoinham schools. He was employed for more than 40 years by the Maine Central Railroad, serving as a yard clerk prior to retiring in 1942. When a young man he served as an afterdeck hand on pleasure crafts owned by summer residents in the state. He married, in 1890, to the former Myrtie (Mertie) Brown Cutler(1878-1945)(R12 #13). They had Thelma Eleona who married Cecil Raymond Good. (she died 2010).; Robert; Merrill. Myrtie was the daughter of Alpheus and Eleona Brown. She was a graduate of Framington Normal School and was a teacher until her marriage to Mr. Cutler in 1906 going to Topsham to make her home in the fall of that year. Whe was the secretary and lecturer as well as pianist for the Topsham Grange. Surviving her were: her husband; a daughter Mrs. Thelma E. Good of Topsham; two sons, Pfc. Merrill Cutler, USA, stationed at Rome, Ga. And Robert E. Cutler, who was in the Navy.Upon moving to Topsham in 1905, they purchased the property on Pleasant Street which had been the family home for 45 years. He ws survived by a daughter, Mrs. Cecil R. Good of Topsham; two sons, Robert E. Cutler of Richmond and Merrill A. Cutler of Topsham; a sister, Mrs. Florence Hamblin of Norgate, Long Island, NY.

Cecil Raymond  Good     (1907-1980)(R14 #15)     CRM US Navy and married, in 1941, Thelma Eleona Cutler who died in 2010. They had Wayne Thomas (1944-1998)(R14 #14,11)SN US Navy Vietnam, who married Linda R.; and Sandra D. who married Paul E. Nickerson (d. 2006)

Walter L. Walker(1874-1965)(R14 #16)married Mary C. Walker (1885-1963)(R14 #16). He was the son of Stephen Walker. He was a grocery store salesman, a weaver in the cotton mill and a laborer with WPA in 1940. They had Sadie M. 91908) who marred Purington Crosman.

Jack T. White(1924-1944)(R14 #16)In memory of Lt. Jack T. White. Killed in WWII in the USAAF. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. William White of Bridge St. in Topsham. He married, in 1944, Miss Mary Crosman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Puringon Crosman of 24 Jordan Avenue in Brunswick.

William L. White(1889-1972)(R14 #17), a building carpenter,  married         Beatrice H. Tarr White(1894-1973)(R14 #17) in 1916, who had Jack T. White and  W. L. White(1921-1989)(R14 #18)World War II; Betty and Virginia.

Frank Clark (1889-1950)(R14 #19) He was a US. World War Veteran and  was born in Eastport and died at Togus. He was the son of Judson and Anna Malloch Clark. He married Susie Gertrude M. McDougall. They had Frank Edward Earl McDougall (1912-1979)(R14 #20) who married Phyllis Romanyne Ricker Clark (1914-1991)(R14 #20),the daughter of Arthur Wilbur and Helen Gertrude Barnes Ricker (1892-1967) (R14 #19) who was the daughter of Charles H. and Marcia A. Green C. Barnes. Frank was a laborer at the pulp mill in Pejepscot.

(R14#19)             Clark      Monument

Jennifer Lynne Hart(1972-1975)(R14 #21)was the daughter of David and Elaine Clark Hart   Davi C. Hart was born in 1950 in Bath and died 1993 in Phippsburg. He is buried in Grove Cemetery in Bath; Elaine Clerk Hart was the daughter of Frank Edward Earl McDougall Clark and Phyllis Romayne Ricker, who was born in Topsham, the daughter of Arthur Wilbur and Helen Getrude Barnes Ricker.

Harry B. White(1891-1970)(R14 #22,23), a store owner, married Carrie B. Christopher White (1898-1987)(R14 #22,24). His father was William J. White, a farmer and his mother was Ada. His father was from Ireland and his mother from Nova Scotia. His siblings were: Thomas (1893); Ralph (1894); Lillian (1896);  HJohn D. White (1897-1985)(R14 #25)Sea US Navy  World War I ; Westley  (1898). Harry and Carrie had: Dorothy L. (1920) ad Beverly (1934).

William J. Kilbride(1897-1950)(R14 #26)  died at his home in Pejepscot. He was born in Prince Edward Island, the son of Patrick and Elizabeth McKinnon Kilbride. He was employed at Pejepscot Paper Company for nearely 35 years and as a veteran of WWI. He was survived by his wife, Mrs. Marion Barnes Kilbride(1902-1997)(R14 #26); they had two sons, William Jr. of Topsham and Charles Herbert (1925-1998)(R14 #26), US Army World War II, of Brunswick; a daughter, Miss Margaret Kilbride of Pejepscot; two brothers, George of Brunswick, and Patrick of Portland; two sisters, Mrs. Jennie Millett of Portland and Mrs. Jennie Barnes of Topsham.

Howard Lincoln Roy IV   (1966) (R14 #29).

Matthew E. Libby            (1976-1977)(R14 #30)

Howard Lincoln  Carr(1893-1982) (R14 #31,36); Mem. Co. A.24th Me.Reg. Vols. married Hazel L.Noyes (1893-1990)(R14 #32)and lived on Winter St.  They had Howard Lincoln. Jr (1921)(R14 #,28). ; Edna Louise Estabrook  (1926) (R14 #28); Lucille (1926); and Frances 1920; Barbara J.(1932-1932) (R14 33) and Mary Edna (1958-1958) (R14 #34)must be grandchildren.

R14#37 Strout/Graves   Monument

John M. Graves (1881-1961)(R14 #42) married Bertha Staples Graves (1886-1949)(R14 #41). They were the parents of  Irene Graves  Strout         (1909-1965)(R14 #40) who married  George Strout (1912-1998)(R14 #38,39)Msg US Army World War II, a laborer at the ship yard married

George Ernest Barrows (1878-1969)(R14 #43,44) married Gertrude Small (1882-1956)(R14 #4345).She died at her home on Belmont St. in Brunswick. Her husband had just retired from Pejepscot Paper Company. She was born in Bowdoin, the daughter of Joshua and Cynthia Newell Small; she was educated in the schools of her native town and in Lisbon Falls.  She was married to George in 1900 and lived in Topsham for a number of years before moving to Brunswick. She was survived by her husband, and three sons, F. Thaxter and Reginal C. Barrows (1919-1971) (R14 #43,46)of Brunswick  and Russell F. Barrows of Topsham; three daughters, Mrs. Lendall Stilphen of Orr’s Island, Mrs. Maynard Young of Aubusta, and Mrs. Fred Gilley of Vassalboro; a brother, Thaxter Small of Madison. They had Bernice Anna (1909-1929) who married Benjamin Carol Field (1905-1930); Ruth C. (1905-1981 Russell Fenton Barrows (1908-1988) (R14 #49) whomarried L. Thelma Dore Barrows (1913-2005) (R14 #49)and they had Barbara Ann Patterson (1938-2010); and F. Thaxter  (1902-1986) (R14 #51)who married M. Catherine Colby (1905-1966) (R14 #52) and they had Ruth B. (1923)(R14 #55) who married Ernest  M. Crowther Jr. (1921) (R14 #56) and had: Robert E, Richard A., Gary T., Ernest M., and James K., Carol Elaine (1948-48)(R14 #53), and Steven Mark (1958-1967) (R14 #54)

Maynard Robbins Young(1900-1981)(R14 #47)    married Ruth Young(1904-1981)(R14 #47). Maynard was a teacher in Mexico, Maine before become a postal clerk in the Augusta, Maine Post Office. In 1942 he was elected President of the Maine Branch of the National Federation of Postal Clerks.  He was the son of Leslile S. Young (1874) and Alice Robbins (1873). He had siblings: Olive P. (1905); and Carroll E. (1907).  He and Ruth had: Maynard . Jr. (1926) who married Ruth C. Barrows, who was born in Topsham, the daughter of George Barrows; Bernice (1930); Cynthia G. (1933) and Elaine P. (1936).

(R14#48) Barrows            Monument

(R14#50) Barrows/Growther       Monument        

Emerson Hersey Nye (1862-1935) (R12 #84) died in his home in Melrose Highlands, MA. He was born in South Orrington. He married Miss Lizzie M. Wilson(1863-1955)(R12 #84) of Topsham and they lived in Roxbury, MA for many years later moving to Melrose Highlands. Mr. Nye served on the Boston police force for over 40 years. They passed summer vacations at their summer home in Topsham on Winger street and entire summers after his retirement. He is survived by his wife and three daughters. Lizzie died at her home in Melrose, MA. She was a native of Topsham, born on the tract of land the Wilsons were granted by the Pejepscot Proprietors. She was born on the top of Winter St. hill which served as her summer home for over 70 years. She was the mother of Priscilla Matilda Nye (1894-1965)(R12 #84) of Melrose, Elsie Augusta Nye (1900-1975)(R12 #84)of Waltham, and Mrs. Edwin H. Oliver of Hingham, MA. Marion Nye(1891-1972)(R14 #57) married Edwin H. Oliver(1891-1972)(R14 #57).

Buchard Gordon(1918-1987)(R14 #58,60) married Naomi G. Gordon (1928-2008)(R14 #58) She died in Freeport. She and Burchard had: Kenneth D. Gordon who married Tricia and died in 1952; Dennis; and Larry and  Wayne Allen Gordon (1948)(R14 #59). Buchard was the son of Guy Gordon (1890) and either (1) Sadie (1898) or (2) Gertrude (1898). His sibling was Manville (1915) who was a cook in a restaurant. His father was a barber in Brunswick. He and Naomi were married in Brunswick on Dec. 7, 1947.

Mary E. Farrell (1893-1967)(R14 #61)

John H. Pennell (1900-1947)(R14 #61) married  Elizabeth F. Pennell (1901-1987)(R14 #61). They had Elizabeth F.; William H. and Alice.

Charles S. Pennell(1897-1968)(R16 #14,15)US World War 1917-1918, Maine Pvt 309 Aux Rmet Depot QMC  married Bertha M. Pennell (1897-1982)(R16 #14).

Woodbury Haskell  Ridley(1886-1961)(R14 #62) who        married, in  1910,(R14 #62)                      Emma   Z. Soule (1892-1971)of Brunswick, Maine. Woodbury was the son of Mary Ridley and had siblings: Mark A. (1885); Harold B. (1880) and Hattie H. Hall (1891). In 1920 he lived in Worcester, MA. and was a gangleader on the railroad. They had a son Woodbury H. (1914). He was employed  as a a plumber by the Boston and Maine Railroad. They also had Arthur Albert Ridley who died from malnutrition from Birth (1916-1917) 6 months old. Emma was a servant in Lindley and Martha Varney home before her marriage. She was the daughter of William Soule(1859) of Topsham and Estella Curtis (1867) of Richmond. Her birth name was Zephy Emma Soule. She had the siblings: Florence M. (1887); Gertrude (1894) and Cora M. (1899). Her father was an motorman on the electric railway.

Daniel E. Hall Sr. (1876-1953)(R14 #63)    He died at his home in Bath. He was born in Topsham, son of Alfred and Sarah Stevens Hall. He has been employed at the Bath Iron Works since 1932 and was a former employee of the Pejepscot Paper Company. He was survived by his wife, Mrs. Ruby Currier Hill(1878-1960)(R14 #63), a daughter,Mrs .George Freeman of Bath; three brothers, Harry Hall of Brusnwick, Fred Hall of Topsham, and Kenneth Hall of Nashua, NH.

Adelard J. Tranque(1903-1966)(R14 #66)married Georgia A. Tranque (1900-1950)(R14 #66). He was a paper mill worker.

Edgar H. White  (1883-1948)(R14 #67) lived in Cathance. He was born in Sullivan. He was employed by the Bath Iron Works for 20 years. Surviving him was his wife, Mrs. Mary E. Garland White (1886-1969) (R14 #67)of Topsham. Four sons: Everett of Bath, Arthur and James of Bowdoinham, and his stepson, Russell of Cathance.; five daughters, Mrs. Nina Estes of Upper Gloucester, Mrs. Nellie Joslyn of Coopers Mills, Mrs. Rena Williams of Cahtance, Mrs. Annie Irish of Cathance, and Mrs. Annie Curit of Freeport; five sisters, Mrs. Ethel Cornish of Woolwich, Mrs. Carrie Garland of Belfast, Mrs. Grace White of Jonesport, Mrs. Nettie Foster of Bar Harbor and  Mrs. Marian Davis of New Hampshire; and three  brothers, George and Walter of Brunswick and Joseph of Cathance.

Frederick T. Williams       (1906-1971)(R14 #69)F1 US Navy . He married Rena F. Williams (1914-1975)(R14 #68). He was a driller at the Iron Works. They had Edward (1931); Louise (1933) and Frederick T. Jr. (1934) who married Evelyn L. Gould in 1955.

Moses E. Hackett married Clara M. Hackett (1866-1950)(R14 #70)She died at the Topsham residence of her daughter, Mrs. Roy B. Colby. She was born in LaCrosse, Wis., the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gustv Berger. She came to Topsham from Aberdeen, S.D. in 1934 and made her home with Mr. and Mrs. Colby after that. She was survived by her daughter, Mrs. Colby; two brothers, George Berger and Fred Berger of LaCrosse, Wis; three sisters, Mrs. William Culp of Minneapolis, Minn.; Miss Ruby Berger and Miss Margaret Berger of LaCrosse.

Roy B. Colby      (1892-1979)(R14 #71)married Hazel I. Colby(1900-1977)(R14 #71) the daughter of Moses E. and Clara M. Hackett. Roy was a traveling salesman for a paint factory.

Frank K. Crosman (1909-1997)(R14 #72) married Hattie P. Crosman (1916-1948)(R14 #72). She was murdered by Ewin A. Russell who also murdered her sister-in-law, Mabel R. Crosman Russell.  She was born in Freeport. She was survived by her husband, Frank K. Crosman; three daughters, Joyce, Frances, and Beverly; five sisters, Mrs. Milton Dill, Mrs. Stanley Corlis, Mrs. Ralph Cleves, Mrs. Albert Young and Mrs. Maynard Pinkham; two brothers, George L. Hale and Nathan Hale.

Mabel R. Crosman (Russell) (1912-1948)(R14 #72) She and Frank were children of William S. and Nellie G. Crosman. Mabel R. Crossman was the wife of Edwin A. Russell. Under the strain of debt, unemployment and a broken family he murdered her and her sister-in-law Hattie  Crosman on River Road and then committed suicide. The only witnesses were four children, her daughter Jeanette Russell, Beverly Crosman, Frances Crosman and Joyce Crosman (ages ranging from 10-5). His father stood by while he did this.  She had just left him and moved across the road to be with her brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Crosman and she took her daughter with her. Mabel R. Russell was born in Brunswick and was survived by her daughter and her father, William S. Croman of Topsham, three sisters, Mrs. Walter Cressey of Pejepscot, Mrs. Roland Beane of Topsham and Mrs. Viola Mortimer of Pejepscot; two brothers, Frank W. Crosman of Topsham and Edwin L. Crosman of Lisbon Center.

Alfred A. Parks, born in 1862, lived in Bath Maine and was a carpenter at the shipyard. He married Jennie J. Cripps (1878-1953)(R14 #73) Mrs. Jennie J. Cripps was the widow of George D. Cripps. She was a native of St. John N.B. and lived there before coming to Topsham to live at the home of her son Charles C. Parks on Wilson Street. She had only lived here two weeks. She was the daughter of George and Fannie Higgins Pearce. After finishing her schooling there she moved to Bath and lived until 1917. She was survived by three daughters, Mrs. Myrtie Stinson and Mrs. Forrest R. Lewis of Bth amd Mrs. Edwin P. Hanks of East Greenwich, RI; five sons, Charles Parks of Topsham, Alonzo V. Parks of Portsmouth, NH., Frank Parks of Stapleton, NY, E. Raymond Parks and Alfred A. Parks of Bath; two sisters, Mrs. Arthur Holland of Everett, MA, and Mrs. Lena Elliott of St. John, and a brother, George Pearce of St. John.  Alfred and Jennie had:  Beatrice (1918); Alonzo W. (1900); Myrtle R. (1902); Allendre F. (1904); Jennie F. (1906); Charles C. (1908); Eugene R. (1912); Alfred A. (1915). Alfred was from French Canada.

Charles Clifford Parks Sr.(1909-1983)(R14#74) was the son of Alfred A. Parks and Jennie J. Cripps.  Charles married Robert (1917). He worked as a clerk at the shipyard. Charles was the son of Alfred A. (1872) and Jennie (1878) of Canada. He had siblings: Beatrice (1898); Alonzo W. (1900); Alendal R. (1904); Jennie J. (1906); Eugene R. (1912) and Alfred A. Jr. (1915).

William H. Rowe(1911-1981)(R14 #75)married Natalie F. (1910-1999)(R14 #75)and they had David G. Rowe  (1935)(R14 #75) William was a fish culturalist and trout farmer in Buxton, Maine. His parents were: William (1873) and Katherine (19874) of Buxton, Maine. David lived in Topsham.

George L. Wright(1869-1952)(R11 #23,25) died at his home on the River Road in Brunswick. He was born in Bath, the son of George and Mary Tarr Wright. For several years he operated the old Tontine Laundry in Brunswick and later worked for the Pejepscot Paper Company, then in the feldspar mill in Topsham. Later he had been a fire warden at the Mount Ararat fire tower before his retirement. He was survived by his widow, the former Eliza Johnston, a son, Floyd M. Wright of Brunswick; a sister Mrs. Mabel Andrews of Auburn.          He had married Anna B.Hughes  Wright (1869-1932)(R11 #23,24). They had Floyd M. Wright (1899-1953)(R14 #76) who lived on Maine Street in Brunswick. He was born in Topsham.He was employed as a mill hand at the Pejepscot Paper Company. He was survived by his wife, the former Bertha E. Richards(1899-1966)(R14 #76); a daughter, Mrs. Pauline Belanger; and a son, Floyd M. Wright Jr. (1924-1998)(R14 #77) He lived on Maine Street in Brunswick. He was born in Topsham, the son of George L. and Annie Hughes Wright. He was employed as a mill hand at the Pejepscot Paper Company. He was survived by his wife, the former Bertha E. Richards; a daughter, Mrs. Pauline Belanger; and a son, Floyd, all of Brunswick., all of Brunswick.

(R14#78)             Eaton    Monument

Fred E. Eaton(1896-1948)(R14 #79)  was born in Topsham, the son of Abile and Nellie Tibbets Eaton. He attended schools in Topsham and was a veteran of WWI. For 25 years he was employed by the Verney Mill. He was survived by his wife, Mrs. Stella Eaton (1892-1986)(R14 #80) who was the daughter of Fred and Grace Collins Eaton and was born in Monmouth. She and Fred E. had: Doris M. (1920-1999) (R14 #81) who married Howard Riske Sr.of Groton, CT; and Philman S. (1918-1998)(R14 #81).

Joseph Barnis (1876-1951)(R14 #83) Obituary in Brunswick Record Dec. 13, 1951 pg. 4. There was a Joseph Barnis in Rumford, Oxford County working at the paper mill in 1918 with a brother Charles. They were from Russia or England.

Wallace G. Quint (1883-1954)(R14 #84), a farmer, married Eliza M. (b. 1883). He was the son of Samuel Perkins Quint (1825-1887) and Mary Goud (b. 1832). His siblings were: Alden Bradford (1851); Alden P. (1852); George L. (1853); George Lamb (1856); Jennie A. (1860); Samuel G. (1864); Lilla M. (1857);  and Mary. Wallace’s farm burned completely on Aug. 16, 1921. It was next to the Henry Cornish home.

Row 15

Maynard H. Tarr(1893-1965)(R15 #1)married Gertrude A. Tarr (1890-1980)(R15 #1)They had: James Howard Tarr (1914-1914)(R15 #1); an infant (1915)R15 #1) and an infant (1920)(R15 #1). Maynard was the son of James A. Tarr (1859-1930) and Martha Lena Tedford (1865-1917). He was a farmer and cattle raiser.

15#2      Dolloff  Monument

William A. Dolloff (1872-1930)(R15 #3) He lived on Mallett Road in Topsham. He was born in Webster, the son of Wiliam F. and Clara P. (Kimball) Dolloff. He came to Topsham when a boy and made his home with Mr. and Mrs. Emery C. Mallett. He married Lizzie Allen Dolloff (1860-1920)(R10 #48) of Bath in 1916 who died a few years before he did.She  ; died of influenza; was daughter of Warren and Martha (Pearce) Allen; She was born in Bath and taught scool there for 30 years; moved to Topsham.In 1922 he married Amy C, Marston Dolloff (1885-1957)(R15 #4). He was survived by his second wife, two sons: William and Arthur; a sister, Mrs Lizzie Small of Lisbon; and two brothers: John of Topsham, and Charles of Augusta.

Carl B. Swanton (1894-1966)(R15 #5,6) Maine PHM2 US Navy World War I , married Mildred  I. White  Swanton (1897-1981)(R15 #5) He was a pipe inspector at the shipyard. They had: Elizabeth M. (1922); Alma C. (1924); Joseph E. (1926); and Carl B. Jr. (1928).  Mildred was the daughter of Lucien and Irene M. White.

Siegar Monument

Frank  T. Seigars (1899-1975) (R15 #7) married Florence  Cool Seigars (1896-1985) ( R15 #7). They had: Barbara Seigars  Page(1926-2001)(R15 #7,8) who had Trent Lincoln Page  (1951-1998)(R15 #7,9). Frank was a member of the Merrymeeting Sportsmen Club. Frank was the son of Frank H. (farmer) (1857) and Emily F. Tyndall (1859).

Carl Raymond Stone(1893-1963)(R15 #11)was the son of Charles & Olive Stone.  He married Alma M. Stone (1892-1957)(R15 #10). (2) Pearl . Carl was born in Lisbon, Maine and went to Bates College and spent most of his life as a high school history teacher in Springfield, MA.  His father came from Lisbon and his mother from Topsham.  Carl and Alma had: David L. (1923); Bruce G. and Bryant T. (1927).  Carl had siblings: Ethel; George Frederick; Harold; and Frank.

Thomas E. Estabrook (1880-1958)(R15 #12), a farmer born in Canada, married Miriam L. Estabrook (1886-1967)(R15 #12) had  Frances (1877); Martha (1880) and Richard W.Estabrook(1912-1972)(R15 #12) who married Elizabeth (Betty)  P. Estabrook (1811-2005)(R15 #12). She lived in Bucksport Maine.  She was born in Portland and lived a short time with Richard in Berlin, NH before they moved to Bucksport. She and Richard had: Thomas W.; Nancy P. and Jeanne M.,his wife. Richard, in 1940, was a machine tender at the paper mill in Westbrook.

(R15#13)             Furbish                Monument

Melvin C. Furbish (1896-1967)(R15 #15)  Maine Mech Co D 120 MG BN World War I, married Bertha Wilson Furbish (1898-1982)9R15 #14)

Walter Lucian Swanton(d. 1955)(R15 #16)Infant son of Carl & Mina Swanton Jr.. Walter Lucian Swanton was 7 weeks old and the son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl B Swanton of Woodward Point Road in Brunswick. He was born in Torrington, CT. He was survived by his sister, Carrie Mae, parents and grandparents.

Laurel A. Williams            (1907-1977)(R15 #17)married Elizabeth P. Williams (1913-1994)(R15 #17). Elizabeth Williams was born in Topsham in 1913, the daughter of Ralph and Nellie Bowker Patten and attended Topsham Schools. She received a B.A. degree from Castine Normal School and M.A. degree from the Universiy of Maine. She married Laurel A. Williams in Bath in 1949. She taught school for many years, teaching English, Social Studies and was a Drama Coach. She had taught in Topsham, Pejepscot, Harpswell, and Auburn. They lived in Cundy’s Harbor most of their married life and spent winters in Big Pine Key, FL. Member of DAR, Eastern Star, MTA, Dirigo Grange, Garden Club and 1^st Parish Church of Brunswick. Survived by her husband of Augusta, daughter: Anne Anderson of S. Harpswell; 3 sons Dane Allen of S. Harpswell; Don Bichrest of E., Harpswell and Patten Williams of Augusta. They had anther son Thane Burl Williams (1956)(R15 #17).

R15#18)               Graves/Metcalfe Monument

William W. Graves (1881-1961)(R15 #19) married Lida O. Staples Graves  (1883-1974)(R15 #20) and they had: Beatrice C. (1905) and  Carrie E. Metcalfe (1907)(R15 #21)     who married Marshall Metalfe (b. 1906), a marine pipe fitter at  Bath Iron Works. They had Jacqueline (1930) who worked at H.C. Baxter and Bros in 1949. Elizabeth Metcalfe was the mother of William H. who married Laura Estella and they had Marshall H. Metcalfe (1906-1982) (R15 #22), Huldah (1917). Probably  others,  as the  census says he married Laura E. and had H. Cristen (1917) ??

Eleanor J. Mitchell(1958-1993)(R15 #23) married John Mitchell and they had Scott Mitchell. She was the daughter of Marshall H. Metcalfe.

Burleigh  R. Ordway (1891-1954)(R15 #24)died at his home in Pejepscot. He was born in Camden, the son of David and Emily Moody Ordway. He had been a resident of Pejepscot for 31 years and had been employed at the Pejepscot Paper Company for many years. He was survived by his widow, Velma E. Woodbridge Ordway(1892-1973)(R14 #24), four sons, Vesper H. Ordway(1912-1964)(R15# 26)r of Topsham, Burleigh V. (1924-1986)(R15 #25) and Kenneth A. of Pejepscot, and David W. ; and four daughters, Mrs. Emily Allen of Harpswell, Mrs. Geneva Caron and Mrs Ruth Derosiers of Brunswick, and Miss Doris Ordway of Pejepscot; a brother, Guy of Camden; a sister, Mrs. Sarah Sleeper of Portland.

Sandford Davis  Purinton(1892-1955)(R15 #27) married Evelyn Cynthia  Greene Purinton(1897-1979)(R15 #27). He was the son of John M. Purinton (b. 1843), a machinist at the paper mill, and Carrie E. Sallie(b. 1859). His siblings were  Gertrude U. (1892) and Helen V. (1896). Sanford was an automobile salesman in Vt. and Westbrook, Maine.             Evelyn was the daughter of William Elmer Greene and Hannah Eliza Little.

John H. Woodward (1882-1955)(R15 #28)married Clara M. Woodward (1884-1954)(R15 #28). He was a finisher at the paper mill. They had Bertha M. 91906) and Julian (1908).

(R15#29)             Berry     Monument

Fred E. Berry(1876-1954)(R15 #29)  He was born in Topsham, son of Frank W. and Addie Cripps Berry. He was a long-time electrician at the Verney Mill. He was survived by his wife, Essie A. Haskell Berry (1880-1968) (R15 #29); a son Orson L. Berry of Bangor; and a brother, Ralph B. Berry of Brewer. He was the son of Frank E. Berry (1854) and Addie A. (1854). He was a foreman in the Topsham Pulp Mill. They had: Orson (1900).

Corelius Van  Nieuwenhiuzen     (1901-1953)(R15 #30) died in Hebron. He was born in Holland, the son of Cornelius and Anna Venenbaal Can Nieuwenthiuzen. He migrated to Massachusetts as a small boy and moved to Topsham in 1946. He was survived by his wife, Mrs. Eleanor Cressey Nieuwenhiuzen of Topsham; his mother who lived in Dorchester, MA.; five sisters, Mrs. Arthur Leveronie, Dorchester, Mrs. Norman Wyatt, Allston, Ma., Mrs. John Robbins and Mrs. Anna Gimmel of Norfolk, MA. Mrs. Albert Poitz of Los Angeles, Calif. ; two brothers, Henry of Dorchester and Nicholas of San Francisco

Row 16

Fred Orr(1882-1950)(R9 #159) was born in Topsham. For 15 years he was employed at the Scribner Grain Company and entered the painting business in 1916. For his last 15 years he was employed by the Austin Paint Company in Brunswick. He was survived by his wife, the former Lola M. Furbish(1894-1958)(R16 #3); two sons, Alfred Orr of Brunswick and Donald Orr of Topsham; and two half-brothers, Charles Berry of Brunswick and Frank Berry of Randolph. Lola was born in Topsham the daughter of Allison and May McEachern Furbish. She attended Topsham schools and had been employed at Bowdoin College for 25 years having worked at the Moulton Union for 20 years. She was survived by two daughters, Mrs. Dorothy Coffin of Brunswick, and Mrs. Gladys Weybrant, of Bath; a son, Donald A. Orr(1925-1997)(R16 #2,5) who married Lucille Carr Orr  (1924-1982)(R16 #4) He was a     Sgt US Army World War II Topsham; and a brother, Melvin C. Furbish of Topsham.

(R16#1)                Orr  Monument

John W. Blackie (b. 1918)(R16 #7) married Marian A. Cheney Blackie (1924-1958) (R16 #6,8). He was  a former resident of West Bay Bridge Road and was the son of Charles W. and Lillian A. White Blackie. He graduated from Clinton High School as was a veteran of WWII. He married Marion A. Cheney in 1941 and she died in 1958. He later married Harriet Berquist Edgecomb in 1965 and she died in 1993. He was employed at Hyde-Windlass in Bath and at Bowdoin College, where he worked for 33 years and retired in 1984. He was predeceased by a brother, Henry  Blackie and a sister Frances LeClerc.  He had two daughters: Carol (Fowler) and Penny (Brown); and a stepson Stanley Edgecomb and two step daughers: Joyce (DeVito) and Joan (Haley). He also had a sister Inez (Rogers).

Shirley E. Ruck (1917-1978)(R16 #9)was the daughter of Roland Atwood Cheney  and Helen Cheney.  Roland Cheney was born in 1897 in Presque Isle, Me and died in Portland in 1966. Roland was the son of Lorenao Marshall Cheney and Phoebe Jane Thibodeau. He married Helen Fay Lewis in 1917 who was born in Bridgewater, Maine in 1900 and died in Portland in 1979. Shirley Ruck had Jacquelin Cheney Ruck Hill (1936-1960)(R16 #10)

Roland Atwood Cheney (1897-1966)(R16 #11)     Maine S2 USNRF World War I  Marker US. His father was Lorenao Marshall Cheney (1855-1947) and mother was Pheobe Jane Thibodeau (I1861-1926) they were from New Brunswick. Roland was born in Presque Isle Maine. He married Helen Faye Lewis Cheney (1900-1979)(R16 #12). They had Shirley Eleanor Ruck.

Irving Newell(1881-1957)(R16 #13)  was a papermakerat the mill and brother-in- law to Albert Morse. Irving married Marion G. Newell (1888-1959)(R16 #13).

Leland Haynes   (1839-1842)son of Nathaniel & Isabella Coombs:

HENRY A. HAYNES.

Henry A. Haynes, formerly a resident of Cambridge, a Civil war veteran and member of John A. Logan post, 186, G. A. X., died suddenly Monday evening at the East M illis fiilway station, from heart failure. He was born in Brunswick, Maine, in 1836, the son of Nathaniel and Isabella Coombs Haynes,and was one of a family of ten children. When he was very young his parents moved to this city. He was engaged for some years in the grocery business in North Cambridge. Enlisting early in the war, he served for three years from Sept. 5, 1861, to Sept. 16, 1864, in the Third Massachusetts Independent Light artillery, organized by D. 11. Follett, and was a corporal in the company commanded by Captain A. P. Martin. Bis battery was in some of the chief battles of the war, including the Wilderness, Antietam and Gettysburg. After the war he was for many years superintendent at tho Seavey stamping works, in this city, and later was engaged in business in Chicago. He had made his home recently at 1519 Blue Hill avenue, Mattapan. A widow and one sister survive him.

Lillie Mae Lunt   (1958-1959)

Barnabas Paige                                              (1771-1844)

R8#138 Small/Kane                                     Monument

R13#44 Small/Young                                   Monument

(Winslow) Pinkham’s daughter, Amelia married Captain Henry Bibber Jr..

R4#108                                                                            Stone brokenand mostly wasted away

R6#174                                                                            Maria marker stone

R6#175                                                                            Martha marker stone

R6#219                Nancy   L.            1833      1903      died Mar. 29,1903; Aet 69 yrs. 9 mos

R7#17                                                                               Pierce/Wilson Monumen

R7#26                                                                               Father ; masonic symbol below

R7#27                                                                               Mother marker stone

R7#31                                                                               Father marker stone

R7#32                                                                               Mother marker stone

R7#44                                                                               Father marker  stone

R7#45                                                                               Mother marker stone

R7#49                                                                               Mother stone marker

R7#50                                                                               Father stone marker

R7#99                                                                               Mother stone marker

R8#96                                                                               Father; Mother marker stones Marker F.L.T.

R8#105                                                                            Mother Rest mother  in quiet sleep while we in sorrow o’er thee weep.

R8#164                                                                            Zilphia, Roland, Edwin marker stone

R8#165                                                                            Mother marker stone

R8#166                                                                            Father marker stone

R9#39                                                                               L.M.

R9#40                                                                               L.H.M.

R9#41                                                                               J.L.M.

R9#42                                                                               Mother

R9#43                                                                               Father

R9#92                                                                               E.W.M.

R9#93                                                                               Father

R9#94                                                                               Mother

R9#95                                                                               J.P.M. Marker U.S.World War Veteran

R9#97                                                                               Father

R9#98                                                                               Mothe

R9#99                                                                               Anna

R9#100                                                                            Wife; K.M.

R9#101                                                                            Husband;W.M.

R9#107                                                                            Bartlett monument

R10#9                                                                               Father Marker F.C.B.   Knights of Pythias

R10#10                                                                            Mother

R10#14                                                                            J.W.F.Jan. 4,1885;Jan.19,1963; Marker World War 1917-1918

R10#15                                                                            C.G.F. Feb 4,1885; Apr. 16, 1971

R10#17                                                                            W.E.F. Feb. 6, 1848; May1,1928

R10#18                                                                            A.C.S.F. Oct. 31, 1848; June 13,1938

R10#20                                                                            M.M.R. Sept,. 20, 1845; March 5, 1929

R10#19                                                                            A.S. F. Dec. 24, 1879; Apr.26, 1941

R10#21                                                                            A.O.F.R. Aug.19, 1843; Jan.9,1929

R10#22                                                                            Lancaster/Mariner/McCabe

R10#28                                                                            Ripley/MacKay Monument

R10#45                                                                            Dolloff/Graves monument

R11#109                                                                                         W  marker Fort George 38 KP

Albion L. Courson of Topsham died 1932 at age 70 yrs and 10 months. He was the son of John L. and Harriet Perkins Courson. He was born in 1861. He was survived by a sister: Mrs. Eva Tibbetts and one aunt, Mrs. Clara Colby. Burial was in Riverview Cemetery in Topsham.

Percy Leon Wright died 1934. He was born in Brunswick in 1890, the son of Anne Belle Wright and George Wright of Topsham. When a young boy he moved to Topsham with his parents.  He attended secondary schools and Topsham High School. He as then employed at the watch factory in Waltham, MA. He later moved to Bath, after returning to Topsham where he was  employed for several years at he Maine Feldspar Company. In 1919 he married Miss Lena Clark of Gardiner. In West Bath, his last residence, he was employed by Sheriff Loring Small, a position he held until his death.  He was survived by his widow of West Bath, his father George Wright and one brother, Floyd Wright both of Topsham. He was interned at the Riverview cemetery in Topsham.

Gertrude Harinden died in Topsham in 1936. She was born in Denmark in 1855, the daughter of Samuel and Emma Walker. She was an aunt of Ernest George of Brunswick. She was bured in River View Cemetery.

Walter J. Colby (1859-1936) died in Brunswick. He was born in Brunswick, the son of William H.  and Claire Pray Colby and passed his entire life there. He had served in the police department and for years had charge of the police detail at Topsham Fair. He was for man years an employee of the Frank J. Webb store, as meat cutter.  Until a few years before his death he operated a small store at Cook’s Corner. He was survived by a brother, Lincoln H. Colby. He was buried at River View cemetery.

James Hall (1926-1936) son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Hall died when a gravel bank in which he was tunneling caved in burying him and his friend Bernard McFadzen (14) in ten feet of sand.  He was playing with his brother Howard Hall as well. He was buried at River View Cemetery. He was survived by his parents and four brothers and two sisters.

Mrs. William S. Noyes married William S. Noyes. She was born in 1866 and died in 1939, the daughter of Charles C. and Mary  J. Capen Clapp. She graduated from Wheaton Female Seminary of Norton in 1885. The same summer she married William S. Noyes of Topsham and they lived in Norton for six years, afterwhich they moved to Topsham. She was survived by her husband, two sons: William Elton of Dorchester, MA; and Frank E. of Columbus, Ohio; a daughter, Mrs. Hazel Carr of Topsham; a sister, Mrs. Mary E. Andrews of Norton, MA.; two brothers, Frank G. and Alfred W. Clapp, both of Norton, MA.

William S. Noyes was born in 1858 and died in 1942. He lived on Winter St. in Topsham.  He was born in Topsham, the son of Zina and Catheine Curtis Noyes. In 1885 her married Ellen Clapp of Norton, MA. With the exception of four years spent in Massachusetts, Mr. Noyes had resided all his life in Topsham on Winter St. He was employed for many years as a rural letter carrier. He retired in 1932. He was survived by a daughter, Mrs.Hazel Carr of Topsham, two sons, William Elton Noyes of Sudbury, MA; and Major Frank Noyes of Columbus, Ohio and Fort Knox, Ky; two sisters, Mrs. William Hennessey of Brunswick and Mrs. Ralph Sherman of Bowdoin Center; a brother, Joseph Noyes of Bowdoin Center.

Mrs. Ellen Burnet Tripp died at the home of her son Elmer Tripp on Pleasant Point in Topsham. She was born in Fairhaven, MA the daughter of John P. and Charity Stanford Ellis.

Mrs. Eleanor A. Tracey died in Waterville. She left a son, Edwin of Brunswick and a daughter in NH. She was intered at Riverview Cemetery in Topsham.