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SAMUEL BURROWS.
Samuel Burrows, (Hist. p. 482); b. at West Camden, Oct. 9, IS39; mi. Faustina MeCobb, daughter of Gideon and Alvira (Wiley) McCobb, Oct. 3, 1851.
CHILDREN.
Sarah E., b. Aug. 23, 1867; in. Levert Mark, of Waldoboro, Dec. 7, 18SS.
Inez Bell, b. Aug. 23. 1870; m. Edwin Shuman. of Waldoboro, Nov. 8, 1690. Stephen J., 6. Aug. 25. 18;2. Adelia A., b. Jan. 11, IS75.
Res. before en .. Friendship; since disch., Friendship and Waldoboro; post- master at Broad Bay; Republican; Bap- tist.
ALVIN A. CARTER.
Alvin A. Carter, (Hist. p. 489); b. in Camden, April 2, 1840; m. Emma F. Thorndike, of Camden, Dec. 23, 1869. CHILDREN.
Bennie F., b. Oct. 31, 1870; d. Nov. 6, 1870. Maggie F., b. Sept. 20, 1$73; d. Nov. 23, 1576.
Myitie C., b. Nov. 15, 1875. Fred A., b. March 6, 187). Res. at en., Hope; carpenter; Re- publican; Freewill Baptist.
ROWLAND C. CLARK.
Rowland C. Clark, (Ilist. p. 48)); b. in Warren, July 19, 1837; m. Linda M. Watts, of Warren, July 7, 1861.
CHILDREN. Fred Chester, b. July 10, 1862.
Res. Warren, all his life; workel af trimming in the Warren shoe shop most of the time since disch .; Republican; attends the Congregational church.
GEORGE W. EATON.
George W. Eator, (Ilist. p. 490); b. Oct. 17, ISto; in. Miss Eliza J. Hall, of Nobleboro, Sept. 2, 1865; b. June 11, 1843, daughter of Thomas Hall, b. Sept. 7, 1816; d. Nov. 7, 1791, Nobleboro, Me., and Jane B. Perkins, b. June 30, ISog, Newcastle, Me .; m. Oct. 20, 18.11 : grandparents of wife Eliza J., were Tin .- othy and Mary ( Chapman ) Ha !!. George's grandparents were John and Sallie Eaton; parents Joseph, b. Dec. 19, ISor in Sedgwick, Me .; in. Oct. 8, 1828, Rebecca (Woods) Eaton, b. Mar. 12, 1808 in Unity, Me. Res. Waldo, Me. Joseph d. Aug. 20, IS84. Rebecca d. Aug. 19, 1887.
CHILDREN. Ella L., b. Dec. 14, 8867; d. Sept. 4, IS69.
Irvin 10., b. April 18, 1870.
Harol1 L., b. Sept. 20, 1876; d. Fel .. 4, 1877.
Res. when en., Waldo; since, Waldo, Belfast and Northport; Republican: at- tends the Methodist church; farmer.
Eaton was transferred into the ambu- lance corps in the fall of '63; was in the battle of the Wilderness, and saw some hard sights there. He tells the following story : Once when we were on a long march, Joshua Dow and myself went to a house and made a raid on a celler. We found some potatoes and butter. Dow went for the potatoes and I for the butter. I was just scooping the butter up with my fingers, putting it in my
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haversack with my hard tack, (it was so soft it ran through my fingers but it went in all the same,) when " whack " came something across me as I was stooping over. I looked around and there stood an old woman with a big paddle in her hands. I just kept on scooping the but- ter until I got my haversack full. Mean while the old woman was laying on the licks and singing out, " Get out of that batter! get out of that butter!" Dow was so tickled to see her beat me that he lay back and roared, but we got out of the cellar before it got too warm.
ARTHUR GILCHRIST.
Arthur Gilchrist, (Ilist. p. 491); b. at Montville, March 28, IS43; m. Hannah R. Sprague, June 5, 1864. CHILDREN.
Stella B., b. May 13, 1866. Oliver, b. March 2, 1869. Res. Montville; farmer; Republican; Methodist.
RILEY GILCHRIST.
Riley Gilchrist, ( Hist. p. 491); b. in Montville, Sept. 26, 1841; m. Alice R. Ingraham, of Knox, Jan. 20, 1871. CHILDREN. Walter R., b. Nov. 18, IS75.
Res. Montville and Freedom; farmer; Republican: Freewill Baptist.
JAMMIES W. HARRIMAN.
James W. Harriman, ( Hist. p. 534); b. Dec. 1, 1833; m. Mary Flye, March 12, 1857. She was the dau. of John and Nancy ( Drummond) Flye, and was b. Feb. 28, 1336.
CHILDREN. George .A., b. Dee. 4, 1555. Susie A., b. Ang. 24, 1561.
Res. Necedab. Wis; lamberman; bis father, James Harrenan, was b. in Haver- hill, N. H., March 4, 056, and d. in Neilsville, Wis., Jan. to, 1997; m. Mary Brown, Nov. 1832. She was b. June 5,
ISJI, and was the dau. of Jonathan Brown, who was b. in Billerica, Mass., and Elizabeth (Hill ) Brown, who was b, in Georgetown, Me .; originally the fant- ily came from Plymouth, Eng. His grandfather, Joab Harriman, was b. in Haverhill, N. IL., and m. Hannah Beed .: he served in the Revolutionary war. His great grandparents came from Scot- land.
ANDREW J. KIMBALL.
Andrew J. Kimball, (Hist. p. 414 and 492); b. in Hermon, April 6, 1836; m. Elmira E. Pickard, of Hermon, Oct. 13, 1866. She died Dec. 7, 1882.
CHILDREN. Charles D., b. Dec. 22, 1867; d. Aug. 17, 1875.
Wilbur T., b. Dec. 22, 1870. Ruth G., b. March 13, 1876. -- , b July 17, 1882; d. Sept. 10, IS82.
Res. Hermon; farmer; preference for the Baptist church.
FREDERIC D. LYNN.
Frederic D. Lynn, (Hist. p. 492) ; b. in Windsor, Feb. 10, 1843; m. Louisa R. Bowler, Oct. 12, 1865.
CHILDREN. Melva B., b. Feb. 13, IS6S. Alma B., b. Aug. IS, IS73.
Was never in the hospital, never wounded, never taken prisoner; res. when er., Palermo; res. first three years after marriage, Palermo; from there to Windsor, and since in government em- ploy at the Soldiers' Home, Togus -- the first six years as day laborer, and since that as foreman of the Home farm; Re- publican.
EMERY MERRILL.
Einery Merrill, ( Hist. p. 493): b. in Palmyra, Aug. 25, 1845: m. Mrs. Eliza Getchell, willow of Win. T. Gray, of Co. 1. ist Me. H. A., Sept. 15, 1868; res. llermon; cooper; Baptist.
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GEORGE A. MESSER.
George A. Messer, (Hist. p. 485); b. in Montville, March 7, 1843; m. Sarah E. Whiting, of Hollis, N. II., Dec. 3. 1867.
CHILDREN. Ilenrictta V., b. May 7, 1869; d. Ang. 30, 1869.
delbert B., b. Oct. 26, 1872. Edward A., b. June 29. 1877. Carpenter and builder; res. in Hollis, N. H., till May, 1881, then moved to Nashaa, N. H., and has charge of the building and repairs of the Underhill and Amoskeag Edge Tool Co .; Repub- lican; no religions preference.
AURELIUS PARKER.
Aurelius Parker, (Hist. p. 483); b. in Dixmort, Oct. 15. 1837; m. Henrietta Gertrude Von Hetel, in March, 1870; no children except a step daughter, his wife's child by a previous marriage, b. Oct. 19. 1866; she now beats his name, changed by law by request of herself and her mother -- Lille Gertrude Parker; oc- cupation varied; clothing business for a while, politics a while; was sheriff of Amity county, Miss., seven years, and was commissioned C.J. Ist Regt. Miss. Inf., of Amite county, in 1873; owned a cotton batting factory in New Orleans, I.a., during 1575-8; has been book- keeper in U. S. mint, New Orleans; was elected to the Mississippi Legislature, and Served two years as a Representative -- 1550, 1871; Republican of the Blaine stripe; belongs to no church, but oftenest attends the Presbyterian.
Comrade Parker gives the following sketch of his service in the army : Pro- moted to corporal in February, 1862; promoted to sergeant in April, 1862; de- tailed to command escort of Gen. S. D. Sturges commanding ad Div. 9th Army Core, Sept. nith, 1862; was present at the fall of Gen. Reno at South Mountain, Md., on the 14th of September, 1862;
was with Gen. Sturges at the charge across the stone bridge, Antietam Creei, September 17, 1862; acted as aid-de- camp during battle of Antietain; as we approached the bridge one of our escort was killed by the bursting of a defective shell from one of our batteries in our rear firing over our heads; I think he belonged to Co. D; was with the same command at the battle of Fredericks- burg, our division and corps being in Gen. Hooker's grand division; our di- vision lost 1370 inen; Gen. Sturges' sabre scabbard was struck by a musket ball and with the sabre enclosed was bent nearly double; I was slightly wounded in the fleshy part of the right thigh by a fragment of shell; returned to duty with my company in February, 1803; was with my company in Stoneman's raid near Richmond, and with Sheridan's raid in the same direction; was with them in the crossing of the Rappahannock, Brandy Station, Aldie and all other e :- gagements until August; received sobre cut in forehead at Upperville; was de- tailed to take charge of escort of Gen. D. MeM. Gregg immediately before the battle of Spotsylvania and remained with him during the advance to the James river, 1864, when I returned to my com- pany and remained with them until I Was mustered out about the last of Sep- tember, IS61; was present and assisted in raising the body of Capt. Phillips when his leg was shot off by a ten pound Par- rot shell at the battle of St. Mary's church, Va .; placed Capt. Phillips upon a caisson and a cavalryman carried his severed limb (which was shot off at the thigh) with the intention of sending his body home to Portland, but the weather being hot and the enemy continuing to press us on, the following morning he was buried; was struck in the breast by a spent ball and left in the timber for dead in an engagement with the ene- my's cavalry on the Charles City Court
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House road, in the summer of 1864, but was with my company again in two hours, though unfit for duty from swelling and soreness; was never in a hospital or a prison; was never absent from my com- mand a day during my three years service, except for a furlough of fifteen days while our army lay in winter quarters after the battle of Fredericksburg; was with my company during banks' campaign ir the Shenandoah valley and was present when Capt. Cilley was wounded by a cannon ball at Middletown by which he fell into the enemy's hands and lost the use of his right arm; was recommended for pro- motion to U. S. Staff Officer in September after the battle of Antietam by Gen. Sturges, approved by Gen. Burnside and endorsed by Gen. Mcclellan, but did not received the appointinent. Being so far from my native State I have never met any of my old comrades. I have been South since December, IS65; have never had the privilege of attendling any of the reunions of our old regiment, which I very much regret.
JOHN THOMPSON.
John Thompson, ( Ifist. p. 484); b. in Searsmont, Jan. 20, 1539; mn. Mary F. Hook, of Searsmont, Oct. 25, 1865. CHILDREN. Wilbur M., b. May 12. 1867. Lulu M .. b. Sept. 1, 187S. Res. Searsmont; oc., lumbering and farming until 1872, when he bought a dry goods and grocery store, and has been trading since; has been a select- man of the town; Republican until 1872, then joined the Greenback party, and voted for Cleveland at the last Presiden- tial election; Universalist.
Camrade Thompson gives the follow- ing sketch of his services in the navy after leaving the regiment : I was trans- ferred to the navy April 29, 1564; joined the ship Brooklyn of New York, Capt. James Alden commanding; taken sick with measles on the passage to Key
West; returned to duty soon after rerch- ing the blocka ling squa.iron off Mobile; our ship led the fleet into Mobile Day, got aground going in, abreast of Fort Morgan, and was detained ten minutes; was struck sixty-seven times and bally cut up; got afloat again and went into the bay and engaged the Rebel rain Ten- nessee and captured her, she being Admiral Buchanan's flag ship; we lost fifteen killed and forty-five wounded. ] was struck by a splinter and wounded in the left hand and side; our ship, was detailed to carry the wounded to Per-a- cola; when we arrived there we found the Second Maine Cavalry emcamped near there, and by request of Col. Spur- ling all those belonging to the First Maine Cavalry were given leave to go ashore and spend the day. The regiment was called out on dress parade for our benefit, and we were given horses to ride. They expected to have the laugh on us, thinking we were sailors and could not ride. They expected to see us cling to the saddles like monkeys to a lee-back- stay, but they soon found their mistake. We were perfectly at home in the sa.l lle. They soon learned that we were educate I in the gallant old First Maire Cavalry, and that we had ridden a horse more miles than they had rods. We sailed the next morning for Charlestown, Mass., where we arrived and hauled into the navy yard to have a new mainmist put in. We were all given a furlough, and Isaac Hall and I came home for the first time in two and a half years. At the expira- tion of our furlo igh we joined our ship again and sulled for Fort Fisher to join Porter's fleet, and was with Batler in Fis attempt to blow up the fort with a pow- der boat. After Butler was relieved and Terry took command of the land forces, we captured the fort. I was then taken sick and sent to Portsmouth Hospital, Va., and remained there until March. 1865, when I was discharged.
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TAPS.
TAPS. " So He giveth His beloved sleep."
The remains of Mrs. Emily Bailey Douty, widow of the late Col. Calvin S. Douty, formerly of Dover, who died in San Francisco on March 11th, 1892, ar- sived here by rail on Monday, March 21, in charge of her son, Mr. T. S. Does, and were taken direct to the People's Baptist Church, where they lay in state until IT o'clock Tuesday forenoon. During the morning a large concourse of people paid their tribute of respect to the memory of the deceased by a fare- well look upon the familiar features, and letting fall the tear of sympathy and sadness.
The funeral services, conducted by Rev. H. R. Mitchell, pastor of the Dap- tist church, of which the deceased had long been a communicant, were alike interesting, solemu and impressive. . In organ voluntary by Mrs. G. A. Meder, singing by a quartette, scripture lesson read and the address delivered by Mr. Mitchell were each appropriate and adapted to the occasion.
The delineation of the life and char- acter of the dead by the preacher was happy and truthful. At the conclusion of the service the casket was gently lifted from its resting place at the altar by the hands of veterans of her hus- band's regiment aud removed to the hearse, when the funeral cortege wended its way to the Dover cemetery, and the last sad act in a lite's drama closed by committing the remains to their final
resting place beside those of her heroic and devoted husband.
The ladies of C. S. Douty Relief Corp., of which the deceased was an honored inember, and the comrades of Douty Post, G. A. R., attended the obsequies, occupying seats assigned to each. Later the post escorted the procession from the church to the cemetery. Of the six pall bearers, all veterans, five had served in the First Maine Cavalry un- der the command of her husband, and three of these enlisted in the company originally recruitel by him in 1 861.
The floral display was rich and pro- fuse, yet beautifully blended in harmony of tint and hue. For this the acknowi- edginent of friends is largely due to C. R. Meeker, Esq., of Oakland, Cal .. who generously remitted to Col. Nathan C. Stowe, postmaster of Dover, (Co. D), First Maine Cavalry) a liberal sum of money, coupled with the request that he procure cut flowers for the occasion! as his tribute of respect. This request was passed to Mrs. S. O. Brown, to whose excellent taste in selection and arrangement great credit should be given.
Relatives present beside her son, Frank Sanger Doaty, Esq., and wife of San Francisco, were Hon. Isaac H. Bailey, of New York, a brother; Hon. Dadley P. Bailey, of Boston, a nephew: Mrs. Charles H. Dennett, of Bangor, a niece, and Prof. G. C. Purington and
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wife of Farmington Normal School. Mrs. T. S. Pullen of Foxcroft, an only sister, was unable to attend by reason of physical infirmity.
Mrs. Douty was the daughter of Isaac H. and Plebe Cummings Bailey, born in North Yarmouth, Maine, Ant- gust 3, 1817, and consequently had she lived until that date of the present year, would have attained the age of seventy-five years. On her mother's side she was a lineal descendant of John and Priscilla Mullens Alden, who landed at Plymouth from the good ship May- flower, Dec. 22, 1620, and whose names are perpetuated in history, romance and song.
From her Pilgrim ancestry Mrs. Douty was of the seventh generation, her mother being the daughter of Rer. Abraham Cummings, a Baptist elergy- man of early times in this state, and his wife, Phoebe Thayer Cummings, a great-great granddaughter of the Al- dens.
She first came to this county about IS42, when the family of Hon. Thomas S. Pullen resided in Monson, and three years later (IS45) married Calvin San- ger Douty of Sangerville, at the home of her brother, Rev. Dudley P. Bailey, in Cornville, Somerset County, then pastor of the Baptist church in that town.
After their marriage they resided upon a farm in the vicinity of Guilford village for several years, subsequently removing to Dover, where her home has been until her removal to the Pa- cific coast.
Seven children were born to them, all of whom but one died in childhood. The surviving son, now an officer of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company, seems to have been spared as a solace to his mother in her addictions, to main- ister to her comfort in her last days, and finally with filial love to bear her
sacred remains across a continent, that they may be left to mingle with the sacred dust of a husband and father.
The life of her husband after their removal to Dover has become a port of the state anl nation's history. Tre story of Lis enlistment into the military service of the country in ISGr, his mer- ited official promotions, deeds of mor- tial daring and glorious death upon the battle fell of Allie June 17, 1803, is familiar as a household tale.
The stricken widow received the sal intelligence of her husband's death with a fortitude and spirit of resigra- tion that betokened her strength of mind and character. There was no despon- dency. With a calm trust "in His wbo doeth all things well," she took up the burdens of life, cheerfully carrying them nobly to the last.
Mrs. Douty, after the death of her husband, continued to reside in Dover until her son became well settled in business in San Francisco, when she made him a visit at his home on the Pacific slope. For the past, thirteen years much of her life has been spent alternately between her native state and California. Her last visit to Maine was about three years ago.
Mrs. Douty was a woman of marked intellectual vigor, broad and catholic views upon the leading questions of iter day, with an abounding charity for all whose minds led them in channels of thought diversely to her own. She was by nature generous, dispensing fivors upon all worthy objects. The church with which she was associated from early womanhood, always found in her a willing helper in its day of need, as well as the time of prosperity. Douty Post G. A. R. and the C. S. Douty Relief Corps, both ever enjoyed in her a liberal patron and friend. She was in every respect a woman of the most tender and loving disposition.
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Entered at the Post OQue. Rockland, MR., us Second Class Mith.
CAMPAIGN HI. JULY, 1892. CALL 9
" The neighing troops, the flashing blade, The Dagle's stirring blast."
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PRICE ONE DOLLAR A YEAR, OR TWENTY-FIVE CENTS A CALL
REUNION AT HOULTON
September 10th, 1891.
EDITOR, EDWARD P. TOBIE, PAWTUCKET, R. I.
Published by the First Maine Cavalry Association.
ADDRESS, J. P. CILLEY, Treasurer, ROCKLAND, MAINE.
TWENTIETH ANNUAL REUNION
OF THE
FIRST MAINE CAVALRY.
The twentieth annual reunion was held at Houlton, Thursday, Sept. 10th, 1891, and was one of the most enjoyable of all. Although the reunion was set down for Thursday, the comrades began to arrive on Wednesday. The noon train of that day brought a strong delegation from Boston, Mass., as well as from along the line of the railroads in this State, and they proceeded at once to enjoy themselves. Capt. Black Hawk Putnam, Com- rade A. W. Ingersoll, and the other comrades residing at Houl- ton and vicinity, were on hand to welcome them, and to help them make themselves at home. They were taken to the hotel in carriages, and after dinner at once began to settle down. Headquarters were established at the Snell House, where was to be found Gen. J. P. Cilley, of Rockland, treasurer of the as- sociation, busy, as usual at the reunion season, with his ac- counts. After dinner the veterans and their ladies were driven about the town, or were provided with carriages with which to drive at their own sweet will, and there was no opportunity to be lonesome. Indeed they were heartily combining the pleas- ures of reunion with the pleasure of visiting a new and interest- ing locality, long before other comrades had even started for Houlton. So the afternoon and early evening passed pleasantly away.
It was expected that a delegation of comrades would arrive by the nine o'clock train, and preparations were made to give them a rousing reception. Colors were prepared from sun-
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flowers ( the cavalry yellow) foraged from a yard in the out. skirts of the town, the colors were surmounted by an cagle (a crow shot by Comrade Jacks of Boston) with outstretched wings; every comrade was armed with a lth, in respectful memory of the first sabre exercises in camp at Augusta when the State government sent to camp a load of laths for this par- pose; music was furnished by horns of all sizes from three inches to as many feet, which were blown by comrades with musical or unmusical tendencies, while the gong of the Spent House was borrowed for a drum, and was beaten by the son of a comrade who came all the way from Rhode Island. Armed and equipped in this way, led by Comrade Ingersoll, with a lan- tern, as guide, and commanded by Capt. Putnam, the process- ion, comprising nearly forty comrades, marched to the depot, being given a "send off" as they started with a salute of musketry by Comrade Jacks. Fun was furious during that march until a citizen of Houlton who was standing by exclaimed, "Well if these gray headed old duffers can carry on like this now, what must they have been thirty years ago ? I don't wonder that the First Maine Cavalry always 'got there.'" The arriving comrades were duly received and escorted to quarters, and then all settled down for the night.
Thursday morning the visitors were up bright and early, and the pleasures of the day began as bright and early. During the forenoon there was more riding about, and more comrades were arriving all the time, so there were cordial, comradely greet- ings all the time; as usual, comrades met who had not met before since the war, and words would fail to express the pleas. ure of those meetings. Not a moment was wasted that fore- noon. A more perfect day could not have been had if " made to order."
When the noon train arrived still more of the comrades came. Soon after this the line was formed in front of the Snell House. under command of Captain Black Hawk Putnam, and escorted by A. P. Russell Post No. 159, G. A. R., Commander Augustus W. Ingersoll, and the Houlton Brass band, J. Frank Bryson. leader, marched to Ingersoll's grove, where tables had been
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spread by the ladies of Houlton. And beautifully and bounti- fully were the tables spread. With all that could tempt a bun- gry man, to eat, a button-hole bouquet at each plate and beau- tiful flowers in profusion all along, who wouldn't be glad to be there ? The comrades and ladies were soon seated, divine bles- sing was invoked by Rev. Mr. Dutton, and then Capt. Putnan: gave the order : "First Maine Cavalry, charge !" And aided by a bevy of charming young ladies of Houlton, all wear ing the cavalry. colors-yellow -- the comrades and their ladies did charge, and with good effect. All was good, but what just captured the boys was that good old army dish -- baked beans -- baked in a hole in the ground. They were de- licious, and lovers of beans, who heretofore thought they "knew beans," were forced to admit that these were the finest beans they ever tasted. There was also chicken stew of the best, which caused all the ladies to ask for the recipe. It should be stated that Comrade John Lovering baked the beans and Com- rade Laurel Monson cooked the stew. Dinner was thoroughly enjoyed, story, joke and fun serving as continual appetizers. During the dinner a welcome addition was made to the com- pany by the arrival of Capt. John W. Freeze, of California, who had not met with the regiment since the muster-out. He re- ceived a cordial greeting.
BUSINESS MEETING.
After dinner the comrades, the ladies, and the sons of the comrades, separated into groups, cach group having business of its own to attend to. The First Maine Cavalry Association was called to order by the Vice President, Capt. B. H. Putnam, who was, however, not able to continue at the meeting, owing to duties elsewhere, and Col. Albion C. Drinkwater, of Brain- tree, Mass., was chosen President pro tem. and Edward P. Tobie, of Pawtucket, R. I. Secretary pro tem.
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