USA > Maine > Hancock County > Blue Hill > Historical sketches of Bluehill, Maine > Part 9
Note: The text from this book was generated using artificial intelligence so there may be some errors. The full pages can be found on Archive.org (link on the Part 1 page).
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13
The writer well remembers him sitting as erect as a military officer upon his gray horse, jogging along the highway at a measured pace, with saddle bags across his saddle, containing a small but power- ful amount of drugs and medicines, of which calomel, jalap and sour drops were component parts.
He was a grave-appearing man, though humorous and witty when occasion called them forth. It is said of him, that when asked by a smith where he thought was a good place for him to locate, he replied in a laconic manner, "in his shop." At an- other time, being asked how to served cu- cumbers in the best manner for the table, he said: "Peel them, slice them, put them in a dish, sprinkle them with salt and pepper, add vinegar, then give them to your hogs."
As a country doctor he was called out at all seasons and at all hours of night or day, to attend the sick. He well knew what summer heat, drenching rain, snow- storm and frost meant for one called to endure them. On one occasion it is said a daughter was lamenting because she could not have the pleasure of a sleigh ride. He said to her: "Go out to the woodshed, put your feet in a tub of ice and water and I
52
HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF BLUEHILL, MAINE.
will come and jingle the bells, and you can imagine the pleasure of a sleigh ride."
The writer remembers when the good doctor set and splinted his broken arm, how the pain made him faint, but Dr. Tenney went on with the work without apparently the twinge of a muscle or a change of countenance. He has been dead nearly sixty years, and yet his image is before the writer as he narrates this ac- count of him.
His children, also gone, were:
1. Polly, born April 3, 1797; married Capt. Daniel Clough.
2. Sophia, born May 8, 1799; died Oct. 2, 1825.
3. John, born May 3, 1801; died Dec. 17, 1837.
4. Rebecca, born April 26, 1804; died March 12, 1840.
5. William, born Sept. 21, 1806; married Emma Hinckley; died April 17, 1839.
6. Jane, born March 26, 1809; died Aug. 25, 1884, aged seventy-five years.
7. Nabby, born May 10, 1811; died March 17, 1816.
8. Julia Ann, born June 9, 1813; married Aaron P. Emerson, of Orland.
9. David, born Sept. 3, 1815; died Sept. 17, 1825.
William, the fifth child, married Emma, daughter of Nehemiah and Edith (Wood) Hinckley, Nov. 5, 1833, by whom he had three children :
1. William Paris, born Sept. 11, 1834; a bachelor; resides in Boston.
2. John Pearl, born Sept. 11, 1834; a widower; resides in Portland.
3. Nehemiah Hinckley, born May 1838; died Feb. 1885.
William Tenney resided with his father until his death, and there his children were born. His widow and children re- sided there some time after his death; she later married Capt. Judah Chase. Jane Tenney occupied the old house until her death in the '80's. Mrs. Caroline Walker, widow of the writer's half brother, Wil- liam Walker, resided in the house of ber grandfather, Dr. Tenney, and with her aunt, Jane, in the early '60's; and there the writer spent several weeks during her occupancy of a part of the house.
After the death of Jane Tenney it was occupied by different parties, and finally sold to Admiral Henderson, of the U. S.
N., who changed over the house and place, or began it, but died and his widow com- pleted the work. Mrs. Henderson made an attractive place of it. It occupies a commanding view, and is a beautiful loca- tion for a summer residence, the purpose to which it is now put.
THE KITTRIDGE HOUSE
beneath the hill was the next house re- membered by the writer in boyhood, al- though there stands another now between it and the Henderson or Tenney place. This house was built in 1832 or 1833 by Hosea Kittridge, who was then preceptor of Blue Hill academy. He was born March 5, 1803; married Nancy, daughter of Rev. Jonathan Fisher, Nov. 18, 1830. She was born Aug. 19, 1804. They had two children born at Blue Hill; Ellen, Jan. 30, 1832, and Tyler, Oct. 3, 1834. Mr. Kittridge, after a number of years' service, resigned as preceptor of the academy, and left town with his family for a home in the West.
The house and place were sold to John Stevens, who on Nov. 5, 1838, married Miss Mary J. Perkins, of Castine (born Feb. 10, 1811) and brought her a bride to this house to reside, where both continued to re- side until their death, and where their children were born.
John Stevens was the son of Theodore and Dorcas (Osgood) Stevens, born at Blue Hill, June 12, 1804, a school teacher in younger days, then a trader, vessel owner and business man. He was for forty-five years a clerk and treasurer of the trustees of Blue Hill academy, and under his man- agement the invested funds of the acad- emy more than doubled in amount. He died June 7, 1890, aged eighty-six, and his wife died Dec. 19, 1878. They had six chil- dren, four sons and two daughters, viz .:
1. Edgar, born April 11, 1840; a sea cap- tain.
2. Frank, born Jan. 31, 1842; a sea cap- tain out of New York.
3. Samuel, born Aug. 8, 1843; died at Chatham, N. J., May 21, 1902.
4. Sarah Eliza, born April 18, 1845; died July 7, 1886.
5. John Perkins, born Dec. 24, 1850; re- sides in Boston.
6. Miriam Perkins, born Nov. 18, 1851; died June 20, 1895.
53
HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF BLUEHILL, MAINE.
The house and place remains in the fam- ily and is rented to summer residents for the season and closed winters. The writer remembers the house when being built and also from that time to the present. In it he spent many a pleasant hour with Mr. and Mrs. Stevens, whose son Edgar was a sailor and an officer with him in ship "Electric Spark", first in 1861 and again in 1864 and 1865, and who still holds a warm place in the memory and friend- ship of the writer. Those who share to- gether common hardships and dangers are not likely to easily forget each other as they from year to year grow older, and the time draws near for casting anchor and mooring ship for the last time on the voyage of life.
THE MOSES P. CLOUGH HOUSE
is the next below and adjoining the one last described. It was built by Capt. Moses P. Clough about 1831 or 1832 and oc- cupied by him and family until his death at sea June 28, 1836, of bilious fever. He was a sea captain and son of John and Polly (Coggins) Clough. The family con- sisted of four children, viz .:
1. Moses, born Aug. 7, 1800; died March 30, 1801.
2. Moses Parker, born Feb. 5, 1802; died June 28, 1836.
3. Warren, born June 19, 1804; died May 17, 1827.
4. Polly, born Aug. 14, 1806.
John Clough, father of this family, died Jan. 12, 1807, aged thirty-five years and nine months. Mrs. Polly Coggins Clough, mother of this family, married Jacob Ingalls for her second husband, and died July, 1853, aged about eighty years.
Capt. Moses Parker Clough married Sally Prince, daughter of Reuben and Sally (Peters) Dodge, June 19, 1832. She was born Dec. 12, 1806. She married sec- ond, Weston Merritt, of Cherryfield, Dec. 7, 1842. By Capt. Clough she had one daughter, Ellen Maria, born Feb. 9, 1833. After the death of Capt. Clough, and prior to 1840, the house and place were pur- chased by Bushrod W. Hinckley, esq., and was his home and that of his family until his and his wife's death and is at this writ- ing owned by daughters of theirs.
Bushrod W. Hinckley was a lawyer, and for a number of years the only one in town. He was born in Thetford, Vt. He
married Sarah F. Wilcox, by whom he had children as follows:
1. Ellen Maria, born Dec. 23, 1831; mar- ried Daniel W. Kimball.
2. Francis Bernhard, born Sept. 5, 1834.
3. Caroline, born Sept. 29, 1840; married first, Charles S. Blake; second, Silas C. Stone.
Hattie H., born April 29, 1842; died Jan. 7,1864.
Mr. Hinckley died Dec. 17, 1869; Mrs. Hinckley July 5, 1889. Squire Hinckley, as he was called, was many years a mem- ber of the school committee of the town, a member of the legislature in 1832, 1834, 1837 and 1841, and at one time collector of customs at the Castine custom house.
He delivered an address upon the cen- tennial of the town's settlement in 1862, which was printed in the papers, and was in other ways an influential citizen.
THE ASA CLOUGH PLACE,
opposite the one just described, the house still standing, was built by Samuel Baker in 1822 and sold to Mr. Clough in 1827. On Sept. 17, 1829, Mr. Clough married Louisa Ray, daughter of Matthew and Roxana Ray, born April 1, 1811, for his second wife; his first having been Abigail Sin- clair who died without children Dec. 3, 1827, aged thirty-two years. Asa Clough died Nov. 20, 1861, aged sixty-two years and ten months. Mrs. Louisa Clough, his widow, died Nov. 18, 1881, aged seventy years and seven months.
Mr. Clough was a ship carpenter and master builder of vessels, of which he built many and worked upon many more. He made the rudder and windlass of the brig Equator in 1850, the writer's first command.
After his death and that of his wife, the place was occupied first by his son Roscoe and family, and at this writing by his brother George A. and family, as a sum- mer residence. The children of Asa and Louisa Clough were :
1. Charles Henry, born Oct. 19, 1830; * died Dec. 7, 1849.
2. Abby Louisa, born June 21, 1832; married Capt. Nichols.
3. Roscoe, born Nov. 13, 1835; married Harriet Bridges.
4. George Albert, born June 27, 1838; died Oct. 3, 1841.
54
HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF BLUEHILL, MAINE.
5. Ellen Elizabeth, born Jan. 20, 1841; died April 21, 1841.
6. George Albert, born May 27, 1843; married Amelia M. Hinckley.
7. William Pecker, born May 8, 1848; married Ellen M. Lord.
Roscoe Clough made a voyage from Boston to San Francisco as a sailor with the writer in the ship "Electric Spark" in 1861. At San Francisco he went second mate of a barque commanded by Capt. J. Willard Friend, of Blue Hill. At his death in Boston, Feb. 12, 1890, the writer wrote his obituary, which was published in THE ELLSWORTH AMERICAN. By his wife Harriet, he had three children, Abby Beatrice, born Feb. 5, 1857; a son born Feb. 27, 1861; died March 30, 1861; and Louisa R., born Dec. 6, 1865. Mrs. Harriet Clough, his wife, died Aug. 13, 1881.
THE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH,
built in 1842-3, and dedicated Jan. 11, 1843, stands next to the Asa Clough house just described. The writer was present at its dedication and sat in his father's pew, No. 9, on right side of the broad aisle. The invocation and scripture readings were by Rev. James Gilpatrick, pastor of the Baptist church; sermon by Rev. Jotham Sewall, jr., pastor of the church, from Hag. 2, 9th, "The glory of this latter house shall be greater than the former, saith the Lord of Hosts."
The dedicatory prayer was by Rev. Sewall Tenney, of Ellsworth, and the closing prayer by "Father Fisher". The house was well filled by an attentive au- dience, and all of the services were of a highly interesting character to the writer, they being the first of the kind he had at- tended. That was sixty-two years ago! And the writer's thought, as he narrates the occurrence is, "How many beside him- self are alive this day of that filled house of active, living human beings?" He hears no answer to his mental inquiry, but he knows full well that only a few; if a few even have survived the wear and tear of departed years.
In this meeting house the celebration of the centennial of the church organized in 1772 with fourteen members, was held Dec. 31, 1873. At that time the church membership in full, as per roll, had reached 438, most of whom had been called to the church above.
Rev. Stephen Thurston, of Searsport, a former member of the church, preached an historical sermon of great interest, giving an account of the chief incidents in the his- tory of the town from its settlement, and of the church from its gathering, which was printed by vote of the church. At the evening services, brief addresses were made by Revs. Tenney, of Ellsworth; Thurston, of Searsport; Ives, of Castine; Houston, of Deer Isle; Raymond, of Blue- hill; Prof. Fletcher, of the Eastern State normal school; Rufus Buck, esq., of Bucksport, and others. Letters were read from former Pastors Stone and Bunker, also from Revs. Josiah Fisher, M. L. Rich- ardson, H. A. Wines, E. A. Rand, Prof. Jotham Sewall, of Bowdoin college, Rev. Dr. Pond, of Bangor theological seminary, and from many absent sons and daughters of the church.
A poem was read by Agustus Stevens, written by J. G. Harvey, of Portsmouth, N. H., for the occasion, and a centennial hymn by Miss Maria F. Wood. A sum of money amounting to $300, or more, was given by absent members of the church and town which was made a fund, the in- come to be used for church purposes.
The closing words of Mr. Thurston's sermon were:
"A century hence where shall all we be found? One thing we know. These taber- nacles will be taken down and laid in the grave. The living will perhaps heedlessly trample over our sleeping dust. Our very names will be forgotten. Those then living will not know that we ever lived and acted our little part. Our last sleep shall continue ages after that period. But where will be our immortal spirits?"
THE RAY-STEVENS-NORTON PLACE
and house still stands opposite the meet- ing house. The land was sold to Na- thaniel Hartford by Nathan Parker in 1803 for $30. The house was built by Nathaniel Hartford and Enoch Bidges and sold to Matthew Ray in 1812. He was a black- smith and edge-tool manufacturer, with factory and trip-hammer run by water power upon the Mill stream in the village, above the bridge at Main street. He re- moved from the town to Bangor before 1840, and is supposed to have died in that city. He married, May 29, 1810, Roxana Nickerson, by whom he had
55
HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF BLUEHILL, MAINE.
1. Louisa, born April 1, 1811; married Asa Clough, jr.
2. Eunice Staples, born June 10, 1813; married Joel Parker.
3. Harriet Newell, born Feb. 22, 1816.
4. George Whitfield, born May 25, 1818; died in 1849 or 1850, on way to California.
5. William Nickerson, born May 5, 1820.
6. John Hopkins, born Feb. 18, 1822; died March 13, 1822.
7. Roxana, born, Feb. 29, 1828.
Mrs. Roxana Ray, mother of above chil- dren, died March 20, 1828, and Mr. Ray married Harriet Hinckley, daughter of Isaiah and Anner (Horton) Hinckley, Aug. 24, 1829. By this marriage the birth of one child is entered in the Blue Hill records, viz .:
8. Mary Elizabeth, born Aug. 27, 1830. Mrs. Harriet Ray, mother of this child, died in March, 1847.
Varnum Stevens, son of Theodore and Dorcas (Osgood) Stevens, born Oct. 10, 1794, with his family, was the occupant of this place in the earliest remembrance of it by writer. Mr. Stevens was a black- smith by trade, but gave up that business to his sons later in life. He died Oct. 5, 1870, aged seventy-six years. He married Dec. 2, 1819, Susannah Brown, daughter of Nehemiah and Edith (Wood) Hinckley, born Feb. 21, 1793, and died on May 18, 1857, aged sixty-four years and three months. Their children were:
1. Eliza Holt, born Sept. 1, 1820; died Feb. 25, 1862.
2. Theodore, born Dec. 27, 1821; mar- ried Maria P. Hinckley.
3. Frederic Stillman, born April 15, -1823; married Adelle Mann.
4. Charles Varnum, born April 2, 1825; died at sea Oct. 3, 1845.
5. Augustus, born April 4, 1829; mar- ried Emeline Googins.
6. John Albert, born Jan. 17, 1832; mar- ried Frances E. Smith.
Mr. Stevens married a second wife, Mrs. Margaret H. Grindle, of Penobscot, March 1, 1858; she died Feb. 14, 1869, leaving no children by this union. Mr. Stevens' name in the records is given as Varnum, also as Edward Varnum.
Capt. Steven Norton and family, occu- pied this house and place after Mr. Stevens for some years, just how many the writer cannot state. He was a sea captain, born in the town of St. George, Me., March 22,
1789; came to Blue Hill, where he con- tinued to make his home until his death Jan. 6, 1873, aged nearly eighty-six years. He commanded coasting vessels between the town and Boston until age and infirm- ities compelled him to retire from a sea life. The writer sailed with him in schooner "Zodiac", and the father of the writer also sailed with him when he was mate with Capt. Robert Means in the early part of the last century.
Few men on the coast of Maine engaged in coasing were better known than was Capt. Norton. There were few if any harbors or anchorages between Blue Hill and Boston that he had not visited; as he became timid and careful as age crept upon him, and he did not take chances where anchorage seemed to him to be more dis- creet. This criticism, though just in the writer's view of the case, is not intended to be hypercritical.
Captain Norton was twice married-first Jan. 18, 1813, to Mehitable, daughter of Andrew and Mehitable Kimball Witham, born Aug. 28, 1797; she died July 10, 1835, leaving ten children. On Nov. 27, 1835, he married, second, Clarissa Carleton, daugh- ter of William and Pamelia (Osgood) Car- leton, born Feb. 7, 1813; died Nov. 17, 1873, aged sixty years and eight months. She also bore ten children, so that by two wives there were twenty as follows, viz .: By first wife:
1. Mary Witham, born Oct. 22, "1813; married Willard Fisher.
2. John Kimball, born ?Aug. 31, 1815; married Ruby Ann Hinckley.
3. Stephen, born Feb. 25, 1818; died at sea May 17, 1845.
4. William, born June 5, 1820; married, lived and died in Boston.
5. Mehitable Kimball, born Oct. 23, 1822; died March 6, 1844.
6. Sophia Tenney, born June 5, 1825; died April 20, 1849.
7. Priscilla Morse, born April 19, 1828; died in Boston.
8. Frederick Henry, born Aug. 29, 1829.
9. Catherine, born May 19, 1832.
10. Lois, born Oct. 7, 1834.
By second wife:
11. Harriet Webster, born Nov. 13, 1836.
12. Hollis Wheeler, born Nov. 19, 1837.
13. Clara Windship, born Sept. 5, 1839; died Sept. 17, 1841.
56
HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF BLUEHILL, MAINE.
14. Francis Warren, born March 2, 1841.
15. Granville, born March 18, 1843; died Sept. 2, 1843.
16. Clara W., born July 18, 1844; mar- ried Frederic S. Stevens.
17. Mehitable Witham, born Aug. 27, 1846; died Sept. 21, 1850.
18. Stephen Kimball, born March 31, 1849.
19. Ann Buck, born Dec. 5, 1852.
20. John Albert, born April 30, 1855. Beside these John Havlin was an adopted son of the family.
Mrs. Clarissa Norton, the summer before her marriage to Capt. Norton, was the writer's school teacher in the Falls dis- trict. William Norton was also his teacher one winter in the same district. John Havlin, the adopted son, was the writer's schoolmate, shipmate and life-long friend. .Miss Priscilla Norton was the writer's school friend at the academy, and at her death he wrote her obituary, so that in various ways the writer's life was linked with this family.
BLUE HILL ACADEMY,
a square wooden building, the first one, built in 1803, stood on the corner just be- low the last-described place until 1833, when it gave way for the present structure to be built that year, by being moved down the road to near the mill stream, where it did duty as a store until de- stroyed by fire twenty-five or thirty years thereafter.
The writer remembers to have seen it in transit; after it was converted into a store, and also to have seen the present brick structure while being erected; to have attended school within it; later to see it abandoned for school purposes; a wreck shorn of its former importance. Its history the writer recited in 1903, at the centennial of the founding of the academy, which has been printed, leaving nothing more to be added at this time.
THE SAMUEL SMITH PLACE.
on which stood a brick one-story cottage built by John and Ames Arnold was the next below the academy. The writer does not remember when it was built, but it was probably about 1832. Samuel Smith, it is said, came from Beverly, Mass., to the town, and entered into trade of a gen- eral character in the village, keeping groceries, West India and other goods.
He married Julia Ann Holt, Sept. 13, 1833, daughter of Jeremiah Thorndike and Elizabeth (Osgood) Holt, born April 2, 1812, and died July 22, 1858. Samuel Smith died Dec. 16, 1845. His birth and age are not given in the Blue Hill records. According to the remembrance of the writer he died suddenly in his store, the same now used as a grain room by A. C. Hinckley. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Smith were as follows, viz .:
1. Albert, born Oct. 22, 1834; died in 1857.
2. Frances Elizabeth, born Sept. 4, 1836.
3. Amy Ellen, born July 2, 1842.
4. Benj. Edwards, born Jan. 28, 1845.
After the death of Mr. and Mrs. Smith the place changed ownership and was oc- cupied by several parties, among whom was Mrs. Sarah E. Bent. Since then it has not only changed hands, but has changed its appearance and shape by ad- dition of a story with gables, to fit it to the liking of the present owner. Just be- low this house there stood in the writer's boyhood a blacksmith shop, upon the site of the house built and occupied by Mr. Venner, a photographer of the town.
THE JONAH HOLT HOUSE AND PLACE.
nearly opposite the academy and still standing, with the house some distance back from the street, was and still is a notable place. The house is supposed to have been built by Daniel Spofford about 1800, later owned and occupied by Jonah Holt and family, later by a Mr. Guilford, then by Albina H. Carter, and at this writing, 1905, owned and occupied by Capt. William Ward Peters and family.
Daniel Spofford is first mentioned in the town records in 1790 as having a store near the head of the bay, and also in connection with Mr. Robinson as having potash works at the town landing. He was interested in the building of the meeting house, served on committees con- nected therewith, and when the floor pews in the house were sold at vendue, he bid off pew No. 39. He married, April 11, 1794, Phebe Peters, daughter of John and Mary Peters. She was born March 13, 1773, and died May 15, 1839.
Mr. Spofford was born Feb. 18, 1766, where is not stated, and removed to Bucksport about 1803, where he died Oct. 10, 1852, aged eighty-six years. He had
57
HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF BLUEHILL, MAINE.
three children, born at Blue Hill, follows:
as
1. Parker, born Sept. 23, 1796.
2. Frederick, born Feb. 28, 1798.
3. Kuby, born March 28, 1802.
Jonah Holt, esq., is supposed to have bought this place from Mr. Spofford upon his removal from town. Jonah Holt was owner and occupant in the youth of the writer. He was the son of Jedediah and Sarah Thorndike Holt, born Nov. 4, 1783; married, first, Eliza Osgood, daughter of Theodore and Dorcas (Osgood) Stevens, Feb. 27, 1811. She was born Dec. 8, 1792 and died childless, Nov. 1847.
He married, second, Almira W. Wilcox, March 11, 1849, by whom he had one daughter, Sarah Thorndike, born March 2, 1850. She and her mother are both dead, and her father died Feb. 19, 1860, aged sev- enty-six years, three months and fifteen days.
He was a representative to the legis- lature in 1836, a man of business activity, a store keeper, and largely interested in vessel-building and owning. He built, about 1835, the brick block afterwards known as the Pendleton house, in which he carried on business until near the time of his death. His widow continued a resident of the place for some years after his death and it was then sold to Albina H. Carter.
Albina Hall Carter was the son of Robert, 2d, and Abigail Carter, born Dec. 20, 1839; grandson of John, and great- grandson of Thomas, an early settler of the town who resided on Blue Hill Neck. He served in the war of the rebellion. He married Eunice M. Carter, by whom he had the following named children:
1. Katie May, born May 16, 1866.
2. Mark Haskell, born July 13, 1867.
3. Wallace Hall, born Oct. 18, 1870.
4. Bert Leslie, born May 28, 1872.
5. Charles Sumner, born Feb. 4, 1874.
6. Son, born Dec. 1880.
7. Herman A., born Jan. 26, 1882.
Mr. Carter died on Jan. 4, 1887. His widow and family continued to occupy the place for some years after his death, and then it was sold to its present occu- pant, Capt. William W. Peters.
Capt. Peters is a native of the town and son of Lemuel E. D. and Betsey (Wood) Peters, born Dec. 26, 1835. He was a sea
captain, retired, and with his wife and daughter occupies the place. Capt. Peters is the grandson of John Peters, esq., one of the early and influential settlers of the town and a nephew of Daniel Spofford, whose wife was Phebe Peters, the builder of the house.
THE FREDERIC STILLMAN STEVENS HOUSE is the next below the one just described, upon the lower corner of the road leading to Parker's Point. It was built by Mr. Stevens, in the early 50's, and occupied by him until his death in 1881. He was the third child of Edward Varnum Stev- ens and of Sukey, his wife, born April 15, 1823. He was twice married, first to Mary Ann Adel Mann, daughter of Capt. Joseph and Adeline (Hinckley) Mann. She was born May 9, 1830; married, and died March 14, 1870. There were five children by this marriage, viz .:
1. Grace Adel, born April 16, 1854.
2. Daughter, born Feb. 11, 1856; died March 27, 1856.
3. Susan L., born Jan 30, 1857; died Dec. 1866.
4. Daughter, born Oct. 31, 1860; died July 21, 1862.
5. Daughter, born March 25, 1868.
Mr. Stevens married, second, Clara W. Norton, daughter of Capt. Stephen and Clarissa (Carleton) Norton. She was born July 18, 1844. By this marriage there was born one daughter, Margaret, April 2, 1880.
Need help finding more records? Try our genealogical records directory which has more than 1 million sources to help you more easily locate the available records.