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Goodwin Benson settled on a lot near his father. He did a little farming and more house building and coopering. IIis children by wife Dorcas were :- Amanda M., b. Apr. 30, 1833, did not marry, d. July 6, 1900 at Cambridge, Mass .: Chandler, b. Aug. 11. 1835, d. Apr. 6, 1837; Ephraim Chandler, b. Mar. 18, 1840, soldier in 10th and 29th Me. Regts .; Albert Stanley, b. Jan. 26, 1843, m. Nov. 7, 1872, Lizzie Underwood of Cambridge. Their children :- Ella G., b. Oct. 6, 1874; Arthur B., b. Aug. 23, 1876.
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Ephraim Chandler Benson, m. Aug. 17, 1869, Esther Caverly, b. Sept. 2. 1845, dau. of Leonard W. Caverly of Charlestown, Mass. No issue. Mr. Benson is real estate broker. 3096 Wash- ington St., Boston, Mass. See 2nd marriage and death of Good- win Benson on another page. He was a generous, upright de- voted Christian.
Abigail Benson, dan. of Ichabod, m. Feb. 28, 1847, Charles ('offin, b. in Shapleigh, Me. They settled on a back hill farm in the vicinity of Park's scythe factory located on Newton brook in Dixfield. The farm purchase of about seven hundred dollars was paid for mostly, as the years rolled on, by the good house wife making butter from two or three cows. Their children :- Edmond the oldest; Winslow Walker, m. at Somerville, Mass., real estate broker. His dau .. Fanny Ethel, m. Mar. 18, 1901, Wm. F. Plum- mer. John P. Hale d. at Mapleton, Aroostook county, age around 17 VTS. The only daughter d. there aged about 12 yrs. Mr. Coffin was a professor of religion of Free Baptist faith, a kind indulgent parent.
Around the middle fifties the head of this family sold his place and removed with his family to Mapleton, Aroostook county, pur- chased land and made a home. He lived and died there, around 1886. ITis son Edmond m. at Mapleton and succeeded him on the farm. His wife Abigail was at Peru with her sister, Mrs. Winslow Walker, when she d. Feb., 1887. At her request she sleeps beside her father at his right, in the Jackson cemetery. The lack of a marker at her grave renders this notice expedient. She was an amiable Christian woman, highly respected by all.
The marriage tie between John G. and Dorcas Benson was well kept and life ran smoothly with them for nearly thirty years. The children had grown up and were away providing for them- selves when the chastity of the marriage vow was broken. The seducer was a married man having a wife then living, the mother of ten children by him. It caused a separation of Benson from his wife. He m. 2nd, Elmira Atkins in 1861. the dan. of Nathan- iel and Olivia (Walton) Atkins. They lived together happily the remainder of his life, about fifteen years. The last ten Years or about they resided at East Livermore where he was in charge of Hilman's Ferry. He d. Apr. 27. 1876. His widow remarried Ephraim Russell formerly of Hartford. Their union lasted five to six years and he died. She survived him, having a home in the house of her sister Mrs. Robert Lunt several years, till her death July 6. 1898. ac. 80 yrs., 4 mos. She rests beside John G. Benson
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in Canton cemetery located in what was Putnam Atkins' neigh- borhood. Wife Dorcas Benson d. in Peru July 17, 1825, and occupies a lone grave in Waite cemetery, ae. 64. Her son Eph- raim assumed the expenses of her last sickness and burial. Like the woman at the well in Samaria, she went her way and sinned no more. Who shall say that the pardon was not the same ?
Family of Ephraim and Maria (Babb) Benson, m. July 30, 1843. He tended the gristmill of Robinson Turner in 1845 dur- ing owner's trip to England. He lived in the Wragg house across the stream. He suffered severely from rheumatism the last half of life that shortened a leg and an arm and led to heart trouble. He lived by farming mostly: the last farm he occupied was the Jeremiah Hall place. He was at work out in the field alone the afternoon of Sept. 7, 1863, and failing to return at the usual honr, he was found without life, serenely at rest. He had a Christian hope. His was an upright and highly esteemed family. Chil- dren :- Mary A., b. June 29, 1844. She taught school the sum- mer term of district No. ? in 1862, 14 pupils, wages $1.25 per week and beard, m. Pub. June 22, 1863, Samuel Scribner in Lewiston and d. at her home the next year of Bright's disease ; George Henry, b. Mar. 28, 1842 : Edgar E., b. June 22. 1848, is a merchant tailor associated a term of years with Allen & Co., dealers in clothing, 204 Middle St., Portland, Me. Mr. Benson
and wife Nellie have a son Charles, a graduate of Bates College, under a free scholarship by reason of the heavy endowment by Joshua Benson of Boston, his great-great uncle. He graduated at a noted medical school in New York. He is a practicing physi- cian. eminent in his profession, located at Haverhill, Mass. He is married, has one child : Charles Wallace Benson, b. May 2, 1853 He was attending school, preparing to enter Bates College, was taken sick and after a short period died at his mother's home in Lewiston : Wm. D., b. Aug. 28, 1855, d. ac. 2 yrs., ? mos. in Peru ; Howard Chandler, b. Sept. 12, 1860.
Widow Maria d. in Lewiston, May 1888. Interied in old Knight cemetery.
George Henry is married and living in Massachusetts.
Burgess Family
The members of this family in Peru, Wayne and all through New England are lineal descendants of Thomas Burgess of Eng- land who emigrated to America around. 1630 when with a young family he arrived at Salem, Mass. A section of land was granted
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him July 3, 1637 in Duxbury. He removed to Sandwich the same year and there settled permanently and became a large land holder. He served the town in every office from road surveyor to deputy to the court at Plymouth for several years. He was a charter member in a church institute there in 1638. He d. Feb. 13, 1685, ae. 8 yrs. His wife Dorothy d. Feb. 27, 1687. His grave was honored by a monumental slab imported from England. This was the only monument set up for any pilgrim of the first generation.
Second generation. His children were Thomas, Jr., John, Elizabeth, Jacob and Joseph. Jacob. 3d son, helped to repair the meetinghouse, 1644, and was early a member of the church. He inherited in behalf of his son Thomas the paternal estate in Sand- wich. He m. June 1, 16:0, Mary who d. June 23, 1106, the dau. of Benjamin Nye. He d. Mar. 17. 1719. Children 6. Third generation. Jacob Burgess, Jr., 3d son of Jacob and Mary Nye, b. Sandwich, Mass., Oct. 18, 1676, m. Apr. 22, 1701, Mary Hunt of Duxbury, Mass. He d. 1769. Children 6. Fourth generation. Samuel the 5th child b. Sandwich, Nov. 2. 1111. m. Sept. 5, 1741. Mercy Benson of Rochester and removed to Wayne, Me., where he d. at advanced age. Children 9.
Fifth generation. Thomas the 1st and Samuel, Jr., 2nd child- ren of Samuel and Mercy Benson were soldiers of Revolution. Seth, the 5th son b. 1461, Sandwich. Mass., and Benj., the 3d b. Mar. 11, 1751, came to Wayne, 1794. Benj. m. Oct. 24, 1723, Fear Wing. Hle lived and d. in Wayne in 1852, aged 101 yrs,, 9 mos. His children number 11.
Seth above mentioned m. around 1983, Mercy Hamon. IIe was a signer of the petition for the incorporation of Wayne in 1197. Soon after that date he moved to Livermore where he died 1815. Sixth generation. The 6 children of the above Seth and Mercy Hammon were Samuel. b. July 6, 1785, Seth. Jr., b. June 25, 178%, Mary or Polly, b. June. 1289, m. Chas. Austin, father of John, sen., d. Mar. 23, 1853. Ebenezer, b. Sept. 5, 1793. Luther b., d. young. Obed, b. Oct. 1. 1799.
Samuel settled in Peru. He m. 1st, Hannah Hammon, b. 1785. d. Sept. 2, 1843, a sister to Paul, around 1805-6. Their children : Elijah E., b. May 17, 1807 ; Sarah, b. Aug. 1811, in. Gardner Love- joy, his 1st wife, Sept., 1837; Maria B., b. Oet. 3, 1813, m. Oct. 6, 1829, John Austin ; Harriet, b. Aug. 18, 1818, m. July 23. 1836, Chas. Frost. Samuel, Jr., b. July 18, 1821, d. Oet. 2, 1894. m. Apr. 28, 1845, Sarah E. Luke of Madrid, b. Apr. 5, 1823. Elijah E. m. Apr. 16, 1827, Wealtha Jones. Samuel, sen., the parent m.
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2nd, Lydia Lovejoy a sister to Benj. Lovejoy. He d. Jan. 26, 1861, ae. 81 yrs., 6 mos., a happy devoted Christian.
Offspring of Samuel Burgess, Jr. Susan Frances, b. Oct. 8, 1845, m. John Austin, Jr .; Augusta Ann, b. July 8, 1849, m. Geo. W. T. Austin; Albion Stitson, b. May 27, 1854, m. about 1874, Rose A., b. June 11, 1858, d. Jan. 22, 1907, dau. of Tillotson P. and Clarinda (Lovejoy) Wing. Their children :- Ismay L., b. 1875; Leon E., b. 1818, d. Feb. 2, 1907; Lesnal C., b. 1894. This man is a miller and grain dealer at Rumford Falls.
Sarah E. (Luke) Burgess, widow of Samuel Burgess, Jr., died at her son Albion's, Rumford Falls, Oct. 25, 1909, ae. 86 yrs.
Elijah E., son of Sam'l and Hannah ( Hammon) Burgess, b. May 11, 1807, d. around 1842, m. 1st Apr. 16, 1824. Wealtha Jones, who d. Mar. 1, 1854, ae. 44 yrs, 8 mos. Children :- Eva- line, b. Mar. 8, 1828, d. around 1898 in Towa, m. Pub. July 15, 1846, Reuben Walton (widowed) of Mexico. Had son Elijah married in Iowa.
Parent Elijah m. 2nd, Mary Elizabeth Eustis, a sister to John M. Eustis, Dixfield. Cyrus F. Burgess, b. Mar. 30, 1830, n :. June 23, 1850, Dorcas b. June 24, 1824, dau. of Seth and Virtue (Decker) Burgess. Their children :- Emma, b. Jan. 13, 1851, d. young; Laura A., b. Dec. 13, 1853, m. Edwin Austin. He died. She m. 2nd, Frank Morse living in Dixfield, employed at spool mill: Eva, b. Mar. 25, 1838, d. young ; Emma d. ac. 10 yrs ; Lewis, b. Feb. 22, 1860, m. Carrie E. Burgess, dau. of Alden F. Their children :- Mvrtie B. m. Oscar T. Woodbury: Leon F. m. Jan. 4, 1908, Grace M. Pratt; Florence S .; Archer A .: Flora M. ae. 17 m. Mar. 9, 1907, Arthur L. Gordon ae. 23, son of Henry S. Gor- don, Mt. Vernon.
Cyrus F. (divorced) m. 2nd, Mar. 18, 1868, Sophila A., dau. of Luther B. Burgess of Temple. She d. May 18, 1892, ae. 58 yrs., 3 mos. Their children :- Albert A., b. Oct. 27, 1871. m. Nov. 3, 1907, Ina M. Fish, dau. of Geo. Fish of Dixfield ; Ferdinand F., b. Jan. 30, 1882, m. Nov., 1900, Clara F. Whittier, dan. of Wesley and Jennie Whittier, the dau. of Luther Burgess. Child b. Nov. 3, 1906, Christina R. Burgess.
This family is living with their father Cyrus F. Burgess on the home farm, keeping up his home hospitality as age and infirmity comes creeping on. Writer found him past 78 yrs. in the wood lot swinging the axe to fill an order for a car of lumber.
Alden F. Burgess, son of Elijah and Welthea Jones, b. July 3, 1834, d. Mar. 2, 1893, from injury to collar bone sustained while
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tending a hand windlass at quarry; m. Pub. May 6, 1858, Sophia A., b. Wilton, dan. Nemiah and Sophia (Harding) Hunt, d. Oct. 2. 1902. ae. 64 yrs. 4 mos. Child :- Elmer F., m. Jan. 30, 1887, Carrie M. Knight of Dixfield.
Their children :- Ora b. about 1891, a fine musician : Ruth b. 1894. Mr. Burgess is a professional embalmer and sexton nicely located at Rockport, Mass., and popular in his profession. His sister Carrie E. b., m. Lewis Burgess. They did live at West Peru village.
Loring W., brother of Alden, b. Jan. 13, 1838, m. Jan. 18, 1861, Ann S. Burgess. Their dan .. W. Ella, b. Ang. 24, 1862. Live in New Hampshire.
Of the early settlers in Peru the Burgess family was well rep- resented by four brothers, Seth, Jr., Samuel, Obed and Ebenezer and their sister Mary or Polly who m. Charles Austin, father of John, Sen. Seth Burgess, Jr., b. in Wayne June 25, 1789, d. at son Thomas' in Peru Jan. 25, 1871, m. Nov. 29, 1806, Virtue Decker, b. Wayne, Sept. 20, 1789, d. June 4, 1858. Their resi- dence is given on another page. Children :- Eliza Ann, b. June 5, 1807. m. Amos Bishop; Martha, b. Oct. 20, 1808 ; John, b. Sept. 12, 1810. d. June 11, 1891, ae. 80 yrs., 9 mos .. 20 ds., m. Pub. Feb. 7. 1834, Savila Ann, b. Wayne, dan. of Jesse Bishop, d. June 20, 1888. ae. 74 yrs., 4 mos., 20 ds. ; Hannah, b. Aug. 4, 1812, m. Pub. Jan. 23, 1839. George Canwell, Wayne; Luther, b. Sept. 21, 1814. d. 1883, m. Lucy Decker who is living in Jay aged 90 years, with her daughter Lizzie: Loamy. b. Ang. 23, 1816, d. July 11, 1862, m. around 1840. Gardner Lovejoy, 2nd wife; twins, Anna and William, b. June 24, 1818, Anna m. Aug. 7. 1845, Goin Dorr Franklin, brother of David: William, m. Celia Stevens, Curtis Corner. Leeds ; Betsey. b. Aug. 19, 1820. m. Dee. 31, 1840, Chris- topher F. Lovejoy, brother of Gardner Lovejoy; Melinda, b. Oct. 25. 1822, m. 1st. Ang. 8. 1841. Zebulon Harlow, 2nd, Frank Wing : Dorcas, b June 24. 1824. d. Sept. 11, 1904 m. 1st. June 23, 1850, Cyrus F. Burgess, divorced, m. 2nd Samuel York, divorced, m. 3d, Oct. 18, 1873, Joel W. White, his 2nd wife.
The first settler in Plantation No. 1 north of Win. Walker, Jr., was Seth Burgess, Jr., and family. The location was on the farm where Rollins Hammon lived when his buildings were burned. It is between the farm of Chas. J. Tracy and the Bishop cemetery on the north side of the highway. The log house was located on the rise of land np from the road as shown by a clump of apple
From High Street down Ridge Road. Union Schoolhouse, Lunt and Burgess farins, West Peru in background.
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trees and the relics of the old cellar. It is related by a danghter of this family, that before the forest was cleared her mother knit stockings for the children by moonlight out in the door yard. While the needles swiftly plied, the ear was regaled by songs of wolf and bear. There was a call to replenish the larder from many mouths and necessity impelled the fond, patient mother to journey on foot two miles or more at early dawn, toil hard at house cleaning all day for one peck of potatoes and carry them home at night to feed the family. This woman had fourteen children who lived to grow up and their posterity are numerous in town today. Mr. Burgess and wife came on foot from Wayne following the Indian trail by spotted trees much of the way and bringing wheat on his back to sow, a distance of thirty miles or more.
Children of Seth Burgess, Jr. :- Thomas Burgess, b. Aug. 18, 1825, d. Dec. 27, 1892, by tree falling on him, m. around 1851, Elizabeth Maccoboy; Walter B., b. Nov. 6, 1833, m. Pub. Nov. 4, 1858, Mary J. Richardson, Rumford ; Lydia J., b. Apr. 3, 1837, d. Ang. 4, 1905, m. Aug. 2, 1857, Daniel Waterman Knight.
Seth Burgess was a hard working, sober, industrious man of medimm stature, quiet and easy disposition and deprived of school advantages in youth. He was a professor of religion and lived an upright life.
We are unable to trace the two oldest children of this family further than the marriage of the first.
Their son John and wife lived and died on the farm where his son Henry Roscoe lives on ridge road. Their children :- Demus Bishop Burgess, b. May 11, 1835, d. Aug. 1. 1881, m. Feb. 6, 1859. Ora Ann Small, Rumford. She d. Oct. 17, 1908, ae 67 yrs. : Deborah Hathaway, b. Nov. 6, 1836, m. May 5, 1858, Chas. H. Lovejoy, Peru, now Canton. Their daughter Allura B., b. Feb. 12. 1859: Cloe Jane, b. May 19, 1832, d. Jan. 1, 1901, m. May 8. 1859, Josiah Frost: Benjamin L., b. May 21, 1844, d. Jan. 27, 1911. m. Oct. 26, 1867, Harriet R. Frost, dau. of Chas. Frost: Hemy R., b. Sept. 12, 1847, m. 1880 Emma S., b. 1863, dau. of Sam'l Lovejoy ; Harriet Eliza, b. Aug. 5, 1851, m. June 4, 1872. Adelbert Bartlett, divorced. Residence, Woburn, Mass.
Betsey Burgess, dan. of Seth and Virtue Decker, m. Jan. 1. 1840. Christopher F. Lovejoy, brother of Gardner. Children :- Lencretia, b. Nov. 22. 1840. m. Mar., 1862, James Davis ; Alvan B., b. May 27. 1842: Lyman B., b. Oct. 27, 1844: Harriet M., b.
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June 18, 1846; Caroline, b. Sept. 18, 1818; Mary J., b. June 4, ยท 1852; Lucian M., b. Oct. 17, 1854, Ida, b. Aug. 9, 1856, d. Sept. 19, 1863; Orodon, b. July 6, 1858; Twins, Georgiana, b. May 27, 1861, and Amalcus, b. same date.
Children of Demus B., son of John and Ora A. Burgess :-- Lillian J., in. 1st, Aug. 27, 1887. Adelbert A. Knowles, m. 2nd, a Mr. Severy in Dixfield; Clara Burgess, b. Nov. 12, 1860; Ed- mund P., b. Dec. 23, 1862, unmarried; Geo. Leroy, b. April 5, 1865. m. Dec. 5, 1886, Georgia I. Farrar of Woodstock; Naaman B., b. June 29, 1813, m. 1st, Luella Dunham of Sumner. Had girl living, divorced. He m. 2nd Mar. 21, 1906, Agnes M. Hezel- ton of Sumner. Son Walter E., farmer, residence Hartford; John b., m. Nov. 2, 1888, Mary J. Robinson, Andover. Children :- (lyde C. ; Archie J., b. April 5, 1892, d. Dec. 20, 1908.
Residence the old Wm. Piper farm. Children of Benj. L. Bur- gess, son of John and wife Harriett R. ( Frost) :- Llewellyn R., b. May 18, 1868 ; Horace R., b. Jan. 11, 1810: Benj. F., b. Oct. 21, 1881.
Children of Henry R. Burgess and wife Emma S. (Lovejoy ) : Alton 1., b. June 19, 1883, m. 1906, Olive B. Gammon of Auburn. Child, Henry R .. b. Apr. 6, 1907; Lena M., b. Nov. 30, 1887. Parent Hemy R. Burgess d. June 2, 1910 of cerebral apoplexy.
The offspring of Luther and Lucy ( Decker ) Burgess, Temple : Children, 1 :- 1, William F., b. Apr. 1, 1840, m. Ruth C. Swain of Avon. Their children :- Luther A., b. Oct. 20, 1880, m. Dec. 31, 1903, Susie Simpson, b. Sept. 19, 1876. Live in Monmouth ; Tena M., m. Walter Welch in Rumford Falls; Etta, m. Chas. Chandler in Monmouth; 2, Sophila A., b. Temple, d. May 18, 1892, m. Mar. 18, 1868, Cyrus F. Burgess, his 2nd wife. Child : Albert A., b. Oct. 27, 1821: 3. Mary, m. Abraham Swain; 4, Augusta L., m. May 18, 1878, Daniel D. Delano, d. Jan. 17, 1879: 5, Laura, b. m. Aug. 26, 1879, the said Delano; 6, Jennie, b. m. John W. Whittier, he d. June, 1902: 2, Lizzie, m. Alfred Shaw.
Children of Jennie ( Burgess) Whittier, 3 :- 1, Cyrus Whittier in Peru ; 2, Clara A., m. Nov. 30. 1904, Ferdinand F., son of ('yrus Burgess by 2nd wife. Child :- Christina R., b. Nov. 3, 1906: 3, Tina Whittier.
Child of Luther A. and Susie A. Burgess, Bernice Almira, b. Oct. 29, 1905. Res. Monmouth.
Children of Chas. R. and Etta A. Chandler :- Ethel M., b. Jan. 24. 1893. Monmouth. A graduate of high school. Eliza A., b. Feb. 3, 1896.
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Offspring of Thomas and Elizabeth (Maccoboy) Burgess, 6 :--- 1, L. Jane., b. May 25, 1852, d. in infancy ; ? , James T., b. May 25, 1852, d. Sept. 21, 1852; 3, Henry T., b. Jan. 26, 1856, m. Lizzie Odell, b. Jan 1, 1857, dau. True W. Thurston. Their children :- Henry H., Merl F., Mark N., Nellie M. Family live at Rumford Center. 4, Effie M., b. May 12, 1864, m. Jan. 1, 1888, Lewis Dunn, son of Valmore. Their child, Florence E., b. Mar. 31, 1892, d. Sept. 22, 1892 ; 5, Lizzie M., twin sister to James T., d. Sept. 24, 1853; 6, Anna M., b. May 6, 1853, d. May 2, 1859.
The head of this family was the second victim of accidental death on his farm. He was in his woods alone falling a tree that stood quite near a second trunk. He was standing between the trunks when the last stroke of the axe caused the tree to press him against the other trunk and hold him there and when found life was extinct. An account of the event was given in the newspaper at the time. It represented him to be a highly esteemed Chris- tian, a devoted husband, a kind indulgent parent, and one of the best of neighbors, obliging, liberal and generous to the poor, affa- ble ; he imparted good cheer to all he met.
Elbridge G. Hall of Rumford lived on this farm in carly forties. He was lifting a boulder from ground using a long lever when something gave way, causing end of lever in air to strike against neck of Mr. Hall, producing death.
Marriages
Nellie M. Thurston Burgess, dan. of Henry T. Burgess, m. Sept. 15, 1909, Philip Lowell Pottle of Glens Falls, N. Y. He was educated in Lewiston public schools and graduated from Bow- doin, 1909. He is the son of Geo. Pottle of the Board of State Assessors. Mrs. Pottle was a graduate of Rumford High School. Mr. Pottle is superintendent of the International Paper Mills at Glens Falls, their future home. The wedding was at bride's parents, Rumford Center, Me. Mr. Burgess has been postmaster also in trade here many years. He is one of Peru's sons, a man of high standing. Mrs. Burgess is also one of Peru's noble women. This family came of pioneer stock, honest and true. They both do honor to their progenitors.
Obed Burgess, bro. to Ebenezer, b. Oct. 1, 1799, m. Dec. 1, 1819, Melinda Walton, Mexico. This family were in town and had one child at date of incorporation, 1821. Children :- Melin- tha, b. Jan. 16, 1821 ; Farewell Walton Burgess, b. Jan. 16, 1823;
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Bowers W., b. Mar. 30, 1825; Charles A., b. June 5, 1828. d. Apr. 15, 1852; Lucy, b. Oct. 29, 1830; Sibyl, b. Jan. 28, 1833, d. July 12, 1852; Deborah, b. Jan. 12, 1836, d. Aug. 6, 1840; Rosamond, b. Sept. 8, 1839; Peter Morrill, b. Nov. 27, 1841, d. 1842; Mary A., b. Sept. 11, 1844.
Marriages
Farewell W. Burgess, m. Rose Bunker. Children :- Willard S., b. Dec. 19, 1853 ; John, b. Apr. 6, 1855; Mellen, b. Mar. 2, 1857 ; Albert, b. May 5, 1859.
Bowers W., b. Mar. 30, 1825, m. Aug. 26, 1855, Elizabeth J. Brown. Children :- Cora M., b. Nov. 15, 1857; Flora M., b. Aug. 13, 1860.
Lucy Burgess, b. Oct. 29, 1830, m. Van Ranslier Eastman. Mexico, Feb. 20, 1850. Their son, Aldana, b. in Mexico, m. Dec., 1879, Alice F., the dau. of Alpheus Burgess. Children of Lucy and VanRanslier Eastman :- Albert, b. Mar. 22, 1851; Chas., b. May 6, 1853; Willard, b. Sept. 20, 1855: Anthony, b. Feb. 23, 1857 ; Augusta, b. Mar. 12, 1859; Oscar, b. Aug. 30, 1861; Edgar, b. May 27. 1863.
Ebenezer Burgess, b. Wayne, Sept. 5, 1798, d. 1864, m. Jan. 1, 1817. Celia Atkins, b. Wayne, 1791, d. 1878. Removed to Hart- ford. Children :- Harrison N., b. May 2, 1818, in Dixfield, d. Jan. 8. 1901, in Peru. m. June 26, 1837, Abigail Austin, dau. of Chas. and Polly (Burgess) : Alpheus. b. Nov. 7, 1819, d. Apr. 17, 1890, m. Nov. 22, 1842, Melinda Austin, dau. of Chas. and Polly ; William A., b. Aug. 24, 1822, d. 1901, m. Nancy Foy probably 1845. she d. 1848-1849 ; Achsah, b. Jan. 15, 1825, d. 1880 in Hart- ford, m. Apr. 30, 1846, Elisha Burgess. It is believed he was a native of Hartford: Sarah W., b. July 1, 1826, m. May 28. 1845. Andrew Russell of Hartford; James H .. b. Feb. 5, 1829, d. July 3. 1896. unmarried. in Peru : Mary A., b. May 15, 1831, d. May 2, 1859: Julia Ann, b. Oct. 8, 1833: Eliza Jane b. Oet. 7. 1835. d. 1865. m. June. 1861, John C. Moody, Peru, son of Ashby and Polly Moody. This family came from Auburn about 1848 and lived on the road from Ripley's mill by the schoolhouse to North Hartford. His farm joined that of Ephraim G. Packard. There were five or six set of farm buildings here, now only the Irving Dean place remains, now occupied by John E. Russell. The son of John C. and Eliza J. (Burgess) Moody was Edwin A., b. July, 18. 1862.
Children of Harrison and Abigail (Austin) Burgess :- Darius A., b. Oct. 15, 1838, d. Dec. 6, 1841 : Elias R., b. Sept. 29. 1840,
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d. Aug. 9, 1841; Mary J., b. Dec. 23, 1842, d. Feb. 12, 1906, m. Pub. Jan. 20, 1867, Sylvester Frost; Darius A., b. Nov. 9, 1844, m. Dec., 1863, Eveline Mathews, dau. of Winthrop Mathews; Elias, b. Mar. 27, 1847, enlisted Co. A, 9th Me. Regt., d. Aug. +, 1865 ; Julia Abigail, b. July 7, 1849, m. Chas. Henry Bishop, son of Cyrus; Wm. Harrison, b. Sept. 12, 1851; W. M. A. Burgess d. Nov. 15, 1881, ae. 30 yrs .; Lenora, b. Oct. 15, 1852; Benj. H., b. Feb. 21, 1855, m. July 3, 1877, Celia L. Bishop, Jay, dan. of Cyrus Bishop; Ellen K., b. July 21, 1856; Otis W., b. Apr. 7, 1856, m. Oct. 19, 1876, Emily Farrington, Mexico, b. June 7, 1857. Chil- dren :- Ora L., b. Mar. 23, 1881, d. Feb. 14, 1901; Merwin d. June 14, 1908, ae. 13 yrs. Julius Elery Burgess, son of Darius A. and Eveline (Mathews) Burgess, b. Aug. 30, 1866, m. Susie Horn, N. H. He was killed on railway at Danville Junction 1905.
Children of Alpheus and Melinda (Austin) Burgess :- Francis R., b. Sept. 12, 1843, d. Sept. 1, 1890, m. Nov. 26, 1875, Alice M. Duplenty of Brockport, N. Y., d. Aug. 1, 1896, ae. 48 yrs. Their son Clifford Burgess drowned July 9, 189%, ac. 17 yrs, 10 mos. Francis R. was a soldier Co. A, 9th Me., enrolled Jan. 24, 1865. He contracted disability and was pensioned Mar. 30, 1886, d. of army disability and his widow pensioned Mar. 17, 1891.
Sarah R., b. Mar. 1, 1846, d. Aug. 24, 1890, m. about 1868, Daniel F. Haines, m. 2nd, Pub. widow Dec. 11, 1882, Geo. H. Davis (divorced). Their son James G., b. Nov. 28, 1881.
Maria Ann, b. Aug. 27, 1848, mn. Mont Babb, Mexico; Polly Augusta, b. Oct. 29, 1850, m. Alec Day, Bryant Pond; Melisse Gone, b. Mar. 11, 1853, h. Pub. Mar. 12, 1870, John A. Putnam ; Alice F., b. Oct. 25, 1862, m. Dec., 1879, Aldana Eastman, Mexico, who d. Feb. 25, 1903, Peru; Isabel F., b. Dec. 2, 1855, m. John Leavitt, Rumford; Ebenezer, b. Mar. 11, 1858; Sophie A., b. Mar. 11, 1860, d. Dixfield ; Geo. L., m. Dec. 5, 1886, Georgia I. Farrar, Woodstock; Chas. LaForest, b. Feb. 1, 1865, m. 1901-2, Ann Holmes, E. Machias, after 5 yrs. divorced; Herbert H., b. June 20, 1867, m. Apr. 9, 1891, Edith M. Smith of Woodstock. Wife parted. He m. 2nd, Mar. 7, 1908, Josie B. Baxter, a widow.
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