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Other Grandchildren of Alpheus Burgess
Children of Alice F. and Aldana Eastman, m. Dec., 1879, Lucy M., b. Dec. 1880, m. July 27, 1901, Arthur H., son of Henry F. Floyd ; Charles R., b. Nov. 27, 1883 : Victor A., b. Nov., 1885.
Children of Lucy M., and Arthur H. Floyd :- Walter L., b. Sept. 8, 1901; Arthur L., b. Jan. 8, 1903; Arlene M., b. Dec. 19, 1904; a son b. Jan. 1, 1910.
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Children, 2, of Wm. A. and Nancy (Foy) Burgess of N. H. She d. in Massachusetts 1848-9. 1, Romanzo M., b. Boston Aug. 19, 1816. m. Nov. 27, 1869, Alma Jackson, b. Jan 23, 1852, dan. of Seth W. and Elnora Jackson. Wife d. Feb. 20, 1886. Child, Maurice W. Burgess; 2, Herbert H., b. May 10, 1848, enlisted in Civil War, went to Augusta, sick there in camp, discharged, d. around 1865. Wm. A. Burgess m. 2nd, Sarah C. Zwick, b. 1831, d. Aug., 1908. Their children, 3 :- Ida J., b. May 27, 1857, m. James L. Demerritt; Etta A., b. Mar. 3, 1860, m. May 22, 1883, Barlow Stevens Austin. Their son Wm. G. b .; Ada M. b. Aug. 5, 1864, m. Joseph A. Arnold, 2nd wife. No issue.
Maurice W. Burgess, son of Romanzo, m. 1st, Stella Farrar, dau. of Almon and Henrietta Farrar. Wife d. May 13, 1907. Maurice m. 2nd, May 3, 1908, Edith Althea Davis of North Anson. "School teacher." Services at Eddie S. Demerritt's, West Peru. Residence Smithville, Rumford.
Romanzo M. Burgess, m. 2nd, July 1, 1889, Rose E. Bartlett of Mechanic Falls, dau. of Frank and Mira Bartlett. Their chil- dren :- Iva M., b. May 2, 1890; Mira F., b. June 2, 1893; Frank R., b. Feb. 13, 1895; H. Foye, b. Dec. 19, 1897. The family and children of Wm. A. Burgess rank with our best citizens in Peru. Actnated by high ideals, enterprising and gracious, like all good people, their worth is beyond measure. Mr. Burgess resided a few years at West Peru. He has a fine residence at Goff Hill, Auburn, Me. He is doing a thriving business as barber on Main St., Lewiston.
Children of Sarah W. Burgess, dau. of Ebenezer and Celia Atkins of Hartford, who m. in 1844, Andrew Russell :- Celia, b. June 9, 1846; Wm. B. b. Feb. 5, 1849; Emma B., b. May 15, 1851: Wallace A., b. July 8, 1856: Ida J., b. May 27, 1857 ; Etta A., b. March 3, 1860.
Bishop Family
We quote from the history of Wayne. The first Bishop in this country of which we have knowledge is Edward who was living in Salem as early as 1639. He was a church member 1645, a con- stable in 1660 and d. Jan., 1695. Children :- Edward, Jr., m. Hannah and they lived in Beverly, afterwards in Salem where he died in 1705. It was his second wife Bridget who fell a victim to the witchcraft delusion and was hung in Salem, 1692.
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Edward, Jr., b. 1648, m. Sarah Wildes. Both were imprisoned and suffered many hardships during that reign of terror in 1692. He moved to Rehoboth, Mass., in 1703, where he died May 12, 1:11. In his will he speaks of Jonathan, his 4th son. b. 1686, m. Abigail Avery. Will was probated Apr. 7, 1752. Gould, son of Jonathan, b. Rohoboth, Mass .. Mar. 28, 1712, m. Mary Mar. 15. 1732 or 3. Squire (the 2nd settler in Winthrop 1766) b. Rohoboth, Nov. 4, 1733 and Zadock, b. there Apr. 24, 1749, were children of Gould and Mary. Squire m. Patience Titus. He d. Sept. 6, 1801. wife d. Apr. 21, 1802. Zadock m. Mary Rawson Feb. 28, 1770. They had children b. Rohoboth, Jonathan and Joseph. At Swansea, Mass., children b. Welcome, Jesse, Zadock, James, Mary and Lydia. Squire was living at North Monmouth 1781 or 2 and was flowed out.
In 1783 he moved to Bishop Hill in Leeds. Jesse, son of Zadock, b. Nov. 11, 1776, m. Patience Titus, b. June 12, 1782. They moved to Wayne from Monmouth in 1804 or 5, settled on the farm of Samuel W. Bishop the son of Jesse, who d. in Wayne June 23, 1864, ae. 87. His wife Patience d. Wayne, Mar. 3, 1863, ae. 81. Both were prominent members of the M. E. Church, Wayne. Patience being talented in exhortation. The children of Jesse were Demas, b. Apr. 7, 1801 ; Mary H., b. Mar. 27. 1802; Squire, b. Apr. 10, 1806; Jesse, b. Apr. 29, 1808 ; Naaman, b. Jan. 1, 1811 ; Savilla Ann, b. Jan. 1, 1811; Jonathan G., b. Feb. 29, 1816, and Samuel T., b. May 18, 1821. Marriages, Demus m. Isabelle Farnam Feb., 1823; Mary H. m. Benj. Lovejoy, Peru, Dec .. 1827 : Squire m. Hannah Morey, Nov., 1827, lived in Peru in the forties, thence in Wayne the remainder of life; Jesse m. Lucy Maxim, June, 1834, he lived and died in Wayne; Naaman m. Mary Ridlon, Aug., 1832, he lived and died in Leeds; Savilla Ann m. John Burgess, Peru, Jan., 1834; Jonathan G. m. Margaret W. Clark, July 4, 1846, d. in Sangerville : Samuel T. m. Julia True, May, 1845, lived and died in Wayne.
Squire Bishop, a brother of Demus, m. Pub. Hannah Morey of Wayne, Nov. 20, 1827. Their children :- Eliza M., b. Apr. 26, 1828, m. 1st, Nov. 24, 1850, Robert Gowell, Sumner, a Pvt. Co. D, 12th Me., d. on ship, buried at sea 1862, U. S. marker in Bishop cemetery. Widow m. 2nd, Granville Tracy, lived at Oxford, Me .; Charles Morris, b. Jan. 18, 1830, went to Missouri, thence to Nebraska, was a soldier in War of Rebellion; Patience T., b. Jan. 25, 1832, m. 1st, Rollins Hammon, Jan. 1, 1852. Children :- Chas. Horace, b. Nov. 26, 1852; Josiah Eldon, b. July 23, 1854,
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d. Sept. 21, 1862; Ellen, b. Feb. 12, 1861, d. young. Wife Patience T. divorced, m. 2nd, Squire B. Hammon, brother of Rol- lins and son of Paul; Mercy Morey Bishop. b. June ?, 1834, m. as 1st wife of Osgood Graves, Wayne; William Morey Bishop, b. Jan. 29, 1836, d. in army, 1861-5; Abiah Ellen, b. Dec. 29, 1838, m. Osgood Graves, his 2nd wife, in Wayne; Squire Francis Bishop, b. Nov. 30, 1843, was soldier war of 1861, d. at close of war in Wayne; Josiah Manley, b. Oct. 25, 1845, d. in army at Red River.
This family were residents of Peru in the forties. Record of Squire Bishop as highway surveyor 1843; Com. of building bridge near Adam Knight's mill 1849. He was tax collector sev- eral years and held other offices. He was a man of integrity and commendable motives. He removed to Wayne about 1850.
The progenitor of Bishop family in Peru was Jesse Bishop, sergeant in Capt. Jacob Haskell's Co., 4th Regt. Me. Militia of Wayne in service at Wiscasset, Bath and vicinity in 1814. He m. Patience Titus. Their son Demus, b. Apr. 7, 1801, d. in Peru Dec. 3, 1892, m. in Wayne, Mar. 16, 1823, Isabel C. Varnum, b. May 21, 1805, d. July 6, 1876. in Peru. Children :- ('yrus. b. July 8, 1824, d. Mar. 23. 1908, m. Celia D., b. Apr. 17, 1826, the dau. of Rev. Chas. and Charlotte (Weaver) Bisbee ; Demus Farnum Bishop, b. July 26, 1826, d. Apr. 16, 1882, m. Mar. 17, 1855, Hannah B. b. June 1, 1828, dau. of Benj. and Mary H. (Bishop) Lovejoy; Jesse Bishop, b. July 2, 1829, d. Oct. 6, 1904, Pvt. Co. C, 29th Regt. Me., taken prisoner at Red River, held 4 mos., m. July 31, 1873, Angeline Butterfield of Woodstock; Wm. H. Bishop, b. May 6, 1833, d. Jan. 19, 1900, m. 1st, Sophia, dau. of Jesse Bishop, Jr., of Wayne. Wife died, m. 2nd, Lucy Butterfield of Woodstock. Their children :- Roland Irish, d. ac. about 11 mos .; Cora B., d. ae. around 14 yrs .; Celia Davis Bishop, b. Feb. 16, 1836, m. Nov. 5, 1854, Chas. B. Lovejoy in East Abington, Mass. Their son Elmer Lovejoy, b. Bethel, Oct. 27, 1862. Superin- tendent of Rønd R. T. Ry. since 1896.
Peru is proud of her sons and grandsons who have reached high attainments ; have developed a genius that enables them to do things with ease that are hard and difficult. Proud of the mothers who inspire their sons and daughters to seek high ideals.
Mr. Lovejoy though born in a neighboring town is the offspring of one of our fair daughters, born and bred in Peru and her father was one of the first pioneers to clear the wilderness around Dickvale.
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Nathan S. Bishop, b. Feb. 17, 1842, d. Feb. 24, 1896, m. Nov. 22, 1863, Emma J. Elliott of Rumford. Their children :- Frank E., b. Jan. 13, 1864; Cola E., b. Nov. 11, 1865, d. Apr. 4, 1867; Dana E., b. Sept. 16, 1868 ; Elva; Nathan S., Jr .. b. June 1, 1873. Frank E. m. 1st, Aug. 21, 1884, Lillian M. dau. of Chas. Carter, Rumford. They parted. M. 2nd. Susan Burgess, widow of Julius Burgess. Children :- Laura M., b. Apr. 10, 1885, d. May 9, 1890; Dana E., m. Dec. 13, 1892, Lillian A. dau. of Royal H. and Myra (Knight) Small; Elva m. Wallace Hammon ; Nathan S., Jr., m. Lillian I., b. Feb. 14, 1875, d. May 8, 1895, the dau. of Geo. W. and Esther J. (Childs) Gordon : Julia Isabel Bishop. b. Aug. 13, 1846, d. Dec. 25, 1896, m. Feb. 15, 1869, Roland (. Irish, b. Oct. 20, 1845, d. Sept., 1892, the son of Free- man Irish. Their children, Vernon and Bernice d. young.
Children and grandchildren of Cyrus and Celia D. Bishop :- Chas. H., twin, b. Sept. 22, 1850, d. July 26, 1872; Henrietta, twin, b. Peru, Sept. 22, 1850, d. Dec. 11. 1908, m. Almon J. Far- rar, b. Woodstock. Their children :- Howard H., h. 1868, m. Apr. 3, 1892, Henrietta E., dau. of Virgil and Clara (Adams) Fuller of Rumford ; Gennie Farrar, b., m. Elias Lovejoy, son of Elias H .; Elma, b., m. Silver, Rumford Center; Vernon : Imuellen
m. - - Smith, Dixfield; Una m. ,1st, Deforest Delano, divorced, m. 2nd, Dec. 19, 1903, Willis W. Taintor, Dixfield; Stella m. Maurice Burgess; Manly : C'elia; Ned.
Wm. W. Bishop, son of Cyrus, d. Oct. 21, 1861, ae. 2 mos. Children and grandchildren of Demus F. Bishop :-- Mary L., d. Apr. 22, 1877, ae. 3 yrs., 11 mos., 20 dys .; Melvin Lovejoy Bishop, b. Apr. 1, 1856, m. July 25, 1885, Myra M., dau. of Reu- ben Hutchinson, Carthage. Their dau., Blanch J., b. Apr. 7, 1886. Chas. Henry, son of Cyrus, m. Julia Burgess, dau. of Har- rison. Their son Chas. Henry, b. 1872, d. 1900, m. Lena M. Bryant, b. North Jay, 1877, d. Sept. 22, 1894, the dau. of David and Eliza (Brown) Bryant.
Bonney Brothers
Among the early hardy pioneers were two brothers in the ad- joining townships. Isaac Bonney settled in Sumner in the open- ing beyond greenwoods on the road from Worthly Pond to Paris. His occupation was farmer and blacksmith. He married Elsie Newell May 29, 1831. Asa Bonney m. Betsey Bisbee about 1825 as shown by birth in family. She was a sister of Rev. Chas. Bisbee
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who came from Sumner. Children :- Isaac, b. May 14, 1826; Asa, Jr .. b. Sept. 10, 1828 ; Lydia, b. Feb. 29, 1830 ; Cyrus T., b. Nov. 23, 1831; Chas. B., b. Jan. 12, 1833 ; Jones B., b. Dec. 15, 1834; Fanny B., b. Nov. 1, 1836; Thankful L., b. Mar. 16, 1839.
John and wife Thankful lived on Peleg Oldham farm in the middle forties. He d. in Massachusetts. Their dau. b. 1840, d. 1845 ; son John E., b. Apr. 28, 1848; Elminy, b., did not marry, d. in Sumner; Abigail R., m. Nov. 30, 1837, Judson Robinson in Sumner; Stephen ; Vesta ; Mary; Sarah m. in Massachusetts ; and seven more. Total ?? children by one mother. Who beat that? Isaac m. sister to Cynthia Cary, was a soldier in Civil War, lived and died a farmer at Sumner; Asa, Jr., went West and d .; Lydia living in Sumner; Cyrus T. m. Feb. ? 2, 1855, Nancy Curtis, lived in Canton : Chas. Bean m. Pub. Sept. 27, 1855, Cyntha T. Cary, lives E. Sumner, a sldier Co. F, 9th Me .; Thankful m. a Roberts, a soldier in Civil War who d. E. Sumner.
Cyrus T. Bonney m. Feb. 22, 1855, Nancy A. Curtis. Chil- dren :- Frances Deltora, b. Nov. 11, 1855. d. Jan. 7, 1856 ; Cyrus, b. Mar. 18, 1857; Harriet L., b. Oct. 13, 1859.
Jones Bonney was engineer on P. and R. F. Ry. several years. Quitting that he was janitor at Auburn Court House a term of years. In fall of 1909 continuing same occupation at Bates College.
Barrows
Andrew Barrows and wife, Mary Shurtliff before marriage, came from Carver, Mass., to Hartford, Me., in 1808. They had a family of ten children of whom James was the sixth.
James Barrows was a brother of Andrew Barrows a merchant at Canton and Charles Barrows a mechanic. James did mechan- ical work several years in a last factory in Boston. He was b. July 30, 1808. m. May 2, 1836, Elizabeth, b. Feb. 3, 1808, dau. of Horatio Adams, Medway, Mass. Their children :- James A., b. July 28, 1841; Mary E., b. Nov. 19, 1813. Mr. Barrows and family came to Peru around the year 1853. He bought the farm first cleared and occupied by Joseph Conant adjoining the farm of Wm. Walker, Jr. The heads of this Barrows family took an active interest in religion, temperance and all moral refore; Con- gregationalist in creed and Republican in politics. Mrs. Barrows when a girl attended school at one time with Henry Ward Beecher. She always maintained great respect for him and would not be- lieve the Tilton scandal.
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James A. Barrows was drummer Co. C, 16th Me. He sus- tained sunstroke at battle of Gettysburg for which he receives thirty dollars per month pension. Increased 1911 to 50 dollars by special act through John P. Swasey, Rep. He m. Aug. 13, 1869, Mary K., dau. of Judson and Abigail R. (Bonney) Robinson. She was dau. of Asa Bonney, Peru. Children :- Abbie Adams, b. Mar. 29, 1873, m. Nov. 3, 1897, Geo. H. Haskell; Alvan Stuart Barrows, b. Feb. 29, 1876. Graduate of Hebron Academy. Resi- dence of family East Sumner, Maine.
Bent
Mary E. A. Barrows m. Nov. 26, 1865, Wm. Harrison Bent, b. Sept. 11, 1840, son of Samuel Bent, Braintree, Mass. No issue. He came to live with his aunt in the family of Benj. Allen about 1850. He served as Pvt. Co. B, 3d Me. Has served as post- master at Peru Center since about 1890. His brother Wm. Henry stood a draft at the same time and was assigned to the same Co. and Regt., 3d Me. The latter went from Dixfield where he was at work and the former from Peru. Wmn. Henry m. around 1857, Melinda, dau. of Daniel and Eleanor (Walker) Sheffield. Their only child, Flora, m. Seth Young, live at Lewiston. Not long after close of the war Henry Bent moved to Lewiston and was in the employ of Franklin Water Power Co. a term of years. He was steady and faithful, had an easy job and good pay. His wife was making good pay as seamstress in a shirt factory. Their earthly prospects were most excellent. What would have been the outcome had not mother Eve been tempted to partake of the for- bidden fruit may be somewhat uncertain, but had not the subject of this sketch yielded to the wily snares of an Irish woman and the wine cup, no one doubts but he would have continued a pros- perous, happy man, in the bosom of his family, whose virtues and qualities were all that heart could wish. Melina Bent d. Aug. 9, 1906.
Rev. Charles Bisbee
Rev. Charles Bisbee came from Sumner in the thirties. He built the brick house on the rising landscape east of West Peru village, now owned by Alvah Curtis. Dates are fragmentary. It is known he was living there with second wife. His first wife d. Apr. 30, 1845. Quite likely 2nd m. followed next year. He in. Jst, Pub. Jan. 15, 1825, Charlotte Weaver. Their children :-- Celia D., b. Apr. 17, 1826, m. Cyrus Bishop; Geo. H., 1. June 29,
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1821: Mary, b. Dec. 26, 1828; Benla, b. Mar. 10, 1832, d. Jan. 4. 1847: Charlotte, b. June 6, 1834; Andrew, b. Feb. 10, 1836; ( 'harles, Jr., b. Dec. 4, 1838; Sarah Ann, b. Dec. 11, 1842.
Rev. Chas. Bisbee m. 2nd, Benla Putnam. Her maiden name was Norris, sister to Gideon Norris. They came from Wayne. She m. 1st, Samuel Randall, Pub. in Wayne. They had a dau. Eliza, who m. Wm. Babb, and a son Levi Randall. Beula m. 2nd, Stephen Putnam, his 2nd wife. Hle d. Apr. 11, 1844. She m. 3d, around 1846, after May 27th, the said Rev. Chas. Bisbee. She d. Jan. 4, 1847, ae. 48 yrs. and buried beside of said Putnam in the pines on a part of said Bisbee farm. Stephen Putnam m. 1st, Dec. 13, 1828, Betsey Rieker.
Geo. H. Bisbee, m. Martha Hersey of Fayette. They lived at Rangeley Lake and d. in Massachusetts.
Mary married and has a family in Iowa. Charlotte m. John Hohnes: both d. in Massachusetts. Andrew m. Belle Noves in Norridgewock, d. West. Charles, Jr., b. Peru, m. in 1859, Olive, dan. of Joseph Frazier of Rangeley. He d. Sept. 9, 1905. Chil- dren :- Inella Bisbee b. 1860: Ida. b. 1862; Orlando A., b. Apr. 4, 1817. Was in Spanish war Co. F, 8th Regt., Mass .: m. 1901, Mabel Andrews, Dixfield. Leroy A. m. Ang. 26, 1905, Myrtle Howard, dau. of Sam'l W. and Emily (Babb) Howard. Rev. Almon S. Bisbee, b., m. Sept. 30. 1908, Anna Florence Knight, dau. of E. W. Knight. Portland. Residence, 5 Knight St., Port- land. Sarah Ann, dau. of Rev. Chas .. m. 1st. Timothy Partridge, lived in Massachusetts. He d. She married 2nd, Geo. Briggs. Luella Bisbee m. 1878, Carlos D. Lane, Co. I, 1st N. Y. Engineer Regt. Their children are seven sons, one dau. Chas. A. Lane m. Oct. 15, 1902, Sarah B. Colcord. Mrs. Enella Lane. divorced 1896, m. 2nd, 1908, Arthur Hezelton "widowed." Ida Bisbee m. 1880, Rev. Lewis C. Putnam, b. Franklin June 16, 1848, d. June 18. 1899. Children :- Edward Everett, b. 1883, m. Feb. 28. 1904, Ethel A. Thing, dau. of Joseph A. Thing, Boston, and Mary E. Beckler of Livermore, Me. Residence Livermore Center. Ber- nard, b. 1881, m. 1902, Mirtie Dixon, Farmington. N. H. Resi- ‹lence Dickvale; Cervier, b. 1881: Lela, b. 1888, m. 1906. Wesley Wyman, son of Stillman and grandson of Harrison Wyman. Their son Merton. b. July 1. 1902 : Ralph Putnam, b. 1900.
Jones Bisbee was a brother to Rev. Chas. Bisbee. He lived on the O. T. Woodbury farm in the carly forties. He married Rebecca Robinson of Summer. Their children :- John. b. Apr. 16. 1839, married, lives in Dakota, has fourteen children. Abi-
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gail, b. Sept. 10. 1841. This family and the Rev. Charles left town before 1850, breaking further traee. Mrs. Bisbee belonged to the race of Robinsons in Summer of whom several became resi- dents of Peru.
The following are the children in part of Luella and Charles 1. Lane, as descendants of Chas. Bisbee, Jr. Lester S. Lane, b. Jan. 29. 1886. d. Aug. 20, 1889: Stephen A., b. July 10, 1889; Charles A. : Arthur : Earl; Luanna.
Another Race of Babbs
Win. Babb, b. around 1820. m. Apr. 8, 1840, Eliza, b. 1816, dau. of Sammel and Beula (Norris) Randall of Peru. Wife d. with some one of chil. at E. Dixfield. Aug. 8. 1906. ae. 90 yrs. 10 m. Children :- Isabel Bishop Babb, b. Jan. 1, 1841, m. Oct. 30, 1857, Orin Handnon 2nd wife: Edwin Babb b. Oct. 9. 1842 ; Greenwood, N .. b. Oct. 26, 1843; Dinsilla, b. Mar. 6, 1846, d. 1863; Roscoe F. b. Apr. 5, 1849, m. Lilla Bibber, live at E. Dixfield ; Ada Estelle. b. Feb. 28, 1851, m. Alphonso Heselton ; Francis Adelbert, b. Peru, Apr. 18. 1853, m. Hattie Sinnett in New Sharon : Mary Amanda. b. Peru July 3, 1855. m. Oct. 1873, Orville K. Walton, b. Peru May 6, 1811, wife d. in Peru, Ang. 12, 1901. Walton is the son of Orin and Betsey (Fobes) Walton, the dau. of Benj. Fobes an early settler in Peru. Orin Walton d. in Canton 1897 and his wife Betsey d. 1900: Emily M. Babb, b. Jan. 11, 1857, m. Samuel W. Howard, living in Peru.
Edwin Babb was a member of Co. B, 3d Me. in the early part of Civil War. Hle contracted disability that rendered him a cripple for life, a partial paralysis of feet and legs. He m. 1st. Arabella Hezelton, dan. of Samuel of Stoneham. He worked at harness making a few years at West Peru in the late seventies and next engaged as agent in charge of Rockemeka Grange Store a term of years at said village. Children :- Burdena. d. ae. 8 VTS. at W. Pem; Cora. m. Horace Allon in Waterford. Mr. Babb's marriage to Miss Hezelton proved an unhappy union. In character and ideals they were not well mated. Mr. Babb was actuated by high moral, devont impulses, qualities that were wholly wanting on the part of his chosen companion. In the absence of Christian sanctity, chastity is unprotected, and passions lead the van. The wife deliberately broke her marriage vow and then sued for and obtained a divorce around 188 ?. She married her seducer and family jars in retribution soon followed: "Who so diggeth a pit
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shall fall therein, and he that rolleth a stone, it shall return upon him."
Another Race of Bisbees
Hannibal Bisbee m. 1st, May 19, 1833, Betsey Stetson, dau. of Elisha Stetson and Betsey Bartlett. He was a separate raee from other Bisbees in town. He came here and located in the vicinity of the range of hills from Ripley's Mill to North Hartford.
Children :- Hulda R., b. Dec. 23, 1838, m. Nov. 20, 1860, Wm. Harlow, Jr .; Elisha S., b. 1840. Worked carpenter, enlisted Co. F, 9th Me., 1st Lieut. 1861, promoted captain, killed at North Anna, May, 1864, a very capable young man. He framed Levi Lunt's house when about 16 yrs. old; Hannibal, Jr., b. 1843. Enlisted Oct. 31, 1861, Pvt. Co. G, 1st Me. Cav. Returned from war, went West, after his marriage Feb. 16, 1866, to Lucy A. Bick- nell of Canton. Mr. Bisbee's wife d. Jan. 25, 1854. He m. 2nd wife around 1855 and had four children to wit:
Russell Everett. b. May 14, 1856; Dennis, b. Oet. 1, 1857; Martin Harris. b. June 22, 1860; Lueius H. Bisbee, b. Jan. 12, 1867. About this date the family moved to North Livermore where both of the parents ended their earthly career and three of the children are yet living. Mr. Bisbee was an industrious hon. orable man, by occupation farmer; m. and d. July 31, 1911 of pneumonia.
Bassett
Elforest G., son of Chas. Bassett, b. Livermore, m. Nov. 26, 1890 May F., dau. of Amos L. and Ann D. (Wormell) Harlow. Son, Fred H., adopted. Mr. Bassett is one of Peru's shrewd and pros- perous farmers. He is suecessor of the above Harlow on the farm where Wm. Harlow with a family of seven children located in 1845. The farm has continued in the family and descendants ever since.
Chas. Bassett was b. in Peru, the son of James and Thersey Bassett. This family were residents of Peru in 1843, when Mr. Bassett and wife joined the Baptist Church. They continued residents in town and members of the church in good standing till their deaths in the spring of 1849. Their residence was on High street. The cut of "Bassett Farm, Worthly Pond" is a good view of the buildings erected by William Harlow the grandparent of Mrs. E. G. Bassett. They are located on the West side of the Pond on road to Sumner and Paris. See eut showing farm buildings.
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A merry party at Merritt H. Oldham's, formerly the A. J. Churchill farm at foot of Worthly pond. Team is headed towards outlet of pond and to where was Ripley's mill.
Elforest G. Bassett farm, formerly Amos Harlow's, at Worthly pond, west side.
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Bartlett
Family of Joseph and Fanny Bartlett. Wife was the dau. of Robert Tilson, Sr. and Charity Jones. They owned the Merritt HI. Oldham farm at foot of Worthly Pond. They were early set- tlers there. Children :- Fanny Tilson Bartlett, b. Oct. 8, 1817, m. Benj. Goodwin of Melrose, Mass., both died in Paris, Me., had chil- dren, Marcellus and Isabel, b. Aug. 25, 1857 ; Lydia L., b. Apr. 21, 1820, m. Martin Ellis of Canton, had son, Albert. They lived in Melrose, Mass. Parents dead ; Christopher W., b. Sept. 1, 1823, m. Pub. Dec. 6, 1857, Hannah dan. of Harvey Ripley, had daugh- ters Lydia L. and Abby B., both d. in 1862; Joseph W., b. July 9, 1834, lived and d. Melrose, Mass .; Josiah Adelbert Bartlett, b. Nov. 23, 1841, m. Jan. 1, 1863; Laura J., b. Dec. 24, 1842, dau. of Wm. P. Brackett, had son Emerson. They lived at one time on the Goggin farm. For reasons unknown to writer, this man, the husband of Laura Jane, left her bed and board without due notice, taking with him his neighbor's youngest girl, Hattie Eliza Burgess, b. Aug. 5, 1851 and nearly ten years his junior. They eloped going to parts unknown. It is reported that they are living at Woburn, Mass. Christopher d. in Florida.
Wife Fanny Bartlett d. on Goggin farm Ang. 17, 1863, ae. 64 yrs. 6 mo. Husband Joseph remarried Clarinda Paul "widow" Apr. 20, 1865. He d. about five years after and was buried beside 1st wife in Ridge Cemetery.
The cut entitled "A Merry Party, Worthly Pond" shows the barn on the Bartlett farm erected by him in the thirties. The honse is at the left across the road nearly opposite the team which is headed towards the bridge at the outlet of the Pond and to the West side of Pond. A short distance down the stream below the bridge was located Ripley's Mill. There is a good water power for sale.
Bemis
The family of Henry A. and Anna T. Bemis. He was the son of Jacob and Angeline Bemis whose daughter Prudence W., h. Livermore, Aug. 1, 1834, m. Apr. 1867, Thomas Farrar, b. Newry, Me., Nov. 1, 1840. These families came from Livermore to Peru in the year 1883. Bemis opened a harness shop in the old Bent store at Peru Centre. Next he made traveling cases and out and made men's pants. He removed around 1885 to East Turner.
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His children :- Clara Etta, b. Mar. 22, 1869, m. Orison Pratt of Turner : John T., b. Jan. 15, 1864. m. in Turner May Moore (widow) lived with his parents and died there June, 1905; Bessie A .. b. in Dixfield 1882, m. AArthur Bernard: Jacob Bemis d. at his daughter's East Peru, Dec. 10, 1892, ae. 84 Vis. His wife d there Sept. 16. 1888, ac. 11 VTS.
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