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Thomas Farrar was a soldier in the Civil War. Co. B. 25th Mass. Color bearer. height over six feet. He purchased the Daniel Deshon mill, water power and dwelling house below the bridge at East Peru. His mill was fitted up for the manufacture of spool strips and has done a paying business a term of years. Mr. Farrar's health failing le sold his ostate to the Spool Co., Dixfield. and removed to Gilbertville in spring of 1904. No issue. These familie- won the high esteem of all. Mr. Henry A. Bemis died at Keen's Mills, East Turner, around Feb. 1911.
Bolster
Lyman and Betsey ( Knight) Bolster. She was the dan. of Daniel Knight and Betsey Wheeler, Rumford.
Children :- Cuvier Lyman, b. Sept. 11, 1842, d. Nov. S, 1817: Harriett Andrews. b. July 5. 1832: Daniel Winthrop Knight son of Winthrop and Caroline Knight, b. Boston. Feb. 20. 1833. d. Aug. 31. 1853. Pern: Maiy Hellen L .. b. Dec. 23. 1840: Albert ('uvier W .. b. AApr. 14. 1850.
Mr. Bolster was in trade in the brick store at West Pem till the close of the war. He sold and removed to Bryant Pond. Clipping from "Oxford Register" June 29, 1910. Albert C. Bolster long a resident of Bryant Pond died suddenly at his home June 28. He had been in his usual health and had worked as usual at the Grand Trunk qrany. He came here with his parents in 1866 and on the death of his father in 1821 became his successor in business at the Knight store. Later he engaged in the drug business which he finally sold to A. M. Chase. He m. in 1874 Mary Louise, dau. of Rufus K. Dunham who survives him also daus. Gertrude Bol- ster and Mrs. Agnes Brooks.
Barstow
Robert and Better Barstow came from Monmouth. He was b North Yarmouth. His wife was Betsey Whitcomb. b. Waterford. He d. June 27. 1844. ae. 80 yrs. She d. Oct. 30, 18:2, ae. 72 VTS. Children :- Sarah Whitcomb. b. June 30, 1820. m. Sept. 18. 1849 :
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Benj. Roberts his 2nd wife : Geo. Magoun, b. July 9. 1822, d. Aug. 1, 1833 ; Sylvinia L., b. Sept. 25, 1824, m. Josiah Paine, she d. June 20, 1864. Their dau. Inez m. Gibbs Abbott. Children :- Eldora and Ruth ; Frederick A., b. Aug. 7, 1827, d. May 14, 1868, m. Isabel B., b. Oct. 12. 1831, dau. of Benj. and Mary H. Love- joy. Child :- Chas. 1. Barstow, b. Apr. 15. 1858. Widow remar- ried Wm. Moore.
The subject of this sketch was a very energetic, capable busi- ness manager. His occupation at West Peru village was boot and shoe manufacturer. Barstow and Whitcomb blood develops an all round business quality 100 per cent. active and vigorous to the third generation.
Emily, b. June 9, 1830, m. Aug. 11. 1859. Albion K. P. Knight : Lydia Prince, b. Dec. 26, 1832, m. in Mass. : Matilda K., b. July 19. 1836 in Monmouth, m. Pub. June 22, 1856, Elisha S. Wy- man : Geo. M., b. Oct. 5, 1839, d. Oct. 8, 1859. Frederick A. was a dealer in farm products at Bryant Pond the last few years of life. He was held in high esteem and did a thriving business.
Brown
Leonard H., b. in Leeds May 17, 1816 the son of Samuel and Sarah (Cushman) Brown, m. Mar. 24, 1855 Jane E. dau. of Jeremiah Witham. He moved from Carthage to Peru and was successor to Solomon T. Alden's ferry and farm in 1867-8. Children :- Celestia A., b. Jan. 25. 1856. unmarried: El- mer E., b. Dec. 23, 1857 : Marcia Luetta, b. May 6, 1861, m. May 6. 1888. Geo. W. ITall of the firm of Hall Bros.
The Brown family are highly respected citizens, good neigh- bors. kind and generous to the poor. Mr. Brown d. June 1, 1894. Mrs. Mary A. Hamilton sister to Mrs. Brown b. Harpswell, May 11, 1821. formerly a resident at W. Peru village was in the fan- ily (190%.) Mr. Brown and son carried on their ferry till the P. & R. F. Ry. was extended in the spring of 189? and did a thriving business in addition to farming. The ferry was dis- continued that spring as unprofitable for further service. It had done continuous service for 64 years. Son Elmer E. has not m. He sold farm and removed with Mrs. Brown and dau. Celestia to Dixfield Village about close of year 1902. Mrs. Brown d. there in March. 1908. respected and loved by all. The brother and sister are nicely situated in their village home. They are prominent mem- bers of Rockemeka Grange. Per. Miss Brown is an accomplish- od musician, vocal and instrumental.
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Brackett
Another race of Bracketts of Westbrook, Maine. Wm. P. Brackett, b. 1808, d. May 22, 1878, m. probably 1829, 1832, Laura J. Bowker, b. 1808, d. Nov. 29, 1873. They were farmers on "Ridge Road," farm joined Goggin place. Their children :- Julia Mariah, b. Dec. 18, 1831, m. Apr. 8, 1856, 1st. Luther Jackson his 2nd wife. He d. in army in 1864, widow m. 2nd, Dec. 22, 1865, Edmond C. Bowker a soldier in the 1st Me. Cav. Civil War. He lived and d. in Sumner. Their son lives on home farm. Widow is pensioner ; Hellen Morrill, b. Aug. 5, 1834, d. Aug. 11, 1834; Wm. Plummer, b. Apr. 6, 1838, d. Sept. 21, 1872; Laura Jane, b. Mar. 14, 1841, d. Ang. 12, 1842; Laura Jane. b. Dec. 24 1842; Jeremiah Chadman. b. Ang. 7, 1845. m. Oct. 6, 1868, Olive A. Jackson, b. June 13, 1849, d. Sept. 19, 1896, dau. of Seth W. Jackson ; Lionel Orin, b. Aug. 25, 1817; Jeremiah C. Brackett served Pvt. Co. E, 31st Me. war 1861. Laura Jane Brackett m. Jan. 1, 1863, Josiah Adelbert Bartlett, Peru. He left wife, she had son Emerson who m. in R. I., Alice Cook. Their residence is East Sumner, Labrador Pond. Wm. Plummer Brackett m. Jan. 1. 1863, Sarah Malissa Jackson dan. of Seth W. and Elnora (Woodsum) Jackson.
Their children :- Albion L., b. Nov. 9. 1863, d. June 4, 1908; Irving L., b. 1869. Widow Sarah Malissa, m. 2nd 1885, Tyler Kidder (widowed) he d. 1900; Albion L. Brackett m. Cassie E. C'aligan of East Machias, wife d. June 1905. Their children :--- Wm. Warren, b. Jan. 1887; Hazel B., b. 1889; Harold, b. 1891; Henry Irving, b. 1893; Leston A., b. 1892; Murton L., b. 1901.
Mr. Brackett was employed the most of his life in the big cot- ton mill at Auburn, Me. Was overseer many years and rendered very able and efficient service.
Barbar
Family left England June 4, 1851, came to Lewiston. Me. thence to Peru in winter of 1859. Edward Barbar, b. England Oct. ? , 1819, m. Apr. 21, 1839, d. Peru Centre Apr. 20, 1894; Martha, b. July 2, 1819 Ashton, England, d. Peru Jan. 6, 1892, dau. of Wm. and Hannah (Hallowell) Charlesworth; Wm. Charlesworth of Ashton, b. Mar. 27, 1792, m. Jan. 5, 1815, d. Peru 1873. Hlad seven children, Martha was the second. Children of Barbar :- Emma, b. May 4, 1841, England, m. Amos Turner; Hannah, b. May 25, 1845, d. in Peru, m. Jan. 15, 1868, Henry Castle 2nd
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wife b. England. Children of Henry and Hannah Castle :-- George, b. Mar. 1869, d. Omaha, Neb .; Maggie A., b. Aug. 1871, m. Eugene Varney, Waterville. He d. 1901; Sadie E., b. Mar. 1873, m. Apr. 15, 1897, Bert C. Kidder in Peru. Their children :- Elwood Castle, b. Mar. 6, 1900 ; Hazel Gertrude, b. Aug. 22, 1901; Sibyl M., Sept. 2, 1904; Lawrence Burt, b. Ang. 18, 1903; Leland Warren, b. Mar. 1907; Frank Edward, b. Oct. 26, 1908.
Nellie M. Castle, b. Mar. 23, 1875, m. Oet. 7, 1895, Dennis A. Harriman who came from South Thomaston, a monument worker. Chas. E. Castle, b. June, 1877, d. ae. about one yr. Child of Har- riman :- Richard Sherwood, b. Feb. 3, 1899, residence Rd. Falls. Henry Castle m. 3d Lydia Fogg. Child :- Ella. He has been at Asylum, Augusta several years. He d. there Jan. 1911.
Mr. Barbar and family and Mr. Charlesworth emigrated to Lewiston, Me., following the middle fifties, where Mr. Barbar was employed in cotton mill a few years. Around 1859 he purchased of Jonas Greene the Francis Conant stand adjoining the farm of Hezekiah W. Babb and moved his family there while he continued work in the mill. In spring of 1860 the house took fire, for want of the stove pipe being made fast to the chimney flue in the un- finished chamber over the cook stove, and the family were forced to leave the house about three o'clock on a winter morning and seek refuge with a neighbor. The buildings were connected and all consumed. Mr. Barbar thought he would build a house that would not burn. He had read Fowler's method of building in New York with cobble stone and lime mortar, requiring timber only for cross beams and sleepers and studding and the roof.
He had erected a few months after what was termed mud build- ings, disconnected. It is observable at this stage that the ingre- dients of the mortar used here was quite different from that in New York as much so as elay differs from sand. First the barn was built, roof put on and shingled and contrary to many pre- dictions, it survived a short rain storm. This served to inspire courage to build the house. It was erected, roof put on and shingled. A middle sill running length of house was designed to support sleepers of house floor and serve to hold a division wall in the cellar, the rear to be a dark room and the front lighted. A door frame under this sill had been erected when the workmen, H. W. Babb, Amos Turner and writer were in the cellar, the first two adjusting scantlings near the door frame and writer was standing a few feet nearer the entrance to cellar unemployed at the time, looking casually over head and thinking of the liability of a crash,
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when he detected a faint jar and saw a few grains of mortar drop and prompted by the signal made haste for the yard outside. He barely reached there when the crash came as quick as tipping a cart load of rocks down a steep bank. All flat with the roof on top. That door frame was the means of saving the lives of the men, when the house fell. Amos Turner, who was near the door frame was not injured. He looked around to find Mr. Babb and discovered him partially covered with debris on the cellar bottom. He was standing at the moment of the crash about midway be- tween frame and end wall near middle sill, which was held up by frame at point of bearing, the end portion going down with wall and inflicting a slight blow obliquely which stunned him. It was about three hours before he recovered his senses. The barn went down a few days later. That experiment cost two hundred dol- lars for material and labor. Next Mr. Barbar built in 1862 a set of wooden buildings and occupied them till after the war. In 1870 he with his son-in-law purchased the G. W. Bisbee farm and lived there with their families. Several acres of the tillage was de- voted to hops, with new cedar poles and a full equipment for dry. ing. They were yielding well and commanding a good price at the time. This incident and what followed is related simply as il- Instrative of Mr. Barbar's method of stopping the drink evil. He would stop the manufacture so far as he was able, and he did so by plowing up the hop fields on his farm to the last hill, sacrific- ing Imindreds of dollars. No other man followed the example. Mr. Barbar was a kind indulgent parent and his wife unlike Martha of old was always of good cheer, helpful and pleasing.
Brown Family
Nathan Brown and family were carly pioneer settlers in the North part of the town adjoining Rumford Falls. They came from Concord, N. H. around 1830. Record shows he was high- way surveyor in 1832. A portion of what was his farm is now oc- cupied by Italian shanties and the old Brown farm house re- modeled and second story added stands on bank of river opposite Little Italy, as called. The farm was last owned and occupied by John Austin, Jr. before its sale to the Water Power Co. 1890-91. We are unable to learn of the wife of Nathan Brown except that her maiden name was Wheeler. Nathan d. May 1, 1852. Their child :- David F. Brown, b. probably in New Hampshire. lived on home farm a bachelor the best part of his lifetime and long
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after the rest of the family had found homes away. In his early career he began letting money at 12 per cent. on collateral se- curity. At the time of the grasshopper famine around 1867 he had claims on lots of oxen about his vicinity. It was during this period that he would often find an additional yoke of steers or oxen in his barn yard, without notice. A young nephew asked him what he meant by saying he had a "lien" on them cattle. He said jerk- ing his hand: "Gad! they all lean towards my barn."
David F. Brown was 3d with Dean Lunt and Sumner R. Newell on the Board of Selectmen and Assessors of Peru for 1846. He m. late in life Mrs. Reed, widow of John Reed, merchant at Mexico Corner. He d. His only brother known, John Mark, m. lived and d. on a farm in Canton. Their son Henry G. m. widow of Lot Sampson in Hartford where he is living. Wife d.
John M. Brown's dan. Margaret m. Sumner Soule a native of Livermore. He was engaged in boot mfg. in the middle and late sixties. Wife d. He d. a member of police in Boston 1907 leaving a son Bert in a shoe store at Gardiner, Me.
The daughters of Nathan Brown, so far as known were, Sophrona E., m. Pub. to Franklin Warren, Mexico Oct. 20, 1854; Nancy S., m. Tristiam Washburn Mar. 11, 1841: Lovina, mn. James Wash- burn Pub. June 26, 1838, uncle to Tristiam ; Polly, m. about 1824, James Delano resident in Peru. He was no kin to other Delanos in town.
Their first child b. Feb. 3, 1825. This shows quite likely the Brown family were in town prior to Polly's marriage. Their chil- dren :- Sarah Brown Delano, b. Feb. 3. 1825, d. Apr. 11, 1825 ; Emerson Coolidge, b. Apr. 12, 1826, d. June 22, 1843 ; Nathan B., b. Feb. 10, 1828, d. July 25, 1848 ; David Brown Delano. b. July 1830, m. Sept. 25, 1851, Mary J. Hall ; Mary Ann, b. Oct. 1, 1832, d. Sept. 26. 1835 ; Nina B., b. Jan. 3, 1836, d. Oct. 1838 ; Chas. M., b. Aug. 25, 1838 ; Sarah Brown Delano, h. Sept. 14, 1842, m. Feb. 8, 1859, Jacob Lovejoy, Mexico.
Resuming the daughters of Nathan Brown, Lucy m. a Infkin, Emily M. m. Azel L. Hammon, Sarah b. Concord, N. HI. d. Peru Nov. 21, 1900, m. in early fifties Joseph Staples. Their chil- dren known :- Clara H., b. 1854 is married; Julia, b. 1860 is mar- ried.
Daniel Barton
Daniel Barton was a settler in the township several years be- fore it was an organized Plantation. He made a clearing West of
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Brady Bailey (now the Town Farm) on High street so called around the year 1800.
He m. about 1805. Eunice b. 1763 dau. of Merrill Knight, Sr. Their only child known, James Barton was b. here March 10, TouB. Mr. Barton d. Oct. 28, 1838 .. Their son m. Pub. Oct. 9, 1837. Abigail Russell of Hartford. Their only issue d. young. Not long after the death of Daniel Barton his widow Eunice made it her home with her sister, Mrs. Francis Waite, having a room in the Waite mansion. For many years "Aunt Barton" as she was familiarly called, was the general root and herb dispenser in the community. She was often seen in the fields and on the highway with her apron full of these goods. Nov. 6, 1845, in her 83d year she remarried one Benj. York who was 84 years old and active. He came to the gristmill of writer's father with a bushel of wheat he had grown and asked the writer to make him some nice flour a day or two before the marriage. The wedding cake was made from that flour. Mr. York told writer afterwards the flour was good. Mrs. York lived seven years after this marriage, d. Feb. 19. 1853, ae. 90 yrs. Her brother was hugged by the white faced bear. See first sawmill, Dickvale.
Bray
Harrison and Keziah M. Bray lived on the Curtis farm at Worthly Pond in the early or middle forties. He removed to the upper end of High street and bought the Samuel S. Wyman farm. The latter moved to the Withington farm where his son Otis Wy- man lives in Peru annex to Rumford. This occurred between early and middle fifties. Mr. Bray was an active participant in moral reforms, a staunch supporter of Maine prohibition, an hon- orable just man and his wife was highly esteemed by all. Their children :- Eunice Mariah, b. Jan. 31, 1851, m. Herbert Daven- port, live in Turner; Ezra B., b. Sept. 17, 1854, m. Feb. 26, 1879, Harriet J. Knox, b. Mar. 26, 1856, dan. of Albion K. P. and Susannah Knox. Live in Boston, agt. for Turner Ctr. Creamery ; Wm. H. Bray, b. Apr. 21, 1857; Thomas B., b. Nov. 21. 1859, d. May 21, 1861; Emma Abbie, b. Sept. 21, 1862; Bennett L., b. Feb. 3, 1866, d. around middle eighties; Nora E., b. Apr. 14. 1868, m. a Mr. Metcalf. He was lost on board the steamer Portland, Nov. 27, 1898. Bertha did not m. died of consumption after the fam- ily removed to Lewiston in early nineties.
Mr. Bray has died since leaving town. His wife before marriage was Keziah Mills Weymouth, dau. of Wm. and Sally (Mills)
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Weymouth of New Portland, Me. Mrs. Bray is the only survivor, except a half sister, of a family of ten children. Her last own sister, Mrs. Paschal Edmunds d. in Mexico Nov. 1909.
Oliver B. Canwell
Oliver B. Canwell, brother to John, m. Dec. 2, 1826, Philema, dau. of John Andrews. Oliver d. Sept. 7, 1847, ae. 46 yrs. His wife d. Nov. 21, 1889, ae. 84 yrs. Children :- Sabrina, b. May 28, 1829, d. Feb. 25, 1845: William, b. July 29, 1831, m. Apr. 8, 1852, Hannah dau. of Thomas S. Lord; George, b. June 20, 1833, m. an Andrews; Keziah, b. June 21, 1837, m. an Andrews, a brother to wife of George; Nancy, b. July 26, 1839, m. Nov. 17, 1853, Geo. son of Stephen L. Wing; Mercy Andrews Canwell, b. in No. 2 May 15, 1835, m. a son of Stephen P. Wing; Oliver B., b. June 26, 1841, m. a Pratt, was in Civil War, Pvt. Co. C, 8th Me .; Chas. Bean, b. 1844, d. 1845; George W. Turner Canwell, b. Apr. 1, 1846, d. in Civil War. The following is the epitaph of Oliver B. Canwell : "He whose ashes here repose died happy in the Saviour's love, beyond the reach of mortal woes. His spirit sings in bliss above."
John Canwell m. Apr. 1, 1822, Melinda Wing. Children :- John, Jr., b. Jan., d. Mar. 1823; Wm. Woodsum Canwell, b. Sept. 21, 1824; Arvilla H., b. Oct. 25, 1826, d. ae. about 18 yrs. ; Hannah, b. Oct. 21, 1830, m. Andrew son of Thos. S. Lord; Sally, b. Nov. 1, 1833, m. a Murch, residence Sumner; Sewall Frost Canwell, b. Apr. 2, 1838, moved to Sumner.
War Record of Canwell Family
Wm. Canwell of Peru, ae. 32 yrs. M. Must. Mar. 22, 1864 in Co. C, 8th Regt. Me. Vols., discharged for disability May 1, 1864. Oliver B. of Peru, ae. 20. S. Must. Sept. 7, 1861, Co. C, 8th Regt. Me. Vols. Re-enlisted Jan. 1, 1864. Promoted Corp. Wounded May 16, 1864. On detached service Nov. 1, 1865. George W. Turner (named by Dr. Turner who evidently attended his birth) ae. 18. Must. on quota of Franklin Sept. 21, 1861 in Co. F, 9th Regt. Me. Vols. Was taken prisoner July 11, 1863 and d. date unknown in Libby Prison. Also Sewell F. son of John Canwell, ae. 23. S. Must. Nov. 15, 1861 on quota of Franklin in Co. D, 12th Maine. Re-enlisted Must. Jan. 1, 1864. While on furlough home in Apr. and May 1864 he failed to join Command at Port- land May 27, 1864.
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George Canwell
Geo. Canwell, b. Wayne Jan. 19, 1807, d. Peru Dec. 1, 1899 son of John and Sarah ( Reddin) Canwell, m. Pub. Jan. 25, 1839, Hannah. b. Aug. 4, 1812, d. May 7, 1875 dau. of Seth and Virtue Burgess. Children :- Wm. B., b. Nov. 15, 1839, m. Allura Bishop of Leeds, have 3 children, residence Monmouth ; Amos. B., b. Dec. 5, 1842, m. Esther V. Allen, residence Norway ; Levi H., b. June 9, 1847, m. Elmira Pratt, residence Leeds ; Leonard, b. Ang. 3, 1849. m. Anna Child, residence Welchville, Me .; Martha Ann, d. Mar. 6, 1861. ae. 9 yrs. 9 mos. : Keziah, b. Aug. 18, 1853, m. Elbridge Smith, residence Dixfield.
Campbelle
Herbert F. and Lilla E. Campbelle dau. Levi Rowe of Dover, N. I. m. in 1897. He bought and settled on the Dexter Delano place adjoining Walker farm. Around 1905 he discovered a mine of felspar on the premises. He sold farm at big advance to. mining company. They made a big hole in ledge and abandoned mine and farm to the mortgagee. Farm and mineral for sale.
Mr. Campbelle is employed in toothpick mill at Dixfield. He has two children, Mabel E., b. Feb. 1, 1898 and Winnefred V., b. Dec. 1904.
David L. Chenery
David L. Chenery and family removed from Jay to Pern in Dec. 1881. He was the son of David and Ruth (Goding) Chenery, b. in Jay, July 1845. He m. Sept. 3, 1875, Eveline H. dau. of Chas. Roberts in Livermore. He settled on the farm formerly occupied by Joseph C. Johnson and his wife Susan, a sister to Mr. Chenery. Farm is located at Dickvale. Cyrus Dunn built a large set of buildings here and did extensive farming years before. Mr. Chen- ery is an industrious energetic farmer. Children :- David C., b. Sept. 1876, m. Feb. 3. 1903, Edith Allen dau. of Oscar C. and Anna S. (Jose) Allen; Maud Chenery, m. Arthur Driscoll of Livermore Falls.
Thomas Cunningham
Thomas Cunningham a native of Liberty m. 1905, Luania Lane of Rumford. Child :- Arlene, aged 5 yrs. Occupation, farmer, successor to U. G. Lunt on the River farm next above the Chas. S. Walker farm. They are a highly respected family.
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Genealogy of Conant Family
Roger Conant born East Budleigh, Devon, England 1592. m. Sarah Horton, London 1618. Came to Mass. 1623. Children :- Lot, b. 1624, in. Elizabeth dau. of Rev. Wm. Walton.
Their son Lot, Jr., b. Feb. 16, 1657, m. Elizabeth Pride. He was in King Phillip's war. Their son, Joseph, b. Nov. 4, 1701, Beverly, Mass, m. Sarah Jewett 1725. They moved to Portland, Me. Their son Bartholomew b. about 1736, m. Anna Frink Mar. 6, 1760, was in Revolutionary army. Lived near Duck's Pond, Westbrook, Me. Their son Joseph, b. Feb. 3, 1767 Westbrook, Me., m. Lucinda Tufts. They lived in Bowdoinham, Me. and moved to Peru where wife was known as Lucy. He d. Feb. 24, 1833. She d. Feb. 1, 1857, ae. 90 yrs. Their children :- John Conant, b. Feb. 1, 1799 ; Joseph, Jr., b. Mar. 15, 1800 : Bartholomew, b. Apr. 15, 1804; Daniel L., b. Sept. 26, 1801 ; Thomas, b. Mar. 30, 1809; Francis, b. Aug. 29, 1813; Hannah, b. Sept. 25, 1814: Dorcas Small, b. May 20, 1818; Sarah, m. David Hoit, one of the hog Cons. of Peru in 1822; Lucinda, m. Wm. Cole.
It is probable Joseph Conant and portion of family came to Peru in the early twenties. His oldest son John, m. Aug. 25, 1824, Elizabeth dau. of Daniel and Selme Deshon, residents of Peru as early as March 1818 when the collection of taxes was bid off by said Deshon at five cts. on the dollar. Joseph Conant settled on the first lot South of the Wm. Walker, Jr. farm, lived and died there. He is represented as an honorable upright man in his deal with neighbors.
John Conant d. May 25, 1857. Family then in Roxbury, Me. His wife Elizabeth d. Jan. 13, 1867, ae. 66 yrs. Their children :- Pienna, b. Aug. 12, 1825; Saloma M., b. Jan. 4, 1826, d. Mar. 26, 1849; Daniel D., b. Dec. 2, 1828, d. Feb. 2, 1852; Joseph H., b. Feb. 4, 1831, m. widow Ann Porter in Roxbury. She d. 1890. He d. in Peru May. 23, 1901. He was member of Co. D, 12th Me .; Lovina, b. Nov. 18, 1832, m. 1853, Cephus W. Irish; Arvilla, b. Oct. 1, 1834, d. Sept. 22. 1865 ; Lorenzo D., b. Mar. 6, 1837. Was soldier, quota of Mexico 1861, d. Apr. 2, 1863; Mary, b. May 7, 1839, m. Cyrus Gammon. Joseph, Jr. began a sea faring life when a young man. There is no further knowledge of him.
Bartholomew m. Apr. 30, 1844, Lorinda, widow of Abraham Newton of Dixfield. He d. around 1860 at the home of Daniel L. Conant, where he was cared for. Lorinda d. in Peru. Thomas m. Oct. 1851, 2nd Rosella Leighton of Augusta. He was a
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dealer in stoves and tin ware from 1865 to 1885 at Wayne vil- lage. His dau. Lorinda by 1st wife. b. Feb. 6, 1838. d. ae. about 14 yrs. on home farm, Peru. Had son by 2nd wife. Thomas d. at Augusta in the late nineties. Rosella, his widow. d. Nov. 1907.
Francis m. in early forties, Anna B. Leighton of Augusta. No issue. He first settled near his brother, Daniel L., and built the buildings owned years after by Edward Barbar that were burned. His trade was shoemaker. He removed to Byron. Jan. 1850. at the foot of Buckfield Hill where he died around 1853. His widow remarried in 1856, Chas. Bearce "widowed" living in Hartford. He removed to Livermore, d. in 1887. Widow lived with Thomas Conant and family on farm at Augusta and was cared for by the son and wife of Thomas till her death around 1900. She was a noble, kind hearted woman, a good step mother.
Daniel L., b. Sept. 26. 1807. d. Jan. 1. 1883, m. May 30. 1840. Mary Ann. b. Windham 1818. d. Oct. 12. 1897. dan. of Wm. and Elois (Barnell) French of Peru. Children :- Harriet A., b. Mar. 31, 1841, d. Apr. 17, 1869; Olive Mariah, b. Jan. 25. 1843, m. Dec. 18, 1866, Hiram E. Stillman. Sons of Daniel L. Conant :- Joseph Edward. b. Oct. 13, 1847. m. June 18, 1871, Emma J., b. Sept. 6. 1853. d. June 17, 1909. dau. of Nathan and Susan Shea ; Wm. Henry Conant, b. June 2. 1819. m. Dec. 23. 1873. Georgia Etta Oldham.
Family of Joseph E. and Emma J. Children :- Geo. H., b. Jan. 12, 1874 ; Daniel, b. Jan. 26, 1879. m. 1904. Annie R. Lewis, b. Canterbury, N. B. Their infant son b. June 29. d. July 22, 1905 and their ?nd child was h. Ang. 31. 1906. Parted May 1909; Daisey M., b. July 30, 1890, dan. of Joseph E., m. May 1909, Marshall Babb. Born to wife of Marshall Babb Jan. 1. 1910, a daughter. Geo. H. m. Sept. 22. 1908. Grace Packard, dan. of Edmund, son of Moses, Dixfield. Children of Wm. Henry and Georgia Etta Conant :- Albert O .. m. Mar. S. 1896. Nellie M. dau. of Amasa and Nellie Carter: Lizzie V .. m. May 10. 1895, Henry A. Ames ; Gertie M., m. Feb. 27. 1897, Augustus T. Saw- yer ; Grace L., b. Oct. 11, 1894; Florence B., m. Feb. 1906, Nor- man Poland : Eva E .. b. Aug. 22. 1888; Arthur C .. h. Feb. 5, 1881 : Birney M. b. Mar. 17, 1885 : Percy E .. b. Sept. 18, 1891.
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