A-CHS NEWSLETTER Established
1980
Issue 130
August 2006
The depression years for
homemakers in rural areas were quite different than in the cities. The reason
was the lack of electricity. Learn here what life was like before electricity.
Thank you, Gordon!
Mother’s daily responsibilities seemed to be never ending, actually, they were never ending. No electricity meant no running water; she often had to get water herself in a bucket. There was no icebox or refrigerator to keep food fresh, no decent illumination to work or read by, and of course the hundreds of electronic gismos, or gadgets available today were not even in anyone’s brain, except for the far sighted, seventy years ago.
In our family, the day started with Dad getting
up early to start the fire in the large, black kitchen cook stove. Mom could
juggle at the same time baking bread in the oven, frying donuts on the stove
top, cooking oatmeal, frying eggs and warming water to wash the meals dishes.
During cold weather Dad would also light the living room heater each
morning. While dad was doing his morning
chores, Mother would be up cooking breakfast.
After thanking God for his many blessings, we sat down to a breakfast of
oatmeal or cream of wheat, toast and milk, or it could be eggs and, or
pancakes, and sometimes a molasses donut, or two direct from the frying pan.
Kerosene lamps were used for light. By
today’s standards, illumination was quite poor, but we didn’t know any
different. There was no toaster, so bread was toasted on the stovetop. All
cooking was done on the wood cookstove by our mother. Little if any, previously
cooked foods were purchased at a grocery store. Food was cooked from scratch,
by memory most of the time. The stove gave of a lot of heat, especially during
canning season when it was already hot outside. This combination made it nearly
unbearable for the housewife, slaving over the stove in a tiny kitchen with her
cooking and canning. While the stove was hot she would also be baking bread, or
pies or a cake, maybe a pot of beans, her family favorite. The dependable cook
stove was used to heat the flatiron by setting it on top of the stove. This
heated iron, a stone or brick wrapped in cloth was used to warm cold feet in
bed during those cold, long winter nights in a house with no insulation of any
type. Some of the brand names of stoves in those days, were
Canning season often began with the
ripening of the berries. Among the popular berries for canning were the wild
raspberries. This berry grows well in recently cut woodland. I often had to
pick them with my mother as she thought me to be “a clean and fast picker.” I
wished I wasn’t; besides I didn’t like them. It was a family favorite so many
of them had to be picked. Our father knew where the best berries were located
and he provided precise directions. Occasionally bear would get there before we
did, which kept us alert whenever we approached a berry patch, especially if
she had a cub tagging along. The berries were collected in small buckets, which
we would carry home, usually a mile or more away. Now the leaves and other
debris was removed which was called picking over. Now it was left for Mom to do
the canning.
Another similar berry is the blackberry
which is much sweeter, that our mother did not can them because they were not
growing in enough quantities, I presume.
There was, and still are, a good number of
wild strawberries growing in our area. These are small and often found beside a
roadway, as well as on edges of fields etc. They are sweet and delicious, but
their use was mostly for jam and jellies. Its sister, is the cultivated
strawberry, which is familiar to us all. I recall my father at one time
attempted to commercially grow them, but he didn’t have a lot of success for
some unknown reason. Some food items Mom purchased were flour, sugar and
molasses plus tea, coffee, salt, vinegar, baking soda and spices. Occasionally
we had sardines, Spam during the war years, and deviled ham. Of course we had
our own meat, beef, chicken and pork, milk, cream, butter, buttermilk, cottage
cheese, both summer and winter apples and lots of vegetables, as well as that
delicious home made ice cream. Molasses was very popular and had many uses, one
of which became most everybody’s favorite, molasses cookie. It seemed that
housewives competed to create the tastiest molasses cookie recipe. Most
housewives would not consider buying any store bought goods they could cook
themselves, like bread, pastries and canned goods. Everything was cooked from
scratch.
Besides the many quarts of berries to
pick, pick over, and cook or can over a hot stove we grew many varieties of
vegetables, which also needed to be picked and canned. Those seeds chosen to be
planted were purchased during the springtime. Dad bought seed from several
sources. I recall Taylor’s Hardware, Calais and Johnny Stewart's in Milltown as
his main vendors. He usually saved potatoes for seed the following year. Our
father would have plowed the garden sites, perhaps with Doll our favorite mare.
Next harrowing and rock picking would need to be completed, plus the hoeing all
had to be done prior to planting. All of our family members were involved in
the garden work. In a week or so some of the tiny plants of various size and
shaped green heads would poke out of the cool fertile soil as they sprung to
life, exactly the way the creator intended. Now, more hoeing and weed pulling
would start while we debated whose job it would be. The peas and the tomatoes
would need to be staked to keep them upright
Harvest time was from July to October.
Again the whole family pitched in, but it was the housewife/mother who had to
do the canning.
Why is it called “canning” when foods are
cooked in a sealed “glass jar” to be eaten sometime in the future? Wouldn’t
“jarring” be more appropriate? A couple brands of snap-top canning jars that I
recall were Mason and Ball. These were used over and over, because all you
needed to do was replace the rubber seal. Previously used screw top bottles,
containing items like coffee, and peanut butter were reused for canning
pickles, beets and most berries and jams
I have a list of the items our mother
canned one season. The year is not noted, but other items in the notebook were
1930 to 1934. Her canning products for the month of June were rhubarb and
strawberries. In July, strawberries, rhubarb, and strawberries and rhubarb
together, pineapple and rhubarb together, beet greens, raspberries and
blueberries together, raspberries, currant jelly and peas. During August, she
canned raspberries and blueberries together, blueberries, beans, peas, beans
and peas mixed, sweet pickles, apple jelly, and applesauce. In September Mom
canned, tomato pickles, mustard, sweet pickles, beans, peas, raspberries,
blueberries, jelly and meat, probably deer meat.
JAMES AGNEW’S STAGE
SERVING CALAIS
– EASTPORT – PEMBROKE
Brenda Sabattus of Indian Township gave A-CHS a
stagecoach logbook. David McCullough of GLS told us about the book and Kathy
Diffin of Princeton arranged for the transfer. A-CHS greatly appreciates the
help of these folks, but will give the book to the St. Croix Historical Society
as James Agnew lived in Red Beach.
The title of this article is made up. We make an educated
guess that James Agnew was the owner of this stage. The 1891 Maine Register
lists James Agnew of Red Beach as in the livery business. The 1881 George Colby
Atlas shows James Agnew’s home opposite the Shattuck Road, on what is labeled
as Agnew Point. The second clue as to ownership of the stage is found inside
the front cover where it is written George
Agnew, Boston, Maine. What’s the meaning of Boston?
This is followed by many pages. On the top of each
page is a name, such as Fancy, Carlile
Charlie, Lucy, Fred, and Annie. Were
these names of horses? Dates appear on some pages and are almost all in 1891.
Then on each page is a list of people’s names followed by dollar amounts. Let’s
look at a selected few entries:
Man to
Eastport $1.50 > These three entries define
the area of service.
Man to
Pembroke $2.00 /
Frank Hodins $2.00 > Frank lived on the Carson Road in Calais
Willard Lane $0.75 > Willard was a cooper who lived in Red Beach near
Plaster Mill Cove.
O. S. Tarbox $0.50 > Tarbox was superintendent of the Red Beach
Granite Works
John Bohanon $1.50 > John lived on the River Road in Calais, near
Pratt’s today.
O. A. Jamerson
$1.00 >
In 1891, Jamerson was Post Master in Red Beach
Good Nash $1.50 > Several Nash families lived in
Chas. Synotl $1.50 to train > The train was the St.
Croix and Penobscot that ran to Princeton.
Joe Maloney $1.50 > Joe lived almost in Red Beach, opposite
Devil’s Head.
Mrs. Ford $2.00 > one Ford family lived in Red Beach,
another in
A separate page deals with R. D. Pottle Horse Shoeing. This was
Near the middle of the book is a page thus labeled: This year I have been in 30 places, 34 ½
days besides being in my office and a month sick and two weeks vacation. My
pony went on just the same. Here are the places listed, except one that we
couldn’t read. After each place was a money value, usually less than a dollar.
What was going on here? Why would a man spend 34 days earning less than a
dollar a day, when entries elsewhere in the book indicate the stage business
paid more? Note, Dover and Foxcroft became one town in 1922. Oldtown is the old
spelling.
Calais, Red Beach, Portland, Bangor, Waterville, Augusta, Dover,
Foxcroft, Houlton, Eastport, Gorham, Machias, Lubec, Perry, Camden, Woodland,
Addison, Sullivan, Baring, Newport, Carroll, Princeton, Bar Harbor, Ellsworth,
Bucksport, Marion, Belfast, Unity, Oldtown
A-CHS always appreciates getting any old documents. Those that belong elsewhere will be sent along, after we create an article for our readers.
Deborah Drinkwater Rand
created The Seavey Family book nearly 20 years ago and gave a copy to A-CHS.
From it we learn that Daniel was born on January 23, 1823 in East Machias and
died at Crawford on January 30, 1890. It likely was Deborah who organized the
Seavey Papers that were given to A-CHS by Paul’s son Forrest Seavey of Winn. We
thank her for her work and generosity.
This account ran
until January 19, 1844. It is but ½ page long so indicates that this business
relationship was not of great importance to either party. Peter Murphy does not
appear in the 1840 census of Crawford, Alexander, or Wesley. Where else would Daniel Seavey, a resident
from Crawford, trade? East Machias, of course! Most settlers of Crawford had
traveled from East Machias up the present State Route 191, hence through the
#19 Road to Crawford. Henry Smith Whittier in his EAST MACHIAS 1765 – 1926
mentioned that Peter Murphy of East Machias was in Puget Sound, Oregon
Territory before March 2, 1853 when Washington Territory was established. He
also mentioned that a Mr. Murphy, a New Light Baptist, came from the Provinces
(British Provinces, now Canada) after 1800 and stirred things up in that
conservative East Machias. Finally, Peter Murphy (1788 – 1873) is buried at
East Machias. Thanks to Christine Small for a copy of Whittier’s book.
Below are some of the items listed in Daniel’s
account:
September
28, 1838 - 1 bottle peppersauce to your
father - $0.25
1
lb. tobacco - $0.13
January
29 1840 - 3 yds. sattinett – $3.39
Doz.
of buttons $0.09
1
yd. Sheeting - $0.17
1
lb. tea - $0.50
12
sheets paper - .121 once tacks - $0.03
March
20, 1840 – 3 lbs. sugar - $0.50
1
qt. Oil - $0.33
April
12, 1841 hauling 1 load of wood - $0.25
May
8, 1838 – 1 lb. butter - $0.25
Lathes
and work – $4.25
April
15, 1841 – lathes - $0.29
January
19, 1844 – received pay – signed Peter Murphy
1843 Account with Wm. Sevey of East Machias
Daniel Seavey
apparently owed William Sevey some money. This hard to read sheet gives some
hints how he paid his debt.
March
10, 1843 - $25.00 for work in the woods.
January
1845 - ½ ton hay - $5.00
Horse
and wagon to Fenlasons
November
30, 1846 wagon to Machias
December
1846 – interest noted, but no closing of
this account sheet. No amounts were associated with the horse and wagon or the
wagon activity mentioned. This sheet does provide evidence that Daniel and
likely others from Crawford were doing business in East Machias.
February
10, 1845 11 lbs. pork $1.10
½ bbl flour $4.00
½ lb. tea $0.32
2 lb. sugar $0.28
1 lb.
tobacco $0.25
2 ½ gal.
molasses $1.25
paid hauling $0.87
March
18, 1845 7 lb. pork $0.87
Work $2.50
½
of one-month work in woods plus found
$13.00
1846
½ of 7 logs cut on my property $1.00
Feb.
5, 1846 horse to go to Calais for doctor $1.00
In
consideration of Daniel S. Sevey having this day given me his note for one
hundred and forty-five dollars and 28/100 payable six equal annual payments
with usual interest, I agree that on the payment of said note & interest
according to the tenor thereof to endorse the same on Ellis Fenlason’s note
dated the 31st of October1844 and to discharge said Fenlason’s
mortgage given to secure the payment of said note of the north half of the lot
named in said mortgage, said lot to be divided by a line thro the centre at
equal distance from and parallel with the north and south lines thereof.
Dated at Crawford on November 27, 1846 and signed by M J. Talbot of East Machias.
Ellis Fenlason had borrowed
$250 to buy lot 82 in October 1844. Less than two years later, on September 26,
1846, Fenlason transferred the entire 160 acres of lot 82 to Daniel Sevey for a
payment of $100.00. The quit claim deed (book 60, page 146) indicates that lot
82 was according to the B. R. Jones Plan. We will need to look for more
evidence of Jones doing the plan because our information indicates the plan of
Crawford was by Richard Hayden.
Later deeds tell us that
Daniel acquired several other lots. See map for locations.
(108.62) Parts of lots 57
and 58 from Wm. & Hannah Clark on October 17, 1864 (about 180 acres)
(126.205) Part of lot 70
from Daniel F. Wormwood in 1870 (about 52 acres)
(126.208) Likely part of lot
70 from Samuel Harris equaling 100 acres
(138.232) North half (80 acres) of lot 69 and 60 acres of lot 71 from Daniel Wormwood
ALEXANDER
SCHOOLS
By Pliney Frost
We continue
with information collected by Pliney in 1982. He did not show insurance, repairs account or textbooks and supplies. This
twelfth article concludes the history of our one-room schools. As editor, I
would like to stop here so we can collect more information about the
Consolidated School opened in 1956 at the corner of the Cooper and Arm roads.
Specifically, I hope to create a list of the students who attended the school
and to get copies of the group pictures. Please check you files and if you have
one or more of these pictures, let me know at 454-7476. jd
1952-53
Instruction: Zela Cousins - $1420.40, Evelyn Pottle - $588.88,
Dora Braley - $494.80, Bertha Dwelley - $707.20, Dorothy
Perkins - $32.50, Alice
Gillespie - $325.55, Kathleen Church - $278.25, Col. Int. Rev. - $300.31, M. S. R. S. -
$201. 95 (Maine State Retirement System)
Conveyances: Alberta Berry - $402.50
Tuition: City of
Calais - $2,472.84
Supervision and School Committee: J. Raymond Brennick, Supt. Salary $268.68 and travel - $50.00
Floyd Hunnewell - $10.00,
Janitor and Cleaning: Ethel Hunnewell - $80.00, Zettie Frost - $40.00, Muriel Frost - $13.00, Clifton Pottle - $28.00, Viola Dwelley - $8.00, Verna Thistlewood - $8.00, Fern Strout - $17.00, Harley Dwelley - $42.00
Fuel: Floyd Hunnewell - $5.00, Nelson Flood - $272.00, Dennys River Electric Coop - $48.48
Zela (Wallace) Cousins (1904 – 2000) lived on the Airline with her
husband Harold. Evelyn (Flood) Pottle, daughter of Lincoln and Lizzie
(Perkins) Flood was living at her parents’ home on the Cooper Road. Her mother
and her husband Harold Pottle lived there also. She had taken time from
teaching after the birth of her first child, Clifton. Abner and Dora
(Seavey) Braley lived on the Fred Brown place on the Spearin Road. Dora
Braley, described in 1950 – 51, was one of the 16 children of Ernest and
Gertrude (
1953-54
Instruction: Zela.
Cousins - $1493.60,
Kathleen Church - $434.80, Bertha Dwelley - $1,244.25, Kathleen Cushing - $70.30, Lillian
Varnum - $638.13, Dir.
Int. Revenue - $322.15, MSRS - $254.55
Conveyance: no mention
in report
Tuition: City of
Calais - $1,747.10
Supervision: J. Raymond Brennick for salary $246.03, for travel $56.67, Carroll R. McGary, Salary –
$33.33, School
Committee:
Ben McArthur (1956) - $13.00
Janitor and Cleaning:
Ethel Hunnewell - $80.00, Zettie Frost - $14.00, Fern Strout - $14.00, Harley
Dwelley - $28.00, Donald Frost - $41.20, Jackie McArthur - $40.00, Gerald Craft
- $26.00, Verna Thistlewood - $8.00, Jackie Frost - $4.00, Floyd Hunnewell -
$2.00, Ben McArthur - $2.00,
Fuel: Floyd Hunnewell
- $294.00,
Lillian Varnum was a daughter of True and Eda (Dwelley) Varnum. Lillian never married
and wanted to become an opera singer; she even had her stage name, Alexa Barin.
She was back in the local area not only to teach, but also to look after her
mother who had been widowed for 30 years; Eda died at the Calais Hospital in
June 1954. Lillian may have lived with Leon and Bertha Scribner or with her
Aunt Carrie (Dwelley) Varnum. Benjamin Harrison McArthur was one of Fay
and Bertha (Cheney) McArthur’s sons. He married Constance Rice of West
Pembroke who we will meet later in this article. They lived on the McArthur
Road. Jackie McArthur is a daughter of Elbridge and Barbara (Carlow)
McArthur and lived across from Cedar School. We will meet Barbara in the
next section. Gerald Craft, son of Lester Craft and Gladys (Perkins)
Craft, lived with his parents at the top of Lanes Hill. He was a brother of
Verna who married
Lillian
Varnum ca 1954 – Bertha Scribner 1948 –
Lawrence Frost ca 1948
1954-55
Instruction: Bertha Dwelley,
Cedar School (District 3) - $1529.15, Zela Cousins,
Four Corners School - $1667.75, Lillian Varnum - $542.50,
Kathleen Church, Hale School. (District 2) - $970.45, Director of Internal
Revenue - $398.68, Maine State Retirement System - $270.35
Conveyance: no expense listed
Tuition: Town of Baileyville - $71.95, City of Calais - $2,450.00, Town of Windham -
$267.35
Supervision: Supt. Carroll R. McGary, salary - $399.96 School Committee: Everett Dwelley - $10.00
Benj. McArthur - $5.00, Floyd Hunnewell - $5.00
Janitor and Cleaning:
Ethel Hunnewell - $88.00, Jackie McArthur - $32.00, Donald Frost - $90.80,
Fannie Dwelley - $8.00, Elden Hunnewell - $10.00, Barbara McArthur - $56.00,
Fuel: Floyd Hunnewell
- $102.00, Everett Dwelley - $60.00, Benj. McArthur - $85.00, Dennys River
Electric Coop. $54.00, State of Maine for water test - $11.80
Who went to school in Windham? Fannie
(Fenlason) Dwelley was Llewellyn’s wife and the mother of Doris, Wayne,
Harold, Frank, and Everett. She lived down by Dwelley’s Lake (Pleasant Lake).
Elden Hunnewell, son of Morey and Marjorie (James) lived with his parents on
Bailey Hill near the Four Corners.
1955-56
Instruction: Zela Cousins, Four Corners School - $1,630.86, Bertha Dwelley,
Cedar - $1,630.86, Jennie Gray, Hale School - $1114.21, Kathleen Church, Hale
School) - $ 522.55, Director of
Internal Revenue $412.00, Maine State Retirement System - $311.92, Maine
Teachers Association - $15.00, Washington County Teachers Association - $3.00
Conveyance: No amount listed
Tuition: Town of Baileyville
- $223.61, City of Calais - $2,471.40
Supervision: Supt. Carroll R.
McGary, Salary - $483.36
School Committee: Benjamin. McArthur
- $10.00, Floyd Hunnewell - $5.00, Everett Dwelley - $5.00
Enrollments: Four Corners School -
10, Hale School – 20, Cedar
School –
12, Calais High - 10
Janitor and Cleaning: Ethel Hunnewell - $98.00, Barbara
McArthur - $92.44, Donald Frost - $32.50, Lloyd Dwelley - $57.50, Viola Dwelley
- $8.00, Gerald Craft - $24.00, Constance McArthur - $6.00,
Fuel: Floyd Hunnewell - $102.00, Everett Dwelley - $85.00, Benjamin McArthur - $102.00, Dennys River Electric Coop - $114.01
Jennie (Merritt)
Gray was born in Deblois in 1918. Besides teaching in Alexander, she taught
in #21, Calais, Columbia Falls, Milbridge, and Ellsworth. She was a substitute
teacher through 2003, the year of her death. Lloyd Thomas Dwelley is a
son of Paul and Rowena (White) Dwelley. He lives today on Gooch Hill.
1956 – 57
Superintendent Adolph Zukowski made two
observations in his report to the Citizens of Alexander on March 5, 1957. “The
citizens may well be proud of their new school building… and The Town of Cooper
is now sending their elementary pupils to Alexander on a tuition basis.
Instruction: Zela Cousins - $1674.15, Bertha Dwelley - $1674.15, Jennie Gray - $ 603.19, Director of Internal Revenue - $371.60 Maine State
Retirement System - $266.41
Conveyance: Donald
Frost - $1,213.00, Dyer Crosby
- $182.00
Tuition: City of Calais
- $4,507.98
Tuition received from
Cooper: $687.50
Supervision: Supt. Carroll McGary,
Salary - $175.12, Supt. Adolph M. Zukowski - $350,24,
School Committee: Floyd Hunnewell
(1957) - $10.00, Everett Dwelley (1958) - $5.00, Lawrence Frost (1959) - $5.00
Janitor and Cleaning:
Barbara McArthur - $23.50, Ethel Hunnewell - $44.50, Lloyd Dwelley - $32.50,
Fuel: Barbara McArthur
- $10.00, Floyd Hunnewell - $6.00, Paul Dwelley - $2.00, James Pomeroy of
Calais - $296.48 for kerosene or fuel oil, Lyman Williams - $3.00, Dyer Crosby
- $10.00, Dennys River Electric Coop - $80.31, State of Maine (water test?) -
$9.00
Dyer Crosby lived in the first house in Cooper where his widow still resides. He
conveyed Cooper and Alexander scholars to Alexander. Readers will note that
Cooper paid tuition to Alexander, and that that again is happening. Lawrence
Frost, a son of Lyston and Hazel (Cousins) Frost lived on the south side if
the Airline, on Bailey Hill. Bertha Scribner, wife of Leon, lived on the
Airline and about this time she and Leon were running the former Charlie Brown
store on Cooper Road. Paul Dwelley, son of Delmont and Clara (Dunham)
Dwelley lived at the home place at the top of Spring Hill on the Cooper Road. James
Pomeroy lived in Calais. Lyman Williams was married to Rose Niles and they
lived at the old H. A. Crafts house at 51 Arm Road.
CONSOLADATED
SCHOOL
Note: The two-room consolidated school was built in 1956 at the corner of the Cooper and Arm Roads and the one room
schools in Districts
numbers 1, 2 and 3 were closed. Thus we record the demise of the one room
school in Alexander for twenty years.
March 1, 1954: Hand written in the front of this Annual Report: “To see what action if any the Town will vote to take in Regards to keeping one of the Old School Buildings for a town office Building. Also what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for repair of said building.”
March 4, 1955: Article 39: “To see if the Town will vote to elect a School Building Committee whose function will be to investigate and report to the town on the possibility of building a school. Said committee to consist one member of the Board of Selectmen, one member of the Superintending School Committee and three other members chosen at large.”
March 5, 1956: Superintendent Carroll McGary’s report included, “In all probability the question of whether the town will build a new school or not will have been settled before this report reaches you. Regardless…. The money needed to run the schools next year will be the same. The following indicates that the committee had decided to build a new school.
Washington County (deeds) - $2.00 and John Adams (plans) - $25.00
March 5, 1957: Article 32: “To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $2134.76 to be paid to the Maine School Building authority pursuant to the provisions of the lease agreement dated February 1, 1956. Article 33: “To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $1300.00 to pay the remaining bills due on the new building.”
Ida Ella McPheters was born July 6, 1865 daughter of Joseph and Hannah
(Bohanon) McPheters. At the time of this diary, she was living with her widowed
mother and 20 year old brother Embert, known as Eddie. We thank Foster Carlow,
Jr. who found the diary in the attic and passed it on to A-CHS. Editor’s
comments are in Italics. Additions or corrections to those are welcome. jd
1 –
Monday: Pleasant. School commenced today. Mr. Gray hasn’t changed much since I
saw him four years ago. It will be pleasant to have a boarder; we have been so
lonely. Mr. Gray would be Leander Austin
Gray (1859) of Wesley, grandfather of A-CHS member of the same name. He had
taught in Alexander off and on from 1879.
2 –
Tuesday: Cold. I carried some of my plants down cellar. My largest geranium
froze. I had to cut it off and carry it down cellar. I am trying to fix up my
clothes a little. These plants were kept
inside the house. Today most of us can’t remember plants or the water pail
freezing over night in the house that we live in.
3 –
Wednesday: Very cold. I have been busy helping Mother. There is plenty to do
all the time, Mother isn’t very well. She has too many cares. I wish there was
some way to ease her of them.
4 -
Thursday: Pleasant. The duties of today have been much as usual. I read my
history in the evening. I miss Father
very much these long evenings, but wouldn’t call him back if I could, trusting
he is better off. Readers will remember
that Joseph McPheters died on April 8th after coming home earlier
from the bark woods of Jackson Brook. He apparently had died of pneumonia.
5 –
Friday: Pleasant. We employed a Mr. Saton to repair the clock. He was here to
dinner. Mr. Gray went home. Helen Tyler called here this afternoon. Helen Tyler, daughter of Abbie B. Tyler (1828), and the late Belcher (1816
–1889) Tyler lived north of the Airline, near the Crawford line.
6 –
Saturday: Cool and pleasant. Mother and I have been very busy today, we put
down the bedroom carpet and cleaned and baked and I guess we both about tired
enough.
7 –
Sunday: Snowed some today. I have been reading in the Bible and witness. Called
up to Rebecca’s in the P. M. Eddie isn’t feeling well lately. It makes it very
hard for Mother not to have anyone. Rebecca (1850) (Godfrey) Scribner was G. S.
S. Scribner’s second wife. They lived about ½ mile west of Ida on the south
side of the Airline Road. Rebecca, born in 1850, and Charles Huff filed
intentions of marriage in July 1868 and were married on the 14th.
She married James Wright of Crawford in November 1869 in Wisconsin. She
returned home after the deaths of James and their children excepting son Frank
(1876). Frank was raised by his grandparents, Joseph and Rachel Godfrey.
8 –
Monday: Pleasant. We washed. I went down to see Josie G. who is very sick. She
is very hurtful and hopes to be better soon. I read in the evening from the
book Mr. McGraw lent me. Josie Godfrey
(born 1858) was a sister of Rebecca listed above. She lived at home on the Arm
Road. She, like Ida, was unmarried, and sometimes a teacher. She continued to
be very hurtful and her hopes to be better soon were for not. She died April 6,
1891. J. D. McGraw was the M-E (Methodist – Episcopal) minister in Alexander
from 1890 to 1894. His daughter Dora married Thomas Edward Frost, thus
John D. was the grandfather of Lyston, Floyd, Justin, Hattie, Beulah, Annie
Edna, Donald and Bertha.
9 –
Tuesday: Lovely day. I have been busy with the housework. Emma Bohanon called
this A. M. Eddie is about sick, he feels badly. Mort is going to Calais
tomorrow with a load of hay for Mother. Emma
Bohanon likely was the 30 year old daughter of Jones and Elizabeth Bohanon,
Jones being Hannah McPheters brother. This cousin of Ida’s married Frank
Averill in 1893. It is possible that Emma was the 27 year-old daughter of
George Bohanon who lived on the Arm Road. Mort Scribner, born 1865, and his
twin sister Alice, and twins Theodore and Ben were the four surviving children
of the marriage between George Stillman Smith Scribner and
10
– Wednesday: Warm and snowed a little in the evening. I baked a loaf of cake
and went down to the circle at the Minister’s. Had a pleasant time. I knit for
Mrs. McGraw. J. D. McGraw’s wife Amanda
Neal of Danforth.
11
– Thursday: Pleasant. I have been busy about the house. Ripped my white scyne
to pieces. Mort S. was here in the A. M.
I am reading ancient history. Don’t like it very well.
12
– Friday: Pleasant. I have been ripping my red dress and am going to make it
over. The days are so short that it takes about all the time to do the
housework. Mr. Gray went home.
13
– Saturday: Cold. We have been very busy today, baking and cleaning. I wrote to
Clara in the evening. Didn’t go to meeting for I wasn’t well. Ida’s sister Clara married Shep Cottel in
1877.
14
– Sunday: Pleasant. I have been reading today. Mort S. was here and loaded
straw to take to Calais tomorrow. I missed the meeting again.
15
– Monday: Pleasant. It is good sleighing now. We washed and put up the bed in
the backroom. Eddie seems better again. I hope he gets smart soon.
16
– Tuesday: Pleasant. I went down to Mrs. Huff’s after yeast. Finished ripping
my red dress in the evening. I want to get more time to sew soon, but first
lots to do about the house. Mrs. Claudius
Huff, born Lydia Perkins, lived on the Arm Road, near the Godfrey family.
17
– Wednesday: Pleasant. I went down to Albion’s and the P. O. Sade Dwelley rode up to the Minister’s with
me. I read history in the evening. Albion
Hanford Perkins and his wife Rhoda (Crafts) lived on the south side of the
Airline, east of the Cooper Road intersection. He was active in town and church
affairs, later in the Grange. The Post Office was at Charlie Brown’s Store (70
Cooper Road). Sadie Dwelley, oldest child of John and Alice (Berry) Dwelley
moved to Meddybemps and ran a hotel, eventually she married Bert Conant.
18 –
Thursday: Cold and stormed sleet. Frank Averill was here to dinner. He bought a
load of hay. I mended some today. Got tired and lonely sometimes. As we learned earlier, Frank Averill would
marry Ida’s cousin Emma Bohanon in 1893.
19 Friday: Wind blows and it is very cold. I did up my gingham dress. Mended my gossamers and worked about the house as usual. Mr. Gray went home.
20
Saturday: Cold. We have been busy today about the house. I read some Transcript
stories in the evening to Mother. I don’t know what she would do with out me.
21
Sunday: Pleasant, but rained in the evening, Uncle and aunt Bohanon were here,
also Rebecca Scribner. I read some in the Witness and Bible. I haven’t been
writing since I came home. Most likely
Uncle Jones and Aunt Elizabeth Bohanon.
22
– Monday: Pleasant. Mother and I have been mending today. Rebecca was down
after some yeast. I read history in the evening.
23
– Tuesday: Pleasant. I called up to Rebecca’s and paid Ben. Rebecca says Josie
is not better. Helen & Elma came over to see me and I met them going home,
both came back. Elma was Helen Tyler’s
sister.
24
– Wednesday: Pleasant. I am busy all the time and can’t see that I accomplish
much. My clothes needed considerable repairing. I get tired of monotony. Eddie
went down to the church.
25
– Thursday: Cold, but pleasant. This is a lonely Christmas to us. Eddie went
down to the lake skating in the P. M. Home is vacant now and can’t help being
lonely.
26
– Friday: Cold. I have been busy as usual without accomplishing much. Mother
went over to Mrs. Strout’s in the P. M. I baked biscuits for supper, I am
getting so I like housework. Mrs. Strout
was Adelaide, widow of Solomon Strout, Jr.
27
– Saturday: Stormy today. I have been helping Mother about the house. Get lonely
pretty often, but suppose I ought not. I miss Father very much, but would not
call him back.
28
– Sunday: Cold. I went over to the schoolhouse in the morning, but there was no
meeting, as the fire was not built soon enough. I haven’t been to meeting since
I came home.
29
– Monday: Still cold. Mr. Gray didn’t come back until this morning. He is a
pleasant boarder and we miss him when he is gone. We washed today.
30
- Tuesday: Cold. I ripped up my gingham skirt and made me an apron out of the
best of it. I want to go to Calais and to Mrs. Crafts’. Mr. Bridges died of
pneumonia. Mrs. Crafts would be Esther
(Spearin), widow of Hiram Crafts. This family lived on the Arm Road near the
Cooper Road. Azor B. Bridges of Crawford died on Monday. Civil War veteran and
blacksmith, he lies buried in the Old Crawford Cemetery. Readers most recently
met Azor in issue 129 in the article about Daniel Seavey.
31 – Wednesday: Very cold. I have been busy about the house and sewed some. I guess I shall have to get a new diary soon.’90 is most gone and another new year begins.
1 –
Thursday: Pleasant. I went over to Rebecca’s in the P. M. intending to go down
to see Josie, but found it too bad walking. I sewed after getting my work done
about the house.
2 –
Friday: Rained today. Mr. G. didn’t go home. I have been sewing some today.
Find lots of housework to do. Want to go to Calais soon.
3 –
Saturday: Pleasant. Charlie’s 29 birthday. Mr. G went home this morning. Mother
and I have been very busy; we cleaned and bake until we were both tired. Charlie was Ida’s brother.
4 –
Sunday: Pleasant. I have been reading in the Witness and the Bible. Manly,
Hubie, and Ernest Wilson were here. I am lonely, but feel it is my duty to stay
with Mother this winter. Manly was Ida’s
19-year-old cousin, son of Jones Bohanon. Hubie might have been Herbert
Perkins, 15, son of Elisha and Rhoda.
Ernest Wilson was 14 and may have been born at East Machias. He had
Alexander connections and spent his youth being passed from home to home.
5 –
Monday: Cloudy and cold. I have been busy with housework and mending. Read a
story that Mr. G. brought out for us to read in the Boston Globe.
6 –
Tuesday: Snowing and blowing. Manly was here to dinner. I have been mending and
working about the house. Read in the evening in Mr. Gray’s book.
7 –
Wednesday: Cold and snowed some. I have been busy as usual. Get tired and
lonesome sometimes but should be thankful that it is as well with me as it is.
Practiced a while today.
8 –
Thursday: Cold wind and the snow drifting. I sewed some after doing the
housework. Mother churned. I played awhile.
Thus ends Ida’s diary. Inside the back cover we find this record of interest.
600 @ $2.50 = $1.50 ~ 1600 @ $5.00 = $8.00 ~ 150 @ $8.00 = $1.20 (ash) ~ 600 @ $2.25 = $1.35
That was $19.22 for 6250 hoops. Someone cut all those hoop poles, shaved them and bundled them all for $19.22.
Ida’s life
after 1891: Life apparently continued
much the same. She taught school some terms and lived at home. Her mother
Hannah died in 1897. Sometime between 1891 and 1899 a man entered her life. He
was a neighbor who lived down the South Princeton Road, about a mile north of
Ida’s.
Charles Sidney Hunnewell was
born February 27, 1852 son of Jonathan and Susannah (Hall) Hunnewell. He
married Eliza Jane “Lydia” Keene daughter of Reuben and Mary Harrington
(Bailey) Keene. The marriage date was June 14, 1871. Over the next 25 years,
this couple has 13 children listed here in order of birth. Orren married Amanda
Carlow, Mina died young, Eda married
Charles divorced Lydia on
May 6, 1899 citing cruel and abusive treatment. It is said that Charles was up
the road visiting Ida, and upon returning home one evening was met by Lydia
with the butcher knife. Heated words were spoken, but the knife remained
unused. Even though Charles was a strong man with a temper, he left.
Charles and Ida were married
on July 4, 1899. They created a home on the northeast corner of the same lot
where Ida and her family had lived, but quite a distance away from the house
where Eddie would continue to live. The ell of Charles and Ida’s house was an
old store building; they built on the front part. This still stands and today
Foster Carlow, Jr. uses it as a garage.
Only one child was born to
this couple; Floyd Llewellyn Hunnewell was born on January 2, 1907. What should
have been a happy time for Charles and Ida became a nightmare. Ida went crazy.
She had to be committed to the state insane asylum in Bangor. Today this would
have been diagnosed at post partum depression and the mother would be treated
with drugs to overcome the problem.
She got better and returned
to Alexander to raise her son and tend to her blacksmith husband. Charles died
on January 6, 1920. Ida died on April 26, 1937. Both are buried in unmarked
graves at the Alexander Cemetery. Floyd married Ethel Knowles. They raised a
family of three girls. Their grandson is Foster Carlow Jr. who found the
diary. Again, thank you, Foster.
GREEN
HILL SETTLEMENT
MEDDYBEMPS
Green
Hill in Meddybemps is another of those abandoned communities we find scattered
around Maine. Ash Ridge (Issue 127) was a community of over forty people once,
now it boasts but three. Breakneck Mountain in Alexander and Cooper once had 16
homes and a school, now all we find are foundations and wells scattered through
the blueberry fields and woods.
Green
Hill can been seen from Route 191 in Meddybemps, from the Cooper Road in
Alexander. It rises over 200 feet above the surrounding land and is without
trees. Today about ¼ of the western part of Green Hill still is in Cooper.
Most, if not all, of the cleared area is in Meddybemps. The green of the
blueberry fields is distinct from the darker green of the surrounding forests.
The north part of the Hill is bounded directly by Meddybemps Heath.
The
Green Hill Road in Meddybemps runs westerly from Route 191, past the Meddybemps
Cemetery, then through Sandy McDougal Meadow, and on to the Hill. Meadows
needed to be burned in order to get good crops of meadow hay, which was used
for fodder for oxen, and later to assist in burning blueberry fields. Harold
Clark and later Dale Gillespie were two who burned this meadow. Once this road
continued through Cooper and into Alexander where it joined the Cooper Road.
Carleton Cooper lives on the Green Hill road in Cooper.
Earliest
records refer to this ridge as Northeast Ridge for it was in the northeast
corner of Cooper. Of course that all changed in 1841when this part of Cooper
was set off to make part of the Town of Meddybemps. We know the first plan of
#15 (Cooper) was drawn in 1786 by Rufus Putnam. The plan for settlement was
drawn later by Enoch Waterhouse and in 1835 projected and copied by Benjamin R.
Jones. For this article, we use part of the 1843 plan of Meddybemps prepared by
B. R. Jones. On the right are Meddybemps Lake and the river. Lots 10 through 14
represent the Green Hill settlement.
Joseph
Weeks of
Cooper acquired lot 10 (100 acres)
in 1832. Green Brown was a witness to his signature on the deed. He does not appear on any Cooper census.
Jesse
Brown
purchased lot 11 (100 acres) from
the Proprietors of Cooper on January 14, 1830. Anson Chandler held the
mortgage. Neither Jesse Brown nor Chandler ever appeared on a Cooper census and
we don’t known if or how Jesse Brown was related to Green Brown.
Joseph
Green Brown
(May 10, 1782) of Cooper was the first to get a deed for land on Northeast
Ridge. It was from the Proprietors of Cooper and dated June 18, 1828. The
Cooper family held the mortgage. This deed was for lot 12 (140 acres). Did he live there before he owned the place? He
came from Machias, maybe the Chases Mills part of present day East
Machias.
John
Burdin (or
Burton) bought lot 13 (100 acres) He
is listed on the 1830 Cooper census with a wife and one son under age 5. His
wife was Catherine or Kate Brown, daughter of Green and Nancy.
Ira
Philbrook Allen of Cooper acquired lot 14
(100 acres) for $200 on January 19, 1830. He is on the 1830 Cooper census with
his wife. Both are aged between 20 and 30. She just happens to be Susan Brown,
another daughter of Green and Nancy Brown.
The 1870 census gives Ira from Vermont, Susan from New Brunswick, sons Andrew and Ira. In 1880 Ira and Susan were living with their son Judson Andrew, or Andrew J. Allen in Meddybemps. Judson’s wife was Curlilta (born 1851) and their children were Everett (1876) and Arthur (1877). The 1881 Colby’s Atlas of Washington County shows A. J. Allen at this site. Several remember that this farm got its water from a spring, maybe a quarter of a mile to the south. The water was piped downhill.
In 1896, Reverend Moody of the Alexander Methodist - Episcopal Church created a Directory of Alexander, and parts of Cooper and Meddybemps. On the “Discontinued Road to Alexander (Green Hill Road) he lists in the first house the following: A. J. Allen, Curlista, Everett, Arthur, Howard, Ellen, Susan, and Mrs. Susan, who would be Andrew’s mother. Apparently the house burned and the Allen family moved into the Connick house in the village.
Site B – (The Niles Place) - We
don’t know who lived here from 1830 – 1840, maybe nobody. Jesse Brown
apparently did not meet his mortgage requirements for on August 17, 1840 Anson
Chandler, who held the mortgage, sold the lot to Ebenezer F. Newell of Cooper,
“excepting the crop now growing.” We don’t know if that crop belonged to Jesse
Brown, Anson Chandler, or a neighbor. As stated, Jesse Brown and Anson Chandler
were never on a Cooper census. Ebenezer and family lived at Site C, which we
will describe later. .
Ebenezer
sold the lot to
In
1879
Sometime
prior to 1896 Frank and Lydia Niles and their family moved into this
place. The Niles children were Lester, William, Edwin,
Mary
Bailey and
family moved in with her parents on Green Hill after the 1920 census and with
the following conditions expressed in the 1921 deed. This deed is given on the express condition that the said Mary E.
Bailey shall well and truly support and maintain the said Lydia A. Niles and
her husband Frank Niles during the term of their natural lives and the life of
the survivor, furnishing them with necessary food and clothing, and in case of
sickness of either to furnish medicine and medical attendance. Always treating
them and the survivor of them with kindness and consideration and at their death
to furnish suitable Christian burial. Said support and maintenance to be
furnished on the premises above described.
Frank Niles (1845 – 1928) and Lydia (1847 – 1922) are
buried in marked graves at the Meddybemps Cemetery. Also buried in this lot are
their sons Sylvester, William, and
Those who remember the house describe it as being hip-roofed. The barn, still standing, is also hip-roofed which is unusual. This farm also got water piped by gravity feed from a spring somewhat west of the Allen spring. The remains of an old garage by the road show where Fred Niles repaired cars.
Hilda Crosby remembers Leonard Bailey. His sister Jennie became a housekeeper in the home of Charles Gillespie when his wife Ellie was sick. (Ellie was the oldest daughter of Andrew and Hannah Allen, next door) After Ellie died, Charles married Jennie and they lived at this site on Green Hill. The 1930 census lists Jasper (79) as head of household, Mary (50. wife), Leonard (28, son), Charles W. Gillespie (51, son-in-law), Jennie (26, daughter) Forrest C. (4½ grandson) and Charles Niles (55, (brother-in-law). Charles and Jennie Gillespie later had another child, a daughter they named Jennie Mae.
Charles Gillespie cultivated blueberries. William Tarbell was one who hauled blueberries from Green Hill by team to Pembroke for Gillespie. Gillespie also grew potatoes on the hill.
Site C - Ebenezer Newell is on the 1840 Cooper census with a wife and two daughters under 5 years old. The family is not listed on either Cooper or Meddybemps census records for 1850. The 1860 Cooper census lists E. F. Newell age 58 from Massachusetts; his wife Susan S., age 44; daughter Susan W. age 24 and a teacher in the common school; daughter Lettice 8 at school; and Mary R. age 3. Ebenezer Newell’s home was on the northerly side of the Green Hill Road according to the 1861 Wallings Map of Washington County.
Manley
Bridges acquired the home and fifty acres north of the road. The 1881 Atlas of Washington
County shows Manly F. Bridges (1851) and his wife Julia living at this home
north of the road. He was a son of
In
1889 Charles W. and Benjamin E. Lombard bought the north part of this
lot and lived here. Moody lists this family here in 1896. The 1880 census of
Meddybemps indicates that Benjamin (1857) was crippled and single and his
brother William (1853) was married to Huldah (1859), and (according to the 1900
census) their children were
The
Lombard family was the last known occupants of this site.
Site D – (The Green Brown Place) - Green Brown first
appears on the 1830 Cooper census with his wife Nancy (Connick), three sons and
five daughters. Family records indicate that Joseph Green Brown Sr.
first married Amelia Andrews of Cutler in 1801. He married Nancy Connick in
1804. Their children were Catherine (1808, married John Burton), Susanna (1811,
married Ira Allen), Ann, Margaret, Olive, Jane, James, Nancy, Philbrook,
We’ve
told what we know about the people of Green Hill. Many old-timers claim the
name came from Green Brown. So why not Brown Hill? Numerous deeds refer to the
Green Brown Place. Or is it named for the lighter green color? When we find a
definite answer, we’ll let you know. It is very possible that others lived on
Green Hill. We request additions and corrections to this article.
Sources
of information for this article included interviews with Jane (Crosby)
Gillespie, Hilda (Gillespie) Crosby, Everett Gillespie, Waldo Tarbell; notes
from Austin Gray whose great-grandmother was
Two
buildings still stand on Green Hill. One is an old garage used by Fred Niles to
repair cars; it is in poor shape. The other is the barn shown here. Both are at
site B, the Niles Place. A study of the barn’s interior indicates that it was
built as a post and beam English barn (big door under the eve instead of under
the gable end). The original was the same width as this barn, but longer. The
old barn had some problems. Did a wind take off the roof and destroy one end?
It appears that one end was shortened, the roof and sideboards removed. This
somewhat square barn was framed around the old posts and beams; 2X4s and 2X6s
and this unusual hipped roof replaced the usual gable roof.
THANK YOU: Foster Carlow, Jr.
brought by some Alexander Town Reports and some deeds. Brenda Sabattus
gave us an 1891 stage coach logbook. We will run an article on it in November
and pass it on to the St. Croix Historical Society since the area covered is
from Calais to Eastport. Carleton Brown gave a box of materials that
includes papers on Kovenhaven, papers about Ernest Wilson, two account books,
and three school books. Kovenhaven was a dance hall in Crawford. This is a
great cache and will keep me busy evenings next winter. Emily Greenleaf
became interested in Alexander history after finding an old newspaper report of
the deaths of three men in the well on Breakneck in 1852. As part of her research,
she has been studying nineteenth century court cases involving Alexander
residents and recently sent transcripts for our files. Another study project!
ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS are always welcome. Verne
Wentworth called the day his newsletter arrived in May to tell us about Bertha Leeman, a teacher at Cedar
School from 1946 to 1948 (issue 129, page 4). Bertha’s family lived on the
South Princeton Road in Baileyville, east of the Bob McLellan place. She was
the last teacher at the South Princeton School; the scholars were taken into
Princeton after that. While at South Princeton, Bertha boarded with Cora
McLellan during the week. Her brother Bill would take her home on weekends with
a horse and carriage. Her parents were old and Lewis Kneeland would mow their
fields and help put up hay for the horse. Bertha married Niles Williams of
Waite on July 8, 1950. Thanks for the details, Sonny. Carleton Brown
also called about Bertha. She was the oldest daughter of Bill Leeman and had
sisters Gloria and Clara as well as a brother Bill. Carleton also corrected the
spelling of that dance hall in Crawford, Kovenhaven.
Jerry Gower, 9 Ox View
Lane, Raymond is a wonderful source of early information. He did not point out the misspelling in the title of MEDDYBEMPS
- A TOWN WITH A DIFFERENT BEGINNING. Philbrick Brown, signer of the petition, was not Green Brown’s
brother. His brother was Philbrick and he died before October 18, 1794 when
administration of his estate was issued to his widow Anna and her second
husband
While Jerry agrees that Meddybemps very likely is unique in that it was created from three towns, he pointed out some interesting facts about the creation of some other Washington County towns. What is now Lubec was set off from Eastport on June 21, 1811. The town of Machias was divided into West Machias, East Machias, and Machiasport in 1826. In 1830, West Machias became Machias from which Whitneyville (1845) and Marshfield (1846) were set off. Both Jonesport (1832) and Roque Bluffs (1891) were set off from Jonesboro. Many, many towns beyond Washington County have similar creations. Peaks Island tried to secede from Portland in 1995, but the Legislature did not allow it. At the present time, the 900 residents of that island have again requested to create their own town. The Portland City council has voted against. Next January the Legislature will again have the opportunity to create another Maine town. Thanks, Jerry.
MEET YOUR NEIGHBORS - In 2004, Roland and Grazina Paegle presented a plan to produce a number of panels combining images and words and featuring various Alexander residents. In May 2005, A-CHS sponsored a training workshop on how to interview and tape record individuals. During that summer John Foley conducted many interviews and wrote summaries of those tapes. Roland and Grazina took pictures and made copies of pictures from photograph collections. Roland created fourteen collages of pictures that with the written summaries became the panels.
Roland and Grazina put the panels up at the Downeast Heritage Museum in September 2005. Since that time A-CHS has moved the exhibit to Alexander Grange for hunters’ lunches in November; to
Alexander
Elementary School for January 2006; to Calais Free Library for March; to
Merrill Library at UMM for April; to Woodland Public Library for May and
finally to the genealogy fair on July 8th.
A-CHS
has created an 8½ X 11 copy of each panel for our time file. The tapes of the
interviews are being added as well as transcripts of those tapes. Imagine, in
2055, a future historian finding this treasure trove of stories about these
locals!
Marian
(Dwelley) Cousins (68 Pokey Road), Alexander native and excellent source of
history.
Charlie
Dix (240 Davis Road), owner, with his partner Wendy Maxwell, of Winterberry
Cottage.
John
Dudley (216 Pokey Road), the present day local historian and editor of the
A-CHS Newsletter
Caredwyn
Foley (2020 Airline Road), a daughter of John and Pat Foley, student at Smith
College.
John
and Pam Helmsradter (26 Pine Tree Shore), substance abuse counselors,
psychotherapists
Lawrence
Lord (1254 Airline Road), Crawford native, well driller, land developer, museum
owner
Carl
and Rhonda Oakes (1328 Airline Road), owners and operators of Randy’s Store.
Fletcher
Perkins (Airline Road in Crawford), Alexander native, fisherman, great
storyteller.
Juanita
Rass and Kenneth Pierce (24 Blueberry Lane), summer residents on Barrows Lake.
Tim
and Ellie Sanford (1461 Airline Road), teachers, back to the simple life,
planning board.
Pike
Seavey (92 Cooper Road), Crawford native, retired military, and Alexander
official.