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Note N7407 Index

Charles was a blacksmith in Alexander, Maine. He and Eliza divorced 6 May 1899 (MAINE DIVORCE REDORDS [Maine State Archives] Roll 2, Vol. 4, Page 90, Line 14).

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Note N7416 Index

Frederick and Sadie are buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Arcata. In the Cemetery Records, he is listed as "George Frederick." Very likely, they both died from a disease that swept through Humboldt County in October 1889.

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Note N7417 Index

Lloyd was a chain-tender in a Humboldt County, California, logging camp.

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Note N7418 Index

Herbert was a woodsman. In 1900, he and his family were living in Hydesville, only four houses from his mother, Charlotte, and in the same town as his father.

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Note N7420 Index

Bert was a Maine State Game Warden.

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Note N7422 Index

Benton served in the Civil War as a Private in Co. H, 16th Maine Infantry. He enlisted 14 August 1862, was taken prisoner 6 May 1864 at Wilderness, Virginia, and was discharged 31 July 1865. Benton was one of the very few men who survived the war in the 16th Maine. That unit suffered some of the greatest losses of any unit in the war. The 16th Maine left for Washington on 19 August 1862 with 38 officers and 944 enlisted men. Because of the lack of equipment (overcoats and proper shoes, for instance) and sickness, by October the unit had lost over 250 men. During its first battle, 13 December 1862 at Fredericksburg, 226 more were killed, wounded or missing. At Gettysburg, at the end of the three days' fighting there, all that remained of the 248 men who entered the battle were 2 officers and 15 enlisted men (among them, Benton Farrar). With the addition of 800 recruits, the unit went on to fight in such places as Spotsylvania Court House, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, Weldon Railraod and its final engagement at Five Forks, Virginia, on 1 April 1865.
We have uncovered no further information on Benton.

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Note N7423 Index

Otis enlisted in Co. F, 31st Maine Infantry Regiment on 15 March 1864. On 30 July he was taken prisoner at Petersburg, Virginia, and was held until 17 September. He returned to his unit and served the remainder of the war, being discharged 15 July 1865. He returned to Topsfield, where he stayed for a number of years before leaving for the west. He is listed in the 1890 Veteran's Schedule for Carbon County, Wyoming. In 1900, Otis was single and a quartz miner, living in Carbon County, Wyoming. In 1920, at age 75, he was living in Montezuma County, Colorado (NARA Microcopy T625, Roll 167, E.D. 114, Page 224A). Otis never married.

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Note N7425 Index

James served three years in Co. D of the 11th Maine Infantry Regiment, enlisting as a Private 19 October 1861 and being discharged as a Full Corporal 20 December 1864. Among the battles in which he fought were Fair Oaks, Richmond, Drewry's Bluff and Bermuda Hundred. It was at Bermuda Hundred in June 1864 that he was wounded, requiring the amputation of an arm.
In 1880's Census of Laramie, Wyoming, he gives his occupation as "saloon keeper."
It appears probable that James re-married following Chloe's death in 1884. According to the 1900 Census of Saratoga Precinct, Carbon County, Wyoming [op.cit.], his son, Bret, is living with Blanche Bailey, who had been married 9 years but was now widowed.

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Note N7427 Index

George was a farmer in Laramie, Wyoming.

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Note N7429 Index

In 1880, Christopher was living in Wood Camp, Carbon County, Wyoming, working for U.S. Mail Contractor Charles Marshall Scribner. In 1900, he was living in Albany County, Wyoming, working as a teamster (NARA Microcopy T623, Roll 1826, E.D. 4, Page 38A). In 1910, he was in Rockdale, Carbon County, working for Roy McFadden at the McFadden Ranch. Then, in 1920, he was living with David and Caroline (his sister, Bertha) McCullough in Laramie, employed as a ranch laborer (T625, Roll 2025, E.D. 2, Page 16A).
He never married.