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Note N1984 Index
After 10 years of marriage, Jemima divorced Joseph in 1869 (In 1870, their son, Joseph, Jr., was living with Uncle William Scribner [along with Nathaniel and Mary] in Crystal). Jemima lived at Patten, ME, Elmira, NY, and Kettle Creek, PA.
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Note N1988 Index
During the Civil War, William (along with his brother, George and two cousins, Miles and Levi) served as a Private in Co. B, 8th Maine Infantry Regiment (GENERAL INDEX TO COMPILED MILITARY SERVICE RECORDS OF VOLUNTEER UNION SOLDIERS WHO SERVED IN MAINE REGIMENTS, op. cit.), enlisting 1 September 1862 and being discharged 12 June 1865.
William's Civil War Pension was claimed by Alice, in Pennsylvania, on 6 February 1918, 4 years after his death in Idaho. Based upon this fact, and by locating Alice and daughter, Clara May, in the 1880 through 1920 Censuses of Renovo, Clinton County, PA (1880) and Williamsport, Lycoming County (1900, 1910, 1920), we arrive at the conclusion that the records appear to suggest that, in May of 1877, William and Alice had a daughter, Clara, born in Pennsylvania. The records further suggest that William left Maine for a few years and lived during the mid-1870's in (possibly) Renovo (where Alice and Clara were living in 1880), and that he returned to Maine shortly thereafter, leaving Alice and Clara in Pennsylvania. In 1880 he was back in Patten, Maine, stating that he was married, and working on the farm of George Burleigh (T-9, Roll 485, E.D. 1, Page 385D). As a result, William and Alice do not appear together in any of the Census Records. Therefore, one has to rely upon the Pension Index and Census Records where they appear separately.
After 1880, William and Nellie became the parents of Frank, Annie and William James. Sometime after William James' birth in 1888 and before 1900, William moved to the State of Idaho, where he was a farmer in Moscow, Latah County (on the Idaho-Washington border). In 1910, he was living in Orofino, Nez Perce County, Idaho, working as a bank watchman (NARA Microcopy T624, Roll 226, E.D. 228, Page 315B).
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Note N1991 Index
In 1850, 9-year-old Mary E. Sleeper and her 7-year-old sister, Ellen, are living with the Ebenezer Bradbury family (NARA Microcopy M432, Roll 248, Page 45B, Dwelling 619, Family 622).
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Note N1992 Index
Joseph served two enlistments as an officer in the Civil War. on 7 September 1861, he enlisted as a Captain in Co. B, 8th Maine Volunteer Infantry. On 14 December 1861, he was transferred to Co. S and promoted to Major. Then, on 8 May 1862, he was promoted to Full Lieutenant Colonel, at the age of 26. This promotion came only a week after the 8th Maine had participated in the attack on, and capture of, Fort Pulaski, one of the defenses of Savannah, Georgia. For several months thereafter, the unit was engaged in doing guard duty at Hilton Head and Beaufort, South Carolina, and at Jacksonville, Florida. For whatever reason, on 18 April 1863, he resigned his commission as Lt. Colonel in the 8th Maine, and returned to Maine. Six months later, on 30 November 1863, he enlisted as a Captain in the newly-forming Co. A, 2nd Maine Cavalry, where he served with distinction. That unit served mostly in Louisiana, Alabama and Florida, fighting in several battles. Martha's cousin, Ira Fish Wadlin, was a Private in that same company. They took part in the March 1865 campaign which resulted in the capture of Mobile, and opened up the State of Alabama to the Union. Joseph was discharged on 15 June 1865.
In the 1871 record of his third marriage, he is said to be a "surveyor," then, in the 1874 record of daughter Jennie's marriage intentions, his occupation is listed as "lumberman" (OLD TOWN VITAL RECORDS [op.cit.], 232, 276). It was said of Joseph that "while he was not an orator, he was a great and effective talker." He was one of the leading speakers at public occasions in Maine.
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Note N1995 Index
Simeon was a farmer. He and his family lived in the Maine towns of Linneus and Houlton in Aroostook County, and in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Note N1996 Index
Clara was a milliner, employed in a millinery store in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
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Note N1998 Index
Charles was a lumberman and farmer.