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Note N2118 Index

There's more to the story of Salome and Nathaniel Rawson than meets the eye. In 1860, she was living alone in Lewiston (NARA Microcopy M653, Roll 432, Page 301). She is also shown as living with her parents and her children in Andover, but, our assumption is that her parents listed her as living with them, even though she wasn't (that seems to have happened often in the Censuses). We have not been able to locate Nathaniel's whereabouts in 1860, although we do know that, a year or so later (not long after Salome married William Dingley), he enlisted in the Army.
It seems quite possible that Nathaniel and Salome separated sometime between 1851 and 1860. He left town. Eventually, she moved to Lewiston (where she married William Dingley in 1861), leaving the children with her parents in Andover.
In 1914, Salome fell and broke her hip. On 10 May 1918, she broke her arm.

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Note N2119 Index

Elmore was a farmer in Andover, before leaving with Lois and the family (very likely, his sister, Levirtha, and her children went with them) for New Haven, Indiana, sometime after 30 June 1860 (date of the 1860 Census). On 8 March 1865, he enlisted as a Private in Co. G, 152nd Indiana Infantry Regiment. The unit was organized in Indianapolis, to serve one year. They left Indiana on 18 March for Harper's Ferry, Virginia. Sadly, Elmore became ill and died less than a month after his enlistment. Lois filed for a Widow's Pension in November 1865.
About 1866, Lois and her daughters (accompanied by Levirtha and her children) decided to then move on to Oceana County, Michigan, because Lois' brothers (Dennis and William) and other relatives had relocated there from Indiana. It took 14 days in a covered wagon to make the 250-mile journey to Oceana County. They made the trip without incident and, soon after arriving in Oceana County, found jobs in the lumber camps near Homer Lake in Benona (now the town of Stony Lake). She later met and married Washington Shafer of Benona, a widower with 5 sons.

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Note N2123 Index

Sarah had suffered with heart disease for a number of years. In October 1879, she went to Boston for treatment.

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Note N2127 Index

Nathaniel enlisted as a Private in Co. H, 14th Maine Infantry Regiment on 20 December 1861. He was 40 years old at the time. He was killed in action on 26 July 1862. The 14th Maine had gone directly from its organization at Augusta, Maine, to Ship Island, Mississippi. The unit was in action in Louisiana at the time Nathaniel died.

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Note N2128 Index

William was a farmer in Casco, Maine.

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Note N2130 Index

James was a farmer. Apparently, he and Levirtha divorced in the 1860's. He moved from Upton during those years and is found living in Tully Township, Van Wert County, Ohio, in July 1870. He had re-married, and he and his second wife, Margaretta, had two children, Annie and David (NARA Microcopy M593, Roll 1275, Vol. 57, Page 385A). Later (before 1880), they moved to Clay Banks, Oceana County, Michigan, where Levirtha and the children were living. Most likely, Levirtha and family had moved out to Michigan with sister-in-law, Lois, and her daughters.

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Note N2131 Index

Joshua was a farmer in Andover and Upton, Maine. In 1880, Joshua is shown as living in Upton with Sarah's sister, Caroline, and her husband, Daniel Foye. He is also recorded as living in Andover with daughters Sarah and Addie. "He was a very good sort of man, honest and industrious. He held Mormon meetings at his house, was an elder, but did not go west" (HISTORY OF UPTON [op.cit.], 96).
Joshua served a 17-month-enlistment as a Private in Co. B, 15th Maine Infantry Regiment, enlisting 14 February 1865 and being discharged 5 July 1866. The unit in which he served had been organized in 1862. By the time Joshua joined the regiment at Martinsburg, West Virginia, it had seen action in Alabama, Louisiana and Texas. They were in Washington in April and May, then on to Savannah, Georgia on 4 June. The remainder of their service was spent at Georgetown, South Carolina.

In late 1884, Joshua followed daughter Addie and her husband, Charles, to Camp Kennebago, a hunting camp at Indian Rock, north of Rangeley, Maine. Apparently, there had been a number of problems at the camp, mainly related to the sportsmen's drinking. An Andover news item in the 13 January, 1885 issue of a local newspaper reads as follows:

"Joshua Small, jr., who a few weeks ago pitched his tent at Indian Rock, to take charge of Camps Kennebago, is much missed by those accustomed to send for Joshua at every emergency. Always genial and kind, willing and able to turn his hand to anything, he has for a long time been the village's man-of-all-work. Mr. Small is also an uncompromising temperance advocate which, in connection with the fact that King Alcohol has been the cause of recent trouble at Camps Kennebago, calls out the following lines from Steve Gustin, a local rhymist:
       To Camp Kennebago Small has gone,
       With his daughter Ottignon;
       Each wrong to right, and to appall
       The present reign of Alcohol "