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Note N2566 Index
John and Johannah apparently separated prior to the 1850 Census. In it, he and his daughter, Elvira, are living with Broadstreet and Betsey (1850 Census of Unity, NARA Microcopy 432, Roll 270, page 249, Dwelling 46, Family 50). John applied twice for a License to marry Elca G. Douglass of Unity, first on 25 March 1851, then on 17 April 1852. Both times, the Town Clerk was "forbidden by the selectmen to issue a certificate" (UNITY VRs [op. cit.]. In 1860, Elvira was living with the Elisha Mosher family in Unity.
During the Civil War, John was a Private in Co. A, 8th Maine Infantry Regiment, and was killed on 16 May 1864, during the battle of Drewry's Bluff, a few miles from Richmond, Virginia. For an account of the day's action on the day John died, see pp. 202-3 of William E. S. Whitman's MAINE IN THE WAR FOR THE UNION (Lewiston, ME: Nelson Dingley & Co., Publishers, 1865).
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Note N2567 Index
Penial was John Holbrook's third wife. His first wife was Esther Childs, who died in 1843. His second was Lydia Hall, who died in 1874.
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Note N2571 Index
With his brother, Josiah, Daniel enlisted 21 August 1861 in Co. E, 7th Maine Infantry Regiment. No further information about him is known.
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Note N2572 Index
Josiah enlisted 21 August 1861 in Co. E, 7th Maine Infantry Regiment. He died at Baltimore, Maryland, 15 October 1861, and is buried at Loudon Park National Cemetery, Grave No. 1788, Baltimore.
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Note N2576 Index
Bartholemew was a bootmaker, possibly in Bloomfield, which was a part of what is now the Town of Skowhegan, Maine.
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Note N2577 Index
Rufus was a farmer in Frankfort and Winterport, Maine.
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Note N2578 Index
Hannah's second marriage was to Simon Cilley, Jr., in Swanville in 1852. He was the son of Simon and Polly (Teague) Cilley of Brooks (Norwood, SKETCHES OF BROOKS HISTORY [op. cit.], 124). Hannah died in Monroe, at the home of her son, Wesley.
In the 1850 Census of Brooks (op. cit.), Thomas lists his occupation as "joiner." On his son Herbert's Death Record, it is stated that Thomas was a Lawyer.
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Note N2586 Index
Clement was a farmer in Unity, Maine.
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Note N2591 Index
Between the end of his marriage to Caroline and his marriage in 1861 to Frances, Orrin lived with his brother, Isaiah, and his family in Bangor. In the 1860 Census of Bangor (op.cit.), He gives his occupation as "Mariner."
Orrin served in Co. I, 9th Maine Infantry Regiment in the Civil War, enlisting 21 September 1861, less than a month after he and Frances were married. He is named in the "List of Officers and Soldiers from Belfast" in the HISTORY OF THE CITY OF BELFAST IN THE STATE OF MAINE by Joseph Williamson (Portland, ME: Loring, Short, and Harmon, 1877), 910. Orrin was killed in action at Cold Harbor, Virginia, 1 June 1864.
The 9th Maine was organized in September 1861 to serve three years. Of the more than 1,000 men who were the original members of the regiment, only 158 were left at the end of that three-year period. This unit, as with so many other Maine units, went directly into service in the Southern states of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. They took part in several battles along the coasts of those states until the spring of 1864, when they were transferred to Virginia. As a part of the Army of the Potomac, the 9th Maine fought in the battles of Drewry's Bluff, Bermuda Hundred, Cold Harbor and Petersburg, among others. Orrin was one of the 70 Maine soldiers to die on the first day of the 10-day Battle of Cold Harbor.
The regiment was later assigned to Gen. Tecumseh Sherman's forces for the 1865 attack on Raleigh, North Carolina.
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Note N2597 Index
John was a farmer in Charleston.