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Note N1035 Index

After Mary's death, Alvah married Sarah Ann Purinton. They then moved to Hartley Township, Union County, Pennsylvania, where Alvah operated a successful lumber business. Alvah and Sarah had 6 children.

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Note N1040 Index

Orrin operated a livery stable in Ellsworth, Maine.

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Note N1044 Index

It is likely that Sally died sometime prior to 1857, because William was married a second time, about 1857, to Mrs. Julia Whittemore.

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Note N1045 Index

Bucknell was a farmer in Harrison, Maine.

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Note N1049 Index

Samuel was a farmer. They lived at Harrison for several years, then, in 1836, moved to Lewiston, where he ran a boarding house which he established in 1837 (Janus G. Elder, A HISTORY OF LEWISTON, MAINE [Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, Inc., 1989], 371). In this book, Samuel is incorrectly referred to as "Daniel Scribner."

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Note N1051 Index

David's untimely death in 1850 made Rebecca a young widow, but, as was true for most younger widows in those days, she didn't remain single very long. One year after David's death, Rebecca married Capt. Foster Cummings.
Sometime following their 23 October 1851 marriage in Norway, Foster and Rebecca, her 12-year-old daughter, Anna, her 14-year-old son, Ebenezer, and other members of their family moved to Ridgway, Elk County, Pennsylvania (Ridgway is an out-of-the-way logging town located high in the mountains of western Pennsylvania). It also appears that Foster and Rebecca had a son, Charles, born in 1854.
Tragedy struck the family again when Foster died (probably in a logging accident) in Ridgway in 1857 (Mooar, THE CUMMINGS MEMORIAL [op. cit.], 418).

Daniel Scribner (110-iii, 276) a son of Deacon Elijah and Dorothy (Piper) Scribner (37-vi, 110), arrived in Ridgway by 1860 (Daniel will marry Rebecca's daughter, Anna, in 1862). At the time of the 1860 Census, Rebecca, Daniel, Anna, and Samuel Caldwell (Ebenezer and Anna's soon-to-be brother-in-law, after Ebenezer marries Samuel's sister, Harriet, in 1863) were living with Foster's older son, Nathaniel, and (Nathaniel's son?) six-year-old Charles Cummings.
Ebenezer (referring to himself by his middle name, Kimball) was employed as a clerk and living nearby in a boarding house, along with a millwright named Edward Derby (who had been born in Massachusetts) and his son, William (NARA Microcopy M653, Roll 1106, Page 901, Dwelling 731, Family 735).

Rebecca married Edward Derby sometime after 1860. In the 1880 Census of Ridgway [op. cit.], they are shown as living with Edward's son, William.

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Note N1055 Index

The Chadbourne family moved to Harrison when young James was about 15. After he and Mary were married, they lived in Harrison until 1826, at which time they moved to East Waterford, where they operated a farm, raising beef cattle, oxen and horses. The house is now the Waterford Inn on Chadbourne Road in East Waterford.
James was among the few members of his family who did not use the "e" in the Chafdbourne name. He was a Colonel in the Maine Militia at the time of the Aroostook War (so-called, but it was not a war at all, rather a border dispute). After James died, Mary and their youngest son, William, moved to Hudson, Illinois, to live with their daughter, Mary Ann.

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Note N1056 Index

Foster was a farmer and logger. Four years after Lucy's death, Foster married Rebecca, widow of Lucy's brother, David, who died in 1850. See the Notes for DAVID SCRIBNER (below) for the story of Foster and Rebecca.

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Note N1067 Index

Benjamin was a member of the Waterville Fire Dept. in 1839. About 1855, he and his family moved with his parents and siblings to Ripon, Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin. He and his father were engaged in farming. His father died in 1859, and his stepmother, Sarah Jane, returned to Maine soon thereafter. However, Benjamin and family remained in Wisconsin.