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Note N2132 Index

Sometime between 1880 and 1900, Daniel and Caroline moved to Dover, Windham County, Vermont, where they had a farm.

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Note N2134 Index

Olive died from cancer.

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Note N2138 Index

Joseph was a farmer in Otisfield.

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Note N2140 Index

Georgianna was a teacher for a year or two before her untimely death.

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Note N2142 Index

Benjamin was a lumberman. In 1856, he and Mehitable and their family moved to Wisconsin, where Benjamin and his brother, Grinfill, were engaged in lumbering, building a sawmill there. After a year or so they returned to Otisfield. Sometime after Mehitable's death, he moved to Portland and lived for a while with their son, Charles, and later with their daughter, Henrietta, until his death.

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Note N2143 Index

Ezekiel was a stone-cutter. He died from nephritis (inflammation of the kidneys).

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William was a mason and carpenter. His most lasting accomplishment was in writing and publishing A HISTORY OF OTISFIELD, MAINE, from which much of the information in this Scribner Family History is gleaned. We are indebted to "Will" for making this information-packed book, along with the companion volume, VITAL RECORDS OF OTISFIELD, MAINE, available for generations to come. In addition to his literary accomplishments, he had traveled around the world.

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Note N2149 Index

In the 1850 Census of T9-R3 [op. cit.], Elvira's step-daughters, Elizabeth and Clara, are shown as living with Seth and Maria Walker, Elvira's sister and brother-in-law. Three years later, Elizabeth married Samuel P. Neal who, after Elizabeth's death, married one of Elvira's cousins, Lydia Scribner.

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Note N2151 Index

Apparently, shortly after Christopher died in 1880, Mahala and some (if not all) of the children moved to Wyoming, where she spent the remaining years of her life. Some of the children then moved on to California.

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Note N2152 Index

In 1900, Lyman and 3 partners were living in Hydesville, Humboldt County (home of the Redwood trees), several miles north of San Francisco, along the northern coast of the state. They were employed as woodsmen. Charlotte was a nurse, most likely at a logging camp in Hydesville. However, she wasn't living with Lyman at the time. Lyman is buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Arcata, Humboldt County, California.
A Lyman Scribner is recorded as having served in the Civil War as a member of Co. C, 25th Maine Infantry Regiment, and Co. A and Co. D of the 2nd Maine.

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Nelson was a farmer in Topsfield, Maine.

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Otis was a farmer in Princeton. He and the family moved to Humboldt County, California, where they continued to farm. In 1880, he and Benton were working in Mariposa County as "shake makers." Otis and Priscilla, and their family members, are buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Arcata, Humboldt County, California (HUMBOLDT COUNTY CEMETERIES [op. cit.], 5, 59; SOME DEATHS AND BURIALS IN HUMBOLDT COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, 1852-1905 [Fortuna, CA: The Redwood Genealogical Society, undated], 235).