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George was a farmer. In March of 1877, when he was 36, he left Maine and went to California, where he joined his brothers-in-law, Charles and Wallace Scribner, in their timber-hauling business. He stayed there about one year, probably returning to Maine before March of 1878.
Tragedy struck the Kinney household in the form of diphtheria, which claimed the lives of three of the children: Freddie (28 November 1879), and Etta and Clarra (1 December 1879 (Basil Kinney, "Charles E. & Emma [Springer] Scribner Letters" [op. cit.]. Unpaginated. 2nd page).

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Note N2185 Index

Levi was a farmer in Otisfield.

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Note N2186 Index

John was a shoemaker in Naples, Maine.

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Note N2203 Index

Zebulon was a farmer in Otisfield.

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Note N2210 Index

Paschal was a boot maker in Ashland, Massachusetts.

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Note N2214 Index

Eri owned and operated a large farm until a few years before his death; when his house burned he sold his farm and retired.
He served in Co. B, 23rd Maine Infantry Regiment, during the Civil War [enlisting on 29 September 1862 and being discharged 15 July 1863] and is remembered as a brave soldier (INDEX TO COMPILED SERVICE RECORDS OF VOLUNTEER UNION SOLDIERS WHO SERVED IN MAINE REGIMENTS [NARA Microcopy M549] Alphabetized). He was also an honest, industrious citizen, always faithful in all his duties.
In 1900, Emily was working for Samuel A. Kneeland of Harrison, as his housekeeper. Kneeland's house was next door to that of Frank Foster, for whom Eri and Emily's daughter, Addie, was working as housekeeper and the man she eventually married.

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Note N2215 Index

Henry was a farmer in Otisfield.

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Note N2217 Index

Apparently, in 1802, Joseph Scribner intended to marry Sally, and the Intentions were even published. However, on 2 April 1802, Sally wrote to Sireno Burnell, Otisfield Town Clerk, and said: "Sir; I understand from information that I am posted for publishment with Joseph Scribner in said town. These are therefore to inform you that it is not through my consent and wish. I therefore forbid the same" (Spurr, A HISTORY OF OTISFIELD [op. cit.], 309).
Sally, who lived in either Norway or Raymond before marrying Asa, was known as "Aunt Poppy Sally" because of her habit of collecting poppy seeds for the opium (Spurr, 367, 370).

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Note N2219 Index

Daniel (who preferred to be known by his middle name, Fletcher), was a Private in the Civil War, serving for about one month in the 27th Company of the Unassigned Maine Infantry Regiment (11 April 1865-13 May 1865). He saw no action. After the war, he was a farmer in Otisfield.

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Note N2221 Index

John was a farmer in Poland, Maine.

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Note N2222 Index

In the Civil War, Silas served in Co. C, 25th Maine Infantry Regiment, from 10 September 1862 to 11 July 1863. He later worked in a lumber mill in Windham.

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Note N2226 Index

Silas was a farmer in Otisfield.

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Note N2231 Index

David was a farmer. On 17 May 1875, he wrote to David Jillson, compiler of the Jillson Genealogy: "I was fifty-eight years old last Thursday, and never saw a Jillson except my father's descendants" (Jillson, GENEALOGY OF THE GILLSON AND JILLSON FAMILY [op.cit.], 73).