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Samuel was the owner of a livery stable in Worcester, Massachusetts.

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James enlisted on 24 June 1861 as a Private in Co. K, 5th Maine Infantry Regiment. On 1 November 1863, he was transferred to Co. B, 1st Regiment of Veteran Infantry. He was a sharpshooter. During one battle, he bravely carried a wounded soldier, Harrison G.O. Perkins, off the battlefield under fire.
 After the war, and sometime after he returned to Otisfield, he and Mary separated. James lived in Otisfield until 1892, when he moved to Bridgton. In 1919, he was admitted to the Augusta State Hospital, where he died.

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His father-in-law, Samuel Scribner, gave Zachariah a portion of his farm, on which Zachariah built a house (across the road from Samuel and Sarah) on Scribner Hill.

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Note    N2239         Index
Mary never married. She lived with her nephew, Samuel Jordan, while in Mechanic Falls.

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Note    N2243         Index
Relief died from angina pectoris.

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Note    N2247         Index
David worked in a lumber mill.

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Nathaniel was a farmer in Otisfield and South Paris.


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Ebenezer worked as an expressman, in the delivery business. In the 1870's, Eben and Melissa moved to Boston where, in the early 1900's, he was a partner with John H. Campbell in the Scribner and Campbell Express Co., with 7 branch locations in and around the City of Boston. His home was in Dorchester, south of Boston. They had no children. Melissa had previously been married to Nathan Starbird.

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Note    N2250         Index
Fred was a farmer in South Paris. Angie was a teacher in Paris, Woodstock and Minot, Maine, and West Rockport and Dover, New Hampshire.
 After Angie died in 1953, Fred moved to Augusta and lived with Mr. and Mrs. Trigve Heisted. The Heisteds are buried at Pleasant Valley Cemetery (west of South Paris on State Route 26), as are Fred, Angie, and Fred's parents.
 On Fred's tombstone and also in his obituary [op. cit.], his birth date is said to be 23 January 1868. The obituary says he was born in Woodstock, Maine.

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James enlisted in the Army (27th Company, Unassigned Maine Infantry} on 7 April 1865. He served only about 6 weeks, being mustered out on 13 May 1865. After the war, he worked as a carpenter.
   
 In the early 1880's, he and his family headed west. For a few years, they lived in Chippewa County in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. By 1900, they were about as far west as one can get and still be in the United States. They settled in Friday Harbor, County Seat of San Juan County, Washington, where he continued at his trade as carpenter, only now he was building boats.
 San Juan County consists of several islands located between the coasts of Washington and British Columbia, Canada.

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Charles was a house painter and paper hanger in Waltham, Massachusetts. They moved there from Oxford, Maine after 1880.

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Hannah died from chronic bronchitis.