2024-03-29T08:12:34Z
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Frank William Gray and Amelia Myrtle Hanscom were married on April 29, 1887 at the home of the bride's parents in Jacksonville, a section of East Machias. Father of the bride, Andrew Jackson Hanscom, performed the ceremony. Mother of the bride was Emeline Luzon (Pierce) Hanscom.
Frank, 25, was the son of William S. and Frances Elzima (Hanscom) Gray. His family had lived in Crawford, but like so many others had gone down river to Jacksonville looking for the opportunity for a better life.
The newlyweds are about to drive off in a Stanhope style top buggy, heading up river to Crawford, probably to spend their honeymoon with relatives. They lived and raised their family of eight in Jacksonville.
Frank and Amelia were shirttail cousins. Their common ancestors, Aaron and Sally (Seavey) Hanscom had been early settlers of Crawford. They, like others, had moved up the East Machias River to harvest logs for the sawmills and shipyards at East Machias.
Crawford had grown to 324 people by the 1850 census. The best of the logs being harvested, and the soil being poor for farming, people started moving away. When Frank and Amelia made their trip to their ancestral home, only 140 people called Crawford home.
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Weddings
Honeymoons--Maine--Crawford
Gray, Frank William--Marriage
Hanscom, Amelia Myrtle--Marriage
Carriages & coaches--Maine--Jacksonville
Gray, Frank William
Hanscom, Amelia Myrtle
Frank Gray, Amelia Hanscom, East Machias, 1887
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Alexander-Crawford Historical Society
Crawford, Washington County, ME, USA
Jacksonville, Washington County, ME, USA
1887-04-29
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2022-06-29T05:24:22Z
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Robert Hyde
The Church of Christ in South Princeton was organized by Elder A. W. Rideout on August 6, 1865. On that date the following were baptized: Peres Sprague, Mrs. Rachel Taylor, Mrs. Elizabeth Edgerly, Mrs. Abigail Seamans, and Winfield Thornton.
The Church served folks from Plantation #21 and West Princeton as well as South Princeton. Meetings during the first years were held in homes and schoolhouses.
The Church was legally incorporated on August 25, 1893 with Valona S. Sprague as clerk. The incorporators included Peres Sprague, Rachel Taylor, Abigail Seamans, and Winfield Thornton who had all been baptized back in 1865. Other who signed the incorporation papers were Rachel and Hattie Thornton, Charles and Nancy McLellan, Samuel Seamans, Minerva Sprague, Minnie Bailey, and Lucy Taylor.
The lot at the Four Corners in South Princeton was purchased in October 1893. The building was dedicated on July 9, 1916. It was in use before that for the first funeral was held in the new building in 1915.
The church was sold in 1959 and turned in to a private home in 1971.
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Dwellings--Maine--Princeton
First Church of Christ (Princeton, Me.)--Photographs
Church buildings--Maine--Princeton
Reid, Herbert--Homes and haunts--Maine--Princeton
Churches--Maine--Princeton
Reid, Herbert
Little White Church, Princeton, 1960
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1960
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Alexander-Crawford Historical Society
Princeton, Washington County, ME, USA
1960
oai:mainememory.net:16965
2023-03-12T08:28:31Z
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Alexander Grange #304 POH was organized on August 24, 1889.
In 1908 Charles and Lizzie Brown granted the Grange a lot of land 70 feet by 110 feet next to the Methodist -Episcopal Church on Townsend Hill.
That fall, J. M. Stuart of Milltown built the hall. He hired Archie Beaney to cut granite for the foundation. The granite came from a surface quarry at the end of the Tommy Long Road. The doorstep has the year 1908 chiseled into it.
Like many Grange Halls of the day, the meeting room was on the second floor and the first floor had a kitchen and dining area. A privy was attached and out back was a stable that held 16 horses. This stable was used during Grange meetings and dances.
This picture was taken about 1950.
In the back row are Hazel (Cousins) Frost (1902-1993), Ethel (McArthur) Wallace (1916-1986), her husband Herman Wallace (1901-1979), Tommy Long (1895-1983), and Nelson Flood (1907-1987). Seated on the left is Carrie (Dwelley) Varnum (1880-1966), Abraham F. Long (1870-1953) is at center. He is Tommy's father. Front right is Annie (Watson) Flood (1869-1963), Nelson's mother. The sash that Nelson is wearing indicates that he was on the Executive Committee.
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Group portraits
Alexander Grange No. 304 (Alexander, Me.)--People
Alexander Grange No. 304 (Alexander, Me.)--History
Farmers' groups--Maine--Alexander
National Grange
Maine State Grange
Flood, Annie Watson
Flood, Annie Watson
Flood, Nelson
Frost, Hazel Cousins
Long, Abraham F.
Long, Abraham F.
Long, Thomas
Varnum, Carrie Dwelley
Wallace, Ethel McArthur
Wallace, Herman
Grange #304 members, Alexander, ca. 1950
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Alexander-Crawford Historical Society
Alexander, Washington County, ME, USA
Alexander, Washington County, ME, USA
circa 1950
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2023-03-12T08:28:31Z
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"Presented by teacher to Yola Lane, 1905"
Teacher Lindsay Clarke is on the left. Lindsay, born in 1881, was single and boarding with the Gilbert Rowe family.
Standing next to Clarke is 13-year-old Yola Lane, youngest child of Civil War Veteran Frank Lane who had died a year earlier. Raymond Frost, 13, looks very serious in his black fedora. His sister Mildred, 10, is at the far right. She and Lindsay married in 1917 and lived on East Ridge in Cooper. Between brother and sister stands Marcia Hayward in her dark skirt and white blouse.
The girl with the light colored skirt is Georgie Hayward, Marcia's sister. The Hayward sisters were Yola's nieces.
Yola married Coburn Crosby in 1915 and continued to live in the house her father had built within sight of the school. Her children were all educated here. Later she would lift her grandchildren through the window to open the door, and then she would go in and read to them.
The North Union School existed before 1861 and was closed by the town in 1946. It served as a residence for a few years and burned in 1967.
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Cooper North Union School group 1905
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Group portraits
North Union School (Cooper, Me.)--People--Photographs
Rural schools--Maine--Cooper
School children--Maine--Cooper
Schools--Maine--Cooper
Teachers
Clarke, Lindsay
Frost, Raymond
Lane, Yola
North Union School, Cooper, 1905
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1905
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Alexander-Crawford Historical Society
Cooper, Washington County, ME, USA
1905
oai:mainememory.net:16964
2024-02-24T09:27:09Z
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Jacob and Almira (Craft) Bailey are here before their Airline Road home sometime between 1890 and 1906. They raised ten children in this high-posted cape. Some would call it a center chimney cape and the chimney size indicates it was heated by stoves, a great improvement over the fireplaces of a generation earlier.
Note the banking boards around the foundation. Between the boards and the cut granite foundation Jacob would have placed sawdust, pine needles or leaves to keep the wind out.
Jacob was a great grandson of the Nathaniel Bailey whose name adorns the sign that reads "Welcome to Baileyville." This house sits on land Jacob's father Nathaniel acquired from the Bingham Estate interests in 1844. It was within a hundred yards of the Alexander town line.
Jacob (born February 2, 1829) and Almira (born September 28, 1843) were married in Alexander on May 25, 1862.
Almira's parents were Samuel and Ann (Peters) Craft. Samuel and Ann had a son Reuben and three daughters. Three Craft sisters married three Bailey brothers; Elizabeth married Nathaniel, Emma married Ben, and Almira married Jacob.
In 1906 Jacob and Almira sold and moved to North Anson to be near their children. Jacob died on April 29, 1914 and Almira on June 18, 1925.
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Bailey, Jacob--Homes and haunts--Maine--Woodland
Dwellings--Maine--Woodland--Baileyville
Bailey, Almira Craft--Homes and haunts--Maine--Woodland
Bailey, Almira Craft
Bailey, Jacob
Bailey home, Baileyville, ca. 1900
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circa 1900
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Alexander-Crawford Historical Society
Baileyville, Woodland, Washington County, ME, USA
circa 1900