2024-03-29T07:05:13Z
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oai:mainememory.net:75446
2017-07-13T08:51:07Z
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circa 1860
Palmyra, Somerset County, ME, USA
circa 1860
Obed Millett was born March 17, 1841 in Palmyra and he died on June 5, 1864 at Betheseda Church during the Battle of Cold Harbor, Virginia. His occupation before the war was listed as farmer.
He enlisted on May 28, 1861 as a private at the age of 20, he served in Company G of the 2nd Maine Infantry.
He was taken prisoner on July 21, 1861 at Bull Run, in Manassas, Virginia, and confined in Richmond in a three-story brick warehouse owned by a prosperous tobacconist, George Harwood.
He was eventually paroled. He mustered out of Co. G 2nd Infantry on June 9, 1863 in Portland.
He reenlisted as a sergeant on April 4, 1864 at age 22 in the 31st Regiment Maine Infantry and served until his death at Cold Harbor.
Obed was one of four Millett brothers who served during the Civil War, for the Union.
Photographic print
15.24 cm x 10.16 cm
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Portrait photographs
United States. Army. Maine Infantry Regiment, 2nd (1861-1863). Company G
Soldiers--United States--Maine--Palmyra
Military service--1860-1870
Maine--Civil War, 1861-1865
United States--Civil War, 1861-1865
Millett, Obed Francis
Obed Francis Millett, ca. 1860
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oai:mainememory.net:82138
2018-10-18T08:37:59Z
contributor:palmyrahs
circa 1900
Palmyra, Somerset County, ME, USA
circa 1900
The Palmyra Grange was organized November 13, 1893 with F. L. Brown as the first master and 70 charter members. Meetings were held at the town house until building construction was completed in 1896.
Nearly every family in town belonged to the grange. It contributed much to the welfare of the town by holding fairs with exhibits of animals, vegetables, foods and needlework, educational and literary programs and promotion of music. The grange hall stage was host to many plays and dramas. The building was moved in 2009 and became the residence of a local couple thus preventing the demolition of a historic piece of the past.
Postcard
16.15 cm x 20.76 cm
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Postcards
Farmer's groups--Maine--Palmyra
Brown, F. L.
Palmyra Grange Hall, Palmyra, ca. 1900
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oai:mainememory.net:97971
2023-03-12T08:35:24Z
contributor:palmyrahs
1946
Palmyra, Somerset County, ME, USA
1946
Pictured here, from left to right, are sisters Eunice Millet Haper and Virginia Jenness Millett Apodaca (1923-2013).
Both girls came from a military family from Palmyra who's service goes back to the Civil War. Virginia enrolled at the Maine School of Commerce after graduating from high school and entered the military in 1943. At that time enlistment was effective for the duration of the war and six months after. She was a member of the WAVES National Maine Unit # 41 and also a member of the DAR. Eunice Millett Harper also enlisted in 1945.
The girls' brother Joseph Sewell Millett also served in WWII. Three of their uncles, Obed Francis Millett, George Gordon Millett, and Francis Davis Millett served in WWI, and four of their great uncles, Henry Ripley Millett, Obed Francis Millett, Josiah Asa Millett, and Joseph C. Millett served in the Civil War.
Photographic print
8.89 cm x 6.45 cm
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Group portraits
Sisters--American--Maine--Palmyra
World War, 1939-1945--Veterans
Apodaca, Virginia Jenness
Harper, Eunice Millett
Millett, Francis Davis
Millett, George Gordon
Millett, Henry Ripley
Millett, Joseph C.
Millett, Joseph Sewell
Millett, Josiah Asa
Millett, Obed Francis
Millett, Obed Francis
Virginia Jenness Millett Apodaca, Palmyra, 1946
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