Dorothy Bell, daughter of LeRoy Bell and Eliza Lunn- married to Chesley Husson.
Archive for January, 2009
Photo: Dorothy Bell
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Photo: Owen Erastis Blackden
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Owen E Blackden, brother to Fred A . Blackden
b. 12 Aug 1858 Dexter, Maine or Etna Maine
d. 03 Jul 1940 Caribou, Aroostook, Maine
Photo: Dr. James Houlton Syphers
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Civil War Solider and physician from Mars Hill Maine- James H Syhpers.
James Houlton Syphers married Lucy York on 13 Jul 1861 in Houlton, Maine. They had 5 children – Inez Izora, Albion Lionel, Harry James, Lydia Ann, and LeRoi Scott Syphers. (BCMiller)
James was listed as a farmer in the 1870 Census for Mars Hill, [...]
December 1896
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1 Tue
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind in the morning. Myself and wife went up to J.W. Fulton’s to dinner in the afternoon. The wind came round to the NW very cold.
2
Some clouds and cold with a NW wind. Fred had a full party helping him to thrash today. Harden was thrashing his [...]
November 1896
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1 Sun
Cold with a SE rain all day. We was at Robert McKelvery’s all day. Jim Fossy and wife called in.
2
Came up to R.L. Bell’s. Cold with a NE rain all day. Had a pleasant time.
3
Cold with a NW wind. Harden and Fred came down. Each of them with a load of potatoes. [...]
Almeda Dorothy Fulton and Richard Levarah Bell
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Dolly (Fulton) Bell was the 10th born child of Robert and Martha (Jones) Fulton, being born on July 23, 1859, in Wicklow, N.B. Dolly married Richard L. Bell November 14,1878 at Mars Hill with Justice of the Peace, Henry Wilson officiating.
R.L. Bell was a potato farmer and homesteaded the area above Kings Grove called [...]
October 1896
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1 Thu
Cloudy and warm with a SE wind. Signs of rain and it commenced to rain about noon and rained most of the afternoon. Fred got home from the Mill.
2
Warm and cloudy this morning with a SE wind. Myself made a visit to Stephen Giberson’s. F.A. Blackden took a load of wood out to [...]
September 1896
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1 Tue
Cloudy and cold with a SW wind. Harden and Fred cut down a good piece of buckwheat in the forenoon. Fred put our stove up in our room in the afternoon.
2
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. We was home all day. Fred was to work at his Thrashing Machine the most of the [...]
Free Baptist Church of Mars Hill, 1896-
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With Mars Hill Mountain looming in the background, the first Baptist Church to be built in liars Hill Village, had her cornerstone laid on a Wednesday morning, August 19, 1896. Rev. G.G. Haynes was pastor for three years. He was followed by: G.M Park, B.C. Cox, Mrs. M. Park and Mrs. C.C. Clark. In 1907, [...]
August 1896
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1 Sat
Some clouds and very cold with a NW wind. We was home all day. Mrs. F.A. Blackden was taking sick today and Fred went after Dr. Kincaid. Quite a number of women to a man to know purpose.
2
Cloudy and cool with a NW wind. Rained the most of the afternoon. The doctor and [...]
Ellwyn Mortimer Fulton
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Ellwyn M. Fulton, born June 10, 1885, was the son of Dr. Aaron Jones and Emma (Turner) Fulton of Blaine, Maine. Ellwyn was a graduate of Ricker College and the University of Maine where he excelled in sports and graduated with honors. On June 15, 1913, he married Mattie Juanita Green of New Brunswick, the [...]
July 1896
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1 Wed
Some clouds and cool with a NW wind. It cleared off quite warm in the afternoon. We was home all day. Fred was working among his potatoes the most of the day.
2
Some clouds with a warm kind of a morning. The wind from the NW. Fred worked at his potatoes today. Mrs. Jamison [...]
John Wellington Bartley
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Welly was born June 11, 1887. On November 20th, 1907, Welly, at the age of 20, would marry Alice Minnie Flewelling, age 15, of Easton. Alice, born July 1,1892, was the
daughter of Charles Henry and Susan Hepzibah (Valley) Flewelling. Welley died
December 26, 1956 and Alice died March 4, 1985. They are buried in the [...]
June 1896
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1 Mon
Cloudy and cool with a SW wind. We was home all day. Very stormy all day but the wind came round to the NW in the afternoon and looked like clearing off.
2
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. We was home all day. Harden and Fred planted their beans today and put in [...]
July 1897
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1 Thu
Cloudy and cold with a NE wind. Len Bartley and wife and daughter and two of the Morehouse
family, John Tracy and others here today.
2 Fri
Some clouds and warm with a NE wind. Fred and Birt Tapley and John Tracy went away.
3 Sat
Some clouds and warm with a NE wind. Alvin Giberson and Fred went [...]
May 1896
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1 Fri
Mostly clear and cold with a NE wind. We was home all day. Fred drove out to the bridge and back. Frank Larrabee came home with him. Adaline McKelvery here.
2
Clear and cold with a NE wind. We was home all day. C.N. Delate was here settling up his phosphate bill with Harden and [...]
April 1896
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1 Wed
Clear & Cold with a NW wind. We was home all day. Fred went away this morning quite early to help Burns to get his logs in. Stella was up to Jim’s this afternoon.
2
Cloudy & cold with a SE wind all day. Signs of a storm. Fred brought us down to Richard L. [...]
March 1896
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1 Sun
Warm with a SE rain all night and all day and is still storming at bedtime and the ground is getting bare very fast. The fields will soon be bare.
2
Cool with a SE rain all night and all day till about 4 o’clock this afternoon. It held up but still looked very rainy.
3
Cool [...]
February 1896
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1 Sat
Cloudy & Cold with a SE wind. Very stormy looking. Me and Jim and Fred drove out to Mars Hill Village but hard for a sled. Part of the way bare ground.
2
Cold with a SE snow all the previous night and all day. The wind got round to the NE in the afternoon. [...]
January 1896
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1 Wed
Cloudy & Cold with a NW wind. Stella and family was up to Harden’s all day. Mrs. George Hallett was here to dinner. Perry Cox called. Fred was helping Charles McPherson making sleepers. (Sleepers was an early word for RR ties. With the new Railroad coming in, it was a new opportunity of labor [...]
