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Hi Judith, this is all I can find. Did you have more information about Mary Morse…kids? Working on getting more information about the pastor at FUMC. Carol Hardin knows so much, you really should talk to her…town clerk for so many years and church member forever. Lori
NAME: Andrew D Hall
GENDER: Male
AGE: 50
BIRTH DATE: abt 1814
DEATH DATE: 27 Sep 1864
DEATH PLACE: In Hospital (VA)
REGISTRATION PLACE: Brewer, Penobscot
FATHER: Tilda
MOTHER: Eunice
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Thank you for the information on Andrew D. Hall. We know that Andrew D. and his wife Mary A. Morse b.? d. 16 Feb 1883 had a daughter named Alice Angelia Hall married to Capt. Samuel H. Barbour who owned the Barbour Boat Yard in Brewer that built steamships in the late 1800s. Alice Margaret (Barbour) Wiswell, Alice A. and Capt. Samuel H.’s youngest daughter and child was Henry Wiswell’s grandmother. Henry is presenting a two-hour PowerPoint on the Barbour family for Senior College, and we want to show Henry’s Mayflower lineage. He has the names back to Francis Cooke (Mayflower) and wife Hester Mahieu and Stephen Hopkins (Mayflower) and wife Elizabeth Fisher with missing dates, but we hope that research at the Bangor Public Library will help.
M’am, if you are the lady who contacted us thought the 20th Maine’s Facebook page.Please get in contact with me at [email protected] or by phone at 207-488-6841.
Your servant,
Lt Paul D.Dudley
president
Co.B., 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry
I’m hoping you can help me. I’m doing ancestry on my mother’s family of whom we know very, very little about. Josiah D. Hinds (who was the constable according to the annual reports, at least from 1884 – 1887) was my great-grandfather and his wife, Lizzie E. Hinds was the postmaster I believe in 1903 or 04. Their daughter, my grandmother, was Blanche W. Hinds. I have found a newspaper article dated 1903 in the Boston Globe about Blanche W. Hinds as the telegrapher at the state house in Augusta at 17 yrs. old. With the article was a picture of her. I was hoping someone in Orrington might have more information or maybe photos of any of this family that I may add to my information. I have the death record of Josiah that says he was buried in Pine Hills Cemetery. Unfortunately, living in Fla., I’m a little too far away to physically go to Orrington. Thank you for hearing me.
please add me to your e-mail address, thank you
Honoring of service members on Veterans’ Day:
Herbert Roode, WWII, Army Aircorp; Donald Holyoke, WWII, Army; James Coldwell, WWII, Air Force and Army, and Korea.
Enjoy reading the articles & looking at the pictures. I am looking for information about a Harold Hall family who lived-in South Orrington on the Swetts Pond road back in the 1940s. Thanks Bill Sawyer
I have some pictures that I would like o donate to the historical society.
Olive Billington Smith Pierce
Susan Maria Pierce (2)
Nathaniel Pierce’s Home in Orrington (Original-date?)
Pictures of that home taken by Susan Trask in the 1930’s- the grand daughter of Susan Pierce
Smokehouse and well on the Pierce Property
School House at Pierce’s Crossing
Dean Hill Cemetary plots of Nathaniel and Ruth Pierce
Please let me know where I can send these to you. I have no one interested in having them and I thought you might want them for your collection,
Thank you,
Patricia Kelly LaVoy
You bet the Orrington Historical Society would like your family treasures! The Pierce family had a strong presence in Orrington’s past. The society has a genealogist who will start building a Pierce family tree because eventually we will either create a three-sided display board and/or we would create a PowerPoint presentation for a meeting program depending on what OHS has for information. Thank you for sharing! My address is Judith Frost Gillis, President Orrington Historical Society, 103 Johnson Mill Road, Orrington, ME 04474. We will reimburse you for your expenses. The photographs you listed sound intriguing!
i really enjoyed this and wish you had more photos of my era.
I graduated in 1943 at Blanche K. Blake school, Brewer HS in
1947 and worked in the Bangor area from Jan. 1947 for up to
1980’s when I moved to Edmonds, Wa. I have photos of the
Orrington area mostly I could send you duplicates of if you wish.
I happened to go to website. I grew up in the house across from Dysarts. My 4th BDay pic has Don Gray and Jack Condon. I have a cousin from Orrington born 31OCT1913, older than Azubah. She remembers Miss Ericson, as a great teacher, and she was at Brewer HS in 1928. I contacted her daughter for her to read “Herricks Closing”. Madelene Barstow lived on the Orrington side of Roosevelt Ave.
Interesting! Thanks for your comment. Was Madelene Barstow the name of the cousin who was older than Azubah, or is that her daughter’s name?
Someone might wish to edit & post Erasmus Jones’ book on the Penobscot Expedition. Erastus Jones, History of the town of Frankfurt, Winterport [ME] (1897). It is not Orrington, but residents might find it a fascinating relating of the disastrous doings of Saltonstall. Having the sailors torch every single Naval ship & privateer in the flotilla that made up the Penobscot Expedition. There have been various projects to try to recover hulls & items from the river.
Do you have any other information on the Vashti Rebekahs Lodge #35 other than what is in the “Notes on Genealogy and Local History of Orrington, Maine” by Bertha Kendall?
Sir/madame,
someone recently contacted our face book page looking to borrow a civil war uniform. The site has had problem, and I regret not getting back to you in a timely manner
I may be reached by phone at 207-488-6841 or at my e-mail address
[email protected].
I await you response.
I am, your most humble servant,
Lt Paul D.Dudley
president
Co. B, 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry
Some months ago I contacted your society and spoke with someone about donating some vintage Shanango Pottery dinner plates with an Orrington Seal or Coat of Arms. I now have photos to share, but I have lost the name of the contact. My computer is not recognizing your email address. Please respond.
Thank you for your comment, Edward! Please reach out to [email protected] to share photos.
Hello Orrington Historical Society,
We made a number of interesting visits to the cemeteries in Orrington, & were pleased at how much information we were able to find about your Civil War veteranss. We see that you take an active interest in history & wondered if you would be interested in having us do a program for you. Here is our proposal.
Civil War historians, Diane Monroe Smith and Ned Smith of Holden, Maine, had planned to spend the year 2020 traveling, publicizing & attending book signings for Diane’s latest book, Washington Roebling’s Civil War: From the Bloody Battlefield at Gettysburg to the Brooklyn Bridge. But the pandemic meant, as it did for everybody, that public events were cancelled and their travel became limited to day trips around Maine. Diane & Ned filled those spring, summer & fall days with trips to many of the cemeteries in Eastern Maine & the Central Coast, searching for the last resting places of the many Civil War veterans that Maine sent to the war. Maine did, in fact send more of its sons, as a percentage of its population, than any other state. Armed with notebooks, cameras & flags for those veterans the towns somehow missed noticing, the Smiths dedicated many an afternoon to making sure these boys in blue who fought to preserve the Union will not be forgotten. When winter approached, & snow covered the cemeteries, Ned & Diane turned to research, discovering the compelling stories of those soldiers whose graves they have visited. As travel & restrictions on gatherings ease, the Smith plan to carry the images and histories they have uncovered back to the towns they visited, making their presentations available to any historical societies, libraries, cemetery associations & other civic groups that want to know more about the veterans from their towns. Information about the Smith previous research and writings is available at . If you are interested in having the Smiths do a presentation they can be reached by email: [email protected]
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