In 1978, my cousin Paul E. Bennett of Freeport gave me a copy of a Cummings family record from Greenville, the Cummingses and Hildreths being two of the earliest families to settle in what was once known as Haskell Plantation. Their descendants include Waldens, as well as relatives listed here.

Marriages

Silas H. Cummings and Sarah A. Hildreth, June 4, 1848.

Gayland A. Moore and Ione Alvara Bennett, Sept. 2, 1923.

Paul Edwin Bennett and Emma Lillian Tomlinson, Aug. 1, 1931.

Alvarus Frank Bennett and Norma Brown, March 5, 1931.

Earl Freeman Bennett and Julia Helen Williams, Jan. 25, 1936.

Arthur J. Davee and Jennie E. Cummings, Nov. 27, 1879, by Rev. Charles Davison.

Fred W. Higgins and Emma E. Cummings, Oct. 23, 1884, by Rev. C.A. Plumer, in Dover.

Prosper A. Bennett and Mary A. Cummings, March 5, 1881, Greenville.

Willard Lord and Mary A. Bennett, June 4, 1895, Guilford.

Rena Alice Bennett and Walter Sumner Bennett [second cousins], July 27, 1902, Guilford.

Silas Alvarus Bennett and Estelle Maude Mitchell, Sept. 15, 1904, Guilford.

Births

Children of Silas H. Cummings and Sarah Abigail (Hildreth) Cummings, all born in Greenville: Jennie Elizabeth Cummings, b. March 2, 1849; Frank Monroe Cummings, b. Oct. 29, 1853; Mary Alice Cummings, b. Jan. 13, 1859; Emma Estelle Cummings, b. Aug. 19, 1863; Son of S.H. and S.A. Cummings, March 18, 1866.

Irene May Higgins, b. Dec. 22, 1880, Greenville; Florence Abbie Higgins, b. July 8, 1882.

Children of Prosper Alvarus and Mary (Cummings) Bennett: Rena A. Bennett, b. Jan. 23, 1882, Guilford; Silas A. Bennett, b. April 19, 1883, Abbot.

Children of Rena A. and Walter S. Bennett: Ione Alvara, b. March 17, 1903, Abbot; Alvarus Frank, b. Feb. 19, 1905, Abbot.

Children of Silas A. and Maude M. Bennett: Earl Freeman, b. Aug. 1, 1905, Guilford; Hildreth Cummings, b. Dec. 10, 1906, Parkman; Paul Edwin, b. Feb. 24, 1909, Auburn; Gerald Silas, b. April 24, 1917, Lewiston.

William Cummings, born in Greene, April 2, 1791. Deborah (Harris) Cummings, born in Greene, Sept. 4, 1792. Children:

Silas H. Cummings, born in Parkman, March 22, 1819; Wm Cummings Jr., born in Parkman, August 13, 1821; Mercy H. Cummings, born in Parkman, February 3, 1823; Deborah Cummings, born June 30, 1825; John G. Cummings, born June 20, 1829; Mary A. Cummings, born in Greenville, Sept. 1, 1831; Emeline S. Cummings, born in Greenville, Oct. 18, 1834.

Deaths

Deborah Cummings, Nov. 15, 1848, age 56 years.

Frank Monroe Cummings, January 5, 1856, age 2 years, 2 months, 7 days.

Son of S.H. and S.A. Cummings, April 1, 1866.

Emma E. Higgins, Oct. 21, 1901, age 38 years, 2 months, 2 days.

Silas H. Cummings, October 24, 1902, age 83 years, 7 months, 2 days.

Rebecca S. Hildreth June 16, 1865, age 45 years.

Eleanor Hildreth, Sept. 29, 1869, age 82 years.

William Cummings, Dec. 18, 1858, age 68 years.

William Cummings Jr., 1863, Aquid (sp.?) Creek, Va. age 42 years.

Mary Alice Cummings Bennett (Lord), Sangerville, Nov. 13, 1954, age 95 years.

William C. Hildreth, Greenville, July 10, 1854, age 32 years.

James Monroe Hildreth drowned in Fairfield, June 6, 1842, age 25 years.

Benjamin C. Hildreth, March 6, 1859, age 45 years.

Henry T. Hildreth, Dec. 20, 1863, age 75 years.

Hildreth Cummings Bennett, Dec. 25, 1906, Parkman, son of Maude M. and Silas A. Bennett.

Willard Lord, April 20, 1935, age 68 years.

Walter S. Bennett, Nov. 21, 1935, age 70 years.

Alvarus Frank Bennett, July 19, 1937, age 32 years.

Ensign Gerald Silas Bennett, March 14, 1943, age 25 years 11 mo., USNR Whideby Island, Wash.

Maud M. Bennett, Jan. 6, 1948, age 65 years.

Silas A. Bennett, Oct. 13, 1961, Guilford, Me., buried Sebec.

Additional information by Roxanne Moore Saucier:

Sarah Abigail Hildreth b. 1826, Hopkinton, NH, dau. of Henry and Eleanor (Currier) Hildreth.

Mary Cummings Bennett md. Will Lord after Prosper A. Bennett died.

A correction to last week’s column: It is the 1930 census which will be released April 1, not 1920.

3139. COX-MITCHELL-TENNEY. Seek proof that Nathaniel Cox Jr., b. Nov. 1, 1772, Columbia, was son of Nathaniel and Hannah (Mitchell) Cox. Nathaniel Jr. md. Johannah Tenney, daughter of George and Bethia (Elwell) Tenney. Nathaniel and Johannah moved to Edmunds area about 1800. Seek proof they were parents of Joanna, b. about 1801 in Edmunds, md. James Carter Jr. of Pembroke on April 7, 1819. Valdine C. Atwood, 2 Free St., Machias, ME 04654; or e-mail valdine@juno.com.

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