December 23, 2024
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Sangerville library site source for cemetery burial listings

Wondering if your Sampsons or Smarts or Steeveses are buried in the Piscataquis County town of Sangerville? Ask your computer.

Listings for people buried in cemeteries there be found at the Sangerville Library Web site, www.sangerville.lib.me.us. Click on cemeteries, and pick the first letter of the surname you want.

I found my grandparents, Stanley and Edith Steeves, in Lot 94 of the Village Cemetery, plus my grandfather’s second wife, Eleanor. There was an “Infant Son” listed also, but the database includes information from the gravestone explaining that the baby was the son of Harry and Thressa Steeves. That would tell me he was my grandfather’s brother.

Uncle Roy and Aunt Irene Steeves are listed in another lot, and another brother – Uncle Arthur, Aunt Leona and son Robert in a different lot. Unfortunately, Arthur’s family is listed as “Steers” rather than the Steeves it should be.

The cemetery listings include birth and death dates if they are on the stone – sometimes just the years, sometimes full dates. Other information may include relationships, and military service if listed.

Keep in mind that the Jackman Corner Cemetery is in Sangerville. We always referred to that area as North Dexter when I was growing up. Moreover, I have found Parkman relatives, such as Jotham and Lovina Moore, buried at Jackman Corner.

The cemetery listings came from a library project funded by the state’s New Century program. It is wonderful to fund such data on the Internet, and good for the Sangerville Library for doing it.

In March we shared information about Greenlaw 250, the reunion of descendants of William and Jane Greenlaw, to be held Aug. 14-17 at Thomas Point Beach, Brunswick, in conjunction with the Highland Games Aug. 16.

We need to correct the Web site for the Greenlaw reunion: www.greenlaw250.org. Click on registration form, print it out and mail it in care of Stephen Snell, 1106 Belle View Blvd. C2, Alexandria, Va. 22307.

A Clark Reunion for the descendants of Seely M. Clark and Aurissa G. Curtis will be held all day June 21 at 252 Clewleyville Road, Eddington. For information, call 989-2463.

The Penobscot County Genealogical Society will meet at 6 p.m. Wednesday, June 18, in the Lecture Hall at Bangor Public Library. Local history librarian Bill Cook will speak on on preserving and storing papers and books.

The Mid-Coast Genealogy Group will meet at 7 p.m. June 25 at the LDS Church on Old County Road, Rockport.

John Battick of Dover-Foxcroft, professor emeritus of history at the University of Maine, will give a slide-illustrated talk on “Maine Women Who Went to Sea.” Many 19th century wives of ship captains accompanied their husbands to sea, with children. Many were from Stockton Springs, Searsport, Belfast, Bath and Brunswick. For information, contact Marlene A. Groves at 594-4293.

The Washington County Genealogical Society will meet at 1 p.m. June 21 at the Lubec Historical Society building in Lubec. The group meets the third Saturday of the month, March to November. Membership is $10, including subscription to the newsletter, Weirs & Woods. For information, contact Frances Raye at 853-6630, Valdine Atwood at 255-4432, or Gwen Lujan, 853-0717.

3236. DIZON-DIXON-BICKFORD-ESTES. Searching for parents, birth place, dates of birth and death, burial place for my great-great-grandmother, Matilda Dizon or Dixon. She md. George F. Bickford and had four daughters: Emma A., md. John H. Kluesner, Sept. 15, 1900, living Lewiston 1905; Louise, b. about 1871, probably Brunswick, md. Ernest Fox, Jan. 24, 1891, living Monmouth 1905, probably without Ernest; Lavinia, living Haverhill, Mass., 1905; and Gertrude, md. Charles C. Estes of Lisbon, March 31, 1900. Matilda a widow in 1920, living in Waterville household of Walter E. Gavine (spelling unclear), husband of Lavinia. Also in household, his (their?) son, Harold, age 18, and Lillian Estes, niece. By 1928, Matilda living in Auburn at 105 Spring St., says Auburn-Lewiston directory. 1930 census, she’s in Auburn with Charles Estes, 57; wife Gertrude A., 49; Clinton O. Estes, 29, single; and Harold Goodfellow, 29. Matilda, 77, stated she was b. in Maine. Need death date for George Bickford. Charlene Fox Clemons, 96 Mud Creek Road, Hancock, ME 04640; foxtail@downeast.net.

Send genealogy queries to Family Ties, Bangor Daily News, P.O. Box 1329, Bangor, ME 04402; or send e-mail to familyti@bangordailynews.net.


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