The postcard of “North Bay Near New Mount Kineo House, Kineo, ME” was postmarked July 2, 1912. It was addressed to Mrs. Willard Lord, Sangerville, my great-great-grandmother – Mary Alice (Cummings) Bennett Lord.

It reads: “We are well, will write a long letter soon. Nina sails for Europe the 6th. Shall miss her awfully, but am glad she can go. She leaves here the 4th. Shall expect to see you soon. I have been mean about writing. With love, J.E.D.”

Fortunately, it’s not a mystery who might have written the postcard.

My dad used to speak of his great-grandmother’s niece Nina Davee. So J.E.D. would be her mother, Greenville native Jennie E. (Cummings) Davee, who was about a decade older than Mary.

Why was Nina Davee going to Europe? I don’t know that, but we do know that at the time of the 1910 census, two years before her planned trip to Europe, she was listed as a schoolteacher. She was 32, and not yet married.

A black-and-white postcard, postmarked probably in the 1940s, was addressed to Mrs. Mary Lord and her daughter Mrs. Rena Bennett, in Abbot. Both were widowed by this time.

On the front is a photo of Buxton’s Store in Abbot, which during my youth was Titcomb’s.

The note on the card reads: “I thank you for the lovely card received while in the hospital – certainly appreciated your thoughtfulness. With kind regards & best wishes, I am sincerely yours.”

It is signed D.H. Buxton, though the signature seems to be a different penmanship.

A third postcard, with a black-and-white photo of Wilson Pond, Greenville, on the front, is addressed to W. Lord, R. #4, Auburn.

It reads, “Dear Ga & Will, All fine and dandy. Having a gd. Time. Love, Paul.”

“Ga” was Mary Lord, and Paul was her grandson, Paul Bennett. The card is postmarked Greenville, but with no year.

The last card, a valentine postcard, was not mailed to Ga, but has this note written on the front: “I lub it and lub it some more! Gerald.”

This I remember my cousin Paul Bennett telling me is what his brother Gerald used to say to their grandmother when he was a little boy.

I’m glad I examined these postcards more closely!

On the other side of my family, I have started writing in a photo album from my mother’s childhood in the 1930s. Many of the pictures are already identified, I believe in the writing of my grandmother, Edith Roberts Steeves.

It’s neat to see how my mother looked at various ages, and at different Christmases in Sangerville, Maine.

And it’s fun to note the furniture and clothing of the times. Aunt Hazel (Roberts) Ireland was always the most stylish, while Aunt Marion (Roberts) Dyer and Aunt Elsie Roberts, both schoolteachers, went more for the practical.

Many of the photos follow chronological order. I see Uncle Herbert and Aunt Susie (Stanley) Roberts with my mother, and later with the older two of their three children, Marvin and Ann.

There are also some photos of children who aren’t immediate relatives of ours. They include:

. Everett Harding

. Frederick Braidie Jr

. Dorothy Alice Boyles

. Cecelia (?) and Gertrude Margaret

. Roland “Sonny” Bush

. Rodney Howard Hutchins

. Nathalie Russell

. Marcia and “Sonny” Brodie

. Dan Harding and baby Everett Timothy Harding

. Carol Burdick, possibly from Dover-Foxcroft

. Leon Dennis Jr.

. Joyce Cooley, age 7

. Marie Cooley, age 2

. Eugene Cooley, age 7 months

. Dawn Carolyn Davignon

I’m not sure about the Braidie, Brodie and Bush children, whether they’re part of the same family.

I’d be interested to know who any of these youngsters are and whether they were from the Sangerville-Dover area.

Further, if you’re related, I’ll be glad to send along the photo that pertains to you. If I hear from more than one relative of a picture, I’ll put you in touch with one another so that you can share the photo or make copies.

Merry Christmas to all our readers, both in the Bangor Daily News and online. We are caught up on queries for the moment, so here’s one of mine:

3413. MOORE. Jotham Moore was born Jan. 15, 1800, to David and Dorcas (Moore) Moore, who were married March 13, 1791. David appears to be son of Joshua and Mary (Cole) Moore. Seeking Dorcas’ parentage. Dorcas and son Joshua later lived in town of Mount Vernon, where he married Lovina Leighton in 1823. Roxanne Moore Saucier, Family Ties, Bangor Daily News, P.O. Box 1329, ME 04402; familyti@bangordailynews.net

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