Robert Richardson Moulton, Civil War soldier

For many years, all I knew of my ancestor, Robert Richardson Moulton was that he was born June 3, 1809 in Lyman, New Hampshire and that he and a brother had come from New Hampshire and settled in Maxfield, Maine.  Robert married Mary Weymouth, probably in 1835, based on the birth of their first child in 1836.  His wife Mary died in 1869 and was buried in South Maxfield Cemetery where there is a gravestone for only herself and not her husband.  I had assumed that he either had no gravestone or it had probably broken or fallen over and lost to history.

Maxfield, Maine Vital Records solved the mystery of his death when I found that Robert had enlisted as a volunteer in Company D, 14th Maine Regiment on January 3, 1862, but died at sea on his passage from New Orleans, LA.  The Archivist confirmed that at that Robert would have been buried at sea and hence no gravestone with his wife in South Maxfield.   For many years, that was all I knew of him.  But as my interest in the Civil War period of history and the affect it had many of my ancestral families, convinced me to order his pension records from the National Archives.   From the widow's pension records, I was able to learn so much about Robert and the sad ending to his life during the Civil War.  I have been able to pull together a variety of sources to document his War experience.

First, his widow had to prove her marriage to Robert.  Her widow's pension claim included the date of their marriage as  May 14, 1836 in Howland. Maine, just 6 months before the birth of their first child, Orrin Moulton.  The Town clerk of Howland confirmed that all records before 1860 were lost in a fire.  However, Mary was able to get sworn testimony from James and Mary Edgecomb of Howland that Robert and Mary Moulton were married in their house and they had witnessed their marriage.  Robert and Mary would have eleven children together.  They were all living in Maxfield, Maine on the 1850 and 1860 census records.  The Civil War began the following year in 1861.

Civil War Registration Card for Robert Moulton

 Robert lied about his age to enlist.  The age for enlistment was for men between ages 18-44.   Robert was 52 years old in 1862, but conveniently stated at his enlistment he just turned 44, the maximum age to join.  All of Robert's children were still living at home at the time of his enlistment and hopefully he had the support of his wife and family as his length of his enlisted was for 3 years.  He had older sons and daughters, who probably were all ready working on the family farm and helping their mother while he would be away for the next 3 years.

Robert was mustered in at Augusta, Maine and was there from January 10th to February 4th 1862.  They marched to Boston, Massachusetts where his company boarded the transport North America to  Ship Island, Mississippi.

Illustrations of Ship Island, Mississippi
from Harper's weekly, January 4, 1862
Shortly before Robert's arrival in February 1862

His regiment remained at Ship Island until May 19th 1862.  The regiment then marched between the 19th to the 25th of May to New Orleans, Louisiana.  They would remain there until July 7th 1862.  It was during this time at Ship Island in April 1862, Robert was taken sick with fever, probably Typhoid as stated in his widow's pension and was said to be unable to do little duty.

After the regiment arrived in New Orleans. Robert contracted Diarrhea and continued to grow sicker and weaker.   His Sergeant, William Chase wrote in detail his attempts over the next three months to get Robert discharged and when he finally was given his discharge for disability, it was 3 more weeks before transport could be arranged to go home.

The written testimony by Sgt. William Chase of the 14th Maine to the health of Robert Moulton and how he tried to arrange for his discharge and transport home.

On October 27th 1862, Robert was carried aboard the ship "Cahawba" to go North.

Drawing of the ship from the National Archives

Sadly it was too late for Robert as he died the next night, October 28th 1862  on the ship and buried the next day at sea.  A testimony by Oliver M. Brown of Foxcroft, Maine who was also on the same ship was a witness to Robert's death and burial at sea.

The Boston Daily Advertiser, November 5, 1862 picked up the arrival of the Cahawba in New York and the deaths of it's passengers.

The news of Robert's death must have been quickly carried back to Maine as his widow filed her first petition for a pension on November 17th 1862.  She received her pension beginning the following year in 1863.

Myron Skinner, a man who sacrificed to keep his daughters together

My paternal Great-Grandfather

Myron L. Skinner  1891

Myron Leslie Skinner was born on May 23, 1868 in Raymond, Maine, the son of Andrew Jackson Skinner and Mary Elizabeth Brown.  His parents had moved to Raymond after his father served in the Civil War.  After 1870, Myron's maternal grandparents who were in their 70s asked Andrew and Mary to come and live with them in Exeter, Maine, where in return for helping with the running their farm, Andrew would inherit it after their deaths.  The family then settled in Exeter, Maine.

Myron attended only one year of high school before ending his education.  This may be that by that time, his parents needed help running their farm as his older brother, George had all ready left home and moved to Massachusetts to start his own family by 1880.

Myron married in 1891 to Edna Estella Pease, the adopted daughter of John and Mary Pease, who were neighbors to Myron's family.  John Pease had also served in the same Civil War regiment as Myron's father and was the next house on the road from Myron's family.  Myron's daughter Bertha states that her parents met when he was 17 and she was 14 and that she literally married the boy next door.  At the time of their marriage, Myron listed his residence as Corinna, Maine and Edna was of Exeter, Maine.  Myron was working at one of the mills in Corinna at the time, and felt it was a lot of hard work for little pay and he could do better..

Edna Estelle Pease 1891

Myron settled in Exeter after his marriage and where his first daughter, Bertha was born in 1891, just 6 months after his marriage.  In 1892, Myron decided that like his older brother, he would do better finding work and providing for his family beyond the rural town of Exeter, Maine and moved his family to the city of Portland, Maine. Myron appears in the 1893 city directory as a clerk at Soule and Robinson on Commercial Street.  It was a wholesale produce company.

Myron on the right
Soule & Robinson, Portland, Maine

Myron moved his family around Portland as his family grew with the birth of his daughter Alice in 1896.   In 1897, the family moved to 41 Pitt Street in Portland where they remained for the next several years.  It was here two more daughters were born, Ethelyn in 1898 and Velma in 1903.

41 Pitt St in 1920 and 2000

By 1900, Myron had begun working for Milliken Tomilson Company, another wholesale produce company and sold fruits and vegetables in the Portland area.  The Company had suffered a large fire in 1901, but rebuilt and expanded.  Eventually Milliken Tomilson forced Soule and Robinson out of business.  Myron's daughter, Bertha recalled that her father traveled by horse and wagon around the city of Portland selling his produce door to door.

Milliken Tomlinson 1900, Myron standing 2nd from right

Milliken Tomlinson, 1902, Myron 6th from left on porch

In 1903, after the birth of their youngest daughter, Myron's wife, Edna Skinner developed blood poisoning and was bedridden for the next two months.  She died April 30th, 1903 just days after her 30th birthday.   This must have been a terrible time for the family as Myron tried to work leaving his children at home ages 10 years old to a newborn with his wife literally dying before them.  It is not known how much help Myron received from either friends or neighbors or some of his or his wife's relatives who lived in the Portland area.  It appears after his wife's death, he tried to remain in Portland on his own for a time as he did not withdraw his children from school until the following year in April 1904.  This was a time period when men were the primary providers of income for the husehold and women were the raising of the children and all hosehold chores.  Myron returned to Exeter, Maine to help run his parent's farm and in return his parents helped raise his four daughters.  Myron loved his job as a salesman and was said to have been a natural born salesman.  He continued to state his occupation was a salesman throughout his life despite the fact he did mostly farming afterwards.  Myron never remarried after losing his wife and never gave his daughters up for adoption.

Myron Skinner, 1902

 According to his daughter Bertha Skinner's diary from 1911, Myron had little help running the family farm and did most of the work by himself and occasionally would hire a farmhand to help for a few weeks.   Although his daughter, Ethelyn, was said to have been raised for a time by her adoptive grandparents who expressed an interest in adopting her as well as a request from Myron's sister-in-law to have one of his daughters come to Massachusetts to work as a house girl for her, Myron kept his daughters together with him.  Perhaps knowing of his wife's unhappy childhood and adoption, aided in his decision to never give up his children.  Although, Myron stated later in life, that he wished he had remained in Portland because he felt his daughters would have had a better education and more opportunities in the city and maybe he also wondered how his life might have been different as well.

Photos of Myron taken after his return to Exeter, Maine between 1910-1920, still wearing his suit and tie from his days as a salesman.

After 1920, all his daughters had married or left home.  He spent his remaining years selling his apples, berries and vegetables in the Exeter area, still a salesman and doing odd jobs around the towns of Exeter, Newport and Corinna.  One neighbor remembered that Myron had the best looking apple orchard  and wood lot as he would keep them free of branches and tall grass.   As he aged, he became more reclusive, leading many who did not know him from his earlier years to believe that he had never been married or had any children, nor did Myron mention his family to neighbors.  His grandchildren also had few memories of him as he did not drive, so his visits were rare and infrequent. He would either get a ride or walk to the neighboring town of Corinna to visit his daughter Ethelyn's family.  Usually visits with him were arranged by his youngest daughter, Velma, whose husband had a car and could either take family to visit him or take Myron to visit his daughters.  But from all accounts from his family, all his daughters were said to have loved their "Papa" as they called him.

Skinner Farm 1950

Skinner Farm 1990

By 1950, the farm had fallen into disrepair as Myron at age 82, was not able to maintain it alone.  As he was getting even too old to care for himself, his daughter, Alice moved him into her home in Dexter, Maine. The woman that bought Myron's house, Margaret Andrews, said that when they moved into his house, there were piles of old newspapers stacked up all around the inside and even the windows were blocked as he never threw anything away.   When I interviewed people who knew Myron late in his life, sadly he was the victim of local gossip of being a single man living alone which probably added to his isolation.

Myron with daughters Alice and Velma, 1950

Myron died November 23, 1951 in Dexter, Maine at the home of his daughter.  Myron was buried in Chamberlain Cemetery, Exeter, Maine with his wife and parents.

One man, Carl Edgerly, who knew Myron said in an 1990 interview that he was a nervous man and did things very quickly even hurried in the way he walked.  He always wore a red bandana around neck and a pointed hat like the soldiers in World War I which made him think Myron had served in the war.  He said that Myron was just and ordinary man who talked about ordinary things.

13 Generations of Mothers and Daughters

This post is dedicated to my Mother's side of the family.  It is not always an easy task to trace a direct maternal line of mother to daughter in family history because of the lack of importance placed on the role women played.  So many times, all you find in records is the first name of a wife or mother and sometimes, not even that, only name of the man is recorded.  I have been fortunate to be able to trace my mother's line back 13 generations of full names and families.  Although I have the first name of the mother of my 13th generation ancestor, it is all that is known and I am starting with the first  female ancestor I traced the farthest back with a surname and family.

Generation 1
SUSAN RIDDLESDALE, daughter of John & Dorcas Riddlesdale
Baptized April 20, 1584 at St. Mary's Church, Boxford, co. Suffolk, England
Died March 10, 1657/8 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts

When Susan was 24 years old, she married THOMAS FRENCH on September 5, 1608 at Saint Edmund's  Church, Assington, co. Suffolk, England.  He was baptized October 11, 1584 at St. Mary's Parish, Bures, co. Suffolk, England.  They had eight children who were baptized at the same Church they were married.

Saint Edmund's Church, Assington, Suffolk, England
where Susan  married and her children were baptized

Susan's four eldest children came to America in 1630 and 1634.  She and her husband arrived with the four youngest children before 1638.  At age 55, her husband Thomas died with Susan being granted administration of his estate on November 5, 1639.  Susan had only been in this country a few years and was now a widow with 4 children who were minorss.  Again history doesn't record how she managed alone over the next 20 years at time, when her husband would have been the provider of the family.  She may have resided with her older children.  She was the "Widow French" in records and listed as a commoner in 1641.  

Generation 2
MARY FRENCH, daughter of Thomas & Susan (Riddlesdale) French
Baptized January 6, 1624 at St. Edmund's Church, Assington, co. Suffolk, England
Died before December 15, 1674 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts
When she was 20 years old, she married GEORGE SMITH in 1644, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts.    She had been the youngest child born to her parents.  She was probably 12 or 13 when she immigrated with her parents and siblings to America, losing her father a few years after their arrival.  She was the mother of seven children.  Her husband died December 15, 1674 and his will made no mention of a widow, meaning she had predeceased him.

Generation 3
SARAH SMITH, daughter of George & Mary (French) Smith
Born about 1645 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts
Died after 1700 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts
When she was 19, she married JOHN NEWMAN on November 9, 1664 in Ipswich, Massachusetts.  They had eight children together.  She was named in her father's will in 1673 as "Sary Newman."  Her date of death was not recorded in Ipswich records.

Generation 3
SARAH NEWMAN, daughter of John and Sarah (Smith) Newman
Born August 23, 1665 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts
Died August 18, 1723 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts
When she was 18, she married WILLIAM HUNT on June 9, 1684 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts.  She was the mother of 13 children.  Her death was recorded as Sarah Hunt, the wife of Sergeant William Hunt.

Generation 4
MEHITABLE HUNT, daughter of William & Sarah (Newman) Hunt
Born July 12, 1705 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts
Died before 1763 in Falmouth, Cumberland, Maine
When she was 19, she married BENJAMIN BLACKSTONE on November 7, 1724 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts.  She and her husband acknowledged the covenant at the First Church of Falmouth (Now Portland, Maine) in 1728.  Although, they were residents of Falmouth, the area which they resided is now part of Portland, Maine.  She was the mother of 11 children.  She was not named in her husband's will.

The First Parish Church of Portland, Maine which was originally the First Church of Falmouth.
















Generation 5
MEHITABLE BLACKSTONE, daughter of William & Mehitable (Hunt) Blackstone
Baptized June 5, 1737 at North Yarmouth, Cumberland, Maine
Died after 1790, Freeport, Cumberland, Maine
When she was 21, she married JOHN DAY in 1758 in North Yarmouth, Cumberland Maine.  She was the mother of 5 children.  Mehitable Day, received from Benjamin Blackstone, executor to the last will and Testament of my "honored father Benjamin Blackstone, late of Falmouth, deceased," the sum of 14 pounds, thirteen shillings and four pence and a warrantee deed for the right and title of the land my father had in North Yarmouth together with my husband John Day for our heirs do acknowledge fully satisfied.  Note that the ten acres of woodland willed to me is mine also.  No date other than July, but her father's will and  other deeds were for the year 1763 (Cumberland County Deeds, vol. 3, p. 4).  She was living on the 1790 census of Freeport, Maine.

Generation 6
HANNAH DAY,  daughter of John & Mehitable (Blackstone) Day
Born in 1759 in North Yarmouth, Cumberland, Maine
Died before 1806 in Freeport, Cumberland, Maine
When she was 23 years old, she married DANIEL CARTER Jr. on November 7, 1782 in North Yarmouth, Cumberland, Maine.  They had six children together.  She had died prior to her husband remarriage on November 20, 1806 in Freeport, Maine.

Generation 7

OLIVE DAY, daughter of Daniel and Hannah (Day) Carter

Born September 28, 1795 in Freeport, Cumberland, Maine

Died April 17, 1868 in Orrington, Penobscot, Maine

When she was 20, she married JONATHAN WOODMAN on December 3, 1815 in Freeport, Cumberland, Maine.  They had 10 children.  In settling her estate, two of her sons, Seward and Daniel were accused of concealing and embezzling from their mother's estate by the other surviving siblings.  Probate records record the questions and answers by Daniel and Seward from the investigation in 1868.  They were accused of burning records of debts they owed their mother or records of income of their mother's estate which they denied and proclaimed their inocence.

Drawing of Olive

Photograph of Olive

 Generation 8
EMILY WOODMAN, daughter of Jonathan and Olive (Day) Woodman
Born February 22, 1821 in Canaan, Somerset, Maine
Died after 1853, probably in Boston, Massachusetts
When she was 14, she married STEPHEN THURSTON on December 24, 1835 in Newport, Penobscot, Maine.  She had four children.  For many years, it was assumed that Emily had died before 1850 as she did not appear on the 1850 census with her husband and children.  But in 1849, Emily petitioned for a divorce from her husband libeling that he had committed the crime of cruelty, was a drunkard and unable to provide for his family and committed the crime of Adultery in 1848.  The divorced was granted.  Emily asked for custody of her 2 daughters and the 2 sons were left in their father's care.  For Emily to divorce her husband at a time when there were few career choices for women besides wife and mother, it must have been a bad situation at home.  In 1850, Emily was living in Bangor, Maine with her sister and a female cousin, but no occupations were listed.  Maine law at that time, only covered divorce for the person who petitioned.  So her ex-husband was still legally married to her, although she was recognized as divorced from her husband.   Stephen spent the next 4 years petitioning for divorce from Emily.  At first the Court denied his first petitioned with no reason given.  He then petitioned the State Legislature for a divorce which was passed over.  His petition claimed that Emily had desserted him and left him with 4 children and that he had been a good citizen and husband.  He also wanted custody of his daughters.  Then in 1853, Stephen tried again in Court and it was granted, but no change was made in custody of the children.  Maine Legislature must have decided the court cases of having essentially double divorces for each petitioner in the Courts was too much and in 1857, Maine law was changed that when one person petitioned for a divorce, the decree for divorce would pertain to both parties.  It was the 1852, petition of Stephen in which he stated that Emily was last known to be living in Boston, Massachusetts.  Nothing more to date has been found on her.  However the petition for her mother's estate in 1868 by the surviving heirs did not include Emily.

Emily (Woodman) Thurston

Generation 9
MARY EMILY THURSTON, daughter of Stephen & Emily (Woodman) Thurston
Born November 15, 1848 in Plymouth, Penobscot, Maine
Died November 20, 1924 in Dover-Foxcroft, Piscataquis, Maine
When she was 14, she married BENJAMIN J. WOODWARD on July 10, 1863 in Bowerbank, Piscataquis, Maine.  Mary "Emma" as she was called was raised by her maternal grandparents, Jonathan and Olive Woodman.  When she was about 13 years old, she went to Bowerbank to be a housegirl (cleaning, cooking, helping with chores in the household) for a family in Bowerbank.  This may have been her older sister, Adressa who had married and was living in Bowerbank at that time or her sister may have arranged for Mary Emma to help a family she knew there.  The story goes that her husband's family lived across the street from the family she resided and she caught the attention Benjamin who was 29 years old and like her own mother, Mary Emma married at age 14.  They had 8 children together and were known to be happily married for almost 60 years.  Their 50th wedding anniversary was the start of the Woodward Family Reunion in 1913.

Mary Emma c. 1863

Mary Emma Woodward 1913

Generation 10
ELSIE LEONA WOODWARD, daughter of Benjamin & Mary (Thurston) Woodward
Born November 27, 1869 in Atkinson, Piscataquis, Maine
Died February 25, 1891 in Atkinson, Piscataquis, Maine
When she was 15, she married HENRY B. PAINE on November 8, 1885 in Atkinson, Piscatquis, Maine.  Henry had been a close friend of her uncle David Woodward.  It is said to win her family's approval for their marriage, Henry began attending the same church as her family to prove himself as a good Christian to her parents.  Elsie was the mother of only two children when she died at age 21 years.  It is unclear of what caused her death.  Her death notice stated she had only been sick a few days before her death.

Wedding photo of Elsie

Generation 11
EMMA LEONA PAINE, daughter of Henry & Elsie (Woodward) Paine
Born September 20, 1886 in Atkinson, Piscataquis, Maine
Died September 12, 1951 in Lagrange, Penobscot, Maine
When she was 17, she married CHARLES P. MOULTON on April 11, 1904 in Atkinson, Piscataquis, Maine.  Emma's father Henry had remarried in 1894 to Charles' sister, Iva Moulton and by that marriage Charles was her step-uncle and became acquainted through this family marriage.  Emma was often left alone with her children for weeks or months while Charles worked in the woods as a wood cutter or woods operator.  He also worked on area farms as a farmhand and they moved several times to places where they could rent houses big enough for their family.  It was up to Emma to organize each move and settle into each new place.   Emma was a large woman, who was well suited for hardship of living in rural Maine and being self-sufficient.   She was the mother of nine children.   She also was a midwife for area they lived in.  She assisted her own children with their at home births of her grandchildren.

Emma Paine 1887

Emma Moulton 1945

Generation 12
MRYTLE EVELYN MOULTON, daughter of Charles & Emma (Paine) Moulton
Born August 26, 1908 in Garland, Penobscot, Maine
Died October 20, 1980 in Newport, Penobscot, Maine
When she was 22, she married WALTER DEAN BUZZELL on August 29, 1930 in Charleston, Penobscot, Maine.  Myrtle was a large woman, much like her own mother.  She was a kind and generous person.   She spent her life moving with her husband and children to different places depending on where her husband would find work as a laborer or farmhand as well as a place for the family to live.  Often, she was left alone while her husband worked in the woods for months at a time.   Not only did she raise eight children, but also cared for her father after her mother died, and her oldest brother after their parent's died.  Myrtle was always willing to give of herself as well as her belongings to help someone else.

Mrytle Buzzell 1962

Generation 13
Daughters of Myrtle Moulton:

Arlene Ruth Buzzell

Beulah Irene Buzzell

Charlene Buzzell

Shirley Ann Buzzell

Joseph Smith

I have decided begin my first post about my ancestor Joseph Smith. It was his story that got me interested in history as well as my family history.   In 1978, my Dad took me to the Village Cemetery in Corinna, Maine where his parents were buried.  Until that time, I don't remember really going to the cemetery.  While at my grandparents lot, I noticed there were several more Smith stones nearby.  I asked my Dad who these other stones were for?  He explained these were my grandparents, the other stones were my great-grandparents and my great-great-grandparents.  I asked about them and if my Dad knew them and he only remembered his grandparents.  However, he knew someone in town who knew all about them, his aunt Leona or my great-aunt.    My aunt Leona was 83 at that time and used a walker to get around.  As a young child, I would stay at my grandparents and my grandmother would allow me to call and talk to my aunt Leona which as a child of 4 or 5 was a big deal because I was not allowed to talk on the phone at home.  I know looking back, this probably gave my grandmother a break of being my entertainment so she could make our lunch or dinner.   But Leona remembered me and my conversations with her.  She said "I didn't always know what you were talking about, but you were so excited to tell me."

My great-aunt Leona and her husband Wilbur Judkins













Although, she could not recall every family story in detail and regretted she had not paid more attention as a child, she began to tell me my ancestry.  She started  showing me family photos, one of which was Joseph Smith.  She told me that Joseph was the first son of seven children of Daniel J. Smith, the town blacksmith and his wife, Elizabeth Wiggin.  When Joseph was about 18, stories of the gold rush in California were reaching Maine.  So he decided to head to California to make his fortune.  There were two ways to California.  One by land which was a dangerous journey over the Rockies and through Indian territories and could take up to a year to get to San Francisco.  The other was by sea, which was a shorter trip, but involved traveling down the East coast of the Americas, around the Horn of South America and back up the west coasts to San Francisco.  Joseph choose to go by sea and set sail from Belfast, Maine, around the horn and up the west coast to San Francisco.

We know Joseph was living at home in Maine on the 1850 census and left soon afterwards.  He was not part of the "Forty-niners", but arrived later in the gold rush period.  Joseph struck gold in 1856.  We don't how much gold he mined or how much money he made.  My great-aunt said she never heard him talk about his time in California and she probably wasn't even aware of how long he remained there after he struck gold.  Who knows what Joseph experienced and  saw during that time period in California.  He doesn't appear to have ever told any stories about it to his family or wrote about it.  He remained out west for several more years after finding gold.  He used some of money to have the only known photo taken of himself to celebrate.

Joseph Smith

Some of the money it was said was sent back to help out his parents and siblings.  Sadly, while Joseph was in California, all but one of his siblings died, three of them within a month of Tuberculosis in 1862.  My great-aunt Leona said that all of his siblings had died while he was away, but he had a brother, Ezra, who also survived.  Joseph was not living at home in 1860 and probably was still living in California, but to determine which of the hundreds of Joseph Smiths. Jos Smiths or J. Smiths living in California in 1860 make it difficult to determine which one is him.  Joseph returned to Corinna, Maine in 1863 by railroad. 

He purchased a large tract of land on Pleasant St. in Corinna where he built his farm.

The Joseph Smith Farm in 1897
In the photo l to r:  Emmie Smith holding her son Donald Smith, Arminda Smith, wife of Joseph Smith,
Jennie Smith with Leona Smith in carriage

Joseph married and had two children.  He gave money to Corinna Union Academy which he was a member of the board.  Joseph did not follow in his father trade of blacksmithing and that may have been because his brother, Ezra had followed their father into the trade.  Joseph instead became a farmer.

Joseph died November 7, 1911 at his home in Corinna, Maine and buried in the Corinna Village Cemetery.  His will left his estate to his son and $1000 to his daughter, Jennie.

gravestone of Joseph and Arminda Smith
Village Cemetery, Corinna, Maine