So what's in a name.....as it turns out a lot when it comes to researching the family history of the Sidelingers and Sidelinkers.  The sidelinkers run through my wife's side of the family and for years it had been a nightmare trying to track down the family roots.  Than one day I came upon a piece a professional genealogy researcher had done on the Sidelinkers - as it turns out they were Sidelingers long before they became Sidelinkers.

Today we know how the Sidelinkers…

TIMOTHY   LIBBY



born;                1724                 -  Kittery Point, Kittery, York, Maine,

died;                 9  May  1787   -  Machias,  Maine

buried;              Washington County, Machias, Maine

married            9  Oct  1746    -  Scarborough, Cumberland, Maine



Father;             David   Libby

Mother;            Esther …

DAVID   LIBBY



born;                30  Aug  1755   -  Scarborough, Cumberland, Maine

died;                 21  Dec  1833   -  Machias, Washington, Maine,

buried;              Gray, Cumberland, Maine

married;            23  Jan  1783   -  Machias, Maine



Father;              Timothy   Libby

Mother;             Sarah …

EBENEZER   LIBBY



born;                24  May  1787   -  Machias, Maine

died;                 7   Aug  1831    -  Machias,  Maine

buried               Machiasport,  Maine

married;           30  Jan  1812



Father;       …

HENRY  ALLEN  LIBBY



born;                8  Jan.  1817

died;                 19  March  1901

buried;              Eastside Cemetery,  Machiasport, Maine

married;           20  Sept.  1852



Father;              Ebenezer   Libby

Mother;             Pamelia   Andrews



Wife;

HANNAH  M.  FOSTER



born;                1824 …

MARY A. LIBBY FAMILY GENEALOGY

Clyde Garvey Rice

born;   21 NOV 1883  - Machiasport, Maine

died;   30 MAY 1962 - Northfield, Maine

married on   30 SEPT 1906  by By justice of peace Henry R. Taylor

Occupation - a Registered maine guide, trapper and farmer.

His father;  Judah Rice

His mother;  Susan Foster

He married

Etta  May  Burns

born;   27 JULY 1885 - North New Portland,…

Judah Rice

born;  18 JAN 1843 - Machiasport, Maine

died;  30 March 1922 - Northfield Cemetery

married on 18  JAN 1868 - Machiasport, Maine

His Father;  Benjamin Rice

His Mother;  Jane Larrabee

His Wife;

Susan E. Foster

born;  30  NOV  1849 - Machiasport, Maine

died;  27  nov 1912  - Northfield Cem,  Northfield, Maine

Her Father;  Horace…

Benjamin Rice was married to Jane Larrabee.  they had two children;

Judah Rice who married Susan Foster.

Freeman Rice who married Sarah Foster.

Alice V.  shows up on only one official record, a census record of Benjamin and Susan Rice where she is listed as a young girl.. …

This is a wedding photo of Edwin "Ed" Rice and Amy Slack taken on their wedding day in NH.  Edwin…

While I was researching descendants of Samuel Fuller who settled in Maine after the Revolutionary War, I stumbled across Charles Alton Ellis, who is my fourth cousin twice removed. He was born in Parkman, Piscataquis County, in 1876. He was the son of David Brainard Ellis and Eliza Wharff Lombard.

He attended Wesleyan University (Middletown,…

Murders at Montville - Epilogue

From: “Mental Illness in the 19^th Century” by Carrie Hughes.

The history of the treatment of the mentally ill in the United States is a checkered one. The first colonists blamed mental illness on witchcraft[1] and demonic possession[2] and the mentally ill…

Subjects for Insane Asylums

History of Amador County, California, with illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers

https://archive.org/details/historyofamadorc00masorich/page/n413

          Whiskey and the excitement of mining, with its gains and losses, hopes and disappointments,…

Carolista Davis 1863-1932

The Belle of Shasta

http://sites.rootsweb.com/~mmorton/harphotopg/album1.html

The Sister might be Annie Davis. Depending on the year, the boy could be Oliver Davis or Charles Summers. The older man could be either John William Harrison (husband) or Josiah P.W. Davis (father, below).

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Millard Wells 1868-1927

Wells Pedigree

Peter Wells 1843-1884 & Martha Dent 1848-1910+

Matthew Hedges Wells 1809-1881+ & Hannah M. Watts 1815-1880

Israel Wells 1775-1862 & Charlotte Hedges 1779-1832

Jeremiah Wells 1737-1814 & Hannah Cleaves

Daniel Wells 1702-1761 & Mary Goldsmith 1706-1740

Joshua Wells 1664-1744 & Hannah Tuthill 1667-1758

William Wells…

The 1850 Mortality Schedule for most of Maine is available on FamilySearch but the 1860, 1870, and 1880 ones are not. Does anyone know where they are? State Archives? Brown Library?

I say most of 1850 as Rumford, Oxford County is missing. The one I need of course.

Edmund Bicknell 1846-1913

Pitcher Pedigree

Elvira Pitcher 1818-1892 & James Bicknell 1810-1895

William Pitcher 1775-1832 & Betsey Adams 1784-1861

William Pitcher 1747-1824 & Mary Metcalf 1752-1834

Samuel Pitcher 1722- & Mary Ellis 1728-1763

Edward Pitcher 1686-1773 & Jane Lyon 1688-1769

Samuel Pitcher 1641-1717 & Mary Blake 1654-1721

Bicknell…

John C. Rice 1890-1911

Rice Pedigree

John Holland Rice 1835-1912 & Martha Dent 1848-1910+

William Gaines Rice 1803-1870+ & Cynthia Johnson 1799-1870+

Rowlette Rice 1770-1849 & Elizabeth Gaines 1778-1821

Charles Matthew Rice 1733-1779 & Frances Crenshaw 1740-1825

Matthew Rice, Sr. 1684-1775 & Ann Watson Mcgeehee 1728-1745

Thomas Rice 1660-1716 & Ann Marie Hewes…

 I have been Searching for a long time the Abner Brown and Naomi Bradbury They married in North Yarmouth, Maine then moved to Greene, Maine and then to Leeds, Maine. They had 10 children: 

Samuel 7 Sep 1779 born in North Yarmouth Maine

Benjamin 29 Sep 1781 born in North Yarmouth, Maine   the family moved to Greene Maine, married Rachel Stevens

Moses b. Greene 1785

Ambrose b.1788 Greene

Abner jr b.17 Apr 1790

Abigail 1792

Molly 1796

Jane…