I read an article in a journal from England where the author had some brick walls for years. He decided to look at his spinster aunts. They had done well enough for themselves to leave wills. There he found the answers. His suggestion was, don’t forget the maiden aunts.

Some tombstone epitaphs were intended to be funny and others were not intended to be, but were. Some are from the northeast and perhaps are your relatives. In Memory of Lidia, Wife of Simeon Palmer In Memory of Elizabeth, Who Should Have Been The Wife of Simeon Palmer Little Compton, Rhode Island To the Memory […]

This Old Tree, April 2015

This month column is on the Family of Nathaniel Bartlett and his wife Louisa Baker. This past month program was on Louisa’s sister Charlotte, wife of Nathaniel M. T. Willey. Nathaniel Bartlett married Louisa Baker on September 29, 1830. They lived in Hancock Plantation in northern Maine. They would have eight children: 1. Nathan Baker […]

President’s Message, April 2015

As I sit to write this, I am totally surrounded by books! It’s a good place to be. Our group has had some great donations to our collection. Allen is moving, he has downsized and we have been the recipients of much of his collection. At the same time we are unpacking the donation that […]