tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7470217109659177851.post6304653787501524486..comments2024-03-28T23:00:10.654-07:00Comments on Heirlooms Reunited: 1875 letter to Miss Dora Thompson at Dixfield, MainePam Beveridgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06272409581983333836noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7470217109659177851.post-33722096154544476702012-02-28T12:39:22.608-08:002012-02-28T12:39:22.608-08:00Thank you, Chris, for such extensive information. ...Thank you, Chris, for such extensive information. I'll put a note in the body of the post that folks should not miss scrolling down to the comments section. I'd love to see a photo of the splendid Erastus W. Pettee. Thanks for coming through, AGAIN! (You gave me Lula's father's name, some time ago.)Pam Beveridgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06272409581983333836noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7470217109659177851.post-26011341060297538632012-02-28T12:13:16.570-08:002012-02-28T12:13:16.570-08:00Maria Woodward Robinson married Erastus W. Pettee,...Maria Woodward Robinson <a href="https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/NW1H-SXL" rel="nofollow">married</a> Erastus W. Pettee, 15 Nov. 1876 in Foxboro. Maria was the daughter of Lucius and Anna Philbrook (Bonney) Robinson of Hartford, Maine, born around 1853.<br /><br />Dora M. Thompson, born Oct. 1856, was the daughter of John, Jr., and Mahala J. A. (Burnham) Thompson of Hartford. Dora's grandmother, Margaret Robinson, was the half-sister of Maria's father.<br /><br />The Thompson and Robinson families both lived in the vicinity of Hartford Center when the girls were young.<br /><br />I'm not sure about "Aunt Sarah." There was a <a href="https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/NWMF-MBK" rel="nofollow">Sarah Soule Robinson</a> from Hartford, born in 1825, who married John Thomas. She was the daughter of Orrin and Martha (Barrows) Robinson, so she was the first cousin of Maria, though considerably older. She came from the same part of Hartford as the two girls, and later lived around the Roxbury section of Boston. Sarah had a sister, Martha (Robinson) Pomeroy, who lived at Hartford Center in 1870.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.archive.org/stream/cantondixfieldre00mitc#page/81/mode/1up" rel="nofollow">The 1905 Canton town register</a> shows Dora M. (Thompson) Fuller living in that town with husband E. E. Fuller. That matches the second name written on the envelope. <a href="https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MMLH-Y2P" rel="nofollow">Censuses</a> give her husband's full name as Ellion, which would make him the "Ell" mentioned in the letter.Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01386406270744275223noreply@blogger.com