Witch Spring Cemetery Burials Highlight Bath History
A long section on the Witch Spring Cemetery in West Bath recalls prominent local figures and aged stones. Graves include Rev. Solomon Page 1788 and Deacon Stephen Morse 1826, with a weathered brick monument and markers for Dr. Timothy Winn Waldron, John N. Waldron, and Captain James Heath. The Yard houses a Portsmouth era cemetery tale of William Dickman and Isaiah Crocker, a 400‑pound shipbuilder, with Crocker’s grave dated 1795. the piece ends noting the page continues on Eight.
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Berry’s Mill
West Bath
Witch Spring
Bath
Solomon Page
Harvard College
Stephen Morse
Baptist Church
Abigail Burbeck
Henry Burbeck
Federal Artillery
James Heath
John Heath
Yorkshire
England
O'Neil
Timothy Winn Waldron
Hagan House
Russell Street
John N. Waldron
Dover
N. H
Isaiah Crocker
Cape Cod
Glasgow
Rocky Hill
New Meadows
Betsey
Jonathan Philbrook
Hannah Harding
Massachusetts
Seguin
Hardings
Crocker
Center Street
Wttle
Bowdoinham Juniors Earn Notable Church Exhibition
The Methodist church junior exhibition in Bowdoinham drew a large crowd for a polished program with no prompting. Judges Praised Hazel Cornish and Van Hall Blenn for top prizes, with Browne and Hatch as runners up. Performances included violin solos, vocal numbers, and timely productions.
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Methodist Church
Cowan
Topsham High School
Woodward
Richmond High School
Miss Roberts
Hazel Margaret Cornish
Della Pearle Browne
van Hall Blenn
Carl Hatch
Bessie
Jessie Ames
Velma Reeves
Possibility of a Mayflower Mate From Kennebec Settlers
Historian Charles E. Allen explores evidence on whether the Mayflower carried a mate named Parker and if his descendants reached the Kennebec area. The article threads through 17th century grants, Arrowsic activities, and early Plymouth governance, weighing deposition testimony and local place names to suggest possible lineage connections.
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Charles E. Allen
Plymouth
Kennebec
New England
England
Bradford
Plymouth Plantation
James Shirley
Pilgrim Company
America
Indies
Massachusetts
Mayflower
Clark
Parker
Bailey
John Carver
William Bradford
John Alden
Cooper
Maine
Lightning Strikes Phippsburg Woman in House During Storm
A severe thunder shower near Phippsburg caused a near fatality when Mrs. Peterson was knocked from a chair by a lightning strike. Her husband Peter Peterson found her unconscious and carried her upstairs where he nursed her through the shock all night. She regained consciousness but remains affected by the incident.
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Phippsburg
Peter Peterson
Mr. Peterson
Mrs. Peterson
Close Call As Trolley Halts To Save Drunk Man
A heavily intoxicated young man nearly USC slipped asleep on a main line trolley track between Lewiston and Brunswick. The motorman halted the car in time to rescue him. Lewiston and Auburn mark a “cleaning up day” urging civic reform.
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Brunswick
Lewiston
Auburn
Denham Family Four Generations Shown in Bowdoinham Illustration
A Maine illustration features four generation Denhams: great grandfather William K. Denham, grandfather Edwin Denham, mother Mrs. T. H. Wartd, and baby Maxwell Denham Ward with their pet. The Bowdoinham group is described as a fine looking clan.
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Maine
William K. Denham
Edwin Denham
T. H. Wartd
Maxwell Denham Ward
BowdoiNham
Island of Malaga gains second teacher for domestic work
A Portland charity has funded a second instructor on the Malaga island to teach sewing cooking and other domestic tasks. The two teachers share quarters in the schoolhouse and report good student progress as youngsters attend regularly and engage in their studies.
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Malaga
I Stand
Portland Society
Brown-tail Moth Nests Mishandled by One Crew and Elm Damage
The spring cleanup of brown-tail moth nests in the city mostly went well but one crew failed to destroy about 50 nests left on cut elm branches placed in a neighbor’s yard. Hans Mitchell of Percy and Small yard injured a finger Monday requiring two nails removed.
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Hans Mitchell
Percy and Small Yard
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Webber
John M. Clark
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Wm. C Chadbourne
Front St
Deborah Morton
MOT Kook Seminary
Portland
New York
Naples
Interest Ag Unts
Ital
Switzerland
Germany
Ofland
Telzium
France
Boxton
Christiana
Norway
Stockholm
Gota Canal
Denrmark
Holland
Brussels
Paris
N Days
Liverpool
Boston
Ne Party
C. M. Humphreys
Sagadshock Block
Bath, Maine
M.h.loach
Flas
John R. Knowlton
Center St
Curris Lol
Centre Street
F. H. Pratt
S.t. Snipe
Witch Spring Cemetery
William Dickman
Bowdoinham Juniors
W. C. Beedy
J. L. Hurley
Bertha Agnes Blenn
Howard Minott
Hitler
Tennessee
Sims
Helen Sanford Wildes
St. Michael's
Genevieve Dunlap
Misses Bessie
William Penn
Duponcean
Karl Daniel Hatch
the Witches
Whittier
Colege
Winifred Marie Dinsmore
Homstead Farm
Haun Lida
Matilda Maxwell
Beecher van Hall Blenn
Brooks Della Pearle Brown
Arrowsic
Williamson
Henry O. Thayer
Thomas Prince
Thomas Ashley
Ashley
Thwing’s) Point
Merrymeeting Bay
Prince
Jacob Bailey
Thomas Purchase
John Stone
Job Richards
James Smith
Thomas Parker
John White
John Brown
William Davis
Thomas Atkins
James Cole
John Parker
Manuel Hughes
Alexander Thwait
William James
Thomas Webber
Purchase
Pejepscot Falls
Atkins
Atkinae Bay
Kemmebec
Parker's Head
Thwalt
Long Reach
Cobbessee
Gardiner
Brown
Thomas
North
Augusta
Alexander Brown
Baley
Avertea
Suffolk
John Phillips
Charlestown
Jon Phillips
Sagadahoe
Parker’s Island
Sagadahoe Rock
Parker's Island
Arrowsie Island
Arrowsie
Woolwich
Dresden
Joseph P. Cate
Gers
Hussey
Trowels Planet Jr
Worcester Buckeye
Johnson Bros. Co
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