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saran uvea. mr. nounes say says in a letter of recent date: “There used to be an old cemetery on the Southwest Harbor road on the top of the hill north of the Beach Hill cross road, and possibly they (Stephen and Sarah) were hurried there.”Stephen Got* served in the Revolutionary War as a private in Col. John Glover’s 21st Regiment of Foot, Marblehead; Company 7, Capt. William Courtes.OTHER GOTT RECORDSThere was an Eliab Gott who, with his family, lived on Outer Long Island. He was a useful and industrious citizen, but there is nothing in the .Mount Desert records to show his connection with the Gott families of Mount Desert. Eliab Gott m. Aug. 22, 1814, Sarah Ladd. Sarah was the dau. of Jacob and Hannah Lurvey, b. June 22, 1786, at Newbury, Mass., bpt. a* Mt Desert, Aug. 30, 1789. She m. 1st- Dec. 30, 1802, Moses Ladd, “a sojourner,” and settled in Newbury, Vt. Moses served in War of 1812 and d. in camp at Platsburg, N. Y. His widow with her children returned to her father at Mt. Desert where she soon m, Eliab Go:t. Children cf Eliab and Sarah:1. Martha, b. April 30, 1816. m. William Burns.. April 10. 1832. Res. Eden.2. Mary, b. April 30, 1816, m. Ezekiel Moore son of Samuel and Sarah Peach Moore. Res Cranberry Isles.By the death of Sarah Lurvey Gott, May 20, 1816, not only were her twin daughters, Mary and Martha, left motherless but her five children by her first husband, Moses Ladd became orphans.Thomas and Mary Hadlock Manchester who lived on Great Cranberry Isle, took Irene and Hiram Ladd and their half sister, Mary Gott, the latter's birth being recorded in the Cranberry Isles Town Records under Thomas Manchester’s record. Irene Ladd is sometimes referred to as Urilla or Lorilla which was not her name. Miss Carroll tells me that v,hen the Manchester? took Sarah Lurvey's children that Aunt Mary Manchester gave Irene the pet name of “Rilla” and that it is a mistake to speak of her as Lorilla or Urilla which are but deriviations of a nickname.Eiiab Gott m. 2nd, July 17, 1817, Sarah, dau. of Dav.s and Sarah Hadlock Wasgatt, b. March 18, 1800; d. before 1829. Chilcren by Sarah:3. Rachel W., b. 'Jet. 20, 1819.4. Sally, b. Aug. L2, 1821.5. Comfort, b. Nov. 12, 1822.6. Malinda, b. May 4, 1824.On July 16, 1880. Eliab was m. by Rev* E. Eaton, to Tryphosa Ober, widow of John Ober who was one of the nine-
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Bar Harbor Times
Bar Harbor, Maine, US
Wed, Apr 18, 1923
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