NOTE: This will be the last generation of descendants that I will post online, as even this generation is quite big. Also, there are a number of living descendants among the 3X great grandchildren of Loyalists John Adams and wife Sarah Coley. For those families in which there are living children, their names will not be included in the family sketch.

There are many descendants for whom I can find no further information, especially with more stringent privacy laws in Canada. If it is possible that a “lost” person might be living, that information will also be omitted from the family sketch.

These family sketches will be posted in groups organized under each of the children of John and Sarah (Coley) Adams based on the birth order of those children.

Today’s sketches cover the descendants of Sophia Adams and her husband, Solomon Sewell.

Annie Sewell (John Adolphus Sewell⁴, Sophia³, Jonathan², John¹) was born 30 May 1870, New Brunswick, Canada; died 11 August 1906, Oromocto, Sunbury, New Brunswick, Canada; married George Ashley Hatch, 26 October 1892, Sunbury, New Brunswick, Canada. Annie died of heart failure.

Child of George Ashley and Annie (Sewell) Hatch:

1. Muriel, born June 1902, New Brunswick, Canada; died 8 February 1978, Woodstock, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada; unmarried

Mary Elizabeth Sewell (John Adolphus Sewell⁴, Sophia³, Jonathan², John¹) was born 5 June 1874, New Brunswick, Canada; died after 1901; married Frederick Roland, Capen, 19 September 1894, York, New Brunswick, Canada.

Children of Frederick Roland and Mary Elizabeth (Sewell) Capen:

1. Roy Clifton, born 26 July 1895, New Brunswick, Canada; died 8 October 1971, Queens, New Brunswick, Canada; married (1) Emily Mary Hargrave, c1918, She died 24 January 1922, Fredericton, York, New Brunswick, Canada. (2) Mabel Alberta McGoldrick, 14 November 1922, Fredericton, York, New Brunswick, Canada
2. May Amber, born 6 April 1898, York, New Brunswick, Canada; died after 1924, when the family lived in Goderich, Ontario, Canada; married John Roderick McNevin, 10 April 1917, St. John, New Brunswick, Canada
3. Pearl Annie, born c1899, New Brunswick, Canada; died 1930, Gardiner, Kennebec, Maine; married (1) Arthur Augustus Paine, 14 March 1917, Richmond, Sagadahoc, Maine (2) Burton Linwood Dorr, c1920
4. Grace Elizabeth, born 12 May 1902; died 13 April 1978, Newburyport, Essex, Massachusetts; married (1) Clarence Cecil Blaisdell, 29 October 1921, Somerset County, Maine (2) Richard Raymond Kneeland, 29 March 1947, Georgetown, Essex, Massachusetts. Grace had no children.

George Frederick Sewell (John Adolphus Sewell⁴, Sophia³, Jonathan², John¹) was born 2 August 1879, New Brunswick, Canada; died 1963, New Brunswick, Canada; married (1) Helena May Lawson, 1 September 1908, Sunbury, New Brunswick, Canada.

Children of Frederick and Helen May (Lawson) Sewell:

1. Minnie Louise, born 28 July 1909, York, New Brunswick, Canada; died 2008, probably Sunbury, New Brunswick, Canada; married George Harold Green, 9 September 1926, York, New Brunswick, Canada
2. Harry Adolphus, born 15 August 1911, Sunbury, New Brunswick, Canada; died 1973, Sunbury, New Brunswick, Canada; unmarried

• Beulah May, born 4 May 1913, Sunbury, New Brunswick, Canada; died after 1978, when Minnie attested on Beulah’s late birth registration; apparently unmarried

John Adolphus Sewell (John Adolphus Sewell⁴, Sophia³, Jonathan², John¹) was born 26 February 1882, York, New Brunswick, Canada; died 28 May 1974, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada; married Jane Victoria Robison, 23 March 1904, York, New Brunswick, Canada.

Children of John Adolphus and Jane Victoria (Robison) Sewell:

1. Minnie Ethel, born January 1905, probably Berlin, Coos, New Hampshire; died after 1921 when she was at home in British Columbia, Canada
2. Helen, born c1906, probably Berlin, Coos, New Hampshire; married Joseph Chell, 28 June 1926, Procter, British Columbia, Canada
3. Elizabeth Edna, born 29 December 1907, Berlin, Coos, New Hampshire; died 19 March 1991, Oak Bay, British Columbia, Canada; married William Hodge, 4 October 1930, British Columbia, Canada
4. Iris R. I., born 29 December 1907, Berlin, Coos, New Hampshire; died young unless this is Elizabeth and her parents changed her name. One birth certificate has no given name, one says Iris, but both say 3^rd child born. Iris is not found after her birth registration.
5. Clarence E., born 1910, British Columbia, Canada; died after 1921, when he was at home in British Columbia, Canada
6. Ina Cherry Jane, born 1 February 1912, British Columbia, Canada; died 16 August 1970, British Columbia, Canada; married Albert John Fletcher, 27 March 1937, British Columbia, Canada
7. Robert John, born 1913, British Columbia, Canada; died 2002, British Columbia, Canada; married Hughena M., (MNU)
8. Richard L., born 1917, British Columbia, Canada; died 17 March 2004, British Columbia, Canada; married (1) Margaret Yvonne Sherwood (2) Veronica T. (MNU)

Ethel Gertrude Sewell (John Adolphus Sewell⁴, Sophia³, Jonathan², John¹) was born 17 April 1887, New Brunswick, Canada; died 16 Jume 1969, St. John, New Brunswick, Canada; married (1) John Franklin Day, 18 July 1906, Fredericton, York, New Brunswick, Canada (2) William Kay Rostron, 28 June 1922, Fredericton, York, New Brunswick, Canada.

Children of John Franklin and Ethel Gertrude (Sewell) Daye:

1. George Earle, born 27 May 1907, Fredericton, York, New Brunswick, Canada; died 1 July 1980, St. Stephen, Charlotte, New Brunswick, Canada; married Margaret Miller, 29 April 1934, St. John, New Brunswick, Canada
2. Robert Thomas Baird, born 7 July 1909, Fredericton, York, New Brunswick, Canada; died January 1960, Queens, New Brunswick, Canada; married Virginia Ruth Douglas, 19 March 1932, John, New Brunswick, Canada

Elizabeth Agnes Perkins (Sophia Ann Sewell⁴, Sophia³, Jonathan², John¹) was born c1862, New Brunswick, Canada; died 9 April 1922, Fredericton, York, New Brunswick, Canada; married James Smith, c1885, who survived her.

Children of James and Elizabeth Agnes (Perkins) Smith:

1. Arthur, born 12 January 1888, New Brunswick, Canada; died after 1901
2. Gertrude, born 5 December 1889, New Brunswick, Canada; died 14 November 1920, Fredericton, York, New Brunswick, Canada of cardiac failure; unmarried
3. Fred R., born 26 March 1893, New Brunswick, Canada; died after 1921, when he was at home unmarried

Mary Louise Perkins (Sophia Ann Sewell⁴, Sophia³, Jonathan², John¹) was born c1864, New Brunswick, Canada; died 10 February 1910, Waterville, Kennebec, Maine; married Hiram Goodfellow, 4 January 1897, Waterville, Kennebec, Maine. Mary apparently also had a son, Leland Stanford Perkins, born 16 July 1884, New Brunswick, Canada. His marriage record gives parents’ names as Ford Perkins, dead, and Louise Perkins, both born in Greenwich, Kings, New Brunswick, Canada . However, no Ford Perkins has been found in the Canadian census or other records. Whether Louise had a first marriage is unknown.

Child of Hiram and Mary Louise (Perkins) Goodfellow:

1. Wallace Clifford, born 11 April 1898, Waterville, Kennebec, Maine; died 21 August 1969, Montrose, Susquehanna, Pennsylvania; married Gladys Moxey Fry, June 1926, New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana

Samuel A. Perkins (Sophia Ann Sewell⁴, Sophia³, Jonathan², John¹) was born 26 April 1869, New Brunswick, Canada; died 28 May 1939, Hallowell, Kennebec, Maine; married Alice Marion Cottle, 18 December 1899, Hallowell, Kennebec, Maine.

Children of Samuel A. and Alice Marion (Cottle) Perkins:

1. Edith Alma, born 24 June 1904, Hallowell, Kennebec, Maine; died 20 May 1980, Farmington, Kennebec, Maine; married Ronald Westwood Sturtevant, 24 June 1936, Hallowell, Kennebec, Maine. They had no children.
2. Lloyd Anson, born 29 December 1919, Hallowell, Kennebec, Maine; died 26 March 2001, Augusta, Kennebec, Maine; married Ida Edith Freeman, 20 November 1941, Hallowell, Kennebec, Maine

Murray Chesley Banks (Emily Sewell⁴, Sophia³, Jonathan², John¹) was born 11 September 1875, New Brunswick, Canada; died 24 March 1951, New Brunswick, Canada; married Cleadie Elizabeth Morehouse, 17 September 1900, Fredericton, York, New Brunswick, Canada.

Children of Murray Chesley and Cleadie Elizabeth (Morehouse) Banks:

1. Freda May, born 27 January 1902, Littleton, Aroostook, Maine; died 16 March 1967, Fredericton, York, New Brunswick, Canada; married Sherman Grant Corey, 18 December 1918, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada
2. Cleadie Gertrude, born 10 June 1904, Littleton, Aroostook, Maine; died 13 October 1991, St. John, New Brunswick, Canada; married Norman Stanley Keating, 7 March 1923, St. John, New Brunswick, Canada
3. Mabel Marguerite, born 9 November 1906, Littleton, Aroostook, Maine; died 1992, St. John, New Brunswick, Canada; married Clarence Gordon Smith, 30 May 1928, Westfield, Kings, New Brunswick, Canada
4. Nellie Lillian, born 7 January 1917, Southampton, York, New Brunswick, Canada; died 27 October 2015, St. John, New Brunswick, Canada; married Lawrence Valentine Dalton, 13 February 1939, York, New Brunswick, Canada

The last post covering the descendants of Loyalists John and Sarah (Coley) Adams, through their son Jonathan will look at the descendants of their grandson, George Martin Adams and his wife, Mary Hayward.

Henry Champeon, Dexter, Maine, c1890s

The photograph of this handsome young man is another that I wasn’t able to pass up on eBay.

He is Henry H. Champeon, born in November 1869, probably in Dexter, Penobscot, Maine or close by. Henry married late in life, as in 1900, he was living at home with his widowed mother, Sarah (Palmer), and was 33 years old. His father was William S. Champeon. Henry had one brother, Frank, who was ten years older than him.

The Champeons made their living at farming.

The 1930 census enumerated Henry, his wife, and children.

Source: FamilySearch

Henry appears as Henry H. in the census, but daughter Elizabeth’s birth record names him as William Henry Champeon.

Henry and Mazie Trask married in Exeter on 13 July 1914. Henry reportedly died in Dexter in 1964. I have no information about when Mazie passed away, other than she was living at the time of the 1940 census.

Henry and Mazie E. (Trask) were the parents of six children:

1. Elizabeth M., born 31 August 1917, Dexter, Penobscot, Maine; died 14 October 1972, apparently unmarried.
2. Arlene Earnestine, born 22 January 1921, Dexter, Penobscot, Maine; died 6 May 2008. Arlene has descendants, so I am not including any further details about her.
3. Carolina Mae, born 5 November 1922, Dexter, Penobscot, Maine. She apparently married Mr. Perrin by August 1962 and married Mr. Payne before she died in February 1996. It is unknown whether she has descendants.
4. Virginia I., born c1925. She isn’t found after the 1930 census and may have died young.
5. Dennis L., born 26 January 1926, Maine; died 24 May 2004. No further information.
6. Joseph, born 22 June 1930, Maine; died 21 June 2008. No further information.

The good news is that Henry Champeon’s picture has gone home to one of his descendants. 🙂