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Photographic Family History – Tarbox of Calais, ME

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My on-going Genealogy Go-Over continues to bring me to some interesting realizations. While I have hundreds of photos taking from roughly the mid-1800’s to the 1950’s, I have few that are family group photos. However, while taking apart all my archival albums to have them scanned, I noticed that while a single group photo might not exist of many of my families, I have so many individual photos that I actually have pictures of whole family groups.

Here is the family of George Rogers Tarbox and Mary Elizabeth Scripture of Calais, Maine. George was born in 1818 in New Gloucester, ME and died in 1895 in Calais. Mary Elizabeth was born in 1827 in Mason, Hillsboro, New Hampshire. She died in 1866 in Calais.

The photos of George and Mary Elizabeth are among the oldest that I have:

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George Rogers Tarbox and Mary Elizabeth Scripture

Knowing that Mary Elizabeth died in 1866 and looking at her dress, it appears that these photos were probably taken during the Civil War.

George and Mary had the following children:

1. Mary Elizabeth, born 24 Nov 1849, Newburyport, Essex, MA. She died 11 September 1850 in Newburyport and there are no known photos of her.

2. Elizabeth, born 19 July 1851, Newburyport, Essex, MA. She died 27 May 1928, Calais, ME. She married Charles Vickery on 24 September 1871, Calais, ME. He was born 2 March 1847, Maine and died 22 January 1900 in Calais, ME. Charles and Elizabeth had five children: Charles F., George T., Lizzie, Jeanette and Mary.

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Charles Vickery and Elizabeth Tarbox

3. George Rogers, born about 1854, Maine; died 10 July 1864, Calais, Maine, aged 10 years old. Cause of death not listed. No known photo exists of him.

4. Nellie F., born 28 June 1856, Robbinston, Washington, ME (which today is part of Calais). She died 23 December 1927, Boston, Suffolk, MA. Nellie is my ancestress and I have yet to find a document that gives her middle name and/or explains whether “Nellie” was a nickname for anything else. She is ALWAYS called “Nellie.” She married Calvin Segee Adams on 1 February 1875 in Calais. Calvin was born 16 March 1843, Deer Island, New Brunswick, Canada and died 15 January 1921, St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada.

       
Calvin Segee Adams and Nellie F. Tarbox

I only have one photo each of Nellie, in profile,  and her mother and the one of Mary Elizabeth is not quite as sharp as that of George. However, I think Nellie has the same long oval-shaped face as her mom. Calvin and Nellie had two children, Vera Pearl and Charles Edward.

5. Charles Franklin Tarbox, born 13 May 1859, Robbinston, Washington, Maine. Charles died 25 June 1941. He married Cleantha (Cannie) Cochran on 19 October 1881, Milltown, New Brunswick, Canada. Cannie was born 23 April 1864 in Nova Scotia, Canada and died in 1942, Calais, Maine. Cannie was reportedly the first woman to have cataract surgery at Boston Hospital. Charles and Cannie had four children, three surviving: George Roger, (Othelia) Fay – who lived into her 90’s and identified people in these old photos, Oliver Scripture, who died at age 13 in a hunting accident in Grand Lake Stream, ME in 1898 and Helen.

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Charles Franklin Tarbox and Cleantha (Cannie) Cochran on left

6. Horace W., born 20 April 1860, Robbinston, Maine. He died 8 June 1914 of bronchial pneumonia in Sharon, Norfolk, MA. He married Elizabeth Eugenia Lane about 1880, probably in Calais. She was born 26 June 1859 in Calais and returned there to live after Horace died. She passed away in Calais on 9 April 1947 in Calais. It seems odd that I have no photos of either of them. They had one daughter, Elsie Venner Tarbox, who married Harry Winfield Perkins; they lived in Topsfield, Essex, MA.

7. Oliver Scripture, born 2 July 1863, Robbinston, ME. Oliver was named for his maternal grandfather. He died 15 January 1924 in Calais, ME. Ollie married Jennie Mingo on 1 June 1887, Calais, ME. She was born 17 July 1864 in Calais and died there on 12 August 1925. They had no children. I have no photo of Jennie. I do have one of Oliver, but I think he looks a lot like Charles, above and am wondering if these two aren’t the same person:

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Oliver Scripture Tarbox

The Tarbox family was briefly involved in boat building, as George had a boat commissioned in 1862 and named it the Nellie Tarbox, which I discovered in the appendix to An International Community on the St. Croix by Harold A. Davis and published by the University of Maine Studies in 1974. I wonder where they found these records?

However, the long term family business was owning and running a granite rock quarry in the area. Oliver Tarbox designed and erected the Soldiers monument in Lubec, Maine, using granite from his quarry.

I consider myself to be the very lucky owner of these family pictures. I even have some original photos of the Vickery children, the Adams children and Fay Tarbox as a baby, along with several photos of George Sr.’s relatives.

Dating Old Photos

Samuel Henry Perkins, Cedar Co., MO

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Samuel Henry Perkins was my husband’s 3x great grandfather. He was the son of John Perkins and Rhoda Walters Woosley of Halifax County, Virginia. Family lore has it that he was born on the Woosley plantation on 18 December 1821. Samuel married Martha Hamby, daughter of Amos Hamby and Lavina Palmer, on 25 April 1841 in Polk County, Missouri. Martha was born 4 September 1826, in Christian County, Kentucky.

Samuel and Martha had nine children:

1. James Madison, born 10 May 1842, Polk Co., MO
2. Amos Hamby, born 12 January 1844, Dade Co., MO
3. Mary Woosley, born 3 October 1846, Cedar Co., MO
4. John Wilke, born 10 December 1848, Cedar Co., MO
5. Emily, born 19 May 1854, Cedar Co., MO
6. Gustavus A., born 19 December 1856, Cedar Co., MO
7. Wilson Wayne Wooldridge, a daughter, born 7 November 1859, Cedar Co., MO
8. Louisa, born 11 January 1861, Cedar Co., MO
9. Joanna (Josie Ann), born 25 October 1864, Cedar Co., MO

All of their children lived to adulthood, although Louisa died at age twenty on 11 October 1881, unmarried,  in Cedar County and Mary Woosley, who married Emsley Harrison Brasher (my husband’s ancestors) died on 4 March 1882 in Hopkins County, Texas.

Samuel died on 28 April 1905. Martha predeceased him, passing away on 16 Mary 1891. Both died in and are buried in Cedar County, Missouri.

This is a copy of a family photo of Samuel Henry and Martha Perkins with children and grandchildren, probably taken in the late 1870’s. Eugene Perkins, an avid Perkins researcher, who passed away in 2001 just short of his 94th birthday, shared this picture with me years ago, but he didn’t know who most of the people were except for Samuel and Martha in the center.

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Family of Samuel Henry and Martha Hamby Perkins

I found a public member tree on line that has a copy of this same photo and below it, someone has identified all of the people. The photo is dated about 1878. They are:

Gustavus A.
Emily, Wilson Wayne, Louisa and Josie Ann
James Madison, ida, Samuel, Emlou, Martha, Marion, Amos
Norman, Horace

Gus, Emily, Wilson, Louisa, Josie, James M. and Amos are the children of Samuel and Martha. Ida, Norman and Horace are James’s children. Emlou and Marion are children of Amos.

The only family missing were daughter Mary, who was living in Hopkins County, Texas and son John W., who was living in Dade County, MO with his young family. As James’s and Amos’s wives are not in the picture, this was meant to capture the immediate direct descendants of Samuel and Martha living in Cedar County. Another mystery solved thanks to technology.

 

 

 

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Lewis D. Greenwood Family

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There is one more antique photo I would like to return to a descendant if one can be found.

Lewis (aka Louis) D. Greenwood was born about 1846, probably in Farmington, Franklin Co., Maine. He was the son of Noah Cresey Greenwood (1811-1894) and Susan Tarbox (1824-1863). Susan was the daughter of William and Judith Haskell Tarbox and a sister of George Rogers and Benjamin Franklin Tarbox of New Gloucester, Cumberland, Maine.

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Lewis D. Greenwood

Lewis married Hannah Bertha Hall about 1867, possibly in Portland, Cumberland, Maine. He died 1 Oct 1885 in Portland and is buried at Evergreen Cemetery there. Bertha survived him and was still living in Portland in 1900, but it appears she wasn’t buried with Lewis.

Bertha reported in 1900 that she had given birth to six children, with four surviving. The 1880 and 1900 Portland, Maine censuses show:

Ralph H., born c1868, Maine
Maude J., born 9 July 1870, Portland, ME
Charles A., born February 1881, Maine
Josie M., born November 1883, Maine

Ralph married Rachel (MNU) and remained in the Portland area for the rest of his life. He died 1 Oct 1935. Rachel was born June 1868 and died 121 Feb 1934. Both are buried at Evergreen Cemetery.

They had three sons: Louis De Alva, born 21 July, 1887 and died 16 Nov 1965. Willard Lincoln Clifton was born June 1889 and died 15 Apr 1966. Walter H.E.L. was born Oct 1891 and died 12 Feb 1962. All three sons are buried in the family plot with their parents. It isn’t know whether Louis married, but Walter married Grace (MNU) and had perhaps four children – Madeline B., Richard J., Bellvida B.  and Betty Ann.

Madeline was born 27 Feb 1911 and died 29 July 2006, Windham, ME. She married Mr. Sylvia. Richard J. was born about 1914 and died after 1930. Bellvida B. was born about 1917 and died after 1930. Betty Ann was born about 1926 and died after 1930.

In 1940, Willard was married to Marjorie D. (MNU) who was born about 1890. No children are in the home and they haven’t been found in censuses from 1910-1930.

Maude married Malcolm Grant Clark on 26 Oct 1892 in Portland, ME. By 1910, they were living in Burlington, VT and had four children: Douglas B., Richard J., Everett H. and Isabella.

Nothing further is known about Bellvida and Betty Ann Greenwood.

If you know of any modern day direct descendants of Lewis Greenwood and Hannah Bertha Hall, please leave a comment.