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From: "Donna Tyler Cummings" <>
Subject: [MEPENOBS-L] DICKEY-CURTIS -- Where Buried?
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 01:00:24 -0700

Hi everyone,
I am hoping someone can help with an idea or a scrap of information.
This is an old, old search of mine -- a very well-constructed brick wall....
SAMUEL DICKEY and his wife MARGARET CURTIS, my g-g-g-grandparents, were
married in 1834 at Prospect, Maine. He was b. Vassalboro 1810 and she was
b. Monroe 1812. They had four daughters -- Mary Hellen Dickey and Ruth
Horton Dickey, b. 1836 and 1838 respectively, in Monroe, followed by Arianna
Horton Dickey and Elizabeth Ann Dickey. I think the family was living in
Frankfort at the 1840 census; they were definitely in Orono for the 1850
census, when the family ages were given as 40, 38, 14, 13, 11 and 8. In the
1860 census, Samuel and Margaret, "Anna" and "Lizzie," were still in Orono
together. In the 1870 census, Samuel and Margaret were living in Corinna
with "Anna," now a widow, her young son Abbott P. Coan, and "Liza." After
this, my g-g-g-grandparents disappear. I have no records of death for them.
Years ago I wrote Town Clerks of all the above-named towns and none found
any records of death or burial for Samuel and/or Margaret. I also went to
the Maine State Archives and searched the records. My grandmother's notes
in her Bible state that Samuel died at the age of 64 and Margaret at the age
of 71. This means that Samuel died before the 1880 census, but Margaret did
not. Yet, I cannot find her in the 1880 census. (She was not living with
daughter Mary Hellen/Helen Mary, my g-g-grandmother).
Even more than where she was at the 1880 census, I long to know where
Samuel and Margaret are buried. I just can't seem to figure out how to
'crack' this, even after 25 years! Maybe someone with a fresh slant on it
could come up with a new avenue to explore...
Thanks for listening.
Donna

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