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From: "Phyllis M. Phillips" <>
Subject: Re: [MEPENOBS] Retracing my steps: Sylvester - Cochran connection
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 21:41:58 -0500
In-Reply-To: <20071201020007.RKUJ6607.mta11.adelphia.net@FeliixTC.feliixplace.com>


Dave what do you need from here? Maybe I can help




On 11/30/07 9:00 PM, "David Sylvester" <> wrote:

> Retracing my steps: Sylvester - Cochran connection -
> http://www.feliixplace.com/genealogy/sylvester.html
>
> Dummer Michael "Mike" Sylvester born 19 January 1865 in Etna,
> Penobscot County, Maine son of Daniel Sylvester (Calvin 6, Edmund
> 5, Zebulon 4, Zebulon [Silvester] 3, Israel 2, Richard 1) and Eliza
> Wolf Friend (Amos 7, Phineas 6, Benjamin 5, John 4, John 3, James
> 2, John 1). He died 1 March 1958 in Searsport, Waldo County, Maine
> and is buried in Gordon Cemetery in Searsport.
>
> Evelyn Lissie Cochran born 20 April 1868 in Etna daughter of
> Randall Nelson Cochran (Samuel) and Phebe Elizabeth Glidden
> (William Stinson 7, Ezekial Averill 6, Benjamin 5, Charles 4,
> Charles 3, Richard 2, Charles 1). She was missing June or July 1917
> -- nothing further.
>
> Mike and Evelyn (third cousins) married 4 July 1891 as her second
> marriage. She had previously married Mr. Elbridge in 1888 in
> Carmel, Penobscot County, Maine.
>
> Children:
>
> 1. Lionel Nelson Sylvester born 7 April 1892, died December 1945,
> married Mabel Stark 8 Nov 1917. One son. Later married Leona Jones.
> Two daughters.
>
> 2. Vivian Daniel Sylvester born 20 November 1893 in Hartland,
> Somerset County, Maine, died 24 October 1968. Married Evangeline
> Estelle Washburn of Madison, Somerset County, Maine daughter of
> Edward Jones Washburn and Alice Eldora Williams 22 June 1916 in
> Madison. Two sons.
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SylvesterNewEnglandRoots/message/6
>
> 3. Gertrude Pansy Sylvester born 13 July 1899 in St. Albans,
> Somerset County, Maine, died 28 May 1981, married Charles Roland
> Gordon 1 May 1921. One son and four daughters.
>
> Mike was a farmer and a carpenter. In addition to the towns above
> Mike and Evelyn also lived in Plymouth, Penobscot County, Maine
> (1920); Belfast, Waldo County, Maine; Searsport, Waldo County,
> Maine where he was manager of the farm on Sears Island (1916-1917).
>
> After Evelyn's disappearance in 1917 Mike moved back to Belfast.
> Mike married Harriet J. Hooper or Harriet J. Martin of Belfast on 1
> May 1918. In 1920 Mike was living in Belfast with his daughter
> Gertrude. In 1930 he was living in Simsbury, Hartford County,
> Connecticut with Gertrude's family. At some point in time he lived
> briefly in Florida.
>
> I remember him as "Old Gramps" (my great-grandfather) when I was a
> child. During that time he lived in Gertrude's home on Brock Road
> in Searsport where he died in 1958.
>
> Dummer Michael Sylvester should not be confused with his half
> brother Dummer Sylvester. The elder Dummer Sylvester was born 22
> July 1839 and died 9 December 1862 in Yorktown, Virginia while in
> U.S. Service. Dummer Sylvester was son of Daniel Sylvester and Mary
> Jane Mitchell. Dummer Sylvester deceased more than 2 years before
> Dummer Michael Sylvester was born.
>
>
> If anybody has anything to add, subtract, confirm or refute I'd
> like to hear what you've got.
>
> If you'd like to add this information to your database or share it
> with others feel free to do so and please cite the source. If you
> would like to publish this information in your web site, your own
> book, CD or other publication I would appreciate a note from you
> saying so. This data is not to be submitted to any person,
> organization or firm that in the business of collecting data to put
> on commercial CD's or commercial web sites for the purpose of
> selling it to their patrons.
>
>
>
> Best wishes,
> David
>
>
> David Sylvester
> 28 North Searsport Road
> Searsport, Maine 04974
>
> Free Genealogy -- Roots should be shared.
>
>
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