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Aurora Edwards |
| Father: | Mother: | |||
| Benjamin Stevens Edwards |
Mollie G Morse | |||
| Birth Date: | Birth Location: | Death Date: | Death Location: | |
| 11/27/1843 | Otisfield ME | 6/14/1914 | Otisfield ME |
Married:
| Name: | Marriage Date: | Marriage Location: | Father: | Mother: |
| Otis F Mitchell | 10/11/1861 | Otisfield ME | William Mitchell | Fannie Weston |
| Birth Date: | Birth Location: | Death Date: | Death Location: | |
| 2/26/1839 | Raymond ME (?) | 11/28/1913 | Otisfield ME |
Child(ren):
| Name: | Birth Date: | Birth Location: | Death Date: | Death Location: |
| Lenora Mitchell | 11/5/1861 | Otisfield ME | 1/31/1882 | Otisfield ME |
| Volora Edith Mitchell | 9/15/1869 | Otisfield ME | 5/20/1906 | Otisfield ME |
| Charles Mitchell | 6/26/1873 | Otisfield ME | ||
Comments:
Family located:
Otisfield ME
Occupation: Carpenter
Otis Mitchell enlisted May 4, 1861 in Co. G, 1st. Me. Regt., Inf.; Civil War; was discharged at Washington, D. C., Aug., 1861; re-enlisted Sept. 21, 1864 in Co. C, 16th. Me. Vol. Regt., Inf.; and was honorably discharged Sept. 5, 1865 at Arlington Heights, Va., by reason of expiration of term of enlistment.
Other Info:
| Census: |
1870 The Town of Otisfield (Cumberland) ME
Mitchell Otis F 31 Farmer 500 445 ME
_____ Aurora 26 Keeping House ME
_____ Lenora 8 At Home ME
_____ Volora 8/12 At Home ME Sep
_____ Fanny 69 Keeping House ME
Edwards Molly 59 Keeping House ME
1880 Otisfield (Cumberland) ME
Mitchell Otis F 41 House Carpenter ME ME ME
_____ Aurora 36 Wife Keeping house ME ME ME
_____ Lenora 18 Daughter at home ME ME ME
_____ Volora 10 Daughter gooing to school ME ME ME
_____ Charles 6 Son ME ME ME
| Military: |
Otis F Mitchell
Residence: Casco, Maine
Occupation:
Service Record: Enlisted as a Private on 27 September 1864 at the age of 25; Drafted in Company C, 16th Infantry Regiment Maine on 27 September 1864; Mustered out on 05 June 1865 in Arlington Heights, VA
Source: Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Maine. (MERoster) Published in 1861-1866 by Stevens & Sayward
| Cemetery: |
Aurora Edwards, husband Otis Mitchell, and all three children are buried in Forrest Edwards' Cemetery, Otisfield ME.
| Published History/Genealogy: |
Otis Mitchell ... lived at first in his fathers old house but after it burned in 1877 he with his family moved in with Daniel Edwards an lived in part of his house for 6 years. He then moved to Spurrs Corner and lived in the house that Wm. & Abel Thurston built and made some additions to it, he was a carpenter. His son Charles now lives there, also a carpenter.
Charles m. Helen Flanders of Rockland 3/2/1909
Source: History of Otisfield by William Samuel Spurr; Reprinted by theTown of Otisfield, 2nd edition
This family is listed in the 1906 Census, living in Otisfield.