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Chapter 1
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John 1
John 2
John 3
Richard 3
Jonathan 3
Samuel 3
Nathaniel 3
William 3

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This Old House
Justin Edwards had a Farm
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Cordelia Maguire Edwards



Father: Mother:

Caleb Edwards
Hannah Welch
Birth Date: Birth Location: Death Date: Death Location:
11/8/1826
Otisfield ME
2/17/1899
Otisfield ME

Married:

Name: Marriage Date: Marriage Location: Father: Mother:
Ansel Fields Brooks 5/13/1843
William Brooks Mehittable Emery
Birth Date: Birth Location: Death Date: Death Location:
2/18/1823 Oxford ME 7/28/1884 Otisfield ME

Child(ren):

Name: Birth Date: Birth Location: Death Date: Death Location:
Mary Abigail Brooks 6/28/1848 Oxford ME 12/30/1909 Portland Me
Emma Jane Brooks 7/13/1850 Otisfield ME 9/6/1895 Windham ME
Caroline Maria Brooks 3/15/1852 Otisfield ME
Orrin Johnson Brooks 4/15/1852 Otisfield ME
Clara Brooks 8/26/1856 Otisfield ME
Elizabeth Boyker Brooks 10/13/1857 Otisfield ME 8/23/1862 Otisfield ME
Nellie Brooks 10/27/1859 Otisfield ME
Etta Love Brooks 7/2/1861 Casco ME
Frederick Augustus Brooks 4/26/1864 Otisfield ME
Frank Augustus Brooks 4/26/1866 Otisfield ME
William Stone Brooks 1/6/1868 Otisfield ME
Herbert Sylvester Brooks 12/18/1869 Otisfield ME
Vascona Lemont Brooks 6/26/1872 Otisfield ME

Comments:

Family located: Oxford ME; Otisfield ME

Other Info:

Census:

1860 Otisfield (Cumberland) ME
Ansel Brooks    37    Farmer    300    150    Oxford ME
Cordelia M    34    Wife
Mary A    11
Emmer J    9
Caroline M    8
Orren J    6
Clara    3
Elizabeth    2
Ellen    7/12

1870 The Town of Otisfield (Cumberland) ME
Brooks Ansell    46    Farmer    500    240    ME
_____ Cordelia    43    Keeping House    ME
_____ Ervina J    20    At Home    ME
_____ Orrin J    16    Farm Laborer    ME
_____ Clarra    13    At Home    ME
_____ Nellie    10    At Home    ME
_____ Ella    8    At Home    ME
_____ Freddie    6    At Home    ME
_____ Frankey    4    At Home    ME
_____ Willie    2    At Home    ME
_____ Charles    5/12    At Home    ME    Dec

1880 Otisfield (Cumberland) ME
Brooks Ansel F    57    Farmer    ME    ME    ME
_____ Cordelia    53    Wife    Keeping house    ME    ME    ME
_____ Frederic    16    Son    at home    ME    ME    ME
_____ Franklin    14    Son    going to school    ME    ME    ME
_____ Willie    12    Son    going to school    ME    ME    ME
_____ Bascona L    7    Son    ME    ME    ME

Military:

Ansel F Brooks
Residence: Minot, Maine
Occupation:
Service Record: Enlisted as a Private on 10 March 1864; Enlisted in Company B, 32nd Infantry Regiment Maine on 10 March 1864; Transferred on 01 December 1864 ; Transfered in Company B, 31st Infantry Regiment Maine on 01 December 1864; Mustered out on 15 July 1865
Source: Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Maine. (MERoster) Published in 1861-1866 by Stevens & Sayward

Cemetery:

Cordelia Maguire Edwards, husband Ansel, and children Caroline , Elizabeth, Emma Frank, Frederick, Herbert, and Orrin, are buried in Forrest Edwards' Cemetery, Otisfield ME.

Published History/Genealogy:

Ansel Fields Brooks lived in Thompson Pond Plantation on the Phineas Morse place, where his son Orin since lived. His sister Lucy Ann married Robert K. Edwards
Mary Abigail m Oscar Crane of China
Emma Jane m Fernald Keen, then Fred Jordan of Windham
Caroline Maria m James G. Fogg, int 4/17/1872
Orin Johnson m Carrie Atwater of N.S.
Clara m Austin Rowell, then Ernest Houpsez
Nellie m Mellen B. Packard 12/24/1879
Etta Love m Llewellyn Smith 12/24/1879
Frederick A. m Almeda Libby of Porter
Frank Augustus m Catherine E. Mitchner of Cambridge
William Stone died 2//1945
Herbert Sylvester m _Burns of Mexico
Source: History of Otisfield by William Samuel Spurr; Reprinted by theTown of Otisfield, 2nd edition

Orrin Johnson Brooks and either Frederick or Frank Brooks are listed in the 1906 Census, living in Otisfield.