Some Sumner Vital Records, 1834-1878

Source: "Sumner, Maine: Vital records, 1798-1891," FHL US/CAN Film 12245.

Most births and deaths recorded in Sumner prior to 1892 are included in the extensive family records published in recent issues of The Maine Genealogist. The following is a list of deaths, and a few births, for which no place was found in those family records. It is found at the end of the second book of vital records for the town.

Several entries are struck out in the original text. A few of these were erroneous; the rest may be found entered in the appropriate family records.

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Record of the death[s] of those whose names are not on the Town Record

Samuel Robins died March 5^th 1838

Widow Lydia Bryant died March 9^th 1839

Widow Deborah Bishop known as Widow Deborah Knights Died June 22^d 1837 Aet. 105 yr

John Drake Died February 18^th 1834

Molly Drake Died February 6^th 1840

Abram Heath Died Novr 19^th 1841

Sarah Irish Died March 5^th 1843

John Farnum Died March 5^th 1843

Oliver Turner Died April 8^th 1843

Betsy Lawrence Died March 22^d 1844 Aet 88 yr 4 m

Harriet Thompson Wife of Amiel Thompson 2^d Died May 27^th 1844

A Child of Alexander Mayhew Strangled with a bean Sept 21^st 1844 ["Delphina Mayhew" written after date.]

Mary Annette Rice Died March 18^th 1846

Mary Dunn Wife of Elias G. Dunn Died April 11^th 1840

Alexander Libby Jr Died July 20^th 1846 by hanging himself cause unknown

Samuel Churchell Died Aug 19^th 1846

Seth Gurney Died September 8^th 1846

Benjamin Frye Died Janr 12 1847

Rachel Foster Died June 14^th 1847

Miriam Russel Died June 16^th 1847

Reuben Chandler Jr Died Oct 24^th 1848

Asa Moore Died June 2^d 1849

Alvan C. Doten Died Feb 19^th 1850

Betsey Starbird wife of John Starbird Died March 12^th 1850

Washington Foster Died July 3^d 1850

Joseph Crocket Jr was found hanged by the neck & dead in a house lately occupied by him at Jackson Village July 4^th 1850 cause unknown

Addison Fuller Died Oct 23^d 1850

Hannah Turner Died Dec 15^th 1850

Sarah Farnham Died Sept 4^th 1851

Joseph Lawrence Died July 5^th 1852 Aged 82 years

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Record of Births whose names are not on the Town Record

George Washingtonian Hall son of Lot Hall born September 14^th 1842

A Child Born unto Jonathan Ryerson June 22^d 1853

A Child Born unto James S. Benson Dec 1^st 1853

A Child Born unto Jennett H. Heath May 15 1853

Mrs. Gowell died at Allen G. Abbotts in Sumner. She was the wife of Charles Gowell. March 15^th 1854

Mar. 23, 1854. Died in Sumner formerly of Perue. Her name was Lucyetta Davenport.

Wife of James J. Abbott died March 26^th 1854

A Child born unto Richmond Tuttle April 1854.

Olive Lumbard Died June 21^st 1854

Nathaniel Foster Died June 21^st 1854

James S. Kidder Died Sept 11^th 1854 by the accidental discharge of his gun at his Mothers residence in Sumner

Lucia Bryant died Sept. 12^th 1854

October 2^d 1854 A Child Born unto Lazarus Warren

A Child of James J. Abbott died Dec 6^th 1854

A Child Born unto Meserve Gerry 1855

A Child Born unto Hezekiah S. Farrar March 1855

Lucetta Starbird died June 22^d 1855

Drowned in Sumner Sunday July 22^d 1855 Son of Samuel Thornton of Franklin Plantation

Drowned in Sumner on Sunday July 22^nd 1855 James Thorington (Irish) Aged 22 years.

Died in Sumner, Franklin L. Gerrish July 15 1855

S. T. B. Willey Died Nov. 29—1855

A Child Born unto Thomas H. Barrows Dec 30^th 1855

A Child born unto D[illegible]

Chloe wife of Thomas Decoster died March 13^th 1856

Died in Sumner June 13^th 1856 Frederic A. Spaulding only son of Axel Spaulding Esq. of Buckfield

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Abijah Warren Died October 13^th 1842

Olive Churchill Died July 25^th 1856

Enoch Morrill Died Aug 22, 1857

D. Robinson Died Aug. 1857

Josiah Tilson Died March 22, 1857

Mrs. Heath Died July 17^th 1857

Emely Tucker Died Nov. 17, 1857

Mrs. Harvey Barrows Died June 5, 1858

Child Born of Rosilla P. Rowe Dec 1858

Abigail Lawrence Died Dec 30^th 1859

Lewis Doten Died April 7^th 1859

Rufus Noyes Died May 18, 1860

Mrs. Nancy White Died July 31 1860

Ezekiel Turner York Died Nov. 3^d 1860 Aged 12 years

Mrs. Rebecca Warren, Wife of Lazarus Warren, Died March 19, 1861

Mrs. Miriam Higgins Died March 22^d 1861 Aged 92

Lucy Beckley Died April 29^th 1861

Mrs. Lucinda Barker Died Sept. 2^d 1861

Benjamin Pratt Died June 23^d 1862

George W. Gowell

George W. Gowell Born Nov. 27, 1861 son of Charles & Elizabeth M. Gowell

Mrs. Abigail Bray [died] Nov. 10, 1865, aged 76 yrs. & 8 months

Barnum J. Hines Died March 7^th 1872

Polly Noyes Wife of Phileman Noyes Died April 2^nd 1872

Lydia J. Damons Child Alfonso L. Damon Born Nov 4^th 1871 Died Jan 7^th 1872

Lydia J. Damon Died Feb. 18^th 1872

Jonathan Pulsifer Died March 18^th 1876

Rufus K. Harlow Died May 21^st 1874

Erastus W. Pendleton Died July 22^nd A. D. 1877

Sylvinia Dorr [____] Oct. 22^d 1877