Mrs. Mary R. Tracy
Mrs. Mary Rebecca Tracy, 92, widow of Foster Tracy, died in Farmingdale, Saturday morning, Sept 16. She was born in Milbridge, Nov. 9, 1851, daughter of Samuel Small Buzzell and his wife, Mary Jane White, coming to Cherryfield when she was three years old, and has since resided here.
Surviving are two daughters, Miss Caroline S. Tracy, principal of the Webster School, Augusta and Mrs. William McInnis of Brownville; two sons, George I. of Cherryfield and Arthur H. of Albany, N. Y.; one brother, Gilbert Buzzell, the only surviving member of a large family; eleven grandchildren and twenty-one great-grandchildren, several nieces and nephews.
Excerpt from the Bangor Daily News, Friday 15 April, 1938
"I was 3 years old when my family moved to Cherryfield, and as I look back over my life I can see that most of it was devoted to hard work. At the age of 5 years, I pulled wood to the house on a hand sled, and all through my girlhood I hayed and worked in the barn and in the fields like a man. I planted and dug potatoes and picked apples and cut wood.
Yes, I've worked hard, but I guess it didn't hurt me any.
I was ten years old when the Civil War broke out, and 3 of my brothers went to the battle front. One of them was killed, and it was a hard blow. I was 23 years old when I married Foster Tracy. We had seven children. Thirty years ago, two of our children Anne 13 and Alvah 14, were drowned in the Stillwater River with Susie Newingham, the daughter of a neighbor. They were out in a sailboat which capsized in a squall. It was quite a blow when the news came, but I made up my mind I would stand up under it and I did."
Mrs. Mary Rebecca Tracy, 92, widow of Foster Tracy, died in Farmingdale, Saturday morning, Sept 16. She was born in Milbridge, Nov. 9, 1851, daughter of Samuel Small Buzzell and his wife, Mary Jane White, coming to Cherryfield when she was three years old, and has since resided here.
Surviving are two daughters, Miss Caroline S. Tracy, principal of the Webster School, Augusta and Mrs. William McInnis of Brownville; two sons, George I. of Cherryfield and Arthur H. of Albany, N. Y.; one brother, Gilbert Buzzell, the only surviving member of a large family; eleven grandchildren and twenty-one great-grandchildren, several nieces and nephews.
Excerpt from the Bangor Daily News, Friday 15 April, 1938
"I was 3 years old when my family moved to Cherryfield, and as I look back over my life I can see that most of it was devoted to hard work. At the age of 5 years, I pulled wood to the house on a hand sled, and all through my girlhood I hayed and worked in the barn and in the fields like a man. I planted and dug potatoes and picked apples and cut wood.
Yes, I've worked hard, but I guess it didn't hurt me any.
I was ten years old when the Civil War broke out, and 3 of my brothers went to the battle front. One of them was killed, and it was a hard blow. I was 23 years old when I married Foster Tracy. We had seven children. Thirty years ago, two of our children Anne 13 and Alvah 14, were drowned in the Stillwater River with Susie Newingham, the daughter of a neighbor. They were out in a sailboat which capsized in a squall. It was quite a blow when the news came, but I made up my mind I would stand up under it and I did."
Mrs. Mary R. Tracy
Mrs. Mary Rebecca Tracy, 92, widow of Foster Tracy, died in Farmingdale, Saturday morning, Sept 16. She was born in Milbridge, Nov. 9, 1851, daughter of Samuel Small Buzzell and his wife, Mary Jane White, coming to Cherryfield when she was three years old, and has since resided here.
Surviving are two daughters, Miss Caroline S. Tracy, principal of the Webster School, Augusta and Mrs. William McInnis of Brownville; two sons, George I. of Cherryfield and Arthur H. of Albany, N. Y.; one brother, Gilbert Buzzell, the only surviving member of a large family; eleven grandchildren and twenty-one great-grandchildren, several nieces and nephews.
Excerpt from the Bangor Daily News, Friday 15 April, 1938
"I was 3 years old when my family moved to Cherryfield, and as I look back over my life I can see that most of it was devoted to hard work. At the age of 5 years, I pulled wood to the house on a hand sled, and all through my girlhood I hayed and worked in the barn and in the fields like a man. I planted and dug potatoes and picked apples and cut wood.
Yes, I've worked hard, but I guess it didn't hurt me any.
I was ten years old when the Civil War broke out, and 3 of my brothers went to the battle front. One of them was killed, and it was a hard blow. I was 23 years old when I married Foster Tracy. We had seven children. Thirty years ago, two of our children Anne 13 and Alvah 14, were drowned in the Stillwater River with Susie Newingham, the daughter of a neighbor. They were out in a sailboat which capsized in a squall. It was quite a blow when the news came, but I made up my mind I would stand up under it and I did."
Mrs. Mary Rebecca Tracy, 92, widow of Foster Tracy, died in Farmingdale, Saturday morning, Sept 16. She was born in Milbridge, Nov. 9, 1851, daughter of Samuel Small Buzzell and his wife, Mary Jane White, coming to Cherryfield when she was three years old, and has since resided here.
Surviving are two daughters, Miss Caroline S. Tracy, principal of the Webster School, Augusta and Mrs. William McInnis of Brownville; two sons, George I. of Cherryfield and Arthur H. of Albany, N. Y.; one brother, Gilbert Buzzell, the only surviving member of a large family; eleven grandchildren and twenty-one great-grandchildren, several nieces and nephews.
Excerpt from the Bangor Daily News, Friday 15 April, 1938
"I was 3 years old when my family moved to Cherryfield, and as I look back over my life I can see that most of it was devoted to hard work. At the age of 5 years, I pulled wood to the house on a hand sled, and all through my girlhood I hayed and worked in the barn and in the fields like a man. I planted and dug potatoes and picked apples and cut wood.
Yes, I've worked hard, but I guess it didn't hurt me any.
I was ten years old when the Civil War broke out, and 3 of my brothers went to the battle front. One of them was killed, and it was a hard blow. I was 23 years old when I married Foster Tracy. We had seven children. Thirty years ago, two of our children Anne 13 and Alvah 14, were drowned in the Stillwater River with Susie Newingham, the daughter of a neighbor. They were out in a sailboat which capsized in a squall. It was quite a blow when the news came, but I made up my mind I would stand up under it and I did."
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