Many thanks to cousin Paul Ring for the memorial transfer!

Jemima Anna "Mima" Beverage was b 6 Nov 1866, North Haven, the d/o Benjamin "Uncle Ben" Crabtree Beverage & Amelia Beverage. She was the twin to James Norwood "J N" Beverage. She d 8 Dec 1894, Levant, Me.

Mima married Fred Simonton Carver on 30 Nov 1887, North Haven, married by Harrison Beverage. Fred was b 18 Sept 1860, North Haven, the s/o Hanson Tolman Carver & Lois Boynton Turner. He d 30 Dec 1939, North Haven.

Mima & Fred had 3 children born North Haven:
1. Rose Mildred Carver: 24 Aug 1888, North Haven - Mar 1981, Ashland, Me
2. Constance Enola Carver: 14 Oct 1889, North Haven - Dec 1971, New Britain, Ct
3. Ralph Hanson Carver: 9 Sept 1894, Levant, Me - Nov 1975, Toms River, N J

Birth Record: North Haven, April 8th 1867. Record of the Birth of Mima A Beverage. Born Nov 6th 1866. Daughter of Benjamin C & Amelia Beverage. Attest, Eleazer Crabtree, North Haven.

Mima taught school on North Haven in 1885 and 1887 in the 4th District.

Marriage Intention: North Haven, Nov 19, 1887. This certifies that I have this day entered the intentions of marriage between Fred S Carver and Mima A Beverage, both of North Haven. Attest, A J Ames, Town Clerk.

Marriage Record: This certifies that I, Harrison Beverage, joined Mr Fred S Carver of North Haven and Miss Mima A Beverage of North Haven in marriage this 30th day of November AD 1887 at North Haven. Harrison Beverage, Justice of the Peace. Attest, a true copy, A J Ames, Town Clerk.

Marriage Announcement Abstract: Fred S Carver m 30 Nov 1887 at North Haven Mina A Beverage, both of North Haven. Published 13 Dec 1887.

In an article in the Camden Herald, Friday July 15, 1881, "A very sad accident occurred here last week. Fred and Jimmy Carver, sons of Dea. Hanson Carver, went out in a boat taking up lobster pots, when Jimmy was by some accident thrown into the water and his brother being unable to save him, he was drowned..."

Fred lost his wife, Mima Beverage, in childbirth in Levant, Me where they were residing. This necessitated the move back to North Haven to have help raising the two daughters. The newborn son, Ralph, was given to another family to raise.

Death Record: Mima A Beverage died 8 Dec 1894 in Levant, Me at age 28 years 1 month 2 days. She was born on North Haven, was married and a housewife. She died of Phthisis Pulmonalis. Her parents were Benjamin Beverage and Amelia Beverage, both born North Haven.

In 1900, 39-year-old widower Fred S is on North Haven where he cites birth of Sept 1860 and working as a farmer. With him is 11-year-old daughter Rose (born Aug 1888) and 10-year-old daughter Constance C (born Oct 1889). Five year old Ralph H is boarding in brother-in-law James N Beverage's nearby home.

In 1910, Ralph is found in Mima's brother's home, that of James Norwood Beverage. Ralph apparently "rejoined" his biological family later in life. (Ref Elinor (Brown) Klamm to Barbara Reeves Jul 2001)

They lived in the house which was near the southern end of the Thomas Watson's airstrip (formerly known as the Hanson house).

On 19 Aug 1913, son Fred S Carver was appointed executor of father Hanson T Carver's estate. Knox Co Probate File Number 7262.

Fred was a Deacon for the North Haven Baptist Church from 1925 - 1939.

In the 1930 North Haven census, Fred is 69 years old, a widower, who is working as a farmer, doing general farm work. He owns his own home / farm (value not enumerated) and he owned a radio. He cites that he was 25 at the time of his marriage. Residing with him is his 40-year-old daughter, Constance, who enumerated this particular census.

From Down East Magazine Sept 1973, written by Norwood P Beveridge: "Uncle Fred Carver, who married my father's sister, Mima, was gnarled and bent with age and hard work, a soft spoken, church-going man, deliberate of speech and movement. His farm (located on the North East end of North Haven on land currently, in 1996, owned by the Thomas Watson estate) commanded the finest view of Penobscot Bay to be found on our end of the island, a farm now reduced to a barren airstrip by the encroachment of civilization advancing on my boyhood haunts.
Often, when the weather augured well for such an expedition and other duties permitted, I would trudge along the shore from our summer cottage on the Point, through the tangled brush and tumbled forest at the gravel beach of Marsh Cove, beyond the kelp-draped weir, and up the lean, tawny flank of Oak Hill through meadowsweet and bayberry to the tableland where my uncle's ancient home squatted warily, exposed to assault by the elements from every point on the compass.
Unless the tide was low and his weir demanded seining, here I would find Uncle Fred at work. He was always working, it seemed; at least I never found him idle save on Sundays. And yet I never saw him hurry. Slowly, carefully, patiently, he turned from one task to the next. And as he worked, we talked, sharing our thoughts man to man, a type of communication which seemed quite natural to me at the time, but fills me with wonder now, as I find my own forbearance for youth, already weakened by forty years of pedagogical effort, fading rapidly away with the approach of crotchety old age.
A keener mind than my uncle's, one does not often find. He was interested in everything, and knew a great deal about a surprising number of things. But above all I was impressed with his great common sense and vast store of practical know-how. With deceptive ease he coped with the varied problems of farm and weir in their steady procession.
To protect young corn from crows my uncle would brew the kernels in water until they were ready to sprout, then candy them with a thin coating of tar to disgust the greedy palates of those armless black bandits. With rich dressing from his barn he rendered beautiful the homely potato and temped the shy raspberry bush to blush more fruitfully. Well versed, too, in fisherman's lore, he taught me how to splice, to tie a bowline and to scull a dory. Nor was he ignorant of less practical arts, for once he showed me how to carve a screeching whistle from the bough of a young alder bush. A rocking chair in which Uncle Fred relaxed on rare occasions was a monument to his ingenuity and skill in improvisation. How many times that chair had been repaired I do not know, but it managed to retain an air of quiet dignity despite the rare assortment of screws, nails, bolts, rivets, pieces of wire, dowels and wooden patches which held it intact, proudly defiant of long use and senescence."

Death Record: Fred Simonton Carver died on 30 Dec 1939 on North Haven at the age of 79 years 3 months 12 days. Cause of death: Myocardial insufficiency due to over work. He was the widower of Mima Beverage and a farmer. Born on North Haven, he was the son of Hanson T Carver (born Vinalhaven, farmer) and Lois Turner (born Palermo). Informant was Constance Carver. Burial to be in Crabtree Cemetery, North Haven on 2 Jan 1940.