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Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Betsey Leavitt: Birth: 6 Mar 1821 in of, York, Maine. Death: 1 Jan 1822

  2. Benjamin Leavitt: Birth: 20 Sep 1822 in Alfred, York, Maine. Death: Aug 1905

  3. Lovey Ann Leavitt: Birth: 2 Jan 1824 in of, York, Maine. Death: 16 Mar 1836


Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Charles Francis Leavitt: Birth: 4 Dec 1828 in Alfred, York, Maine. Death: 24 Nov 1887 in Silex, Lincoln, Missouri

  2. Albert Leavitt: Birth: 24 Dec 1829 in Waterboro, York, Maine. Death: 1 May 1908

  3. Lucinda Leavitt: Birth: 24 May 1831 in of, York, Maine. Death: 3 Nov 1866

  4. Alonzo Leavitt: Birth: 8 Oct 1834 in Waterboro, York, Maine. Death: 31 Aug 1922

  5. Angelette Leavitt: Birth: 8 Oct 1834 in of, York, Maine. Death: 21 Oct 1864

  6. Mary Adeline Leavitt: Birth: 24 May 1840 in Waterboro Center, York, Maine. Death: 13 Jul 1927 in , Madison, Tennessee

  7. James Byron Leavitt: Birth: 20 Oct 1848 in of, York, Maine. Death: 7 Jun 1853


Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. James Willie Leavitt: Birth: 6 Sep 1859 in Waterboro Center, York, Maine. Death: 6 May 1871


Sources
1. Title:   WALF Submission -- Don Orrell
Publication:   [email protected]
Text:   Hi, I have some updated information for your web pages. Your pages list all 15 of the Leavitts who are buried at The Town House cemetery in Waterboro Maine. http://www.waterborolibrary.org/cemets/cems6.htm I have used the "add a link" button on those 15 web pages to link them to the Town House Cemetery. The James Leavitt who died 7 Sep 1876 and who was buried at this cemetery is the same James Leavitt who built The Taylor House, which is now a museum in Waterboro Maine. 5 of these 15 Leavitts on your pages are mentioned on The Taylor House website http://www.waterborolibrary.org/watertfl.htm at the Waterboro Maine library by Jim Carll trustee of The Taylor House. I have used the "add a link" button on those 5 web pages to link them to his article There are 5 pages that have incorrect dates. The links below are to those 5 pages and the corrected dates are in bold. . Best regards, Don Orrell Leavitt, James d. 7 Sept. 1876 79 yrs . http://www.leavittfamilies.org/cgi-leavittfamilies/igmget.cgi/n=Leavitt?I10164 Leavitt, Elizabeth Wife of James d. 15 June 1891 70 yrs . http://www.leavittfamilies.org/cgi-leavittfamilies/igmget.cgi/n=Leavitt?I69376 Leavitt, Flora E. Daughter Benjamin/EA b. Abt Jun 1857 d. 27 June 1857 2 mos. http://www.leavittfamilies.org/cgi-leavittfamilies/igmget.cgi/n=Leavitt?I69803 Leavitt, Eddie Son of A/S.C. d. 25 Nov. 1864 http://www.leavittfamilies.org/cgi-leavittfamilies/igmget.cgi/n=Leavitt?I69737 . Leavitt, Lovey A. Daughter of James/Lovey d. 16 March 1836 12 yrs. http://www.leavittfamilies.org/cgi-leavittfamilies/igmget.cgi/n=Leavitt?I69379
Link:   http://www.waterborolibrary.org/watertfl.htm
Link:   http://www.leavittfamilies.org/cgi-leavittfamilies/igmget.cgi/n=Leavitt?I10164
Link:   http://www.leavittfamilies.org/cgi-leavittfamilies/igmget.cgi/n=Leavitt?I69376
Link:   http://www.leavittfamilies.org/cgi-leavittfamilies/igmget.cgi/n=Leavitt?I69803
Link:   http://www.leavittfamilies.org/cgi-leavittfamilies/igmget.cgi/n=Leavitt?I69737
Link:   http://www.leavittfamilies.org/cgi-leavittfamilies/igmget.cgi/n=Leavitt?I69379
2. Title:   International Genealogical Index (IGI)
Publication:   Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint

Notes
a. Note:   The Taylor House written by Jim Carll, October, 1989 See also the photo of the Taylor Frey Leavitt House as it stands today, on our Waterboro page The house known as the Taylor House in Waterboro Center was built in 1850 by James Leavitt, who came from Alfred Gore. James Leavitt was an astute businessman who bought farm produce locally and shipped it to Portland and Boston. He also opened a store about where the fire barn is located. In addition to the store and shipping business he pieced out cloth to the local women to make shirts, coats, and trousers for clothiers in Boston. The records for the store and the sewing business are still in the house. Also in the house are the postal records for the Waterboro Center post office. James Leavitt was the postmaster for many years. With the profits from his successful businesses, he invested heavily in timberland and became the owner of much of the land in Waterboro Center. The field in back of the house not only provided hay and pasture for the animals but was also used as a "drill field" for men in the militia and for those going off to the Civil War. Two of James Leavitt's sons, James Jr. and Alonzo, fought in the Civil War. After the death of James in about 1880, the house became a summer residence for the family. James' son Benjamin, a businessman in Saco, took care of the place and made it his summer home. His wife was Ethelinda Deering of the Deering's Ridge Family. After the death of Benjamin Leavitt the house passed on to his daughter, Mrs. Louella Frey, and for many years it was known as the Frey House. Mrs. Frey's daughters Helen Taylor and Ethelinda Innis later acquired the home. Mrs. Taylor and her husband Neil spent summers in the house until their deaths in the early 1980s. Mrs. Taylor wrote A Time to Recall, which had this house as its focal point. The Taylors' sons William, Neil, and Howard sold the house to the Town of Waterboro in 1989. The house is of the Greek Revival style common to country homes of the period, although it appears to be the only one left in Waterboro because of the two great fires of 1911 and 1947. It is truly an unspoiled dwelling owing to the fact that it was lived in year-round for only thirty years. There were six bedrooms upstairs, one of which was converted to a bathroom. Two of these bedrooms, the large ones on the front of the house, appear to have the original 1850s wallpaper. The downstairs consists of the front hallway, parlor, living room, music room, dining room, and kitchen. The parlor also has its original wallpaper. The woodwork in the house is grained (a technique of painting woodwork in shades of brown and yellow to represent the natural grain of wood). Graining was done with a comb while the paint was still wet and is now almost a lost art. The painter must also have had an artistic flair for a swan and a dove are grained into the cupboard door in the dining room. There is also a rooster grained into the door of the wood box in the living room. The three chimneys accommodate one wood burning cookstove, a large cooking fireplace with a crane and beehive oven, and an original Franklin fireplace. The ell, which contains the dining room and kitchen, extends into the woodshed where the outhouse, in graduated sizes, is located. The woodshed then extends into the barn. The cellar is unique in that the floor is brick paved, the pantry room is plastered, and the chimney has storage shelves. The porch was probably added in the late 1800s. It extends across the front of the house and, until recently, across part of the Route 5 side of the house. To step into this house is to step back in time. The traffic on three sides seems to fade, and you can imagine how the Leavitts lived over one hundred forty years ago, before the Civil War. The Town of Waterboro is very fortunate to have acquired such a rare find in today's world. Waterboro Public Library 1996-2002 Waterboro, Maine Burial from Cemetery record: http://www.waterborolibrary.org/cemets/cems6.htm


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