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Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Irving Alfred Humphrey: Birth: 14 JAN 1912 in Kennebunk, Maine. Death: 25 DEC 2003 in Eastbrook, Maine

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  3. Beatrice May Humphrey: Birth: 13 JUN 1921 in Phippsburg, Maine. Death: 19 NOV 1999 in Augusta, Maine


Sources
1. Title:   1900 United States Federal Census
Page:   Census Place: Phippsburg, Sagadahoc, Maine; Roll: T623 599; Page: 9A; Enumeration District: 214.
Author:   Ancestry.com, Provo, UT.
Publication:   Name: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004.;
2. Title:   1920 United States Federal Census
Page:   Census Place: Bath Ward 7, Sagadahoc, Maine; Roll: T625_649; Page: 12A; Enumeration District: 140; Image: 305.
Author:   Ancestry.com, Provo, UT.
Publication:   Name: The Generations Network, Inc., 2005.;
3. Title:   1930 United States Federal Census
Page:   Census Place: Phippsburg, Sagadahoc, Maine; Roll: 839; Page: 5A; Enumeration District: 13; Image: 129.0.
Author:   Ancestry.com, Provo, UT.
Publication:   Name: The Generations Network, Inc., 2002.;
4. Title:   Maine Vital Records/Statistics
Page:   Roll #27, 1908-1922, Hodgdon to Hunt
Author:   Human Services

Notes
a. Note:   "Gertrude Elizabeth Wallace, my grandmother was born in Sebasco Estates on June 2, 1892 and was the youngest daughter of James DeGrasse and Lovina Alexander Wallace. One day, while walking to Bath, she was injured when a man in a horse and buggy ran over her foot with the wheel of his carriage. She went over to visit in Five Islands and stayed in a big house there. During her stay she met George Humphrey and they were married in 1911. They adopted their first child Irving and they went by boat to the Portland Wharf where a lady carried him down, all bundled up, and handed him to her. They both wanted children and she took medicine to help her have a baby. When she found out she was pregnant with Christine (Aunt Teen) she went down to the shore and threw the medicine in the water. Irving had double pneumonia when he was young. She was exhausted from taking care of him and one day when she walked down to the outhouse, she fell in a heap. She had Infantile Paralysis-Polio. My mother Beatrice was born in 1921. For awhile the family lived in Portland. Aunt Teen said her mother would be so nervous when he went out fishing that she would nail a board across the door. It must have been a relief when they moved back to Sebasco. She was a housewife and mother during the Depression. Her husband fished so she made a lot of fish hash and biscuits for her family. For breakfast they split the leftover biscuits and toasted them on the kitchen stove top. She made mattresses of ticking and filled them with fresh hay. Each Spring they would take the mattresses outside, clean out the old hay and fill it with fresh. My mother remembered how good the fresh hay smelled. The ground was rocky and not much good for gardening so there were few vegetables. The Government did give out some surplus food. They and some of their neighbors got cornmeal, dried milk, and canned pork. The cornmeal and other grains came in sacks which they used to make underwear, dishtowels, sheet, pillowcases and backing for quilts. One of the women in the neighborhood opened a little shop in one of the room in her house. My mother saw a little doll that cost a quarter in there. She overheard her parent talking about it and that her mother didn’t know how they could get it for her. They didn’t have a Christmas Tree that year, but on Christmas morning there was a little box on the corner of the kitchen table with the little doll that she had wanted so much. Her sacrifices made a special Christmas for my mother. Her husband did all he could to get work, but that was difficult. She baby sat for her sister Jane’s kids while Jane went to work as a housekeeper. When there was laundry to do she brought it home and the two sisters stayed up all night to get it done. A broken hip made it very difficult for her to move around. Aunt Teen said she left school to help her mother because she had to go out to the clothesline on her hands and knees, because she wasn’t able to walk. When my mother was old enough she became her mothers legs. She remembered her Grandfather Wallace bringing laundry from the “Summer People.” He would help set up the tubs of water to warm in the sun. Her mother would scrub the clothes and she would hang the clothes up and take them down. She also helped out in the Kitchen, bringing her what she needed and putting things in and out of the oven. Her husband was a drinker and became a rumrunner who was gone for long periods of time. Her brother Alvah tried to convince her to get a divorce, but she refused. Her sister Jane’s granddaughter Bev Hagar said she had heard concerns expressed that he was abusive. Times were definitely hard for them. One Christmas or Thanksgiving he was gone and they had no food. His bosses came and brought a big box of food which was accepted without question. My mother said it was the first turkey she ever ate. When her husband returned home from his legal difficulties he was injured when he fell off the wharf onto the deck of a boat. My Mother remembered helping him up the stairs at night to bed and her mother would hitch her way up the stairs to get him undressed. They got food from the Town because he was unable to work. He died that winter. Aunt Teen who had been living in Bath, moved back home. My Mother married and eventually moved to Brunswick and Aunt Teen became primary caregiver for her mother who become bedridden. She was a wonderful Christian woman who enjoyed reading her Bible which I now have and she played the autoharp which was passed on to Tim. She loved her family and in the midst of her infirmity and poverty made gifts of crocheted edged hankies and embroidered doll clothes. They once sent away for peach satin scraps from a lingerie company. My mother made the larger quilt and my grandmother made a gorgeous matching crazy quilt patterned cradle sized quilt with beautiful stitching. They were given to me for my hope chest and I have always cherished them. I remember going to Sebasco with my parents, because Aunt Teen and Grammy were sick. The ambulance came and we followed behind them on the way to the hospital in Bath. After several trips to the hospital and sending her a big bouquet of dandelions I had picked on the hospital lawn, they finally let me in, her youngest grandchild, to kiss her goodbye. I was five years old and she was only sixty-four. I remember a minister once saying the greatest Christian who ever lived isn’t Billy Graham or someone famous. It would be a humble, loving person with great faith. I have always believed he described my grandmother. She died May 26, 1954 at Bath Memorial Hospital in Bath, Maine and was interred at the Sebasco Cemetery by the Church." --Sandie Kaiser


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