|
a.
|
Note: N146 He listed his birth place as Ashland, ME, on his son Caleb’s birth record, but the family was still living in Fort Kent until about 1868 -his mother died in Fort Kent and he and brother George were mentioned in her will.
He had a number of different occupations: Jun 1880 - laborer Oct 1880 - farmer 1881 - blacksmith (Ellen’s birth record) Mar 1897 - supervisor of a gas works Jun 1900 - stationary engineer 1910 - supervisor of Marblehead Gas Works Apr 1930 - laborer in a shipyard Dec 1937 - death certificate lists occupation as cook
In 1900 he was listed as a lodger in Marblehead. His daughter Josephine was with him, working as a waitress. But they were also listed as members of the family in West Newbury that same year.
He was still living in Marblehead and also listed in the West Newbury census in 1910.
The 1918 West Newbury City Directory lists him as moved to Marblehead MA,
He listed himself as married on the censuses of 1920 and 1930. His wife, Martha Ella, was living with her sister in West Newbury and listed herself as divorced on those same censuses., ,
He deeded land in West Newbury to relatives in May 1937.
Note from Nellie Allen’s descendant Scott King (2018): “Dad told me some about Caleb, that when he was old he was sick with, maybe, diabetes, and that he decided to take his own life rather than suffer the ravages of the disease. So, he wrote a letter to Dad's mother telling her of his decision and noting that by the time she read the letter he would be dead. Then he shut himself in his house and turned on the gas. I trust my father to know the facts of his family's stories, but I have no way of corroborating the details. And I know nothing about Caleb's personal life.”
|
