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Note: Ahnentafel 11. Residences: Robbinston, Maine; Wesley, Maine 1919; Ea st Vassalboro, Maine about 1985. Minerva Sharman was born in the Isa ac "Ike" Nash home on the McNeil Road in Robbinston, Maine, where her p arents were living at the time. Minerva worked in the Holmes Sardine Fa ctory in Robbinston, Maine, with her family when she was a girl. She w ent to Calais Academy in mornings and worked for her board with the Bec kett Family in afternoons. She graduated from Calais Academy, then taug ht school in Cooper, Crawford, and Wesley, Maine. After her marriage t o Roger Gray, the couple lived a short time at Robbinston, Me. before m oving to Wesley, Maine by the fall of 1919. Minerva celebrated her 100t h birthday on 18 September 1996. Her baptism: at some time during t he 1980's, at the home of her son Allen S. Gray, in East Vassalboro, Ma ine, by Reverend Russell Chase (a Methodist minister). --------------- ---------------------------------------------------------- [Source: D iary of Minerva (Sharman) Gray, 1986. Miscellaneous notes written on " Earnings & Withholding Tax" page [1] at the back of the diary:] " The year [that] I was graduated at Calais Academy (1915)[,] at Red Beac h High School there was only one to graduate. I think [that] he was Ha rold McAdam. He came to Calais and joined our class in all of our grad uating events -- picture, reception, dance and all. I have the picture o f my graduating class." ---------------------------------------------- --------------------------- The Grays in Wesley kept their clock at a d ifferent time than their neighbors. What time zone did the Gray's obse rve? [Source: Steve Robbins, email to Maxine Robbins, 02 January 2005 ]: "What was the Time Zone to which the clock at your Wesley, Maine ho me was always set? I know that your folks did not change forward one h our in April to Daylight Savings Time, then backwards one hour in Octob er to Eastern Standard Time. So did the Wesley clock stay at Eastern St andard Time, or Daylight Savings Time, or was it set to Atlantic Standa rd time?" Maxine's answer. [Source: Maxine Robbins, email to St eve Robbins, 11 January 2005]: "In answer to your question concerning c locks in the Gray household in Wesley in the old days, many of us can't r emember exactly. I believe that they stayed mostly with standard time a nd Stan thinks they were on standard time when he was there." An other clue. [Source: Diary of Minerva (Sharman) Gray, Thursday, 23 Fe bruary 1961]: "Roger wants to go to Machias this morning to see a Soci al Security man who will be at the Machias Court House at 10 [o'clock a .m.] Standard time (11 our time)[.] Another clue. [Source: Diar y of Minerva (Sharman) Gray), "Special Data" (a preprinted diary page, b etween 30 April 1961 and 01 May 1961)]: "Clocks were changed to Daylig ht Savings Time at 2 o'clock Sunday morning [i.e., 30 April 1961]. Our s has been [on] D. S. [i.e., Daylight Savings] Time all the time." A nother clue. [Source: Diary of Minerva (Sharman) Gray, Monday, 30 Oct ober 1961]: "We have not changed our time to slower time as almost eve ry one else has." [Steve Robbins' note: The time had just changed fro m Daylight Savings Time to Eastern Standard Time at 2 a.m. on 29 Octobe r 1961. The Grays kept their Sessions mantle clock on Daylight Savings T ime.] Confirmation. [Source: Diary of Minerva (Sharman) Gray, S unday, 25 April 1965]: "Daylight time [is] on to day but we never go o ff of it." Another clue. [Source: Diary of Minerva (Sharman) Gr ay, Tuesday, 04 January 1966]: "We are having Daylight S[avings] Time a t our house, as usual. We keep it the year through." Confirmatio n. [Source: Diary of Minerva (Sharman) Gray, Friday, 03 November 1967 .] "Roger and Austin left for Muchias [sic; i.e., Machias] [at] 5 min[ utes] after 8 [i.e., 8:05 pm] fast time [i.e., Daylight Savings Time]. M achias time is 1 hr. slower now." [Note: Eastern Standard Time began o n 29 October 1967 (and Daylight Savings Time just ended).] Anoth er clue. [Source: Diary of Minerva (Sharman) Gray, Thursday, 09 Janua ry 1986]: "Austin has just left here at 9:20 AM in his pick-up truck[, ] for Calais. He has to be at the dentist office at 10 AM (11 our time )." Another clue. [Source: Diary of Minerva (Sharman) Gray, Mo nday, 27 October 1986]: "This is slow time now, [and] Maxine has turne d her clocks back [by] 1 h[ou]r to keep in time with places where her f amily members work." [Note: Eastern Standard Time began on 26 October 1 986 (and Daylight Savings Time just ended).] ------------------------- ------------------------------------------------ [Source: Diary of Mi nerva (Sharman) Gray), 05 December 1961.] "Now I have some over $ 300. [in Social Security money received in November and December 1961]. [ I] Would like to get the house wired next summer with it." ----------- -------------------------------------------------------------- [Source : Diary of Minerva (Sharman) Gray, 10 October 1967.] "I got Aust in to help me with the large draw[er]s under the kitchen sideboard. I a m trying to clean up some[,] getting ready for Phil Fenno to wire somed ay for electricity in [the] kitchen & pantry." ----------------------- -------------------------------------------------- [Source: Diary of M inerva (Sharman) Gray, 12 October 1967.] "I have been cleaning ar ound some[,] as Roger talks of having the kitchen and pantry wired this f all[.] He has already spoken to Phil Fenno of Machias to do it." ---- --------------------------------------------------------------------- [ Source: Diary of Minerva (Sharman) Gray, 27 October 1967.] "I cle aned the sideboard and washed [the] wall [in] back of it. Roger talks o f having ["Phil" is crossed-out, and "Joe" is written above it] Fenno o f Machias wire our kitchen and pantry soon[,] so I keep picking and cle aning." -------------------------------------------------------------- ----------- [Source: Steve Robbins, 11 January 2005.] Roger Gra y never had electricity or running water in his home in Wesley; it was o nly several years after his death (which occurred in 1972) that his wid ow Minerva and son Austin got those modern conveniences (about 1975). M inerva (Sharman) Gray died in Dec. 2000 at the age of 104. She had liv ed in parts of 3 different centuries: 1896-1899, 1900-1999, and 2000. S he could still recall the year (1900) when her mother stood on a chair t o change a calendar on the wall while exclaiming "No more 1800s!"). -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- [ Source: Diary of Minerva (Sharman) Gray, Monday, 14 October 1985.] " . . . . T his has been a wet morning. The temp[erature] [is] 50 [degrees sign] a t 10 AM. No sunshine yet at noon. The wood fire in our black heater f eels good this morning. . . . . Sears of Machias phoned Austin again a bout buying a warrentee [sic; i.e., warrantee] on the hot water Heater [ which] he bought of them in 1984. Austin did not buy. He does not hav e the heater set up yet or [the] connections for it ready." ---------- --------------------------------------------------------------- [Sourc e: Joann (Wright) Vieira, email to Steve Robbins, 10 January 2005.] " I have the most wonderful memories of your grandmother, my Aunt Minerva . Mom, Dad and I visited with her at Agnes' a few years ago and though s he said she clearly did not recommend living so long, she still had a w onderful sparkle in her eye and a lively sense of humor and clear mind. S he reminded me so much of my own grandmother (Ruth) that it was both jo yful and a bit sad. What a remarkable woman! " ----------------------- ------------------------------ Interview: Minerva Gray & Annie (Bearma n), 1973. (11 KB) Interview with Minerva (Sharman) Gray and Annie (Bea rman) (Dodge) Lyons, 20 October 1973. < http://familytreemaker.genealo gy.com/users/r/o/b/Stephen-L-Robbins/FILE/0091page.html > [A11in73.htm f rom A11in73.rtf ; last modified 02 February 2004] -------------------- ----------------------------------------------------- Interview: Miner va Gray, week of 25 August 1975. (66 KB) Interview with Minerva (Sharm an) Gray, week of 25 August 1975. < http://familytreemaker.genealogy.c om/users/r/o/b/Stephen-L-Robbins/FILE/0092page.html > [A11in75.htm fro m A11in75.rtf ; last modified 01 February 2004] ---------------------- --------------------------------------------------- Interview with Min erva (Sharman) Gray, 07 May 1976. (54 KB) < http://familytreemaker.gen ealogy.com/users/r/o/b/Stephen-L-Robbins/FILE/0093page.html > [A11in76 a.htm from A11in76a.rtf ; last modified 07 February 2004] An oral h istory interview of Minerva (Sharman) Gray on 07 May 1976, conducted by S tephen Robbins, was included in The Lewis Hine Project, by historian an d author Joseph Manning, on 16 November 2009. Lewis Hine was an i nvestigative photographer, employed by the National Child Labor Committ ee 1908-1924. Hine's documentation of child workers includes more than 5 100 photographs which are now part of the Library of Congress' National C hild Labor Committee Collection, posted online at: < http://lcweb2.loc. gov/pp/nclchtml/nclcback.html >. Mr. Manning, asking himself "Di dn't history happen to ordinary people, too?", began The Lewis Hine Pr oject to research and document the lives of the children appearing in H ine's photographs, "whose only public persona, for as long as a hundred y ears, has been a simple snapshot." More information about The Lewis H ine Project is online at: < http://www.morningsonmaplestreet.com/aboutl ewishine2.html >. Mr. Manning's story of Phoebe Thomas, a child w orker in a sardine cannery at Eastport, Maine whom Lewis Hine photograp hed in 1911, begins at: < http://www.morningsonmaplestreet.com/phoebeth omas1.html >. As part of Phoebe's story, Mr. Manning included St ephen Robbins' 1976 interview with Minerva (Sharman) Gray, who describe s her work in a Maine sardine cannery and the working conditions in the 1 910s. Stephen Robbins' interview with Minerva begins on page 7: < http ://www.sevensteeples.com/phoebethomas7.html >. ----------------------- -------------------------------------------------- Interview with Mine rva (Sharman) Gray, 09 May 1976. (9 KB) < http://familytreemaker.genea logy.com/users/r/o/b/Stephen-L-Robbins/FILE/0094page.html > [A11in76b. htm from A11in76b.rtf ; last modified 07 February 2004] -------------- ----------------------------------------------------------- Minerva (S harman) Gray, Interview, 07 August 1985. (328 KB) < http://familytreem aker.genealogy.com/users/r/o/b/Stephen-L-Robbins/FILE/0127page.html > M inerva (Sharman) Gray was interviewed by her niece Claire (Burgess) Lin d, at Minerva’s home in Wesley, Maine. This transcript of the sound rec ording is posted online, with permission from Claire (Burgess) Lind (gr anted in letter to Steve Robbins, dated 25 August 2005). [A11in85.htm f rom A11in85.rtf (last modified 26 April 2005)] ----------------------- -------------------------------------------------- Interview with Mine rva (Sharman) Gray, April 1988. (25 KB) < http://familytreemaker.genea logy.com/users/r/o/b/Stephen-L-Robbins/FILE/0095page.html > [A11in88.h tm from A11in88.rtf ; last modified 11 February 2004] ---------------- ------------------------------------------------------- Interviews: Mi nerva (Sharman) Gray, 1995-1996. (228 KB) < http://familytreemaker.gen ealogy.com/users/r/o/b/Stephen-L-Robbins/FILE/0089page.html > Transcri pt of sound recordings. Dorothy Templeton used these interviews as the b asis for a six-part article, "Almost a Century of Living," published in : Town Line (South China, Maine), between January 8 and February 12, 19 96. Stephen Robbins received permission from Mr. Sully Greenwood (widow er of the late author), of West Farmington, Maine, to post the intervie ws and the article online. [A11in95.htm from A11in95.rtf ; last modifie d 25 January 2004]. The six-part published article is posted online at: < h ttp://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/r/o/b/Stephen-L-Robbins/FILE/ 0050page.html > ------------------------------------------------------ ------------------- A published interview with Minerva (Sharman) Gray: " Almost a Century of Living", by Dorothy Templeton. (38 KB) < http://fa milytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/r/o/b/Stephen-L-Robbins/FILE/0050page .html > Interview with Minerva (Sharman) Gray (born 1896 in Robbinston , Maine; died 2000 in Waterville, Maine). Posted here with permission f rom Mr. Sully Greenwood (widower of the late author), of West Farmingto n, Maine. Published in six parts in: Town Line (South China, Maine), Ja nuary 8, 1996, v. 8, no. 1, p. 3; January 15, 1996, v. 8, no. 2, p. 3; J anuary 22, 1996, v. 8, no. 3, p. 3; January 29, 1996, v. 8, no. 4, p. 3 ; February 5, 1996, v. 8, no. 5, p. 3; February 12, 1996, v. 8, no. 6, p . 3. [A11Cent.htm from A11Cent.rtf ; added 23 April 2003]. A transcrip t of the recorded interviews, upon which this article is based, is post ed online at: < http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/r/o/b/Steph en-L-Robbins/FILE/0089page.html > ------------------------------------ ------------------------------------- Another published story about Mi nerva Gray: < http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/r/o/b/Stephen -L-Robbins/FILE/0035page.html > East Vassalboro's Minerva Sharman Gray T urns 104, by Esther Bernhardt. (6 KB) A story about Minerva (Sharman) G ray (born 18 September 1896 in Robbinston, Maine; died 16 December 2000 i n Waterville, Maine at age 104 years). Published in: Town Line (South C hina, Maine), September 30, 2000, vol. 12, no. 39, p. 12. Posted here w ith permission from Esther Bernhardt. [A11Bern.htm from A11Bern.rtf ; a dded 30 March 2003] -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------ [Source: Robbinston, Maine Vital Records. On m icrofilm at Maine State Archives, Augusta, Maine. Sharman related entr ies were transcribed by Steve Robbins about 1975. In Steve’s "Sharman" f ile. The data below is abstracted (not verbatim).] 18 September 1 896 [birth in Robbinston]. Minerva Allen, daughter of W. Allen Sharman a nd C. Estella Nash. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------ Minerva (Sharman) Gray entered Heaven on Satu rday, December 16, 2000 at 11:35 p.m., in the Thayer Unit of Maine Gene ral Hospital, in Waterville, Maine. She was aged 104 years. Arr angements were made through Redington Funeral Home in Waterville, Maine . Minerva's body was buried in the Methodist Cemetery, East Vasal boro, Maine, on 19 May 2001, after a brief service at the Friends Meeti nghouse [because of rain showers] and another brief graveside service l ed by Rev. Ginny Rimm. Pallbearers were Minerva's grandsons Douglas Gr ay, Stephen Robbins, Stanley Robbins, and Gary Gray. ----------------- --------------------------------------------------------- Stephen R obbins has voice recordings of interviews with Minerva Gray. (His handw ritten transcripts from these recordings were included in the Gray fami ly material which was loaned to Maine State Museum in 2001 and were pho tocopied by the Museum.) Mr. Robbins has now had the original rec ordings transferred from audio cassette tapes onto CD audio discs. The y contain a lot of interesting material -- Minerva's vivid and detailed d escriptions of growing up on the Saint Croix River in Robbinston, of wo rk in a sardine packing factory, of teaching in one-room schools in rur al Washington County, of living all of her married life without electri city in Wesley, and more. The recordings also offer a linguistically in teresting archive of the eastern Maine dialect (which is not apparent i n the written transcripts). Below is a list of the CDs, which wer e manufactured for Stephen Robbins in December 2002, by Dr. Edgar J. Lo velady, at Deep Woods Music Services & Recording Studio, Warsaw, Indian a. Only two CD copies were made: one set of these CD's was donated ab out 2003 to the Maine State Museum (Augusta, Maine) which has accession ed it; a second set of these CD's was donated to Wesley Historical Soc iety (Wesley, Maine) in 2011. Minerva Allen (Sharman) Gray - (1896-2 000) CD740. Sides 1 and 2. Total time 51:57. Track One. 20 Octo ber 1973, Robbinston, Maine. Annie (Bearman), with Allen Bearman, Osca r Sherman and Minerva Gray. 21:39 Track Two. Week of August 25, 1975 , Wesley, Maine. Minerva Gray, interviewed by Maxine (Gray) Robbins an d Stephen Robbins. 30:15 CD741. Sides 3 and 4. Total time 44:40. T rack One. Week of August 25, 1975, Wesley, Maine. Minerva Gray, inter viewed by Maxine (Gray) Robbins and Stephen Robbins. 29:15. Track Two . Week of August 25, 1975, Wesley, Maine. Minerva Gray, interviewed b y Maxine (Gray) Robbins and Stephen Robbins. 15:23. CD742. Sides 5 a nd 6. Total time 59:25. Track One. 7 May 1976, Wesley, Maine. Mine rva Gray. 30:44. Track Two. 7 May 1976, Wesley, Maine. Minerva Gray . 28:38. CD743. Sides 7 and 8. Total time 44:07. Track One. 9 M ay 1976, Wesley, Maine. Minerva Gray. 13:45. Track Two. May 1988, [ East Vassalboro, Maine]. Minerva Gray. 30:19. CD744. Side 9. Tot al time 46:43. Track One. 1995, [East Vassalboro, Maine]. Minerva G ray, interviewed by Dorothy Templeton. 46:43. CD745. Side 10. Tot al time 46:50. Track One. 1995, [East Vassalboro, Maine]. Minerva G ray, interviewed by Dorothy Templeton. 46:50. CD746. Sides 11 and 1 2. Total time 1:04:45. Track One. 1995, [East Vassalboro, Maine]. M inerva Gray, interviewed by Dorothy Templeton. 32:22. Track Two. 199 5, [East Vassalboro, Maine]. Minerva Gray, interviewed by Dorothy Temp leton. 32:21. CD747. Sides 13 and 14. Total time 1:14:27. Track O ne. 1995, [East Vassalboro, Maine]. Minerva Gray, interviewed by Doro thy Templeton. 46:38. Track Two. 1995, [East Vassalboro, Maine]. Mi nerva Gray, interviewed by Dorothy Templeton. 27:40. CD748. Sides 1 5 and 16. Total time 55:22. Track One. 1995, [East Vassalboro, Main e]. Minerva Gray, interviewed by Dorothy Templeton. 46:33. Track Two . 1995, [East Vassalboro, Maine]. Minerva Gray, interviewed by Doroth y Templeton. 8:47. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------ ---------------------------------------------- ----------- [Source: phone call from Maxine Robbins to Steve Robbins, 2 0 December 1996. Maxine had just recently heard this story from Minerva . Steve's note on paper in his Sharman file.] Starting when Mine rva was about 10 years old, she and her sister Ruth Sharman would, each s ummer, go and spend a week with their "Aunt Gertie" [Gertrude (Sharman) J ohnston], every year for several years. ---------------------------- ----------------------------------------- [Source: Ina Byers' typewrit ten notes, sent to Steve Robbins in envelope postmarked 05 February 199 3. Most of the information in Ina's notes was supplied to her by Steve R obbins. Also, Minerva Gray's corrections to these notes, dictated to M axine Robbins who sent it to Steve Robbins in Spring 1993. Steve filed M inerva's corrections in same envelope with Ina's notes.] L. Aust in Gray, Junior wrote to Ina Byers (on 17 August 1992): "She [Minerva] i s living with my sister [Agnes (Gray) Diffin] (for the summer) in Robbi nston." Minerva had a cancer of colon surgery in 1990, and an eye oper ation for a cataract in May of this year [i.e., 1992], and can see much b etter and is feeling fine. ------------------------------------------- ------------------------- [Source: Steve Robbins' notes, dated 18 Apr il 1978 at Wesley, Maine. Information was from Minerva (Sharman) Gray. I n Steve’s "Sharman" file.] W. A. Sharman went into the hospital ( Thayer Hospital in Waterville, Maine). [This was about 1958?]. And sh ortly afterwards, Louis Massé was in the same hospital. So, for a whil e they were both in there at the same time. Minerva recalled, "I’d go u p to visit my father every day, and I remember him saying one day that L ouis Massé had come in his wheelchair, pushing it himself, to visit my f ather who had to stay in the bed all the time. He was pleased that Mr. M assé had looked him up and came to visit." Minerva also said that o nce during that time, she walked in to see Mr. Massé, and he was sittin g in his wheelchair at a small table in his room, eating dinner with hi s wife, and Maurice & Malvena Robbins. ------------------------------- ---------------------- [Source: Steve Robbins' notes, dated 1973. In formation was from Minerva (Sharman) Gray. In Steve’s "Sharman" file.] [ In 1973, the] Place where Minerva boarded on the Allen Road [in Robbins ton, Maine, was still standing. She boarded there] when she taught sch ool at the schoolhouse on the Allen Road. Minerva boarded with Wi nn Howe and his wife while she taught school in Cooper, Me. ---------- ------------------------------------------- [Source: Steve Robbins' n otes, dated 29 September 1973. Information was from Minerva (Sharman) G ray (on our trip to Tower Hill in St. David, N.B. on 29 September 1973. ] Minerva [Sharman] came to the Isaac Cook homestead when a small g irl, with her Grandmother Ruth (Allen) Sharman, to visit with relatives w ho lived there [i.e., the Johnstons]. St. David . . . --------------- ------------------- [Source: Diary of Minerva (Sharman) Gray, 29 Sept ember 1967.] "I am going to pack Austin[']s new white shirt in a t hin large over [sic] grey towel box and give it to him to take care of. H e also has another white shirt [which] I bought [for] him on [our] way u p from [the] Coopers Mills Nursing home [i.e., Wilson's Nursing Home, a t Coopers Mills in Whitefield, Maine] when Dad [i.e., William A. Sharma n] was there [in the] fall of 1959, but it has been mislaid." -------- -------------------------- [Source: Janet Robbins, email to Dale (Whi taker) Robbins, 03 October 2007.] "When Grammie Gray was 102, she t old me that God must have something for her to do, but she wished she k new what it was!" ---------------------------------- [Source: Maxine ( Gray) Robbins, letter to Stephen Robbins, 10 September 2008:]. "I got a p hone call from a lady at the museum in Augusta. She told me that she h ad a picture of my family members, Jimmie, Agnes and Allen, taken in We sley when they were children. Jimmie & Agnes were on showshoes and All en sat on a sled between them. She asked my permission to use the pict ure in connection with a new display being prepared there. It would be a t the beginning of the display. I said 'Yes'. She sent a form for me t o fill out giving permission. Exhibit open Nov. 28." The Maine S tate Museum's major new exhibit, called "At Home In Maine", opened on t he fourth floor of the museum. Laurie LeBar who works at the museum po sted online a photo showing the entrance being prepared. In her photo i s shown the Gray family photo: < http://www.flickr.com/photos/laurinha muse/3056197752/in/photostream/ >. Laurie's caption reads: "This was 1 4 hours before opening! We worked a long day on Friday! The intro area o f the new exhibit at the Maine State Museum, 'At Home in Maine.'.... th is is why I haven't been on flickr. At 5600 square feet, it was a huge p roject, and everyone worked long hours on it." ----------------------- ----------- [Source: Esposito, Susan. "Lewis Hine photos lead writer t o stories of cannery children." Quoddy Tides (Eastport, Maine), 25 Dece mber 2009 (vol. 42, no. 3). <http://quoddytides.com/writer12-25-09.html > ] A Quoddy Tides article about the Lewis Hine Project and Steve R obbins' interview with Minerva Gray. It's about three pages printed ou t, and the part about Minerva is on the last page. Note that the web a ddress at the very end is wrong and should read: <http://familytreemake r.genealogy.com/users/r/o/b/Stephen-L-Robbins/FILE/0019page.html> S tephen Robbins' notes, 30 December 2009. It was on December 15th that I s poke on the telephone with reporter Susan Esposito and she interviewed m y (via phone) for this article. But I did not state things exactly as s he quoted me as having said them in the article. Because she paraphras ed what I said, she should have left off any quotation marks. Neverthe less, the information she reported is mostly accurate, except for sever al things. I told her that Mr. Manning sent me an e-mail last spring o r last summer [i.e., 2009], not exactly "last year" as she reported me s aying. Also, "He told me I'd done excellent research, so I was pleased t o give him permission ..." is not entirely accurate. I told the report er that I'd received an e-mail from Mr. Manning, saying that he had fou nd my "amazing interview" with Minerva and wanted permission to use it. I t old the reporter that I didn't know anything about Mr. Manning, so I ch ecked out his web site. When I found that Mr. Manning's research and p resentation were excellent, and that he'd already written several histo ry books, it was easy for me to give him the permission. ----------- --------------------------- 1911. [Source: Diary of Minerva (Sharman ) Gray, 28 February 1968.] "Calvin Bassett[']s obituary in today[']s p aper. He was 75. about 1911 during the summer he had an accident with T om MacDonald's horse running away with Calvin hanging by hands & feet u nder the wagon[.] My Mother, Ruth [Sharman][,] Annie [Bearman] & I hel ped him." -------------------------------------- About 1923. [Source : Diary of Minerva (Sharman) Gray, 1968. Miscellaneous notes written o n lining paper (left side), inside back cover.] "Last trolley car run i n Calais in 1929. Jimmie [Gray] [was the] only one of my children to r ide on Calais Electric cars. He rode when around 2 yrs old." -------- ------------------------------ [Source: Diary of Minerva (Sharman) Gr ay, 25 March 1969.] "In today[']s [news]paper I saw an obituary of Mrs B essie M. Scott (Walter)[.] I think she could have been Bessie May Scho ppee who worked at the Calais Telephone office, Calais and boarded at M rs Preston[']s with Maud Spearin and myself [during] my senior year at t he [Calais] Academy. She was 83 years old." ------------------------- -------------
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