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Descendants of Joseph Bemis


      1852. Jacob W.7 Bemis (David6, Jacob5, Abraham4, John3, John2, Joseph1)9471 was born 19 Mar 1820 in Pownal ME9471, and died 17 Jul 1907 in Dexter ME9471. He married (1) Almeda Corson9471 14 Oct 18439471. She was born Abt. 18249472, and died 09 Feb 18489473. He married (2) Lovinia Manson Staples9474 19 Oct 1851 in Wellington, Maine9474. She was born 11 Feb 1832 in Wellington ME9474, and died 07 May 1900 in Dexter ME9474.

Notes for Jacob W. Bemis:
[Received from Janice A Nichols]

Jacob was a teacher

More About Jacob W. Bemis:
Burial: Wellington ME9474
Occupation: Teacher9474

More About Almeda Corson:
Burial: Munro Cemetery, Jefferson County, Wisconsin9475

More About Jacob Bemis and Almeda Corson:
Marriage: 14 Oct 18439476

More About Lovinia Manson Staples:
Name 2: Lovina Staples9477
Burial: Corinna ME9478
Occupation: Tailoress9478

Marriage Notes for Jacob Bemis and Lovinia Staples:
ME Grooms Taken from Cards the Maine State Archives
(http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ifetch2?/u1/data/me+index+177637816518+F)

Groom Name      BEMIS, JACOB
Groom Town      WELLINGTON
Groom State      ME
Bride            STAPLE, LOVINA
Bride Town      WELLINGTON
Bride State      ME
Month of Marriage      10
Day of Marriage      19
Year of Marriage      1851
More Information      N
Place            WELLINGTON
Comment      -0-

More About Jacob Bemis and Lovinia Staples:
Marriage: 19 Oct 1851, Wellington, Maine9478
     
Children of Jacob Bemis and Almeda Corson are:
  3479 i.   Esther8 Bemis9478, born 06 Sep 18449478.
  3480 ii.   Julia Bemis9478, born 11 Jun 18479478.
     
Children of Jacob Bemis and Lovinia Staples are:
+ 3481 i.   Angeline Lovina8 Bemis, born 28 May 1853 in Wellington ME; died 12 Dec 1933 in Kittery ME.
  3482 ii.   Clymenia Bemis9478, born 22 Feb 1855 in Corinna9478; died 26 Aug 1877 in Corinna9478.
  Notes for Clymenia Bemis:
[Received from Janice A Nichols]

Never married

+ 3483 iii.   Ida Jane Bemis, born 18 Jul 1856 in Wellington ME; died 10 Jun 1938 in Dexter ME.
+ 3484 iv.   William Jacob Bemis, born 20 Jan 1859; died 28 Nov 1939.
+ 3485 v.   Ava Ethel Bemis, born 14 Aug 1861 in Brighton ME; died 06 Nov 1947 in Waterville ME.
  3486 vi.   Rausalie Bemis9478, born 14 May 1863 in Brighton9478; died Feb 1940 in Corinna ME9478. She married Charles L Pulsifer9478.
  Notes for Rausalie Bemis:
[Received from Janice A Nichols]

No children

  3487 vii.   Lora Ellura Bemis9478, born 24 Jun 1865 in Wellington ME9478; died 01 Apr 1955 in Bangor ME9478.
  Notes for Lora Ellura Bemis:
[Received from Janice A Nichols]

Married twice, No children

+ 3488 viii.   Ezra Holden Bemis, born 25 Feb 1867 in Wellington ME; died 30 Dec 1938 in Brownville Junction ME.
+ 3489 ix.   Orion Irving Bemis, born 15 Jul 1869 in Corinna ME; died in Riverbank CA.
+ 3490 x.   Wendell Wesley Bemis, born 14 Nov 1873 in Bangor.
  3491 xi.   Della Mary Bemis9479, born 12 Sep 1877 in Corinna, Maine9480. She married John Howard Winchester9481 01 Jan 1913 in Dexter, Maine9481,9482; born 13 Apr 1865 in Corinna, Maine9483; died 25 Oct 1943 in St Petersburg, Florida9484.
  Notes for Della Mary Bemis:
[Received from Janice A Nichols]

No children

  Notes for John Howard Winchester:
[The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1847-1994, 1925:79:140]
We was graduated at the Maine Central Institute at Pittsfield, Me., in 1885, and engaged in the insurance and real-estate business at Corinna. He is a trustee of the local academy and library and a member of the Maine Library Commission. In 1924 he retired from business and now spends his winters at St. Petersburg, Fla., where his son has become a resident.

[Maine, a history, p. 284]
JOHN HOWARD WINCHESTER -- Among the best known representatives of the fire insurance interests of Corinna is the citizen whose name stands at the head of this article. For many years Mr. Winchester has been active in local politics and with fraternal affairs he is extensively and influentially associated.
John Howard Winchester was born April 13, 1865, in Corinna, Maine, and is a son of John and Elizabeth M. (Steward) Wincester. Mr. Winchester was a farmer, and during the civil war served as a member of the Fourth Maine Battery. The rudimentary education of John Howard Winchester was obtained in the common schools of his native town and he afterward attended, successfully, the Corinna Union Academy and the Maine Central Institute, Pittsfield, graduating from the latter in 1885.
The business career of Mr. Winchester began when he entered the service of the Maine Central, and Bangor & Aroostook Railroad Company. He remained four years, and then accepted a position entirely different from the one he relinquished, but one which was peculiarly suited to his tastes and temperment. It was that of librarian of the Steward Free Library and the fact that he retained it for fifteen years proves that it was in all respects highly suitable. He has been a member of the Maine Library Commission since 1911. He is treasurer of the Corinna Manufacturing Company, organized in 1912, and now doing quite an extensive business in shirtings and suitings. Since 1912 he has been engaged in the fire insurance business in Corinna and in this occupation has achieved marked success.
From his youth up Mr. Winchester has been a steadfast Republican and for several years he served faithfully and efficiently as the chairman of the Republican Town Committee. Since 1897 he has been affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and now holds the rank of Past Noble Grand, having also served two terms as District Deputy. He is a member of the Silver Lake Encampment of Dexter. Mr. Winchester also affiliates with Parian Lodge, No. 160, Free and Accepted Masons, St. John Chapter, Dexter, Mount Moriah Council and Delay Commandery, Skowhegan. For thirty-eight years he has belonged to the Grange.
Mr. Winchester married (first), September 5, 1886, at St. Albins, Maine, Sadie B., daughter of Daniel and Phoebe A. Dole, and they became the parents of two children both of whom were born in Corinna: Sidney Hodge, born July 17, 1887; and Jeannette, born April 15, 1889. Mr. Winchester married (second), January 1, 1913, at Dexter, Maine, Della M., daughter of Jacob and Lovina Bemis.
John Howard Winchester has exercised his energies along various lines of endeavor and in each sphere of action he has earned success and won many warm friends.

  More About John Winchester and Della Bemis:
Marriage: 01 Jan 1913, Dexter, Maine9485,9486

  3492 xii.   Elwin Rynell Bemis9487, born 18 Mar 1880 in Corinna, Maine9488,9489.


      1877. Francis Theodore7 Bemis (Francis Sumner6, Amos5, Abraham4, John3, John2, Joseph1)9490,9491 was born 03 May 1835 in Lincoln, Middlesex, Massachusetts9492, and died 24 Jan 1888 in Boston, Massachusetts9493,9494. He married Mary Haskell Fay Brewer9495,9496 04 Jun 1860 in Boston, Massachusetts9497,9498. She was born 1840 in Boston, Massachusetts9499,9500,9501, and died 23 Jun 1881 in Boston, Massachusetts9502,9503.

More About Francis Theodore Bemis:
Name 2: Theadore Francis Bemis9504
Occupation: Jeweller at marriage9505,9506

More About Francis Bemis and Mary Brewer:
Marriage: 04 Jun 1860, Boston, Massachusetts9507,9508
     
Children of Francis Bemis and Mary Brewer are:
  3493 i.   Frank Brewer8 Bemis9508, born 15 Oct 18619508. He married Marion W. Cumings9508 24 Oct 18879508.
  More About Frank Bemis and Marion Cumings:
Marriage: 24 Oct 18879508

+ 3494 ii.   Harry Haskell Bemis, born 28 Feb 1866 in Boston, Massachusetts; died 04 Mar 1935 in Talahassee, FL.
+ 3495 iii.   Gertrude Bemis, born 15 Oct 1868.


      1887. Charles Whipple7 Smith (Perez6, Susanna5 Bemis, Abraham4, John3, John2, Joseph1)9509. He married Harriet Elizabeth Farnsworth9509.
     
Child of Charles Smith and Harriet Farnsworth is:
  3496 i.   Helen Francis8 Smith9509, born 23 Sep 1881 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts9509; died 27 May 1946 in Brookline, Massachusetts9509.
  Notes for Helen Francis Smith:
[NEGHS:1946:100:314] "Memoirs"

HELEN FRANCIS SMITH, of Brookline, Mass., elected an annual member 6 April 1937, was born in Boston 23 Sept. 1881, daughter of Charles Whipple and Harriet Elizabeth (Farnsworth) Smith, and died in Brookline 27 May 1946.

She claimed descent from Thomas(1) Smith, born in 1600, who married Mary Knapp and resided in Watertown, where he was one of the original proprietors in 1635, dying in 1692; through Zachariah(2) who married Suzanna Grout; Jonas(3) who married Mary Bemis (see note below); Nathan(4) who married Susanna Bemis, Perez(5) who married Martha Whipple Carruth and Charles Whipple(6), her father.

Miss Smith attended the Prince School in Boston and various Boston private schools. She traveled extensively, sailing completely around South America and through the Straits of Magellan and the Panama Canal. At one time she had an interesting interview with Prince Nicollas of Montenegro who became the first king of that country.

She was a member of the Old South Church in Boston, Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, Tea Party Chapter, D.A.R., Fairbanks Family Association of America, Marblehead Historical Society and Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities.

NOTE: [Bond:438] indicates that Jonas Smith, of Waltham, m., Dec. 4, 1741, THANKFUL FISKE, not Mary Bemis.



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