Tuesday, June 24, 2008

the gibbs sisters - hannah and polly

On a rare day off from work (June 13th), Patti and I took a trip to Camden, Maine, to search Mt. View Cemetery for the gravestones of Hannah (Gibbs) Mansfield and Mary aka Polly (Gibbs) Mansfield. They were daughters of my 4th-great-grandparents, Elisha & Silence (Harrington) Gibbs. Hannah and Mary were married in Camden to brothers, Thomas and Daniel Mansfield, sons of Daniel and Lydia (Newhall) Mansfield.
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Polly, wife of Capt. Daniel Mansfield,
died Jan. 30, 1829, aged 48 years.
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Hannah, wife of Thomas Mansfield,
Died Mar. 1, 1854,
AE. 72 yrs. 11 mo's.
Thomas is buried alongside Hannah, but where is Daniel buried?

1 comment:

Fritzi Hardy said...

Hi Dale,
I am descended from Sally Gibbs (Mansfield) Russ, who married Daniel/David Russ and died young, along with her husband, in Camden, Maine.
Thank you for your post. Living in New Mexico, I have only visited Camden once on a genealogy visit, and ran out of time when it came time to walk the graveyard. I have been to Salt Lake City to the Mormon genealogy library, which is very useful, but it doesn't satisfy the itch to see / hear / smell / experience where my ancestors lived.
Fritzi Harvey Reay Hardy
fritzihardy@gmail.com