Shaws & Plummers of Raymond Maine

I will try to assemble information about these interrelated old families in Raymond & Windham Maine.

Barbara Plummer (born 1923) was an 'adopted' daughter of Daniel Lamont Plummer (1864-1942) and Leona Proctor-Shaw-Plummer (1883-1965).  Barbara was clearly much younger than her father (almost 60 year age difference), but was potentially the biological mother of Leona (but that would require Leona having a child with another man in 1923 while still  married to Daniel.  

For the 1910 Census, Daniel & Leona had been married about a year, and they had their first biological child, William in 1910.  But living with them were three children:  Milton, Fred, and Edna Shaw, at 9, 8, and 6 years of age, respectfully.  These were likely her children from a prior marriage (to a Shaw?) 

For the 1920 Census, Daniel & Leona had the following children living with them:  Milton Shaw (19 years old, and matches the 1910 Census), Fred Plummer (at 18 years old, and has taken his stepfather's name), and young William (now 10 years old).  Edna had moved out, and married Eldridge York.

For the 1930 Census, Daniel & Leona had the following children living with them:  Fred Plummer (at 28 years old, again having taken the name of his stepfather), William (now 20 years old), Frank Plummer (9 years old - is this a bio child?), and Barbara Plummer (6 years old - we know she's adopted).

For the 1940 Census, Daniel & Leona had the following children living with them:  Fred Plummer (now 38 years old), Frank Plummer (now 19 years old), and Barbara Plummer (now 16 years old).

Now, Leona's parents, according to various sources, were Fred Proctor and Rebecca Gerry.  

So, who were the bio parents of Franklin & Barbara Plummer?

Franklin Plummer's birth record says that his parents were Daniel & Leona.  Daniel would have been a 55 year old father, I guess that's possible.

Barbara Plummer does not have a birth record under that name.  As stated above, if her birth parents were Daniel & Leona, Daniel would have been 60 years old at the time.  It's been stated by the family that Barbara was definitely adopted.  From other records, I've learned that she was born 10 Sep 1923.  I cannot find a Maine Birth Record from that date that has the first name Barbara.

Barbara married Arnold Mayberry (1924-1994) of Windham.  Arnold's parents were Leroy Mayberry and Marion E. SHAW (1901-1982).  No relation to Leona's husband Charles G. Shaw.

Daniel Plummer, Barbara's adoptive father, was brother to William Herbert Plummer of Raymond.  Barbara was a long time 'cousin' and friend to the family next to the Raymond farm, and ended up owning more of the Plummer land in the 70s.  Barbara was known as the lady with the pet capuchin monkey that terrorized the family who came to visit.

Emily Morrill of Portland

 

EMILY N. MORRILL-MORGAN-HALL

(ca 1890)

Emily N. Morrill (1844 – 1900) was my 2nd great grandmother.  She was born in Portland, the youngest of nine children born to Jonathan & Sally Morrill, who were originally from Tuftonboro, NH, but had relocated to Portland to be closer to family (who were the namesake of Morrill's Corner).

Emily grew up in the East Bayside District of Portland, living most of her youth at 62 Washington Street.

At age 21 in 1865, she married William Sanford Morgan, ("Sanford") a Civil War veteran from Winterport, Maine, who had just finished a storied turn of service in the Navy, working on the famed USS Kearsarge.  Just after the wedding, they moved to Peaks Island, and had their first of three daughters, my great grandmother, Hattie Temm, pictured left.

In 1869, Emily & Sanford moved back to East Bayside, settling in next door to Emily's family on Washington Avenue.  There they had their second daughter, Adelaide (pictured left, who married George Simpson and later Presbury Dennison, and had one daughter, Emily Simpson-Pease).

From 1873-1877, they owned a house on 8 Madison Street, around the corner from the previous house.  There they had their youngest daughter, Abigail, pictured left, who never married.

6-8 Madison Street
Portland, ME
(1924)
(Property was razed for newer residential development)

From 1877-1880, William owned property in Scarborough on West Beech Ridge Road.  Their daughter Hattie later moved to that area when she started her family with John Henry Temm of that area.  I wonder if this three year period is when Hattie met John.

In 1880, they lived at 22 Greenleaf Street.  The building is now a housing project (likely since Urban Renewal).

22 GREENLEAF STREET (2022)

In 1881, they didn't appear in Portland directories.  It's possible they moved back to Scarborough for the year or two, since they sold the property in 1883.  From 1883 to 1885, they lived at 26 Lowell Street and 49 Green Street in Portland.

By 1886, Emily and William appear to have separated.  City Directories have her living at 46 Hanover Street, with William living at 69 Danforth Street.

In 1887, William & Emily divorced (due to his constant drinking) and Emily moved Addie & Abbie to 27 Everett Street.  Hattie had already moved out a couple years prior, having married her first husband, James Downey, and they were living on 5 Vine Street at the time (now Pearl Street).  Upon divorce, William moved in with Hattie & James for a while.

27 Everett Street
(1924)

27 Everett Street
(2022)

Both William and she remarried at the end of the 19th Century.  Emily's 2nd husband was neighbor and childhood friend Joseph G. Hall, a carriage painter (and brother to her niece Naomi's husband Edward Hall from the East Bayside neighborhood).  They married in 1891, and moved on 123 Cumberland Avenue, right around the corner from where her mother (then widowed) was living on 21 Cleeve Street.  

123 Cumberland Avenue
(2022)

Emily's husband Joseph died in 1895, and then Emily died in 1900 of hemiplegia.  Her first husband William lived until 1920.  Everyone is buried at Forest City Cemetery in South Portland.

PEASE / HALL LOT
Forest City Cemetery
Left to Right:
Unknown Baby Grave
Abigail and Adelaide
Emily N. Morrill Hall
Joseph G. Hall

Below is a pedigree for Emily.

Unfortunately, due to New Hampshire's lack of records, I've yet to go back three generations for her.  She appears to be fully English.