and cheerful smile. To repeat words spoken by the clergyman at his funeral exercises: "Though a member of no church, he was a thorough christian man, one who lived it in his every day life in all its fullest sense and meaning." His widow survives him, having lived with her son-in-law on the same farm until 1897, when they removed to Buckfield. ESTELLA A. BARRELL, unmarried, has always made her home with her mother. MANDANA A. BARRELL', dau. of Alden Barrell, b. Sept. 17, 1857, m. July 4, 1879, Walter Hayford', b. Hartford, Sept. 22, 1857. They have one child: Leslie Alden Hayford, b. July 2, 1883. (For record of this family see son of Sumner Hayford on preceeding pages.) MELVINA F. BARRELL', dau. of Alden Barrell, b. Oct. 25, 1860, m. Mar. 6, 1886, Herbert F. Irish, b. Hartford, Me., Dec. 22, 1855. They have no children. Herbert F. Irish, having acquired a good education, became a teacher, and was very successful in this calling. Later, he settled on the farm formerly owned by the father and grandfather of his wife. He made extensive improvements and added largely in acres to its extent. He held several town offices, was on the board of selectmen and assessors several years. In every position in life he has well and faithfully performed his duties and won esteem from all. Recently he purchased a farm in Buckfield, where he now resides, and with his family are the widow Barrell and daughter, Estella. His wife is an estimable lady, a fit helpmeet and companion. PASCHALL BARRELL, Jr., son of Betsy Hayford, b. Mar. 30, 1837, d. May 12, 1863, at Washington, D. C., m. July 29, 1858, Elizabeth Bartlett of Hartford, Me. They had no children. Paschall Barrell, Jr., was living in Aroostook Co., Me., when the civil war broke out, having taken up a lot of land and built him a log house in a small clearing he had made in a township of wild land near the present thriving village of Caribou. He taught schools winter seasons and worked on a farm the remainIder of the year. He was a good scholar and a steady, industrious, exemplary young man. Wishing for better opportunities, he decided to locate in this new and largely unsettled territory, and clearly conceiving the wondrous growth that must inevitably come to this portion of the State at an early day, he, with two cousins and several other bright and promising young men. from Canton and Hartford, emigrated to this locality and had commenced in the heart of the wilderness to hew them out homes and farms. They all entered service during the war, and several never lived to return, he among the number. He died May 12, 1863, having given his life that this government might be preserved. JEANNETTE BARRELL, dau. of Betsy Hayford, b. May 20, 1844, m. May 8, 1864, Augustus Ellis of Hartford, b. Mar. 22, 1847, d. Apr. 6, 1889. They had four children: "Anna Bell Ellis, b. June 9, 1868, d. May 9, 1887. 'Jennie E. Ellis, b. Jan. 23, 1869, d. Sept. 15, 1892. "Susan H. Ellis, b. Feb. 24, 'Bertha A. Ellis, b. Oct. 6, 1873, d. May 18, 1892. Jeannette (Barrell) Ellis soon after marriage moved on a farm in Turner, Me., in the same neighborhood and adjoining the farm that Senator Eugene Hale was born and lived on during his youth. Since the death of her husband in 1889, she has continued to live there and has most successfully managed and carried on this farm, which is one of the best in Turner. She is an exceedingly worthy, intelligent and useful member of society. BERTHA A. ELLIS', dau. of Jeannette Barrell, b. Oct. 6, 1877, m. June 19, 1895, William A. Greene of Turner, Me. They have one child: Eldred Greene, b. Feb. 1, 1898. OTIS HAYFORD", son of Zeri, b. Hartford, Me., Sept. 14, 1802, d. Mar. 23, 1871, m. Feb. 25, 1827, Alvira Hayford, dau. of Gustavus Hayford, b. Nov. 27, 1805, d. Oct. 19, 1882. They had five children: "Adela F. Hayford, an infant, d. Apr. 13, 1829. Adela F. Hayford, b. Oct 4, 1830, d. Feb. 25, 1831. "Celestia Hayford, b. Feb. 6, 1832, d. July 22, 1850. Otis Hayford, Jr., b. May 10, 1834, m. Amanda M. F. Phinney, "George O. Hayford, b. Mar. 1, 1840, d. Oct. 5, 1840. Otis Hayford when but fourteen years of age was rendered lame by reason of a fever sore upon his knee, and though in manhood of large stature, being six feet in height and weighing 250 pounds, he was always crippled in the use of that limb. When but eleven years of age his parents moved from Hartford into a little log cabin, the first building erected on the site where now stands Canton village. He related this incident: At first there were no windows or doors to the cabin and they hung up blankets to keep out the cold. Later, when these wants had been supplied, one cold night in winter, high winds blew the snow severely through the cracks and openings between the logs, and his mother took her straw bed which they were lying on, and with the contents filled in and closed as best she could the larger and more open spaces, thus protecting her children in a measure from the cold blasts of the storm. He and his brother, Zeri, Jr., at the respective ages of fourteen and nine, felled the first trees in a clearing that afterwards became the homestead of his parents and three generations since. When he became of age he entered the first and then the only store in the village and soon after purchased the stock and from that time until shortly previous to his death, continued in active service. He erected the first clapboard and shingle mill, foundry and potash factory; all of which he managed in connection with his store. He also engaged in manufacturing farming implements, and at one time owned and operated the saw mill and grist mill. He was always a dilligent and successful business man, and aided largely in building up Canton village, foremost in every good enterprise in its earliest days. Conscientious in the highest degree, he was the first merchant in this section to refuse to keep for sale or in any manner use spirituous liquors; this when his best customers said and believed that no one could succeed in trade without. He remained a strict temperance man through life. He lived, loved and esteemed by all, and died honored and blessed for his useful life of honest and upright endeavors. In the year 1832 he built a nice residence in Canton, the first and last he ever owned and occupied, which is now standing on the same spot, in good repair, and is owned and occupied by his grandson, Wilder O. Hayford, and family. During the last years of his life he and his wife lived winter seasons in Dorchester, Mass., returning to spend the summer season at their old home. When quite young, 23 years of age, he was commissioned justice of the peace and solemnized many of the marriages of the first settlers in this community, and as it may be of some interest to their descendants, I transcribe the following list of parties married by him. |