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Lost at Sea
John Hamor II, brother of Bathsheba, married Mary Rodick, a sister of Daniel Rodick, at Kennebunkport and had five children. Their oldest boy, David, was eleven years old when, in 1768, John Hamor II took his family in a little vessel to Hull's Cove, Mt. Desert Island, and built a house. John Hamor was the first settler on the Frenchman's Bay side of the island. The next spring or summer he started in his vessel for his old home, Kennebunkport, and was never seen again. His wife was left with five children. We don't know how many long days, weeks, or months she looked in vain for her husband's return. One day a vessel came with John's two sisters, Bathsheba and Betty, and their husbands Elisha Cousins and Daniel Rodick, and their children.
Daniel Rodick settled on Bar Island; in 1769 Elisha Cousins became the second family to settle on Hull's Cove. John Hamor's widow brought up the five children and lived until May 31, 1814 when she was killed by an accident. What part her brother-in-law, Elisha Cousins, had in helping her we do not know.
Elisha Cousins served in the Rev. War as a sergeant in Capt. Daniel Sullivan's company of volunteers, from July 28 to Sept. 28, 1779. This company served on an expedition against Majorbagaduce (Castine). Elisha Cousins was a moderator, town clerk, selectman, committee member, and a surveyor of boards in Eden (Bar Harbor).
From History of Kennebunkport by Bradbury, page 235: Cousins, Samuel and Elisha, lived in Arundel in 1764, as they paid a poll tax that year. samuel m.Susan Watson and moved to Cape Menan; Elisha m.Bashaba Hamer and moved to Harpswell. They probably live on Cousins' Point, near Turbat's Creek.
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Elisha Cousins, Jr.
b.May or March 23, 1773 Hull's Cove, s.o Elisha Cousins, Sr. and Bathsheba Hamor
d.Sept. 25, 1850
m.Thankful (Hopkins) Wasgatt
b.July 28, 1772, d/o Joseph Hopkins and Mary Higgins
d.Jan. 23, 1852
Thankful had two children, William and Eleanor, by her first husband, William Wasgatt.
Elisha and Thankful had 8 children, all born at Hull's Cove:
Mary Cousins b.Oct. 11, 1799 m.(1)Giles Hayes; m.(2)Noah Murch of Oak Point
CHILDREN of Mary and Noah:
Lewis Murch b.abt.1830
Elisha Murch b.abt.1830
Joseph Cousins b.Dec. 22, 1801 m.(1)Sarah Anderson; m.(2)Mrs. Lydia Smith; m.(3)Hannah Walls
Charles Cousins b.Dec. 17, 1804 m.Hannah Staples; went to Lubec, Maine
Hannah Cousins b.Feb. 7, 1806 m.Eben Phippin
CHILDREN of Hannah and Eben:
Samuel Cousins Phippen b.Aug. 22, 1843 Eden, ME
Charles Phippen b.abt.1840 m.Flora Ladd
Emaline Phippen b.ca.1840
Naham Cousins b.Jan. 30, 1808 d.Mar. 7, 1869 m.(1)Harriett Calwell who d.June 17, 1861; m.(2)Julia Bartlett
CHILDREN of Naham and Harriett included:
Herbert Cousins d.abt. 20-yrs-old
Wellington Cousins b.Oct. 20, 1850 d.1902 age 52 m.1876 to Flora Ladd; after Wellington's death, Flora m.(2)Charles Phippen
CHILDREN of Wellington and Flora:
Herbert Cousins
Agnes Louise Cousins
Helen Cousins b.Feb. 13, 1853 m.Shepland Richardson of Somesville, Mt. Desert; they had one son and three daughters
Aseneth or Asenette Cousins b.Aug. 6, 1810 d.March 15, 1830 abt. age 20, unmarried
Zacheus Higgins Cousins; Capt. b.Oct. 6 or 12, 1812 d.July 18, 1854 Philadelphia, PA. A sea captain; m.May 22, 1843 Eunice Doane Atwood b.Dec. 9, 1815 Orrington, ME d.Nov. 18, 1872
CHILD of Zacheus and Eunice:
Otis E. Cousins b.Aug. 4, 1845 d._________ m.Nov. 21, 1870 Abbie Stanwood Ostrander b.Dec. 9, 1848 d.Dec. 30, 1907 Easton, MA
See Otis' Letter
CHILD of Otis and Abbie:
Albert Howard Cousins b.June 27, 1876 Boston m.Sadee Wine Luttrell(?), b.May 1, 1878 Washington, D.C.
CHILD of Albert and Sadee:
Albert Howard Cousins,Jr., b.Oct. 25, 1907
Maria Louise Cousins b.May 12, 1849 d.aged 6 mos. 11 days
Samuel Higgins Cousins--Sea Captain; b.Apr. 22, 1816 d.Feb. 13, 1900 m.Martha Ann Atwood (sister of Eunice D. Atwood) b.Nov. 10, 1823 Hampden, ME d.Feb. 14, 1896
CHILD of Samuel and Martha:
Howard L. Cousins b.Oct. 25, 1845 m.Kate Clippen or Crippen: They had 5 children; all but one, Ethel Cousins, died in infancy
Elisha Jr. was admitted with his wife to the First Church, Mt. Desert, in 1823
In 1836 Elisha Jr. and his son Nahum had a blacksmith shop on the road to Eden about a mile from the "Narrows" after his mother's death in 1830, and before 1836, he had sold his father's house and land at Hull's Cove and acquired another with a lot of mixed land and salt marsh on the "Western Bay". He was now about 60 or 63 years of age and had spent a considerable part of this life in the care of the old people. His sons, Joseph, Charles, Zacheus, and Samuel all having resorted to the sea.
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Joseph Cousins
b.Dec. 22, 1801 Hulls Cove, ME; s/o Elisha Cousins, Jr. and Thankful Hopkins
m.(1)Dec. 8, 1830 Trenton, Maine, Joanna Anderson
b.1812 Trenton, Maine
d.July 27, 1848; bur. Trenton, ME in Capt. Thomas Anderson Cemetery
m.(2)Mrs. Lydia Smith
m.(3)Hannah Walls
CHILDREN of Joseph and Joan/Joanne:
Frank Cousins b.abt.1830, a mariner who d.single in Trenton 1893
William Edmand Cousins b.Oct. 8, 1833--sea captain who m.and moved to Georgia and later to Iowa
Thomas Francis Cousins b.Oct. 1, 1835 [is this the Frank above???]
Samuel Cousins b.March 4, 1838 --lost at sea
Jacob A. Cousins b.July 27, 1841--lost at sea
Charles Cousins Cousins b.Sept. 11, 1843 d.1908
Joan/Joanna Cousins b.Jan. 17, 1848--died young
CHILDREN of Joseph and Hannah:
Almy Cousins
Laura Cousins
Captain Joseph Cousins married Sarah Anderson. He built a house for his bride on the road just above his father's home. His wife did not like this location, so he hauled the house by ox team down to low water mark, and when the tide came in he floated it across the bay and hauled it about a half mile up the road next to the home of his sister, Mary Murch. After a short stay here, he removed to Long Island Plantation. Following his wife's death, he took the boys on his fishing vessel where they practically grew up. Later in life he settled in Deer Isle.
W.E. Cousins, grandson to Joseph Cousins, believes it is a mistake to say that his grandfather came to Deer Isle--unless possibly for a brief sojourn--but spent his last days on outer Long Island, just east of Swans Island, and thinks he died there and possibly is buried there.
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Charles Cousins Cousins
b.September 2, 1843 Oak Point (Trenton),ME; s/o Joseph Cousins and Joanna Anderson
d.March 1908 Stonington, ME; buried in Woodlawn Cemetery
m.(1)May 12, 1870 Elizabeth Ann Robbins Stinson (Lizzie)
b.1844; d/o Otis Stinson and Martha Dow
d.1876 Green's Landing (now Stonington); buried in Woodlawn Cemetery
m.(2)Dec. 17, 1876 Melissa Elwood (Colby) Davis Holden; Charles was Melissa's third husband.
b.May 27, 1844 Webb's Cove, Stonington, ME; d/o Oliver Lane Colby and Abigail Knowlton
d.Oct. 13, 1920 Stonington, ME
Melissa m.(1)Dec. 4, 1860 Joseph Davis, s/o Joseph Davis of Brooksville
Melissa and Joseph Davis had 4 children:
Floreston I. Quinn Davis b.Sept. 29, 1862; drowned in Boston Harbor Apr. 16, 1888
Charles Barbour Davis b.Mar. 20, 1864 res.Vinalhaven, ME
Elizabeth "Lizzie" Viola Lane (Davis) Pierce b.May 13, 1866 d.1957 res.Boston, MA m.Frederick Pierce
CHILD of Lizzie:
Dorothy Pierce d.1946
Jacob Carlton Davis [called J. Carlton] b.June 4, 1868 res.Boston, MA
Melissa m.(2)Amasa "Samuel" E. Holden, her former teacher
CHILD of Melissa and Samuel Holden:
Amasa Amidon Holden b.Mar. 16, 1872 res.Hillsboro, NH
CHILDREN of Charles and Elizabeth Ann:
Willie Edmund Cousins b.May 21, 1870, d.Dec. 27, 1936 m.June 1, 1895 Sarah Bray d/o Thomas Bray and Percinia Fifield
Percy Atwood Cousins b.Mar. 11, 1872 d.Dec. 29, 1898 unmarried
CHILDREN OF Charles and Melissa:
Jennie Dess Cousins (named for the Schooner "Jennie Dess") b.June 30, 1877 Stonington, ME d.Jan. 30, 1942 Norwich, CT m.June 30, 1897 William Leander Muttart--Clergyman, b. March 14, 1870 Cape Traverse, PEI, Canada, s/o John Leard Muttart (1828-1913) [s/o Charles Muttart (1798-1855) and Margaret Leard (1804-1871)]; and Isabelle (Muttart) (1836-1902) of Prince Edward Island [d/o George Muttart Jr. (1806-1863) and Ann Duncan (1804-1896)]. Jennie and William lived in Concord, NH and then moved to Connecticut.
CHILDREN of Jennie Dess and William:
Ina Belle Muttart b.May 24,1898 Vinalhaven, ME d.March 16, 1958 Norwich, CT
Raymond Chetwin Muttart b.Feb. 1, 1901 Chapatchet, RI d.Jan. 12, 1986 Norwich, CT m.April 3, 1926 Preston, CT Marion Pierce
Esther Elmwood Muttart b.Sept. 30, 1902 Capachet, RI d.April 1, 1987 Norwich, CT m.June 14, 1924 Walter McClimon Preston, CT
Harold Hoffman Muttart b.April 4, 1904 Falmouth, MA d.Dec. 24, 1987 Norwich, CT m.July 3, 1925 Edith Evelyn Pierce, Preston, CT
See Rev. Muttart and Jennie photo here.
Charles Lyman Cousins b.Oct. 4, 1879 d.1914
Robert Knowlton Cousins b. July 31, 1883 d.1930
Ethel Fredrika Cousins b.Sept. 30, 1888 Stonington d.April 1967, res.Ambler, PA m.Sept. 8, 1913 Stephen T. Heath, Jr., s/o Stephen Heath and Emily Frances Kemble, b.Feb. 22,1885 d.Apr. 13, 1938
CHILDREN of Ethel and Stephen:
Virginia Cousins Heath b.June 17, 1920, m.Feb. 15, 1941 William Stuckley Lytle of Pleasantville, PA., b.1915
Elizabeth Kemble Heath b.March 26, 1922, m.Apr. 10, 1944 Robert L. Cummins b.1923; divorced June 1976
Marion Frances Heath b.Feb. 23, 1924 d.Jan. 1998; m.May 13, 1942 Robert Ivan Dixon, son of Percy Ivan Dixon and Mary Ellen Shivie, b.Jan. 17, 1921
NOTES: Charles was named for his Uncle Charles Cousins, hence the Charles Cousins Cousins moniker.
Before coming to Deer Isle, Charles had erected the frame of a house at Oak Point, Trenton. He had been coasting but shifted to a fishing vessel that put in at So. Deer Isle. It was when mackerelling was at its top notch and So. Deer Isle enjoyed the distinction of being one of the thriftiest hamlets on the Maine coast. Together with being well impressed with the outlook and the acquaintance of Otis Stinson's daughter, Lizzie Ann, the Oak Point house was never finished but razed for other uses of lumber instead.
Charles married Lizzie Ann on March 27, 1869. They moved into the house of John Robbins in So. Deer Isle. They then moved into what has been termed "the Cole House" on Mill Hill. It stood where there is now a cleared field, threatened with alders, etc., between "Lovers Lane" and the old road on the summit of Mill Hill. In 1872 they moved from there to Stonington where he purchased about an acre of land.
Lizzie Ann died in 1876 with TB, and is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery. Charles married the widow Melissa Elwood (Colby) Davis Holden, to whom he was published in D.I. Nov. 29, 1876.
See Marion Dixon's Story about her grandparents.
Charles established a trucking business on [the] Island--particularly Stonington--with the aid of his husky son, Charles Lyman, and the help of Percy, and the business was then handed down to the youngest son, Robert (who operated it until his death in 1930)--except the many horses, once trotting down the street, [were] replaced by motor trucks.
Melissa filled out the remainder of Samuel E. Holden's commission as Keeper of Mark Island Light after his death.
See Picture of Mark Island Light ca.1910.
Another news story of Melissa on Mark Island can be found at Colby Family homepage.
See Melissa's Obituary
See Melissa's Picture
See BLN Bio of Amasa: Here
See Amasa's Stories
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Willie Edmund Cousins
b.May 21, 1870, son of Charles C. Cousins and Elizabeth Ann Stinson
d.Dec. 27, 1936 Stonington ME; buried in Woodlawn Cemetary in Stonington
m.June 1, 1895 Sarah Lydia Bray
b.Feb. 5, 1875, dau. of Thomas Cole Bray and Percinia Fifield
d.Mar. 22, 1942
CHILDREN of Willie and Sarah:
Fred William Cousins b.Dec. 29, 1896 d.July 29, 1982 m.1919 Florence Ruth Bridges b.June 22, 1899 d.Sept. 6, 1972; d/o Samuel Bridges and Hattie Conary
CHILD of Fred and Florence:
private (still living)
CHILDREN:
private (still living)
private (still living)
private (still living)
Percy Cousins Cousins b.Apr. 22, 1899 d.May 1940 bur. Stonington m.Nov. 11, 1922 Virgie Ann Lisheness b.Mar. 18, 1896 d.Dec. 2, 1984 at Willards, MD bur. Hew Hope Cemetery, Willards, MD; d/o Frank Lisheness and Hannah Alptena Lee
CHILD of Percy and Virgie Ann:
Claris Nova (Cousins) Chance b.Sept. 17, 1923 m.at Presque Isle Army Air Field, Presque Isle, ME on March 30, 1945 Louie Elza Chance s/o Elza Joseph and Martha (Smith) Chance.
See Claris' Story about Granpa Bill and Her Parents
Woodrow Pershing Cousins b.Sept. 19, 1918 m.Aug. 17, 1939 Clara Jeanette Robbins b.Aug. 26, 1916; dau. of Horace E. Robbins and Ruth Ellen Thompson
CHILDREN of Woodrow and Clara:
Diane Cousins b.Sept. 22, 1940 d.July 3, 1994 m.Bedford E. Redman
CHILDREN of Diane and Bedford Redman
Johnathon W. Redman b. Jan. 20, 1965 d.Dec. 17, 1991 m.Yvonne _______
Steve Redman m.Ann ______
Randy Redman m.Julie ______
Kate Redman m.Robert Warford
Ruth Ellen Cousins b.Oct. 19, 1944 d.Nov. 27, 1944
Frank Cousins
Calvin Cousins
BLN Notes: ...Willie in his younger days, went with his father in the packet and freighting vessel but soon changed to the quarry fad where he ran a hoisting engine on Crotch Island. His feet giving out from excessive straining of arches in holding brake levers, he turned his attention to lighter work in April 1905, so took up restaurant duties with Sadie as cook, in a small store house building he purchased from his father on his dock adjoinging Russ. He prospered here and hen raised the upper story of the house so as to make a commodious suite of rooms which well serve him as home.
Entertaining, honest and of temperate habits, he is esteemed as one of Stonington's best citizens. He was a good patron the Masonic and Pythian fraternities until his duties confined him strictly at home.
During the World War, business in Bath had an extreme inflation due to war vessel contracts, so that he opened a stand there until the boom was over and upon returning to Stonington has adhered steadily to his old stand. Religiouly, he is an extreme liberalist or rationalist and politically a Democrat.
After his mother's death his step-mother, Melissa, loved and cared for him as she did her own.
Virgie Lisheness Cousins (wife of Percy) retired from teaching, mandatory on her 70th birthday, March 18, 1966. Upon her retirement she lived with Claris and Louie in Willards, Md during the winter months and in Maine during the summer, until 1980 then lived with Claris and Louie year-round.
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Charles Lyman Cousins
b.Oct. 4, 1879 Deer Isle, son of Charles C.Cousins and Melissa E. Colby
d.1914 Deer Isle
m.Susie Fifield
b.Mar. 28, 1883, dau. of John Fifield and Mary Hosmer
d.Jan. 7, 1950
See Aunt Susie's Cake Recipe
CHILDREN of Charles Lyman and Susie:
Marion Emily Cousins b.Sept. 18, 1903 d. m.Lincoln James Aikens b.Dec. 2, 1898 South Windham, ME s/o James Aikins and Cora Harlow. (See Lincoln bio here)
CHILDREN of Marion and Lincoln:
Jean Aikins b.March 31, 1930 d. March 14, 1999, See Letter re: Jean
Ann Aikins b.Aug. 22, 1926 d.ca.2000
CHILDREN of Ann:
daughter
daughter
son
C. Lawrence Cousins b.Nov. 10, 1910 d.Jan. 10, 1980 m.Nov. 30, 1936 (private-still living)
CHILDREN of C. Lawrence and wife:
private - still living
Judith Ellen Cousins b.1937 d.Nov. 1994 m.(1)Dr. William H. Austin (divorced) m.(2) Robert Flaherty (divorced)
CHILDREN of Judy and William:
private - still living
Private - still living
private - still living
Ethel Elmwood Cousins b.Jan. 3, 1913 d.Jan. 4, 1917 aged 4-0-1 from indigestion convulsions--having a hydrocephalic tendency.--BLN
BLN Notes: He acquired the old [Cookins?] house and lot adjoining the southern border of the High School lot where he built a nice residence, in which lives his widow today. ...just across the street, he erected a store and [?]overhead where he first set up housekeeping and did a smart grocery business with, for a clerk, the present Clayton Gilley of Rockland, who was succeeded by Leon [Hart?] (son of Walter) now (1928) of Boston. Lyman contracted rheumatic fever which so ruined his health by involvement of the heart that he d.March 18, 1914 at noon from cardiac failure and Bright's disease in the residence where now lives the widow, aged 55-5-14.
Susie m.(2) Robert Knowlton Cousins, a younger brother of Lyman. [soon divorced]
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Robert Knowlton Cousins
b.July 31, 1883/4, son of Charles C. Cousins and Melissa E. Colby
d.1930 (drowned off Barter's Wharf in Stonington)
m.(1)Jan. 1, 1908 Agatha Cole Grindle
b.July 6, 1882 Brooksville, dau. of Elwood Grindle and Emma Limeburner
d.Sept. 16, 1920 (drowned in a well in Stonington)
m.(2)Susie (Fifield) Cousins--his brother's widow(divorced)
m.(3)Martha "Belle" Darling Hamblen
CHILDREN of Robert and Aggie:
Rebecca Imogene Cousins, b. Oct. 11, 1910 Stonington, ME d.Oct. 11, 2002 Deer Isle, ME m.Aug. 25, 1936 Elwood Knight
CHILDREN:
private - still living
private - still living
Robert Elwood Knight b.Oct. 13, 1944 Blue Hill, ME d.Feb. 20, 1988 Georgetown, CT
Helene "Lar" Elwood Cousins b.May 17, 1916 d.Dec. 26, 1986 m.1945 in Honiton, England, Dr. George Vincent Stephens, s/o William George Stephens and Agnes Catherine Baya; b.Jan. 21, 1910 Atlanta GA.
See: Aunt Lar's Stories of growing up in Stonington
See: Helene Cousins' Picture
See: Helene Cousins' Army Picture
CHILD of Helene and George: private-still living
CHILD: private-still living
See: Robert's and Aggie's wedding invitation.
See: Aggie's photo
See: Bob Cousins' Picture
See: Rebecca Cousins Knight's Obituary.
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