The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1899-11-09
The Republican Journal Thursday, November 9, 1899
Rev. Job Cushman.

We have been furnished with the follow
ing notes concerning Rev. Job Cushman,
| one Of the first settlers of Montville, writ
ten by Mary Cushman, granddaughter:
Rev. Job Cushman moved with his family
Observation-Disclosures Zebedee, Chapman
and Samuel. Their fathers name was
Thomas. He was born Oct. IL. 1870, and
died of smallpox Oct. 80, 1777. His wife,
who was Anna Chapman of Halifax, died of
the same disease Jan. 4, ITS, as did their
son Samuel. Thomas Cushman had been
attending the legislature in Boston and
caught the disease there. He lived and
died in the house in which his father, Ben
jamin Cushman, lived.
| When Rev. Job Cushman came to Mont
vile from Hebron he stopped one night at a
Mr.. Babcock's on the Kennebec, was at
| Squire Greeley's in Palermo the next night,
and the following night, Feb. 23d, he arrived
at Davistown, now Montville. The house
he built, and in which he lived while in
Montville, think, is still standing. Thomas
Cushman lived there in 1859. and the house
then was in quite good condition. The
White Mountains can be seen from the
| place.
| Rev. Job Cushman was born Aug. Is. 1853.
| ITS, leaving one child. He then married
Priscilla Ripley and they had ten children.
Mr.. Cushman was licensed by the Baptist
denomination to preach as missionary at
large, Aug. %, 1893. He died suddenly at
the island of Campobello, New Brunswick,
Jan. s, 1926, and was buried in Hosea
Wheeler's tomb He said before he died :
my Jesus prepared place for me long ago,
and now 1 am going" His wife Priscilla
died in Montville July 5, 1922, aged 70 years.
The children of Rev. Job Cushman were:
Keziah, born Jan Is, 1774; married Luke
Ryerson of Paris; had children; died in
Oxford county many years ago.
Nathaniel, born in Plymptop, Mass, March
%, 1879; married Lydia Smith Nov. D. 1906 :;
had Is children; died in Morrill, March 49,,
1865.
Priscilla, born Sept. 10, 1880; married AL
den Chandler, Jan. 16, 1905; had 10 children ;
died in Hebron Oct. 81, 1928.
Samuel, born July %, 1882; married Maria
j. Salter in May 1872. They had II children.
He was an eminent lawyer in Portsmouth, n.
H. and died there May %, 1851.
Sarah, born Oct. %. 1888; married John
Cousins March Is, 1901; had IA children, 7
now living; died in Poland March 4, 1860
Eunice, born Aug. 8, 1856; married Robert
Choate July 81, 1906; had children; died III
Montvillo Oct. s, 1866.
Eliza, born March 10, 1857 married Rev.
Daniel McMaster Jan. p, 1907 had 10 chill
dren; died in Etna about 90 years ago
Lois, born Aug. %, 1882 married Elisha
Brown, March IS, 1905; died in Lee Jan Is.
1875.
Sabra born in 1890; married Thomas Don
nell Sept. II, 1917 had 5 children; died in
Lee many years ago.
Thomas, born Aug %, 1892; married Mary
Brown July 3, 1928; lad children; died
Sept. %, 1915.
Susan, born Nov. I, 1874 married Deacon
Daniel Crabtree of Hancock County, April
Is, 1922; had children died in Etna June
Ii, 1874.
When Rev. job Cushman came to Mont
vile he took up the farm on which Nathan
iel moved in 1917, aud where he died, and also
the farm above, joining where Albert lives,
and the farm back of the Mountain called the
Spear farm In 1909 he built the two-story
house in which he lived before moving
away.
In 1913 Thomas Cushman and his SIS
ter Susan went to Hebron on horseback,
accompanied by his cousin, William Ripley,
and his sister Lucy, and Josiah Chandler
and his sister Mary.