Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1905-11-08

Mary Horton Oct. 2, 1875; he died Sept. 10,
1913 aged n years. Children:
/, Samuel, born April /, 1857; married
Rebecca Cross
2. Mary, born March is, 1889; married
Lewis II. Green.
| vi. Elizabeth, born Jan. 10, 1773; mar
ried Nathan Arnold; died July 20, 1919.
| The first remembrance the writer has OF
the "Coggin lott was when Capt. Isaac
Merrill built the house now standing in
1881, and the barn a year after. Capt.
Merrill was the son OF Caleb and Betsey
tCandage) day Merrill, widow of James
Day; born May 8, 1904. He was sea
captain, who married Louisa Clough,
daughter of Asa and Abigail (Pecker)
clough, August %, 1881; she was born
Sept ~. 1911; died August %, 1S47 leaving
children as follows:
l. Caroline Carr, born Oct 20, 1892.
| 2. Juliet NJ, born Oct. II, 1884.
3. William Horace, born Feb. %, 1896
4. Paris Granville, born Jan. %. 1882
5. Mary Louisa, born Dec. 5, 1871.
| 8. Abby Pecker, born Jan. 9, 1874.
| Capt. Merrill married End Joanna S.
Hinekley. July IL, 1851, to whom was born
son, 7, Frank Pearl Wallace, March 10,
| 1855. Capt. Merrill sold his place and
removed to the village, where he died Dec.
is, 1881, aged n years., z months, 10 days.
''Coggin lot" has been owned and occupied
by Mr.. Conary and others.
| The next house and place was that OF
James Csndage. who built the house that
was standing until few years ago, some
| where about 1900. James Candage was
| the son of James and Elizabeth Candage,
who settled upon the Neck in 1865 from
Beverly. Mass, born May 8, 1853; married
Hannah, daughter of John Roundy, April
| 13, ITO; she was born at Beverly, August
4, 1853; died March II, 1851, aged 81 wears,
months, s days; he died Jan. u, 1919,
| aged 85 years and months. Their chill
| dren were:
l. Elizabeth, born Sept. IS, 1775; mar
ried Samuel Morse
Ii. Samuel Roundy, born Jan. 10, 1881;
married Phebe Ware Parker, widow Of
William Walker.
Ill. Gideon, born August is, 1888; mar
rieu Safah Stinson,
". Sarah, born Jan. 4, 1856; died March
II. 1874.
V. James, born May l, 17ss; died
August /, i79s.
VI. Azor, born April s, 1871; married
| Chloe Parker.
VII. John, born Dec. 81, 1898; died
August Q, fT9s.
The farm Of James Candage contained
about hundred acres, extending from the
tide mill pond westward over the fields,
| pastures and hedges to Mother Bush pond.
He was half owner OF the tide mills and,
for that period, well to do.
The house in which he lived was divided
into two parts, the western half being
| occupied by himself, his wife and daugh-
| ter Sarah and the other half by his son
Azor and family.
Azor Candage was a schoolmaster In his
younger days, fine writer with the quill
pen and something of a carpenter and
joiner. He was also justice OF the peace
and aided those who needed his services in
making out deeds and other legal papers,
but in the boyhood of the writer he
depended chiefly upon the products OF the
| farm for support, the whole OF which
came to him upon the death OF his father
in 1919. His mother and sister Sarah,
however, had certain rights in the prop
erty during their lives, and lived in the
house until their death.
He married Chloe Parker Sept. %, 1915;
she was born Oct. IL, 1875; daughter of
Joshua and Elizabeth (Chandler) Parker,
granddaughter of Col. Nathan and Mary
| (wood) Parker, and great-granddaughte
OF Joseph Wood, the first settler. Her hus-
band, Azor Candsge, was descended from
James Candage, ST., and John Roundy, ST.,
two Of the early settlers. Their children
were:
/. Harriet Newell, born April "a, 1915;
married Phineas Dodge; died Oct. q, 1879.
2. Joshua Parker, born July s, 1919;
married Belinda B. Slower; died Nov. 15,
1870.
3. Elizabeth, born April q, 1922; died
August Is, 1893.
4. John, born June 5, 1925; died Sept.
20, 1926.
8. Hannah Roundy, born Sept. s, 1877;
| died unmarried at Newburyport, Mass.
q. Mary Isabella, born Nov. IS, 1881;
married Mr.. Bardsley, of Rhode Island.
7. Julia Eveline, born April 6, 1898;
married Mr.. Wakefield, OF Massachusetts.
s. Elizabeth Walker, born Nov. 1885;
married Marshall Harding. Azor Candage,
head of this family, died Nov. II, 1854, and
Chloe, his widow, May 20, 1870, in her
10th year.
After their death the old house was oc-
cupied by Phineas Dodge his wife and
family during his life, and by his widow
until short time before her death. The
| barn was sold and moved away and the
old house finally succumbed to the raw
| ages of time and was torn down. At this
| writing there are no buildings standing,
and the land that once composed the farm
has passed into other hands.
The children of Phineas and Harriet