Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1905-11-29

The next occupant OF the Clay house
was Robert Parker Candage, brother Of
James, son OF Samuel r. and Phebe w.
Csndage, born Oct 2B, 1872; married Feb.
10. 1850, Sarah Elizabeth Parker, his cousin
and sister to Mary, his brother James
wife. Their children were:
1. Burt Henderson, born, Nov. %, 1850;
married Emma Madura Conary.
2. Mabel Allen, born Oct. "a, 1852; mar
ried William Preston Wood; home in
Florida.
3. Joanna Stanley, born July "a, 1856;
married Albert II. conary.
4. Caroline Walker, born Jan. 20, 1859;
married Brooks Gray
5. Mary Augusta Cory, born April 90,
1881; unmarried.
8. Phebe Ware, born Jan. 3, 1869; mar
ried Irving 8. Candsge,
Upon the death OF his father, this house
and part of the farm came into Robert
F. Candage's possession, and in 1t and
those OF his heirs 1t has remained until
the present time. Robert, like the rest of
his brothers, was a sailor and master OF a
vessel nearly all his manhood. He died
Jan. 81, 1878, aged fifty-fye years and three
months. He was strong, powerful man,
stood six feet and an inch in height, and
until within year or two OF his death,
when exposure and oyerwork had en-
ieeblsd his strength, he knew not the sig
niicance of the word fear. Since his
death the place has been occupied by his
widow, now in poor health, but for many
years postmstress at Biuehili Falls.
On the lot practically, and less than $50
feet from the house, stands the school
house OF the district, built in 1915 by
Simeon p. Wood, by contract, in which
the writer attended winter school under
the teachings of C. c. Long, Fred A.
Darling and others.
Across the road from the schoolhouse Is
the cellar OVER which il is said the house
Of Joseph Wood stood which he built,
when he removed from the island at the
Fore Falls. In that house 1t is supposed
that Col. Rufus Putnam, the founder OF
Ohio, later was entertained in the year
1885, when he came TO this place from sur
yeying Black and White islands in Egge-
moggin Reach, ceeded to the penobscot
Indians by the Massachusetts, general
court.
He brought with him unburnt coffee ber-
ries, which he asked Mrs. Wood, rs tradi-
ton relates, to make into coffee. She had
never before seen coffee, and he gave her
no instructions. She put the berries into
a kettle with water and hung II over the
fire to cook, every little while looking to
see II they grew soft. In dispair she
served them nj meal time, saying 10 Col.
Putnam, ~ have cooked that coffee long
time, bnt cannot make it grow soft, and I
am afraid you won't like it," What reply
the Colonel made, ''Tradition sayeth not, 4"
or whether he ''liked it" as joke, the
record is silent.
The people OF the place drew up petit
ton to the general court and entrusted II
to Cot Putnam to present, praying to be
relieved of heavy taxes oecasioned by the
Revolutionary war which they were not
able TO pay, and the petition proved sue
cessful. Col. Putnam effected the first
white settlement in what IL uow the great
state OF Ohio, at Marietta, on April Z,
lTss, by people mostly led by ham from
Essex county, Mass, twenty-five years
after the settlement VAS made at the island
here at the Fore Falls.
Capt. Joseph Woods lot probably in
cluded what was afterwards the Sinclair
lot, as there are found in the town records
certain aiinsions 90 Capt. Woods point,
distinctly from tbs poiu; at the Tide Mills.
And in the ooyhoo'i OF the writer a cellar
was to be seen opposite the Sinclair
house where once had stood house.
The place opposite the sehoolhouse, after
Capt. Wood had removed from it, mus,
have been occupied by his SOD Israel, Is on
the land were apple trces bearing .he
names OF ''Joe Tree. "HAnnah Tree, -
Lois Tree" etc, named for the children
of Israel; they still bors those names