Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-28
pENsIoNER OF 1912 WAR.
Mrs. Roxanna Goose of Camden 9TH
Active at 81.

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Becausn hcr husband helped protect
Cane Ann from British invasion III the
War of 1872. Mrs. Roxanna Goose oil
Camden receives from Uncle Sam every
| third month q check for S3o.
Althoupb Mr.. Goose was 81 when nc
died his name never appeared ON the
! pension rolls. His application had peer
/ pending two years ana ne h"a iUuno
| his eternal resting place in the village
/ cemetery when the department ut''"eo
| that his claim was just one. ieii II
/ was that belated recognition came Il
/ the form of Il Widows pension AT iht
! rate of S per month, and BACK pay
amounting to about 500. Later '''
! pension VAS increased TO $l2 PEI
month.
Mrs. Goose WAS Is when she was
married and her husband was 80 years
her senior experienced in matrmohla
ventures hy virtue of having had two
wives. He died nearly 80 years ago, ana
il is not surprising that Mrs. Goose
has only a haZy recollection of fenllh
iscences handed down from a war tha'
had found it's place in history IL years
before she was born.
Her husband was evidently gallant
fighter. for she recalls hearing hlm lel
of numerous persons he helped take.
At 81 Mrs Goose is a woman oil
marked personality friend of ill'
doctors, to whom she never paid OIL
larger. than Si7 at any one time. Hel
physical condition has been what the
medical men term "distreSslnglN
healthfuL" Her only ailment Wher
The Courier Gazette reporter called
few DAYS ago was an attack of dyspep-
sia. not sufficient. however. To prevent
her from engaging daily in her beloved
housework.
Mrs Goose was born in Belmont july
I. 1Asa. Her father. David Laid, was 4
Wcu-known farmer and had an old
fashioned family Il 10 children.
At ~ Roxannas fame as a worker
became we'll known in the community
and a certain avaricious woman seugh1
| to realize on il The child was requir
| Cd H. do houseWurk milk cows. anC
| sllend her evenings knitting. For TIA,
| last-uamed work her employer was
too frugal to provide a candle. and aft
er ,E.ntting II pairs of stockings ant
% psirs OF miteens by the light from
the fireplace. and all this without pay
she went back home.
Robert Goose To whom size Was mar
ried in 1913 was IL shoemaker. ans
| Travelled fFofn place to place, III eonse-
! quenfe of which Mrs. Goose has had a
home in various parts OF Waldo county
At that time there were but few
| houses III the present town OF Cam
den. ana her husband, she says could
have bought Sor $i00 all If the present
village of Roekport. He had the
money. but not the perception to see
that It would enc day he a thriving
| town.
When sae was 20 Mrs. Goose fen
down the cellar stairway and sustained
a broken hip. which, after many weeks
in bed. left her with a tamencss from
which she has never completely reeoN-
cred.
At go. widow. she worked for .
| family Of T.. From the time she was
| 81 until she WAS Sc she knitted 400
pairs OF mitteus in addition To doing
the lam.ly washing and other house
| work Though never a church member
her hong life has been that OF con-
sistout christian woman and she has
walked five mites many sundays in
order to attend the congregational
church
Last month when She left stockton
| Springs Ia make her home with her
granddaughter she walked nearly two
miles 20 say goodbye To neigEbers
Whora she Hay never see again. Her
present residence is with Mrs. Il. :.
Tyler At IL Chestnut street, and her
declining years are being spent amid
tho plcasIntcst surroundings.
She arises ut and retires regularly
at s p. NJ. She is very fond Of fiction
and when the reporter called she was
absorbed in The Shepherd of the
HIS" Nearby was a child's socl
which she had just knit-an artistic
Piece Of work.
She is very fond of writing to he
relatives, and her letters show remark
able penmanship. 1t is one of he
mild boasts that she never smoked
took snuff, or even danced. Il CUES
have been too busy to indulge il
such follies," she said.
Mrs. Goose has three children Mrs
Il. A. Knight Of Camden, Mrs. Harrie
Decker Of Islesboro and Aurelius L
Goose Of Stockton Springs. She ha
IL grandchildren and 20 great grand
children Rockland Courier Gazette.
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