Greenville, Maine Genealogy -- USGENWEB Project

Young and Hamilton

by Marie Hamilton Marrier, WMarrier@aol.com

        My great great grandparents Elijah and Mary H. (Kusseu) Young are buried in the Greenville Cemetery  in the family plot along with Hiram Young, their daughter Nancy and my great aunt Bertha (Bertie) Hamilton who died in Greenville in 1890 while on a trip visiting her grandparents of diptheria. She was from Omro, Wi. west of Oshkosh in Eastern Wisconsin on Lake Winnebago. I descend from Eiljah and Mary's daughter Mehitable who married James Sumner Hamilton brother of Jason A. Hamilton in 1866. Mehitable was a graduate of Munson Academy and had worked in Civil War hospitals in Washington DC during the war. She was born in Greenville in 1836. Her parents were some of the first settlers. Elijah gave the land for the first church in Greenville and her uncle Thomas purchased the first pew. There is a memorial window to Elijah and Mary in the Greenville Junction Methodist church in the back of the church. After James and Mehitable married they moved to Omro west of Oshkosh in Winnebago County Wisconsin. Mehitable had been a pioneer in Greenville with her parents. She indeed was a remarkable lady.

        Elijah and his brother Thomas Jr. came from the Hollis area in York County Me. They purchased their land from Saco Academy. Thomas' farm is now owned by Jake Morrell who I have corresponded with. He has sent me a picture of the farm and a description of it. I also have land records from the 1830's. I have been helped by Pat Johnson of the Shaw Library and Linda McBriarty of the high school library. I am currently in the process of writing my narrative of the Hamilton- Young family.

          I have a copy of Gerald Hamilton's book on Greenville. I hope, I piqued your curiosity about my Greenville lineage.

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