Abby Agnes Chandler

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1860 Dexter, Penobscot County, Maine
Josiah Chandler age 47 ME
Elizabeth Chandler age 45 ME
Emma Chandler age 8 ME
Abbie Chandler age 2 ME

1880 Dexter, Penobscot County, Maine
Josiah Chandler age 67 ME
Elizabeth Chandler age 65 ME
Abbie Chandler age 29 ME
Charles C. Chandler age 19 ME

1900 she is still in Dexter as HOH; single; age 49 and a school teacher.

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The Eastern Gazette 4-14-1949
Charter Member Of
Literary Club Dies
Mrs. Abby Chandler Corey, widow of the Rev. J. Albert Corey, died in a private nursing home in Portland on April 2. She had resided in Portland about 25 years.
Mrs. Corey, a native of Dexter, attended Dexter schools and was graduated in 1878 from the Maine Wesleyan Seminary College, now Kents Hill, the first New England institution of its day, where a woman could obtain a college degree.
Then for some years Miss Chandler tenderly cared for an aging mother and father. In 1894 she began teaching Latin in Dexter High School, where she showed exceptional ability as a teacher and friend of her pupils.
She was married to the Rev. J. Albert Corey at Dexter in 1911. She was a true helpmate in pastorates in Searsport, Intervale, N. H., and Eliot, Maine, where Mr. Corey died in 1915.
She returned to the teaching field for about five years in Beaver College, Beaver, Pa., where the Rev. Horace Haskell was president.
For years Mrs. Corey has been the only living charter member of the Dexter Woman's Literary Club founded May 6, 1880. On the 60th anniversary of the club in 1940, she received the Pioneer Club woman's bronze medal. She also was a member of the Portland Urban Literary Club, the W. C. T. U. and the Clark Memorial Methodist Church.
Surviving are a step-daughter, Mrs. Harry Brook, Ocean Park; stepson, Howard Corey, Boston; two nephews, Raymond Chandler, South Portland and Clayton Chandler, Watertown, Mass.
Note: Rev. Joseph Albert Corey married 1st. Carry N. Howe b.1855 of Preston Conn. in 1876, They had five children, two died as infants, Ethel in 1884 and Beulah Ellen in 1886. Others children are Ruth b. 1879, Howard b. 1882, and Verna A. Corey, b. 1891.
Carrie N. Howe Corey, d. 1910, followed by oldest daughter Ruth. In 1911 Rev. Joseph Albert Corey married Abby Chandler at Dexter Maine. He died in 1915 and is buried in Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, South Portland Maine. Abby has a marker in Elmwood Cemetery in Dexter Maine, but could be buried at Mt. Pleasant Cemetery Portland Maine.(See Memorial #77734326)

Abby married Rev. Joseph Albert Corey in 1911 in Dexter, Penobscot County, Maine. (Rev. Joseph Albert Corey was born in Aug 1855, died in 1915 and was buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery in South Portland, Maine.)

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