Gideon Straw

  General Notes:

VR Of Newfield, ME

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Name: Gideon Straw
Spouse's Name:Lucy Staples
Event Date: 03 Nov 1827
Indexing Project (Batch) Number:I00757-9
System Origin: Maine-EASy
GS Film number:12325
Reference ID: yr 1822-1850 p 7

per cenus 1850 of Newfield, ME the household is as follows:
Gideon Straw ae 46 born Maine born c1804
Lucy Straw ae 47 born Maine born c1803
Elizabeth Straw ae 72 -born NH Gideon's mother Elizabeth Blaisdell Straw
Charles Straw ae 10 born Maine born c1840
Mary More [Moore] ae 44 born Maine- Unknown who Mary More is..but she stays consistently with this family [1860 with Gideon and 1870 with Harriet Straw Staple Durgin and in 1880 again with Harriet and this time is listed as MIL indicating she is the "mother" of Harriet]

Newport Daily News | Newport, Rhode Island | Friday, February 15, 1850
A wild cat 4 feet 3 inches long was shot from the top of a tree seventy feet high in Newfield, Maine by Gideon Straw

1860 census Newfield, York County, Maine
Gideon age 56
Mary Moore age 54 - housekeeper
Has Lucy died?
also in HH are the following:
John Staples age 33 born c1827 - married c1846
Isabella Staples age 31 born c 1829 - nee Smith
John H Staples age 12 born c 1848
Willie H Staples age 5 born c 1855
Betsey STRAW age 82 (mother of Gideon)
Lydia Smith age 69 born c. 1791 (possible mother of Isabella?)

1870 Newfield, York County, Maine
John Staples age 43 ME (Feb 1826)
Isabella Staples age 41 ME [Isabella Smith born Waterboro, ME]
John H. Staples age 22 ME
Willie H. Staples age 16 ME
Betsey STRAW age 93 ME
Gideon STRAW age 68 ME
Annie STRAW age 8 born c1862
Benjamin Smith age 26 ME - works on farm born 1844
Across the street is Gideon's brother Lowell and family.
Near neighbors are Daniel STRAW (c1807) family and the John F. Moore family -where Mary A Moore now lives.

1880 -can't locate Gideon (deceased?) John Staples family still living in Newfield and have added a daughter, Annie W. Staples born c1862/3 who may be the Annie STRAW in above census of 1870.

Nathan Hale Cemetery Collection - bur Carpenter Cemetery

Gideon married Lucy Staples, daughter of Staples and Unknown, on 18 Nov 1827 in Newfield, York County, Maine. (Lucy Staples was born circa 1803 in Waterborough, York County, Maine and died before 1860.)

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Gideon next married Maria Carpenter, daughter of Nathaniel Carpenter and Lydia Davis, in 1867-1873 in Maine. (Maria Carpenter was born on 30 Mar 1802 in Waterboro, York County, Maine, died on 13 Dec 1873 in Waterboro, York County, Maine and was buried in Carpenter Cemetery in Waterboro, York County, Maine.)

  Marriage Notes:

Gideon married to Lucy in 1850 census