1Ancestry.com, Adkins Family Tree.
2Census, Federal 1900, Pequannock, Morris Co., NJ. "Name: David L Greensway
[David Greenaway]
Age: 33
Birth Date: Nov 1866
Birthplace: New Jersey
Home in 1900: Pequannock, Morris, New Jersey
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Head
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name: Nellie Greensway
Marriage Year: 1890
Years married: 10
Father's Birthplace: New Jersey
Mother's Birthplace: New Jersey
Household Members:
David L Greensway 33
Nellie Greensway 25
Ada Greensway 7
Lewi Greensway 1."3Census, Federal 1910, Pequannock, Morris, NJ. "Name: David L Greensway
Age in 1910: 46
Birth Year: 1864
Birthplace: New Jersey
Home in 1910: Pequannock, Morris, New Jersey
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Head
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name: Mildred E Greensway
Father's Birthplace: New Jersey
Mother's Birthplace: New Jersey
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members:
Name Age
David L Greensway 46
Mildred E Greensway 36
Louis H Greensway 11
Russell D Greensway 3
Ethel M Greensway 0
[9/12]."4Census, Federal 1900.
5Census, Federal 1900.
1Census, Federal 1900, Pequannock, Morris, NJ. "Name: Nellie Greensway
[Nellie Greenaway]
Age: 25
Birth Date: Sep 1874
Birthplace: New Jersey
Home in 1900: Pequannock, Morris, New Jersey
[Morris]
Race: White
Gender: Female
Relation to Head of House: Wife
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name: David L Greensway
Marriage Year: 1890
Years married: 10
Father's Birthplace: New Jersey
Mother's Birthplace: New Jersey
Mother: number of living children: 2
Mother: How many children: 2
Household Members:
Name Age
David L Greensway 33
Nellie Greensway 25
Ada Greensway 7
Lewi Greensway."2Census, Federal 1900.
3Census, Federal 1900.
1Census, Federal 1900, Pequannock, Morris, NJ.
1Census, Federal 1900, Pequannock, Morris, NJ.
2Census, Federal 1910, Pequannock, Morris, NJ.
1Census, Federal 1910.
1Census, Federal 1910, Pequannock, Morris, NJ.
1Census, Federal 1910, Pequannock, Morris, NJ. "Mrs. Amy Corby
[Mrs. Amy Carby]
[Mrs. Amy Greensway]
[User-submitted-comment]
Age in 1910: 41
Birth Year: 1869
Birthplace: New Jersey
Home in 1910: Rockaway, Morris, New Jersey
Race: White
Gender: Female
Relation to Head of House: Daughter
Marital Status: Widowed
Father's Name: David Greensway
Father's Birthplace: New Jersey
Mother's name: Katherina Greensway
Mother's Birthplace: New Jersey
Household Members:
Name Age
David Greensway 71
Katherina Greensway 75
Mrs. Amy Corby 41
Evelyn Corby 17."
1Ancestry.com, Adkins Family Tree.
2J Hosking, Facebook message, 7 Dec 2012. "Catherine remarried David Warren Greensway. They had a daughter Amy Catherine Greensway (Nov. 1868 d. 1917)."
1Census, Federal 1910. "Evelyn Corby
[Evelyn Carby]
[User-submitted-comment]
Age in 1910: 17
Birth Year: 1893
Birthplace: New Jersey
Home in 1910: Rockaway, Morris, New Jersey
Race: White
Gender: Female
Relation to Head of House: Granddaughter
Marital Status: Single
Father's Birthplace: New Jersey
Mother's name: Amy Corby
Mother's Birthplace: New Jersey
Household Members:
Name Age
David Greensway 71
Katherina Greensway 75
Mrs. Amy Corby 41
Evelyn Corby 17."
1Census, Federal - 1830 - Morris Co., NJ, Pequanac Twsp, roll m19-82; p. 141. 1830 census lists the following household members:
1 male under 5,
1 male 15-20,
1 female under 5,
1 female 5 - 10,
1 female 15 - 20,
1 female 40 - 50.2May Sommers, May Sommers personal family history of the DeMouths, Written for her children in 1936, unpublished, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711. "Demouth Family History
dated June 1936
This history is of my Mother's ancestors, and my father's what little is known of them.
This story begins many years before the Revolutionary War. It follows down through the years the history of my people, covering a period of about two-hundred years of time.
William Levi was born in Germany in 1737. At the age of thirty he was sold to the English army to fight against the colonists during the Revolutionary War. These Germans were Hessians. William being one of them. They were lured on board the battle-ships to see the interior. Then the gangplanks were lifted and the ships sailed away. William Levi hated the English and got out of fighting every apportunity. He would play off sick at their military drills, etc. One cold night when snow was on the ground he took off his shoes and tied them on his feet, heels front and toes of the shoes facing backwards so the British would think he had gone in the opposite direction! In a short time he safely reached the American lines. Levi was a miller and was following his trade when carried off to America.
After the Revolutionary War ended, he went back to his trade and married a girl by the name of Abigail Mudge who was of English descent. Abigail's grandparents came over to this country on the Mayflower, not sure, and brought with them a pewter platter which they gave to Abigail. This platter many years after was melted and molded into spoons, one of which the writer posesses.
Abigail's second husband was Mr. Lamb, by whom she had two children. He was killed in the Revolutionary War fighting against the English.
There was an incident happened along about this time, no date to make sure when it happened, which shows are folks were in poverty. One dark night a wagon drove up which was loaded with barrels of flour being taken to the British soldiers. One barrel had rolled off and the head broken in. The driver went to the house where some of my folks lived and told them about the broken barrel and said he would give it to them, half or more was still in the barrel and clean. He would give them this barrel if they would remove every trace of the flour that was scattered, in other words, cover his trail. They studied a little. It was abetting and helping an enemy but their family was hungry and no harm could come of it probably, and they accepted the barrel of flour and covered the flour in the road with dust. It was the Colonists that must not know that the British were near. Such is war.
Abigail now a widow marries William Levi the Hessian who was brought to this country on a British warship. We have no proof of this marriage but we have proof of the 1740 marriage first one. This week came the following from Sharon, Conn. The town clerk sends a notice of David Skinner's marriage to Abigail Mudg in 1740. Also D. Skinner died August 12, 1740, her husband.
K. B. Hotaling, Town Clerk
The above item is all the proof we have of the authenticity of our history, all else has been carried down by word of mouth and may be correct and may not be.
Where was Abigail Mudg between 1740 first marriage and 1797 when my grandmother Mariah was born, supposed to be Abigail's child by William Levi. I think a generation was skipped right here. We know the date of 1740 must be trueit coming out of a book of vital statistics. We know 1797 must be correct for my grandmother remembers things she saw in 1800, she was three years old then.
Abigail's name was first Mudg then Skinner, she then married and changed name to Lamb, then married William Levi. Eight children were born to them as follows: William, Oliver, John, Phoeba, Mariah, Betsy, Frances and Elizabeth, twins who died in infancy. William Levi and Abigail his wife spent most of their lives near Sharon, Connecticut.
We drop all these children but Mariah my grandmother. She was born in 1797. She learned to write on birchbark by the light of a fireplace. She learned to spin wool on a tall spinning wheel, being very young and small, her father had to make her a bench on which she would walk back and forth as she spun.
We will now turn to my mother's father's people. Many years before the Revolutionary War, there were a Mr. and Mrs. Demouth who came from Holland and settled in New Jersey. To them was born in1770 a son Jacob.
They owned 300 acres of landabout twenty miles fron New York City. They had but one child, Jacob, who at his parents death inherited everything they left, three hundred acres of land with a beautiful stone mansion on it, archards, flowergardens, etc. We have no record of Jacob's wife.
One or both of them did not seem to know how to handle an estate as in course of time all was lost. Jacob had a conscience and it would not let him keep those thirty slaves, so in 1810 he freed them. That of course was a loss of much money. That and other things caused the estate to be sold piece by piece until finally the family got in hard straits.
It was in the great mansion Jacob and his wife's children were born nine of them who were: Frederick, Adam, James, John, Thomas, Jacob, Mary, Betsy, and Charlotte. Jacob Demouth, the father of these nine children was a prominent public man. He was Justice of the Peace of Pequat Township, Morris County, New Jersey for thirty years. He belonged to the Methodist church. But we must now follow one of these children down the line, one of them is related to us, it is John. John Demouth was my grandfather.
At the age of twenty-four he became acquainted with Mariah Levi. She had come from Connecticut to New Jersey to keep house for her brother. At the age of twenty-three she and John Demouth were married (my grandparents). The wedding was in the year 1818. The first two years of their married life were spent in Connecticut, after which they returned to New Jersey. John was a farmer. To this union six children were born: Samuel, Chalon, James, Jacob, Frances and Semantha, my mother the youngest of the family.
John and Mariah raised their family in New Jersey then migrated to Wisconsin in 1848. Semantha was twelve years old when her parents moved to Wisconsin. It was in Wisconsin John Demouth was killed by a tree falling on him that he had just chopped down. His grand-daughter May was about one year old in 1861. . . .
A cousin, Frank Barber, was visiting in New Jersey and saw the place where his mother and mine (sisters) had lived. Demouth was their maiden name now changed to Frances Barber and Semantha Webster. Cousin Frank also saw the place where the old mill had been when slaves worked in it. That was before Jacob Demouth freed his slaves.".3Census, Federal - 1840 - Morris Co., NJ, Pequannock. "Lists Oliver Levi family with one male between 50 and 60, and one female between 40 and 50. Oliver is living next door to Isaac "Birgie", probable son-in-law.". 1840 Census:
1 male under age of 5
1 " 5 - 10
1 " 50 - 60
1 female under 5
1 " 40 - 50.4Fowler, Alex. D., Boonton, NJ, Demouth Report, Copy in Personal Files of Dianne Z. Stevens. This report was written in response to a letter from Mrs. Charles Webber of 10 Aug 1949. Mrs. Webber apparently hired Mr. Fowler to do genealogical research for her. In 2003 when I (Dianne Stevens) hired Linnea Foster to investigate the Levi connection, Linnea said that Mr. Foster was very highly regarded in New Jersey for his genealogy work.
5Census, Federal - 1850 - Morris Co, NJ, Pequannock Twsp - District # 15, Ancesrty p. 7 of 99. 1850 Census - Morris Co., NJ, Pequannac - p. 7(Ancestry image)
AdamDemouth AGE 61, A LABORER, is listed living with the family of Adam and Anna Jacobus.
It looks like there is a Catherine DeMouth, age 14, also listed. She could be the female under 5 listed above.6War of 1812 Service Record, roll box 56; roll exct 602, Ancestry.com. "Name: ADAM DEMOUTH
Company: 2 REG'T (SEWARD'S) NEW JERSEY MILITIA.
Rank - Induction: PRIVATE- 5 Sep 1814
Rank - Discharge: PRIVATE - 4 Dec 1814
Roll Box: 56
Roll Exct: 602."7American Genealogical and Biographical Index, vol 42; p.323, Ancestry.com. "Name: Adam DEMOUTH
Birth Date: 179?
Birthplace: New Jersey,
Volume: 42
Page Number: 323
Biographical Info: War 1812
Reference: Records of the officers and men of NJ. In wars 1791-1815. Trenton, NJ. 1909. (369p.):76."8Census, Federal - 1850 - Morris Co, NJ, Pequannock Twsp - District # 15, Ancestry p. 7 of 99.
9Joyce Ellen Hosking, Facebook message of 7 Jan 2013. "Catherine Demouth's father was Adam Demouth (1789-1859)."
1Ancestry.com, Adkins Family Tree. "Marriage to Sophia W Vanderhoof
1850 15 Sep Age: 61
Whitehall, Sussex, New Jersey, USA
Demouth, Adam (Widower) & Riker, Sophia (Widow) married in Whitehall, New Jersey; Registered in Pequannock, Morris County on 15 Sep 1850; Bk. Z, Pg. 32. Family Search - NJ Marriages lists Jacob Demouth as father to Adam and Vanderhoff as father to Sophia."
1Obituary, of George S. Zimmerman.
1Forrest Zimmerman, Zimmerman Family Tree, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711. One night about 1958, Dianne had been asking her dad about the Zimmerman family. Forrest got out a large piece of drafting paper and methodically laid out the whole family beginning with Christian Zimmerman and Elizabeth Kneil, Forrest's great-grandfather. The tree covers five generations. There are a few blanks. Apparently they didn't keep up too well with the family of Forrest's great-uncle, Henry Zimmerman. There are 175 names on the tree. Forrest drew it from memory. The funny part is this. Forrest never wanted to have anything to do with his cousins. Dianne only remembers meeting one of them ever.
2Census, Federal - 1930 - Yamhill Co, Oregon, Precinct 24, sheet 4A.
3Gordon N. Zimmerman correspondence, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711. "December 15, 2007
Dear Dianne
One time you asked me about the story given to me by Rolland Zimmerman. He stated that he had a letter written by Anna Zimmerman in 1905. It stated Johann Christian came to Canada in 1834 from Altheim, Germany. No state was given. It stated their town had a church with a very high steeple. Rolland wrote to the central Lutheran church in Germany and asked what Lutheran church in (a town named Altheim) in Germany had a very high steeple in 1834. He got a reply back that there were three (such) churches with a very high steeple in 1834,
With this information Rolland went to Germany and visited the first two on the list. (In) these two Altheims in different states no Zimmermans could be found. He then hired another interpreter and went to Altheim in the state of Hessen. There was a note on the parrish door saying (the pastor) would be back in one hour. So Rolland went to the town cemetery. He found Zimmermans all over the cemetery. He went back to the parrish house and was told by the young pastor that there were no Zimmermans that were attending church there at that time. Rolland told him about all the Zimmermans in the cemetery. (The pastor) advised he had only been there a short time and the name was unfamilair to him.
Rolland and his interpreter were crestfallen. All the time and money he had spent on this project were for nothing. Just as he got to the front gate of the little yard a car drove up. It was the former pastor. When he was asked if there had ever been any Zimmermans in that church Rolland said (the pastor) replied, "Zimmermans - you have eight to ten women in this church that were grbornen Zimmermans, probably more than any other family if you go back a few generations." This is probably as so many male children were killed in the war.
I was in Altheim in 1985. I visited the church and was entertained in the home of Johan Christian and Elizabeth Knoll, two doors up the street. I will never forget that day.
...
Gordon Zimmerman.". received 21 Nov 2005.4Findagrave, http://www.findagrave.com/, p.17359665, internet. "Birth: Oct. 13, 1921
Death: Oct. 15, 2003
News-Register, McMinnville, Oregon, October 18, 2003
A private family graveside service for Lenola O. Walter, also known as Nona Zimmerman Riggs, of Downey, Calif., will be held in Yamhill-Carlton Pioneer Cemetery, Yamhill.
Ms. Walter died Oct. 15, 2003, in Downey Care Center. She was 81.
She was born Oct. 13, 1922, in Yamhill, the daughter of George S. and Oka Swingle Zimmerman. She was raised and educated in Yamhill. She graduated from Oregon State College in 1943 with the highest grade point average to have been achieved in the college at the time. She belonged to Phi Beta Kappa scholastic honor society and many other campus groups. She was chosen as the graduating senior who had contributed most to performing music in her college career.
She studied voice at the University of Washington and performed as an alto soloist with many groups in the Seattle area, including the Seattle Symphony. In the early 1950s, she moved to Santa Barbara, Calif., and studied with opera star Lotte Lehman in the Music Academy of the West. In the late 1950s, Ms. Walter was a teacher at the University of California at Santa Monica. She had been under the care of her family for the last 30 years.
Survivors include a brother, Gordon Zimmerman of Yamhill, and a sister, Celia Dromgoole of Milwaukie.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Oliver Riggs, in 1968.
Memorial contributions may be made to the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill in care of Macy & Son Funeral Directors, 135 N.E. Evans St., McMinnville, OR 97128.
Family links:
Parents:
George Samuel Zimmerman (1885 - 1976)
Oka Swingle Zimmerman (1890 - 1980)
Note: Daughter to George S. & Oka Zimmerman
Burial:
Yamhill-Carlton Cemetery
Yamhill
Yamhill County
Oregon, USA."5Gordon N. Zimmerman correspondence. received 21 Nov 2005.
6Gordon N. Zimmerman correspondence. received 21 Nov 2005.
1Obituary, unknown newspaper. "George H. Silky
McCleary - Longtime Harborite George Henry Silky, 97, of Central Park, died Sunday, Sept. 29, 1996, at Mark E. Reed Hospital.
He was born Aug 31, 1899, in Neosho, Wisc., to Henry and Susan (Schaefer) Silky. He was raised in Wisconsin and moved west in 1934.
Silky worked for 31 years as a game farm manager for Schafer Brothers, retiring in 1965.
After his retirement, he worked for Ed Dahlstrom of Montesano and then R.G. Lasalle, also of Montesano, until he was in his 80's.
His wife, Stella, died before him.
Survivors include a son, Frank of Milwaukee, Wis.; two daughters, Marian Linster of Niellsville, Wis., and Ruth Lawrence of Milwaukee, Wis.; 14 grandchildren and 22 great-grandchildren.
A son, Irvin, and a grandson died before him.
There will be no funeral.
He was buried next to his wife Wednesday, Oct. 2, in the Masonic Cemetery in Elma.
The Whiteside Funeral Chapel of Elma was in charge of arrangements.
Memorial donations are requested to the Central Park Fire Department, care of Grays Harbor Fire District No. 2, Aberdeen, 98520." Received from M Celius 14 Apr 2013.
1Obituary, of father.
1Findagrave, http://www.findagrave.com/, p.11200426, internet.
1Findagrave, http://www.findagrave.com/, p.11200426, internet.
1Findagrave, http://www.findagrave.com/, p.11200426, internet.
1Crayon, Percy, Rockaway Records of Morris County NJ Families, Rockaway Publishing Company, Rockaway NJ: 1902. "The DeMont Family
In my collections made in the centennial year (1876) some account of the DeMouth family were given to me by a member of that family, which I do not find in the Morris County history, which I will make mention here that the record may be preserved.
The DeMont, or DeMouth family were formerly residents of France, French Hugenots who fled from France on account of their Protestant faith and removed to Hanover in Germany, and from thence emigrated to America in June, 1709, and became the first settlers of Rockaway Valley, of this township. They were the first white settlers in the valley, and this family was in possession of old papers and deeds dating from 1709 to 1730, and an old relic, a razor hone of petrified wood, which came over with the family, and had traditionally been preserved in the family a long time during their residence in France. Several other relics were well preserved and of great antiquity.
The early family records had been lost, but history mentions Frederick, and Jacob a probable son. They were also among the earliest settlers at New Foundland in this (Rockaway) township. The mythical inscription "P. x S. 1773" on the triangular stone above the door of the old stone house now owned by Theodore Brown, may be interpreted that the building was erected by Peter Snyder in 1773. It was an addition to the original stone house built just 40 years previous upon the lands owned by a member of the DeMouth family, who located there from Rockaway Valley about 1730, and inherited by the wife of Peter Snyder, who was a daughter of this early settler at New Foundland.
Mr. Thomas DeMouth, who gave me this information, lived and owned lands where the Clinton Reservoir now is, these lands being occupied by his father, Thomas, a descendant of the original family in America. He was born (the elder Thomas DeMouth - DZS) Sept. 2, 1804, died July 2, 1881. Married Betsey Levi, of Litchfield, Ct. Her people were among the first settlers of that county. She was born Oct. 1, 1799, died Sept. 8, 1887. Both buried at Oak Ridge. Children: Wesley, who served in the war '61-5; Electa, married Rev. Peter D. Vreeland, Nov. 12, 1856; Elizabeth, married Patrick Burns Nov. 16, 1867; Thomas, Jr., born Oct 4, 1838, died Aug. 4, 1858; Hiram, born Mar.30, 1840, married Stagg, died about 1880; Abner and Minerva." citation from pages 87 - 88.
Regarding the authors reference to the DeMouths fleeing from France to Hanover in Germany, I believe he may have been confused by a record found in Morris County of the Demouths living at Hanover, New Jersey. Refer to "The Palatine Families of New York" by Percy Crayon p. 144, "Jacob Demuth of Eulenkil and Hanover appeared in Berkenmeyer's Protocol in 1731." Eulenkill and Hanover refer to a place of Palatine settlement in New Jersey.2Census, Federal - 1870 - Passaic Co, NJ, West Milford Twsp, P. 752.
3Census, Federal - 1860 - Passaic Co, NJ, W Milford, p.665; Ancestry p. 369.
4Census, Federal - 1870 - Passaic Co, NJ, West Milford Twsp.
5Findagrave, http://www.findagrave.com/, p.11200426, internet.
1Findagrave, http://www.findagrave.com/, p.11199631, internet.
1Findagrave, http://www.findagrave.com/, p.11199631, internet.
1Oregon State Board of Health, Certificate of Death for Martha E. Pierce, state # 100, local # 52.
2Civil War Pension Index, 17 Nov 1924, Ancestry.com.
3Census, Federal - 1880 - Outagamie Co., Wisconsin, Maine, Ancestry p. 1 of 9. "Greeley, P.A. age 44 head b. Maine f.b. Maine M.B. Maine
Martha M. 41 wife Maine same
Martha E. 24 dau WI same
D. La Forest 21 son same
Winfield 18 son "
Adelia F. 12 dau "
Merritt 9 son "
Sewell 7 son "
Dora 5 dau "."4Margrit Hamilton Lees, Greely Manual, p. 17. ""Paul Ames Greely: left the state of Maine in 1854, along with David Stinson (father-in-law), George Spears, and John Whitmore. They set up homesteads in Outagamie County, Wisconsin, an area that later was named Town of Maine, after the origin of its earliest pioneers. The post office for the township was named Stinson, after Mrs. Greely's people. Paul Ames Greely served as postmaster for twelve years, and drove the stagecoach carrying the mail from Shawano to Shiocton for fifteen years.
Maine township was formed in November 1868, the first meeting was held April 1869, Paul Ames Greely was elected town chairman and assessor, offices he held for over thirty years.
he served in the Civil War . . .
Paul A. Greely joined the Methodist Church in Greenwood, Wisconsin, and remained in this faith.
In 1909, Paul Ames Greely and his second wife, Anna, moved to Sentinel Butte, North Dakota, where they homesteaded, living there until 1921 at which time, because of failing health, moved near Beach, North Dakota, and in 1923 into the city."."5Margrit Hamilton Lees, Greely Manual, p. 8. " Quartet From East On Trip Into New Waters
Established Village Of
Leeman
Excerpted from Post-Crescent, April 7, 1923,
Appleton, Wisconsin
LEEMAN-It was because four men were imbued with
the love of discovery that the village of Leeman,
likewise the town of Maine, was founded. The early
history makes one picture an exploration trip like
that of the Vikings of old who headed their ships
into strange waters.
Leaving their comfortable homes at Clinton,
Maine, four men set out to find themselves a new
homeland in the magnetic west. They were David
Stinson, his son-in-law, George Speers and Paul
Greely and John Whitmore.
Arriving in Wisconsin in 1854, they started by
boat through the Fox River and lakes, and turned
into the Wolf river. After passing mile after mile
of its densely wooded shores, where about the only
persons they saw were Indians, they came to the
present town of Maine. They decided that this
should be their home and arranged a settlement
accordingly.
MAKE LANDING
The quartet landed just below the present
residence of Andrew Allen, an old settler, who
came here from Canada in 1862.
From this beginning there sprang up one home
after another as these sturdy pioneers hewed
away the wilderness and made themselves prof-
itable farms. The population grew a little each
year as adventurers arrived in the new "west."
One of the favorite stopping places in those
days was the hotel which Mr. Allen conducted.
Men driving logging teams were housed there on
their way to and from the woods.
Logging was the greatest industry, occupying
the time of most of the settlers each winter as
long as the snow lasted. The logs were hauled to
the bank of the Wolf river and carried by the
current to Lake Poygan. Here they were rafted and
sent to Neenah, Menasha and Fond du Lac,
where sawmills and sash and door factories were
located.
MORE ARRIVE
The group of settlers arriving up to 1867
included Thomas Jacobs, Sylvester Boodry, Thomas
W. Allen, Claude Hurlbert and Matt D. Leeman.
Shortly after the Civil war another group arrived,
including David H. Jerry, Jacob J. and G. D.
Carpenter, Moses S. Curtis Marcellus and James
Spaulding, Eben Pushor, D. W. Fuller and Charles
Spaulding. H. S. and George Leeman arrived in
1866.
The town of Maine was named thus by the settlers
from the state of Maine, and the village of Leeman
after the families of that name which owned much
of the land there.
A. H. Atwater was the first man to settle west
of the Wolf river, establishing a home there in
1870. His example was followed by Richard Strong
and James and Cal Sawyer.
At that time there were no bridges across the
Wolf river. A flat boat was used as an accom-
modation ferry. No tolls were charged, as it was a
neighborhood boat provided for general usage.
Every man was his own ferryman.
BUILD ROAD
A corduroy road was built through the swamp and
a wooden bridge constructed across Wolf river in
the winters of 1881 and 1882. The bridge was
replaced in 1888 with the steel structure which is
in use now.
The first schoolhouse in the township was a log
shanty put up for that purpose in 1870.
The next building was built with boards nailed to
posts driven in the ground. Both were on the the
Shawano road, then the only thoroughfare. Now there
is a substantial frame schoolhouse at Leeman
corners. A cheese factory, a store and Union Con-
gregational church also are located there. The
land has been cleared off and a group of farms
under cultivation replace the wooded areas of
early days.
The first town meeting was held at the
schoolhouse in district No. 1 in 1868. At the
first election 18 votes were cast, electing Paul
A. Greely (pictured above) chairman; Andrew Allen
and M. Spaulding, supervisors; James Spaulding,
clerk; H. S. Leeman, treasurer; William Hurlbert
and J. C. Spaulding, justices of the peace; T.
Jacobs, constable; and Paul A. Greely and H. S.
Leeman, assessors.
Before rural free delivery was established P.A.
Greely drove stage from Shiocton to Shawano
carrying mail.
Andrew Allen, 86, and Thomas Allen still live
here. D. W. Fuller lives at Townsend and Paul A.
Greely, 90, lives at Sentinel Butte, North Dakota.
(Below photo of Paul w. team of horses)
Paul A. Greely will always be mentioned in the
early history of the Towne of Maine. He was one of
the first settlers, helped clear land, and drove a
stagecoach from Shiocton to Shawano for many years,
providing the only means of receiving mail. He is
hale hearty at 90 and lives at Sentinel Butte,
North Dakota."6Margrit Hamilton Lees, Greely Manual.
7Paul A. Greely obituary, Loyal Tribune; Loyal, Clark County, WI; 13 Nov 1924. "Paul Ames Greely was born at Chilton, Maine Oct. 1, 1832, and died at his home at Beach, N.D. of paralysis, on Oct. 26, 1924, aged 92 years. He was the seventh and youngest son of Augustus and Hannah Greely, his mother died when he was a boy only 5 years of age, his father remarried and Mr. Greely went to live at the home of a friend until he grew to manhood. He was married on July 4th, 1854 to Miss Martha Stinson, the same years he was married, he left Maine in company of several other families from his home vicinity, among whom were David Stinson, George Speers, Paul Greely and John Whitmore, and went to Wisconsin.
The decided to settle in the town of Maine. They named the township Maine, which name it bears today. He lived in the town of Maine for nearly 40 years. Here Mrs. Greely died, Aug. 2, 1892, soon after her death, he left there and went to Loyal, Clark County, Wis., where on Jan. 9, 1902 he was married to Mrs. Anna Snow. In 1909, Mr. and Mrs. Greely moved to Sentinel Butte, N.D., where they settled on a homestead, living there until 3 years ago when his failing health made it necessary for them to move near to Beach and a year ago into the city.
He was early employed as a lumberman in Maine and in Wisconsin. The greater part of his life was spent in farming. He served many years as post master at Stinson and later as mail carrier from Shiocton to Shawano. He held the office of assessor and chairman several terms. He answered his country's call in time of need. On Feb. 20, 1864 he enlisted in 3rd Wis. Cavalry. He served until the end of the War and was honorably discharged with the rank of quartermaster sergeant.
He was converted and joined the M. E. Church at Greenwood, Clark County, Wis., in that faith he has ever since lived.
He was always upright in his dealings with his neighbors and was held in his esteem by all who knew him.
To him were born nine children, all by his first marriage. They are Mrs. Martha Pierce, Hibbing, Minn., Mrs. Rose Gardner, Hylyard, Wash., Mrs. Delia Freeman, Hoquiam, Wash., Mrs. Dora Holmes, Aberdeen, Wash., Winfield and Sewell Greely, town of Maine. One died in infancy, one son, Leforest, died at the age of 55 years. He also leaves to mourn his loss, his wife, one half-brother, Oliver Greely, Blue Lake, Cal., 43 grandchildren, 49 great-grandchildren, and 4 great-great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were held at Leeman Church, interment in Oak Hill Cemetery, six grandsons acting as pallbearers. Rev. Conkle of Shiocton Congregational Church conducted the services.
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1Clark Co., WI Internet Library, ALHN & AHGP website, http://wvls.lib.wi.us/ClarkCounty/clark.htm, posted 20 Mar 2013. "Obit: Greely, Anna (1863 - 1961)
Contact: Audrey Roedl
Email: audero@charter.net
Surnames: Greely, Merrill, Salisbury, Snow, Curl
----Source: The Loyal Tribune (Loyal, Clark County, WI) 21 Dec 1961
Greely, Anna (14 Oct 1868-12 Dec 1961)
Graveside rites were said Monday afternoon at 2:15 at the Loyal cemetery for Mrs. Anna Mae Greely, 93, of Beach, North Dakota, who died December12 at the home of her son, Roy M. Snow in Beach. She had died from old age complications. Rev. Paul Doering, pastor of the Loyal Methodist Church officiated. Funeral services were held at the Evangelical United Brethren Church at Beach Saturday afternoon.
Mrs. Greely was born in Loyal October 14, 1868, the daughter of Charles Merrill and Elizabeth Salisbury. Her first marriage was to Francis Snow who died in 1996. In 1902 she was married to Paul Greely in Loyal. The couple went to Centinel Butte, North Dakota in 1908 where they lived until until 1923 when they moved to Beach, North Dakota. She had lived there since then. Her husband passed away in 1934.
Surviving are a son, Roy Snow of Beach, a daughter, Mrs. Guy (Iva) Curl , also of Beach, ten grandchildren, thirty-six great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren. A son died in 1923."
1Clark Co., WI Internet Library, ALHN & AHGP website, http://wvls.lib.wi.us/ClarkCounty/clark.htm, Biographies - Edward Kayhart. " He and his wife have four children: Libbie, now Mrs. Frank Durke, of Sherman Township."
1Census, Federal - 1880 - Clark Co, WI, town of Sherman, Ancestry p. 6 of 7.