Christiana Jane Wormwood g. 24 Meurzh 1804 a. a. 14 Gwengolo 1894

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24 Meurzh 1804 ganedigezh: Alfred, Maine, USA

relijion: tarian

11 Du 1818 darvoud all: Houlton, Maine, USA, MARL

11 Du 1818 eured: Houlton (Maine), USA, ♂ Amos Putnam [Putnam] g. Here 1794 a. a. 29 Kerzu 1849

16 Mezheven 1822 bugel: Houlton (Maine), USA, ♀ Lydia Trask Putman [Putman] g. 16 Mezheven 1822 a. a. Ebrel

1880 micher: Houlton, Aroostook, Maine, USA, farmer

14 Gwengolo 1894 marvidigezh: Houlton, Maine, USA, 90 years old

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Obituary from Houlton ME newspaper:

Death of a Pioneer Resident

Grandmother is dead. The long life is over, and, at the ripe age on ninty, her sons anddaughters laid her loved form to rest, where fourty-four years ago, friends who have long proceded her buried her husband. But one connecting link, Mrs. Lysander Putnam, remains of that chain of sturdy pioneers who carved out of the primeval forest the goodly heritage we now enjoy. Grandmother is today byta memory. Yesterday, she was a living reminderof the self-sacrifice and loving devotion of a generation that gave its all for prosterity. The story of herlife is as interesting as a romance and from her lips we used to hear the history of those events that have made the modern world. Born in the time of Napoleon, she nearly filled out the years of this all changing century, and she livedto see the mild sway of reason displace the sterner dictates of passion in theaffairs of man and state. Grandmother was born in Alfred, ME., March 24th 1804, and her earlist recollection of affairs of importance wa the thrillingtales and stirringscenes of the second war with Great Britian; for as her father's family were on their way toward the noe settlement, away out the northeastern frontier, they passed through the city of Portland on the day of theburial there of the comanders of the vessels, Enterprise and Boxer, slain in the engagement the preceding day. As a little girl of nine stood with uncovered headwatching the solemn porcession file by with revesered arms and muffled drum, the seeds of devotion to native land, were sown in her childish heart that latergrew into patriotism, supporting the mother, as she sent out in defence of hercountry, three brave boys. One whom sleeps in an unknown grave hallowed and made sacried by the blood of a northern soldier. In the days when Cristiana Wormwood came to Houlton , the vast expanse was broken only by a tiny spot of clearing, enclosing a few rude buildings, perched high up on "The Hill". One frame building was the pride of the infant settlement. Grandmother early entered into the active life ofthe settlement, and on November 1, 1818, she was marriedto Amos Putnam. The following year, Mr. Putnam moved his young wife and infantson, Houlton, onto the farm where Alvarez Putnam now lives, on the Calais road.Here grandmother lived sixty-six years, watching the progress of the village,with a personal interest in the furtherance of every effort thatmade for the good of the community. Here she reared a family of sixteen sons and daughters, losing by death one infant. June 1849, Amos Putnam died, and grandmother laboredon to giver her children all the advantages the time and place afforded. Her ninety years of life were too short for her to hear aught against the men and women she sent into the world. Strongly impressed with sterling character, the Putnam birthright, the do honor by their daily deeds to the training the mother gave them. Yesterday there were nine of the family on the other side of that river which parts this life from the future, while ten were here. Today, the majority stands on the distant shore, while the whitened looks of the venerable menwho bore their mother to her last resting place bespeak but ashort separation. The last few years (fragment lost) lived with her daughter (fragment lost) ago she ceased to take an (fragment lost) our doings and after a brief lingering (fragment lost) she passed peacefully away, Friday Sept. 14th. at the homeof Lydia Putnam Hannigan, a part of the farm to which she moved when "Houltonwas a baby." She was buried from the Unitarian Church of which she was a member, mourned alike by her nine surviving children, their descendants through fivegenerations from grandmother, and the townspeople who felt a personal loss in this bereavement. To all whoknew her, the remarkable vigor of mind and body which sustained her solong was a constant source of

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