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Bisbee, Hulda

Female 1802 - 1842  (39 years)

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  • Name Bisbee, Hulda 
    Birth 11 Nov 1802  Sumner, Oxford Co., ME Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Female 
    Tombstone Photo Hartford, Oxford Co., ME Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Meeting House Hill Cemetery 
    Death 11 Jul 1842  Oxford Co., ME Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Burial Hartford, Oxford Co., ME Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Person ID i1950  My Damon Genealogy
    Last Modified 3 Mar 2014 

    Father Bisbee, Lt. Elisha,   b. 04 Mar 1757, Sumner, Oxford Co., ME Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 01 Dec 1826, Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 69 years) 
    Relationship Natural 
    Mother Pettingill, Mary [Molly],   b. 19 Jan 1760, Duxbury, Plymouth Co., MA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 30 Aug 1811, Sumner, Oxford Co., ME Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 51 years) 
    Relationship Natural 
    Marriage 22 Sep 1779  Duxbury, Plymouth Co., MA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F4555  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Reed, Sampson,   b. 14 Mar 1799, Hartford, Oxford Co., ME Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 06 Apr 1877, Hartford, Oxford Co., ME Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 78 years) 
    Children 
     1. Reed, Elisha Bisbee,   b. 4 Nov 1820, Hartford, Oxford Co., ME Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1851 (Age 30 years)
     2. Reed, Emela Mandaville,   b. 8 Nov 1823, Hartford, Oxford Co., ME Find all individuals with events at this location
     3. Reed, Lewis Bradford,   b. 7 Feb 1822, Hartford, Oxford Co., ME Find all individuals with events at this location
     4. Reed, Sampson Jr.  [Father: Natural]  [Mother: Natural]
     5. Reed, Hulda Bisbee,   b. 11 Dec 1826, Hartford, Oxford Co., ME Find all individuals with events at this location
     6. Reed, Lydia Phelps,   b. 1 Dec 1826, Hartford, Oxford Co., ME Find all individuals with events at this location
     7. Reed, Axel  [Father: Natural]  [Mother: Natural]
     8. Reed, Augustus  [Father: Natural]  [Mother: Natural]
    Family ID F1704  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 3 Mar 2014 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 11 Nov 1802 - Sumner, Oxford Co., ME Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsTombstone Photo - Meeting House Hill Cemetery - - Hartford, Oxford Co., ME Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 11 Jul 1842 - Oxford Co., ME Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - - Hartford, Oxford Co., ME Link to Google Earth
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  • Documents
    Sturtevant, Isaac and Hannah Bradbury; Bisbee, Elisha and Mary Pettingill
    Sturtevant, Isaac and Hannah Bradbury; Bisbee, Elisha and Mary Pettingill
    Record of Children
    Sturtevant, Isaac and Hannah Bradbury
    Sturtevant, Isaac and Hannah Bradbury
    Children

    Headstones
    Bisbee, Huldah
    Bisbee, Huldah

  • Notes 
    • DESCENDANT OF MAYFLOWER PASSENGER FRANCIS COOKE

      MOTHER OF CIVIL WAR HERO AXEL HAYFORD REED

      A BIOGRAPHY OF HULDAH BISBEE REED, by Larry Overmire (3rd great grandson), Aug. 2008:

      Huldah Bisbee was born on the Bisbee homestead in Sumner, Oxford County, Maine, on Nov. 11, 1803, the youngest of ten children of Revolutionary War veteran Lt. Elisha Bisbee and his wife Mary "Molly" Pettingell.

      Huldah's mother died in 1811 when she was only 8 years old. Her father being unable to properly care for her, she was sent to live with a Mr. Waterman, a blacksmith of Buckfield, Maine, but she was unhappy there and moved back home for a short while. Then she was sent to live with her sister Sally and her husband Gad Hayford. They were also taking care of Huldah's sister Thursea. Huldah lived with the Hayfords until she married.

      Huldah's son Axel H. Reed in his genealogy quoted an Aunt Martha Bisbee's recollections of Huldah:

      "She was a pretty girl and woman and of a mild and lively disposition, always ready to sacrifice her own happiness for that of others. She had a very red head and curly when young, but at maturity turned an auburn."

      At the age of 16, on July 8, 1820, on her family homestead, Huldah married 21-year-old Sampson (III) Read (later spelled Reed), the son of Sampson Read Jr. and Jane Bradford Ellis. Huldah gave birth to 8 children: Elisha Bisbee, Lewis Bradford, Emily Mandeville, Lydia Phelps, Huldah Bisbee, Sampson Jr., Axel Hayford, and Augustus Stevens (died in childhood).

      Initially, Sampson and Huldah moved to the 'Mason Farm' near Bear Mountain where their first child Elisha was born." After his brother Bradford died, Sampson and Huldah moved into the Read family homestead to care for his parents. Sampson made many improvements on the buildings and property until it became the center of attraction for the whole township.

      Sampson was a prominent farmer and cattle drover, a representative in the Maine legislature, who served one term on the governor's council.

      Huldah died of consumption on July 11, 1842, at the relatively young age of 38. She was buried in the Read family lot in the Starboard Hill Cemetery in Hartford (aka The Meeting House Hill Cemetery). Her tombstone says, "First my heart & then my hand
      Till death did part the wedding band."

  • Sources 
    1. [S847] Sumner, Maine, Town Clerk, Elisha Bisbee and Molly Petingill, their children; FHL microfilm 12245, section titled "Record of Births, Deaths, Marriages (1733-1852)".

    2. [S888] Meeting House Hill Cemetery, (Hartford, Oxford County, Maine; Gurney Hill Road; LAT/LON 44.35364N, -70.32184W), Huldah Read marker.

    3. [S648] "Find A Grave", Find A Grave, database and images (http://www.findagrave.com: accessed 30 July 2013), memorial page for Huldah Bisbee Reed (1803-1842), Find A Grave Memorial no. 29351144, citing Meeting House Hill Cemetery, Hartford, Oxford County, Maine, created by Laurence Overmire, photograph by Tim & Grace Cooper.