Damon, Elbert Martin b. 25 Oct 1900 Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME d. 18 Jan 1949 North Adams, Berkshire Co., MA: My Damon Genealogy

1900 - 1949 (48 years)

Name	Damon, Elbert Martin
Birth	25 Oct 1900	Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME [1, 2]
Gender	Male
Census	May 1910	Greene, Androscoggin Co., ME [3]
Listed as step son to Charles Reid
Census	02 Jan 1920	Brockton, Plymouth Co., MA [4]
Box Maker
Census	08 Apr 1930	North Adams, Berkshire Co., MA [5]
Engineer
Census	1940	North Adams, Berkshire Co., MA [6]
Occupation I	Between 1940 and 1947	North Adams, Berkshire Co., MA
	Policeman
Tombstone Photo	North Adams, Berkshire Co., MA [7]
	Southview Cemetery
Death	18 Jan 1949	North Adams, Berkshire Co., MA [8]
Burial	North Adams, Berkshire Co., MA [7, 9, 10]
Person ID	i13466	My Damon Genealogy
Last Modified	3 Mar 2023

Father	Damon, Bradbury Fremont, b. 24 Oct 1862, Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME d. 13 Jan 1927, Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME (Age 64 years)
Mother	Gammon, Viola Abbie, b. 08 Oct 1867, Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME d. 01 Oct 1918, Brockton, Plymouth Co., MA (Age 50 years)
Marriage	18 Nov 1883	Canton, Oxford Co., ME [11, 12, 13]
Marriage	Married by Alvarado Hayford, JP [11]
Divorce	Oct 1906	Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME
Family ID	F63	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Damon, Elbert Martin, b. 25 Oct 1900, Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME d. 18 Jan 1949, North Adams, Berkshire Co., MA (Age 48 years)

Marriage 15 Oct 1919 Everett, Middlesex Co., MA [14]

Children

	1. Damon, Elbert Martin Jr., b. 15 Aug 1920, Brockton, Plymouth Co., MA d. 03 Jul 1998, York, York Co., PA (Age 77 years)
	2. Damon, Wayne David, b. 08 Oct 1923, North Adams, Berkshire Co., MA d. 25 Mar 1993, Plymouth, Plymouth Co., MA (Age 69 years)

Family ID F6458 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Last Modified 20 Apr 2014

Event Map

	Birth - 25 Oct 1900 - Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME
	Census - Listed as step son to Charles Reid - May 1910 - Greene, Androscoggin Co., ME
	Marriage - 15 Oct 1919 - Everett, Middlesex Co., MA
	Census - Box Maker - 02 Jan 1920 - Brockton, Plymouth Co., MA
	Census - Engineer - 08 Apr 1930 - North Adams, Berkshire Co., MA
	Census - 1940 - North Adams, Berkshire Co., MA
	Occupation I - Policeman - Between 1940 and 1947 - North Adams, Berkshire Co., MA
	Tombstone Photo - Southview Cemetery - - North Adams, Berkshire Co., MA
	Death - 18 Jan 1949 - North Adams, Berkshire Co., MA
	Burial - - North Adams, Berkshire Co., MA

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Documents » Slide Show		Damon, Elbert Martin Obituary
		Damon, Elbert Martin Marriage Certificate
		Damon, Elbert Martin 1928 North Adams City Directory
		Damon, Elbert Martin 1929 North Adams City Directory
		Damon, Elbert Martin 1930 North Adams City Directory
		Damon, Elbert Martin 1933 North Adams City Directory
		Damon, Elbert Martin 1934 North Adams City Directory
		Damon, Elbert Martin 1935 North Adams City Directory
		Damon, Elbert Martin 1936 North Adams City Directory
		Damon, Elbert Martin 1931 North Adams City Directory
		Damon, Elbert Martin 1932 North Adams City Directory
		Damon, Elbert Martin 1937 North Adams City Directory
		Damon, Elbert Martin 1938 North Adams City Directory
		Damon, Elbert Martin 1939 North Adams City Directory
		Damon, Elbert Martin 1940 North Adams City Directory
		1940 U.S. census, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, population schedule, North Adams, enumeration district 2-63, p. 7B
		Damon, Elbert Martin 1941 North Adams City Directory
		Damon, Elbert Martin 1942 North Adams City Directory
		Damon, Elbert Martin 1944 North Adams City Directory
		Damon, Elbert Martin 1948 North Adams City Directory
		Damon, Elbert Martin Birth Certificate
		Damon, Elbert Martin Birth Record
		Damon, Elbert Martin Death Certificate
		Damon, Elbert Martin 1921 Brockton Mass City Directory
		Damon, Elbert Martin 1924 North Adams City Directory
		Damon, Elbert Martin 1925 North Adams City Directory
		Damon, Elbert Martin 1922 North Adams City Directory
		Damon, Elbert Martin 1923 North Adams City Directory
		Damon, Elbert Martin 1927 North Adams City Directory
		1920 U.S. census, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, population schedule, Brockton Ward 5, enumeration district 74, p. 2A
		1910 U.S. census, Androscoggin County, Maine, population schedule, Greene, enumeration district 0014, p. 9B
		Damon, Elbert Martin Newspaper Article - Passing Police Test Springfield (Massachusetts) Republican, 10 March 1927
		Damon, Elbert Martin Newspaper article 08 August 1944
		Damon, Elbert Martin Newspaper article 10 August 1944
		Damon, Elbert Martin Newspaper article 11 April 1947
		Damon, Elbert Martin Newspaper article 13 August 1944
		Damon, Elbert Martin Newspaper article 14 February 1933
		Damon, Elbert Martin Newspaper article 16 August 1944
		1930 U.S. census, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, population schedule, North Adams, enumeration district 43, p. 8A
		Damon, Elbert Martin and Pearl Ruby VanArman Certificate of Marriage Wow! So much of the information on this document is wrong. None the less, it is an official document.
		Damon, Elbert Martin and Pearl Ruby VanArman Certificate of Marriage Not sure why there are two copies of this record. Each has multiple errors.
		Damon, Elbert Martin Obituary The North Adams (Massachusetts) Transcript, 20 Jan 1949, p 3, col 3
		Damon, Elbert Martin Hospital Illness
		Damon, Elbert Martin Newspaper Article 16 Aug 1944
		Damon, Elbert Martin and Pearl VanArman Marriage Intentions
		Damon, Elbert Martin WWII Draft Registration Card_Front
		Damon, Elbert Martin WWII Draft Registration Card_Back

Headstones		Damon, Elbert Martin
Headstones		Damon, Elbert Martin

Notes

Elbert was the youngest child of Bradbury and Viola. He moved from Buckfield with his mother when she left with a traveling salesman, Joe Bowles. They moved to Boston where she married Charles W. Reed in 1906. He never moved back to Maine. He moved to North Adams, Mass to become a policeman and there meet Pearl VanArman and had two sons. He later became a 3rd class engineer at Sprauge Electric. At the time of his death he was working as a maintenance man there and during the winter he forgot his insulin and got caught at work during a snow storm and went into insulin shock and never recovered.
As we remember him he was a very happy person who liked to have a drink occasionally and he was very handy around the house. He built a tool shed and would spend a lot of time there. He used the paving stones form the North Adams streets when they pulled them up for the foundation and a retaining wall. He also started building a second larger house which he never completed. This building was to be partially used as a guest house.
At a family reunion in 1996 in Buckfield he was remembered, because he went back several times to visit and was a very friendly person who had a real wild side about him. He took Laura Damon back with him to visit in North Adams once and she rode back in the rumble seat and remembers it as a great trip of her youth. Laura also remembers Pearl and his two sons and the great summer vacation she had with them.
Once he was married, he never went back to visit his mother, however he did make a few trip's to Buckfield to visit friends and relatives there.

Sources

[S751] Maine, Vital Records, 1670-1907, index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/VZ3R-6H6 : accessed 09 Oct 2012), Bradbury F Damon in entry for M Albert Damon, 1900.
[S821] Birth Certificate, Maine Department of Human Services, birth certificate S-31 R196 (1997), M. Albert Damon [Elbert Martin Damon].
[S592] 1910 U.S. census, Androscoggin County, Maine, population schedule, Greene, enumeration district 0014, p. 9B (penned), dwelling 218, family 229, Viola A. and Charles W. Reid, digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 3 October 2013); citing NARA microfilm publication T624_536.
[S22] 1920 U.S. census, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, population schedule, Brockton Ward 5, enumeration district 74, p. 2A (penned), dwelling 12, family 28, Pearl and Elbert Damon, digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 4 October 2013); citing NARA microfilm publication T625_725, image 1011.
[S583] 1930 U.S. census, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, population schedule, North Adams, enumeration district 43, p. 8A (penned), dwelling 98, family 167, Pearl and Elbert Damon, digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 7 October 2013); citing FHL microfilm publication 2340619, roll 884, image 863.0.
[S697] 1940 U.S. census, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, population schedule, North Adams, enumeration district 2-63, p. 7B (penned), household 134, Pearl and Elbert Damon, digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 8 October 2013); citing NARA microfilm publication T627_1568.
[S924] Southview Cemetery, (North Adams, Berkshire County, Massachusetts; Southwest Dr), Elbert M Damon marker.
[S130] Death Certificate, North Adams, Massachusetts, certified copy of death certificate CT0101607 (2012), Elbert Martin Damon, City Clerk's Office, North Adams.
[S674] Obituary, "Former Policeman E. M. Damon, Dies," undated clipping, ca. 1949, from unidentified newspaper; privately held by Elbert Martin Damon III, Manchester, Pennsylvania.
[S648] "Find A Grave", Find A Grave, database and images (http://www.findagrave.com: accessed 30 July 2013), memorial page for Elbert Martin Damon (1900-1949), Find A Grave Memorial no. 110719562, citing Southview Cemetery, North Adams, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, memorial created by Mike Damon, photograph by Mike Damon.
[S26] McAllister, Rev. Donald L., and Lucille E. Naas, editors, Marriage Returns of Oxford County, Maine Prior to 1892, (Camden, Maine: Picton Press, 1993), 223.
[S708] Maine Marriages, 1771-1907, index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F4F3-2NR : accessed 19 Sep 2012), Bradbury F. Dammon and Viola A. Gammon, 18 Nov 1883; citing reference , FHL microfilm 10604.
[S776] Buckfield (Maine). Town Clerk, Buckfield, Maine. Town Clerk, "Vital Records, 1803-1898", Marriage of Bradbury F. Damon and Viola A. Gammon; FHL microfilm 10604, section titled "Record of Marriages & Intentions (1803-1891)".
[S630] Marriage Record.
Pearl Ruby VanArman and Elbert Martin Damon marriage certificate, Brockton, Massachusetts, 1919; privately held by Elbert Martin Damon III, Manchester, Pennsylvania, 2014