Bisbee, Hulda

1802 - 1842  (39 years)

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

  
  

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

  
  

  Family	Reed, Sampson,   b. 14 Mar 1799, Hartford, Oxford Co., ME d. 06 Apr 1877, Hartford, Oxford Co., ME (Age 78 years)
  Children	1. Reed, Elisha Bisbee,   b. 4 Nov 1820, Hartford, Oxford Co., ME d. 1851 (Age 30 years)   2. Reed, Emela Mandaville,   b. 8 Nov 1823, Hartford, Oxford Co., ME   3. Reed, Lewis Bradford,   b. 7 Feb 1822, Hartford, Oxford Co., ME   4. Reed, Sampson Jr.  [Father: Natural]  [Mother: Natural]   5. Reed, Hulda Bisbee,   b. 11 Dec 1826, Hartford, Oxford Co., ME   6. Reed, Lydia Phelps,   b. 1 Dec 1826, Hartford, Oxford Co., ME   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		Birth - 11 Nov 1802 - Sumner, Oxford Co., ME Tombstone Photo - Meeting House Hill Cemetery - - Hartford, Oxford Co., ME Death - 11 Jul 1842 - Oxford Co., ME Burial - - Hartford, Oxford Co., ME  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Documents		Sturtevant, Isaac and Hannah Bradbury; Bisbee, Elisha and Mary Pettingill Record of Children
  		Sturtevant, Isaac and Hannah Bradbury Children

  
  

  Headstones

  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

  [S847] Sumner, Maine, Town Clerk, Elisha Bisbee and Molly Petingill, their children; FHL microfilm 12245, section titled "Record of Births, Deaths, Marriages (1733-1852)". [S888] Meeting House Hill Cemetery, (Hartford, Oxford County, Maine; Gurney Hill Road; LAT/LON 44.35364N, -70.32184W), Huldah Read marker. [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.