Author's Note: I want to begin this post with a happy acknowledgement
of a donation made to the Maine Old Cemetery Association by Michael and Doreen Chapman on behalf of the restoration work done on behalf of the Presumpscot/Grand Trunk Cemetery. The project begun some 14 years ago by two highschool Senior Girl Scouts, Samantha Allshouse and Kayla Theriault, continues through the support of Portland Girl Scout Troops, and members of the Friends of the Grand Trunk Cemetery to this day.
The donation will contribute to the MOCA Memorial Fund and further the Association's goals in preserving Maine's old cemeteries.
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We acknowledge and remember four deaths and burials in the month of February:
SUSANNA BARTON SAWYER, born in 1765, and died aet. 40 years
on February 6, 1805.
SAMUEL BLAKE, born August 3, 1793, and died aet. 52 years on
February 14, 1846.
ANN AMBLER MOSELEY,born c. 1799 in England, and died aet. 57 years
on February 24, 1856.
ISAAC SAWYER, SR.,born February 14, 1684 in Gloucester, Massachusetts, and died one day before his 88th birthday, on
February 13, 1772. Isaac Sawyer, referred to as Father Sawyer in the journal of the Rev. Dean who attended his funeral and burial on February 15, 1772.
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Followers of this blog will find a post about Isaac Sawyer dated February 13, 2019, and which contains information about the Sawyer brothers who settled in what is now Portland and South Portland, having migrated up the coast from Gloucester between 1719 and 1725.
Please find and read previous posts published about the other deceased mentioned if you wish to know more about each of them. My hope is that this is a way of keeping their memory alive.
