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Edward Larrabee
Rank: Corporal Company: I Age: 20 Residence: Kennebunk
[reduced to Full Private at own request], [No personal data available]
She was born in Kennebunk on 6 Oct, 1825 and died of apoplexy in Kennebunk on 19 Apr, 1901, aged 75yrs,6mos,13das and is buried in Evergreen Cem.

Edward was a house carpenter, living in Kennebunk for much of his life, save for a small time around the 1850 census when he was located in Portland. Both the 1862 and '63 adjutant's report for the 27th ME show Edward as married and being 26 years of age, but his birth date and age in censuses indicate he was 10 years older than report shows.

Census records of 1870 and 1880 show this couple with only the following child, though 1900 seems to indicate that Mary had 4 children born to her [may be error]:

I.
ABBIE B was born in Dec, 1859 [1900 census], though g.s. says 1860, and died in 1914. She married on 9 Dec, 1886 in Kennebunk, ME to E. HOWARD CLOUGH, who was born ca Oct 1852 (or 1854-gs) and died in 1919. This couple is buried with her parents in Evergreen Cem, Kennebunk. 1900 census shows them with no children.





Additional Source Data:
1850 Portland wrd-2: hh 291/464
1860 Kennebunk (pg 27): hh 227/218
1870 K-Bunk (pg 30): hh 267/268 - staying in hh of George and Emily Emmons
1880 K-Bunk (pg 19): hh 361/371
1890 Vet Schedule: Edward lived Kennebunk
1900 K-Bunk (pg 3A): hh 58/60 - owned home
1900 K-Bunk (pg 9B): hh 227/234 - Howard + Abbie Clough data
-Yerkes, LM + GW 'Kennebunk Vital Records Prior to 1892' cd-rom c2005
-York County Cemetery Inscriptions - MOCA c1995 Picton Press [pg 923 Larrabee family in Evergreen Cem, Kenn.]
- Gooch, Frank A 'History of a Surname with Some Account of the Line of John Gooch in New England' c1926 [pg 95]
EDWARD N LARRABEE was born on 17 Nov, 1825 in Kennebunk, Maine, the son of Eben and Mercy (Nason) Larrabee. He died in Kennebunk on 3 July, 1900 from heart disease at age 74yrs,7mos,16das and was buried in Evergreen Cemetery in Kennebunk [YCCI, pg 923].

He married on 23 Dec, 1849 in Kennebunk, ME [K-bunk vr] to
MARY GOOCH, the daughter of Daniel and Priscilla (Huff) [death rec has mother as Mary H] Gooch, and brother of Charles W Gooch, who served alongside Edward in Co I of the 27th ME.