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The 27th Maine Volunteers
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George Tarbox
Rank: Private Company: C Age: 19 Residence: Buxton
Height: 5' 6" Eye Color: Hazel Hair Color: Dark Complexion: Dark
Rank: Private Company: C Age: 19 Residence: Buxton
Height: 5' 6" Eye Color: Hazel Hair Color: Dark Complexion: Dark
GEORGE TARBOX was born on 9 May, 1844 in Buxton, ME, the son of Elbridge G
and Mary Ann (Lord) Tarbox of Buxton, Maine. He died in Old Orchard on 17 Oct,
1928 (of cancer on the neck), aged 84yrs,5mos,8das [ME vr] He is buried in
Dunstan Cemetery in Scarborough, ME.
Around 1874 (from 1900 census), he was married to SARAH A.L ANDREWS, the daughter of Stephen and Eliza A (Smith) Andrews and the former wife of Augustus H Moore [York County Marriages has Augustus H and Sarah A.S. Andrews of Biddeford marrying 3 Mar, 1860]. She was born in Lyman, ME on 20 Jan, 1843 and died on 7 Oct, 1918 in Old Orchard [ME vr].1890 Veteran Schedule calls her Moore's widow, he was in the Navy and the 47th Mass Vols and killed in 1864, though person of same name AND same regiment files for pension in California, 1891. The 1st LA Cav and 3rd MA H.A. are also in the mix here, not sure what to make of it yet.
After his tour with the 27th Maine was complete, he enlisted into the 1st District of Columbia Cavalry, a private in Company M, on 10 Feb, 1864. As this company was recruited and filled with Maine soldiers, it was transferred over to the 1st Maine Cavalry in August of 1864. During a battle at Sycamore Church on 16 Sept, George and over a hundred others were captured by the rebel forces. He was imprisoned for 6 months [where over half of his captured reg't would die], but survived to see the end of the war and was mustered out in August, 1865 [see the History of the 1st Maine Cavalry 1861-65 by Edward P Tobie c1887]
For most of his life, George worked in the sawmills, a 'sawyer', in Buxton and in Old Orchard. He moved to the latter community after the 1880 Buxton census and before the 1886 OOB street directory was compiled. He lived on Ross Road.
George and Sarah did not have any children together*.
additional source data:
* By Sarah's first marriage she had one child, daughter Emma J Moore, who was born in Biddeford (or Hollis) in 1860 and died on 5 Mar, 1911 in Old Orchard, aged 50yrs,5mos,23das. She had married first to Edwin Smith and secondly to Charles Berry. By Smith she had Edna Blanche, who married 1st Albert D Guilford (17 Oct, 1901) and after his death in 1912, she married his brother Ernest Lester (26 Aug,1913). They are all buried in the Tarbox plot in Dunstan Cem, Scarboro. This explains the Guilford's living with Tarbox in 1910+1920, his step-granddaughter and her husbands.
Civil War Pension Index: George filed as invalid 3 Sep, 1891 [app #1055711, cert #862,051]
1850 Buxton census: (pg 2) h.h. 11/13
1860 Buxton (pg 2) h.h. 14/14 - on this rec, George is an apprentice carriage maker, only time he's not a millman
1870 Buxton (pg 12) h.h. 107/121
1880 Buxton h.h. 471/515 - note the parentheses on ages of family members, seemingly a guess by someone suppying enumerator with data, and a little of
1886 Old Orchard St Direct. George a sawyer, house on Ross Rd.
1888 Bidd., Saco + Old Orch. Direct: a 'shingle sawyer', liv Ross Rd
1890 Vet Schedule: lived at Old Orchard [wife Sarah and mother-in-law also on sch as their former husbands were veterans of Civil War]
1900 Old Orchard (pg 1B): h.h. 16/16 'owned farm' - called farmer. Geo. and Sarah married 26 years, she having 1 child, still living. Sarah's mother, now widow Eliza A Prescott, living with couple (also in 1910)
1907 York County Directory: George, millman, Ocean Park (Mrs Sarah)
1910 Old Orchard (pg 8A) Ross Rd, owned farm on this road, still employed as sawyer
[Albert and Blanche Guilford also here - believe it reads gr-son-in-law as she is dau of his step-dau]
1920 Old Orchard (pg 9B): George is a widow [Ernest and E Blanche Guilford, called gr-ch here, but rather a 'step' relation]
Around 1874 (from 1900 census), he was married to SARAH A.L ANDREWS, the daughter of Stephen and Eliza A (Smith) Andrews and the former wife of Augustus H Moore [York County Marriages has Augustus H and Sarah A.S. Andrews of Biddeford marrying 3 Mar, 1860]. She was born in Lyman, ME on 20 Jan, 1843 and died on 7 Oct, 1918 in Old Orchard [ME vr].1890 Veteran Schedule calls her Moore's widow, he was in the Navy and the 47th Mass Vols and killed in 1864, though person of same name AND same regiment files for pension in California, 1891. The 1st LA Cav and 3rd MA H.A. are also in the mix here, not sure what to make of it yet.
After his tour with the 27th Maine was complete, he enlisted into the 1st District of Columbia Cavalry, a private in Company M, on 10 Feb, 1864. As this company was recruited and filled with Maine soldiers, it was transferred over to the 1st Maine Cavalry in August of 1864. During a battle at Sycamore Church on 16 Sept, George and over a hundred others were captured by the rebel forces. He was imprisoned for 6 months [where over half of his captured reg't would die], but survived to see the end of the war and was mustered out in August, 1865 [see the History of the 1st Maine Cavalry 1861-65 by Edward P Tobie c1887]
For most of his life, George worked in the sawmills, a 'sawyer', in Buxton and in Old Orchard. He moved to the latter community after the 1880 Buxton census and before the 1886 OOB street directory was compiled. He lived on Ross Road.
George and Sarah did not have any children together*.
additional source data:
* By Sarah's first marriage she had one child, daughter Emma J Moore, who was born in Biddeford (or Hollis) in 1860 and died on 5 Mar, 1911 in Old Orchard, aged 50yrs,5mos,23das. She had married first to Edwin Smith and secondly to Charles Berry. By Smith she had Edna Blanche, who married 1st Albert D Guilford (17 Oct, 1901) and after his death in 1912, she married his brother Ernest Lester (26 Aug,1913). They are all buried in the Tarbox plot in Dunstan Cem, Scarboro. This explains the Guilford's living with Tarbox in 1910+1920, his step-granddaughter and her husbands.
Civil War Pension Index: George filed as invalid 3 Sep, 1891 [app #1055711, cert #862,051]
1850 Buxton census: (pg 2) h.h. 11/13
1860 Buxton (pg 2) h.h. 14/14 - on this rec, George is an apprentice carriage maker, only time he's not a millman
1870 Buxton (pg 12) h.h. 107/121
1880 Buxton h.h. 471/515 - note the parentheses on ages of family members, seemingly a guess by someone suppying enumerator with data, and a little of
1886 Old Orchard St Direct. George a sawyer, house on Ross Rd.
1888 Bidd., Saco + Old Orch. Direct: a 'shingle sawyer', liv Ross Rd
1890 Vet Schedule: lived at Old Orchard [wife Sarah and mother-in-law also on sch as their former husbands were veterans of Civil War]
1900 Old Orchard (pg 1B): h.h. 16/16 'owned farm' - called farmer. Geo. and Sarah married 26 years, she having 1 child, still living. Sarah's mother, now widow Eliza A Prescott, living with couple (also in 1910)
1907 York County Directory: George, millman, Ocean Park (Mrs Sarah)
1910 Old Orchard (pg 8A) Ross Rd, owned farm on this road, still employed as sawyer
[Albert and Blanche Guilford also here - believe it reads gr-son-in-law as she is dau of his step-dau]
1920 Old Orchard (pg 9B): George is a widow [Ernest and E Blanche Guilford, called gr-ch here, but rather a 'step' relation]
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