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Elias Sanborn
  Rank: Pvt Co: C Age: 35 Residence: Buxton Birthplace: Fryeburg Occupation: farmer Married/Single: M Height: 5' 8 Eyes: Bl Hair: Br Complexion: Dk 

PictureSanborn Plot, HIghland Cemetery
ELIAS SANBORN, the son of Jonathan and Betsey (Lord) Sanborn, was born on 28 Jan 1827 [ME death rec] in Fryeburg, Maine [death rec; Descriptive Roll]. He died in Buxton, Maine on 10 Feb 1918, aged 91 yrs, 10 mos, from Bright's Disease [ME vr]. He was buried in Buxton's Highland (formerly Groveville) Cemetery.

He was married around 23 Dec 1852 [intents filed on this date at Buxton - Bk of Intents pg 24] to MARTHA O PORTER, the daughter of Benjamin and Sarah (Reynolds) Porter. She was born in Merrimac, NH on 4 June 1830 [death rec], and died on 5 Feb 1917 in Buxton, aged 86 yrs [ME vr]. She is buried in Highland Cemetery, Buxton.

Elias came to Buxton around 1855 (he was a resident for 63 yrs at time of death), where he first worked as a carriage maker. Just prior to the Civil War, he took up farming, an occupation he kept until his death. It was noted in the obit of his grandson Justin Merrill in 1994 that this same dairy and beef-cattle farm was still in operation by the family.

I. EMMA A SANBORN, born in Mar 1855 [1900 census]; died in 1926 [grave]. She didn't marry, and lived in Buxton and Saco, Maine. She was buried with her parents in Highland Cemetery, Buxton. 

II. WILMOT R SANBORN, born 29 Dec 1858 in Buxton, Maine. He died on 16 June 1940 [grave], and is buried in Laurel Hill Cemetery, Saco, Maine [YCCI, pg 1526]. He was married around June 1885 (intents published in Buxtonon 6/22 and cert issued 6/27) to CLARA E LADD, the daughter of James and Caroline (Rowe) Ladd. She was born in Saco on 29 Nov 1859 [grave] and died there on 26 Jan 1921 [death rec]. She is buried in her family's plot in Laurel Hill Cemetery, Saco. Wilmot secondly married, on 27 Dec 1923, to JENNIE (RUMERY) SHERMAN [ME Marr rec]. She was born in 1859 and died in 1935, and is also buried in Laurel Hill. Wilmot moved to Saco after 1880, where he was employed as a machinist in the cotton (textile) mill. By his first wife, Wilmot had two children:
   1. Harold Wilmot Sanborn, b. 21 May 1886 in Buxton [ME vr]. He marr Lorena May Perkins, dau of Newton and Lizzie (Staples) Perkins, on 9 Mar 1909 in Portland, ME. The 1920 Saco census shows him with four children (not traced further):
      i. Lawrence P Sanborn
      ii. Inez E Sanborn
      iii. Newton W Sanborn
      iv. Evelyn B Sanborn
   2. Florence E Sanborn, b. July 1888 [1900 census]. She marr Eddie Everett Lewis on 30 June 1917 in Saco [ME vr]. 

III. ALICE LORANA SANBORN, b. in Buxton in 1868; died in 1954 [grave], and buried in Highland Cemetery. She was married, on 20 Oct 1900 in Buxton [ME Marr rec], to HARRIS NASON MERRILL. He was born in Buxton in 1872 [grave], the son of William J and Phebe S (Nason) Merrill. He died in 1926, and was buried in Highland Cemetery [grave]. He first worked as a machinist, but afterwards became a farmer on Elias's farm. They had one child:
   1. Justin Sanborn Merrill, b. 21 Feb 1904 in Buxton [ME birth rec]. He died on 7 Dec 1994 in Portland, having moved to the Barron Center there the year prior, due to health reasons. He had been a dairy farmer, taking over the former Sanborn farm when his father passed away in 1926 [obit, Portland Press Herald, 12/8/1994]. He was married to Bessie R. Justin and Bessie are both buried in Highland Cemetery in the Sanborn plot. The 1940 Buxton census shows the couple with the following children (not traced further):
      i. Marjorie I Merrill
      ii. Roger R Merrill
      iii. Verena B Merrill
      iv. Justin S Merrill   



Additional Source Data:
1850 Fryeburg, Maine census: hh 149/155
1860 Buxton, ME census (pg 48): hh 358/382
1870 Buxton census (pg 48): hh 438/438
1880 Buxton census: hh 48/49
1900 Buxton census (pg 10B): hh 199/203
1910 Buxton census (pg 6B): hh 152/156

York County Cemetery Inscriptions (YCCI) by Maine Old Cemetery Association c1995 Picton Press

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