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[7815] Harry farmed Emma's father's farm between Greenpark and Landisburg in Perry Co. "The Perry County Times [New Bloomfield, PA], 13 March 1947," p. 1: "Harry Koppenhaver Boggs, 55 years of age, died at his home in Centre township on Thursday night, March 6, of a heart attack. He was a son of William and Margaret Koppenhaver Boggs, of Loysville, and was engaged in farming. He was a member of the Evangelical and Reformed Church of New Bloomfield. Surviving him are his wife, Mrs. Emma Lightner Boggs; a daughter, Miss Helen Boggs, R. N., at home; a son, Lee, of Carlisle, R. D.; a step-daughler, Mrs. Fred Wavrek, R. N., of Dayton, Ohio; two grandchildren, and a brother, Bruce, of Lancaster."
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[9392] Annie m. Isaac Sweger. She was surived by five children, but only two are now known: Roy L. Sweger, b. 14 Oct 1886 at New Bloomfield, PA, and Edward Sweger, b. in February, 1888 in Centre Twp., Perry Co., PA [the only Edward Sweger b. in 1888 in the Social Security death records was b. 6 Feb 1888 and d. in Aug 1975 in Stratford, CT].
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[49536] "Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram [Portland, Maine], 30 June 2012": "Frank S. Eaton, 81, of Hampton, NH, died on Thursday, June 28, 2012, at the Community Hospice House in Merrimack, NH. He was born in Biddeford on May 21, 1931, the son of the late Donald E. and Margaret (Stover) Eaton. Mr. Eaton was a graduate of the Samuel D. Hanson High School in Buxton, with the class of 1948, and attended Portland Jr. College. He was a veteran of the Korean War serving in the U.S. Navy. Mr. Eaton worked as an automobile salesman for Coast Pontiac Cadillac in Portsmouth for 30 years retiring in 2000. He resided in Hampton since 1968 coming from Bangor. He was a member of Gov. William King Lodge 219 of Scarborough, was affiliated with St. James Lodge #102 F. & A.M. of Hampton, Scottish Rite Bodies Valley of Portsmouth-Dover, had been active with the Boy Scouts many years ago and was a former member of the Exeter Lions Club. He was the husband of the late Janet V. (Davis) Eaton who died in 2000. Private interment will be in the Exeter Cemetery."
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[52766] Elizabeth is daughter of Fred Shepley Hill (1869-1937) & Eula Rose Roberts (1879-1956; m. 26 March 1908 in Boothbay, Lincoln Co., ME).
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[58416] Find A Grave memorial 45703701 offers: "Enlisted from Exeter, Maine, on 22 Dec 1863 and served as a private in Co. E, 1st Maine Heavy Artillery. Wounded in action on 19 May 1864: gunshot to left hand. Honorably discharged 16 Dec 1864. 'MARRIED---In this town [Dover], on the 5th inst., by Jas. S. Wiley, Esq., Mr. George P. Leighton, to Miss Martha Hill, both of Exeter.' --Piscataquis (ME) Observer, 23 Aug 1860, p. 3."
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Find A Grave Memorial 55742945 offers: "Also seen as Wilhelm Schmitt or Smith Jr. He signed his name "Wilhelm Schmitt" throughout his life but was known in English as William Smith. He claimed to have been born 19 Feb 1819 in the Kingdom of Bavaria but was actually born 6 Jan 1819 in Nünschweiler, then part of Bavaria. He was raised in Nünschweiler and Hengsberg and worked with his father on the family mill while living in Hengsberg. The date on William's grave marker matches with his naturalization papers but demonstrates that he likely did not know his exact date of birth. He was the son of Wilhelm and Margaretha Schmitt, originally of Nünschweiler, later pioneers of Young Township, Jefferson County, PA. He arrived in America on 24 Jun 1833 along with his parents, the family of his sister Louisa (Weber, later Wingert), and Johann Nikolaus Haag (also interred at the Punxsutawney German Reformed Church). He was married first to Anna Brillhart;
and had these children: Catharine (Smith) Hurlebaus, Samuel Sylvester Smith, William K.Smith, Mary Anna (Smith) Hartzfeld, and John Elmer Smith. He was married second to Barbara Catherine Smith (originally of Schlüchtern, Hessen; later Indiana County, PA) and had these children (and six others, all of whom died in infancy):
Henry A.Smith, Jacob George Smith, Adam E. Smith, and Elizabeth (Smith) Haag. He died 28 Sep 1896 from a lingering illness; his body was interred at the St. Peter's Cemetery on 30 September 1896, as per his death record and an obituary from the Punxsutawney Spirit."
[39797] The unverified Jones Family Tree in Ancestry.com in 2015 states "William Stiehle was born in 1700 in Germany. He married Kunigunda Barbara Kober on January 15, 1738, in Edenkoben, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. They had one child during their marriage. He died on May 11, 1751, in Bavaria, Germany, at the age of 51."
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[25142] Hannah is daughter of Ebenezer and Hannah (Judkins) Webster.
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"The Ellsworth American [Ellsworth, Maine]," 20 December 2023:
Eben Morrison Whitcomb Jr., 97, passed on May 13, 2023, in Middletown, Conn. Eben Jr. was a natural leader and mentor with an irrepressible zest for life that he expressed with graciousness, generosity, optimism and sense of humor. He was a master mariner, seaman, and navigator. He was a U.S. Coast Guard licensed Captain who frequently sailed as captain of his tall ships in New England, the Caribbean, and in-between.
Eben Morrison Whitcomb Jr. was born in Washington DC to Eben Morrison Sr. and Eleanor Gillette Whitcomb. His college education as an engineering student at the Stevens Institute of Technology, in Hoboken, N.J., was interrupted when he enlisted in the U.S. Navy on April 13, 1943, and subsequently served as an Ensign and Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy during World War II. He trained in the U.S. Navys V-12 program at the Stevens Institute of Technology and Yale University, and then served as a Lieutenant engineering officer on the Patrol Craft Escort USS PCE-873 in the Pacific Ocean. He was honorably discharged on Aug. 6, 1946. In 1947 he completed his bachelor of science in mechanical engineering at Yale University, where he also competed on the Varsity Swimming Team. From 1948 to 1968 he was an engineering manager for the Eastern Fine Paper Company and the Brown Company, manufacturers of fine paper.
In June of 1958, Eben Jr. married Shirley Litchfield, a school teacher originally from Ellsworth. For their honeymoon, they took a years leave of absence from their jobs and, with Eben Sr. and two other crew members, sailed Eben Sr.s 40' schooner Maryleigh on a year-long adventure circumnavigating the North Atlantic Ocean. From Northeast Harbor in Maine, they sailed to Newfoundland, Scotland, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, England, Portugal, Gibraltar, Spain, France, the Mediterranean Ocean, the Canary Islands, recrossing the Atlantic to the Caribbean Sea, including port stops at Antigua, Puerto Rico, Hati, the Bahama Islands, then North along the East Coast of North America, returning to Northeast Harbor, Maine, in summer 1959. During this trip they met many people whose families remain close friends of the Whitcomb family to the present, including Hendrick Fasmer VII and his family of Alvøen, Norway, and the late Jens Duborg, from Germany, who sailed with Eben and Shirley to the U.S. aboard Maryleigh in 1958-9. Duborg emigrated to the US and built a successful precision machining business and raised a family in Massachusetts.
Eben Jr. and Shirley had three boys between 1960 and 1966: Eben III, Louis and Ruel. From 1959 to 1969 the family relocated to many paper factory towns including Brewer, Lincoln, Gorham, Kalamazoo, Mich., and Holyoke, Mass., with Shirley and the boys spending summers at their camp on Branch Lake in Ellsworth. They relocated to Guilford, Conn. in 1969, when Eben became a senior engineer at the George Schmitt Company, a company specializing in high-tech precision rotogravure printing. In 1970 Shirley and Eben Jr. moved to their residence at Waterside Lane, Clinton, Conn., where they lived for the next 52 years and developed many close friendships.
In 1970 Eben Jr. and Shirley incorporated Dirigo Cruises Ltd., a limited partnership corporation, together with 14 private investors, and commissioned the building of a 94-ton, 131-foot, gaff-rigged wooden schooner at the Harvey F. Gamage Shipyard in South Bristol. Launched in 1973, they named her Harvey Gamage in honor of the master shipwright who oversaw her construction and fitting out. For the next 21 years the Harvey Gamage offered vacation and sail training school cruises in Maine and New England in the summers, and in the Caribbean in the winter.
In 1976 Eben Jr. created the SeaMester program in partnership with Southampton College of Long Island University, with a South-bound SeaMester aboard the Harvey Gamage every fall from New England to St. Thomas, and a reciprocal North-bound SeaMester each spring. In 1984 Dirigo Cruises acquired the 105-foot ferrocement schooner Rachel and Ebenezer and operated her for several years with the Harvey Gamage.
Hundreds of crew members and SeaMester students found their experiences on Ebens tall ships to be transformative and life changing. He provided countless young men and women the opportunity to serve as crew members, and mentored their advancement from cook and deckhand, to officer, and captain. Eben is remembered by them for his generosity, his professionalism, his graciousness, and his willingness to place his faith in them. Ebens tall ships were training ships not just because of SeaMester; they were training ships because he set an example of quiet competence, then delegated responsibilities, and entrusted many with their first commands. He was awarded the 2017 Tall Ships America Lifetime Achievement Award, which is awarded annually by Tall Ships America to an individual who has dedicated their lifes work to getting people to sea under sail and has worked to preserve the traditions and skills of sail training. Eben Jr. and Shirley made many close friends and touched many lives.
In 1994 Eben Jr. and Shirley retired from the windjammer business and sold the Harvey Gamage. He continued to closely follow her ongoing development and continued operation as a sail training ship.
Eben Jr. is survived by his wife Shirley Litchfield Whitcomb of Haddam, Conn.; his sister Ann Whitcomb Hessler Johnson of Holden; his son Eben Morrison Whitcomb III and his partner Belinda Jones of Westbrook, Conn.; and his son Louis Litchfield Whitcomb and his wife Jennifer Lynn Forrence of Baltimore, Md. He was predeceased by his son Ruel Whitney Whitcomb of Clinton, Conn.