Ladies' Society of Winslow, Maine, for the Support of the Gospel,"

Sprague's Journal of Maine History
Volume VII
Aug. Sept. Oct. 1919
No. 2
page 106


At the regular meeting of the "Ladies' Society of Winslow, Maine, for the 
Support of the Gospel," June 17th, 1919, the one hundredth anniversary 
of this organization was observed.

The meeting was held in the Congregational Church which was erected 1796, 
and was an occasion of historical interest and importance.  The Society was 
established in 1819.

The charter members were as follows:
Ruth Wood, Elizabeth Freeman, Abiel Ware Paine, Hannah Child Swan, Keziah 
Talbot, Lavinia Swan Adams, Susan Dingley Whitman, Ruth Parker Howard, 
Sibyl Parker Pattee, Sarah Swan Rice, Susanna Dingley, Demands Hayden 
Drummond, Sarah Hayden, Nancy Smith, Eunice Haywood Straton, Jane Smith, 
Sarah Keith.

Mrs Carrie Stratton Howard, read a valuable historical paper, being biographical 
sketches of these charter members.  We take therein the following:

Eunice Haywood Stratton came here when she was eight years old.  She lived 
on the north side of the Sebasticook river and used to tell her children how 
she played with little Indians and said it was a wonder she had not married one.  
Instead she married Hesekiah Stratton and went across the river to live on the 
farm that has always been occupied by her family.  Robert Horne is there now, 
her great, great, grandson.  From her are descended Jennie Howard, Emily 
Horne, Mildred Paine and Mary Howard.  Robert Horne's little girls are in the 
sixth generation from her.

Ellen Garland, Jennie Howard, Ruth Robinson, 3rd, and her granddaughter 
Ruth, are descended from two charter members and Mary Howard from three.

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