THE EVELETH FAMILY vol 3 page 12I The Eveleth Family of Monson and Greenville, Maine A contributor ("C. H. E.") to the Historical and Genealogical Department of the Eastern Argus, has recently written several valuable sketches of the Eveleth family in New England, and in his last article said: Oliver Eveleth was born in Stow, Massachuetts, on the third of January, I792. He was a son of Capt. Daniel (vi) and Betty or Elizabeth Hale and grandson of John (v) and Abiagail Knowles; Francis (iv) and Mary Hunt; Rev. John Eveleth and Mary Bow- man; Joseph and Mary Bragg; Sylvester and Susan Eveleth the colonists. By the Stow records we learn he was married January, 182o, to Betsy (or Becky?) Whitcomb of Boston and their first child, Emily Ann, was born in May, 1821. Further than this the Stow account does not say, but Mr. McIlvene wrote me that he was in Monson, Maine, about 1825. In the Crafts Family, page 6I3, is the marriage of Rebecca Whit- comb Eveleth, a daughter of John H. and Nellie Mansett of Green- ville, Maine. She was born April, 1865, and married September, 1889, Arthur Abram Crafts, who was born in Ohio; was in Chicago engaged in business with his father and going to Iowa their first child born in Spencer, Iowa, was called Julia Ellen. Two years later in 1893, Oliver Eveleth Crafts was born to them in Austin, Illinois. Now the connection of these families is desired. John H. Eveleth might have been a son of Oliver and Betsy or Becky grown to manhood and married in Maine. But there are others, for John is a favorite name among the Eveleths. There was born in Augusta to John Eveleth and Sarah Hale, who was an uncle to Oliver, John Henry Eveleth, 1811 to 1850, who married Martha Holman of Bos- ton, Mass., and left two children (both were living at last account). Frederick W., who married and had issue and Ellen H., who mar- ried in 1865, Rev. Alexander McKenzie, D. D., who lately deceased in Cambridge, Mass. I had gleaned from North's History of Au- gusta that this John Henry Eveleth was a merchant in Farmington and deceased there-but was much surprised last September to learn that he died in or near Boston and that both he and his wife are among those "awaiting the resurrection" in Mt. Auburn, Cambridge, 122 SPRAGUE'S JOURNAL OF MAINE HISTORY Mass. Also from the 1849 Boston Directory, Blackmer & Eveleth stoves. John H. Eveleth was the junior of this firm. Then another John Eveleth is named in Hatch's History of In- dustry, a son of James Eveleth and Sarah Blackstone Conners. Mr. I-latch only places their name in the list of their children. As this James must have been past sixty years of age when in I814 he wedded Mrs. Conners, this list of seven children, only two of whom he gives birth dates, seems doubtful. It has seemed as if some other family list had been given and in central Maine a century ago beside ten or more children of James Eveleth there were grandchildren of Capt. Nathaniel Eveleth, of New Gloucester living in Guilford and Abbott, beside children of John Hale Eveleth of Augusta. judge Edgar C. Smith of Foxcroft, Maine, referring to the fore- going has since communicated to the Argus the following: Oliver Eveleth, son of Daniel and Betsey (Hale) Eveleth, was born in Stow, Mass., January 3, I792; married February 21, 1820, Betsey Whitcomb, a native of Bolton, Mass.; died in Greenville, Maine, June 4, 1874. Children: Emily A., born in 182I, married A. G. Huston, died July 8, 1846; John H., of whom see below. Oliver bought some land in Monson about 182o and moved there with his family in 1824. He was the first trader in the town, open- ing a store in the fall of 1825. He moved to Greenville in 185o and died there as above stated. John H. Eveleth, son of Oliver, was born in Monson, Maine, December 21, 1826; married (1st) Louise Ellen Mansell, May 20, 1862. Children: Emily R., born February 22, 1863, died in infancy; Rebecca Whitcomb, born April 12, 1865, who married Arthur A. Crafts, as stated in the "C. E. H." article. John H., married (2nd) Hattie Hunter, October 8, 1888. No children by this marriage; he died November 7, 1899. He moved from Monson to Greenville, Maine in 1848, and opened a store there. He became one of the most prosperous and wealthiest business men of Piscataquis county, and had large holdings in timberlands and other real estate, also was a large owner in the steamboat lines on Moosehead Lake. His death was caused by his horse running away and throwing him violently against a stone abutment of an overhead railroad bridge. 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