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Title: Colonel Paul Dudley Sargent. 1745-1827 ..
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Sargent, Winthrop, 1853-1932
Subjects: Sargent, Paul Dudley, 1745-1827 Saunders family Sargent family
Publisher: (Philadelphia?
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them in the lossat sea of their much loved and promising son, Paul Dudley,at the age of twenty years. It was a few years after the revered father had been laid inhis desired resting-place and while the aged mother stilllingered in the isolation of utter deafness and decrepitude,that Dr. and Mrs. Johnson were awakened by the bursting offlames into their chamber, and it was with difficulty that theirsix children were rescued before their pleasant home was amass of cinders. This, with losses that occurred at sea nearlythe same time left them almost penniless, but so thankfulwere they for the escape of the family that their children donot remember ever to have heard the event alluded to but interms of gratitude. After this they lived several years in Cherryfield, and thenremoved to Brewer, on the Penobscot River, opposite Bangor. Mrs. Johnson has been a widow for the last thirty years,living alternately in the families of her children. There has Page seventeen COLONEL PAUL DUDLEY SARGENT
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CATHERINE WINTHROP SARGENTWife of Col. Epcs Sargent (From a portrait by Smibert) Page eighteen COLONEL PA U L DUDLEY SARGENT been something peculiarly distressing in the circumstanceswhich have attended family bereavements. The first sundering of the household band was in the deathof a lovely daughter. Mary Sargent Johnson, just twentyyears of age, full of life and love and enthusiasm in the religiouslife on which she had just entered, who died while with an auntin Sullivan of typhus fever; while the mother, sister andbrothers were stricken down by the same malignant diseaseat their home in Brewer, and only the father could witnessthe departure of his beloved child. On the 4th of July, 1847, the husband and father diedsuddenly at the Massachusetts Hospital in Boston, where it wassupposed that he was in a fair way to recover from the effectsof an amputation, which had been some weeks previouslysuccessfully performed. In 1850, the second son, Thomas Saunders Johnson, diedin California s
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Title: Colonel Paul Dudley Sargent. 1745-1827 ..
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Sargent, Winthrop, 1853-1932
Subjects: Sargent, Paul Dudley, 1745-1827 Saunders family Sargent family
Publisher: (Philadelphia?
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN
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them in the lossat sea of their much loved and promising son, Paul Dudley,at the age of twenty years. It was a few years after the revered father had been laid inhis desired resting-place and while the aged mother stilllingered in the isolation of utter deafness and decrepitude,that Dr. and Mrs. Johnson were awakened by the bursting offlames into their chamber, and it was with difficulty that theirsix children were rescued before their pleasant home was amass of cinders. This, with losses that occurred at sea nearlythe same time left them almost penniless, but so thankfulwere they for the escape of the family that their children donot remember ever to have heard the event alluded to but interms of gratitude. After this they lived several years in Cherryfield, and thenremoved to Brewer, on the Penobscot River, opposite Bangor. Mrs. Johnson has been a widow for the last thirty years,living alternately in the families of her children. There has Page seventeen COLONEL PAUL DUDLEY SARGENT
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CATHERINE WINTHROP SARGENTWife of Col. Epcs Sargent (From a portrait by Smibert) Page eighteen COLONEL PA U L DUDLEY SARGENT been something peculiarly distressing in the circumstanceswhich have attended family bereavements. The first sundering of the household band was in the deathof a lovely daughter. Mary Sargent Johnson, just twentyyears of age, full of life and love and enthusiasm in the religiouslife on which she had just entered, who died while with an auntin Sullivan of typhus fever; while the mother, sister andbrothers were stricken down by the same malignant diseaseat their home in Brewer, and only the father could witnessthe departure of his beloved child. On the 4th of July, 1847, the husband and father diedsuddenly at the Massachusetts Hospital in Boston, where it wassupposed that he was in a fair way to recover from the effectsof an amputation, which had been some weeks previouslysuccessfully performed. In 1850, the second son, Thomas Saunders Johnson, diedin California s
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- booksubject:Sargent_family
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