Damon, Bradbury Fremont b. 24 Oct 1862 Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME d. 13 Jan 1927 Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME: My Damon Genealogy

1862 - 1927 (64 years)

Name	Damon, Bradbury Fremont
Birth	24 Oct 1862	Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME [1, 2]
Gender	Male
Census	25 Jun 1870	Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME [3]
Census	28 Jun 1880	Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME [4]
Census	15 Jun 1900	Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME [1]
Farmer
Census	10 Apr 1910	Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME [5]
Living with brother John L. Damon
Census	13 Jan 1920	Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME [6]
Living with Virgil DeCoster, listed as Hired Man
Tombstone Photo	No headstone, only a small stone that says "Father". Buried alongside son Wilson. [7]
Death	13 Jan 1927	Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME [8]
Burial	Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME [7, 9]
Person ID	I3621	My Damon Genealogy
Last Modified	24 Sep 2024

Father	Damon, John Miller, b. 19 Oct 1828, Sumner, Oxford Co., ME d. 17 Mar 1889, Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME (Age 60 years)
Mother	Drake, Achsah Maria, b. 19 Aug 1828, Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME d. 13 Mar 1903, Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME (Age 74 years)
Marriage	6 Nov 1854	Shelburne, Coos Co., NH [10]
Family ID	F429	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Gammon, Viola Abbie, b. 08 Oct 1867, Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME d. 01 Oct 1918, Brockton, Plymouth Co., MA (Age 50 years)

Marriage 18 Nov 1883 Canton, Oxford Co., ME [11, 12, 13]

Married by Alvarado Hayford, JP [11]

Divorce Oct 1906 Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME

Children

	1. Damon, Wilson Martelle, b. 11 Mar 1884, Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME d. 07 Jul 1964, Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME (Age 80 years)
+	2. Damon, Leona Ardelle, b. 18 Dec 1885, Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME d. 24 Mar 1971, Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME (Age 85 years)
	3. Damon, Linwood Freemont, b. 04 May 1889, Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME d. 23 Apr 1975, Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME (Age 85 years)
	4. Damon, Mary Hazel, b. 11 Jun 1891, Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME d. 1976, Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME (Age 84 years)
	5. Damon, Mildred V., b. 25 Nov 1893, Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME d. 05 Sep 1894, Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME (Age 0 years)
	6. Damon, Paul Drake, b. 11 May 1895, Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME d. 7 Dec 1990, Houlton, Aroostook Co., ME (Age 95 years)
	7. Damon, Harry Joseph, b. 03 Apr 1897, Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME d. 02 Feb 1951, Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME (Age 53 years)
	8. Damon, Elbert Martin, b. 25 Oct 1900, Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME d. 18 Jan 1949, North Adams, Berkshire Co., MA (Age 48 years)

Family ID F63 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Last Modified 24 Sep 2024

Event Map

	Birth - 24 Oct 1862 - Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME
	Census - 25 Jun 1870 - Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME
	Census - 28 Jun 1880 - Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME
	Marriage - 18 Nov 1883 - Canton, Oxford Co., ME
	Census - Farmer - 15 Jun 1900 - Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME
	Divorce - Oct 1906 - Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME
	Census - Living with brother John L. Damon - 10 Apr 1910 - Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME
	Census - Living with Virgil DeCoster, listed as Hired Man - 13 Jan 1920 - Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME
	Death - 13 Jan 1927 - Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME
	Burial - - Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME

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Photos

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Documents » Slide Show		Damon, John Miller and Achsa Maria Drake Record of Children
		Drake-Damon House Story about the house and how it was moved to New York_Part 1
		Damon, Bradbury Freemont and Viola A Gammon Record of Children
		Damon, Bradbury Freemont Death Record
		Damon, Bradbury Freemont and Viola A Gammon Marriage Intentions
		Damon, Bradbury Freemont and Viola A Gammon Marriage Record
		Drake-Damon House Story about the house and how it was moved to New York_Part 2
		1900 U.S. census, Oxford County, Maine, population schedule, Buckfield, enumeration district 0181, p. 6B
		1910 U.S. census, Oxford County, Maine, population schedule, Buckfield, enumeration district 0183, p. 4A
		1920 U.S. census, Oxford County, Maine, population schedule, Buckfield, enumeration district 107, p. 5B
		1870 U.S. census, Oxford County, Maine, population schedule, Buckfield, p. 86B
		1880 U.S. census, Oxford County, Maine, population schedule, Buckfield, enumeration district 119, p. 72C
		Damon, Bradbury Freemont Broken Arm Oxford Democrat (Paris, Maine), 16 January 1917, p. 2,col. 2
		Damon, Bradbury Fremont Signature Taken from father, John Miller Damon's Estate Probate papers
		Damon, Bradbury Fremont Obituary
		Damon, Bradbury Fremont and Viola Gammon Divorce Announcement Oxford (Maine) Democrat 30 October 1906, Page 3

Headstones		Damon, Bradbury Freemont
Headstones		Damon, Bradbury Freemont

Notes

1870 Census: listed as "Joseph B."

Tombstone in Buckfield marked only "Father and Mother", next to Wilson.

Bradbury was a very fun loving guy with a good sense of humor. He was known for his practical jokes on family and friends. He was a small man in stature only measuring 5'3''. He worked his dad's farm and had a farm of his own which Wilson took over later. He raised cattle for both milk and beef. Milk went to the local dairy. Beef was shipped to Boston, along with apples from his orchard. His main cash crop was corn that he sold to a local cannery. He sold pigeons to sell in Boston which he sold as fresh "quail". He worked in town as a butcher, in the winter and was suspected to sell deer meat as veal.
When the train went into the creek it was never set up again for freight. This changed a lot of commerce trading for Buckfield. Getting products to Boston now was impossible. Cash was tight and Bradbury turned to running Rum from Canada threw Smuggler's Notch in Vermont. This was across a lake and Bradbury would keep most of the rum on the outside of the boat connected by ice thongs and if chased would squeeze the top and the rum would drop to the bottom of the lake making it easier for him to get away or at least have nothing to get caught with. He sold his rum to a local pharmacy who had a run in with the town. One Sunday morning the preacher warned his Parrish that anyone who drank could not cross the threshold of his church next Sunday. Later that week the church and the school next to it were burned down. No one was arrested but the pharmacist left town never to return and his accomplice was never revealed. Local gossip has it that Brad was part of this incident. He spent a lot of time with a man named Larry Fisher and they were partners in the rum running.
As time went on his wife Viola left him; traveling with a salesman named Joe Bowles; to Boston. He sold pots and pans and known to locals as a Jew boy. She went to Boston with him and divorced Bradbury and later married Walter Reed. She took Elbert her youngest son with her never to return to Buckfield except to be buried with Bradbury.
Bradbury was a hunter and a fisherman as most men in those days were. He was a heavy drinker and a chain smoker. When he died they gave him nicotine pills so he would lay still and die quitely. He lived his last days living with his son Wilson.
John Linwood Damon Jr. told Brian Edward Damon these stories as he had first hand knowledge of his uncle and talked about him with a smile and a chuckle. He ended each story with the disclaimer " or so I heard".

Sources

[S591] 1900 U.S. census, Oxford County, Maine, population schedule, Buckfield, enumeration district 0181, p. 6B (penned), dwelling 145, family 162, Viola A. and Bradbury Damon, digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 2 October 2013); citing FHL microfilm 1240596, roll 596.
[S813] Buckfield, Maine, "Births, 1700-1890", p.151, Offspring of John M. and Achsa Damon; City Clerk's Office, Buckfield.
[S588] 1870 U.S. census, Oxford County, Maine, population schedule, Buckfield, p. 86B (stamped), dwelling 272, family 287, Achsa M. and John M. Damon; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 27 September 2013); citing National Archives microfilm publication M593_550, image 177.
[S621] 1880 U.S. census, Oxford County, Maine, population schedule, Buckfield, enumeration district 119, p. 72C (stamped), dwelling 284, family 306, Achsah M. and John M. Damon, digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 29 September 2013); citing FH film 1254484, roll 484, image 0268.
[S592] 1910 U.S. census, Oxford County, Maine, population schedule, Buckfield, enumeration district 0183, p. 4A (penned), dwelling 85, family 98, Myrtie B. and John L. Damon, digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 3 October 2013); citing NARA microfilm publication T624_543.
[S22] 1920 U.S. census.
Oxford County, Maine, population schedule, Buckfield, enumeration district 107, p. 5B (penned), dwelling 123, family 141, Edith B. and Virgil P. DeCoster for Bradbury F. Damon, digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 3 October 2013); citing NARA microfilm publication T625_647, image 714.
[S863] Buckfield Village Cemetery, (Buckfield, Oxford County, Maine; N Buckfield Rd; LAT/LON 44.29972N, -70.38389), Father [Bradbury Freemont Damon] marker.
[S810] Buckfield, Maine, "Record of Deaths, 1892-1931", p. 73, Bradbury F Damon; City Clerk's Office, Buckfield.
[S648] "Find A Grave", Find A Grave, database and images (http://www.findagrave.com: accessed 30 July 2013), memorial page for Bradbury Freemont Damon (1862-1927), Find A Grave Memorial no. 103380066, citing Buckfield Village Cemetery, Buckfield, Oxford County, Pennsylvania, created by Tim & Grace Cooper.
[S34] New Hampshire, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1636-1947.
"New Hampshire, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1636-1947," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L99S-XFR5?cc=1987741&wc=M6CJ-V3X%3A265835701%2C265944001%2C265944002 : 29 November 2018), Coos > Shelburne > Births, marriages, deaths 1755-1868 > image 61 of 74; New Hampshire Bureau of Vital Records and Statistics, Concord
[S26] McAllister, Rev. Donald L., and Lucille E. Naas, editors, Marriage Returns of Oxford County, Maine Prior to 1892, (Camden, Maine: Picton Press, 1993), 223.
[S708] Maine Marriages, 1771-1907, index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F4F3-2NR : accessed 19 Sep 2012), Bradbury F. Dammon and Viola A. Gammon, 18 Nov 1883; citing reference , FHL microfilm 10604.
[S776] Buckfield (Maine). Town Clerk, Buckfield, Maine. Town Clerk, "Vital Records, 1803-1898", Marriage of Bradbury F. Damon and Viola A. Gammon; FHL microfilm 10604, section titled "Record of Marriages & Intentions (1803-1891)".