Cressey (Creasey) Homestead

This house was where many generations of Cressey's and Halls were born. Caleb Cressey Sr was born in 1744 (supposedly in New Hampshire) cannot find hide nor hair of his parentage or place of birth. Before 1800 he came to Mt Vernon, Kennebec County, Maine, USA. He bought the property in Mt Vernon and lived there at first in the existing house. Around 1800 he built the house that so many of the family were born and died in. Picture of the house on this blog. Caleb Cressey Jr his son was born lived his entire life and died there. Caleb Cressey Jr had a son Albert who was born there on 9May1826 he lived his entire life and died there. Albert married Alma Spaulding, daughter of Parker and Elizabeth Danforth Spaulding. They lived their entire married lives, and both died there. Their daughter Florence married Herbert Hall , lived her entire life, and died there in 1924 of infantile paralasis (Polio). They had a daughter, Rose Alma, and two sons, Benjamin Albert, and Roy Herbert. After Florence's death Benjamin Albert lived there with his first and second wives, and had three boys (2 with his first wife Alera) and after her death married Eva Parent, and proceeded to have 1 boy and 3 girls and then moved to Freeport, Maine. Where he lived out his life until he was killed by a drunk driver in a traffic accident. The hisory that was lived and died with that house when it was burned (because it was no longer safe to explore. I was probably 5 1947. Until next time. Your Genealogy Insider

Evans Elwood Libby (my brother)

Before I start this blog I should tell you that from Evans death he was never mentioned by or spoken of to his parents. They were devastated. He was born in 1919 and lived his first few years in Mt Vernon, Kennebec County, Maine, USA. He was born on the farm that his great grandparents owned since their marriage. (Nathan Copp and Emma Jane Stevens. In or around 1926 the family moved to Auburn, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA. In 1933 Herbert Hall (my grandfather) and Roy Hall (my uncle) helped Elwood build a house for the family on 87 Coburn Street, Auburn, Androscoggin County, Maine,USA. As Evans grew older he became fastinated with airplanes. He built models and contructed their engines. As I grew up there were many models in evidence around the house on Coburn Street. In high school he took drafting, mechanical arts, and shop courses. He was a favorite with Mrs Bowen (my geometry teacher). She used to tell me I should be more of a student like my brother was. He graduated from Edward Little High School in 1939. He then enlisted in the Army Air Corp. Did his basic training, and was stationed in Bellevue, Illinois. His unit was fated to be in the death march on Battan, where so many of our young men died. On a fateful day in December in 1939 ( the 9th) he was taking flying practice and another pilot in training hit his plane and damaged it so that it crashed. Rose Alma and Elwood and his sister Pauline got a telegram saying he had been seriously injured. They made arrangements for his mother and Pauline to take the train out to help care for him but then another telegram came stating he had surcumbed to his injuries and died. Needless to say they never recovered from his death though they lived until 1988 and 1989 respectively . Until next time, Your Hall Genealogy Insider.