Walter Waters Plant

1865-1947

Born 1865

Died 1947

Children include Nettie

Walter Waters Plant was born in 1865, the son of Joseph Plant, a woodsman and Civil War veteran. On 1 May 1885, at Fayette, he married Elizabeth Ela, a daughter of the circuit-riding preacher Roger Ela and of Phebe Wadsworth of Moose Hill, and they farmed on Moose Hill, near the church, where their four children were born, Nettie Estelle first in March 1886.

His daughter remembered him at ninety: "He was 6 feet 2 and rugged and had fine common sense." He worked sixteen-hour days for a dollar and came home singing. "I remember my father bought the first mowing machine in this part of the country and people came from miles around to see it. Everyone was mowing with a hand scythe, you see." He had not had his wife's schooling, Nettie said, and cherished learning the more for it: he took her up on the bed beside him and taught her her letters and numbers before she was two.

Elizabeth died at Livermore Falls in November 1943. He died in 1947, aged about eighty-two, and is buried with her at Moose Hill Cemetery.

Children

Nettie Estelle Plant 1886-1981

Sources

Newspaper clipping, March 1981, on Find a Grave memorial 205203341; the paper is not named on the clipping.

Lewiston Evening Journal, October 1961 (the page carries a notice dated October 3, 1961); clipping on Find a Grave memorial 205203341.

Newspaper clipping, November 1943, on Find a Grave memorial 235029867.

Congressional Record, Senate, 18 February 1976, page 3548, "Mrs. Nettie Mitchell"; copy at the Edmund S. Muskie Archives, Bates College, https://abacus.bates.edu/muskie-archives/ajcr/1976/Nettie%20Mitchell.html

Find a Grave memorial 235029856; Find a Grave memorial 205203341 (marriage date); Maine Sunday Telegram, 1 February 1976, in the Congressional Record, 18 February 1976; funeral notice of Mrs. Elizabeth Plant, 1943

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