Forrest Abbott
Biography
Forrest Chaffee Abbott was born in Old Town to Herbert Burr Abbott and Geneva M. Spearin on February 5, 1916. He graduated from Old Town High School in 1935.[1] In that same year he also married Vivian Gertrude Eastman (1918-1967) of Milford.[2] By the time of the 1940 Census, they lived on Lincoln Street---with two kids and both working as laborers at the Moose River Shoe Company.[3] Later on, Abbott worked for the T. M. Chapman Company, where he was employed when he joined the war effort. While after the war his brothers all lived on Abbott Street, Forrest may not have returned to Old Town after his discharge from the military. In 1958 he is reported to be living in Los Angeles (CA) and not to have been back in Old Town in eight years. At the time of his wife's death, he was living in La Hobra (CA) and working as a mechanic with the United States Motor Co. in Anaheim (CA).[4] In the 1990s, Abbott lived in Chino Valley (AZ), which is probably where he passed away on April 13, 1999. He is buried at Wickenburg Cemetery (AZ).[5]
One confounding set of facts is that while Abbott and Eastman appear to (still) be married in 1967, Eastman is on record to have remarried in 1947, while Abbott remarried in 1953. There does not appear to be a record of Abbott and Eastman remarrying each other.
Notes
- ↑ Sachem 1935, p. 8.
- ↑ ME.Marriages, FamilySearch.
- ↑ See the 1940 census for Old Town under "Forest Abbotte". Both are listed as working in a shoe factory. At the time The River Moose Shoe Co. was the only such factory in town.
- ↑ See PT19580731, OTPL-DA and PT19680815, OTPL-DA. The Forrest Abbott mentioned a few times in the Penobscot Times as living in the Old Town area in the late 1950s and 1960s was Forrest Keith Abbott (1922-1975), who does not appear to have been related.
- ↑ See Find-a-Grave. Memorial for Forrest C. Abbott
References
- The Sachem (= Old Town High School Yearbook). 1935.
- Maine. Marriage Index, 1892-1966, 1977-1996.
- "Old Town Personal Notes and News Brevities". The Penobscot Times. Vol. 66, no. 18. 1958-07-31. p. 3.
- "The Times Page for Neighbors". The Penobscot Times. Vol. 77, no. 22. 1968-08-15. p. 2.
