Joseph Elwin Pooler ^{1 2}

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• Census, 22 Jun 1880, Washburn, ME.

• Child Born: Bernice R. Pooler, 13 Jul 1896, Washburn, ME.

• Child Died: Bernie R. Pooler, 20 Aug 1896, Washburn, ME.

• Child Born: Gladys Fidella Pooler, 21 Aug 1898, Washburn, ME.

• Census, 11 Jun 1900, Washburn, ME. ³

• Child Born: Jasper C. Pooler, 8 Nov 1900, Washburn, ME.

• Death of Spouse: Ethel H. Kinney, 28 Nov 1903, Wade, ME.

• Census, 4 May 1910, Wade, ME. ⁴

• Child Died: Jasper C. Pooler, 24 Apr 1915, Washburn, ME.

• Newspaper Article: Bangor Daily News, 1 May 1915, Bangor, ME.
CARIBOU, April 30 -- Coroner Floyd A. Smith of this town was called to Washburn Wednesday to view the remains of Jasper Pooler, the fourteen year old son of Joseph Pooler, who had been found dead. The body was discovered in a manner which indicated that he might have fallen from the loft in the barn through a scuttle hole directly over the pig stye. The unfortunate boy's remains were discovered by his father Wednesday morning as he was making room for the pigs, twelve in number, in order to give them more space back of the barn. The body had been badly chewed by the hogs, practically all the flesh above the ankles, with a portion of each lung, head been eaten off, including the face, ears, etc. The mental shock to the father upon finding his son in such an awful mutilated conditionust have been terrible.

• Newspaper Article: Bangor Daily News, 3 May 1915, Bangor, ME.
Pooler Boy Was Dead Before Swine Ate Him
HOULTON, May 1. -- Sheriff Bryson has announced that he and the county attorney are satisfied that Jasper Pooler, the 14 year-old lad, whose skeleton was found in the pig-penin the basement of his father's barn at Washburn, came to his death by an accident in falling through a scaffold above, into the pig-pen below, striking his head on an iron trough, causing death. Pooler was then later devoured by the swine. Investigation in the case has closed and the county officials feel that there was no foul play.

• Census, 23 Jan 1920, Washburn, ME. ⁵

• Child Died: Gladys Fidella Pooler, 23 Sep 1926. According to Dawn (Wilcox) Soucy, the story handed down through the family is that Gladys died at the funeral of her 4 year-old half-sister, June Phyllis Pooler.

• Newspaper Article: Bangor Daily News, 7 Oct 1926, Bangor, ME.
SOUTH UNITY -- This town was greatly saddened on Thursday to hear of the sudden death of Mrs. Gladys Walton. Mrs. Walton accompanied by her husband and two children motored to Washburn Wednesday after hearing of the death of her sister, little June Pooler. The shock and journey proved too much for the former as death soon occured. She leaves to mourn her loss a husband, two children, Donald Quentin and Quermit [sic:read "Kermit"] Linwood, ages six, and two and a half years. A father Joseph Pooler, a sister Evelyn, besides various other relatives. The funeral took place Saturday at her old home in Washburn.

• Census, 2 May 1930, Washburn, ME. ⁶

• Census, 9 Apr 1940, Washburn, ME. ⁷

• Obituary: Bangor Daily News, 3 Aug 1948, Bangor, ME.
PRESQUE ISLE, Aug. 2 -- Joseph E. Pooler, 73, died Sunday in a Presque Isle hospital after a long illness.
He was born in Caratunk, the son of Joseph and Mary (Boice) Pooler and was a resident of Washburn.
Surviving are his wife, Winnie (Raven) Pooler of Washburn; four sons, Bernard, Orman, William and Eugene Pooler, all of Washburn; four daughters, Mrs. Annie Nickerson and Miss Ruth Pooler of Washburn, Mrs. Evelyn Wilcox of Woodland and Mrs. Josephine Fitzgerald of Worcester, Mass.; two brothers, Lawrence and John of Bingham; a sister, Mrs. Birdie La Pointe of Bingham; 13 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Friends may call at the Graves funeral home, Tuesday morning from 9 to 12 o'clock. Funeral services will be held in the Washburn Pentecostal church, Tuesday afternoon, Rev. R. G. Sand officiating.
Interment will be in Riverside cemetery.

Joseph married Minnie Blanche Raven, daughter of Reverend John Edward Raven and Evelyn L. "Evie" Farley, on 14 Jul 1906 in Washburn, ME.¹ (Minnie Blanche Raven was born on 26 Jul 1887 in Washburn, ME,^{8 9} died on 25 Jan 1971 in Presque Isle, ME ¹⁰ and was buried in Riverside Cemetery, Washburn, ME.)