Lyndon Elisha Knowles (1891-1960)

 

Family Links Spouses/Children: 1. Mattie A. Raven Kenneth Erwin Knowles+ John Melvin Knowles Wilford Churchill Knowles Creighton Morton Knowles+ Lyndon Elisha Knowles 1 2 Born: 12 Jun 1891, Parkman, ME 1 2 Marriage (1): Mattie A. Raven on 10 Apr 1914 in Knox, ME 1 Died: 12 Feb 1960, Bangor, ME at age 68 3 Buried: Cambridge Memorial Garden, Cambridge, MA    FamilySearch ID: 2C19-Q5X. Find a Grave ID: 143411610.   Events • Census, 22 Jun 1900, Parkman, ME. 4 • Census, 23 Apr 1910, Parkman, ME. 5 • Census, 2 Jan 1920, Brewer, ME. • Census, 16 Apr 1930, Auburn, ME. 6 • Census, 6 Apr 1940, Monroe, ME. • Census, 11 Apr 1950, Monroe, ME. 7 • Obituary: Bangor Daily News, 13 Feb 1960, Bangor, ME. LYNDON E. KNOWLES BROOKS, Feb. 12 -- Lyndon E. Knowles, 68, died at a Bangor hospital Friday morning after several months of ill health. He was born in Parkman, June 12, 1891, the son of Melvin and Mertie (Wentworth) Knowles. He had been a resident of Brooks for the past two years. He had resided in St. Albans for several years and had lived for many years in Monroe, where he had engaged in farming. Mr. Knowles was a member of the Cambridge Lodge of Masons and was past master of Parkmanand Monroe Granges. He is survived by his widow, Mattie Knowles; two sons, Morton C. of Seymour, Conn., and Kenneth Knowles of Winthrop; a sister, Mrs. Marjorie Holt of Hartland; five grandchildren; several nieces and nephews. Friends may call at the Donald H. Shorey Funeral Chapel in Hartland, Saturday from 2 to 4 o'clock in the afternoonand from 7 to 8 o'clock in the evening. Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock at the chapel, with the Rev. Robert Thomas, pastor of the Baptist Church, officiating. Burial will be in Cambridge in the Spring Lyndon married Mattie A. Raven, daughter of Reverend John Edward Raven and Evelyn L. "Evie" Farley, on 10 Apr 1914 in Knox, ME.1 (Mattie A. Raven was born on 31 May 1896 in Wade, ME,8 9 died on 22 May 1976 in Augusta, ME 10 and was buried in Cambridge Memorial Garden, Cambridge, MA.)

1 Maine Maine State Archives Lyndon E. Knowles-Mattie A. Ravin; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 21 Sep 2011).

2 Maine Maine State Archives, Maine, Birth Records, 1715-1922, Lyndon Elisha Knowles; digital image, Ancestry.com (https://ancestry.com: 13 Dec 2011).

3 State of Maine Department of Human Services, "Maine Death Index, 1960-1997," database, Ancestry.com (https://ancestry.com : accessed 26 Apr 2012), entry for Lyndon E. Knowles 1960 death.

4 1900 U.S. census, Piscataquis County, Maine, population schedule, Parkman, enumeration district (ED) 126, sheet 7, p. 7A, dwelling 149, family 153, Melvin Knowles; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 26 Apr 2012); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm T623, roll 598.

5 1910 U.S. census, Piscataquis, Maine, population schedule, Parkman, enumeration district (ED) 0209, sheet 5A, p. 5, dwelling 75, family 78, Melvin W. Knowles; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 30 Apr 2012); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm T624, roll T624_545.

6 1930 U.S. census, Androscoggin County, Maine, population schedule, Auburn, enumeration district (ED) 5, sheet 20A, p. 39, dwelling 420, family 501, Linden E. Knowles; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 5 Nov 2020); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm T626.

7 1950 U.S. census, Waldo, Maine, Monroe, enumeration district (ED) 14-20, sheet 11, p. 12, household 88, Lyndon E. Knowles; digital images, Ancestry.com (https://ancestry.com : accessed 14 Feb 2024); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm T628, roll 986.

8 1900 U.S. census, Aroostook, Maine, population schedule, Wade Plantation, enumeration district (ED) 37, sheet 20, p. 20B, dwelling 361, family 373, John E. Raven; digital images, Ancestry.com (https://ancestry.com : accessed 23 Aug 2011); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm T623, roll T623_589.

9 Maine Maine State Archives, Maine, Birth Records, 1715-1922, Mattie Raven; digital image, Ancestry.com (https://ancestry.com: 24 Aug 2011).

10 State of Maine Department of Human Services, "Maine Death Index, 1960-1997," database, Ancestry.com (https://ancestry.com : accessed 26 Apr 2012), entry for Mattie A. Knowles 1976 death.