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Descendants of Thomas Burnham

Generation No. 10

10. HAROLD ANSEL¹⁰ BURNHAM (WILLIAM FRANKLIN⁹, FRANKLIN ELMORE⁸, WILLIAM D.⁷, BENJAMIN⁶, DAVID⁵, MOSES⁴, MOSES³, THOMAS², THOMAS¹) was born January 12, 1898 in Saco, York Co., Maine¹³, and died November 23, 1963 in Scarborough, Cumberland Co., Maine. He married PRISCILLA PAGE December 01, 1937 in Scarborough, Cumberland Co., Maine.

Notes for HAROLD ANSEL BURNHAM:
Enlisted in the National Guard in Biddeford, May 9, 1917, at age 20. Reported for Federal Service July 25, 1917. A private, then wagoner on June 27, 1918, Coast Artillery Corps, Maine National Guard, Jan. 1, 1918 Battery B., 60 Artillery, C. A. C. to discharge, in Capt. Clarence E. Holt's Company. Overseas (France) from March 16, 1918 to Feb. 4, 1919. Honorably Discharged Feb. 21, 1919.

He was a World War I veteran and member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. He attended Old Orchard Beach schools and Springfield College. He was a lifeguard on the beach at Old Orchard. He liked to swing in the swing he had put up for us children in the opening of the barn door.

My father taught me to play cribbage and black jack at a young age, but when I became skilled at the games, he would get upset, or pretend to be upset, when I won. We lived on the edge of the marsh and the river at Pine Point, in Scarborough, Maine. He set out ell traps and I would go with him in the early morning hours to help him pull them. We would skin the ells and eat them. We also "dipped" for elwive in the spring when they came up the river to spawn. We used a "dip net" in those days. Today they put nets across the entire river. We would eat the "roe" from the elwive and he used the fish for lobster bait. Sometimes we would smoke the elwive and eat it that way or sell it cooked that way. He sold "live bait" also. There was a "minnow house" he built out in back, shaped like a pyramid, and these little fish would get trapped in there at high tide, it was quite a system. I remember I almost fell in there once, while he was dipping them, I was leaning over the edge, and would have gone in if he hadn't grabbed me. We picked blueberries, blackberries, raspberries to eat and to sell. We picked "sweet grass", as did the gypsies that would come on the train in the spring, and tied them into bundles to hang in the closet for fragrance, we sold these also. He would pay me a nickle for a gallon of dandelions picked from the front lawn. We ate dandelion greens, cow-slip greens and fiddleheads. My father was a boat builder, lobsterman, clam digger. I have his branding iron with BURNHAM on it that he used to mark his boats. Those were the good old days!!!!

More About HAROLD ANSEL BURNHAM:
Fact 1: Boatbuilder and lobsterman.

Notes for PRISCILLA PAGE:
Daughter of Richard Courtner Page and Bernice Staples.

Child of HAROLD BURNHAM and PRISCILLA PAGE is:

CAROLINE ROBERTA¹¹ BURNHAM, b. July 19, 1943, Scarborough, Cumberland Co., Maine.

Notes for CAROLINE ROBERTA BURNHAM:
Caroline Burnham Chamberlin of Pine Point, is among the recipients of the 1995 President's Award for Literary Excellence from Iliard Press and the National Authors Registry. Chamberlin has always been interested in writing, yet this is the first time she has submitted a piece of work The essay is titled "An Experience of My Youth" and describes a memory from her days living near a clam shop at Pine Point.

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