CORSON, WESCOTT, MULLIN, BERRY, AVERILL, LINDSAY OF MAINE:Information about Ora Gates Lindsay
Ora Gates Lindsay (b. July 28, 1885, d. October 10, 1956)
Notes for Ora Gates Lindsay:
From The Springfield Congregational Church
PARISH PROFILES In this sesquicentennial year- we have decided to profile some of the persons who have served this church faithfully in past years.
The Lindsay farm with its tall, tiled silo is well-known on Route 6 in Carroll. At the turn of the century "Dan'l" Lindsay lived there and ran a dairy fann with the help of his wife and children. He had had the advantage of good schooling and was an avid reader. The whole family was close, but two of the children - sisters Ora and Jennie - stand out for us because they served as Church Treasurer (Ora) and Church Clerk (Jennie). Ora was received into membership on December 12,1915 by Rev.
Charles Harbutt, Secretary of the Maine Missionary Society. She served as Treasurer from 1917 to 1927. Jennie joined the church on Apri116, 1922 and served as Church Clerk from 1925 to 1942 after which she became Assistant Clerk. On Apri126, 1948, Ora went with Helena Stevens as delegates to the Penobscot County Association meeting in Bangor bearing the affirmative vote of Springfield Congregational Church for the merger of Congregational Christian and Evangelical and Reformed denominations which eventually became the United Church of Christ.
Those are some facts. More importantly, who were these two special ladies? They went to elementary school very close to home in Carroll. When it was time for high school they moved to an apartment over Smith's store in Springfield so that they could walk up the hill to school. They attended the Normal School (EMI) and Jennie taught for a short time in Carroll afterward. She got better acquainted with another Scots person who lived "in behind the mountain" . Guy Monroe worked in the woods and knew the best places to find brook trout. Jennie and he married and moved to the Mills area of Springfield (the large home on the right on Lombard Lake Road). Ora met and married Clayton Budge so the two sisters ended up living almost beside each other on the same road.
Unfortunately, Clayton died of pneumonia in a very few years. Son Clifford (Ken Budge's father) also had the disease and lived with a damaged lung. About the same time, Raymond Ham's wife, Lula, died of appendicitis. Raymond and Ora combined their families (Philip and Eric Ham and Helen and Clifford Budge) and were married in the Budge home. Agnes Monroe (Ham) and her sister, Frances, were at the wedding! They then lived at the "Ham Place" beside what is now the True museum and another son, Robert, was born to them.
The sisters, Ora and Jennie, were still very close. They took shifts caring for the elderly and infirm, making meals for them and giving what practical nursing care they could. Sometimes they were called upon to prepare and "lay out" those who had died. They would often have coffee together mornings and sometimes, Agnes reported,they had so much to say to each other that they walked each other home! They were always involved with the church, finding places for the preacher to stay, helping to prepare and serve food (Ken Budge remembers Ora's breakfast banquets!), and performing in plays: in one they played twin sisters with their backs to the audience and faces fixed on the backs of their heads! Agnes remembers attending. . . Agnes and Frances would sometimes visit Grammie Lindsay in Carroll. They would walk up the hill, past the church, to the store. On the way home, Grammie would take them into the Carroll church and play the organ so they could sing together.
What a marvellous legacy these special people leave us. Their successors - Agnes Ham (Jennie's daughter married Ora's stepson, Philip), Ken Budge, Ora's grandson, and Kendra (who must have inherited organ playing from Grammie Lindsay) are still faithful members of our church, possessed of a strong and joyful faith. We thank God for them all !
Ora Lindsay and Clayton Budge were married at the Lindsay home in Carroll, Maine by Ora's father Daniel, who was a Justice of the Peace, on November 11, 1904
Both Ora and Raymond were married previously and lost their spouses. Ora Gates Lindsay was married to Clayton L. Budge and had two children Helen & Clifford. Clayton died of pneumonia in 1912. Raymond Ham was married to Lula Lombard and had two children Eric & Philip. Lula died of appendicitis in 1920. The doctor operated on the kitchen table but she did not survive the operation. Ora and Raymond were married on June 1, 1921 in the Budge home. A son Robert was born on May 24, 1923
More About Ora Gates Lindsay:
Burial: Unknown, Mills Cemetery, Springfield, Maine.
More About Ora Gates Lindsay and Clayton Lewis Budge:
Marriage: November 11, 1904, Carroll, Maine.
More About Ora Gates Lindsay and Raymond Ham:
Marriage: June 01, 1921, Springfield, Maine.
Children of Ora Gates Lindsay and Clayton Lewis Budge are:
- +Clifford Lindsay Budge, b. September 01, 1906, d. date unknown.
- Helen Josaphine Budge, b. September 23, 1905, d. date unknown.
Children of Ora Gates Lindsay and Raymond Ham are: