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  • Name: Jeremiah Ellis Handspiker
  • Birth: 4-AUG-1876/77 in: Mount Pleasant, Digby County, Nova Scotia, Canada
  • Death: 08-AUG-1960 in: Elliot, Maine, USA
  • Father: David James Handspiker
  • Mother: Rebecca Ham

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  • Married: 20-JUN-1906 in: Lansdowne, near Bear River, Nova Scotia, Canada
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  • Name: Sarah Samantha "Mattie" Purdy
  • Birth: 5-DEC-1882 in: Lansdowne, near Bear River, Nova Scotia, Canada
  • Death: 11-JAN-1929 in: Searsmont, Maine, USA
  • Father: Josiah Anthony Purdy
  • Mother: Frances Alberta Brown

Notes: A.K.A. Samantha Sarah Purdy (nickname "Mattie").

Older data had Sarah born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, USA, however, since her father did not immigrate until 4 or 5 years after her birth, this is likely incorrect.

Following hand-scribed from Digby Courier, by Luella Marshall:

Mrs. Samantha S. Handspiker, d/o Josiah and Frances Purdy passed peacefully away at their home at Searsmont, Maine, on Jan 11th. Mrs Handspiker was born at Bear River, Digby County, Dec 5th 1882, married to Jeremiah Handspiker of Digby 22 year s ago. Moved to America 18 years ago and took up residence in Ogunquit, Maine. In 1927 moved to Searsmont, Maine. She leaves a husband and four children: Meredith 21, Francis 18, Ruth 16, Dorothy 10. She has been a member of the Baptist Churc h since the age of nine, a faithful worker in the Ogunquit Church since coming here. It can truly be said "Blessed are the Dead who die in the Lord."

I believe this was a reprint of an obituary in a Maine newspaper, based on the phrase "since coming here".

NOTE: Most of Sarah's ancestral line is in my children's ancestral line (located elsewhere on this site). For the sake of "fit," however, I'm including her direct line back to the Purdy Loyalist Ancestor, without much lateral information as tha t is in the other database.


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Other Spouses
Mabel W. Fenner,
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Children

SURNAMES
1/12/2007