FOURTH GENERATION

58. Martha Augusta Richardson ⁽¹⁾ was born on 31 Jul 1884. She died in 1940. Notes from Juanita Case in 1985

Thomas' daughter Mitty named after her gradmother was his youngest child and stayed at home with her parents unti she was seveteen. Her parents were older and full of rhumatism and Thomas spent long evening telling his daughter Mitty about his early life and the story of his pioneer parents and his brothers and sisters. Thomas was the youngest child of a family of fourteen children and he had spent the most time with them when they were older and had time to tell him stories.

Our family was descended from the oldest son John of the pioneer family who left home at ayoung age to make his own way in life. there probably was little time for story telling at this stage of their lives and nothing seemd to have been passed down. No one seemed to know anything about their ancesters. This it is with great excitement that we discovered the following story "unto the third and Fourth Generation" written by Gussie Clossen, daughter of Mitty, and grandaughter of Thomas. It is Mitty's story as she told it to her daughter Gussie in fairfax Maine about her young life in Clifton and then her married life in the U.S. and the stories she was told by her father back in Clifton and what he remembered of his childhood and parents. It is the story of four generations.

Gussie Clossen was a poet and had many of her poems published in Maine papers. She also wrote other stories. The manuscript of this story was never published and was found after her death by Juanita Case, the wife of her nephew, in a drawer in its handwritten form. Juanita typed it up.

These waldron descendants in Maine at this time knew nothing of their Clifton relatives and it was Juanita who got in touch with me (Mildred Waldron) and she and her husband came up to visit in Clifton. She loaned me the manuscript and I made copies of it. we are much indebted to her for the information gleaned about our ancesters from Gussie's story.

Martha Augusta Richardson and Harry I Closson had the following children:

+87 i. Irving Closson.