Ruth (Eastman) Page (1802 - 1892)

Born 7 Feb 1802 in Rumford, Oxford, Maine, USA

Ancestors

Wife of Jonathan Page — married 6 Dec 1821 in Rumford, Oxford, Maine, USA

Descendants

Died 18 Apr 1892 at age 90 in Burlington, Penobscot, Maine, USA

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Biography

Ruth was born in 1802. She was the daughter of Caleb Eastman and Comfort Haines.^[1][2]

Ruth married Jonathan Page on Dec 6, 1821 in Rumford, Maine.^[3][4]

Around 1825, Ruth and Jonathan cut their way through the wilderness from Rumford to the Penobscot on their way to the Bingham tract.

Ruth was for many years, one of the most remarkable female Physicians in Upper Penobscot region. Known as “Aunt Jock”. She learned the use of Indian medicines. She had relatives in Boston and took several of her daughters there to ‘marry them off’ to sea captains. ^{[5] [6]}

She passed away in 1892 and is buried at Mount Repose Cemetery in Burlington, Maine.^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ "Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2H29-22M : 27 December 2014), Ruth Eastman, 1802.
2. ↑ "Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QLCC-27CW : 27 November 2017), Ruth Eastman, Birth 07 Feb 1802; citing Division of Vital Statistics, State Board of Health, Augusta; FHL microfilm 1,002,333.
3. ↑ "Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2HVG-FM5 : 27 December 2014), Jonathan Page and Ruth Eastman, 1821.
4. ↑ "Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2HKD-YQ4 : 27 December 2014), Jonathan Page and Ruth Eastman, 1821.
5. ↑ Unsourced family tree handed down to Thomas Bradbury.
6. ↑ Banger Historical Magazine by Joseph Porter Burlington Book Page 193-195
7. ↑ Find A Grave Memorial# 38216849

See also:

• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6VQ-X46 : 9 November 2014), Ruth Page in household of Jonathan Page, Burlington, Penobscot, Maine, United States; citing family 44, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

• "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDC4-YHX : 30 December 2015), Ruth Page in entry for Jonathan Page, 1860.

• "United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6DT-CP1 : 17 October 2014), Ruth Page in household of Johnathan Page, Maine, United States; citing p. 12, family 84, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 552,052.

• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MFQ9-7BT : 14 July 2016), Ruth Page in household of Jonathan Page, Burlington, Penobscot, Maine, United States; citing enumeration district ED 44, sheet 425B, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 0486; FHL microfilm 1,254,486.

• "Maine, Nathan Hale Cemetery Collection, ca. 1780-1980," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVJP-BL5S : 30 October 2014), Ruth Eastman Page, 1892; citing Burlington, Penobscot, Maine, United States, Mount Repose Cemetery, Maine State Library, Augusta; FHL microfilm 1,316,105.

• "Maine, Nathan Hale Cemetery Collection, ca. 1780-1980," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVJ5-7ZMD : 30 October 2014), Ruth Eastman Page, 1892; citing Burlington, Penobscot, Maine, United States, Mt Repose Cemetery, Maine State Library, Augusta; FHL microfilm 1,315,196.

• "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVK6-H2SY : 11 July 2016), Ruth Eastman Page, 1892; Burial, Burlington, Penobscot, Maine, United States of America, Mount Repose Cemetery; citing record ID 38216849, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.

• Guy S. Rix, compilier, History And Genealogy Of The Eastman Family Of America, Containing Biographical Sketches and Genealogies Of Both Males And Females (Concord, N. H., Ira C. Evans, 1901), 299, 300