Waite Genealogy Research Forum

The following is my transcription of a DAR transcription in the Maine State Historical Society.  I have not confirmed every date here but I have compared many of them with headstones and other sources so I am fairly comfortable with the reliability of the information.  Many other family names are listed including Holman, Holland, Kidder, Newman, White. 

These records were originally copied from the diary of Isaac Wait by a Mrs. A. B. Root, Dixfield, Maine.  She began her transcription as follows:  Isaac Wait came from Millbury, Mass. to Dixfield, Maine Oct. 21, 1818.  He kept a diary until he died.  

Wait, Ira L. died Feb. 2, 1838.

Wait Mother died Apr. 4, 1838.

Wait, William died May 29, 1840, ae 86 y.

Wait, Harvey died Mar. 14, 1843 ae 49 y.

Wait, Horace died Apr. 19, 1845.

Wait, Widow Polly, died Apr. 29, 1848.

Wait, Mrs. Lucy died Thurs. Oct. 25, 18__, wife of William.

Wait, Lucy, wife of Charles A. died Feb. 6, 1859, buried at Canton Pt.

Wait, Lucy, wife of Emerson died Apr. 8, 1859.

Wait, Tyler, died June 3, 1859.

Wait, H. Abbie, dau. of John H., died Mon., Jan. 26, 1863.

Wait, Chandler D., died Sat., May 18 (or 28), 1867, funeral at Town House.

Wait, Warren, died Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 28, 1867, sick three hours.

Wait, Mason, died Fri., Feb. 21, 1868.

Wait, wife, died Tues., Jan. 21, 1868.

Wait, Cirus, died Fri. Jan. 15, 1869.

Wait, George, died Sun., Sept. 12, 1869, sick 24 hours.

Wait, Polly, wife of Tyler, died June 3, 1856.

Wait, Gershom, died May 11, 1847, ae. 62 y.

Wait, Aaron, died Mon., Mar. 27, 1871.

Wait, Manvill, died May 3, 1874.

Wait, Harris N., son of Lorenzo, was killed instantly by falling of a tree. Wed., Nov. 11, 1874.

Wait, Mrs. Sarah A., wife of Lorenzo, died Fri., Mar. 12, 1875, dau. of Isaac Newman.

Wait, Mrs., 2^nd wife of Wm. W. died Dec. 10, 1875.

Wait, Lorenzo, Sun., Jan. 2, 1876. This makes the seventh time that Rev. Mr. Johnson has attended funerals in my family.

Wait, John H., d. Tues., June 22, 1880.

Wait, Fred, son of Manvill, d. Apr. 29, 1881.

Wait, Widow Charlott, died Sat., Sept. 24, 1881.

Wait, Lucy W., died Aug. 29, 1882, ae. 84 y, 4m, 5d.

Wait, Charles A., died June 20, 1877 by shooting himself with a gun in Warren Severy’s field, ae. 46.

Wait, Mrs. Bej. F., died Thurs., July 12, 1860 while milking cow.

By the blessing of God my life has been spaird and I have livd to see and be present at the funeral of every one of the following and followed them to their graves.  My father and mother, eight brothers and sisters, all I had, my wife and six children out of eight, one son-in-law, one daughter-in-law and one grandson, making twenty in all.  This I have wrote in my eighty-fifth year.  Dixfield, Jan. 5, 1876.
Isaac Wait.

Source: Records Presented to Maine Historical Society by Maine Chapters, Daughters of the American Revolution. Georgiana Lilly, State Chairman Genealogical Records 1933 – 1934.

contributed by Donna Waite, Easton, MA