Ermon Lindley TOOTHAKER (8 Nov 1859-25 Dec 1925) +
Ella Laura HINKLEY (24 Oct 1862-16 Sep 1901)

Inza Belle (28 Feb 1883-1 Jul 1945) — m. Ernest Carroll Hinkley on 17 Dec 1904

Cora (2 Oct 1886-24 May 1887)

Lynwood Abner “Lyn” (3 May 1888-20 Feb 1961) — m. Faye Robinson Haines on 23 May 1912

Lero Ermon “Lew” (30 Jul 1890-9 Jul 1945) — m. Hazel Dell Bennett on 1 Apr 1913

Fenn Estene (22 Dec 1894-15 May or 3 Mar 1950) — m. Mabel Quimby Johnson on 25 Jun 1919

Cherrie Ella (12 Jan 1900-13 Jan 1956)

Ermon was born in Rangeley to John Raymond Toothaker and Esther Hoar.

Ella was born in Madrid, daughter of Joel Whitney Hinkley and Emily Morrison. Her family moved to Rangeley when she was very young.

Ermon and Ella married on 28 Apr 1882 in Rangeley. They lived on a farm about 3 miles west of Rangeley.

The 1900 census for Rangeley town lists Ermon (41) and Ella (38), with children Inza B. (17), Lynwood A. (12), Lew E. (10), Fenn E. (6), and Cherry E. (0).

The following year, Ella died, age 38. It’s evident that the younger children, at least, were farmed out to nearby relatives. After Inza married in 1904, she took her younger brother Fenn. He was with her in the 1910 census.

Ermon apparently didn’t remarry. In 1910, he was living as a boarder with the Tomlinson family in Rangeley. I can’t find him in 1920. He died in 1925.

Ermon and Ella are buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Rangeley, next to daughters Cora and Cherrie.

The Toothakers were not a long-lived family.

Children

Inza Belle Toothaker (1883-1945)

Inza has her own entry in the family tree.

Cora Toothaker (1886-1887)

Cora, the second child, died when she was just 8 months old. She’s buried with her parents in Evergreen Cemetery, Rangeley, under a stone with the words, “Only a ray of Sunshine.”

Lynwood Abner “Lyn” Toothaker (1888-1961)

Lyn left home in 1904 to work on trains in the northeastern US, including in Quincy, Massachusetts and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In Autumn 1911 he moved to California, where he took a job with the Pacific Electric Railroad. In 1912, he married Faye Robinson Haines (2 Nov 1889-1964) in Monrovia, Los Angeles County, California. She was from Phillips, Maine, but her family had moved to California about 1907. Lyn and Faye initially lived in Los Angeles. They had 3 children:

Corinne Ella (28 Feb 1913-10 Mar 1913)

Olive Elizabeth (26 Mar 1914-6 Jun 2007) — m. Thomas Franklin Pollock on 24 Jun 1939

John Robinson “Jack” (14 May 1916-15 Jan 1991) — m. Mabel Purbaugh on 30 May 1939; m. Frances Derbyshire in 1968

From 1920, the family lived at 243 W. Lime Avenue in Monrovia. Lyn worked as a motorman for Pacific Electric from about 1911 until retirement in 1946. He reluctantly joined a major strike against the railroad that cost him his seniority and forced him to change his working district. He died in 1961, and is buried with Faye in Live Oak Memorial Park, Monrovia, Los Angeles County.

Lero Ermon “Lew” Toothaker (1890-1945)

Lew in 1913 married Hazel Dell Bennett of Limestone, Maine. On 11 Dec 1917, he was drafted into the US Army. The 1930 census showed him and Hazel living in Rangeley, Maine with no children. He died in 1945, about a week after his sister Inza, and is buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Rangeley.

Fenn Estene Toothaker (1894-1950)

Due to his mother’s early death, Fenn lived with sister Inza and her family when he was younger, showing up at age 15 in the 1910 census. When he registered for the draft in Jun 1917, he was working for his uncle Anson Hoar in Rangeley. He married Mabel Quimby Johnson (22 Nov 1887-13 Apr 1920) on 25 Jun 1919 in Salem, Massachusetts, where she was from.

In 1920, he and Mabel were living in Rangeley. Mabel died shortly after, of complications from pregnancy (eclampsia, puerpual case), along with their infant son. The doctor in the case was a Bernard Leroy Toothaker, and the town clerk who signed the death certificate was Fenn’s brother-in-law Ernest C. Hinkley.

In 1930, Fenn was living with Inza and family again. He worked in Norway, Maine at a chain grocery store run by “Whit” Whittemore, a distant relative by marriage. In 1940, he was living with another distant relative by marriage, Jennie Hodsdon Wilbur, and her husband Fabian Wilbur in East Otisfield. Fenn died in 1950 and is buried with Mabel in Rangeley.

Cherrie Ella Toothaker (1900-1956)

Cherrie, like Fenn, was housed with relatives after her mother’s death in 1901. In 1910 she was listed as “boarder” with her uncle and aunt, Anson and Augusta Hoar, in Rangeley. (Augusta, nee Hinkley, was a younger sister of Cherrie’s mother Ella. Anson was the son of Daniel Hoar and Hannah Abbott of Sandy River, hence also related to the Hinkleys.)

In 1920, Cherrie was staying at a YWCA in Lewiston. In 1930, she was staying with another aunt and uncle, Edgar M. and Florence Berry, in Lewiston; Florence was the youngest of her mother’s sisters.

Cherrie never married. She later lived in Boston and worked in a department store there, but I can’t find her after 1930. She died in 1956 and is buried with her parents in Evergreen Cemetery, Rangeley.