William Augustus (~1803-29 Feb 1884) — m. Elizabeth E. “Betsy” Berry on 13 Mar 1834
John (1806-12 Aug 1867) — m. Esther Mathews on 30 Dec 1832
James Madison (11 Jan 1812-18 Jan 1880) — m. Ruth Ann Lombard on 6 Jan 1846
others?
Rosetta (~1818-????) — m. George Roberts on 20 Oct 1873
George R. (~1823-????)
Thomas M. or H. (~1825-????)
Thomas was born in New Durham, Stafford County, New Hampshire to unknown parents. Family stories hold that his surname comes from Ireland and was previously McTash. He might have been a grandson of Colonel Thomas Tash (5 Jul 1722-1 Oct 1809) from Newmarket, New Hampshire, who was among the 1762 founders of New Durham, and who served in both the French & Indian War and the Revolutionary War. Or, he could have been a grandson or even a son of the colonel’s younger brother John (~1729-1811), who also settled in New Durham. There were several Thomas Tashes from 18th century New Durham; the colonel’s family were clearly proud of him. Thomas Tash III, grandson of the colonel, was born in New Durham in 1786, but the Luther ancestor Thomas Tash consistently claimed to have been born about 1780, and in any case Thomas III remained in New Durham.
There’s no definite record of Thomas’s wife. A Thomas Tash married a Polly Ham on 25 Nov 1802 in Newmarket, New Hampshire, but there’s no evidence that it was this Thomas, and, as noted, there were several of them.
Thomas and family moved to Maine in the 1820s. The 1830 census for Exeter, Penobscot County, Maine showed Thomas as a man in his forties, heading a household consisting of two men and one woman in their twenties, a boy age 15-19, two boys age 5-9, and two girls age 5-9. William, John, and James were doubtless the two young men and the teenager, respectively. George and Thomas would have been the two younger boys, and Rosetta was one of the girls. A young woman and another girl remain unidentified.
The 1840 census for Exeter Corners showed Thomas, in his fifties, with a woman also in her fifties, suggesting he had remarried in the 1830s. (That, or the 1830 census omitted his wife.) Rounding out the household were two men and one woman in their twenties and two boys in their late teens. That suggests an unidentified adult son along with James, Rosetta, George, and Thomas. Son William & family were next door, and son John & family were a few houses farther away. Records of the Piscataquis County Historical Society record Thomas Tash as a teacher at Foxcroft Academy in Dover, Piscataquis County from 1842 to 1848. That’s about 16 miles north of Exeter Corners.
The 1850 census, the first to name family members other than head of household, listed Thomas Sr. (70) in Exeter with unmarried children Rosetta (32), George R. (27), and Thomas H. (24). Son William and family were now two census pages away, although that doesn’t mean they had moved.
In the 1850s, Thomas and his younger children moved to Orneville Township, Piscataquis County, south of the town of Milo. The 1860 census showed them there: Thomas (80) and son Thomas H. (37), with George (37) living next door. Rosetta seems to have escaped, although I don’t know where she went.
It was a temporary escape. In 1870, Thomas was still alive, age 90, and his household in Orneville included Rosetta (50) and Thomas M. (49), with son George (47) still next door. Thomas Jr.’s age jumped around as much as Rosetta’s.
Thomas Sr. probably died not long thereafter. There’s no record of his death or burial.
The bare facts of the census – Thomas having his three youngest children living with him and unmarried until they were well into middle age – make the old man out to be a domestic tyrant, but the truth of the matter isn’t in paper records.
William has his own entry in the family tree.
John married Maine native Esther Mathews (~1814-2 Feb 1873) on 30 Dec 1832 in Exeter. Their children:
Joseph Linney (14 Oct 1834-????)
Mary Ann (16 Jan 1839-????)
Mariah Loantha (17 Mar 1844-7 Mar 1906) — m. Isaiah Hooper Avery on 9 Jan 1869
George E. (17 Jun 1846-21 Sep 1896) — m. Janet F. “Nettie” Farrington on 11 or 20 Sep 1873
Ivory Pease (17 Jun 1848-17 Dec 1927) — m. Elizabeth E. Crooker
Albert Elmer (1853-1918) — m. Dora Anna Clark about 1889
In 1840, they had a boy under 10 and a girl under 5 (Joseph and Mary), and were living several houses away from John’s father Thomas. The 1850 census showed John (46) and Esther (36) in Exeter with children Joseph L., Mary A., Maria, George M., and “Avery A.”, and four census pages away from Thomas. John died in 1867, and is buried in Chamberlain Cemetery, Exeter. The 1870 census showed Esther with just Ivory and Albert still at home. She died in 1873 and is buried with John.
Their son George is buried in the same cemetery. Their son Ivory, who became a doctor, has the middle name Albert (the name of his younger brother) on his birth record, but the middle name Pease on his findagrave.com record.
James married Ruth Ann Lombard (15 Jul 1822-4 Aug 1858), daughter of Solomon and Sarah Lombard, on 6 Jan 1846 in her home town of Exeter. They settled there. James was a clergyman. He and Ruth had four children I know of, although there might have been others for whom there’s no record:
Andrew J. (22 Jul 1848-19xx) — m. Mary L. Marks on 19 May 1872; m. Anna R. Spaulding Rogers on 31 Oct 1878; m. Emma Lombard on 19 Jan 1889; m. Lizzie Hill on 12 Nov 1905
Mary Jane (~1851-????)
George Wesley (15 Mar 1852-12 May 1936) — m. Imogene Hall on 20 Aug 1879; m. ??? in 190x; m. Nellie Ida Berry/Dexter on 9 Sep 1908
Preston Fisher (21 Mar 1858-1943) — m. Nancy Shaw on 10 Apr 1880; m. Ida M. Wyman on 7 Feb 1919
Ruth died in 1858, a few months after Preston was born, and is buried in Exeter Center Cemetery. In 1860, James and son Preston were living with James’s brother William and his family, daughter Mary Jane (9) was living with her mother’s parents in Exeter, and son George was living with the Cook family in Exeter.
James joined his brother William in moving to the northern part of Penobscot County in the 1860s, but the 1870 census missed him. In 1880, he was living in Lincoln, Penobscot County with his eldest son Andrew and Andrew’s second wife. James died later that year and is buried with Ruth.
Rosetta lived with her father into her fifties, apart from her 1860 absence from the census record. She married on 20 Oct 1873, probably after her father’s death, to widower George Roberts (17 Oct 1803-187x) of Milo, Piscataquis County. He didn’t last long. In 1880, widowed, she was living with her brother William and his family in Chester. I don’t know what became of her after that.
No records for George after 1870.
No records for Thomas after 1870.
James’s son Andrew moved from Penobscot County, Maine to Massachusetts as a young man. The 1870 census showed him at a paper mill in Lawrence, Essex County, Massachusetts. He married Mary L. Marks (1850-????) from Penobscot, Hancock County in 1872. They lived in Methuen, Massachusetts, and had one child I know of who was born premature and died the same day:
Eugene (16 Nov 1873-16 Nov 1873)
I’m guessing Mary died around the same time, but there’s no record. Andrew returned to Maine, where in 1878 he married Anna R. Spaulding Rogers of Lincoln, Penobscot County. The 1880 census showed the couple living with her parents and Andrew’s father James in Lincoln, where Andrew worked in a grist mill. Whatever became of that marriage, Andrew returned to Massachusetts, where he married Emma Lombard in 1889 in Lynn, Essex County.
Andrew’s fourth wife (1905), once again back in Maine, was Annie Elizabeth “Lizzie” Hill (2 Sep 1868-12 Jan 1923), grand-daughter of his uncle William Tash and therefore Andrew’s first cousin once removed. The 1910 and 1920 censuses showed the couple in Chester with no children, which, given their ages, isn’t a surprise. Lizzie died in 1923. She’s buried in West Broadway Cemetery, Lincoln, Penobscot County. The stone has Andrew’s name and date of birth along with hers, but leaves his date of death blank, so I doubt he’s buried there. He could be buried with one of his previous wives, although he appears to have had no surviving children to have arranged that.
James’s daughter Mary Jane was living with her maternal grandparents in Exeter in 1860. I can’t find her after that.
James’s son George married Imogene Hall (1861-14 Jul 1904) in 1879. (Records tend to turn her name into “Emma”.) Their children:
Avis Ruth (1881-16 Dec 1918) — m. Fred Russell
Wesley Edward (1883-1959) — m. Mertie Bell Moore on 23 Jun 1908
Betsy Adelia “Bessie” (12 Mar 1884-28 Aug 1919) — m. Roland V. Plaisted
James A. (20 Jan 1887-19xx)
Genie Edna (2 Jun 1890-1989) — m. Melvin Wesley Huff on 3 Jan 1907
George E. (1892-19xx)
one other ()
Clarence E. (13 Mar 1898-19xx)
unnamed daughter (22 Dec 1902-22 Dec 1902)
In 1880, they were living in Chester, next door to George’s uncle William. By 1900, they were living in Franklin County, Maine.
Imogene died in 1904. In 1908, George married Nellie Ida Berry Dexter (Dec 1857-19xx). The marriage record notes it was a third marriage for both, so some information is missing here. George died in 1936, and is buried in Mount Abram Cemetery, Salem, Franklin County.
James’s son Preston grew up in the house of his uncle William in Exeter and later in Chester, Penobscot County, Maine. Even after he married Nancy F. Shaw (19 Apr 1859-1894) in 1880, he was still there with his new bride for the 1880 census. He and Nancy had seven children:
Alma Ethel (8 Jan 1881-3 Feb 1952) — m. Harry W. Hinkley on 25 Sep 1901
Charles Elroy (6 Jan 1883-Mar 1972) — m. Geneva Evelyn Emerson on 29 Jun 1910
Rose May (26 Oct 1884-????) — m. Horace Virgil Spencer on 5 Oct 1907; m. Joseph E. LeBlanc on 15 Dec 1924
William H. (6 Aug 1887-Feb 1974) — m. Pearl E. Dunbar on 10 Aug 1910; m. ??? Baillergeon
Frederick Eugene (31 Jan 1889-29 Jul 1954) — m. Margaret N. Ireland in 1918
Florence A. (21 Jun 1890-14 Nov 1977) — m. Herbert F. Pettis on 14 Aug 1907
Frank Preston (5 Jan 1894-26 Oct 1988) — m. Octavia Josephine Thomas on 4 Jun 1917; m. Clara Mae Bushey on 23 Jun 1922
Nancy died in 1894 and is buried in Spencer Cemetery, Chester, Penobscot County, Maine. In 1910, Preston was sharing a house in Chester with four of his children, plus a son-in-law, a grandson, and a soon-to-be daughter-in-law. In February 1919 in Lincolnshire, England, Preston married Ida M. Wyman (9 Dec 1883-4 Jun 1966), widow of his first cousin once removed Chester Hill, Jr. (Why England?) Despite Preston’s age, they had three children, the first one before they were married (maybe that’s why England):
Cora Edith (13 Dec 1918-29 Sep 2008) — m. Napoleon Gerald Baillargeon
Earl, Sr. (21 Nov 1920-8 Aug 2012) — m. Mae E. Kelly on 1 Sep 1959
Doriene Ethel (11 Sep 1924-3 Aug 2007) — m. Keith Mellen Decker in 1946
In 1940, the two youngest were still at home. Preston died in 1943 and is buried with his first wife, Nancy. Ida, after her death in 1966 in Worcester, Massachusetts, was buried with her first husband, Chester Hill, Jr.
https://archive.org/stream/historyofnewdurh00jenn/historyofnewdurh00jenn_djvu.txt -- "The History of Durham, New Hampshire" (1962)
https://archive.org/stream/historicalcollec01pisc/historicalcollec01pisc_djvu.txt -- “Historical Collections of Piscataquis County, Maine” (1910)
https://www.ancestry.com/boards/surnames.tash/15.1.1/mb.ashx -- Thread about a descendant of James Tash
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XH55-9SJ -- 1830 census
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4FH-BLQ -- 1832 wedding of John
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4SP-W3D -- 1834 birth of John’s son Joseph
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F44R-K19 -- 1839 birth of John’s daughter Mary
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHYS-DHQ -- 1840 census
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHYS-D4T -- 1840 census, John
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4SG-RZ7 -- 1844 birth of John’s daughter Mariah
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4SP-W3F -- 1846 birth of John’s son George
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4SP-WDH -- 1848 birth of John’s son Ivory; wrong middle name
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV3S-GFJN -- 1848 birth of James’s son Andrew
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6V7-MST -- 1850 census
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6V3-GG3 -- 1850 census, John
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDHT-9Q9 -- 1860 census
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDCH-QY7 -- 1860 census, James’s daughter Mary Jane
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVJ5-MBPM -- 1867 burial of John
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4XL-GXC -- 1869 wedding of John’s daughter Mariah
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6DY-YHR -- 1870 census
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6DT-35C -- 1870 census, John’s widow Esther
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MD3M-7Z9 -- 1870 census, James’s son Andrew (I think)
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N43Q-645 -- 1872 wedding of James’s son Andrew
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NWS5-PKM -- 1873 death of Andrew Tash’s son Eugene
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4XP-XXR -- 1873 wedding of Rosetta
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2HJP-F6P -- Ditto
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2HVT-J69 -- Ditto
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVJ5-MBGT -- 1873 burial of John’s widow Esther
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG16-1CMX -- 1873 wedding of John’s son George
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV3S-GFJV -- 1878 wedding of Andrew Tash
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MF31-3XJ -- 1880 census, William and Rosetta
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4XK-DLH -- 1880 wedding of James’s son Preston
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MFQ9-V3G -- 1880 census, James and son Andrew
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2HK9-X96 -- 1881 birth of Preston’s daughter Alma
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2HK9-X9N -- 1884 birth of Preston’s daughter Rose
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/104207547 -- 1884 grave of William; links to others
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHF5-YYR -- 1889 wedding of Andrew
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KCDT-NT9 -- 1896 death of John’s son George
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MMLH-RCX -- 1900 census, John’s son Alberte
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MMLN-JGN -- 1900 census, James’s son George
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VZQX-1JY -- 1901 wedding of Preston’s daughter Alma
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VZ34-MR5 -- 1906 death of John’s daughter Mariah
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N4DL-25P -- 1907 wedding of Preston’s daughter Florence
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MR3D-NNS -- 1910 census, Preston
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MRS5-B4N -- 1910 census, John’s son Alberte
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q24J-H3LG -- 1910 wedding of Preston’s son Charles
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q24J-H3YZ -- 1910 wedding of Preston’s son William
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q24J-H454 -- 1917 wedding of Preston’s son Frank
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/117826256/alberte-e-tash -- 1918 grave of John’s son Alberte
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q24J-HCR4 -- 1920 birth of Preston’s son Earl
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q24J-HZYL -- 1922 wedding of Preston’s son Frank
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVJP-THCJ -- 1927 burial of John’s son Ivory
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/65903408 -- 1927 grave of John’s son Ivory
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XMD7-GTN -- 1930 census, Preston
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/50441278 -- 1936 grave of James’s son George
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KMMG-ZKQ -- 1940 census, Preston
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK5N-XM6W -- 2012 death of Preston’s son Earl
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FLX3-WB1 -- 1802 wedding of Thomas Tash and Polly Ham