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The Newcomb - Hartt and Slye - Blunden Families published in 1995 by Vietta Alberta Newcomb.

This line of the Newcomb family were from New Brunswick, Canada. William Newcomb married Miranda (or Morinda) Hartt, daughter of James P. and Olive Hartt. They lived at Grand Falls, Perth-Andover, the California Settlement, and other places in Victoria County, New Brunswick, Canada. After Miranda died, in 1903 (and was buried in the old Methodist Cemetery at Andover) her daughter Katie took over raising the children. Katie married Edward Muckler. Viola Newcomb married Earl Clement. They remained in Canada. Their brothers, Edgar Elmer, John Ellsworth, and George Leopold "Lee" Newcomb moved to Maine, in the U.S.A, and had families there. The youngest son, Ralph G. Newcomb, moved to the state of California. Ralph married Gladys Frances Slye, the daughter of Franklin Albert Slye and Grace Lancefield Blunden. Grace and her family had come to the US from England about 1905. Her parents, Richard Blunden and Elizabeth Ann Wright, both of England, settled at Sebastopol, California. Richard died a few months after their arrival, 24 Dec 1905. Elizabeth Ann ran a boarding house in Sebastopol, and was later a "foot doctor." Grace Blunden and Franklin Albert Slye lived in Glenn County, California, The father of Franklin Albert Slye was John Franklin Slye, who first married Mattie Carpenter. He came to California from Portsmouth, Scioto County, Ohio. He was of the same lines as Roy Rogers, American actor, who was named Leonard Slye at his birth. Parents of John Franklin Slye were Samuel Slye and Mary Frances Buckley. Another of their sons, Tully Cicero "Tell" Slye, was the great grandfather of Leonard Slye. Copies of some of the Slye newspaper obituaries are included. This book follows the ancestry as far as is presently known, and the descendants, as are known, of the four - William Newcomb and Miranda Hartt, and Albert Franklin Slye and Grace Blunden. Some names included from Canada: Clement, Muckler, Mockler, Giberson, Marshall, Wakem, Pickard, Wiggins, Wolverton, Ross, Downing, Shannon, Trott, Caldwell, Elliott, Lewis and more. In Maine : Newcomb, Bell, White, Marshall, Banks, Sarnecke, Shepard, Hemore, LaPlante and others. In California : Newcomb, Slye, Blunden, Smith, Peterson, Brinkerhoff, Roberts, Twomey, Inks, Dunn, Gilbert, Mayberry, Knight, Brown, Yarbrough, Sheets, Taylor, and more. Some very interesting correspondence on the New Brunswick relatives from Mrs. Hazel (Newcomb) LaPlante, Mrs. Karl (Irene) Elliott, Jessie Trott, Irvine P Lewis, Cora Shannon, Leitha Holmes and Harry F. Muckler to the author have been included.  Soft-back, spiral-bound. 407 pages, indexed. Sources are provided. A location index is included.

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