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Descendents of William Messer (4 Dec 1799 – 21 Sep 1874)
and Alice (or Alison) Brown (~1795 – 19 Sep 1877)

Third Immigrant Generation
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11. Elizabeth "Lizzie" Coburn. Daughter of Andrew Wood Cockburn (Coburn) & Elizabeth Messer. Born 17 Aug 1853 in Harvey, York Co., NB. Died 13 Apr 1920 in Boston, Mass. Buried in St. Stephen Rural Cemetery.

    From Daily Telegraph, 8 May 1874:    "Married at residence of bride's father, by Rev. Samuel Johnson, 7th inst., James Swan and Elizabeth Cockburn, daughter of Andrew W. Cockburn, all of Harvey."

 

    Witnesses to marriage were James Swan and Maggie Coburn.

 

    She married James Thomas Swan, son of James Swan & Jane Moody, 7 May 1874 in Harvey, York Co., NB By Rev. Samuel Johnson . Born 1852 in Harvey, York Co, NB. Died 4 Sep 1920 in Princeton, Maine. Buried in St. Stephen Rural Cemetery. Occupation General Store Business.

 

    James was nicknamed "Waxy Jim", probably because of the type of moustache he wore.   Jim and his wife Lizzie Coburn moved to Princeton, Maine when their children were young.

    Copied from newspaper obituary - 1920:

    There died at Princeton on Saturday, Sept 4, a man loved and respected by the whole community, Mr James Swan, aged 67 years.   Funeral services were held at the house on Monday, the 6th, under the auspices of Lewy's Island Lodge F. & A. M., Rev. William Williams, chaplain, officiating.   The burial took place in the St. Stephen Rural Cemetery beside his wife, who preceded him by a few short months.   Mr Swan was an active worker in the church and in the Masonic Lodge, generous, genial and friendly towards everybody.   He had no enemies at all.   He came to Princeton from Harvey, N.B. about thirty years ago, bought and managed the Princeton House for several years.   Later on he purchased the general store business of the H. L. Buck, where he continued in business to the time of his death.   Mr Swan suffered influenza during the past winter and while still weak, Mrs Swan was taken to a Boston hospital for a serious operation from which she passed on.   Mr Swan never recovered from the shock of her death and his sickness of the winter.   Other bodily complications set in and he gradually wasted away.   We shall miss James Swan more and more   as a business associate, brother and friend.   His rest will be peaceful, no troublesome dreams, worldly worries, can reach him now.   He leaves to mourn their loss his sons, Charles H., District Supt. of Schools, A. C., store manager and Guy W., Post Master at Princeton, his daughter, Mrs Fred B. Larner, his brothers, Henry and Alexander, and his sister, Mrs Jas. Coburn of Harvey, N.B. and friends without number all around.

    They had the following children:

  66   i.   Elizabeth "Etta" Swan

  67   ii.   Arthur James Andrew Swan

  68   iii.   Lula Jane Swan

  69   iv.   Charles Henry Swan

  70   v.   Andrew Coburn Swan

  71   vi.   Guy Webber Swan

 

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