Oren Mower, A Vickery Connection

It is only a couple generations back in time where my Mower line merges with the Vickery family, thanks to my grandparents, George Richardson Mower and Harriet Elizabeth Vickery, who were married on 27 October 1928.  But as it turns out, this wasn't the first time these two families celebrated a marriage together - as my grandfather's great-uncle had married my grandmother's great-aunt almost 87 years before.

Martin Mower Family Monument,

Maple Grove Cemetery

Bangor, Maine

Oren Mower was born on 23 April 1817 in New Vineyard, Maine, the second of thirteen children born to Martin and Mary (Underhill) Mower.  He died at the young age of 26 on 3 October 1843.  He was a farmer, but not much is known of his life beyond that.  During his short life, he did not leave much of a paper trail, his life pretty much memorialized only in the dates etched on the Mower family monument in Maple Grove Cemetery, just down the road from the Mower homestead, in Bangor.

We do know that Oren married Lydia B. Vickery on 22 December 1841 in Bangor, united in matrimony by Rev. John Maltby of the Hammond Street Congregational Church.  Lydia Vickery had been born in Thorndike, Maine, on 9 January 1816, the ninth of ten children born to Jonathan and Ruhamah (Gould) Vickery.  The Vickery family later settled in Glenburn, Maine.  Oren and Lydia had one child, Oren Mower Jr., who was born on 22 March 1843.

A death record has not been located for Oren Mower.  He may have died in either Bangor or Glenburn, of what cause, we just don't know.

Lydia remarried on 25 June 1849 in Bangor.  Rev. Maltby joined her in marriage to James Conner, an Irish immigrant.  James was a farmer, owning 42 acres of land in 1870.  James and Lydia had at least one child, Charles, in 1854.  Lydia died in Bangor at the age of 51 on 1 February 1867.  Her gravesite has not been located.

Line of Descent:  1-Richard Mower, 2-Samuel Mower, 3-Samuel Mower, 4-Jonathan Mower, 5-John Mower, 6-Martin Mower
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