Title
Mrs.
Last Name
Folsom
First Name
Ida
Middle Name
Maiden Name
Hayden
Nick Name
Place of Birth
Corinna, ME
Date of Birth
1863-02-17
Place of Death
Dexter, ME
Date of Death
1953-09-12
Publication
The Eastern Gazette 9-17-1953, p.2
Obituary
MRS. IDA H. FOLSOM Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at her home on Lower Main street for Mrs. Ida H. Folsom, 90, who died there Saturday morning after a long illness. The Rev. Howard H. Hamlin of the Greenville Jct. Methodist Church officiated. Interment was in Mt. Pleasant cemetery. The bearers were Fred Sprague, Cpl. Robert Yeo, Merle Knox and Eben Page, all of Dexter. The widow of Lindley H. Folsom, she was born in Corinna, Feb. 17, 1863, daughter of Henry Warren and Cynthia Ann Bigelow Hayden. She had been a resident of this town for 53 years. After having been active in the Free Baptist Church for many years, she later in life joined the First Universalist Church. The survivors are a son, Charles H. Folsom, Augusta; two daughters, Mrs. James Yeo, Dexter, and Mrs. Richard H. Bird, Guilford; four grandchildren Cpl. Robert L. Yeo, just returned from Korea, Mrs. Fred Sprague and Miss Alta Yeo all of Dexter, and Mrs. Joan F. Edgerly of Augusta; four great grandchildren and a nephew, A. L. Hayden of Portland.