Loring - Phoebe Francis (Loring) Francis (1889-1964)

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Loring - Phoebe Francis (Loring) Francis (1889-1964)

Phoebe Francis Loring (1889-1964) was born on September 21, 1889 to Joseph Mitchell Loring and Phoebe Maria (Manchester) Loring in Tremont, Maine. Her father was listed as Indian and her mother as “white.” The birth was attested to by her uncle Frank L. Manchester and signed by J. Austin Gott, Clerk of Tremont.

Phoebe married her brother-in-law, Alfred M. Francis (1883-) Indian, of Olamon Island, son of Mitchell Francis and Sarah (Sibley) Francis, on October 29, 1907 in Tremont, Maine. Alfred’s first wife, Phoebe’s sister, Mary (Loring) Francis (1884-1906) had died of typhoid fever on April 10, 1906. George Ripley Fuller, Justice of the Peace, conducted Phoebe and Alfred’s wedding in Southwest Harbor, Maine.

Another sister of Phoebe’s, Harriett Caroline “Hattie” Loring (1891-1991), married to Nelson Piere Gordius, was well known in Tremont.

Phoebe Francis (Loring) Francis died on October 21, 1964 in Bar Harbor, Maine. She is buried at Mountain View Cemetery in Hancock, Maine.

Phoebe’s grandfather, Frank “Big Thunder” Loring (1827-1906), “may have been the best known Wabanaki on Mount Desert Island in the 19th century.” – Asticou’s Island Domain: Wabanaki Peoples at Mount Desert Island 1500-2000, Acadia National Park Ethnographic Overview and Assessment, Volume I by Harald E. L. Prins and Bunny McBride - Prepared under cooperative agreement with The Abbe Museum, Bar Harbor, Maine, Northeast Region Ethnography Program, National Park Service, 2007 - Chapter 10: Wabanakis & Rusticators 1840s-1920s, p. 305.