Edwin B. Kilby House, Dennysville, Maine

Edwin Kilby Homestead, Dennysville, Maine

Edwin Kilby Homestead, Dennysville, Maine

Name/Title

Edwin B. Kilby House, Dennysville, Maine

Description

The Edwin Kilby homestead on King Street in Dennysville later became the residence of Foster and Ruby Leighton.

Context

William Kilby died in 1847 at the age of thirty-two, leaving a widow, Elizabeth (Ward) and three young children, George W., Elvira, and Eliza. In 1849 Elizabeth married her husband's brother Edwin Kilby, with whom she had a son, William E. In later years, Eliza, with her half-brother William E., resided in this small house, previously owned by Edwin B. Kilby, son of Benjamin L., and later the home of Foster and Ruby (Trott) Leighton.

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