Cousin May writes about her grandmother, Polly Sargeant.

The gravestone and marker of May Coult and her parents.

The image below is a page from the BUSWELL FAMILY manuscript written by May Coult (cousin of my grandma Lillie Buswell Davie). Cousin May researched and recorded family history for 50 years or more, until her death, 43 years ago this week. Cousin May was from New Hampshire, worked in Washington, D.C., and was very familiar with the locations in the Buswell family history.

Somewhere along the line, many in the Sargeant family dropped the second -a- in the name and began to spell it Sargent.

Recently, I learned that both Cousin May and her father (Frank B. Coult) attended Pembroke Academy as well. Pembroke is celebrating its bicentennial at present, as it was officially formed as an organization on June 25, 1818.