Lost in Maine Woods and Hills:Teaching in a one-room school in Eustis, Maine

by Modeste Guimond Rossignol1903-1905

Modeste Guimond at age 35 (1906)

My grandmother's sister Modeste Guimond was born in Frenchville, Maine, in 1871 and lived most ofher life in that remote part of Maine, the very top, called Madawaska. She died nearby in 1953 afterteaching school all her life. After a long courtship, she married Ozime Rossignol at the age of 37 andtheir three children all died in infancy.

One of her many teaching jobs was at a one room school in Eustis / Stratton, Maine, which is in theheart of the Rangely mountain range. This document is part of her diary which extended through1924. She arrived in Eustice in April 1903 and boarded with the Reed family. The first day of schoolthere were 19 "scholars" aged 5 to 15 years. The oldest were taught Arithmetic, Grammar, Algebra,Geography, Civics and Literature and read Washington living's Sketch Book. During the summers of1903 and 1904 she worked on an island off the coast, apparently as a waitress, and then went backto Eustice. She left for good in February, 1905. Her courtship with Ozime (often abbreviated as "O")is mentioned numerous times in the diary.

Research suggests that the family she stayed with was Hiram Reed, his wife Annie (nee Scribner)and their children Carlton, Hazle, Hilma and Gerald. Hiram died of pneumonia in 1907 and Anniemarried Fred Fraser in 1909.

Some of the other family names which were mentioned: Adams, Brackett, Carson, Day, Durrell,Fuller, Gordon, Jacobs, Knapp, Nedeau, Poulain, Ricker, Stevens, Walker, White and Witney

This book apparently passed from Modeste to her niece Evangeline Nadeau and then to her cousinJeanne Marie Daigle, who graciously lent it to me to copy and scan.

Mark DionneMarch 2015

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