Margaret Kelley Ashe Colton genealogical papers

Edith Margaret (Kelly) Ash Colton, 1896-1988, of Washington County, Maine is the compiler of this collection.

Margaret Kelley Ashe Colton, 92, of Milbridge, Me. and New Britain, Conn., died 26 Dec 1988 in Redding, Calif. where she had lived in recent years to be near her daughter. Mrs. Colton will be remembered by many genealogists for the tremendous amount of research she has done on Washington County families over the past fifty years. She had given copies of her work to this Society, as well as the Bangor, Steuben and Machias libraries. She was active with the Maine Historical Society, Maine Old Cemetery Association, and a member of the Hannah Weston Chapter, DAR. Mrs. Colton said she always took her suitcase of genealogical records with her when she spent winters in California and summers in Maine and Connecticut. She found that family research was more entertaining than television. She spent a good part of her winter time in the Los Angeles Public Library genealogy room. The time eventually came when she could no longer drive to the west coast, but she enjoyed flying and her suitcase of records went with her.

Source: Cherryfield - Narraguagus Historical Society newsletter, Vol. 15, no. 1.