Hill Family Genealogy

Descendants of Robert Means

Notes


102. Edgar Leland Means

In his youth, he travelled with his father Lemuel G. Means who was Captain of the square-rigged schooner, Zouave. Edgar was taught on board the ship by his mother and a governess-teacher. When he was not sailing abroad, he lived in Milbridge, Maine in a house very near the bridge of Milbridge. After highschool he attended Bowdoin College where he played on the baseball team and graduated as a Phi Beta Kappa. Upon graduation he went to the West Coast by train and on the way back he met Mr. Preston, from the Bank of Orleans who informed him of an open position at the bank in Orleans Nebraska. Edgar got off the train at Orleans and got the job at the bank. At first he lived as a boarder in the home of Dr. William Banwell who operated a general store in Orleans. Eventually he married Dr. Banwell's daughter, Jessie. In the early years, Edgar acted as Notary Public for the Bank, but in later years he became the prime banker and principal stockholder of the Bank. From the records of land deeds it appears that he purchased the Bank of Orleans in 1902. Edgar and Jessie raised a family of 10 children in Orleans. In the late 1920s, after most of the children had left home, he sold the bank and moved to Omaha. In 1927 Jessie died in Omaha, after which Edgar moved to Lincoln, Nebraska. Within a year or so he married Grace Folts. About 1928 Edgar invested in a large office building in the business district of Lincoln. When the depression came he was unable to rent the space in the office building so that he lost all his money and had to declare bankruptcy. In the years after 1935 he worked as a gas station attendant at a CONOCO station near the center of Lincoln, Nebraska, until his death.


Jessie H. Banwell

Graduated from Hastings College, Nebraska.


120. Edgar Lincoln Means

Edgar had a slightly deformed hand, which bothered him very much and may have contributed to his suicide in 1928. He is reported to have visited his former girl friend in the hospital at the birth of her first child following her marriage to another man. Following the visit, Edgar left and committed suicide.


121. Elnora Lucina Means

In the last two decades of her life Elnora lived in Bangor, Maine and acted as
a caretaker for some of the apartments that were owned by David Means, her
brother. About 1990, she moved into a condominium, and in 1993 into a
retirement care center. She was particularly interested in the family history
and in the care and upkeep of the Means family plot at the cemetery at
Milbridge, where many of the Maine members of the family are buried. She
selected her grave site at that location.


Grace Folts

After the death of Edgar L. Means in 1947 Grace moved from Lincoln, Neb. to
California where she lived in a retirement home.


127. Allan B. Means

From Hoar ancestry: rehoar@worldnet.att.net


128. Harvey R. Leighton

From Ancestry.com file: rehoar@worldnet.att.net