Humphrey E., the youngest son of John M. Eustis, remained at Dixfield most of the time until the rebellion. He then enlisted; was a Lieut. in Co. D, of the 16th Regiment of Maine Vols. With the regiment he went to the front, but did not remain with it through its term of service. He went to Minnesota when not far from 21 years old and is now in business at Minneapolis. He married Julia, daughter of P. S. Wilson of Mexico. Sarah M., married C. W. Greenleaf of Boston. Mr. G. continues business in Boston, but is a frequent visitor at Dixfield, when his wife with Wm. T., continues to occupy the house which, when I was a boy, was occupied by Enos Dillingham. The members of this branch of the Eustis family here find a home when visiting the scenes of their early years, their frequent visits evincing that they still love the old village, their old home and its associations. Not only to relatives, but to any and all, the hospitality now, as heretofore, of the family is unlimited.

     For some years John M. Eustis lived in Rumford. While there he was a Custom House officer, and also the owner of the stage line, and mail carrier from Bethel to Augusta.  While engaged in "staging" he at times employed as many as twenty men and sixty horses. About 1839 he came to Dixfield and lived in the old yellow house. There Humphrey and Mary were born. He lived there eight or nine years and then moved to the Deacon Eustis farm in Mexico. Later he exchanged the farm for the village property owned by I. N. Stanley, moved to the village and lived in that part of the Stanley house now occupied by S. M. Virgin. After living there a few years he moved to the "Clark place," on the Plains. This place was once owned by Chas. T. Chase and on it lived Seth Brackett. It was once occupied by Orville White, then by Wm. W. Abbott. From the "Clark place" Mr. Eustis returned to the village again, moving into the Enos Dillingham house, which Wallace Eustis had recently left, and there resided  until his death. Early after reaching his majority he was Clerk of Mexico; during his last stay in that town he was a member of its board of selectmen. He was for some years a Deputy Sheriff and for forty years held a "Justice of the Peace" commission, and many cases were tried by him; and to his great credit it may be remarked, that very few, if any of the decisions made by him, were reversed, if by appeal or otherwise reached the higher courts. Chas. Wallace married Miandana, daughter of Freeman and Clariman (Holland) Griffith, and I feel sure commenced house keeping in the house occupied by Emiline Parks. Mason Eustis married --whom I cannot state. George died unmarried. Wm. Tappan is unmarried .

     At different times sons and daughters of the village have lived in the South-east corner of Mexico. From the village post-office that portion of Mexico has always received its mails; many of the business men of the village have lived there; and so closely connected with the settlement, growth and business of the village have the residents of that part of Mexico been that I find it difficult not to include them in these desultory sketches. I feel that 1 may be trespassing on the indulgence of the readers of  your paper by making them so full-much more so than was my intention at first - but cannot easily do if I do anything towards tracing the line as I have been asked to do. I have already stated that Deacon Joseph Eustis came to Mexico in 1803.  I am told  by his son Lyman that he came in the winter of 1804 or 5.  His wife, Sarah Mason;  his daughter Lucy Williams, born in 1798; and his sons, John M., born in 1800; and Chas. L., born 1802; came with him. He left at Portsmouth,  N.H., his two oldest children - Wm. Tappan, born in 1794, and Isabel B., born in 1796. Elizabeth M. was born in 1806.  I have yet to learn that the family did not go at once to the place it so long occupied, or that it ever  lived elsewhere than at what was always called the Deacon Eustis farm - on which Henry Harlow now lives. Although he came to Maine from Rutland, Mass., I am quite sure he was a native of Sutton. His wife belonged in Princeton, Mass.

     C. L. Eustis says "No. 1 Holmantown Plantation embraced both Dixfield and Mexico and were called the upper and lower towns." Previous to 1810, or thereabouts, the bridge across Webb's river was above what is now the upper dam, and upper end of the saw mill. I can remember when along the sides of Weld street there were large pine stumps then undug, and solid as far as regarded decay. A stump fence ran from the old school house up to a point near the entrance to the school house of today and down to the Harry Mitchell house, with large raspberry and blackberry bushes growing each side of it, from which school boys and girls picked many a dipper full. Yes, even along Main street, I bring to mind what we called "toe stubbers"-the remains of the big stumps from which large pines had been cut, close to the ground, or if cut higher at first had been again cut to remove them as much as possible from being obstructions to travel, and as an easier way than to dig them. I can well remember visiting the houses of' neighbors , and seeing joints of  fresh meat hung from  the floor above, to the front of the old fire  place, there turning and roasting, roasting and turning as the rope by which they  hung twisted and untwisted, the "drippings" falling into a dish placed on the  floor beneath them.

     Having wandered considerably from the  people of Mexico I will only add before again reaching them that for some time after I was allowed to roam around the village, it was not an uncommon way with some of those whose homes 1 visited, to bake bread in a skillet placed on the hearth before the open fire place, held at an angle by a block of wood, a brick or sad-iron behind it. It may be mere conjecture, but it seems to me that those old skillet-baked cakes were much better than those of the present of ranges and furnaces. Deacon Eustis died in Mexico, Dec. 20, 1847. His wife died in Mexico, May 11th, 1845.. Their daughter Isabel married Sylvester Melcher of Portsmouth, N. H. John Melcher, son of Sylvester and Isabel, married a daughter of Paran Stevens the Hotel King of the United States. Lucy Williams married Harvey Wait of Dixfield, Feb. 26th. 1817. For a long time Mr. Wait lived in Mexico, where the Bradeens now live, but when first married lived on what in late years has been culled the "Besse place" - the farm next above the Deacon Eustis farm. Their children were  Horatio Mason, who married Elizabeth Prince, lived in Mexico, and both died there, Charles, Joel, Gilbert and Harvey, who all went to Boston. Only Charles and Harvey are now living, both in or near Boston. Sarah came to the village with her mother after her father's death, and with her occupied chambers in the Gen. Farwell house for a while, and later lived in the house burned when the corner house was burned, since replaced by Harlow Block. H. W. P.