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Tishd
April 9, 2009

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I am trying to create heritage albums for each of my children. This layout is of my Grandfather Mosher, my dad's father. He passed away before I turned four, so I really did not get to really know him. All I can say is he must have been a wonderful man because he was married to my Grammie, who was the sweetest person in the world to me! She helped raise me and my brother, Ralph! Grampie M. was a very talented musician, and as when he was older, he was a storekeeper, and a beautiful artist. I can still remember the room at Grammie's house that stored his art supplies, his easle and paints, and the smell of linseed oil!

It has been said, and I quote from a book I have called "Assignment Down East," that he was an expert with the trombone and coronet. His great, great, grandfather, Hugh was a drummer boy in the Revolutionary War, and his great uncle, Ephraim Maddock, drummed in the War of 1812. His father, James E. Mosher, was a drummer boy in the Civil War, enlisting at the age of 17. It was also written that the musical vein runs straight and true from generation to generation in the family. His son, Hugh, (my dad) was a musician with the Belfast band, drawing sweet, reedy music from a baritone horn. WHen the contest of high school musicians was held in 1929 at Lewiston, Hugh Mosher was adjudged the best horn player in the State of Maine. So any way you look at it the Moshers of City Point (where I was born) have drummed and piped their way through the generations, keeping a secure hold on that elusive quality known as musical talent.


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