Fred grew up on and farmed the homestead where his ancestor John D. Conner was listed in 1766. The homestead buildings are now gone, but the old family cemetery is visible about 1/3 of the way to the shore from the road. Around 1900 Fred broke his knee and he and Helen moved Castine. They first resided in the building now occupied by the former Water Witch store on Main Street where Helen operated a boarding house. (The 2 June 1900 federal census lists him on Water St., Castine with wife Helen and sons Edwin and Everett.) Then they moved to their home on Perkins Street (the second house northeast of Pleasant Street on the northwest side of the street). Fred was a construction worker and a member of the crew which built the Wilson Museum in 1921. The 11 April 1930 federal census at Castine states that Frederick [sic] is a gardener for a private family; Silas S. Hatch, age 62, is boarding with him and wife Helen. At his death he was the oldest resident of Castine. He died of a fall down his cellar stairs during an air raid drill; he had turned off the house lights and was going to the cellar as prescribed in the drill instructions.
Fred grew up on and farmed the homestead where his ancestor John D. Conner was listed in 1766. The homestead buildings are now gone, but the old family cemetery is visible about 1/3 of the way to the shore from the road. Around 1900 Fred broke his knee and he and Helen moved Castine. They first resided in the building now occupied by the former Water Witch store on Main Street where Helen operated a boarding house. (The 2 June 1900 federal census lists him on Water St., Castine with wife Helen and sons Edwin and Everett.) Then they moved to their home on Perkins Street (the second house northeast of Pleasant Street on the northwest side of the street). Fred was a construction worker and a member of the crew which built the Wilson Museum in 1921. The 11 April 1930 federal census at Castine states that Frederick [sic] is a gardener for a private family; Silas S. Hatch, age 62, is boarding with him and wife Helen. At his death he was the oldest resident of Castine. He died of a fall down his cellar stairs during an air raid drill; he had turned off the house lights and was going to the cellar as prescribed in the drill instructions.
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