Tag Archives: Thomaston

The fates of the Fales

The sunlight falling across the Thomaston Village Cemetery on a warm mid-August Saturday casts deep shadows beneath the trees and illuminates the Fales family monument, three sections of sculpted gray granite perched atop a slight grassy rise. The front inscription identifies Ebenezer Fales (1801 to 1872) and his wife, Mary Perkins (1814 to 1898). Each […]

Dead Man Riding

So what could Jonathan Cilley do after catching a cannon ball? Die? Yup — or so thought everyone back home in Thomaston. Born on Dec. 29, 1835 to Jonathan Longfellow Cilley and his wife, Deborah, the boy who became a Maine cavalry officer graduated from Bowdoin College (’58) and gained admittance to the Knox County […]