My wife noticed the obituary for Patty Murphy Bragdon in the Richmond T-D, with the Gardiner, Maine reference. I was also born and raised in Gardiner. My family lived at 25 Maple St., and the Murphy's home was 100 yards away at the corner of Washington and Maple. I remember Patty as a slim and pretty girl
, in the class ahead of me at Gardiner High School and UMaine at Orono.

We wish to send our condolences to the Bragdon and Murphy families. I also have Bragdon ancestry from the immigrant Arthur Bragdon (d. bef 1678 in York, Maine), through his son Samuel Bragdon, whose daughter Ruth Bragdon (b. 1691) m. Eliakim Wardwell, son of Samuel Wardwell, hanged for being a witch in Salem, MA on 22 Sep.1692. My wife of 65 years now live in Williamsburg,VA, although her