Our chapter placed a plaque in 1989 on the home of Real Daughter Salome Sylvester Sellers in Somerset, Maine. Real Daughters are those who were a DAR member as well as the actual daughter of a soldier or patriot. There are 767 Real Daughters.

Salome Sellers was born as Salome Sylvester on Deer Isle, Maine, as the daughter of Captain Edward and Deborah Cushman Sylvester. Descending from Mayflower Stock, her father served during the American Revolutionary War. She grew up on Deer Isle and married Joseph Sellers on December 23, 1830. The couple had six children together, Salome outliving all but her oldest son William. She was widowed in 1865. Salome Sellers died in the same house she and her husband had built in 1830 in Deer Isle, Maine, on January 9, 1909, aged 108 years, 82 days. Her house is now known as the Salome Sellers House and home to the Deer Isle-Stonington Historical Society. She joined the DAR at age 107 in 1907.

Mount Desert Isle Chapter NSDAR placed a plaque at the site of Civil War Cannon, Agamont Park, Bar Harbor, Maine, in April 1992. This marker is bolted to a piece of Maine Pink Granite. The battery on Egg Rock Island was a temporary emplacement of two 10-inch smoothbore Rodman cannons, which were abandoned on the island in 1901 and sporadically maintained by the lighthouse personnel. In 1991 the Coast Guard and the Connecticut National Guard used a “Sky Crane” helicopter to move the huge guns to shore where they were refurbished, supplied with steel mounts and placed in Agamont Park, where they remain. The dedication of the cannons was held April 26, 1992.

TWO SURVIVING RODMAN/DAHLGREN CANNON MOUNTED ON
NEARBY EGG ROCK IN 1899 AS PART OF THE COASTAL DEFENSE BATTERY
AT FRENCHMAN’S BAY, BAR HARBOR
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THIS PLAQUE HONORS
THOSE MEN AND WOMEN WHO HAVE FOUGHT
FOR THE DEFENSE OF OUR COUNTRY

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M.D.I. CHAPTER, NSDAR
BAR HARBOR HISTORICAL SOCIETY
AND FRIENDS
1992

In 2006, our chapter placed a marker at the grave of Hannah Lurvey Gilley, daughter of American Revolutionary War soldier Jacob Lurvey, who is buried in the Old Luvery Burial Ground, Smugglers Den Campground, Southwest Harbor, Maine. His daughter Hannah is buried in the same cemetery.

Also in 2006, our chapter marked the graves of two American Revolutionary War soldiers.

• Joseph LeGrow was born in 1751 in Marblehead, Massachusetts, and died in 1833 in Great Cranberry Isle, Maine. He was a private in the Continental Line, and a seaman on the schooner “Warren.”
• John (Jonathan) Brown was born in 1741 in England, and died in 1831 in Manset, Maine. He was a seaman under Captain John Paul Jones.

Our official chapter gavel was made for us by the late retired Navy Chief Frederick Grindle, age 82 years at the time, of Salisbury Cove, Maine. The wood, given to the chapter by member Madeline Latty Briggs, was a piece of ironwood brought home as a souvenir after the Civil War by Madeline Brigg’s grandfather. The beautifully turned gavel top and handle and a special cedar box to store the gavel attests to Frederick Grindle’s skill. He was the husband of the late charter member Adrianna Leland Grindle.