Major Horace M. Warren

It is my honor to introduce you to one of South Reading’s hometown heroes, Horace M. Warren.  Horace was born in Topsham, Maine on July 8, 1841, one of six children of Edwin R. and Mary Hathorne Warren.  The family was proud to be lineal descendants of Moses Warren who had fought at Bunker Hill …

Rebekah Evans, a Woman of Wakefield

Women in Wakefield:  Rebekah Evans. Today’s Wakefield’s Women’s History Month spotlight is on Rebekah Evans, whose sketch is provided here.   She is the grandmother of one of our previous subjects, Harriet Newell Flint, the donor of our Civil War Monument. When searching for some representative women to write about for this series, it is…