DOROTHY LOUISE TODD MILLER SHAW 1886 – 1987
DOROTHY SHAW WAS BORN IN PORTLAND, MAINE IN NOVEMBER 1886. HER PARENTS WERE SUSAN AND LEWIS TODD. SUSAN TODD DIED AT AGE 53 FROM A RUPTURED APPENDIX. LEWIS, UNABLE TO CARE FOR HIS FOUR CHILDREN ALONE, WAS FORCED TO FIND OTHER HOMES FOR THEM.

IN THE SUMMER, LEWIS OFTEN TRAVELED, BY BUCKBOARD, TO SCARBOROUGH, TO CUT HAIR AND MUSTACHES OF NOTABLE MEN STAYING AT LARGE HOTELS ON PROUTS NECK. SOMETIMES HE WOULD TAKE HIS DAUGHTER, DOROTHY, WITH HIM TO SCARBOROUGH AND THEY’D STOP BY FOR LEMONADE AT THE FARM OF SUSAN AND FRED MILLER ON BLACK POINT ROAD.
WHEN SUSAN TODD DIED, THE MILLER’S, HAVING NO CHILDREN OF THER OWN, THEY ADOPTED DOROTHY – THEN SIX YEARS OLD.
DOROTHY GRADUATED FROM SCARBOROUGH HIGH SCHOOL IN 1904, THEN SERVED AS TEACHER AT THE PLEASANT HILL SCHOOL AND THE OAK HILL SCHOOL IN SCARBOROUGH.

IN 1908 DOROTHY MARRIED DELMAR SHAW, ORIGINALLY FROM STANDISH. THEY ULTIMATELY SETrLED IN THE MILLER FARMSTEAD ON BLACK POINT ROAD WHERE THEY RAISED FOUR CHILDREN: RACHEL, MARGUERITE, DELMAR JR AND JOCELYN. DELMAR SR, DIED IN 1953.

DOROTHY (DORA) WAS AN ACTIVE MEMBER OF THE FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH IN SCARBOROUGH WHERE SHE SANG IN THE CHOIR FOR MANY YEARS. SHE WAS A MEMBER OF THE CHURCH GUILD AND THE LADIES AID SOCIETY.
FOR OVER 50 YEARS, DORA WAS THE SUMMER LIBRARIAN AT THE CHARLES THOMAS MEMORIAL LIBRARY ON PROUTS NECK.

AT THE TIME OF HER DEATH, DORA HELD THE BOSTON POST CANE AS THE TOWN OF SCARBOROUGH’S OLDEST LIVING RESIDENT. DORA LIVED FOR A FULL CENTURY – MOST OF IT ON BLACK POINT ROAD. SHE WENT TO SCHOOL BY HORSE AND BUCKBOARD AND LIVED TO SEE A MAN LAND ON THE MOON! DORA THOROUGHLY ENJOYED HER FESTIVE 100th BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION AT THE FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH IN NOVEMBER 1986. FOUR MONTHS LATER, SHE DIED.
DOROTHY LOUISE TODD MILLER SHAW IS BURIED IN THE BLACK POINT CEMETERY, SCARBOROUGH, MAINE.

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