Welcome to the Pierce genealogy. Family units are arranged alphabetically by the first name of the father (or single-parent mother). Links are provided to enable you to move up and down each lineage. To follow a line back in time (ancestors), click on the underlined portion of "(son of ...)" or "(dau. of ...)" beneath the name of the person you want to trace back. To follow a line forward in time (descendants), click on the name of the person whose offspring you want to see. A plus sign (+) following a name means that that person had one or more children, but that family group has not been added to this web page. A link to documentation and notes, when available, is given below each family.
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Census records are notorious for variant spellings of names. However, both Pierce and Peirce are in current use. Until it is clear which of the spellings in the census record are due to census taker error and which are due to actual differences in usage, no attempt has been made below to sort out which spelling goes with which lineage. All families are listed below alphabetically by the first name of the male parent.
The earliest census records for Mount Desert Island that listed a Pierce as a "head of family" were the 1810 census of the town of Eden, which reported a John Peirce household with John (age 26–45) as the sole member, and the 1810 census of the town of Mount Desert, which reported a Thomas Pierce household with 6 members. (Note that these 6 did not all have to be Pierces.) Subsequent years reported the following households, all in the town of Mount Desert.
1820: Thomas Pierce (8 residents including Thomas)
1830: James Pierce (9)
1837: Hiram Peirce (6), Thomas Peirce (5), Thomas Peirce Jr. (3)
1840: Hiram Pierce (6), Thomas Pierce (4), Thomas Pierce Jr. (5)
Until the 1850 census, individuals members of a household were reported only by a number in a category (e.g., "3 females under 10").
The only Pierces reported to be living on Mount Desert Island in 1850 were the Ezekiel Pierce family (see below) and Emery E. Pierce, and 11-year-old boy living with a Green family, probably in the Seal Harbor area of the town of Mount Desert. He was still with them in 1860.
Ezekiel Pierce
(son of [...])
b. age 72 y., 4 m. at death Mount Desert, Maine
m. (1) Sarah Kief
b. age 53 y., 6 m. at death Eden [now Bar Harbor], Maine
d. 15 September 1875
bur. Seal Harbor Cemetery Mount Desert, Maine
(2) Margaret A. [...]
b. age 76 y., 8 m., 20 d. at death Maine
d. 26 December 1912
bur. Seal Harbor Cemetery Mount Desert, Maine
d. 7 December 1890
bur. Seal Harbor Cemetery Mount Desert, Maine
children by Sarah Kief:
George E. Pierce b. 1846 Maine - m. (1) Nellie M. [...] (d. before 1900); (2) Mary M. [...] - d. 1915 - bur. Seal Harbor Cemetery Mount Desert, Maine
William Pierce b. age 2 y. as of 1850 census Maine - m. 15 y. as of 1910 census [Lovisa or Louisa?] [...]
Walden P. Pierce b. 1850 Maine - m. (1) Nellie F. [...]; (2) 12 y. as of 1910 census Bertha N. [...] - d. 1932 - bur. Seal Harbor Cemetery Mount Desert, Maine
Thomas M. Pierce b. age 4 y., 2 m. at death - d. 10 September 1856 - bur. Seal Harbor Cemetery Mount Desert, ME
Olive A. Pierce b. age 9 m., 21 d. at death - d. 12 May 1856 - bur. Seal Harbor Cemetery Mount Desert, Maine
Stillman I. Pierce b. age 30 y., 11 m. at death Maine - d. 2 April 1888 - bur. Seal Harbor Cemetery Mount Desert, Maine
Theodore Berton Pierce b. age 33 y., 2 m., 2 d. at death Seal Harbor, Mount Desert, Maine - m. [...] - d. 28 April 1892 Seal Harbor, Mount Desert, Maine - bur. Seal Harbor Cemetery Mount Deert, Maine
children by Margaret A. [...]:
Thomas M. Pierce b. Auguet 1878 Maine
Augustus V. Pierce b. age 9 m., 20 d. at death - d. 21 June 1882 - bur. Seal Harbor Cemetery Mount Desert, Maine
documentation and notes
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George E. Pierce
(son of Ezekiel Pierce and Sarah Kief)
b. 1846 Maine
m. (1) Nellie M. [...]
b. age 33 y. as of 1880 census Maine
d. before 1900 census
(2) Mary M. [...]
b. 1850 Maine
d. 1915
bur. Seal Harbor Cemetery Mount Desert, Maine
children by Nellie M.:
Mary L. Pierce b. age 8 y. as of 1880 census Maine
Olive A. Pierce b. age 5 y. as of 1880 census Maine
Linwood Vinal Pierce b. age 1 y. as of 1880 census Maine - m. 16 October 1904 Jennie G. Black - died at sea 1 June 1921
Haley W. Pierce b. January 1880 Maine
Merton Pierce b. November 1883 Maine
documentation and notes
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Linwood Vinal Pierce
(son of George E. Pierce and Nellie M. [...])
b. age 1 y. as of 1880 census Maine
m. 16 October 1904
Jennie G. Black
b. age 21 y. as of 1910 census Maine
d. died at sea 1 June 1921
children:
Haroldine Pierce b. age 5 y. as of 1910 census Maine
Armstrong Pierce b. age 3 y. as of 1910 census Maine
Eleanor Pierce b. age 1 y., 7 m. as of 1910 census Maine
documentation and notes
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Walden P. Pierce
(son of Ezekiel Pierce and Sarah [...])
b. 1850 Maine
m. (1) Nellie F. Davis
(dau. of Daniel Davis and Louisa Hinckley)
b. age 28 y., 3 m., 25 d. at death Seal Harbor, Mount Desert, Maine
d. 9 January 1896 Mount Desert, Maine
bur. Seal Harbor Cemetery Mount Desert, Maine
(2) 28 September 1897
Bertha (Noyes) Donnald [Donnell?]
b. 1864
d. 1945
bur. Seal Harbor Cemetery Mount Desert, Maine
d. 1932
bur. Seal Harbor Cemetery Mount Desert, Maine
children by Nellie F. Davis:
Nettie M. Pierce b. October 1886 Maine - m. (1) 20 February 1904 Frank [L. or Z.] Phippen; (2) 30 April 1917 Harold L. Dow - d. 1953 - bur. Seal Harbor Cemetery Mount Desert, Maine
Hattie V. Pierce b. November 1888 Maine - d. 1910 - bur. Seal Harbor Cemetery Mount Desert, Maine
Beatrice T. Pierce b. November 1891 Maine
child by Bertha N. [...]:
Yale E. Pierce b. 1904 Maine - m. 11 December 1937 Bernice L. Ward - d. 24 August 1968 - bur. Seal Harbor Cemetery Mount Desert, Maine
documentation and notes
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