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    Jones-Sheahan House, Foster Lane, Dennysville

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    Photographs of the Jones-Sheahan house on Foster Lane, originally called the Narrows Road, in Dennysville. John Sheahan immigrated from Ireland as a teenager in the 1820's, settling first in Perry before coming to Dennysville. Of his four sons who served in the Union Army during the Civil War, the letters of John Parris Sheahan to has parents, living in this house, are a remarkable record of his wartime experience. His son William, who was killed at the Battle of Rappahannock Station, is buried in the Dennysville Town Cemetery. The house was restored in the late twentieth century, with several historically appropriate additions.

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    John Sheahan emigrated from Ireland to Eastport in the 1820's, living in Perry before making his home in Dennysville. Four of his sons joined up and fought in the Civil War. William was killed at the Battle of Rappahannock Station in 1863 and is buried in the Town Cemetery, along with his wife and their infant daughter. HIs sons John Parris, Henry and Ned (Edwin) returned home safely. Copies of John's letters home to his father during the war are preserved at the Dennys River Historical Society. The house was originally occupied by Benjamin R. Jones, when he moved from Edmunds into the second last house on the Narrows Road (now Foster's Lane) in Dennysville. It became the home of John and Eleanor (Dougherty) Sheahan, parents of John P. Sheahan. Later it was the home of Edward and Rebecca (Ward) Leighton, and more recently Leigh and Florence (Jamieson) Leighton. After being vacant for a time, the house was lovingly resorted to its present condition by Leslie Chatterton and Allyson Ford.

    The Jones Sheahan House on Foster Lane, in Dennysville
    Jones-Sheahan House and additions on Foster's Lane in Dennysville; Several additional structures were successfully joined to the John Sheahan House, which was restored to its mid-nineteenth century appearance in the late twentieth century. Gravestone of Sergeant William Sheahan in the Dennysville Town Cemetery; William Sheahan's gravestone records his death at the Battle of Rappahannock Station on November 7, 1862, and that of his wife, Cordelia just three weeks earlier on October 8. Their infant daughter Delia is buried beside them. On Saturday, January 9, 1864, John D. Allan entered in his diary, View of the Houses, Wharves and Boats on the Dennys River.; The Jones-Sheahan house is visible across the Dennys River, behind the spars of the schooner tied up by T.W. Allan's shipyard on the Narrows Road, in this photograph by John P. Sheahan of Edmunds, c. 1880.