Flowers of the Forest: Let us send our deepest condolences to Ray and Pat Shadis for the loss of their granddaughter, Elizabeth Anne Hewitt Shadis of San Jose, Calif. Our sympathies also go out to Sue Carlson, seriously injured during an encounter with a surly goat.

Candie Crocker has joined the Edgecomb Eddy School as school nurse. She has been staff at the Boothbay Region YMCA's Camp Knickerbocker during recent summers. Welcome and thanks, Candie!

Susie Stephenson, hooked rug maker, and Eben Blaney, furniture maker, were among the many artists and craftspeople along Wiscasset's recent Art Walk.

The Cochran Wedding Quilt, continued: Elizabeth Sproul has filled out my empty gap: Leon was a Dodge, and Bessie Haggett's brother. He was raised in Edgecomb. He and his wife Rena, about whom Mrs. Sproul knows nothing, had a daughter, possibly named Helen, born in 1927. The late Madine Nichols was another Dodge descendent. One of Willie Cochran Sr.’s daughters married a Sproul, who founded the Morse Sauerkraut factory in Waldoboro. If I have not got all that straight, someone, please correct me!

Another correspondent, Christine “Chris” Nelson in Damariscotta, traces her line from Willie Cochran Jr.'s sister Lena, who married Hugh Sherman. Willie had another brother, Calvin, who settled in Massachusetts. Chris thinks Leon and Rena Dodge had two sons, one of whom has been a chef at Le Garage Restaurant in Wiscasset. Would that be Alan Dodge? Are y’all ready for Row 6? Square 6.1: no name, 6.2: illegible, 6.3: Edmond? C. Chase, 6.4: Mrs. Fuller, 6.5: S.C. Merrill, 6.6: M.A. Clifford, 6.7: Abnai and D. Clifford.

For those who want to jump into the genealogical puzzle pot, the Cochran wedding quilt is now owned by the Newcastle Historical Society, who keep it at their Taniscot Fire Station museum. They display it during the summer, but I am sure their members would be glad to help anyone who wishes to eyeball the names, in case there are leaves on anyone's family tree!

And now, dear readers, I need your help. If any of you ever attended the Salt Marsh School on the River Road in Edgecomb, for any length of time, from 1930s to late ‘40s or early ‘50s, please let me know.

I can be reached at 234 River Road, 207-633-2978, and jocam@tidewater.net.