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Hanse Robinson Kelloch
born: 16 Aug. 1778, at St. George, Maine
died: 9 Dec. 1866, at St. George, Maine
The back of the stone reads:
"The Constitution it must and shall be preserved"
Old North Parish Cemetery, St. George, Maine
Jim Skoglund, who is responsible for the restoration of the Cemetery, says Hance was excluded from the St. George Baptist Church for “public railing." It seems he was a Republican at the time when the Church was not in favor of the Civil War. My great great grandfather, Alexander Kalloch of St. George refused to send his son, Deacon Henry F. Kalloch, “to fight a Republican war!” Instead, he paid the necessary bounty and Henry lived on to found my immediate branch of the family. (from the 1988 Kalloch Family Newsletter).
We have no physical description or photograph of Sarah Kalloch, but know of husband Hanse from his military record that he had blue eyes, light hair, a fair complexion and stood 5 feet 9 inches tall (tallish stature for those days). During the War of 1812, Hanse served as an enrolled volunteer in the Massachusetts Militia, Captain Kenney’s company, St. George, Maine. Called out with his company several times to defend against threatened British landings and attack by ships of war and privateer raiders, Private Hanse Kalloch’s most memorable and rewarding service came in the last two months of the war. On December 1, 1814, he sailed as a crew member of the schooner Fame, newly fitted out as a privateer. The objective was interception of vessels supplying Castine, Maine, from Halifax, Nova Scotia. Castine had been captured by the British in September. In a heavy snowstorm off Mount Desert Island, the Fame cut out a valuable prize from a British convoy and on January 2, 1815, brought it in to Rockland, Maine. When ship and cargo were sold at auction and the captors’ shares apportioned, “ . . . each of the privates received some $400 or $500 . . .” It must have seemed a fortune to newlyweds Hanse and Sarah. Hanse Kalloch had married an interesting woman but was interesting in his own right for, at the very least, his strong political convictions. He was in his 80s when the St. George Baptist Church took a special interest in his views and his manner of expressing them. Hanse was excluded from membership for “public railing.” He was a Republican, of the party of Lincoln, with a son in the Union army. The church opposed the waging of civil war, for any reason. Hanse stood on constitutional principle. (by Marilyn Morrison).
Marilyn also wrote a longer article called "Sarah Kalloch and the Snows," which has more information about Hanse's wife, Sarah and more historical background about Hanse, his father, Matthew and grandfather, Finley.
Son, Adam's gravestone,
Daughter Eliza's Obituary, Eliza's gravestone
Son's Matthew & Shepard T.'s gravestone,
Son Josiah Kelloch gravestone,
Son Ludwig's gravestone
Brother Findley Keller's gravestone