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Emelyn "Emma" French Sewall (circa 1862-1938) was the daughter of Asa French and Sophia Briggs Palmer, and the older sister of Sophie French Valentine. She attended Thayer Academy in Braintree from 1877-1881. Emma married 83-year-old Jotham Bradbury Sewall (1825-1913), in July 1909 in England when she was about 47. Sewall was a Congregational minister (1865-1877), a professor of Greek at Bowdoin College (1877-1896), and the headmaster at Thayer Academy in Braintree from 1877 to 1892. He and Emma lived in Brookline and had been married for only four years when he died in 1913. Sophie French Valentine and her daughter, Charlotte, lived with Emma in Brookline for several years after the death of RGV. Upon her death in 1938, Emma bequeathed most of her personal property to Sophie and her home and property in Bar Harbor, Maine to her niece, Charlotte.⁴

Stanley Goodwin French, 76
1935 - 2011
RUMFORD -- Stanley Goodwin French, 76, of Round Pond, Isle au Haut, and Rumford, died peacefully on Friday, Oct. 21, 2011, at the Rumford Hospital with his loving family by his side.
Stanley was born in Weston, Mass., on May 17, 1935, and was the son of Stanley Goodwin French and Mary Hubbard French.
Stanley was married on Aug. 26, 1961, to Susannah Sewall Alden, who survives him. He is survived by his children, Jennifer French Foster and her husband Henry (Hank) of Rumford, and Aaron French of Portland; and by his grandchildren, Sara Mae Parlin, and Thomas Willard Parlin of Rumford. Other survivors include his sister, Katherine Lyon French of Cambridge, Mass; and nieces and nephews of whom he was very fond. He was predeceased by his sister, Anne Elizabeth (Betty) Jacobs.
Stanley attended Meadowbrook, The Cambridge School of Weston and graduated from Choate. He served in the Army for four years and then received his BA and MA from Boston University. He went on to receive his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in Madison. His doctoral thesis was on the history of cemeteries in the United States. From 1967 to 1979 he was a professor of American Intellectual and Social History at California State University Northridge. He believed strongly in the importance of upkeep and preservation of cemeteries for their historical value and served as a board member of the Muscongus Cemetery Association.
He spent summers on Isle au Haut from the time he was a child. When he married he continued to summer there. After leaving California, the family settled in Round Pond on the coast of Maine.²