Notes for: Walter Forbes SEARS

He was also a carpenter and master cabinet maker. He fell in love with Harriet Robinson Harrington ( who was his second cousin, once removed) whose father was strongly opposed to her marrying at all. They were married at the home of her uncle. A few years later he was employed by Pennsylvania Steel Company of Harrisburg, PA as a carpenter in the company houses of Steelton. At a family outing to one of the islands in the Susquehanna River, everyone was drenched in a rainstorm. Upon returning home Walter spent time building a fire to warm the rest of the family, ignoring his own needs to keep warm and dry. Pneumonia set in, and he died a few weeks later. Among his accomplishments as a woodworker was the building of a scale model of the Harrisburg Trolley which we pulled around and played in. The Kennebunk, ME Trolley Museum has it now.