Polly PRIEST

Father: Joshua PRIEST
Mother: Polly EDMUNDS

Family 1: Asher SQUIRES

(1) Portrait and Biographical Album of Branch County, Mich., Chapman Bros., Chicago, 1888. Pages 323-324.

  1. George Jackson SQUIRES (b. 5 Dec 1828)
  2. Lavina SQUIRES (b. Abt 1831)
  3. Lorenzo SQUIRES (b. Abt 1833)
  4. Orin SQUIRES (b. Abt. 1842)
  5. Lewis/Louis Worth SQUIRES (b. 1 Aug 1849; d. 18 Aug 1935)
                                     ___________________
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                |                   |___________________
 _Joshua PRIEST_|
|               |                    ___________________
|               |___________________|
|                                   |___________________
|
|--Polly PRIEST
|                                    _James EDMUNDS_____
|                _Eliphalet EDMUNDS_|
|               |                   |_Abigail JENCKES___
|_Polly EDMUNDS_|
                |                    _Amos ROBINSON_____
                |_Betsey ROBINSON___|
                                    |_Hepsibah WILMARTH_

Notes

Updated October 14, 2022. Compiled by Howder (www.howderfamily.com) from the following source(s):

(1) 1850 United States Census for New York, Jefferson Co., Watertown: Page 42; September 30, 1850.

Polly [PRIEST] SQUIRES is married to Asher SQUIRES, head of household. She is 44 years old and born in New York. Children in the household are Lavina (age 19), Lorenzo (age 17, a carpenter), Orin (age 8), and Lewis (age 1). Eleazer SQUIRES (unknown relation, age 64, born in Connecticut, a farmer) also resides in the household.

(2) 1860 United States Census for Wisconsin, Rock Co., Town of Rock (Janesville, Wis. Post Office): Page 145, July 28, 1860.

Polly [PRIEST] SQUIRES and her son Louis SQUIRES (age 10) reside in the household of John and Mary McMahon, farmers. Polly was born in New York and has real estate valued at $350 and personal estate valued at $75.

(3) Wisconsin, U.S., Death Index via Ancestry.com

- Name: Polly SQUIRES
- Death Date: 20 Feb 1873
- Death Place: Rock, Wisconsin, USA
- Volume: 01
- Page Number: 0010
- Reel: 115
- Image: 2895
- Sequence Number: 368902

(4) Find a Grave

- Name: Polly PRIEST SQUIRES
- Birth: unknown
- Death: 19 Feb 1873
- Burial: Town of Rock Cemetery; Afton, Rock County, Wisconsin, USA
- Memorial ID: 11551440
- Note: Inscription reads "Polly Wife of Asher SQUIRES"

(5) Portrait and Biographical Album of Branch County, Mich., Chapman Bros., Chicago, 1888. Pages 323-324.

"Polly [PRIEST] became the wife of Asher SQUIRES, and died in Wisconsin"

(6) Annals of Wyoming, Volume 24. United States, Wyoming Historical Department, 1952. Page 25.

"George Jackson SQUIRES, the son of Asher SQUIRES and Polly PRIEST, was born in Watertown, Jefferson County, New York, on December 5, 1828."

(7) Iowa, U.S., Death Records via Ancestry.com

Louis Worth SQUIRES (b. Aug. 1, 1849 in Watertown, New York; d. Aug. 18, 1935 in Butler Co., Iowa) is listed as a child of Asher Squires and Polly PRIEST.