Abigail Frances SYLVESTER

Abigail Frances Sylvester
Abigail Frances (SYLVESTER) YETTER
circa 1880's.
Photo taken by Crowell studio of Rochester, MN. Note on back of photo reads: Mrs. John YETTER, Mother of Herbert, Elmer & Clarence

Father: Caleb Barker SYLVESTER
Mother: Joanna WHITNEY

Family 1: John YETTER

(1) Jewell family records. Speculates that the location may have been Milton, Rock Co., Wisconsin, USA

  1. Charles YETTER
  2. Herbert Irving YETTER
  3. Elmer Charles YETTER
  4. Clarence YETTER
                                                _William SYLVESTER _
                           _Charles SYLVESTER _|
                          |                    |_Mary SPRINGER _____
 _Caleb Barker SYLVESTER _|
|                         |                     _Caleb BARKER ______
|                         |_Lucy BARKER _______|
|                                              |_Illathera HOWLAND__
|
|--Abigail Frances SYLVESTER
|
|                                               _Abel WHITNEY ______
|                          _Micah WHITNEY _____|
|                         |                    |_Mary CANE _________
|_Joanna WHITNEY _________|
                          |                     _Andrew COBB _______
                          |_Hannah COBB _______|
                                               |_Hannah GREEN ______

Notes

Updated January 25, 2014. Compiled by Howder (www.howderfamily.com) from the following source(s):

(1) 1850 United States Census for Wisconsin, Iowa Co., Mifflin Twp.: District No. 6; Household 1094; September 19, 1850.

Abie F. SYLVESTER is the daughter of Caleb and Joanna SYLVESTER. She was born in Maine, is 12 years old, and is attending school.

(2) 1860 United States Census for Minnesota, Wabasha Co., Town 108 R 11 - Plainview (Plainview Post Office): Page 40; June 18, 1860.

Abby F. [SYLVESTER] YETTER is married to John YETTER, head of household. She is 22 years old and born in Maine. Their household includes their son Charles. Abby's brother Franklin SYLVESTER and family live in the adjacent household, and her brother George W. SYLVESTER and family lives two household away on the other side.

(3) 1865 Minnesota State Census, Wabasha Co.: June 1, 1865.

Abbie F. [SYLVESTER] YETTER is listed with her husband Jno. YETTER and presumably children H. H., Chas. and Ann YETTER plus an otherwise unidentified individual, Horace BALL.

(4) 1870 United States Census for Minnesota, Winona Co., Town of Whitewater: page 1; dwelling 1; family 1; August 3, 1870.

Abbey F. [SYLVESTER] YETTER is married to John YETTER, head of household. She was born in Maine, is 31 years old and is keeping house. Children listed in the household are: Herbert J. and Charles E.

(5) 1875 Minnesota State Census, Olmsted Co., Cascade: June 1, 1865.

A. F. [SYLVESTER] YETTER is married to John YETTER, head of household. She is 36 years old and born in Maine, as were her parents. Children in the household are H. E., E. C., and F. A. YETTER.

(6) 1880 United States Census for Minnesota, Olmsted Co., Cascade: Supervisor's District 1; Enumeration District 208; page 7; June 11, 1880.

Abigail [SYLVESTER] YETTER (listed as "Abbe Yelter") is married to John YETTER, head of household. She is 42 years old and keeping house. She was born in Maine as were here parents. Children in the household are Herbert, Elmer and Clarence.

(7) 1890 United States Census Special Schedule for Surviving Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines, and Widows, etc. "during the war of the rebellion." Minnesota, 2nd Ward, City of Rochester, Supervisor's District 102, Enumeration District 290, page 6; June 1890.

- Abby S. [SYLVESTER] YETTER is listed as the widow of John YETTER, who served as a Private in Co. H., 6th Minnesota Infantry, from August 10, 1862 to August 4, 1863, a period of 11 months and 24 days. His disability incurred was measles.

(8) Find a Grave via Ancestry.com

- Name: Abby F. [SYLVESTER] YETTER
- Birth: unknown
- Death: 1895
- Burial: Oakwood Cemetery; Rochester, Olmsted County, Minnesota, USA
- Note: "Listed as burial #1098 in cemetery records for 1895, she is shown as a resident of Monte Vista, CO, and was aged 55 years, 10 months, and 2 days at death."

(9) Manzow, Ron, ed., "The Sylvester Family of Plainview, Minnesota -- a collection of information taken from the Plainview News, other newspapers, letters, and diaries beginning in 1884" (Plainview, Minnesota: Plainview History Center, 2001).

- Mentions Edwin L. SYLVESTER's travel to Rochester, MN to attend her funeral; her body having been "brought back to her old home for burial." This source said that she passed away in Montana. (page 11)

(10) Sampson, Gertrude SYLVESTER, 1842-1925, "A biographical history of the ancestry of Julian Carroll Sampson [manuscript] : embracing that of his wife Bertha Sylvester Sampson, including all data obtainable by those who are connected in these two direct lines of William and Obediah Sylvester and Abraham Samson." The New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS) Library, Boston, MA.

- Cousin of [Ariana] Gertrude [SYLVESTER] SAMPSON, author of the source cited above.
- Was teaching school in the Summer of 1856, in Gertrude's father's new barn, in Iowa Co., WI.
- Her name is listed as "Abby."

(11) Family History, Volume S(4), Sylvester, Daughters of the American Revolution library, Washington, DC., p. 2.

(12) Listed in Daughters of the American Revolution membership record 569548 (issued 1972). Went by the name "Abby." Provides the Colorado location of her passing, which seems more compelling than the Plainview newspaper source.

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Additional Notes.

Mayflower lineage: Howland/Tilley -1; Hope Howland -2; Hope Chipman -3; Samuel Cobb -4; Chipman Cobb -5; Andrew Cobb -6 (DAR/SAR ancestor); Hannah Cobb -7; Joanna Whitney -8; Abigail Sylvester -9.