Eliza Anne SYLVESTER

Father: Caleb Barker SYLVESTER
Mother: Joanna WHITNEY

Family 1: Lorenzo STEVENS

  1. Gustavus A. STEVENS
  2. Elvira STEVENS
  3. Albina STEVENS
  4. Thomas STEVENS
  5. Henry Leigh STEVENS
  6. Ernestine STEVENS
  7. Lucy H. STEVENS
  8. Clara Augusta STEVENS
  9. Gustavus STEVENS
  10. Foster Whitney STEVENS
                                                _William SYLVESTER _
                           _Charles SYLVESTER _|
                          |                    |_Mary SPRINGER _____
 _Caleb Barker SYLVESTER _|
|                         |                     _Caleb BARKER ______
|                         |_Lucy BARKER _______|
|                                              |_Illathera HOWLAND _
|
|--Eliza Anne SYLVESTER 
|
|                                               _Abel WHITNEY ______
|                          _Micah WHITNEY _____|
|                         |                    |_Mary CANE _________
|_Joanna WHITNEY _________|
                          |                     _Andrew COBB _______
                          |_Hannah COBB _______|
                                               |_Hannah GREEN ______

Notes

Updated September 24, 2011. Compiled by Howder (www.howderfamily.com) from the following source(s):

(1) 1850 United States Census Wisconsin, Iowa Co., the Town of Mifflin, Mifflin Post Office: District 5, Page 12; September 19, 1850.

Eliza [SYLVESTER] STEVENS (listed as Stephens) is married to Lorenzo STEVENS, head of household. She is 28 years old and born in Maine. Children in the household include Gustavus, Elvira, Albina and Thomas W. STEVENS.

(2) 1860 United States Census Wisconsin, Iowa Co., the Town of Mifflin, Mifflin Post Office: Page 70; July 6, 1860.

Eliza [SYLVESTER] STEVENS is married to Lorenzo STEVENS, head of household. She is 38 years old and born in Maine. Children in the household are Gustavus, Elvira, Albina, Tho P., Henry Leigh, Ernestine and Lucy H. STEVENS. The households of Caleb SYLVESTER -- listed as "Charles" (Eliza's father), Caleb BAKER (brother-in-law), and Eben W. SYLVESTER (brother) are all found on the same page of the Census record.

(3) 1870 United States Census Wisconsin, Iowa Co., the Town of Mifflin, Mifflin Post Office: Page 33; August 12, 1870.

Eliza [SYLVESTER] STEVENS (listed as "Stephens") is married to Lorenzo STEVENS, head of household. She is 48 years old, born in Maine and is keeping house. Children in the household are Payne L., Henry S., Ernestine, Lucy, Clara, Gustavus and Foster STEVENS. The households of John B. SYLVESTER (Eliza's uncle), Eben SYLVESTER (brother) and Albert SAMPSON (cousin by marriage) are all found on the same page of the Census record.

(4) LDS FamilySearch 1880 United States Census database for Eden, Iowa Co., WI. Family History Library Film 1255429, NA Film Number T9-1429, ED 158, Page 202B.

Eliza [SYLVETER] STEVENS is married to Lorenzo STEVENS, head of household. She is 58 years old, born in Maine and is keeping house. Children listed in the household are Lucy, Carrie, Gustavus and Foster STEVENS.

(5) 1900 United States Census for South Dakota, Hutchinson Co., Township 97 - Range 57, Menno: Supervisor's District 2; Enumeration District 184; Sheet 1A; June 6, 1900.

Eliza [SYLVESTER] STEVENS resides with her daughter and son-in-law, Clara and Warren DIMOCK. She was born May 1822 and is 78 years old, a widow. She was born in Maine as were her parents.

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

Note says: "Refer to STEPHENS [sic.] Family"

(7) U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 via Ancestry.com

- Name: Eliza Ann SYLVESTER
- SAR Membership: 84496
- Birth Date: 23 May 1822
- Death Date: 14 Jan 1842
- Spouse: Lorenzo Stevens
- Children: Elvira Eliza Stevens

(8) Listed in Daughters of the American Revolution membership record 481880 (issued 1961) and record 516166 (issued 1966).

(9) Our Pioneering Families, Genealogies of Whitney, Groathouse and Lignitz, researched and compiled by Vivian Gail Morrow Wade, Dec. 1986, first edition. Self-published manuscript available at DAR Library, Washington DC. Page 66.

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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; Eliza Sylvester -9.