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William SYLVESTER

BIRTH: 11 JAN 1797, Maine
DEATH: 16 MAY 1874
BURIAL: Graceland Cemetery, Mineral Point, Iowa Co., WI

Father: Charles SYLVESTER
Mother: Lucy BARKER

Family 1: Mary HUMPHREY

MARRIAGE:

                                           _William SILVESTER _
                      _William SYLVESTER _|
                     |                    |_Mary BARSTOW ______
 _Charles SYLVESTER _|
|                    |                     ____________________
|                    |_Mary Springer LOW _|
|                                         |____________________
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|--William SYLVESTER 
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|                                          ____________________
|                     _Caleb BARKER ______|
|                    |                    |____________________
|_Lucy BARKER _______|
                     |                     ____________________
                     |____________________|
                                          |____________________

INDEX

Notes

[NI0225] Updated November 11, 2005. Compiled by Howder (www.howderfamily.com) from the following source(s):

(1) 1850 United States Census for Maine, Franklin Co., Phillips: August 10, 1850.

William Sylvester is head of household, married to Mary [Humphrey] Sylvester. He is 53 years old, a farmer with real estate valued at $350, and born in Maine. Children in the household are James H., Lucy, Sarah, and William M. Sylvester.

(2) 1860 United States Census for Wisconsin, Grant Co., the Town of Blue River, Castle Rock Post Office: Page 134; July 26, 1860.

William Sylvester is head of household, married to Mary [Humphrey] Sylvester. He is 63 years old, a farmer with real estate valued at $1,500, and was born in Maine. Children in the household are James K., Sarah and William M. Sylvester.

(3) 1870 United States Census for Wisconsin, Grant Co., Blue River (Muscoda Post Office): page 4; August 12, 1870.

William is head of household, married to Mary [Humphrey] Sylvester. He is 73 years old and born in Maine. Their daughter Sarah is also included in the household.

(4) Site visit to the Sylvester Family Plot (N 42° 51.473, W 090° 11.743 ą26'), Graceland Cemetery, Mineral Point, Iowa Co., WI, July 9, 2004.

- He is recorded as "William Died May 16 1874 Aged 77-4-5."

(5) 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.

- Lists William as the uncle of Gertrude Sylvester, who is the author of the listed source (page 54).
- He had come from Phillips, Maine to Wisconsin (page 54).
- He wrote encouraging accounts of life in Wisconsin to Albert S. Sampson who then came out in 1855 (and who later married Gertrude Sylvester).

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