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:
- CHILDREN:
_William SILVESTER _
_William SYLVESTER _|
| |_Mary BARSTOW ______
_Charles SYLVESTER _|
| | _James SPRINGER_____
| |_Mary SPRINGER _____|
| |____________________
|
|--William SYLVESTER
|
| _John BARKER _______
| _Caleb BARKER ______|
| | |_Grace TURNER ______
|_Lucy BARKER _______|
| ____________________
|_Illathera HOWLAND__|
|____________________
Notes
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
±26'), 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.