Nettie SYLVESTER

Father: Eben Whitney SYLVESTER
Mother: Nancy HOWARD

Family 1: Colin Wilson WRIGHT

(1) Wisconsin Marriages, pre-1907 via Ancestry.com

  1. Colin Wilson WRIGHT
                                                     _Charles SYLVESTER _
                           _Caleb Barker SYLVESTER _|
                          |                         |_Lucy BARKER _______
 _Eben Whitney SYLVESTER _|
|                         |                          _Micah WHITNEY _____
|                         |_Joanna WHITNEY _________|
|                                                   |_Hannah COBB _______
|
|--Nettie SYLVESTER
|
|                                                    ____________________
|                          _William HOWARD _________|
|                         |                         |____________________
|_Nancy HOWARD ___________|
                          |                          ____________________
                          |_Nancy YOUNG ____________|
                                                    |____________________

Notes

Updated February 5, 2012. Compiled by Howder (www.howderfamily.com) from the following source(s):

(1) 1860 United States Census Wisconsin, Iowa Co., the Town of Mifflin, Mifflin Post Office: Page 70; July 6, 1860.

Nettie (listed as "Nattie") SYLVESTER is the daughter of Eben (listed as "Ebel") W. and Nancy SYLVESTER. She is 2 years old and born in Wisconsin.

(2) 1870 United States Census for Wisconsin, Iowa Co., Town of Mifflin (Mifflin Post Office): page 33; dwelling 246; family 237; August 12, 1870.

Nettie SYLVESTER is the daughter of Eben and Nancy SYLVESTER. She was born in Wisconsin, is 11 years old and is at school.

(3) LDS FamilySearch 1880 United States Census database for Mineral Point, Iowa Co., WI. Family History Library Film 1255429, NA Film Number T9-1429, Page 175A.

Nettie SYLVESTER is listed as the 21-year-old daughter of Eben and Nancy SYLVESTER. Her birthplace is Wisconsin and she is an artist.

(4) Wisconsin Marriages, pre-1907 via Ancestry.com

- Name: Colin Wilson WRIGHT
- Name: Nettie SYLVESTER
- Marriage Date: 11 Nov 1885
- County: Iowa
- Volume: 03
- Page: 0022

(5) 1900 United States Census for Wisconsin, Green Co., Monroe City, 1st Ward: Supervisor's District 291; Enumeration District 124; Sheet 2B; June 1, 1900.

Nettie S. [SYLVESTER] WRIGHT is married to Colin W. WRIGHT, head of household. Their son Wilson is also part of the household.

- Birth date: November 1858; age 41.
- Number of Years of Present Marriage: 14.
- Motherhood: She has given birth to one child, which is presently living.
- Birthplace: Wisconsin, with her father born in Maine and her mother in Indiana.

(6) 1905 Wisconsin Census, Green Co., Monroe City: Sheet 27; June 1, 1905.

Nettie S. [SYLVESTER] WRIGHT is married to Colin W. WRIGHT, head of household. She is 46 years old and born in Wisconsin, with her father born in Maine and her mother born in Indiana.

(7) 1910 United States Census for Wisconsin, Green Co., Monroe Township, Monroe City, First Ward: Supervisor's District 1, Enumeration District 11; Sheet 3B; April 29, 1910.

Nettie [SYLVESTER] WRIGHT is head of household, a widow who has taken on several lodgers (six High School teachers).

- Address: 302 Russell.
- Age: 51; a widow.
- Birthplace: Wisconsin, with her father born in Maine and her mother in Indiana.
- Occupation: Living on her own income.
- Home: Owns a house free of mortgage.

(8) 1920 United States Census for Wisconsin, Green Co., Monroe Township, Monroe City: Supervisor's District 3; Enumeration District 142; Sheet 1A; January 2, 1920.

Nettie S. [SYLVESTER] WRIGHT is head of household.

- Home: Renter.
- Age: 60 years old, a widow
- Birthplace: Wisconsin, with her father born in Maine and her mother in Indiana.

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

(10) Commemorative Biographical Record of the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin. Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1901. Pages 432-433.

"Nettie, wife of Colin W. WRIGHT, an attorney in Monroe, Wis., is an artist of noteworthy talent, and prominent in the Order of the Eastern Star."

(11) Her DAR Membership number is 103561 (issued 1913). She may have married twice; appended to her surname on this record is "GRIFFITH."

(12) Minnesota, Marriages Index, 1849-1950 via Ancestry.com

If the DAR Membership notation is correct (i.e., surname changed to GRIFFITH on the record), then this may require further investigation:

- Name: Nettie S WRIGHT
- Gender: Female
- Birth Place: Iowa County, Wisconsin
- Marriage Date: 20 Feb 1913
- Marriage Place: St Paul, Ramsey, Minnesota
- Spouse's Name: Edward J GRIFFITHS
- Spouse Gender: Male
- Spouse Birth Place: Cook County, Illinois
- Event Type: Marriage
- FHL Film Number: 1313420

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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; Eben Sylvester -9; Nettie Sylvester -10.