Mary Sheldon

- 1843

• Name	Mary Sheldon  [1]
  Birth	Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut   [2]
  Gender	Female
  Alternate birth	of Steubenville, Jefferson, Ohio   [3]
  Death	1843  [4]
  Burial	Union Cemetery, Steubenville, Jefferson, Ohio   [4]
  Person ID	I20982	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TWK
  Last Modified	14 Nov 2021

  
  

  Father	Roderick Sheldon,   b. 1755   d. 8 Jan 1812, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut (Age 57 years)
  Mother	Mary Sheldon,   b. Abt 1767   d. 25 Feb 1853, Steubenville, Jefferson, Ohio (Age ~ 86 years)
  Family ID	F13860	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Alexander Johnston McDowell,   b. 1788, New London Crossroads, Chester, Pennsylvania d. 6 Dec 1871, Steubenville, Jefferson, Ohio (Age 83 years)
  Marriage	19 Jul 1814	Jefferson County, Ohio   [1, 5]
  Notes	U.S., Newspaper Extractions from the Northeast, 1704-1930, on ancestry.com, indexes the 30 Aug 1814 issue of the American Mercury of Hartford, Connecticut, which reported that Alexander McDowell and Mary Sheldon married in Steubenville, Ohio in August 1814, and that she was a daughter of "the late Roderick of Hartford."
  Children	+ 1. Lydia Lucretia McDowell,   b. 4 Jul 1825, Steubenville, Jefferson, Ohio d. 24 Dec 1904, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age 79 years)
  Family ID	F12481	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	19 Sep 2020

  
  

• Notes

  The Find a Grave record for Mary Sheldon, which contains no dates and says only where she was buried, has to refer to this one and not to her mother, because the wife of Roderick Sheldon died in Steubenville in 1853 and Union Cemetery was founded in 1854.

  
  

• Sources

  [S4430] U.S., Newspaper Extractions from the Northeast, 1704-1930, on ancestry.com. [S2984] Massachusetts Deaths and Burials, 1795-1910, on familysearch.org., death certificate of her daughter Lucretia. [S2988] "The McDowell Family." Notes and Queries, Historical, Biographical, and Genealogical, Relating Chiefly to Interior Pennsylvania, Annual Volume, 1899, ed. William Henry Egle. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Harrisburg Publishing Company, 1900. [S4429] Find a Grave page for Mary Sheldon McDowell. [S2849] Ohio, County Marriage Records, 1774-1993, on ancestry.com.