Mary Sheldon

Abt 1767 - 1853  (~ 86 years)

• Name	Mary Sheldon  [1, 2]
  Birth	Abt 1767  [3]
  Gender	Female
  Alternate death	Aft 19 Feb 1812  [4]
  Death	25 Feb 1853	Steubenville, Jefferson, Ohio   [3]
  Person ID	I23016	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TWK
  Last Modified	20 Sep 2020

  
  

  Father	Joseph Sheldon,   b. Bef 13 Jul 1729   d. 11 Mar 1794 (Age > 64 years)
  Mother	Sarah Collyer,   b. Bef 11 Aug 1736   d. 21 Dec 1785 (Age > 49 years)
  Marriage	16 Oct 1755	First Church, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut   [2]
  Family ID	F18211	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Roderick Sheldon,   b. 1755   d. 8 Jan 1812, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut (Age 57 years)
  Children	+ 1. Mary Sheldon,   b. Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut d. 1843
  Family ID	F13860	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	25 Jan 2019

  
  

• Notes

  Still in Hartford, she is identified as her late husband's executor in the Hartford Courant of 4 Mar 1812, page 4. Her death notice in the Hartford, Connecticut Christian Secretary for 18 Mar 1853, indexed in the Hale Collection (citation details below), says that she died 25 Feb 1853 in Steubenville, Ohio and calls her "Revolutionary War Widow of Roderick of Hartford." Her death in Steubenville was also mentioned in the Hartford Times on 19 Mar 1853. There is a Find a Grave entry for a Mary Sheldon with no dates at all, only the information that she was buried at Union Cemetery in Steubenville. (This is not the entry for her daughter Mary Sheldon McDowell.) Perhaps it refers to this Mary Sheldon, who did die in Steubenville. But this Mary died in 1853, and the cemetery's web site says it was founded in 1854.

  
  

• Sources

  [S182] Connecticut Deaths and Burials, 1772–1934, on familysearch.org. [S2254] Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut by Lucius Barnes Barbour. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1977. [S2235] Connecticut, Hale Collection of Cemetery Inscriptions and Newspaper Notices, 1629-1934, on ancestry.com. [S4407] Hartford Courant, 4 Mar 1812, page 4.