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Mary Sheldon

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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 Last Modified 12 Sep 2024
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
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Notes - Mary Sheldon and her husband Roderick Sheldon were first cousins, both being grandchildren of Isaac Sheldon and Elizabeth Pratt.
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.
- Mary Sheldon and her husband Roderick Sheldon were first cousins, both being grandchildren of Isaac Sheldon and Elizabeth Pratt.
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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.
- [S182] Connecticut Deaths and Burials, 1772–1934, on familysearch.org.