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Elisha Wetmore

Birth
Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
Death
3 Aug 1846 (aged 77)
Paris, Oneida County, New York, USA
Burial
Frankfort, Herkimer County, New York, USA Add to Map
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d. Aug. 3, 1846 ae. 77 yrs. 7 mos. 28 days

[From "The Wetmore family of America, and its collateral branches: with genealogical, biographical, and historical notices" (1861), by James Carnahan Wetmore, p. 40.]

Elisha b. in [Middletown], Dec. 6, 1768; m. Feb. 2, 1792, Cynthia Guild, b. Nov. 3, 1768 and removed to Herk. co., N. Y., same year; had Polly, Elisha, Rhoda, Samuel, Cynthia, William, Nancy, Clarinda, Louisa, Patty Marilla, John, and Emily.

He died in Paris, N. Y., Aug. 3, 1846, aged 77. He was one of the early settlers in that part of the country. An obituary notice of him says that he left a good name, and was universally loved and respected. "An aged widow, eleven children, seventy-two grand children and ten or more great grand children, mourn the loss of a valuable counsellor [sic], and the community in which he resided that of an esteemed friend. His funeral was attended in the Presbyterian church in the neighborhood, and the consolations of the gospel tendered to the mourners by the Rev. T. I. Whitcomb." His wid. d. May 13, 1848.
d. Aug. 3, 1846 ae. 77 yrs. 7 mos. 28 days

[From "The Wetmore family of America, and its collateral branches: with genealogical, biographical, and historical notices" (1861), by James Carnahan Wetmore, p. 40.]

Elisha b. in [Middletown], Dec. 6, 1768; m. Feb. 2, 1792, Cynthia Guild, b. Nov. 3, 1768 and removed to Herk. co., N. Y., same year; had Polly, Elisha, Rhoda, Samuel, Cynthia, William, Nancy, Clarinda, Louisa, Patty Marilla, John, and Emily.

He died in Paris, N. Y., Aug. 3, 1846, aged 77. He was one of the early settlers in that part of the country. An obituary notice of him says that he left a good name, and was universally loved and respected. "An aged widow, eleven children, seventy-two grand children and ten or more great grand children, mourn the loss of a valuable counsellor [sic], and the community in which he resided that of an esteemed friend. His funeral was attended in the Presbyterian church in the neighborhood, and the consolations of the gospel tendered to the mourners by the Rev. T. I. Whitcomb." His wid. d. May 13, 1848.


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