Mary Woolworth "Polly" Colton was born on November 30, 1802 in Longmeadow, Massachusetts to Demas Colton Sr and Mary (Woolworth) Colton. In Longmeadow she grew up surrounded by extended family of many aunts and uncles who lived nearby.
Polly married Lathrop Olmsted on December 28, 1826 in the same town where she grew up but soon moved to Enfield with her new husband who was born and raised there. Polly and Lathrop had two children together:
Rev Timothy Lathrop Olmsted 1827-1883
Mary Colton (Olmsted) Moore 1830-1910
Page 148 of "A Genealogical Record of the Descendants of Quartermaster George Colton" by George Woolworth Colton available at archive.org: The family moved West in 1836, settling in Iowa where she died on October 14, 1838 in Jones County at the age of almost 36. Her children were ages 11 and 8 at the time of her death. She was buried at the Wilcox Cemetery in Fairview Township, Jones county, Iowa.
Page 2, last column, "Hartford Courant," Hartford, Connecticut, dated 14 Dec 1838: Section entitled 'DEATHS:' "In Nelson Co. [I cannot find a Nelson County], Iowa Territory, Oct. 8, Mrs. Mary W. Olmsted, aged 36, wife of Mr. Latrop Olmsted, late of Enfield."
Mary's husband, Lathrop Olmsted, bought 80 acres through the Dubuque Land Office, in 1841: Certificate #967 for Lathrop Olmsted of Jones County, Iowa - "The East half of the North West Quarter, of Section Twenty nine, in Township Eighty four, North of Range Four, West of the Fifth principal Meridian, in the District of Lands[?] subject to sale at DuBuque Iowa Territory, containing Eighty Acres,".
Lathrop joined the gold rush to California in 1849/1850 to make his fortune and died in his efforts according to page 148 of George Woolworth Colton's above mentioned book which says, "In the early days of the California gold excitement he [Lathrop] joined a party going by the overland route, and d. -----, 1850."
Interment record available at ancestry.com for Lathrop Olmstead, dated 1850 in Sacramento, California:
Name: Olmstead, LATHROP
Died or Buried: 00/00/1850
Buried: City Cemetery
County/State: Sacramento, CA
Polly married Lathrop Olmsted on December 28, 1826 in the same town where she grew up but soon moved to Enfield with her new husband who was born and raised there. Polly and Lathrop had two children together:
Rev Timothy Lathrop Olmsted 1827-1883
Mary Colton (Olmsted) Moore 1830-1910
Page 148 of "A Genealogical Record of the Descendants of Quartermaster George Colton" by George Woolworth Colton available at archive.org: The family moved West in 1836, settling in Iowa where she died on October 14, 1838 in Jones County at the age of almost 36. Her children were ages 11 and 8 at the time of her death. She was buried at the Wilcox Cemetery in Fairview Township, Jones county, Iowa.
Page 2, last column, "Hartford Courant," Hartford, Connecticut, dated 14 Dec 1838: Section entitled 'DEATHS:' "In Nelson Co. [I cannot find a Nelson County], Iowa Territory, Oct. 8, Mrs. Mary W. Olmsted, aged 36, wife of Mr. Latrop Olmsted, late of Enfield."
Mary's husband, Lathrop Olmsted, bought 80 acres through the Dubuque Land Office, in 1841: Certificate #967 for Lathrop Olmsted of Jones County, Iowa - "The East half of the North West Quarter, of Section Twenty nine, in Township Eighty four, North of Range Four, West of the Fifth principal Meridian, in the District of Lands[?] subject to sale at DuBuque Iowa Territory, containing Eighty Acres,".
Lathrop joined the gold rush to California in 1849/1850 to make his fortune and died in his efforts according to page 148 of George Woolworth Colton's above mentioned book which says, "In the early days of the California gold excitement he [Lathrop] joined a party going by the overland route, and d. -----, 1850."
Interment record available at ancestry.com for Lathrop Olmstead, dated 1850 in Sacramento, California:
Name: Olmstead, LATHROP
Died or Buried: 00/00/1850
Buried: City Cemetery
County/State: Sacramento, CA
Mary Woolworth "Polly" Colton was born on November 30, 1802 in Longmeadow, Massachusetts to Demas Colton Sr and Mary (Woolworth) Colton. In Longmeadow she grew up surrounded by extended family of many aunts and uncles who lived nearby.
Polly married Lathrop Olmsted on December 28, 1826 in the same town where she grew up but soon moved to Enfield with her new husband who was born and raised there. Polly and Lathrop had two children together:
Rev Timothy Lathrop Olmsted 1827-1883
Mary Colton (Olmsted) Moore 1830-1910
Page 148 of "A Genealogical Record of the Descendants of Quartermaster George Colton" by George Woolworth Colton available at archive.org: The family moved West in 1836, settling in Iowa where she died on October 14, 1838 in Jones County at the age of almost 36. Her children were ages 11 and 8 at the time of her death. She was buried at the Wilcox Cemetery in Fairview Township, Jones county, Iowa.
Page 2, last column, "Hartford Courant," Hartford, Connecticut, dated 14 Dec 1838: Section entitled 'DEATHS:' "In Nelson Co. [I cannot find a Nelson County], Iowa Territory, Oct. 8, Mrs. Mary W. Olmsted, aged 36, wife of Mr. Latrop Olmsted, late of Enfield."
Mary's husband, Lathrop Olmsted, bought 80 acres through the Dubuque Land Office, in 1841: Certificate #967 for Lathrop Olmsted of Jones County, Iowa - "The East half of the North West Quarter, of Section Twenty nine, in Township Eighty four, North of Range Four, West of the Fifth principal Meridian, in the District of Lands[?] subject to sale at DuBuque Iowa Territory, containing Eighty Acres,".
Lathrop joined the gold rush to California in 1849/1850 to make his fortune and died in his efforts according to page 148 of George Woolworth Colton's above mentioned book which says, "In the early days of the California gold excitement he [Lathrop] joined a party going by the overland route, and d. -----, 1850."
Interment record available at ancestry.com for Lathrop Olmstead, dated 1850 in Sacramento, California:
Name: Olmstead, LATHROP
Died or Buried: 00/00/1850
Buried: City Cemetery
County/State: Sacramento, CA
Polly married Lathrop Olmsted on December 28, 1826 in the same town where she grew up but soon moved to Enfield with her new husband who was born and raised there. Polly and Lathrop had two children together:
Rev Timothy Lathrop Olmsted 1827-1883
Mary Colton (Olmsted) Moore 1830-1910
Page 148 of "A Genealogical Record of the Descendants of Quartermaster George Colton" by George Woolworth Colton available at archive.org: The family moved West in 1836, settling in Iowa where she died on October 14, 1838 in Jones County at the age of almost 36. Her children were ages 11 and 8 at the time of her death. She was buried at the Wilcox Cemetery in Fairview Township, Jones county, Iowa.
Page 2, last column, "Hartford Courant," Hartford, Connecticut, dated 14 Dec 1838: Section entitled 'DEATHS:' "In Nelson Co. [I cannot find a Nelson County], Iowa Territory, Oct. 8, Mrs. Mary W. Olmsted, aged 36, wife of Mr. Latrop Olmsted, late of Enfield."
Mary's husband, Lathrop Olmsted, bought 80 acres through the Dubuque Land Office, in 1841: Certificate #967 for Lathrop Olmsted of Jones County, Iowa - "The East half of the North West Quarter, of Section Twenty nine, in Township Eighty four, North of Range Four, West of the Fifth principal Meridian, in the District of Lands[?] subject to sale at DuBuque Iowa Territory, containing Eighty Acres,".
Lathrop joined the gold rush to California in 1849/1850 to make his fortune and died in his efforts according to page 148 of George Woolworth Colton's above mentioned book which says, "In the early days of the California gold excitement he [Lathrop] joined a party going by the overland route, and d. -----, 1850."
Interment record available at ancestry.com for Lathrop Olmstead, dated 1850 in Sacramento, California:
Name: Olmstead, LATHROP
Died or Buried: 00/00/1850
Buried: City Cemetery
County/State: Sacramento, CA
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behind Moore family stone
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