Genealogy of the Olmsted family in America : embracing the ...

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(906) JONATHAN OLMSTED ALLEN, " Flat Brook," Canaan, Conn. b.
abt. 1794; d. July 26, 1857; m. Jan. 27, 1818, Harriet Wilson.
1976, Uriah Edwards ; b. 1819 ; d. abt. 1889. 1977, Elizabeth Olmsted +
1978, William; b. abt. 1829; d. Nov., 1866.
(920) SAMUEL CLARK OLMSTED, b. at Edwardsburg, Cass County,
Mich., July 10, 1801 ; m. (1) Nov. 11, 1823,Eunice Maria Jackson;b. at Cornwall,
Vt., Aug. 20, 1804; d. Sept. 22, 1854; dau. of Nathan and Polly M. (Ingraham)
Jackson, of Ledyard, Cayuga County, N. Y. (2) Jan. 22, 1856, Mrs. Nancy
Maria (Beaumont) Davis, of Edwardsburg; d. Aug. 16, 1870.
1st marriage: 1979, Jonathan Clark; b. at Sempronius, N. Y., Sept. 24,
1824; m. Apr. 7, 1853, Eliza Van Antwerp, of Edwardsburg, Mich. He was
a member of the Michigan Pioneer Society. 1980, Jared Sylvester; b.
Dec. 11, 1831; d. Sept. 5, 1854. 1981, Lucy Maria; b. Aug. 4, 1841; d.
Aug. 30, 1851. 2d marriage: 1982, Marcus Sylvester; b. Dec. 8, 1857;
m. Apr. 10, 1877, Mary Catherine Kitchen, of Edwardsburg, Mich.
Samuel C. Olmsted removed to Cayuga County about 1815, and thence in
1828 to Chautauqua County, where he purchased land from the Holland Land
Co. His land was a tough, tenacious clay soil covered with a heavy growth
of beech, maple, ash and hemlock timber, requiring a great amount of labor to
bring it under cultivation. He found the work too hard and in 1836 determined
to try his fortune in the West. Selling out his farm in New York he
removed to Michigan, arriving at Edwardsburg May 20th of that year. The
first sea.son he rented land on shares, and in 1837 he bought twenty-eight
acres of land and built upon it a house into which he moved in the Fall. He
later added to his purchase until he owned some two hundred acres. His
mother died in 1837 and was among the first persons buried in the Edwardsburg
cemetery.
(922) LUCY OLMSTED, b. at Edwardsburg, Mich., July 3, 1804; m. Mar.
3, 1824, Eli Foote, of Middlesex, Yates County, N. Y.; b. Oct. 8, 1803; d. July
27, 1869; son of Jared and Lucinda Foote.
1983, Powell K., Canandaigua, N. Y.; b. Feb. 7, 1826. 1984, Joel B.;
b. Aug. 23, 1833; d. July 11, 1845. 1985, Marion B.; b. May 27, 1836; m.
O. S. Williams, of Middlesex, Yates County, N. Y.
(924) ABIGAIL OLMSTED, b. at Edwardsburg, Mich., May 27, 1810; m.
Apr. 6, 1834, Jacob Allen (M. D.), of Riverside, Cal.; son of Luke and Katha-
rine (Hunsaker) Allen.
1986, Maria; b. Dec. 5, 1835; m. Sept. 10, 1858, Samuel G. Antes. 1987,
RoMAYNE B.; b. July 6, 1838. 1988, Legare; b. Oct. 22, 1843; m. (1) Oct.
21, 1868, Nancy Martin; d. Sept. 15, 1876; (2) Jan. 15, 1877, Emma Allen.
(925) THANKFUL OLMSTED, b. Dec. 24, 1807; d. 1871; m. (1) Apr.
29, 1834, Lewis Goodrich; b. Dec, 1846; (2) (Dr.) Freeman Edson.
1st marriage: 1989, Horace. 1990, John Olmsted. 1991, Emma S.
(927) JOHN OLMSTED, Yonkers, N. Y. b. at Spencertown, N. Y., Oct. 4,
1811; d. May 29, 1890; m. ( ) May 12, 1837, Lucinda Davenport; b. Apr. 1,
1813; d. Dec. 8, 1851; dau. of William and Lovena (Davis) Davanport; (2)
Oct. 4, 1854,LucyW. Flagg;b. Feb. 7, 822; d. June 30, 1858; dau. of Augustus
and Lydia (Wells) Flagg. Mr.. Olmsted was President of First National
Bank, Yonkers, N. Y.
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