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

SEVENTH GENERATION
(4625) JOHN OLMSTED, Easton, Conn. b. Sept. 27, 1814; d. Dec. 18,
1892; m. Dec. 17, 1835, Juliette Sherman; b. Aug. 17, 1817; d. June 28, 1881;
dau. of Elbert and Hepsey (Burr) Sherman, of Monroe, Conn.
5698, Elizabeth Burr; b. Dec. 3, 1837; d. Sept. 28, 1839. 5699, Elbert
Sherman; b. Sept. 17, 1840; m. Aug. 25, 1870, Emma Hill; b. Nov. 22, 1843;
dau. of Edward and CorneUa Hill, of Easton, Conn. 5700, Wilber F.;
b. May 5, 1843; d. May 17, 1843. 5701, Claribel +. 5702, Juliette
R.; b. Sept. 8, 1851; m. Mar. 30, 1875, Azur Sherwood Beach, of Trumbull,
Conn.; son of Reuben W. and Sarah (Sherwood) Beach. 5703, John D.;
b. Apr. 6, 1857; d. Ju*ne 12, 1857. 5704, John F. +.
(4630) ELEAZER OLMSTED, b. Feb. 18, 1800; d. at Sugar Hill, Schuyler
County, N. Y., Dec. 7, 1865; m. Clarissa Roff; b. Sept. 19, 1803; d. Apr. 19,
1873, at Tyrone, Schuyler County, N. Y. He left Balston, the place of his
birth, about the year 1818, and located in Reading, Schuyler County, N. Y.
He was a shoemaker by trade, but spent most of his time in farming. He and
his wife are buried in the Buck Settlement Burying Ground, about five miles
west of Watkins, N. Y.
5705, Hannah Maria; b. June 20, 1823; m. Mar. 15, 1854, Henry T. Leonard,
of Tyrone, N. Y. 5706, Eliza Ann +. 5707, Harvey Chapman +.
5708, Clarissa Calista +. 5709, Henry Lewis; b. May 19, 1839; d.
Oct. 17, 1856. 5710, Martha Elizabeth; b. Dec. 24, 1842; d. Sept. 16,
1859. 5711, Cynthia Alida P.; b. Dec. 28, 1844; d. Nov. 11, 1866.
(4634) STEPHEN C. OLMSTED, Providence, Saratoga County, N. Y.
m. Mrs. Waldrum.
5712, George. 5713, James. 5714, Jacob. 5715, Charles. 5716,
Elijah.
(4638) EDWARD M. OLMSTED, Northampton, N. Y. b. Feb. 11, 1824,
at Charlton, N. Y.; m. Jan. 1, 1852, Maria Mandeville; d. May 21, 1911;
dau. of Giles and Jane (Stager) Mandeville.
" The winter that I was six years old my father Eliphalet, and brother,
Stephen, went to a nearby field to get some dry wood for kindling from some
pine stumps and while there father dropped dead. A few years after his death
my mother married Jacob Handy and lived at Corinth, where she died in March,
1867. During the time she lived with Jacob Handy his house was destroyed
by fire and my father's Bible and records were burned at that time. In 1849
my brother, Eleazer, visited my mother but I, being away at work, did not
see him. Late in the fall of 1850 I decided to go West and see my brother
Eleazer, then living near Jefferson, N. Y. (now Watkins). When I reached
his home we certainly did not know each other as he was married and gone
before I was born, and we had never seen each other. I stayed with him during
that winter, and the next summer (1851) I worked in Reading, now in
Schuyler County, for a man named Chapman. In the fall I returned to Saratoga
County and was married Jan. 1, 1852. As I did not get my pay from Mr.
ChapmanT went back in the summer of 1852 to collect the same and it was the
last I saw of my brother Eleazer."—From a private letter.
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