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

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Parsons; b. May 11, 1801; d. 1878; children of Daniel Parsons of Fairfield,
Conn.
1st marriage: 6110, George; b. Jan. 19, 1816; d. July 31, 1849. 6111,
•Rebecca; b. July 5, 1818; d. Aug. 8, 1849. 6112, John Dauchy +• 6113,
Daniel Dauchy +. 6114, Jane; b. Aug. 28, 1824. 6115, Clara; b. Nov.
5, 1826; d. July 25, 1829. 2d marriage: 6116, Clara; b. Aug. 6, 1829;
d. Aug. 4, 1849. 6117, Samuel BEDiENT;b. Jan. 24, 1831. 6118, Hannah
E.; b. Sept. 9, 1833; d. Aug. 5, 1849. 6119, Mary A.; b. Aug. 11, 1836;
m. John F. Lamb.
(4827) ISAAC LEWIS OLMSTED, b. at Wilton, Conn., May 13, 1802;
d. 1892; m. Feb. 27, 1823, Eleanor Owens;" dau. of Jesse and Elizabeth Owens.
6120, Elizabeth; d. aet. 23; m. James Hare. 6121, Aaron, Butler County,
Iowa; m. Huldah Bagley. 6122, Hector; d. aet. 25 years. 6123, Harmon,
Dakota; m. Lee. 6124, Silas; m. Lucretia Bagley. He died at
Leland, 111.; served in the Civil War. 6125, Lewis; d. aet. 18 years. 6126,
John C. +.
(4828) MATTHEW WILLIAM OLMSTED, Shabbona Grove, 111. b. Nov.
22, 1804; d. 1889; m. June 24, 1828, Catherine Lockerby; b. Apr. 6, 1801; d.
Jan. 8, 1857. He married two other wives, names not known.
6127, Robert L.; b. May 16, 1829; d. Apr. 20, 1864; soldier in Civil War,
Co. E., 32d Regt., Iowa Vols.; mortally wounded at battle of Pleasant Hill,
Louisiana. 6128, Hannah L.; b. May 9, 1831; d. Jan. 21, 1881; m. Howell
Lien. 6129, Araminta A.; b. 1833; m. Lewis Larkins, of Shell Rock, Iowa.
6130, Rebecca M; b. Mar. 19, 1835; m. William Van Black, of Shell Rock,
Iowa. 6131, William Wallace; b. Feb. 4, 1838; d. young. 6132, David;
b. Apr. 26, 1840; d. young.
(4829) ELIZA ANN OLMSTED, b. Dec. 30, 1806; d. Aug. 7, 1890; m. (1)
Dec. 24, 1824, Arlo Merchant, of Catherine, N. Y.; b. July 13, 1803; d. June
29, 1855; (2) Morris Upright.
"In the last week of the third session of the forty-sixth Congress, a bill was
passed to pay to Mrs. Eliza Upright, of Rockford, Iowa, a pension at the rate
per month now allowed to parents for the loss of children upon whom such
parents were dependent. The proposition for pension is based upon grounds
different from any which have ever been brought before Congress. Mrs.
Upright, now seventy-four years of age, has never appeared at the pension
office in the character of an applicant, and in 'the language of the report of
the house committee, " the action in bringing her before Congress seems to
have been prompted by a desire to do her honor, as well as to testify in a
substantial manner the appreciation of the government."
The facts are that Mrs. Upright, formerly Mrs. Merchant, of Manchester,
Illinois, sent ten sons to the volunteer army during the war for the Union,
and one son to the regular army after the close of the war. One of the ten
sons serving in the Union army died in service, one was killed in action, one
was killed by an accidental discharge of a cannon, two were promoted from
privates to commissioned officers, and these with five others, were honorably
discharged at the close of the war.
This is an extraordinary record, and the more notable because neither
the mother nor her sons sought either notoriety or recognition from the govern-