Rhoda (Chesebrough) Grant (1801 - 1887)

Born 4 Aug 1801 in Stonington, New London County, Connecticut, USA

Ancestors

Wife of Cyrus Grant — married about 19 Nov 1820 in Stonington, New London County, Connecticut, USA

Died 19 Aug 1887 at age 86 in Greeley, Weld County, Colorado, USA

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Biography

Rhoda Chesebrough was born 4 Aug 1801 @ Stonington, Connecticut. She was a daughter of Ezra Chesebrough and Sarah "Sally" Denison Palmer.

She was a Mayflower descendant of John Tilley (1593-1673), his daughter Elizabeth Tilley (1607-1687) and her husband John Howland (1593-1673) ^[1]

Rhoda Chesebrough married in November 1820 @ Stonington, Connecticut, Cyrus Grant ^[2],^[3]. They had 7 children ^[4]:

1. Almira C. (Grant) Tinker (1822-1862); married Samuel W. Tinker
2. Nathan Breed Grant (1824-1874); married 1) Sarah Elizabeth Robinson; 2) Juliet H. Hedges; 3) Helen A. Hedges
3. Ezra Chesebrough Grant (1826-1884)
4. Denison Palmer Grant (1827-); married Emma Jane Gordon
5. Anson F. Grant (1829-)
6. Emma (Grant) Topping (1833-1864)
7. Jane (Grant) Palmer (1836-); married Edwin Alexander Palmer

This family was enumerated in the 1850 U.S. census of Southampton, New York ^[5]. In 1860, they were counted in Westfield, New Jersey ^[6]. By 1870, Rhoda (widowed) was residing in the household of her son Anson and his family, remaining in Westfield ^[7].

Rhoda (Chesebrough) Grant died 19 Aug 1887 @ Greeley, Colorado. Her grave is in Linn Grove Cemetery, Greeley, Weld County, Colorado, USA ^[8].

Sources

1. ↑ Entered by Larry Chesebro'.
2. ↑ Breed Family Association #16 (March, 1963), Charles B. Newhall et.al.; p. 37, no. 299: https://archive.org/details/BreedFamilyAssociationVol161963OCR/page/n80
3. ↑ The Grant Family (1898), p. 83: https://archive.org/details/grantfamilygenea00gran/page/83/mode/1up
4. ↑ Anna Chesebrough Wildey, Genealogy of the Descendants of William Chesebrough, Founder of Stonington, Ct., (New York: Press of T. A. Wright 1903), page 168: https://archive.org/details/genealogydescen00wildgoog/page/168
5. ↑ "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MC1R-455 : 24 December 2020), Cyrus Grant, Southampton, Suffolk, New York, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
6. ↑ "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MFHJ-TNJ : 18 February 2021), Silas Grant, 1860.
7. ↑ "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MN6S-DQH : 29 May 2021), Rhoda Grant in entry for Anson Grant, 1870.
8. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #65222150

• Wheeler, Richard Anson. History of the Town of Stonington, County of New London, Connecticut, p. 403, no. 72: https://archive.org/stream/historyoftownofs00whee_1#page/n425/mode/1up

Acknowledgements

WikiTree profile Chesebrough-367 created through the import of LarryChesebro.GED on Sep 28, 2012 by William Chesebrough.