Elizabeth (Fay) Hartshorn (1781 - 1850)

Born 24 Jul 1781 in Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States

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Died 5 Oct 1850 at age 69 in Lunenburg, Essex, Vermont, United States

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Biography

Elizabeth was a daughter of Levi Fay and his secod wife, Elizabeth Hudson. She had a twin brother, Levi Jr. The Vital records of Marlborough, Massachusetts names parents for Elizabeth and her twin brother, Levi Jr as Levi and Lucretia, but that is incorrect. Levi's first wife, Lucretia Howe died June 11, 1778 before their births. Her father was remarried to her mother, Elizabeth Hudson on November 19, 1779. Elizabeth and Levi Jr were born July 24, 1781 in Marlborough, Massachusetts. She married Colburn Hartshorn the son of Ebenezer Hartsorn and Lydia Darling.

Her sister Catherine married Bradley Hartshorn the brother of her husband. Her husband, Colburn died October 25, 1840 and she is a widow living with her son John W. Harthorn and his wife and children in Lunenburg, VT in 1850. She died shortly after on October 6, 1850. She is buried next to her husband at the Lunenburg Corners Cemetery, Lunenburg, Vermont. Her death date is on her head stone.

Sources

• Primary Source -Orlin P. Fay, "Fay Genealogy - John Fay of Marlborough and his Descendants" , J.B. Savage, Cleveland, Ohio, (1898)
• Primary Source - Derick Sibley Hartshorn, III, The Hartshorn Families in America, (Gateway Press, Inc. Baltimore, MD; 1997).

See Also

• BIRTH - Vital records of Marlborough, Massachusetts - https://archive.org/stream/vitalrecordsofma00marl#page/68/mode/2up
• Primary Source -*Orlin P. Fay, "Fay Genealogy - John Fay of Marlborough and his Descendants" , J.B. Savage, Cleveland, Ohio, (1898)
• Primary Source - Derick Sibley Hartshorn, III, The Hartshorn Families in America, (Gateway Press, Inc. Baltimore, MD; 1997).
• MARRIAGE - https://archive.org/stream/vitalrecordsofma00marl#page/274/mode/2up/search/%22Levi+Fay%22
• "United States Census, 1850, Lunenburg, Essex, Vermont - United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-XC7Q-27P?i=24&cc=1401638 : 12 April 2016), Betsy Hartshorn in household of John W Hartshorn, Lunenburg, Essex, Vermont, United States; citing family 164, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.)
• BURIAL - https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/59042279