Sands Helme Fish (1821 - 1899)

Born 19 Sep 1821 in Stonington, New London County, Connecticut, United States of America

Ancestors

Died 5 Nov 1899 at age 78 in Mystic, New London County, Connecticut, United States of America [uncertain]

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Biography

Sands Helme Fish, born 19 Sep 1821 at Stonington, Connecticut ^[1], was the second child of Prudence Brown (Dean) Fish (1799-1873) and Asa Fish (1790-1861).

On 11 March 1850 at Groton, Connecticut, Sands H. Fish and Emeline Beebe published their intent to marry ^[2]. They did marry on 14 March 1850 at Groton ^[3]. The event was later chronicled ^[4].

They had one child:

• Jane Fish (1852-)

Per the Fish genealogy ^[5], He was in Brooklyn, NY in 1849, and in Buffalo NY, then in Toledo, Ohio in 1850, 1851-55 and in 1855-60 in Lafayette, Ind. where he was in the flour and grain business. He was in Chicago and Brooklyn in 1860.

Sands Helme Fish died 5 Nov 1899. His grave is in Elm Grove Cemetery, Mystic, New London County, Connecticut, USA ^[6].

Notes

Observe care not to confuse this person with Sands Fish (1799-1829) who was born 27 Feb 1799 in Groton, son of Bridget (Gallup) and Sands Fish, who was a mate on a ship, and who was not known to have married.

Death date for this Sands Helme Fish is ambiguous; F-A-G profile gives 5 November 1899, whereas Connecticut death record gives 5 December ^[7].

Sources

1. ↑ Connecticut Town Birth Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection): http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=ctvitalsbarbour&h=232791&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt
2. ↑ "Connecticut, Deaths, 1640-1955", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F7PT-1HQ : Tue Oct 03 04:35:00 UTC 2023), Entry for Saml. H. Fish and Emeline Beebe, 11 March 1850.
3. ↑ "Connecticut, Deaths, 1640-1955", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F7PT-LY2 : Tue Oct 03 20:20:52 UTC 2023), Entry for James H. Fisk and Emeline Beebe, 14 March 1850.
4. ↑ "Connecticut Marriages, 1630-1997", , FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F7L5-6BZ : 11 January 2020), Sands N. Fish, 1850.
5. ↑ The Fish Family in England and America. Lester Warren Fish. Tuttle Publishing Co. 1948, Rutland, VT: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89067390757;view=1up;seq=362
6. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #125445167
7. ↑ "Connecticut, Deaths, 1640-1955", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F7ZR-7Z4 : Thu Oct 05 13:32:39 UTC 2023), Entry for Sands H. Fish, 5 December 1899.

• Wheeler, Richard Anson. History of the Town of Stonington, County of New London, Connecticut, p. 374, no. 55: https://archive.org/stream/historyoftownofs00whee_1#page/n396/mode/1up