Priscilla (Nelles) Cummings (1796 - 1824)

Born 16 Dec 1796 in Upper Canada

Ancestors

Wife of James Cummings — married 21 Jan 1818 in Ancaster, Wentworth, Upper Canada

Died 28 Aug 1824 at age 27 in Chippawa, Lincoln, Upper Canada

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Biography

Priscilla (Nelles) Cummings died from complications arising from the birth of Amelia Cummings.

Priscilla was born 16 December 1796 in the Nelles Settlement, Grand River, Upper Canada. She married James Cummings 22 Jan 1818. ^{[1] [2]} Priscilla died approximately three weeks after giving birth to her daughter Amelia.^[3] The date was 28 August 1824. She was buried 30 August 1824 in Chippawa, Upper Canada.^[4] Her obituary in The Gleaner (Niagara, Upper Canada), Saturday, 4 Sept 1824: "At Chippewa on the 28th ult., Mrs. Cummings, consort of James Cummings, Esq. in the 27th year of her age. She has left a husband and four children to deplore their loss." ^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ Nellis–Nelles, Immigrants From the Palatinate, 1710, Vol. 1, published in 1997 by The Nellis and Nelles Family Associations and the Herkimer County Historical Society #411, p. 103
2. ↑ Chadwick's Ontarian Families, v. 2, pp. 172-173.
3. ↑ Entered by Dave Rutherford.
4. ↑ "Early churches in the Niagara Peninsula, Stamford and Chippawa, with marriage records of Thomas Cummings, and extracts from the Cummings papers" / Janet Carnochan, Ontario Historical Society Papers and Records Vol. 8, 1907, pp. 149-225 citing "Burials in ye Chapelry of Chippewa..."
5. ↑ The Gleaner, Saturday, 4 Sept 1824, obituary, transcription by Joan McCullough, NIAGARA-ONT-L Archives [1].

• Ancestry.com - Watson Family Tree, owner: templetown.
• Clan Waddell family group sheet for Priscilla Nelles, citing Annals of The Forty, The Grimsby Historical Society, (Loyalist and Pioneer Families of West Lincoln, 1783 - 1833), V.6, p.70