Joseph Merrill Stearns (1815 - 1884)

Born 7 Oct 1815 in Strafford, Vermont

Ancestors

Descendants

Died 12 Nov 1884 at age 69 in Lincoln, Addison County, Vermont, USA

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Biography

2792—JOSEPH MERRILL STEARNS (1284), b., Oct. 7, 1815, son of Rev. Nathaniel Wheat and Levina (Harding) Stearns, of Ripton, Vt.; md., Aug. 5, 1840, Phila Smith, and settled, a farmer, in Lincoln, Vt., where he d., Nov. 12, 1884; seven children.^[1]

Burial

Lee Cemetery, Lincoln, Addison County, Vermont, USA^[2]

Children

2793— DORAN HARDING STEARNS (4672), b., Nov. 3, 1841.

2794— SABRA WINIFRED SMITH STEARNS, b., July 28, 1843; with her brother, Elwood Smith Stearns, occupied the homestead built by their father, at Maple Hillside, South Lincoln, Vt.

2795—LEVINA HARDING STEARNS, b., Mar. 31, 1845; md., Mar. 19, 1866, at Bristol, Vt., Lewis T. Page; in 1896, was living near her son, Rev. John Page, of Lewiston, Me.

2796— CYNTHIA ANN VICTORIA STEARNS, b., Nov. 13, 1847; md., June 19, 1871, Calvin Francis Murray; settled at Murray Hall, Lincoln, Vt.

2797— ELWOOD SMITH STEARNS, b., July 25, 1850, at Bristol, Vt.; settled on his father's homestead, at South Lincoln, Vt., with his sister, Sabra W. S. Stearns.

2798— JASPER MERRILL STEARNS, b., Apr. 1, 1852; d., Dec. 5, 1870, at Lincoln, Vt.

2799— ALMA ELLENA STEARNS, b., Sept. 27, 1858, at Lincoln, Vt.; d., June, 1859, at same place.

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Sources

1. ↑ Avis Stearns Van Wagenen, pp431-432
2. ↑ FindAGrave Memorial #108755219 [1]
3. ↑ Avis Stearns Van Wagenen, pp431-432

• Avis Stearns VanWagenen's "Genealogy and Memoirs of Isaac Stearns and his descendants" (accessed 2017 at https://play.google.com/books/reader?printsec=frontcover&output=reader&id=SvAUAAAAYAAJ&pg=GBS.PA393.w.1.1.0)

• CENSUS RECORDS

"United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8WW-84G : 15 July 2017), Joseph Stearn, Lincoln, Addison, Vermont, United States; citing enumeration district ED 10, sheet 118D, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 1340; FHL microfilm 1,255,340.

"United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MFDM-VT4 : 28 July 2017), Joseph M Stearns, 1860.

"United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MC2W-1N6 : 12 April 2016), Joseph M Sternes, Bristol, Addison, Vermont, United States; citing family 5, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).