Eliza Ann (Wilbur) Ostrander (1814 - 1887)

Born 23 Feb 1814 in Johnstown, Fulton County, New York

Died 1 Aug 1887 at age 73 in Schodack, Rensselaer County, New York, United States

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Biography

Eliza Ann Wilbur was a daughter of Thomas Wilbur and Ann Kline, born 23 February 1814 at Johnstown, Fulton County, New York.^[1]

She was married to Walter Ostrander of Schodack, New York. Their children were: ^[1]

1. George W., born at Schodack, New York, on 19 March 1838, died that same year.
2. Georgianna Anna
3. Sarah Ann
4. Abram Clive
5. Martha Jane
6. James Edward
7. Walter Carpenter
8. Mary Elizabeth
9. John Thomas
10. Franklin Clark
11. Ella Louise, born 3 August 1856

The 1855 New York State census lists Walter Ostrander, 47, farmer, as head of household, with wife Eliza E. and 9 children and 2 servants, living in Schodack, New York. ^[2]

Eliza (Wilbur) Ostrander died at Schodack, New York, on 1 August 1887.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Ostrander: A Genealogical Record, page 443.
2. ↑ Rensselaer County, New York, GenWeb Site, http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nyrensse/census17.htm

• Clark, Robert Gordon. Early New Netherland Settlers website, http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~rclarke/
• Ostrander, Emmett, Vinton P. Ostrander, and Collin Ostrander. Ostrander: A Genealogical Record, 1660-1995 (Ostrander Family Association, Walsworth Publishing Co, Marceline, Missouri, 1999.) [No source citations.]
• Rensselaer County, NY Biographies. Publication: 1897 Text: From: CONT Landmarks of Rensselaer County CONT BY: George Baker Aaderson CONT Published By: D. Mason & Co. Publishers CONT Syracuse, NY 1897 Record ID Number: MH:SC193 Page: http://www.onlinebiographies.info/ny/ren/ostrander-j.htm Data: Text: Ostrander, John, an early settler of the town of Schodack, took up a large tract of land and there lived; he died in 1841; his wife was Sarah Carpenter; she died in 1848. Walter Ostrander, a son of John and Sarah Ostrander, was born in Schodack; his wife was Eliza Wilbur, born in Johnstown, N. Y.; he died in 1880; she died in 1887. CONT CONT Walter Carpenter Ostrander is a son of Walter and Eliza (Wilbur) Ostrander, was born in Schodack and reared and educated in Schodack and Albany; was in Cohoes, N. Y., for a while in the market business and with E. J. Weeks of Albany in pork packing business for twelve years; since then has been a farmer in Schodack and running a milk route with an average of fifteen cows. He was married in 1877 to Phila J. Starkey of Mansfield, Pa., who was born in Swansey, N. H. One child blesses their union, Archie Wilbur Ostrander, born in Schodack.