Silas Fish (1825 - 1906)

Born 23 Oct 1825 in Stonington, New London County, Connecticut, United States of America

Ancestors

Husband of Mary Dorrance (Stoddard) Fish — married 7 May 1851 in Connecticut, United States of America

Died 8 Nov 1906 at age 81 in Mystic, New London County, Connecticut, United States of America

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Biography

Silas Fish, born 23 Oct 1823 at Stonington, Connecticut, was the fourth child of Prudence Brown (Dean) Fish (1799-1873) and Asa Fish (1790-1861).

He married 10 Apr 1851 at Stonington, Connecticut, Mary Dorrance Stoddard ^[1],^[2]. They had 3 children:

1. Julia Miner Fish (1852-1915)
2. Fanny Dean Fish (1854-1938)
3. Elizabeth Dorrance (Fish) Reid (1858-1924)

Silas Fish and his family were enumerated consistently in census records of Brooklyn, New York ^[3],^[4],^[5],^[6],^[7],^[8]. In 1900, Silas Fish was widowed, continuing to reside in Brooklyn ^[9].

Per the Fish genealogy, Silas Fish was a merchant in New York City for many years. The census records illustrate that he dealt in ship stores, with a shipping house. He was also a ship joiner per the 1880 record. The last record states that he was a merchant in lumber.

Necrology

Silas Fish died 8 Nov 1906 at Mystic, Connecticut. His grave is in Elm Grove Cemetery, Mystic, New London County, Connecticut, USA ^[10], next to that of his wife. The inscription on his stone reads:

THE UPRIGHT SHALL DWELL IN THY PRESENCE

Notes

Identity of Silas's wife Mary is uncertain. Some records give her surname at marriage as Stoddard, others Dorrance, which appears on her grave marker. The online FamilySearch app links her to parents Ann Olney (Warner) and George Dorrance, which seems to be based on a typewritten copy of a bible reference which is depicted in the F-A-G site for George Dorrance ^[11].

Sources

1. ↑ "Connecticut, Deaths, 1640-1955", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F7PT-18W : Thu Oct 05 04:33:52 UTC 2023), Entry for Silas Fish and Mary D. Stoddard, 10 April 1851.
2. ↑ "Connecticut, Deaths, 1640-1955", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F7PT-G8Q : Wed Oct 04 05:12:48 UTC 2023), Entry for Silas Fish and Mary D. Stoddard, 10 April 1851.
3. ↑ "New York State Census, 1855", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K67Y-1F5 : Tue Oct 03 17:31:49 UTC 2023), Entry for Silas Fish and Mary A Fish, 1855.
4. ↑ "United States Census, 1860", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCWL-WND : Fri Oct 06 22:57:48 UTC 2023), Entry for Silas Fish and Mary D Fish, 1860.
5. ↑ "New York State Census, 1865", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVNJ-1QTN : Thu Oct 05 15:31:18 UTC 2023), Entry for Silas Fish and Mary D Fish, 1865.
6. ↑ "United States Census, 1870", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8NN-S6M : Wed Oct 04 19:58:50 UTC 2023), Entry for Silas Fish and Mary Fish, 1870.
7. ↑ "New York State Census, 1875", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VNJZ-TWQ : Thu Oct 05 07:45:29 UTC 2023), Entry for Silas Fish and Mary Fish, 1875.
8. ↑ "United States Census, 1880", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZ8P-9J1 : Sat Oct 07 00:12:10 UTC 2023), Entry for Silas Fish and Mary B. Fish, 1880.
9. ↑ "United States Census, 1900", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MSFV-PT9 : Tue Oct 03 15:48:42 UTC 2023), Entry for Silas Fish and Julia M Fish, 1900.
10. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #125445168
11. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #70298433

• Fish, Lester Warren. The Fish Family in England and America (Tuttle Publishing Co., Rutland, Vermont, 1948): https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89067390757;view=1up;seq=361

• Wheeler, Richard Anson. History of the Town of Stonington, County of New London, Connecticut, p. 374, no. 57: https://archive.org/stream/historyoftownofs00whee_1#page/n396/mode/1up