Sylvester St.Clair
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Sylvester J. St.Clair (1840 - 1920)

Sylvester J. St.Clair
Born in Indiana USAmap
Ancestors ancestors
Husband of — married 27 Nov 1861 (to 28 Nov 1889) in Indianamap
Husband of — married 9 Mar 1891 in Vigo Indianamap
Descendants descendants
Died at age 79 in Indiana USAmap
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Biography

History of Vigo County, Indiana: With Biographical Sketches – H.C. Bradsby 1891 Honey Creek Twp (page 916) Submitted by Ken Reed

SYLVESTER J. ST. CLAIR, farmer and stock-grower, Honey Creek township, P.0. Youngstown. This gentleman may also he classed among the manufacturers of Vigo county. He was born within four miles of where he now resides, in Honey Creek township, July 25, 1840, and is a son of Nelson and Eliza J. (EVANS) ST. CLAIR, natives of Indiana, and of French and English extraction. His father, who had spent his life as a tiller of the soil, died in 1883. Our subject, who is his eldest child, attended the schools of Vigo county and chose farming as a business. For a time, however, from 1883 to 1889, he carried on a brickyard and tile factory, and then embarked in other lines of manufacturing in the city of Terre Haute. He became a member of the stock company known as the “Terre Haute Pottery Novelty Works,” with J.B. RHODS, of Ohio, Mr. ST. CLAIR being the general manager of the business. He is the owner of the farm where he now resides, comprising 202 acres of highly improved land. Mr. ST. CLAIR was married in 1861 to Miss Nancy E., daughter of John M. and Margaret McCOSKEY, and of Irish descent. They have one child living, Lucian E., who superintends the farm. Mrs. ST. CLAIR died in 1889. The family are members of the Baptist church; in politics he is a Republican. He enlisted, in 1864, in the One Hundred and Thirty-third Ind. V. I., Company H, and served until the close of the war. He is a member of G.A.R. Post, No. 158.

Family Bible: Sylvester J St.Clair, 79, died June 24, 1920. He is survived by the widow, Jennie, and two grandchildren, Lucia and Wayne.

Sources

History of Vigo County, Indiana: Sylvester St.Clair Biography
Nelson and Sarah's Bible Records - owned by Mary Kate LaForge (1932)
The Kester Family Part II page 334-336
1850 Vigo Indiana Census: Nelson Clear
1860 Vigo Indiana Census: Nelson StCear
1880 Vigo Indiana Census: Sylvester St.Clair
1900 Vigo Indiana Census: Sylvester St.Clair
1910 Vigo Indiana Census: Sylvester St.Clair
1920 Vigo Indiana Census: Sylvester St.Clair
Find A Grave memorial# 18501529

Note

Research done by Maud Russell, posted by L. Leckliter as reference point for future researchers.

Maud Russell 1937: “Compiled and drawn by Maud Russell, McAlester, Oklahoma (1937) from bible records and other records, remembrances of older relatives, county records, History of Sullivan and Green Counties, Indiana, by Professor John W. Spencer (1887). Information furnished by many relatives, notably, Miss Gay Edna Calvert.”

Mary L. Pickrell, March 1979: “This information was taken from a chart on file at the Vigo County Library, Terre Haute, Indiana.”

“ The information was compiled and the chart drawn by Maud Russell, McAlester, Oklahoma, 1931, from bible and other private records, county records, and the Pound Genealogy as to some dates.”

“Also on file at the Vigo County Library is a chart on the St.Clair family which was also prepared by Maud Russell. In comparing the Fanny/Siner/Eli St.Clair section, a few discrepancies were found.”





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