Lorinda (Morehouse) Avery (1796 - 1862)

Born 27 Oct 1796 in Westport, Connecticut, United States of America

Ancestors

Wife of Samuel Avery — married 2 Dec 1817 in Westport, Connecticut

Descendants

Died Oct 1862 at about age 65 in Webster Groves, Missouri, United States of America

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Biography

Lorinda Morehouse was born 27 Oct 1796 at Westport, Connecticut, a daughter of Stephen Morehouse (1766 - 1838) & Esther (Taylor) (1770 - 1852).

She married 2 Dec 1817 at Westport, Connecticut, Samuel Avery. They had at least 9 children, born at Westport:

1. Edward Morehouse Avery, b. 25 Mar 1819
2. Helen Morewood Avery, b. 25 Sep 1820
3. Mary Hazard Avery, b. 29 Jan 1822
4. JANE ANN Avery, b. July 10, 1823; unmarried
5. Elizabeth Jane Avery, b. 3 Dec 1825
6. John Hazard Avery (1827-1890), b. 23 Nov 1827
7. Margaret Lorinda Avery, b. 14 Feb 1830; married ___ Wilgus; no children; d. Oct 1875
8. CHARLES HAZARD Avery, b. April 3, 1833; d. 1875, at San Francisco
9. Stephen Morehouse Avery, b. 29 Apr 1835

Lorinda (Morehouse) Avery died Oct 1862 at Webster Groves, Missouri. Her grave is in Bellefontaine Cemetery, Saint Louis, St. Louis City, Missouri, USA ^[1].

Sources

1. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #73233307

• The Groton Avery Clan (Avery & Avery, 1912), p. 506, no. 1135:
• Dempsey, Barbara. Greens Farms Church Records, 1742-1822, Baptisms, 1797-1803, Connecticut Ancestry (Connecticut Ancestry Society, Inc., Stamford, Conn., May 2017) Vol. 59, No. 4, Page 136. Baptism record.