Anna (Alvord) Mosher (1793 - 1849)

Born 9 Mar 1793 in Connecticut, USA

Ancestors

Died 29 Jun 1849 at age 56 in Cortland County, New York, USA [uncertain]

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Biography

Anna Alvord was born 9 Mar 1793 in Connecticut. She and her sister Annis were the first two children of Asahel Alvord and Sarah Morey.

She married in Connecticut, Phillip Mosher [b. probably about 1789, New Bedford, Massachusetts, son of Lemuel Mosher & Mercy (Travis, or Trafford); d. age 72, Venice, Cayuga County, New York]. They had 8 children:

1. Lucinda Mosher, b. 16 Jun 1817, Guilford, New York; married Peter Signor; d. 19 Feb 1872, Spencer, New York
2. Caroline Mosher, b. 9 Sep 1819, Guilford, New York; married Alfred Sherman; d. 4 Feb 1906 @ Venice, New York
3. Nelson Mosher, b. 27 Aug 1820 or 1821; married Sarah A. Van Keuren; died in American Civil War at Salisbury Prison, N. Carolina
4. Polly Mosher, b. 24 Jul 1823 @ Guilford, New York; married James Andrews (son of Ebenezer); d. Mar 1895 @ Cincinnatus, NY
5. Sherman P. Mosher (15 Jul 1824 - 15 Oct 1842)
6. Annise Mosher, b. 30 Jan 1826 @ German, New York; unmarried; d. Feb 1890 @ Moravia, New York
7. Sarah Ann Mosher, b. 19 Nov 1827; married 1853 Liman Card; resided at Moravia, New York
8. Phillip Mosher, b. 19 Aug 1831; died in American Civil War

Per a Find A Grave: Memorial #10661920 online posting, Anna (Alvord) Mosher passed away 29 Jun 1849, and was buried in Stewarts Corners Cemetery, Cayuga County, New York, USA. Her location of death is uncertain; whereas the grave memorial represents that she died in Cortland County, the Alvord genealogy published that she died in Venice, New York, which is in neighboring Cayuga County.

Notes

An online family searching facility attempts to describe this Anna Alvord ^[1]. Unfortunately the contents of its entry for Anna Alvord are devoid of credible sourcing exceeding that which is cited in this profile. In particular, its parental attachments are highly speculative, thus should not be relied upon for definitive ancestry traces on this person.

Sources

1. ↑ "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 04 June 2020, 05:07), entry for Anna Alvord(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:KGSB-WPL); contributed by various users.

• "A Genealogy of the Descendants of Alexander Alvord", Compiled by Samuel Morgan Alvord, published 1908 by A.D. Andrews, Printer, Webster, NY. By the Alford American Family Association; no. 899: https://archive.org/details/genealogyofdesce00alvo/page/177/mode/1up; https://archive.org/details/genealogyofdesce00alvo/page/342/mode/1up