Amey (Dexter) Mowry (abt. 1800 - 1874)

Born about 1800 in Smithfield, Providence, Rhode Island

Ancestors

Wife of Smith Mowry — married 23 Sep 1823 in Smithfield, Providence, Rhode Island

Died 9 May 1874 at about age 74 in Charleson, South Carolina

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Biography

SMITH MOWRY, son of Sylvester, born March 17, 1795 ; married Sept. 23,1823, Amey Dexter, daughter of Lewis and Lydia (Comstock) Dexter, of Smithfield, Rhode Island. ; died at Charleston, S. C, March 15, 1861. She died May 9, 1874. ^[1]

They moved to Charleston, S. C, about 1816, and on September 23, 1823, having returned home, he married Amey, the youngest daughter of Lewis Dexter, of Smithfield, carrying her at once to his Southern home. ^[1]

He died March 10, 1861. ^[1]

Amey wife survived him twelve years ; and together they rest in their last sleep, in the family burial-ground of the First Baptist Church of Charleston. ^[1]

Children

1. Lewis Dexter, born on June 22, 1824. ^[1]
2. Elisha Cook, born on September 16, 1826. ^[1]
3. Edward Smith, born on August 31, 1828. ^[1]
4. Lydia Comstock, born on January 2, 1831 ; died September 6, 1832.
5. William Sylvester, born on December 1832. ^[1]
6. Lydia Comstock, born on September 11, 1835, in Smithifield. ^[1]
7. Albert, born on September 10, 1839, in Smithfield ; died on August 22, 1842, at New Rochelle, New York. ^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9} Mowry, William A. The Descendants of Nathaniel Mowry of Rhode Island, SIdney & Rider, Providence, Rhode Island, 1878 p. 141