Lemuel Jackson Grant (1814 - 1889)

Born 6 May 1814 in Middletown, Orange, New York, USA

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Died 17 May 1889 at age 75 in Delhi, Delaware, New York, USA

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Biography

When Lemuel Jackson Grant was born on May 6, 1814, in Middletown, New York, his father, Elijah Lewis Grant, was 29 and his mother, Sarah (Finch) Grant, was 35. He had one brother and two sisters. Lemuel Jackson often went by his middle name Jackson as can be seen in census data over the years.

At the time of the 1840 Colchester, Delaware, NY census, Jackson was boarding with an Allen family. He was 40 years old.

In the 1860 Fallsburg, Sullivan, NY census, “Jackson” Grant age 46, was identified as a lumberman living with his cousin Edward Finch, age 40, another lumberman who was the son of John Finch, his mother Sarah's brother.

In the 1865 Tompkins, Delaware, NY censuses, he was living alone. No profession was listed.

In the 1870 Tompkins census, Lemuel Jackson was next door to his cousin George W. Finch, his mother's nephew whose father was her brother Jessie Finch.

The 1875 NY State census showed him living with his brother Nathaniel Grant in Tompkins.

Jackson led a difficult life, ending up being admitted to an alms house in 1877 due to old age and destitution. Although the Alms house data indicated Jackson had been married, no record of marriage or wife has been found.

Jackson died on May 17, 1889, in Delhi, New York, having lived a long life of 75 years, and was buried there.

Sources

• Dodge Family Bible. Published by J.B. Lippincott and Co., Philadelphia, 1859. FamilySearch.org. https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSG6-Z567

• Year: 1850; Census Place: Colchester, Delaware, New York; Roll: 495; Page: 372b. https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/12526702:8054?ssrc=pt&tid=153916580&pid=182052164942

• Year: 1860; Census Place: Fallsburg, Sullivan, New York; Roll: M653_866; Page: 166; Family History Library Film: 803866. https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/47878021:7667?ssrc=pt&tid=153916580&pid=182052164942

• Ancestry.com. New York, U.S., State Census, 1865 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014. https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=7218&h=627838&ssrc=pt&tid=153916580&pid=182052164942&usePUB=true

• Year: 1870; Census Place: Tompkins, Delaware, New York; Roll: M593_924; Page: 484A. https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/29626738:7163?ssrc=pt&tid=153916580&pid=182052164942

• Ancestry.com. New York, U.S., State Census, 1875 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013. https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/1363912355:7250?ssrc=pt&tid=153916580&pid=182052164942

• New York State Archives; Albany, New York; Census of Inmates in Almshouses and Poorhouses, 1875-1921; Series: A1978; Reel: A1978:24; Record Number: 68. https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/118374:1083?ssrc=pt&tid=153916580&pid=182052164942

• New York State Education Department, Office of Cultural Education; Albany, New York; U.S. Federal Census Schedules of Defective, Dependent, and Delinquent Classes, New York, 1880; Year: 1880. https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=1634&h=72022&ssrc=pt&tid=153916580&pid=182052164942&usePUB=true

• "New York, State Death Index, 1880-1956", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGKJ-D7GR : 3 March 2022), Jackson Grant, 1889.

• "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV2P-1X5S : 10 June 2020), Jackson Grant, 1889; Burial; citing record ID , Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.