Cyrus Grant (1796 - 1866)

Born 15 Feb 1796 in North Stonington, New London County, Connecticut, USA

Ancestors

Husband of Rhoda (Chesebrough) Grant — married about 19 Nov 1820 in Stonington, New London County, Connecticut, USA

Died 15 Jun 1866 at age 70 in Westfield, New Jersey, United States of America

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Biography

Cyrus Grant, b. 15 Feb 1796 @ North Stonington, Connecticut, was the second child of Anna (Breed) & Gilbert Grant ^[1].

He married 19 Nov 1820 @ Stonington, Connecticut, Rhoda Chesebrough ^[2]. They had 7 children ^[3]:

1. Almira C. (Grant) Tinker (1822-1862); married Samuel W. Tinker
2. Nathan Breed Grant (1824-1874); married 1) Sarah Elizabeth Robinson; 2) Juliet H. Hedges; 3) Helen A. Hedges
3. Ezra Chesebrough Grant (1826-1884)
4. Denison Palmer Grant (1827-); married Emma Jane Gordon
5. Anson F. Grant (1829-)
6. Emma (Grant) Topping (1833-1864)
7. Jane (Grant) Palmer (1836-); married Edwin Alexander Palmer

This family was enumerated in the 1850 U.S. census of Southampton, New York ^[4]. In 1860, they were counted in Westfield, New Jersey ^[5].

Cyrus Grant died 15 Jun 1866 @ Westfield, New Jersey. His grave is in Presbyterian Church Burial Grounds, Westfield, Union County, New Jersey, USA ^[6].

Sources

1. ↑ Breed Family Association #16 (March, 1963), Charles B. Newhall et.al.; p. 37, no. 299: https://archive.org/details/BreedFamilyAssociationVol161963OCR/page/n80
2. ↑ The Grant Family (1898), p. 83: https://archive.org/details/grantfamilygenea00gran/page/83/mode/1up
3. ↑ Anna Chesebrough Wildey, Genealogy of the Descendants of William Chesebrough, Founder of Stonington, Ct., (New York: Press of T. A. Wright 1903), page 168: https://archive.org/details/genealogydescen00wildgoog/page/168
4. ↑ "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MC1R-455 : 24 December 2020), Cyrus Grant, Southampton, Suffolk, New York, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
5. ↑ "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MFHJ-TNJ : 18 February 2021), Silas Grant, 1860.
6. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #19164522

• Denison Genealogy: Ancestors and Descendants of Captain George Denison; E. Glenn Denison, Josephine M. Peck and Donald L. Jacobus; Gateway Press, Inc. Baltimore, MD 1993 [Originally published, Pequot Press 1963; Reprinted, Baltimore, MD 1978, 1982, 1993], no. 38-310: https://archive.org/details/denisongenealogy00deni/page/326/mode/1up

• Wheeler, Richard Anson. History of the Town of Stonington, County of New London, Connecticut, p. 403, no. 72: https://archive.org/stream/historyoftownofs00whee_1#page/n425/mode/1up

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Larry Chesebro' for correcting and/or merging it with other profiles of the same person.

Stanley Wood contributed to this profile.