Oliver C. Macy (1819 - 1872)

Born 6 Jun 1819 in Nantucket, Massachusetts, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Phebe Fowler (Powell) Macy — married 18 Nov 1840 in Nantucket, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 14 Jan 1872 at age 52 in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States

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Biography

Oliver Macy descends from Thomas Macy, a Nantucket founder.

• Born on Nantucket Island to Peter Macy (1792-1846) and Ann (Swain) Macy (1798-1827) in 1819.^[1]
• Married Phebe Powell at Nantucket in 1840.^[2]
• Three children born on Nantucket between 1842 and 1846.^[3]
• "[R]emoved from Nantucket in 1846, and resided in Manchester, N. H., until 1854. Returned to Nantucket in 1854, and moved from there to Detroit, Mich., in 1857."^[4]
• In Detroit, became the General Receiver of the Michigan Central Railroad.^[5]
• Died in Detroit in 1872.^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VQD8-9HP : 4 December 2014), Oliver Macy, 06 Jun 1819; citing NANTUCKET,NANTUCKET,MASSACHUSETTS, ; FHL microfilm 823,703.
2. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FH3B-JP5 : 27 April 2016), Oliver Macy and Phebe F. Powell, 18 Nov 1840; citing Marriage, Nantucket, Nantucket, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 776,073.
3. ↑ Macy, Genealogy, p. 374.
4. ↑ Macy, Genealogy, p. 375.
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1} "Death of an Old Resident," Detroit Free Press (Detroit, Michigan), 16 Jan 1872, page 1.

• Barney Genealogical Record. Nantucket Historical Association. Person ID I18338.
• Macy, Silvanus Jenkins. Genealogy of the Macy family from 1635-1868. Albany: J. Munsell, 1868. Pages 249, 374-375.
• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MWZX-Y7T : 9 November 2014), Oliver Macy, Manchester, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States; citing family 1632, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
• "Massachusetts State Census, 1855," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MQ4S-N6V : 15 November 2014), Oliver Macy, Nantucket, Nantucket, Massachusetts, United States; State Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm 953,953.
• 1860 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com. Oliver "Macey," Detroit Ward 8, Wayne, Michigan, page 14, line 21. NARA microfilm publication M653, 1,438 rolls. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d. Family History Library Film: 803566.
• "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHCR-VWT : 3 January 2021), Oliver Maly [Macy], Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States.