When Simon Mather was born on February 21, 1736, in Lyme, Connecticut, his father,Joseph Mather, was 50 and his mother, Phebe DeWolf, was 45. He had five brothers and three sisters. He died on February 26, 1736, in his hometown within a year of his birth, and was buried in Old Lyme, Connecticut. Same headstone as his 10 year old brother Samuel Mather
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Baptism. Connecticut. Church Records Index. Connecticut State Library, Hartford, Connecticut.
White, Lorraine Cook, ed. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records. Vol. 1-55. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1994-2002.
"Connecticut Deaths and Burials, 1772–1934." Index. FamilySearch, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2009, 2010.
The Charles R. Hale Collection. Hale Collection of Connecticut Cemetery Inscriptions. Hartford, Connecticut: Connecticut State Library.
U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.
See Also: Mather, H. E. (1890). Lineage of Rev. Richard Mather. Hartford, Conn.: Press of the Case, Lockwood & Brainard company. Page 107.
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