Lois (Olmstead) Bostwick (1774 - 1855)

Born 24 Oct 1774 in New Milford, Litchfield, Connecticut Colony

Ancestors

Wife of Dimon Bostwick — married 19 Feb 1796 in New Milford, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA

Descendants

Died 26 Sep 1855 at age 80 in Stevensville, Pike Township, Bradford, Pennsylvania, United States

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Biography

Lois Olmstead, the daughter of David and Sarah (Waller) Olmstead, was born in New Milford, Litchfield County, in the Connecticut Colony on 24 October 1774.

She married Dimon Bostwick in New Milford in 1792 and they have nine children:

1. Almira, b. 1797; m. Canfield Stone
2. Eliza Robertson, b. 1799, d. 1841; m. Samuel Marks
3. Julia Maria, b. 1801, d. 1853; m. Samuel Marks
4. Samuel Randolph, b. 1803, d. 1849
5. Pernet Marshall, b. 1805, d. 1891
6. Valvasa, b. 1808, d. 1894
7. Esther, b. 1810, d. 1817
8. Hannah Artaweisa, b. 1812, d. 1814
9. Sarah Weller, b. 1815, d. 1899; m. George Hopkins

Lois Bostwick died in Stevensville, Bradford County, Pennsylvania on 26 September 1855.

She is buried in the Stevensville Cemetery, ^[1] near two sisters and many Bostwick relatives.

Sources

1. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #130513924 has photo

See also:

• Olmste(a)d files of Walt Steesy
• Olmsted, Henry King, M.D. Genealogy of the Olmsted Family in America (A.T. De La Mare, New York, 1912); pg. 204, #4311