Elizabeth (Short) Fleetwood (bef. 1815 - abt. 1862)

Ancestors

Wife of Cyrus Fleetwood — married 22 Feb 1833 in Sussex County, Delaware, USA

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Biography

Elizabeth was born about 1815. She passed away between 1860 and 1870. Given the age of her husband's oldest child by his second wife, Anne, b. 1865, Elizabeth probably died around 1863.

Alternate Parentage

There is an unsourced attribution of father Curtis Short and mother Sallie (?) Short on a number of Ancestry.com trees.

Sources

• "Delaware Vital Records, 1650-1974," database with images, FamilySearch [1] : 13 March 2018), Elizabeth Short; citing Birth, 1815; parents, Shadrack Short. Delaware Public Archives, Dover; FHL microfilm. Source: Sussex Co. Chancery Cas S#18

• Delaware, Wills and Probate Records, 1676-1971: Abstracts of Wills, Sussex County, Delaware, 1700s-1800s; citing will of Shadrach Short 11 May 1815. Probate Place: Sussex, Delaware. Will Abstracts and Burton Family Tombstone Inscriptions, Vol. 3. Database and images published by Ancestry.com [2]

• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MH8B-ZSF : 12 April 2016), Elizabeth Fleetwood in household of Cyrus Fleetwood, Nanticoke Hundred, Sussex, Delaware, United States; citing family 1486, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

"United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M4SH-MR7 : 13 December 2017), Elisabeth Fleetwood in entry for Cyrus Fleetwood, 1860.

• "Delaware Death Records, 1855-1961," database with images, FamilySearch [3] : 10 March 2018), Cyrus Fleetwood and Elizabeth Short, parents, in entry for William E. Fleetwood, born 16 March 1837, died 18 Sep 1910; citing Nanticoke, Sussex, Delaware, United States, Hall of Records, Dover; FamilySearch digital folder 004252932.

• "Delaware Death Records, 1855-1961," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FNTK-XTP : 10 March 2018), Elizabeth in entry for ...Tter {Nutter?} D. Fleetwood, born 16 June 1852, died 13 Jun 1928; citing Seaford, Sussex, Delaware, United States, Hall of Records, Dover; FamilySearch digital folder 004252973.