Hannah Phidelia (Smith) Sylvester (1844 - 1897)

Born 31 Dec 1844 in Massachusetts

Ancestors

Wife of Alphonso Sylvester — married 26 Feb 1862 in Dodge, Wisconsin

Descendants

Died 2 Jul 1897 at age 52 in Howard, Miner, SD

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Biography

Phidelia Smith was born in western Massachusetts Dec. 31, 1844 and died in Howard, Miner County, South Dakota July 2, 1897.

In 1850 when she was age 5 her family lived in Adams, Berkshire County, Massachusetts. By 1860, when Phidelia was 15, they had moved to Trenton in Dodge County, Wisconsin. She married Alphonso Sylvester in Dodge County on Feb. 26, 1862. They had children between 1866 and 1880. The last of her children was born in Kasson, Dodge County, Minnesota.

Her death in 1897 is recorded in Miner County, SD.

Sources

• Hanson Family Tree, Ancestry.com
• Stephen M. Hanson commissioned genealogy of Eunice Higgins back to the Mayflower done by Jacquie McClure (1994).
• Ancestry.com. U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. 2012. Output: Name: H Phidelia Sylvester; Birth Date: 31 Dec 1844; Birth Place: United States of America; Death Date: 2 Jul 1897; Death Place: Miner County, South Dakota, United States of America; Cemetery: Graceland Cemetery; Burial or Cremation Place: Howard, Miner County, South Dakota, United States of America.
• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MD96-JHD : 12 April 2016), Fi*Lia Smith in household of Salmon Smith, Adams, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States; citing family 252, 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/ark:/61903/1:1:MWMT-LQ4 : 13 December 2017), Fidelia H Smith in entry for S E Smith, 1860.
• "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MD41-177 : 6 June 2019), Philida Sylvester in entry for Alphonso Sylvester, 1870.
• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZ93-VWP : 26 August 2017), Alphonso Sylvester, 1880; citing enumeration district ED 43, sheet 322C, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d), roll 0618; FHL microfilm 1,254,618.
• "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVGF-8LPX : 13 December 2015), H Phidelia Sylvester, 1897; Burial, Howard, Miner, South Dakota, United States of America, Graceland Cemetery; citing record ID 116527595, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
• "Wisconsin, County Marriages, 1836-1911," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XRLC-PT6 : 17 March 2018), Alphonzo Sylvester and Hannah P. Smith, 26 Feb 1862; citing Trenton, Dodge, Wisconsin, United States, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison; FHL microfilm 1,275,941.
• "Minnesota State Census, 1875," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MKNZ-GGN : 30 July 2017), Phidelia Sylvester in household of Alphonza Sylvester, Kasson Village, Dodge, Minnesota; citing p. 174, line 5, volume D, State Library and Records Service, St.Paul; FHL microfilm 0565718.