Albert Carey Stover (1814 - 1896)

Born 30 May 1814 in Upper Canada

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth (Webster) Stover — married 18 Oct 1837 in Norwich, Ontario, Canada

Descendants

Died 28 Oct 1896 at age 82 in Norwich, Oxford, Ontario, Canada

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Biography

Albert was a Friend (Quaker)

Albert C. Stover 1814 was believed to be the second white male child to be born in Norwich, married Betsy Webster, who at the age of sixteen had ridden from Farmington N.Y. into Norwich on horseback accompanied by her mother and her newly acquired stepfather, James Haight.^[1]

Albert and Betsy lived in Norwich, Ontario and had 8 children:

1. Isabelle Stover 1838
2. John Wesley Stover 1840
3. Albin Stover 1842
4. Mary B Stover 1845
5. Gulielma Stover 1848
6. Miranda Stover 1850
7. Lydia Stover 1854
8. Frederick Albert Stover 1859.

The first 6 children are in the 1851 census with their parents.^[2] All 8 are in the 1861 census.^[3] In 1871 five children are in the household: Isabella, Mary, Gueliema, Miranda and F Albert^[4]In 1881 the only remaining child in the household is Isabella^[5]

Both his wife Betsy, and his daughter Isabella, who had remained at home, passed away in 1886, In 1889, Albert took a second wife, Elizabeth White Spencer. ^[6] Albert passed away in 1896.^[7]

From My First Ninety 1-81 by Wallace P Cohoe, page 18:

Albert Carey Stover and Betsy Stover, when I first remember them, lived on a farm just west of Holbrook which was really nothing more than a four corners on the road leading to Woodstock nine miles to the north. There was a general store and post office combined and of course a blacksmith shop. A branch of the infant Otter River rose in a swampy piece of land on grandfather's farm. My grandparents had a happy home in a rather large wooden house surrounded by an orchard on two sides and farm buildings on another.

Sources

1. ↑ The Descendants of Frederick Stover, 1770
2. ↑ Canada Census 1851 for Norwich, Oxford, Canada West (Ontario) https://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.item/?app=Census1851&op=img&id=e002364466 Albert Stover, 38, b Canada, farmer, Quaker. Betsy W Stover, 37, b United States, Quaker. Isabela Stover 14. John W Stover 12. Albin Stover 10. Mary Stover 7. Gulielma Stover 4. Miranda Stover 2.
3. ↑ Canada Census 1861, North Norwich, Oxford, Canada West (Ontario) (https://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.item/?app=Census1861&op=img&id=4391949_00540): Albert C Stover, 47, b Canada West, farmer, Quaker. Betsy W Stover, 46, United States, Quaker. Isabel Stover 23. John W Stover 21. AlbinStover. 19: Mary B Stover 16. Gulielma Stover 13. (https://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.item/?app=Census1861&op=img&id=4391949_00542) Miranda Stover 11. Lydia Stover 7. Albert F Stover 2. Isabel Haight 78 United States, Quaker, widow.
4. ↑ Canada Census, 1871, Norwich North, Oxford South, Ontario. (https://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.item/?app=Census1871&op=img&id=4396605_00553)
5. ↑ Canada Census, 1881, Norwich North, Oxford South, Ontario. (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MVDX-6LH : 2 March 2021) Albert C Stover, 67, Ontario, married, farmer, Quaker. Betsy Stover, 65 ,USA, married, Quaker. Isabella Stover, 42, Ontario, Quaker.
6. ↑ Canada, Ontario Marriages, 1869-1927(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FMV6-3NJ : 8 March 2021) from image: Albert C Stover, 75, North Norwich, widower, farmer, son of Frederick and Mary Stover married Elizabeth Spencer, 63, Res: Pelham, b Germany, daughter of Thomas and Christiana White, May 2, 1889, Pelham, by custom of Friends Church without clergyman.
7. ↑ Canada, Ontario Deaths, 1869-1937 (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JDDB-J3J : 2 March 2021) from image: Albert C Stover, died Oct 28, 1896, 82yrs,4mo,2days, retired farmer, b Norwich, Oxford, Ont, reported by Mrs. E C Stover, Friend, died Pelham, Welland, Ontario.

• Canadian Yearly Meeting Archives; Newmarket, Ontario, Canada; Canadian Quaker Yearly Meeting Records; Reel Number: 1354
• "Ontario Marriages, 1869-1927," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FMNH-1J4 : 11 March 2018), Albert C Stover in entry for Daniel B Cohoe and Miranda Stover, 18 Mar 1874; citing registration , North Norwich, Oxford, Ontario, Canada, Archives of Ontario, Toronto; FHL microfilm 1,862,893.
• Canada, Quaker Meeting Records, 1786-1988 (Provo, UT, USA, Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014), Ancestry.Com, Canadian Yearly Meeting Archives; Newmarket, Ontario, Canada; Canadian Quaker Yearly Meeting Records; Reel Number: 1354. Record for Frederick Stover. Birth date for Albert C. Stover.
• Marriage: Canada, Quaker Meeting Records, 1786-1988 (Provo, UT, USA, Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014), Ancestry.Com, Canadian Yearly Meeting Archives; Newmarket, Ontario, Canada; Canadian Quaker Yearly Meeting Records; Reference Number: A-2-1; Reel Number: 4. Record for Betsey Webster.
• Death: U.S., Quaker Periodicals, 1828-1929 (Provo, UT, USA, Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013), Ancestry.Com, Quaker Periodicals, Haverford College; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; The American Friend; Volumes: 1897 Jan - 1897 Dec (Vol 4). Record for Albert Cary Stover.