Esther married Noah Damon on 6 September 1835 in Bridgewater, Vermont.
Pension
Esther was the last living woman to receive a widow's pension from the American Revolutionary War.
Death
By 1900, she was living in Plymouth, Vermont.[4] She passed away in 1906 in Plymouth from acute bronchitis. She also suffered from senile disability.[3]
Sources
↑ "Vermont Vital Records, 1760-1954," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V89Q-ZJF : 5 November 2017), Ester Sumner, 01 Aug 1814, Birth; State Capitol Building, Montpelier; FHL microfilm 27,703.
↑ "Vermont Vital Records, 1760-1954," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V89Q-ZJF : 5 November 2017), Ester Sumner, 01 Aug 1814, Birth; State Capitol Building, Montpelier; FHL microfilm 27,703.
↑ 3.03.1 "Vermont Vital Records, 1760-1954," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XF9L-JQ8 : 5 November 2017), Esther S. Sumner Damon, 10 Nov 1906, Death; State Capitol Building, Montpelier; FHL microfilm 540,080.
↑ "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MMPC-MX9 : accessed 18 July 2019), Esther S Damon, Plymouth town, Windsor, Vermont, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 278, sheet 2B, family 54, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,241,696.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Esther by comparing test results with other carriers of her ancestors' mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Esther: