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Ester (Sumner) Damon (1814 - 1906)

Ester (Esther) Damon formerly Sumner
Born in Plymouth, Windsor, Vermont, United Statesmap
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Wife of — married 1838 in Bridgewater, Windsor, Vermont, United Statesmap
[children unknown]
Died at age 92 in Plymouth, Windsor, Vermont, United Statesmap
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Biography

Daughters of the American Revolution
Esther (Sumner) Damon was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

Esther was born in 1814 in Plymouth, Vermont.[1][2] Her parents were Justus Sumner and Elizabeth Thompson, both of Chester, Vermont.[3]

Marriage

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

  1. "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.
  2. "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. 3.0 3.1 "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.
  4. "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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