Born [location unknown]
Ancestors 
Daughter of Aaron Wakeman
and Sarah (Sherwood) Wakeman
Sister of
Mary (Wakeman) Merwin, Sarah Wakeman, Charles Wakeman, Aaron Wakeman, Laurinda (Wakeman) Nichols, Burr Wakeman, Betsey (Wakeman) Sherwood, Eli Wakeman and Moses Wakeman
Wife of
Jonathan Banks
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Descendants 
Mother of
Ann Caroline (Banks) Sherwood and Jonathan Banks
Died
at age 54
[location unknown]
Profile last modified
| Created 25 Mar 2017
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Biography
Her will is dated 24 June 1841 and proved on 30 October 1841 in Fairfield. She mentions her grandson Henry Patchen, her son Jonathan, and her daughters, Anna Caroline, wife of Eli Sherwood, and Polly Wakeman, wife of Samuel Bradley Goodsell.[1]
Her share of her husband's estate was to be set out to Anna Caroline, wife of Eli Sherwood, Polly Wakeman Goodsell, wife of Samuel B. Goodsell, Jonathan Banks, the heirs of Catherine Patchen, decd, late wife of Jarvis Patchen.[1]
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 “Probate Records, v. 32-33, 1835-1847”, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L92K-TYQH :17 October 2022), FHL microfilm 007627298, image 260-261, Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, Vol 33, 1840-1847, Pages 41-43.
- Jacobus, Donald Lines, compiled & edited (1930-2). History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield For the Eunice Dennie Burr Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution (Fairfield, Connecticut), Genealogical Publishing Company, Vol. 2, page 46
- Wakeman, Robert Peel. Wakeman Genealogy, 1630-1899 (Journal Publishing Co., Meriden, Conn., 1900) Page 217 under #57
- Commemorative Biographical Record of Fairfield County (J.H. Beers & Co., Chicago, 1899) Page 507-8.
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