Jemima (Wright) Dewey (1787 - 1862)

Born 5 Apr 1787 in Hanover, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Oliver Dewey — married 10 Mar 1814 in Hanover, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States

Descendants

Died 1862 at about age 74 in Canton, Fulton, Illinois, United States

Biography

Jemima was born in 1787, the daughter of Nathaniel Wright and Mary Page.^[1] She married Oliver Dewey in 1814 in Hanover, New Hampshire.^[2] Oliver, Jemima and their children left New Hampshire and arrived in Fulton County, Illinois, in the fall of 1832.^[3] She passed away in 1862.^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ "New Hampshire Births and Christenings, 1714-1904", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FDNV-RHX : 18 January 2020), Jemima Wright, 1787.
2. ↑ "New Hampshire Marriage Records, 1637-1947," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FLXW-4FF : 2 April 2020), Oliver Dewey and Jemima Wright, 10 Mar 1814; citing Hanover, , New Hampshire, Bureau of Vital Records and Health Statistics, Concord; FHL microfilm 1,000,986.
3. ↑ Chapman, Charles, History of Fulton County, C.C. Chapman and Co., Peoria, Illinois, 1879, page 546.
4. ↑ "BillionGraves Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2MM-N2XK : 29 December 2015), Jemima Dewey, died 1862; citing BillionGraves (http://www.billiongraves.com : 2012), Burial at Saint Mary Cemetery, Canton, Fulton, Illinois, United States.

• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M85R-7MY : 4 April 2020), Jemima Dewey in household of Oliver Dewey, Canton, Fulton, Illinois, United States; citing family 99, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
• "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXC8-PNN : 11 November 2020), Jemimma Dewey in entry for Ferris Mc Crocken, 1860.