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Thank you all so much for your assistance in the last year. My family has been wondering about the details of our Carver ancestors for about fifty years and I've finally tracked them down. Since the woman I found doesn't seem to be on any of your lists I'm passing along her information to you.
According to the Town Clerk of Clayton, New York, Sarah B. Carver was born in Cape Vincent, New York in 1843 and died in the
Village of Potsdam in September of 1923. Ms. Rose got this information from the
Cemetery record at Brookside Cemetery, Watertown, New York.
The State Historical Society of Wisconsin Registration of Marriages from 1868 (page 173/4) shows that Sarah B. Carver married my
ggGrandfather, James Harris Fox in Buena Vista, Wisconsin on July 12, 1868. This marriage was registered in Richland County, but probably took place in Buena Vista Township, Sheboygan County. James is listed as residing in Wilton, Iowa. Sarah was James' third wife, the first two, sisters, had
died in childbirth or soon there after.
This Marriage record states that her parents were Nathaniel Carver and Sarah J. Carver. Research from some of you has shown that her mother's name was Sarah Jane Britton Carver. She is referred to as Jane or Sarah
in different sources.
Sarah Jane Britton Carver moved to Wisconsin after she was widowed and bought land ccording to the Bureau of East Lands records.
Further documentation of Sarah Carver identity is found in a book by her
step-daughter, Lydia Mantle Fox. The book, Eighty Plus - 1861 to 1945
(The Christopher Publishing House, Boston, Mass,1950).
Pertinent sections are quoted below.
This book mentions that Sarah's brother is 'Nat' Carver. This is in line
with listings from some of you folks that show a Nathaniel Carver, Sr.
having a son Nathaniel Eleazer Carver with his wife Sarah.
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Once I figured out (from Flower Memorial Library in New York) that James
Fox's wife was named Sarah Carver I went looking for any other information about her. It wasn't until I tracked down a
copy of Lydia Mantle Fox's book that I found the clue that Sarah's brother and father
were named Nathaniel. Then backtracking through all of your various resources I found her brother, father, mother and wedding. It was a wonderful puzzle, particularly once solved.
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More detailed information on Sarah and her family can be found on my
genealogy Web page:
http://userpages.itis.com/anlex/edith/foxindex.html#CARVER
Eighty Plus - 1861 to 1945, Lydia Mantle Fox:
On pages 29-30 :
"That winter, Sarah Carver was the
schoolteacher and
Grandfather made a match between her
and my father. It used to be said that
that was the
only match he engineered in his family, and the
one he liked least in later years.
Sarah Carver and her family went in the
spring to
Wisconsin and father, Aunt Stears and I went
back to Iowa, leaving Hattie and Baby
Jim at
Grandfather's in the care of Grandmother Olive
and Aunt Manie.
Tradition has it that Aunt Stears
hinted that Father's
marriage to a third Mantle girl would be
appropriate, though she was much older
than he and had
been a widow many years. However,
Father wasn't having any. Besides, he
was going to
Wisconsin later after Sarah Carver."
Pages 30 "... and down the street I sped, determined to
walk to Wilton,
fifteen miles away. Father had
married Sarah Carver by this time and
the rest of the
family were there.
... After we were settled, Father in
Wilton and Aunt
Stears and I in Tipton, Father took me with
him to, Wisconsin where he married
Sarah Carver, and
then we all went to New York State
after little Hattie and Baby Jim.
Hattie was a lovely
child and Jim a dumpling of a baby.
I have often thought how hard it must
have been for
Mother Sarah, a prude to the nth degree,
and not in the least domestic or
adaptable, to start
out her married life on a long railroad journey
with three children. It took three days
to go from
Iowa to New York . There were no sleeping
cars and had there been, Father would
have thought
that an unpardonable extravagance
Mother Sarah was a strange woman. I
have always
believed that had my mother or Mother Van
lived, they would have smoothed out or
never allowed
to develop, Father's eccentricities, for he
admired and respected both so highly
and he adored my
mother as long as he lived. But, with
Sarah, his oddities increased.
... Mother Sarah's brother, Uncle Nat
Carver,
traveled over the country introducing Ivison,
Phinney & Blakeman's text books a
revolution from the
old McGuffey's readers..."
--
Sonia Yaco
Anlex Computer Consulting
2343 West Lawn Avenue Madison, WI 53711
Email: anlex@itis.com
Anlex Web Page: http://userpages.itis.com/anlex/
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