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I am the ggg grandson of Amos and Eliza Williams who were married August 18, 1834 in Sussex Co., NJ and moved to an area of Luzerne which later became Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania. In all our family documentation, Eliza's maiden name was spelled Stickels. I have a copy of an interesting 1881 affidavit for a Civil War veteren's widow's pension claim wherein an Abraham Stickles of Sussex County, NJ attests that Amos Williams and Eliza (Stickels) Williams were man and wife. Throughout the document, Eliza's maiden name was not spelled like Abraham's surname. Though I can't make out all of the the hand-written text, Abraham does not appear to make mention of a familial relationship to Eliza. He only states that he had been acquainted with Amos and Eliza for 30 years. The 30 year relationship would establish the start of the said acquaintence at 1851 -- seventeen years after the marriage of Amos and Eliza. There is no mention of Abraham's age in the affidavit. I want to believe my Eliza and the one mentioned in your summation of the Stickles of Sussex County are one in the same. Have you, or has anyone else, experienced variations in the Stickels/Stickles spelling while doing research?
MW
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