When
did Margery (Avery) Shipman die?
I
believe I know when my 5th great-grandmother, Margery Avery, the daughter of Nathaniel Avery and Mary Wickwire, was
born. Looking at the microfilm for the Lyme Connecticut town records
I found her born 11
Jan 1757. She also is listed in the town records for Lyme when she
married Abner Shipman on 20 Oct 1779. The birthdates for their 13
children are recorded in the Lyme records.
But
when did Margery die? The website Find A Grave has a page for her,
but without a death date. There is a photograph of a tombstone from
Woodlawn Cemetery, Lincklaen, Chenango County, New York. It is a
stone with both her husband Abner and her names. It has birth and
death dates for him, but only a birthdate for her. The tombstone
appears to be much newer than the 1832 death date for Abner, so may
have been erected later by one of the descendants.
I've
found Margery's birth, marriage and births of her children in 3
different published family histories: Avery, Wickwire and Shipman.
None of them gives death information for her.
Maybe
the US census could help give a clue. The census listings for Abner
show a female of about the correct age in 1790 and 1800 in New London
County, Connecticut and 1810 and 1820 in Chenango County, New York.
So far I have not been able to locate either of them in the 1830
census. Thus I may use a death date of "after 1820" and continue
looking.
See
Margery on my website:http://www.joanneskelton.com/p96.htm#i2377
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