... 901. x. Charlotte Dwight (dau. of Seth Dwight, Senior, of Somers, Ct., and Joanna Kellogg), b. Nov. 21, 1762, m. Nov. 24, 1785, Asa Olmstead of Enfield, Ct., b. Dec. 27, 1745 (son of Joseph Olmstead of Bolton, Ct., and Martha White - dau. of Dea. John White of Hatfield, Mass., and Hannah Wells of Hadley, Mass., dau. of Thomas and Mary Wells). He was a farmer. He was drowned in the Connecticut river at Hartford, Nov. 5, 1795, aet. 50.
She m. for a 2d husband Abel Sikes, and as his 2d wife, in 1803. Her youngest sister Lois was his first wife : see subsequent page. She d. July 1, 1825, aet. 62.
She was a handsome woman, of dignified mien and carriage, and a faithful Christian mother, who trained her children to strict principles of moral action. She managed efficiently in her widowhood her large family of triple origin, and the quite considerable estate, for those days, that was left by both husbands in her hands. ...
