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m. Aft 24 Oct 1801 - Eliza W HowardAbt 1801 - 1879
- Olive HowardAbt 1803 - 1819
Facts and Events
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Allegheny County (Pennsylvania). Clerk of the Orphans' Court, and Allegheny County (Pennsylvania). Register of Wills. Registration of deaths in the city of Allegheny, 1876-1907. (Pittsburgh [Pennsylvania]: C. Edwin Hultman Co., 1975-1976)
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Full Name of Deceased: Eliza Lyman
Color: White
Sex: Female
Age: 78 years
Condition: Married
Date of Death: May 3 1879
Place of Birth: Warwick Mass.
Place of Death: 205 Rebecca Street
Place of Interment: Uniondale Cem.
- Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States. 1860 U.S. Census Population Schedule
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- Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States. 1870 U.S. Census Population Schedule
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- ↑ The will of Zachariah Barber in 1821 names grand daughter Eliza W. Howard heir of my daughter Olive deceased. Eliza must have been born between 1801 when Olive married and 1805 when her father remarried. The will of William Howard in 1859 names a daughter Eliza W. Lyman, and the petition of the administrator of his estate in 1861 names Eliza Lyman wife of Lewis Lyman of Pennsylvania as a heir.
It would be surprising if the death record cited above does not belong to this Eliza, mentioning, as it does, Warwick, Mass. on a death record in Allegheny, PA. Since her father was of Paxton for both his marriages, Paxton was probably the actual birthplace, but Warwick would have been her childhood home from about age 6 or 7 onwards.
The only census records that have been found are somewhat inconsistent (birthplaces and ages not all consistent) but appear to probably correspond to the death record. The 1860 census shows Eliza married to a James Lyman. In cursive handwriting James and Lewis would appear similar, but the petition cited above definitely says Lewis (the beginning L is unmistakably an L, compare to the L in Lyman, and there is a dot over the name so it appears an i was intended). If James was misread as Lewis, it was probably done by the administrator copying off some other document. But it appears Eliza's husband in 1860, and hence in 1861, when the petition would have been filed, was James, not Lewis.
There is a gap in the ages of the children shown in the 1860 census which suggests Eliza could be a second wife. Countering that, the eldest daughter is named Eliza. Only George is living with Eliza in 1870, but the others would certainly all have been old enough to be on their own, so that may not be meaningful.
Needless to say, not much can be said with great certainty and more research is needed.
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