Person:Eliza Wheaton (1)

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Eliza Partridge Wheaton
b.Abt 1810 Vermont, United States
d.Bef 1854 probably Winchester, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States
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m. May 1836
  1. Levi Emerson SweetserAbt 1837 - Abt 1862
  2. Sanford Davis SweetserCal 1841 - 1879
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Name[3] Eliza Partridge Wheaton
Gender Female
Birth[2] Abt 1810 Vermont, United States
Marriage May 1836 Athol, Worcester, Massachusetts, United Statesto William S Sweetser
Death? Bef 1854 probably Winchester, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United StatesHusband remarried
References
  1.   Sweetser, Philip Starr. Seth Sweetser and his Descendants. (Philadelphia, Pa.: Integrity Press, 1938)
    [1] p. 186.

    William Sanford Sweetser [#270] m. 2 May 1836 Eliza Partridge Wheaton of Warwick, Mass. She died at Paxton Dec 1852.
    [Note: see note below.

  2. ↑ Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. 1850 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration Publication M432)
    line 18.
  3. ↑ Very little is known of Eliza.

    First, the death date given by the Sweetser manuscript is not shown in Paxton records (should be here - be sure to use the date of death column, not the date of registration). Then there is a death, on the following page, of Elizabeth Sweetser in Dec 1853 (i.e., not 1852), but this appears to be William's mother since she is age 82. All this suggests some likelihood that the report of Eliza's death is based on confusion with her mother-in-law's death.

    Eliza is listed of Warwick, and William's brother Samuel m. an Abigail Wheaton, d/o Abijah and Abigail Wheaton of Warwick. But no records are found for this family. So we cannot confirm her membership in this family.

    Allred has no identification of Eliza, has no information on Abijah Wheaton of Warwick, but does show a Samuel Wheaton, s/o Reuben Wheaton and Abigail Partridge. If Eliza's middle name was Partridge (her initial of P is seen a lot but Partridge is only explicitly given in Sweetser manuscript), it would suggest she was Samuel's sister. But again no record is found.

    The one clue we get is from the 1850 census (line 18) which shows her living in Worcester with her sons. Her birth is about 1810 in Vermont. She is an excellent match to the marriage record of Charles W Brown to Eliza P Sweetser found in Worcester in 1851 (record 50) but no birthplace or parents are given. If this marriage is true, she died before 1854 (but the Sweetser manuscript still appears to be reporting the wrong death) when this Charles W. Brown of Winchester married yet again (here).
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