Person:Silas Seaver (6)

CENSUS RECORDS:

An extensive search was conducted on www.ancestry.com in the 1850 US census, but this family was not found in a given name plus surname search, a given name search for both Silas and Rhoda in Massachusetts and Indiana, and in a wild card surname plus birthplace and age search.

In the 1860 US Census, this family resided in Republican township, Jefferson County, Indiana. The household included Silas W. Sever (age 61, male, white, farming, $600 in real property, $287 in personal property, born MA), Rhoda Sever (age 58, female, white, born MA) and Smyrna Sever (age 19, male, white, farming, born IN), Samuel P. Sever (age 23, male, white, farming, $1500 in real property, $155 in personal property, born IN), Rhoda A. Sever (age 15, female, white, born IN) and Sandford Sever (age 22, male, white, farming, born IN) [National Archives Microfilm Series M653, Roll 270, page 590, line 27].

In the 1870 US Census, this family resided in Republican township, Jefferson County, Indiana. The household included Charles Severs (age 70, male, white, a cooper, $1200 in real property, $350 in personal property, born MA, blind), Rhoda Severs (age 67, female, white, keeping house, born MA) and Sanford Severs (age 29, male, white, farm laborer, born IN) [National Archives Microfilm Series M593, Roll 328, Page 504a, Line 35].

1. ↑ Westminster, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. Vital records of Westminster, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849. (Worcester, Massachusetts: Franklin P. Rice, 1908)
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   SEAVER, Silas Whitney, s. Benjamin and Marthy, [born] Nov. 24, 1799.