Families of John Sutherland Sylvester

JOHN SUTHERLAND SYLVESTER, son of RACHEL SUTHERLAND and RICHARD SYLVESTER, was born November 27, 1812 in New York,⁴⁸¹³ and died May 16, 1860 in Athens, Fayette, Kentucky.⁴⁸¹³

He married (1) PHIANIA HILLS. She was born in 1820,⁴⁸¹³ and died December 23, 1851.⁴⁸¹³

He married (2) LUCINDA HARRIET SMITH in 1854.⁴⁸¹³ She was born in 1820 in East Avon, Livingston, New York,⁴⁸¹³ and died September 22, 1859.⁴⁸¹³

• Descendant Reports
  • Samuel Stanley Descendant Report (Ancestor of John S. Sylvester)
  • William Sutherland Descendant Report (Ancestor of John S. Sylvester)
  • Joseph Baker Descendant Report (Ancestor of John S. Sylvester)

Children of PHIANIA HILLS and JOHN SUTHERLAND SYLVESTER:

1. MARY MALVINA SYLVESTER, b. June 4, 1838, Illinois;⁴⁵⁶ m. WILLIAM H. GEORGE on December 23, 1858 in Indiana⁵³⁶⁹; d. August 30, 1879, Montezuma, Parke, Indiana.⁴⁵⁶
2. JOHN WESLEY SYLVESTER, b. September 27, 1840, New York;⁴⁹³¹ d. December 9, 1927, Montezuma, Parke, Indiana.⁴⁹³¹
3. WILLIAM HILLS SYLVESTER, b. 1842, Wisconsin; m. NETTIE B. WOLF on June 8, 1897 in Indiana⁵³⁶⁹; d. May 10, 1906, Montezuma, Parke, Indiana.⁸⁸⁵²
4. STEPHEN PRICE SYLVESTER, b. April 29, 1843, New York;⁴⁵⁶ d. June 20, 1918, Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana.⁴⁹³¹

Children of LUCINDA HARRIET SMITH and JOHN SUTHERLAND SYLVESTER:

5. FRANK ADELBERT SYLVESTER, b. January 13, 1853, Belleville, Dane, Wisconsin;⁴⁵⁶ d. November 6, 1873, Bear Trap Lake, Lincoln, Polk, Wisconsin;¹²²⁷⁹ bur. Fox Cemetery, Amery, Polk, Wisconsin.⁴⁵⁶
6. PHIANIA EMILY SYLVESTER, b. September 28, 1856, Bellville, Wisconsin;⁴⁹³¹ m. JOHN EDWARD DONALDSON on February 21, 1894 in Cook County, Illinois²⁰⁸⁵; d. December 8, 1941, Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana.⁴⁹³¹
7. ELLEN AGNES SYLVESTER, b. September 8, 1858, Athens, Fayette, Kentucky;⁶⁹⁶⁰ m. WILLIAM OSCAR COLTON on February 28, 1880 in Albany, Green, Wisconsin⁴⁸¹⁸; d. March 6, 1903, Colton, Minnehaha, South Dakota.⁴⁵⁶

Obituaries

Wisconsin State Journal, November 17, 1873¹²²⁷⁹

—The New Richmond Republican learns that a dreadful causality occurred at Bear Trap Lake, in the town of Lincoln, Polk county. Two young men named respectively La Moine Sylvester, son of Chas. Sylvester, Esq., of Lincoln, aged almost 18 years, and his cousin, Frank A. Sylvester, 20 years old, of Sylvester, Green county, and at the time of the disaster, was engaged in teaching the Bear Trap school, went out on the lake skating Thursday afternoon, the 6th inst. Soon after leaving they broke through, and all efforts to save them were in vain. Just before the boat crew that went to their aid reached them (having to cut their way foot by foot through the ice), La Moine sank. Their bodies were found next evening.

Census Records

Date	Location	Enumerated Names
August 22, 18504817	Sylvester, Green, Wisconsin	John Sutherland Sylvester Phiania Hills Mary Malvina Sylvester John Wesley Sylvester William Hills Sylvester Stephen Price Sylvester Rachel Sutherland