Fannie Leitch and Norvel Harlow Sylvester

NORVEL HARLOW SYLVESTER, son of RACHEL SUTHERLAND and RICHARD SYLVESTER, was born January 16, 1816 in New York,⁷⁰²⁴ and died January 12, 1899 in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin.^{7024, 7149} He is buried in Forest Hill Cemetery, Madison, Dane, Wisconsin.⁴⁵⁶

He married FANNIE LEITCH on June 13, 1839 in Paris, Edgar, Illinois.⁷¹⁴⁶ She was born November 28, 1818 in Fredericksburg, Virginia,⁷¹⁴⁶ and died September 23, 1887 in Madison, Dane, Wisconsin.⁷¹⁴⁶

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

Children of FANNIE LEITCH and NORVEL HARLOW SYLVESTER:

1. CHARLES SYLVESTER, b. 1842, Wisconsin; m. MARIA L. LONG on June 3, 1867 in Green County, Wisconsin⁴⁸¹⁸.
2. ELLEN SYLVESTER, b. 1844, Wisconsin; m. (1) EZRA G. WARREN on March 12, 1865 in Green County, Wisconsin⁴²¹, m. (2) WILLIAM V. DRAKE on June 10, 1870 in Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin⁴⁸¹⁸; d. September 14, 1893, Madison, Dane, Wisconsin.⁸⁸⁸¹
3. GEORGE SYLVESTER, b. December 31, 1847, Wisconsin;⁴⁵⁶ m. (1) LOUISE ELLEN WEST on June 25, 1873 in Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin¹⁰⁷²⁷, m. (2) SARA CUNNINGHAM STULL on January 31, 1883 in Stoddartsville, Luzerne, Pennsylvania²⁶⁰¹; d. March 3, 1911.⁴⁵⁶
4. HERBERT SYLVESTER, b. 1852, Wisconsin; m. LUCY MULLINS on October 10, 1888 in Paris, Edgar, Illinois⁴⁶³⁵; d. April 6, 1895, Madison, Dane, Wisconsin.⁷¹⁴⁸

Obituaries

Wisconsin State Journal, September 24, 1887⁷¹⁴⁶

SYLVESTER—At her home in the town of Madison, September 23, 1887, Mrs. Harlow Sylvester, aged 58 years.

Mrs. Fannie (Leitch) Sylvester was born at Fredericksburg, Va., Nov. 28, 1818. She was married to Harlow Sylvester at Paris, Ill., June 13, 1839, and removed to Wisconsin in 1844, suffering all the hardships that new settlers have to undergo. She and her husband cast their lot in what afterward became the town of Sylvester, Green county, Wis., and removed to Madison in 1867, to better educate their children. She leaves a husband and four children to mourn her loss, Charles, Ellen (now Mrs. Drake), George, of Cotzhauzen, Sylvester, Sheiber & Sloan attorneys, of Milwaukee, and Herbert the youngest.

Weekly Wisconsin, January 21, 1899⁷¹⁴⁹

Milwaukee, Wis., January 14, 1899.—Harlow Sylvester, father of George Sylvester, the attorney, died Thursday night at the residence of his son, 2823 State street. Mr. Sylvester was 83 years old.

Census Records

Date	Location	Enumerated Names
August 23, 18504817	Sylvester, Green, Wisconsin	Norvel Harlow Sylvester Fannie Leitch Charles Sylvester Ellen Sylvester George Sylvester
August 20, 18604814	Madison, Dane, Wisconsin	Norvel Harlow Sylvester Fannie Leitch Charles Sylvester Ellen Sylvester George Sylvester Herbert Sylvester
June 17, 18707147	Madison, Dane, Wisconsin	Norvel Harlow Sylvester Fannie Leitch Charles Sylvester Ellen Sylvester George Sylvester Herbert Sylvester George Otis Warren
June 5, 18808879	Madison, Dane, Wisconsin	Norvel Harlow Sylvester Fannie Leitch Charles Sylvester Herbert Sylvester George Otis Warren Genevieve Sylvester Frederick West Sylvester