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Sarah
Everett
1881 personal census, Howard Twp, Kent Co., ON, LDS 1881 census household record:
Minshall Marsilus, M, Married, 53, born Ont, origin: English, Farmer;
Sarah, F, Married, 43, born Ont, origin: Welsh, E Methodist;
Ann, F, 18, born Ont, origin: English, E Methodist;
John, M, 16, born Ont, origin: English, E Methodist;
Charles, M, 14, born Ont, origin: English, E Methodist;
Elizabeth, F, 10, born Ont, origin: English, E Methodist.
The Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Kent, J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1904, p. 862-863:
William Alexander Everett (deceased). Few citizens of the County of Kent were better known or more thoroughly respected than was the late William Alexander Everett, whose death on Feb. 20, 1889, removed one of the early residents of Chatham township. His birth took place Aug. 13, 1815, in Chatham township, nineteen years after the settlement of his family in that location.
The Everett family is of Welsh extraction. The grandfather of the above, also William Alexander Everett, was born in Pennsylvania about 1740, and married Nancy Jackman, also a native of that State. In 1796 they settled on the 1st Concession, river front, in Chatham township, near Louisville, and there engaged in farming until they died, the grandfather passing away in 1821 and his widow a few years later. The children born to these worthy people were: ... (4) John, born in Pennsylvania, who came with the family to the County of Kent, married Sally Sherman, and they had five children: David, William, John, Elizabeth and Sarah, of whom William, John and Sarah (wife of Marcellus Minschel) still reside in Howard township, County of Kent...
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