Descendants of Aaron STURGES (1760-1842)
Notes
2.
Deborah STURGES
Data on this family came from A STURGES FAMILY STORY by Art Danforth, 1982.
1850 FEDERAL CENSUS, FAIRFIELD COUNTY, CONNECTICUT:
Fairfield:
p. 030A:
Household/Family #465/486:
Banks Sturges, age 70, Farmer, $300 real estate, born CT
*Deborah Sturges, age 67, born CT
Jonathan Sturges, age 32, Farmer, born CT
Banks STURGES
1810 FEDERAL CENSUS, FAIRFIELD COUNTY, CONNECTICUT:
p. 079:
Banks Sturges household:
1 male age 0-10
1 male age 26-45
2 females age 0-10
1 female age 26-45
2 females over age 45
1820 FEDERAL CENSUS, FAIRFIELD COUNTY, CONNECTICUT:
p. 246:
Banks Sturges household:
1 male age 0-10
1 male age 16-18
1 male age 16-26
1 male age 26-45
1 female age 0-10
1 female age 10-16
1 female age 26-45
1830 FEDERAL CENSUS, FAIRFIELD COUNTY, CONNECTICUT:
p. 081:
Banks Sturges household:
1 male age 10-15
1 male age 50-60
1 female age 40-50
1840 FEDERAL CENSUS, FAIRFIELD COUNTY, CONNECTICUT:
p. 369:
Banks Sturges household:
1 male age 15-20
1 male age 20-30
1 male age 60-70
1 female age 50-60
1850 FEDERAL CENSUS, FAIRFIELD COUNTY, CONNECTICUT:
Fairfield:
p. 030A:
Household/Family #465/486:
*Banks Sturges, age 70, Farmer, $300 real estate, born CT
Deborah Sturges, age 67, born CT
Jonathan Sturges, age 32, Farmer, born CT
20.
Jonathan STURGES
1850 FEDERAL CENSUS, FAIRFIELD COUNTY, CONNECTICUT:
Fairfield:
p. 030A:
Household/Family #465/486:
Banks Sturges, age 70, Farmer, $300 real estate, born CT
Deborah Sturges, age 67, born CT
*Jonathan Sturges, age 32, Farmer, born CT
7.
Sarah STURGES
Data on this family came from A STURGES FAMILY STORY by Art Danforth, 1982.
A STURGES FAMILY STORY, by Art Danforth, Feb 1982:
pp. 83-84:
Salla STURGES, born Jan 23, 1793; married Oliver Danforth, Nov 12, 1812 (he born Dec 3, 1783. Moved to Augusta, GA, before 1815; in 1816, she in Ballston Springs, NY awaiting birth of second son. Oliver's brother Jacob Danforth in 1820-1850 census, Richmond, GA
Issue: Jacob, James, two other sons and a daughter born Apr 23, 1822
1841, Sally accompanied father to Tiskilwa, Bureau Co, IL, where unmarried sister Lydia lived. Oliver died 1865.
Saratoga County, NY, Church Records--LDS Film #533,502:
Ballston Center Presbyterian Church Record, 1775-1877:
Marriage, Nov 12, 1812: Oliver Danforth & Sally STURGES, Fees $2
1850 FEDERAL CENSUS, RICHMOND COUNTY, GEORGIA:
p. 459B:
Household/Family #282:
*Sarah Danforth, age 60, born GA
1860 FEDERAL CENSUS, RICHMOND COUNTY, GEORGIA:
City of Augusta, 4th Ward:
p. 871:
Household/Family #1402/1368:
Malinda Nelson, age 37, $5000 real estate, $13,800 personal property, born GA
Thomas A. Nelson, age 16, Medical Student, born GA
Harriott Nelson, age 12, born GA
Elizabeth Nelson, age 7, born GA
Oliver Danforth, age 77, born MA
*Sarah Danforth, age 67, born CT
Oliver DANFORTH
1840 FEDERAL CENSUS, RICHMOND COUNTY, GEORGIA:
p. 281:
Oliver Danforth household:
1 male age 5-10
1 male age 50-60
1 female age 10-15
1 female age 40-50
1860 FEDERAL CENSUS, RICHMOND COUNTY, GEORGIA:
City of Augusta, 4th Ward:
p. 871:
Household/Family #1402/1368:
Malinda Nelson, age 37, $5000 real estate, $13,800 personal property, born GA
Thomas A. Nelson, age 16, Medical Student, born GA
Harriott Nelson, age 12, born GA
Elizabeth Nelson, age 7, born GA
*Oliver Danforth, age 77, born MA
Sarah Danforth, age 67, born CT
8.
Eli STURGES
A STURGES FAMILY STORY, by Art Danforth, Feb 1982:
pp. 83-84:
ELI STURGES
"Born March 26, 1795, the son of Aaron and Sarah Morehouse STURGES. By 1816 he had moved to Augusta, Georgia, where he first worked in a brickyard producing very rough brick. He was then overseer of twenty negroes, and wrote that he couldn't trust them to keep the fire going and that they required 'beating about like so many oxen.' However, he had learned how to 'manage the negroes tolerably well...did not have to whip but two.' In 1817, Eli got a job managing a river boat for Jacob Danforth, hauling cotton. He also took a load on to New York--a quick six day passage from Savannah. But Augusta was 128 miles up river, and he felt the lowlands around Savannah were an unhealthy place to live. In 1822, Eli and his family lived eight miles from Oliver and Sally. Then, or later, he had at least two sons. In 1841, he travelled west from Saratoga County, NY, to Bureau County, Illinois, with his widowed father and several brothers and sisters--including Sally, his sister and Oliver's wife. He apparently returned to Georgia. For on February 23, 1858, he wrote his sister Lydia in Illinois that he had a growing cancer on his face and that his eye was inflamed. In June 1861, he could hardly eat and his nose was gone; he did not expect to live long. But he invited Lydia to come and live with them, adding he 'was in hopes it would be settled by treaty and be no blood shed.' But in an undated letter (probably November 1863) to Ellen STURGES in Minnesota, Lydia noted Eli had two sons old enough to be in the war. (He might also have had grandsons in it! In either case, cousins would have fought cousins--which was not unusual.) We have no added information."
War of 1812 Records--LDS Film #847,520:
Wid. Orig. 10086
Soldier: Eli STURGES
Widow: Altimira STURGES
Service: Capt. Reuben Wescott's Co, N.Y. Mil.
Russell County, AL, Marriages 1833-1887--LDS Film #836,755:
p. 8:
Eli STURGIS & Elizabeth Allen, Oct 6, 1834, p. 264
Russell County, AL, Deeds--LDS Film #1,302,117:
Book D:
p. 38:
Deed from William Williamson to Eli STURGES, for $200, tract known as west half of northeast quarter of Section 4 in township 17 and Range 29, in the district of lands subject to sale at Montgomery, AL, containing 80 acres,
11 Jan 1840
Signed: Wm Williamson
Wit: P.H. Battes, James Johnson
1840 FEDERAL CENSUS, RUSSELL COUNTY, ALABAMA:
p. 029:
Eli Sturges household:
1 male age 40-50
1 female age 20-30
Russell County, AL, Marriages 1833-1887--LDS Film #836,755:
p. 2:
Eli STURGIS & Alamine Holland, May 30, 1842, p. 58 by Augustus J. Brown
1850 FEDERAL CENSUS, RUSSELL COUNTY, ALABAMA:
p. 089B:
Household/Family #1247/1247:
*Eli Sturges, age 55, Farmer, $300 real estate, born NY
Altimira Sturges, age 30, born GA
Missouri Sturges, age 8, female, born AL
Oliver Sturges, age 7, born AL
George Sturges, age 6, born AL
Macus Sturges, age 4, male, born AL
Eliza Sturges, age 3, born AL
Louisa Sturges, age 2, born AL
1860 FEDERAL CENSUS, RUSSELL COUNTY, ALABAMA:
Beat Merleen:
p. 1136:
Household/Family #1166/1164:
*Eli Sturges, age 65, Farmer, $1000 real estate, $2000 personal property, born NY
A.M. Sturges, age 37, female, born GA
M.T. Sturges, age 17, female, born AL
O.J. Sturges, age 16, male, Farmer, born AL
G.M. Sturges, age 15, male, born AL
M.W. Sturges, age 14, male, born AL
S.E. Sturges, age 12, female, born AL
E.L. Sturges, age 10, female, born AL
C.W. Sturges, age 8, male, born AL
W. Sturges, age 6, male, born AL
M.A. Sturges, age 4, female, born AL
L. Sturges, age 2, female, born AL
E.A. Sturges, age 10 months, male, born AL
Russell County, AL, Wills--LDS Film #1,033,491:
Book 2:
pp. 265-266:
Will of Eli STURGIS of Russell Co
to beloved wife Alta Mira, negro woman Fannie about 17 years and her child Harriet, about 1 year old, land on which I am living, about 160 acres, funiture, livestock, stools; after her death, sell property and divide proceeds among named children--Missouri Tabitha, Oliver Jones, George Morehouse, Marcus Warren, Sarah Eliza, Emma Louisa, Charles Wesley, William,
Melinda Ann, Louantha, Eli Anderson
appoint beloved wife Alta Mira executrix
15 July 1860
Signed: Eli STURGIS
Wit: D.M. Banks, A. Whitely, William L. Whitely
proved 19 Sept 1861
Altamira HOLLAND
There is no PROOF that Altamira was the daughter of Samuel Holland and Tabitha Kendrick.
Russell County, AL, Marriages, 1834-1863--LDS Film #1,287,156:
1834-1846:
p. 58:
30 May 1842, Eli STURGES & Miss Altamira HOLLAND, by Wingate Jackson, J.P.
Bondsman: Augustus J. Brown
1850 FEDERAL CENSUS, RUSSELL COUNTY, ALABAMA:
p. 089B:
Household/Family #1247/1247:
Eli Sturges, age 55, Farmer, $300 real estate, born NY
*Altimira Sturges, age 30, born GA
Missouri Sturges, age 8, female, born AL
Oliver Sturges, age 7, born AL
George Sturges, age 6, born AL
Macus Sturges, age 4, male, born AL
Eliza Sturges, age 3, born AL
Louisa Sturges, age 2, born AL
1860 FEDERAL CENSUS, RUSSELL COUNTY, ALABAMA:
Beat Merleen:
p. 1136:
Household/Family #1166/1164:
Eli Sturges, age 65, Farmer, $1000 real estate, $2000 personal property, born NY
*A.M. Sturges, age 37, female, born GA
M.T. Sturges, age 17, female, born AL
O.J. Sturges, age 16, male, Farmer, born AL
G.M. Sturges, age 15, male, born AL
M.W. Sturges, age 14, male, born AL
S.E. Sturges, age 12, female, born AL
E.L. Sturges, age 10, female, born AL
C.W. Sturges, age 8, male, born AL
W. Sturges, age 6, male, born AL
M.A. Sturges, age 4, female, born AL
L. Sturges, age 2, female, born AL
E.A. Sturges, age 10 months, male, born AL
1870 FEDERAL CENSUS, LEE COUNTY, ALABAMA:
Whittens Beat:
p. 469A:
Household/Family #312/312:
*Sturges, A., age 58, female, born GA
Sturges, M., age 28, female, born AL
Sturges, G., age 25, male, Farming, born AL
Sturges, M., age 20, male, Farming, born AL
Sturges, G., age 18, female, born AL
Sturges, J., age 17, female, born AL
Sturges, R., age 13, male, born AL
1880 FEDERAL CENSUS, PANOLA COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI:
Batesville Precinct:
p. 275B:
Household/Family #589/594:
*Stergus, Altomira, age 55, born AL, both parents born AL
Stergus, E.A., age 21, son, born AL, both parents born AL
Letter from Altamira (Holland) Sturges to son and daughter-in-law, George Morehouse Sturges and Nancy Merinda (Coleman) Sturges:
Batesville, Panola County, Miss, April the 27th, 1880
Mr. G.M. & Minnie STURGES,
Dear Son & Daughter,
I will to try to answer your kind letter I received yesterday. I was glad to hear from you all also glad to hear you were all well. We are all well except bad colds. We are getting along very well. Me & Eli has got moved at last. We are crowded too only have one room to stay in & cook in too, but we enjoy our beloved family. Minnie, you just ought to come & see me, see how I look keeping house with Eli. Well every body out here is late about their Farms this year. Eli is done planting corn & is planting Cotton now. Eli has bought him a fine Horse. He likes his House very much. Our Garden is backward the insects look like they will suck the plants to Death. Minnie you & George ought to have been here last week to help me eat fish Eli bought. One weighed 6 lb Duncan one weighed 7 lbs James & Mark one weighed 16 lbs. We all eat fish for the fun of it. I had a letter from Will & S.J. not long since. They were all well & doing well. They like Texas very much. Minnie I have just had Lou to make me three new Dresses on her Machine. We had a rite hard rains Thunder & lightning Sunday evening. The lightning struck a tree & killed five Hogs for Mark. He hates it rite bad. Minnie you all must come & go with me to Church Sunday. There is to be Babtising Sunday. Minnie you must kiss your Children for me, tell Ozella she must come & stay with me. Well I must close for this time. The Family conection are well except colds. They all -- me in love so you all George you & Minnie do write & give all the news. Write soon as you get this for I am always so glad to get a letter. Write soon I remain as ever, your True Devoted Mother A.M. STURGES
32.
Oliver Jones STURGES
1850 FEDERAL CENSUS, RUSSELL COUNTY, ALABAMA:
p. 089B:
Household/Family #1247/1247:
Eli Sturges, age 55, Farmer, $300 real estate, born NY
Altimira Sturges, age 30, born GA
Missouri Sturges, age 8, female, born AL
*Oliver Sturges, age 7, born AL
George Sturges, age 6, born AL
Macus Sturges, age 4, male, born AL
Eliza Sturges, age 3, born AL
Louisa Sturges, age 2, born AL 1860 FEDERAL CENSUS, RUSSELL COUNTY, ALABAMA:
Beat Merleen:
p. 1136:
Household/Family #1166/1164:
Eli Sturges, age 65, Farmer, $1000 real estate, $2000 personal property, born NY
A.M. Sturges, age 37, female, born GA
M.T. Sturges, age 17, female, born AL
*O.J. Sturges, age 16, male, Farmer, born AL
G.M. Sturges, age 15, male, born AL
M.W. Sturges, age 14, male, born AL
S.E. Sturges, age 12, female, born AL
E.L. Sturges, age 10, female, born AL
C.W. Sturges, age 8, male, born AL
W. Sturges, age 6, male, born AL
M.A. Sturges, age 4, female, born AL
L. Sturges, age 2, female, born AL
E.A. Sturges, age 10 months, male, born AL Civil War records:
Oliver J. STURGES served in Company K, 24th Alabama Infantry, Private
35.
Sarah Eliza STURGES
1850 FEDERAL CENSUS, RUSSELL COUNTY, ALABAMA:
p. 089B:
Household/Family #1247/1247:
Eli Sturges, age 55, Farmer, $300 real estate, born NY
Altimira Sturges, age 30, born GA
Missouri Sturges, age 8, female, born AL
Oliver Sturges, age 7, born AL
George Sturges, age 6, born AL
Macus Sturges, age 4, male, born AL
*Eliza Sturges, age 3, born AL
Louisa Sturges, age 2, born AL 1860 FEDERAL CENSUS, RUSSELL COUNTY, ALABAMA:
Beat Merleen:
p. 1136:
Household/Family #1166/1164:
Eli Sturges, age 65, Farmer, $1000 real estate, $2000 personal property, born NY
A.M. Sturges, age 37, female, born GA
M.T. Sturges, age 17, female, born AL
O.J. Sturges, age 16, male, Farmer, born AL
G.M. Sturges, age 15, male, born AL
M.W. Sturges, age 14, male, born AL
*S.E. Sturges, age 12, female, born AL
E.L. Sturges, age 10, female, born AL
C.W. Sturges, age 8, male, born AL
W. Sturges, age 6, male, born AL
M.A. Sturges, age 4, female, born AL
L. Sturges, age 2, female, born AL
E.A. Sturges, age 10 months, male, born AL
39.
Melinda Ann STURGES
1860 FEDERAL CENSUS, RUSSELL COUNTY, ALABAMA:
Beat Merleen:
p. 1136:
Household/Family #1166/1164:
Eli Sturges, age 65, Farmer, $1000 real estate, $2000 personal property, born NY
A.M. Sturges, age 37, female, born GA
M.T. Sturges, age 17, female, born AL
O.J. Sturges, age 16, male, Farmer, born AL
G.M. Sturges, age 15, male, born AL
M.W. Sturges, age 14, male, born AL
S.E. Sturges, age 12, female, born AL
E.L. Sturges, age 10, female, born AL
C.W. Sturges, age 8, male, born AL
W. Sturges, age 6, male, born AL
*M.A. Sturges, age 4, female, born AL
L. Sturges, age 2, female, born AL
E.A. Sturges, age 10 months, male, born AL [NOTE: It is not known if the girls G. (age 18) and J. (age 17) in the 1870 Lee County, AL, Census are actually Melinda Ann and Louantha D. This seems likely, as the only daughters named in the will of Eli Sturges, written in 1860, were Missouri Tabitha, Sarah Eliza, Emma Louisa, Melinda Ann, and Louantha.] 1870 FEDERAL CENSUS, LEE COUNTY, ALABAMA:
Whittens Beat:
p. 469A:
Household/Family #312/312:
Sturges, A., age 58, female, born GA
Sturges, M., age 28, female, born AL
Sturges, G., age 25, male, Farming, born AL
Sturges, M., age 20, male, Farming, born AL
*Sturges, G., age 18, female, born AL
Sturges, J., age 17, female, born AL
Sturges, R., age 13, male, born AL
9.
David STURGES
Much of the information on this family came from Nancy Wing of Salt Lake City, UT.
A STURGES FAMILY STORY, by Art Danforth, Feb 1982:
pp. 83-84:
David STURGES, born June 11, 1797. married by 1824 and living in Eagle, NY (south of Batavia). Wife Adelaide.
"One record says that David and his two sons David Jr and John M all drowned in the Columbia River on October 16, 1854. A conflicting record shows David Jr living in 1855-56 when he enlisted in Capt. Kelly's Clark Co. Rangers at the age of 156. Later, Adelaide married George Beatty/Baty, who had a land claim next to theirs on the Columbia River."
1830 FEDERAL CENSUS, ALLEGANY COUNTY, NEW YORK:
p. 090:
David Sturgess household:
1 male age 5-10
1 male age 30-40
1 female age 15-20
1840 FEDERAL CENSUS, STARK COUNTY, ILLINOIS:
p. 218:
David Sturges household:
1 male age 0-5
1 male age 5-10
1 male age 10-15
1 male age 15-20
1 male age 40-50
2 females age 5-10
1 female age 20-30
44.
Luantha STURGES
1850 FEDERAL CENSUS, CLATSOP COUNTY, OREGON:
p. 047A:
Household/Family #25/25:
E. Phillips, age 28, male, Pilot, $1500 real estate, born NY
*Mrs. L. Phillips, age 20, born NY
O.P. Sturges, age 22, male, Brick Maker, born NY
S. Sturges, age 19, female, born NY
Alonzo E. PHILLIPS
1850 FEDERAL CENSUS, CLATSOP COUNTY, OREGON:
p. 047A:
Household/Family #25/25:
*E. Phillips, age 28, male, Pilot, $1500 real estate, born NY
Mrs. L. Phillips, age 20, born NY
O.P. Sturges, age 22, male, Brick Maker, born NY
S. Sturges, age 19, female, born NY 1860 FEDERAL CENSUS, JACKSON COUNTY, OREGON:
Applegate Precinct:
p. 182B:
Household/Family #766/6:
Melvin D. Sturges, age 36, Farmer, $300 real estate, $3000 personal property, born NY
H.E. Sturges, age 26, female, born OH
Emma A. Sturges, age 9, born OR
Alonzo Sturges, age 5, born OR
Wallace Sturges, age 3, born OR
*Alonzo Phillips, age 35, Com. Laborer, $100 personal property, born NY
14.
Moses STURGES
Much of the information on this family came from Nancy Wing of Salt Lake City, UT, and from Suze Hammond (moreach at netzero dot net).
A STURGES FAMILY STORY, by Art Danforth, Feb 1982:
pp. 83-84:
Moses STURGES, born July 17, 1802. Married Elizabeth Witoden, Dec 2, 1835. Drowned in Snake River, 1847. Widow wrote to Lydia, Jan 30, 1853; oldest boy Andrew, and daughter Luantha
Saratoga County, NY, Church Records--LDS Film #533,502:
Ballston Center Presbyterian Church Record, 1775-1877:
Baptism, Dec 17, 1809: Moses, son of Aaron STURGES
1840 FEDERAL CENSUS, BUREAU COUNTY, ILLINOIS:
p. 195:
Moses Sturges household:
1 male age 20-30
2 females age 0-5
1 female age 20-30
Frances Elizabeth WELDON
CLARK COUNTY PIONEERS, p. 232:
"Little is known of Frances 'Betsy' Elizabeth Weldon's early life; records indicate that she was born ca. 1820/21 in New York. She was married to Moses Sturgess, son of Aaron Sturgess and Sarah Moorehouse, on December 2, 1835, in Saratoga County, New York. Moses was born July 17, 1809 at Ballston Springs, New York. In 1841 Moses, Frances and their baby daughter Sarah Jane, traveled with his widowed father and several of his brothers and sisters from Ballston Springs to settle in Bureau County, Illinois. Two more children were born to the couple there.
In 1847, Moses and his brother David decided to try their luck in Oregon and set out on the arduous journey on April 21, 1847. In a group of one hundred forty persons, under the leadership of Captain Cornelius Smith, Moses drove an ox team across the plains. As they neared their destination tragedy struck. In the afternoon of September 7, Moses and another man were watering cattle at the Snake River when some of the cattle swam across the river. Moses went after them, disappearing into the river never to rise again, the apparent victim of a suck hole.
Frances continued on to Oregon City, arriving on October 31, 1847. The following March 18, 1848, she married Moses K. Kellogg. He was born ca. 1820 in New York. He was engaged at the time in mining coal near the Cowlitz River and shipping barrels of it to California. He was also working with copper ore from that area. The marrige produced one child, a daughter named Ellen. Frances was in the process of obtaining a divorce from Kellogg when news came that he had drowned in the Rogue River in southern Oregon.
It is known that Frances was a cook for U.S. Grant during his stay at Ft. Vancouver, and it is thought that Thomas Davis, whome she married in the summer of 1851, might have been a soldier stationed here. He had lived with the Kelloggs for about a year previous to their separation. Soon after Frances and Thomas were married they moved from the Willamette River to the Columbia River opposite Vancouver, and later they moved to The Dalles. Twin daughters, Ella and Elizabeth, were born to the couple but Elizabeth died at birth."
OREGON SPECTATOR, March 23, 1848:
"Married--in this city on the 18th inst, by Rev. David Leslie, Mr. Moses K. Kellogg to Mrs. Elizabeth Sturges, aged 28 years each."
1850 FEDERAL CENSUS, WASHINGTON COUNTY, OREGON:
p. 135B:
Household/Family #161/161:
M.K. Kellogg, age 30, male, Farmer, born NY
*Elizth Kellogg, age 30, born NY
Sarah J. Sturges, age 13, born NY
Eudora Sturges, age 7, born IL
George Sturges, age 5, born IL
Ellen Kellogg, age 1, born OR Territory
Lewis Calhoun, age 30, Laborer, born OH
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