Elizabeth Sherwood^[1]

1836 - 1878  (42 years)

• Name	Elizabeth Sherwood  [2, 3]
  Birth	1836	Weston, Fairfield Co., CT   [3, 4, 5]
  Gender	Female
  Death	17 May 1878  [6]
  Burial	Overlook Cemetery, Damascus, Wayne Co., PA   [6]
  Person ID	I6495	First tree
  Last Modified	17 Nov 2020

  
  

  Father	Albert S. Sherwood,   b. 1 Jan 1795, Weston, Fairfield Co., CT d. 8 Mar 1875, Milanville, Damascus Twp., Wayne Co., PA (Age 80 years)
  Mother	Polly Burr Wood,   b. 8 Mar 1796, Weston, Fairfield Co., CT d. 17 May 1870, Prob. Damascus Twp., Wayne Co., PA (Age 74 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1819	Connecticut?   [7]
  Family ID	F5470	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Warren Leonard Case,   b. 4 Feb 1823, Tusten, Sullivan Co., NY d. 29 May 1904, Home Of Herbert Branning/Berlin, Wayne Co., PA (Age 81 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1851	New York, USA   [8]
  	There were 15 children total according to Lenore Geller. Several died in infancy.
  Children	1. Harvey M Case,   b. Abt 17 Dec 1851   d. 22 Aug 1852 (Age 0 years)   2. Frances L. Case,   b. Abt 14 Jan 1852   d. 17 Feb 1862 (Age 10 years)   3. Amza M. Case,   b. Abt 5 Apr 1854, Welcome Lake, Pike Co., PA d. Between 1900 and 1910, Indian Orchard, Wayne Co., PA (Age 45 years)   4. Gaylord S Case,   b. Abt 21 Jul 1855   d. 15 Aug 1857 (Age 2 years)   5. Thomas O. Case,   b. Abt 28 Nov 1857   d. 20 Feb 1862 (Age 4 years)   6. Ezra A. Case,   b. 16 Apr 1859, Damascus, Wayne Co., PA d. 15 Mar 1934, At Home/Honesdale, Wayne Co., PA (Age 74 years)   7. Judson C. Case,   b. 1861   d. Aft 1915 (Age 55 years)   8. Mary G. Case,   b. Abt 1 Apr 1863   d. 27 Feb 1915, Methodist Episcopal Hospital, Brooklyn, NY After Surgery. (Age 51 years)   9. Anna L. Case,   b. 12 Feb 1865   d. 20 Nov 1921 (Age 56 years)   10. Virgil B. Case,   b. 30 May 1866, Damascus, Wayne Co., PA d. 1 Apr 1912, Welcome Lake, Pike Co., PA (Age 45 years)   11. George A. Case,   b. 22 Aug 1867, Damascus, Wayne Co., PA d. 1940 (Age 72 years)   12. Jeanett E. Case,   b. 24 Jul 1869   d. 24 Jul 1870 (Age 1 year)
  Family ID	F1931	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2013

  
  

• Notes

  1860 Census shows Warren in Damascus page 197. Also a Chauncy Case and Lucy Sherwood on the same page. Albert Sherwood on p. 196 just prior to Rachel. There is an E. Case listed as living with Rachel, age 25. There is no E. Case listed with Warren who could have been his wife. She may have been staying with her parents at the time. In 1870, no wife is listed for Warren. The Tustin census of 1910 showed George Case born in PA with both parents born in PA. This is their son, George. ------------------------------------------------ From "Lenore H. Geller" transcribed from her mother's notes: Wood and Sherwood Families (Information given to Grace Hayes Jones in 1922 by her grandmother, Jane Sherwood Dexter. She was baptized Priscilla Jane but changed it to Jane P. Dexter.) When Thomas Wood, father of Polly Burr Wood was 5 years old, he lived in Fairfield, Co., Conn. and during the Revolutionary War, or about that time, he remembered the soldiers passing through the country, burning the houses as they went. They were perhaps Red Coats. It has been told that there was an English estate (whether on the Sherwood or Wood side is uncertain) but lawyers got most if not all of it. Both the Wood and Sherwood families lived in Fairfield County, Conn. The older children of Albert Sherwood were born in Conn. but the younger ones, after they moved to Wayne County, for their daughter Jane was born there in 1834 Jane's sister Elizabeth (Lib) was married when only 13. (Census records later proved she was 14 or 15.) She and Jane went to a party one night. Their mother said to Jane, "Look after Lib." But Lib slipped out with Warren Case, a widower, and crossing the Delaware River into New York, they were married. A license was not required in that state then, though it was in Penn. Warren had been married to Lura Dexter, Virgil Dexter's older sister but she had died. (Elam Case was Lura and Warren's son.) After giving birth to 15 children, one right after the other and about a year apart, Aunt Lib died. Then Warren married Aunt Maria, who was an excellent mother to the big family. This is the story that has been told: One evening Warren brought in two big pails full of warm fresh milk, and set them on the kitchen floor to be strained and the milk to be put away. After a little while in he came to find two full pails of milk sitting in the same spot. Thinking his wife was neglectful, he poured the milk right on the floor. Aunt Maria promptly picked up a chair and just about smashed it over his head. After that he respected her as he never had the first two wives. The milk he had so angrily dumped on the floor was sour milk for the pigs. (Nettie Dexter Hayes used to talk about Aunt Maria's rye bread - how good it was. When Mother was a little girl she loved to go back to Wayne Co. PA to visit Aunts, uncles and many cousins.)

  
  

• Sources

  [S2564] Jon Todd Gibson Case, jontoddgibsoncase. [S1111] mary.ryan@iw1.net, Ancestry World Tree No. 42862, (http://pedigree.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/pedview.dll?ti=0&Ind=399&File=42862). [S1835] Honesdale Citizen, 6/2/1904 (Reliability: 3). [S2807] Headstone of Warren Case, Christ Church Cemetery. [S1427] World Family Tree Volume 21, Tree #542, (Broderbund Software "Davis, Wilcox, Curry of NY, PA 1495 - 1998".). [S1968] Richard Orvis Eldred & Iona Irene Popielarz, Dexter and Related Families of the Upper Delaware Valley, (Gateway Press, Baltimore MD, 1994 Correspondence and book orders to: Iona Irene Popielarz 56 Sharrer Rd. Port Murray, NJ 07865 (908) 832-7968), 15, LOC 94-72779. (Reliability: 3). [S378] Terrill Hayes , Annette Dexter Ancestor Report, (10/27/2000 Terrill & Laureen Hayes are descended from Virgil Young Dexter who m. Priscilla Jane Sherwood.), 4 (Reliability: 3). [S3613] Edey Werman , Glen Cove Cemetery Listing, Sullivan Co., NY, (http://c-23.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/archives/ny/sullivan/cemeteries/glencove.txt).