Individual Details
Benjamin OBER
(Abt 1793 - 7 Mar 1886)
Events
| Birth | Abt 1793 | Vermont, United States |  | ||
| Birth | Vermont, United States | | |||
| Birth | Abt 1794 | Vermont, United States | | ||
| Birth | 25 Oct 1794 | Claremont, Sullivan, New Hampshire, United States | | ||
| Birth | Abt Dec 1794 | | |||
| Birth | Abt 1795 - 1798 | | |||
| Birth | Corinth, Orange, Vermont, United States | | |||
| Birth | Abt 1795 | Vermont, United States | | ||
| Birth | Nov 1795 | Corinth, Orange, Vermont, United States | | ||
| Baptism | Abt 1798 | | |||
| Removed | Abt 1798 | at 4 years of age with his father and two older brothers, aged 6 and 8 - Canada | | ||
| Marriage | 19 Jun 1814 | Charlestown, Sullivan, New Hampshire, United States - Elvira KIMBALL | | ||
| Residence | 1820 | with wife, children - Crown Point, Essex, New York, United States |  | | |
| Residence | 7 Aug 1820 | with three other persons | | ||
| Residence | 1 Jun 1830 | with eight other persons - Claremont, Sullivan, New Hampshire, United States | | | |
| Removed | 1837 | Stockholm, St. Lawrence, New York, United States | | ||
| Residence | 1 Jun 1840 | with seven other persons - Stockholm, St. Lawrence, New York, United States | | ||
| Residence (family) | 1 Jun 1850 | with two children - Stockholm, St. Lawrence, New York, United States - Elvira KIMBALL | | ||
| Residence | 1860 | Residence Post Office: Stockholm - Stockholm, St. Lawrence, New York, United States | | ||
| Residence (family) | 1 Jun 1860 | with families of sons Levi and Richard nearby - Stockholm, St. Lawrence, New York, United States - Elvira KIMBALL | | ||
| Occupation | 1 Jun 1860 | farmer | | ||
| Residence | 1870 | Residence Post Office: Nicholville - Lawrence, St. Lawrence, New York, United States | | ||
| Residence (family) | 1 Jun 1870 | with family of son Levi - Lawrence, St. Lawrence, New York, United States - Elvira KIMBALL | | ||
| Residence | 1 Jun 1880 | with the family of son Levi - Lawrence, St. Lawrence, New York, United States | | ||
| Death | 7 Mar 1886 | Lawrence, Nassau, New York, United States | | | |
| Death | 7 Mar 1886 | | |||
| Burial | with wife Elvira - Union Cemetery, Buckton, St. Lawrence, New York, United States | | |||
| Residence | Bef 8 Mar 1886 | "with his youngest son, L. L. Ober" - Lawrence, St. Lawrence, New York, United States | | ||
| Death | 8 Mar 1886 | "aged 81 years" - Lawrence, St. Lawrence, New York, United States | |
Families
| Spouse | Elvira KIMBALL (1798 - 1876) |
| Child | Mary M. OBER (1813 - 1818) |
| Child | Hiel E. OBER (1816 - ) |
| Child | Richard K. OBER (1819 - 1902) |
| Child | Harriett E. OBER (1822 - 1857) |
| Child | Silas OBER (1826 - 1839) |
| Child | Levi Kimball OBER (1831 - 1912) |
| Child | Maria OBER (1836 - 1914) |
| Father | Israel OBER (1771 - ) |
| Mother | Catherine LEAVITT (1770 - ) |
| Sibling | Israel OBER III (1791 - 1870) |
| Sibling | Samuel OBER (1800 - 1854) |
| Sibling | Sarah "Sally" OBER (1796 - 1849) |
Notes
Residence
Census record suggests his age as 19-25, wife aged 16-25, and 10 sons aged less than 10.Residence
1830 United States Federal Censushttps://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/8058
> New Hampshire > Sullivan > Claremont
image 19 of 30
Sullivan, New Hampshire
Claremont
p. 258 (pencilled)
Benjamin Ober
Name: Benjamin Ober
[Benjamin Oben]
Home in 1830 (City, County, State): Claremont, Sullivan, New Hampshire
Free White Persons - Males - Under 5: 1 1825-1830 Silas
Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 14: 2 1816-1820 Hiel, Richard
Free White Persons - Males - 30 thru 39: 1 1791-1800 Benjamin
Free White Persons - Females - Under 5: 1 1825-1830 unknown
Free White Persons - Females - 5 thru 9: 1 1821-1825 unknown
Free White Persons - Females - 30 thru 39: 1 1791-1800 Elvira
Free White Persons - Females - 40 thru 49: 1 1781-1790 unknown
Free White Persons - Females - 70 thru 79: 1 1751-1760 unknown
Free White Persons - Under 20: 5
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 3
Total Free White Persons: 9
Total - All Persons (Free White, Slaves, Free Colored): 9
The page is alphabetized by surname. He is the only Ober.
Death
This probably should be Lawrence, St. Lawrence, NY, USAEndnotes
1. 1860 U. S. census, St Lawrence County, New York||St Lawrence Co., NY, population schedule, Stockholm, p. 16 lines 39-40, p. 17 lines 1-8, dwellings 127-129, families 130-132, Levi, Benjamin, and Richard Ober; database index with images, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/7667/ : accessed 29 December 2021) > New York > Saint Lawrence > Stockholm, images 18-19 of 104.
2. 1880 U.S. census, St. Lawrence County, New York||St Lawrence Co., NY, population schedule, Lawrence, enumeration district (ED) 251, p. 17 line 50, p. 18 lines 1-6, dwelling 176, family 180, Ober, Levi; database index with images, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/6742/ : accessed 29 December 2021) > New York > St Lawrence > Lawrence > 251, images 17-18 of 18.
3. 1870 U. S. census, St Lawrence County, New York||St Lawrence Co., NY, population schedule, Lawrence, p. 3, lines 25-34, dwelling 20, family 20, Ober, Levi K.; database index with images, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/7163/ : accessed 29 December 2021) > New York > Saint Lawrence > Lawrence, image 3 of 65.
4. 1850 U. S. census, St. Lawrence County, New York||St Lawrence Co., NY, population schedule, Stockholm, p. 99 (stamped), 197 (pencilled), lines 22-25, dwelling 401, family 406, Benj Ober; database index with images, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/8054/ : accessed 29 December 2021) > New York > Saint Lawrence > Stockholm, image 55 of 88.
5. 1870 census, St. Lawrence County, NY||St. Lawrence Co., NY, Lawrence, p. 3, lines 25-34, dwelling/family 20/20, household of Len [sic-"Levi"] K. Ober; database index with page images, FamilySearch.org (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8KJ-6MZ : accessed 17 May 2022).
6. /Larry Wert (lwert12@comcast.net, 52 Bible Hill Rd., Hillsborough, NH 03244)/, Descendants of John Woodbury (c.1543) (http://uneeke1.tripod.com : accessed 26 December 2021), Benjamin Ober, #6274.
7. Find A Grave, Inc., Find A Grave, index and digital images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 28 December 2021), Benjamin Ober, memorial # 126163175.
8. Katherine P. Loring, May Toomey, "Genealogy of the Ober Family," as annotated by Wilson Ober Clough, entries 21, 48; Mss A 1917, R. Stanton Avery Special Collections, New England Historical and Genealogical Society, Boston, MA.
9. "Vermont, U.S., Death Records, 1909-2008," database index with images, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/1607/: accessed 29 December 2021) > Windsor > 1914, image 956 of 2118, Marietta Ruth (Ober) Heath, d. 1914 May 19th, Springfield, VT; citing Vermont Death Records, 1909-2003, Vermont State Archives and Records Administration, Montpelier, Vermont and Vermont Death Records, 2004-2008, Vital Records Office, Vermont Department of Health, Burlington, Vermont.
10. 1880 U.S. census, St. Lawrence County, New York||St Lawrence Co., NY, population schedule, Lawrence, enumeration district (ED) 251, p. 17 line 50, p. 18 lines 1-6, dwelling 176, family 180, Ober, Levi; database index with images, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/6742/ : accessed 29 December 2021) > New York > St Lawrence > Lawrence > 251, images 17-18 of 18.
11. "Town Correspondence...Stockholm, Match (sic) 15th," obituary, The Ogdensburg (New York) Advance and St. Lawrence Weekly Democrat, 18 March 1886, page 1, col. 6; online page images, NYS Historic Newspapers (https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn83031423/1886-03-18/ed-1/seq-1/ : accessed 29 December 2021). Accuracy seems questionable..
12. /Larry Wert (lwert12@comcast.net, 52 Bible Hill Rd., Hillsborough, NH 03244)/, Descendants of John Woodbury (c.1543) (http://uneeke1.tripod.com : accessed 26 December 2021), Benjamin Ober, #6274.
13. "Town Correspondence...Stockholm, Match (sic) 15th," obituary, The Ogdensburg (New York) Advance and St. Lawrence Weekly Democrat, 18 March 1886, page 1, col. 6; online page images, NYS Historic Newspapers (https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn83031423/1886-03-18/ed-1/seq-1/ : accessed 29 December 2021). Accuracy seems questionable..
14. "New Hampshire Marriage Records, 1637-1947," database index with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FLHQ-NZ2: accessed 28 December 2021), Benjamin Ober and Elvira Kimball, 19 Jun 1814, Charlestown, Sullivan, NH, record # 2233; citing Charlestown, Sullivan, New Hampshire, Bureau of Vital Records and Health Statistics, Concord; FHL microfilm 1,001,288.
15. /Larry Wert (lwert12@comcast.net, 52 Bible Hill Rd., Hillsborough, NH 03244)/, Descendants of John Woodbury (c.1543) (http://uneeke1.tripod.com : accessed 26 December 2021), Benjamin Ober, #6274.
16. Katherine P. Loring, May Toomey, "Genealogy of the Ober Family," as annotated by Wilson Ober Clough, entries 21, 48; Mss A 1917, R. Stanton Avery Special Collections, New England Historical and Genealogical Society, Boston, MA.
17. 1820 U. S. census, Essex County, New York||Essex Co., NY, population schedule, Crown Point, p. 403 (stamped), Joseph Ober; database index with images, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/7734/ : accessed 26 November 2023) > New York > Essex > Crown Point, image 3 of 5.
18. 1820 U. S. census, Essex County, New York||Essex Co., NY, population schedule, Crown Point, p. 402 (stamped), Ober, Benjamin; database index with images, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/7734/ : accessed 30 December 2021) > New York > Essex > Crown Point, image 3 of 5.
19. 1830 U. S. census, Sullivan County, New York||Sullivan, NY, population schedule, Claremont, p. 258 (pencilled), Benjamin Ober; database index with images, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/8058 : accessed 30 December 2021) > New Hampshire > Sullivan > Claremont, image 19 of 30.
20. "Town Correspondence...Stockholm, Match (sic) 15th," obituary, The Ogdensburg (New York) Advance and St. Lawrence Weekly Democrat, 18 March 1886, page 1, col. 6; online page images, NYS Historic Newspapers (https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn83031423/1886-03-18/ed-1/seq-1/ : accessed 29 December 2021). Accuracy seems questionable..
21. 1840 U. S. census, St Lawrence County, New York||St Lawrence Co., NY, population schedule, Stockholm, pp. 32, 34, Ober--Benjamin, William, Israel, and Samuel; database index with images, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/8057/ : accessed 13 January 2022) New York > Saint Lawrence > Stockholm, images 23, 27 of 34.
22. 1850 U. S. census, St. Lawrence County, New York||St Lawrence Co., NY, population schedule, Stockholm, p. 99 (stamped), 197 (pencilled), lines 22-25, dwelling 401, family 406, Benj Ober; database index with images, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/8054/ : accessed 29 December 2021) > New York > Saint Lawrence > Stockholm, image 55 of 88.
23. Ancestry.com, 1860 United States Federal Census (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009), Year: 1860; Census Place: Stockholm, St. Lawrence, New York; Roll: M653_853; Page: 549; Family History Library Film: 803853.
24. 1860 U. S. census, St Lawrence County, New York||St Lawrence Co., NY, population schedule, Stockholm, p. 16 lines 39-40, p. 17 lines 1-8, dwellings 127-129, families 130-132, Levi, Benjamin, and Richard Ober; database index with images, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/7667/ : accessed 29 December 2021) > New York > Saint Lawrence > Stockholm, images 18-19 of 104.
25. 1860 U. S. census, St Lawrence County, New York||St Lawrence Co., NY, population schedule, Stockholm, p. 16 lines 39-40, p. 17 lines 1-8, dwellings 127-129, families 130-132, Levi, Benjamin, and Richard Ober; database index with images, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/7667/ : accessed 29 December 2021) > New York > Saint Lawrence > Stockholm, images 18-19 of 104.
26. Ancestry.com, 1870 United States Federal Census (Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009), Year: 1870; Census Place: Lawrence, Saint Lawrence, New York; Roll: M593_1097; Page: 362A.
27. 1870 U. S. census, St Lawrence County, New York||St Lawrence Co., NY, population schedule, Lawrence, p. 3, lines 25-34, dwelling 20, family 20, Ober, Levi K.; database index with images, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/7163/ : accessed 29 December 2021) > New York > Saint Lawrence > Lawrence, image 3 of 65.
28. 1870 census, St. Lawrence County, NY||St. Lawrence Co., NY, Lawrence, p. 3, lines 25-34, dwelling/family 20/20, household of Len [sic-"Levi"] K. Ober; database index with page images, FamilySearch.org (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8KJ-6MZ : accessed 17 May 2022).
29. 1880 U.S. census, St. Lawrence County, New York||St Lawrence Co., NY, population schedule, Lawrence, enumeration district (ED) 251, p. 17 line 50, p. 18 lines 1-6, dwelling 176, family 180, Ober, Levi; database index with images, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/6742/ : accessed 29 December 2021) > New York > St Lawrence > Lawrence > 251, images 17-18 of 18.
30. /Larry Wert (lwert12@comcast.net, 52 Bible Hill Rd., Hillsborough, NH 03244)/, Descendants of John Woodbury (c.1543) (http://uneeke1.tripod.com : accessed 26 December 2021), Benjamin Ober, #6274.
31. Find A Grave, Inc., Find A Grave, index and digital images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 28 December 2021), Benjamin Ober, memorial # 126163175.
32. Find A Grave, Inc., Find A Grave, index and digital images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 28 December 2021), Benjamin Ober, memorial # 126163175.
33. "Town Correspondence...Stockholm, Match (sic) 15th," obituary, The Ogdensburg (New York) Advance and St. Lawrence Weekly Democrat, 18 March 1886, page 1, col. 6; online page images, NYS Historic Newspapers (https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn83031423/1886-03-18/ed-1/seq-1/ : accessed 29 December 2021). Accuracy seems questionable..
34. "Died...Ober," death notices, The Ogdensburg (New York) Advance and St. Lawrence Weekly Democrat, 18 March 1886, p. 5, col. 5; online page images, NYS Historic Newspapers (https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn83031423/1886-03-18/ed-1/seq-8/ : accessed 29 December 2021). The calculation of age is off by 10 years..