Individual Details

1830 Census:
Stephen Avery was in Norwich, Franklin Co Ohio:
1m -5, 1m 5-10, 2m 10-15, 1m 30-40. 1f -5, 1f 5-10, 1f 30-40.

Land purchases in Schuyler Co IL
Avery, Stephen:
SENE 36 02N 03W 4 01/14/1836 SCHUYLER 40 Acres for $1.25 per acre - paid $50.
SWNE 36 02N 03W 4 07/29/1836 SCHUYLER 40 Acres for $1.25 per acre - paid $50.
the same:
LDS Microfilm #1311517, Item #1: Index to Government Lands
1836 Jan 14 Stephen Avery SE 1/4 NE 40 acres
1836 Jul 29 Stephen Avery SW 1/4 NE 40 acres
[Bureau of Land Management sight shows both these patents as issued 3 Nov 1840]

Stephen was obviously living on the SE Quarter of the NE Quarter of Section 36 by 1 Feb 1836 because on that date he mortgaged this tract to William A. Richardson for $50.00. The mortage was signed 30 Jan 1836, Stephen Avery. He was to pay by 1 Oct 1836.
Note in margin: Fully paid, 21 Mar 1837.

Married (2) Mary (Orr) Wilson on 22 Feb 1838 in Schuyler Co, IL. His first wife is believed to also have been named Mary, surname unknown. [she may instead have been Pruda Bailey, see note following] Stephen did not become a follower of Joseph Smith and the Mormons as some of his brothers and sisters did. By trade, he was a carpenter and joiner. Stephen died of cholera in 1849 and is listed in the Mortality Census Schedule of 1850.
Clayton, Adams Co IL. Stephen Avery, age 53, Married, b. NY, d. July [1849], carpenter by trade, he died of cholera after being ill for 1 day.

1840 Census. Adams Co, IL
2m 5-10, 1m 10-15, 1m 15-20, 1m 40-50. 3f -5, 1f 10-15, 1f 15-20, 1f 20-30
Stephen Avery appears to have been listed twice; he was listed again at Quincy, Adams Co. with the exact same family members. On that page he followed a Joshua Avery, age 20-30 - perhaps an oldest son? Joshua had a spouse of the same age of 20-30, 1m -5, 1f -5, and also a female age 15-20.

Mortality Schedule, 1850. Clayton, Adams Co, IL
Stephen Avery, age 53, married, born New York, died July 1849, Carpenter, Died of cholera; was ill for one day.

The children living with Mary in 1850 had all been born since the 1830 Census and all born in Illinois
1850 Census. Town of Clayton, Adams Co, IL
Mary Avery, 34, Seamstress, b. PA
Mary H. 14 (she was a Wilson, child of Mary's first husband) Adaline 12. Sarah 10. Cordelia 8. Lycurces K. 4. John M. age 10 months.

There is a website "Tri-Couties Genealogy & History" by Joyce M. Tice
http://www.rootsweb.com/srgp/jmtindex.htm
which has much information about the counties of Bradford & Tioga in PA and Chemung Co NY.
I apparently found the first wife of Stephen Avery There is a link to Pioneer & Patriot Families of Bradford Co PA 1770-1800, p.219, which contains a biography of Joshua Bailey, a native of Orange Co NY. He came to Wyalusing PA in 1791, staying with the family of Amos Bennett who were former neighbors. He married Mr. Bennett's daughter, Susan, the next year. They moved to a place on Sugar Creek in North Towanda and he died there, age nearly 92, 14 Feb 1861. The article states that his eldest daughter Pruda Bailey, born 30 May 1795, married Stephen Avery and moved to Ohio.

Birth	1796	New York
Marriage	22 Feb 1838	Schuyler County, Illinois - Mary Wilson
Death	Jul 1849	Adams County, Illinois
Marriage		Bradford County, Pennsylvania - Pruda Bailey

Spouse	Mary Wilson (1815 - 1895)
Child	Adaline AVERY (1839 - )
Child	Sarah AVERY (1840 - 1877)
Child	Cordelia AVERY (1844 - 1900)
Child	Lycurces K. AVERY (1847 - 1921)
Child	John M. AVERY (1849 - )

Spouse	Pruda Bailey (1795 - )
Child	Joshua B. AVERY (1815 - )
Child	Stephen AVERY (1832 - )

Father	DANIEL AVERY (1768 - 1848)
Mother	SARAH "Sally" Sargent (1772 - 1840)
Sibling	Daniel AVERY Jr. (1797 - 1851)
Sibling	Mary "Polly" AVERY (1799 - 1850)
Sibling	Chancy AVERY (1801 - )
Sibling	WILLIAM AVERY (1803 - 1867)
Sibling	Anna "Nancy" AVERY (1804 - 1870)
Sibling	Elizabeth "Betsy" AVERY (1807 - 1883)
Sibling	Pelatiah S. AVERY (1810 - 1891)
Sibling	Mariah Avery (1813 - 1844)
Sibling	Sarah "Sally" AVERY (1817 - 1849)