Individual Details

Sarah Jane Dowd

(22 Apr 1829 - 28 Feb 1898)

Sarah's father died in 1834. By 1840 she, her two sisters, Mary and Fidelia, and probably her mother, were living in her married sister, Electa Potter's household in Elba, Lapeer County, Michigan. In 1847 she married William Ivory. By December 1 of that year they lived in Williamstown, Dodge County, Wisconsin. Her brother Alanson and his family also lived in Dodge County but at Beaver Dam. In 1850 she, William and two little boys were still at Williamstown. But by 1853 they do not appear on the Wisconsin State Census. By then they are living at Hadley, Lapeer County, Michigan.

Events

Birth22 Apr 1829Tyringham, Berkshire County, Massachusetts
Marriage7 Oct 1847Lapeer County, Michigan - William Egbert Ivory
Census (family)6 Aug 1860Hadley, Lapeer County, Michigan - William Egbert Ivory
Census (family)19 Sep 1870Hadley, Lapeer County, Michigan - William Egbert Ivory
Death28 Feb 1898Oxford, Oakland County, Michigan
Burial2 Mar 1898Greenwood Cemetery, Hadley, Lapeer County, Michigan
Alt nameSarah Jane Doud

Families

SpouseWilliam Egbert Ivory (1822 - 1901)
ChildEllery E. Ivory (1848 - 1910)
ChildElwell Ivory (1848 - 1903)
ChildEgbert D. Ivory (1852 - 1906)
ChildMary Almeda Ivory (1856 - 1924)
ChildAda Jane Ivory (1864 - 1927)
FatherZerah Dowd (1782 - 1834)
MotherEsther Chappell (1789 - 1846)
SiblingAlanson Dowd (1811 - )
SiblingEsther Dowd (1813 - 1843)
SiblingFidelia Dowd (1815 - 1880)
SiblingEmily Dowd (1817 - 1890)
SiblingElecta Dowd (1820 - 1881)
SiblingMary Dowd (1822 - 1891)

Notes

Birth

DAR records: Sarah Jane Dowd born on 23 - Apr - 1828 at MA.
Her tombstone has the date of birth on Apr. 23, 1828.

Marriage

A silver goblet engraved with 1847 was at one time the only proof of Sarah Jane Doud and William Egbert Ivory's marriage.

Census (family)

William Ivory M 37 New York - Farmer
Sarah J Ivory F 32 Massachusetts
Elwell Ivory M 12 Wisconsin
Elory Ivory M 12 Wisconsin
Egbert Ivory M 8 Wisconsin
Mary Ivory F 3 Wisconsin
Ellen Day F 37 New York - Domestic

Census (family)

William Ivory M 48 New York - Farmer
Sarah J Ivory F 40 New York - Keeping house
Ellory Ivory M 22 Wisconsin - Farm laborer
Elmell Ivory M 22 Wisconsin - Farm laborer
Egbert Ivory M 18 Wisconsin - at home
Almeda Ivory F 13 Michigan - at school
Ada Ivory F 6 Michigan - at school

Burial

Plot: East section

Endnotes

1. New England Historic Genealogical Society, Vital Records of Tyringham, Massachusetts to Year 1850 (Boston, MA 1903).

2. Oakland County Newspaper clipping collection 1885-1925 (Historical Society), Sarah Ivory's Obituary.

3. A silver goblet engraved with 1847 was at one time the only proof of Sarah Jane Doud and William Egbert Ivory's marriage..

4. Dowd, Rev. W. W., The Descendants of Henry Doude, Who came from England in 1639 (Hartford, Connecticut: Case Lockard and Brainard Co., 1885).

5. "United States Census, 1860," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MWDK-ND9 : accessed 19 Feb 2014), William Ivory, 1860..

6. "United States Census, 1870," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MHCM-Y3V : accessed 19 Feb 2014), William Ivory, Michigan, United States; citing p. , family 303, NARA microfilm publication M593, FHL microfilm 000552183..

7. County Clerk, Michigan Department Of Health Certificate Of Death - Oakland Co..

8. Sarah Jane Doud Ivory burial.

9. Find A Grave Memorial# 66823275.