David Taylor Carver

Notes:

David Taylor Carver lived and died on place at [the] top of [the] hill North of Esq. Strong, [now] Raymond place. His mother, Lucy Taylor, lived with him to her death.
Record of My Ancestry - Bissell Family
compiled by F. Clarence Bissell.

David Taylor Carver was married to Sharley Tarbox daughter of Asenath Tarbox\\\'s brother, Godfrey Tarbox. Asenath Tarbox was Aldric Carver\\\'s wife.

Hebron was in Hartford County prior to 1785 so David was born in Hebron, Hartford Co. but died in Hebron, Tolland Co.

Hebron was incorporated May 26, 1708 but Tolland County was not formed until 1786 when it was formed from the original counties of Hartford (1666) and New London (1666).

As established in 1666, Hartford County consisted of the towns of Windsor, Wethersfield, Hartford, Farmington, and Middletown. The \"Thirty Miles Island\" referred to in the constituting Act was incorporated as the town of Haddam in 1668.

In 1670, the town of Simsbury was established, extending Hartford County to the Massachusetts border.

Family/Spouse: Sharley Tarbox. Sharley (daughter of Godfrey Tarbox and Rachel Wright) was born on 8 Nov 1786 in Hebron, Tolland Co, Connecticut; died on 11 Aug 1867 in Hebron, Tolland Co, Connecticut; was buried in St Peter's Cemetery, Hebron, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Lewis married Frances Almira Porter on 6 Mar 1840 in Probably Hebron, Connecticut. Frances was born on 17 Jun 1817 in Connecticut; died on 19 Aug 1907 in Angola, Steuben County, Indiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Nelson Sears has her name as "Shirley Emm"

Shirley married John Fletcher Hollister on 6 Nov 1833. John and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Nelson Sears has him as Levi "Andrew"

Notes:

Another Pioneer Gone; Mrs. Rachel M. Sears died Friday, March 11, at Aurora, Neb.
Mrs. Rachel M. Sears, widow of the late Archibald Sears, died last Friday morning [10 Mar 1905] at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. F.C. Mather, of Aurora, Neb., where she had made her home for the last eight years. Death resulted from the infirmity of old age, Mrs. Sears having been in her 87th year. After a service at Aurora Sunday, the body was brought to Plano accompanied by Mrs. Mather, Charles Sears of Hyannis, Neb., and Miss Ethel Henning, who was upon a visit to Aurora when the death of her grandmother occurred. The final service was held at the residence of the eldest daughter of the deceased, Mrs. E.L. Henning, at 1:30 o'clock Monday afternoon, and besides the relatives was attended by a number of friends from Chicago and Steward and from Sandwich, where Mrs. Sears resided for twenty-two years. The Rev. G.H. Robertson of Sandwich conducted the service. The burial was in the Archibald Sears lot in the Plano Cemetery. Rachel Carver was one of the fast dwindling little band of surviving pioneers who settled the vicinity of Plano. She was the daughter of David T. and Sharley Carver and was born at Hebron, Conn., October 26, 1818. She was one of eleven children of whom Mrs. George Steward of Plano is the sole survivor. In 1836 when a girl of 18 years, Rachel Carver started on the pioneer journey which brought her eventually to Illinois. She stopped first with her sister, Mrs. John Hollister, at Hollisterville, Pa., where she taught school for two years. In the spring of 1838 she joined the party composed of John Hollister's and Marcus Steward's families which was starting for the west. She accompanied the pioneers to Angola, Ind., where she joined her brother William and Dr. Lewis Carver. There she taught school until she was married November 1, 1840 to Adonijah Smith. Two children born in this union died in infancy and in 1844 Mr. Smith died also. In 1845 she started for Illinois to join her sister, Mrs. Hollister, who was then settled on the site of the future Plano. For two years she taught school at Bristol and August 23, 1850, she was married to Archibald Sears. The following sixteen years the family lived on the farm east of Plano removing in 1866 to Sandwich and in 1888 returning to Plano where Mr. Sears died in 1893. Mrs. Sears is survived by one sister, Mrs. George Steward, six children--Charles Sears and Mrs. F.C. Mather, Aurora, Neb., Sherman Sears, Hyannis, Neb., Mrs. E.L. Henning and Albert Sears, Plano, and Mrs W.L. Miller, Crawfordsville, Ind., by a step-son James M. Sears of Plano, twenty grand-children and one great grand-child. - Kendall County News, 15 Mar 1905


(Research):Know All Men By These Presents. That We, John T. Hollister and Sharley E. Hollister, his wife, George Stewart and Mary Ann Stewart, his wife, and Archibald Sears and Rachel M. Sears, his wife, all of the County of Kendall and State of Illinois; the said Sharley Hollister, Mary Ann Stewart and Rachel M. Sears, being heirs at law of David T. Carver, later of the Town of Hebron in the County of Tolland and State on Connecticut, deceased....for divers good causes and considerations thereunto moving, especially for one hundred dollars received to our full satisfaction of Mrs. Sharley Carver, widow of said David T. Carver, decease, have remised, released and forever quit-claimed, and do by these presents for ourselves justly and absolutely remise, release and forever quit-claim unto the said Sharley Carver and to their heirs and assigns forever, all our and each of our right title and interest of, in and to all the real estate of the said David T. Carver, deceased, situate in said Town of Hebron in the said County of Tolland and State of Connecticut aforesaid. And we do hereby relinquish to said Sharley Carver all our right, title and interest of, in and to all the personal estate of said deceased....In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals this thirtieth day of Septermber in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five. Signed sealed and delivered (by above G.H. and Mary A. Stewart, John T. and Sharley E. Hollister, Archibald and Rachel Sears)...subscribed before me this 30th day of September A.D. 1855, Lewis Stewart, Notary Public, L.S.

Rachel married Adonijah Smith on 1 Nov 1840 in Angola, Steuben Co, Indiana. Adonijah was born in Jackson Prairie, Indiana; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Rachel married Archibald Sears on 23 Aug 1850 in Plano, Kendall Co, Illinois. Archibald (son of James Sears and Mehitable Sherwood) was born on 23 Feb 1802 in South East, Dutchess Co, New York; died on 28 Oct 1893 in Plano, Kendall Co, Illinois; was buried about Nov 1893 in Little Rock Twp Cemetery, Kendall Co, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

(Research):Port Edwards is a village in Wood County, Wisconsin, United States. The village is located northeast and adjacent to the Town of Port Edwards. Port Edwards was known as "Frenchtown" until 1869, when it was renamed in honor of John Edwards, a local mill owner. The settlement formed around a sawmill built about 1829. Mrs. Edwards wrote of the community in the 1860s, "the settlement was small only consisting of a store, a blacksmith shop, a school, two boarding houses and a number of white houses". Port Edwards incorporated as a village in 1902.

Family/Spouse: Sarah P. Jones. Sarah was born on 17 Aug 1838; died on 25 Feb 1903 in Port Edwards, Wood Co, Wisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Charles Madison Carver was born on the 28th day of June, 1825, in Hebron Connecticut. Charles with others, some seventy five in all, in and about Colchester, Connecticut, paid $300 each, bought the Barque Selma (Orin Selew, Master), set sail for California 11 April 1849, and arrived in San Francisco the following October 5th. He was sick from dysentery on shipboard and never recovered. After making some feeble attempts at prospecting he died 28 July 1850 of enteric inflammation on the bank of the Middle Yuba River. His age was 25 years, 1 month.

Notes:

In the 1860 Illinois census there is an Ellen Brown aged 60 living in this household. She was born in Ireland. The 1860 census does not give a month of birth so year of birth is as close as we can get using this source.

Family/Spouse: Jane Foley. Jane was born about 1838 in Canada; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

His name probably derived from his uncle Charles Madison Carver born in Hebron, Tolland Co, Connecticut on 28 Jun 1825.

Obituary

Former Pioneer Resident Dies In California
Charles M Sears 93 Dies Suddenly in Long Beach
Lived Here 1880 to 1919
Charles M Sears, for many years a prominent farmer and livestock feeder of the Aurora community passed away suddenly in his home in Long Beach, California August 2, 1944 The Sears family came to Aurora in 1880 and lived for many years on their farm one mile north of Aurora. In 1918 Mr Sears sold his farms and the family moved to Aurora proper for about a year. He then moved to Long Beach, California June 10, 1851 and passed away August 2, 1944 at the age of 93 years 1 month and 21 days. Mrs Sears [Mary L Weeks] died in 1934 at their Long Beach home shortly after injuries received in the Long Beach earthquake. He is survived by five children: two sons, Nelson of Akron Colo, and Robert of Long Beach Calif; three daughters, Mrs Vera Readl of Grand Junction Colo, Elsie of Los Vegas, New Mexico, and Marion of Barstow, Calif; one brother Sherman Sears, now of Sweeney Texas, formerly of Hyannis, Nebraska. One brother and three sisters preceded him in death. Mrs F. C. Mather was a sister. Myrl Mather of Aurora Nebraska is a nephew. The deceased was a member of the Aurora Masonic lodge for many years.

Aurora News-Register
Aurora, Nebraska
11 Aug 1944, Fri

(Medical):Death due to external causes: Accident on 7-23-44 at home in Long Beach, L.A. county, California (tripped over watering hose).

Charles married Catherine Evans on 2 Sep 1874 in W Nissouri Twp, East Middlesex, Ontario. Catherine (daughter of James Evans and Jane Kearn) was born on 24 May 1850 in Evelyn, West Nissouri Twp, Middlesex Co, Ontario; died on 16 Aug 1876 in Plano, Kendall Co, Illinois; was buried on 19 Aug 1876 in Plano Cemetery, Kendall Co, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Charles married Celia Amanda Chambers on 19 Nov 1879 in Probably Plano, Kendall Co, Illinois. Celia was born on 20 Aug 1856 in Illinois; died on 19 Mar 1883 in Plano, Kendall Co, Illinois; was buried in Kendall County, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Charles married Julia Mighell on 27 Oct 1884 in Probably Plano, Kendall Co, Illinois. Julia (daughter of Nathan Mighell and Living) was born in Plano, Kendall Co, Illinois; died about 1896. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Charles married Mary L. Weeks on 1 Dec 1896 in Probably Plano, Kendall Co, Illinois. Mary was born on 2 Mar 1868 in Pittsfield, Pike Co, Illinois; died on 20 Jul 1933 in Long Beach, Los Angeles Co, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Edgar Leland Henning on 27 May 1874 in Probably Plano, Kendall Co, Illinois. Edgar was born on 8 Apr 1849 in Plano, Kendall Co, Illinois; died on 24 Jan 1910 in Probably Plano, Kendall Co, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Nelson Sears note (no date): Albert married Ella Foster; two girls born; one girl died in 1885; Both buried at Plano IL.

Birth:
Twin

Albert married Ella Foster on 12 Nov 1879. Ella and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Nelson Sears note (no date): Alice Marie married F.C. Mather of Michigan, moved to Aurora NE raised three sons, Merle, Ora, and Roy. Alice and hus band are buried in Aurora. Mrs. Mather died 19 Apr 1938 aged 82 years.

Obituary
Mrs. Alice S. Mather
Aurora Pioneer Dies
AURORA, Neb., April 20--(AP) Mrs. Alice Sears Mather, 84, prominent Aurora pioneer woman, died Tuesday night at the home where she had lived 58 years. She had been ill three months and had suffered several paralytic strokes. She was the widow of Frederick Mather, a leading mer- chant and president of the First National bank of Aurora many years. They owned considerable Nebraska land. Mather died Nov. 11, 1933. Mrs. Mather was a native of in Sandwich, Ill. She was married in 1887 and came to Aurora in 1880 with her husband, who established a hardware store the next year. Surviving are three sons, Myel of Aurora, Orion, financial editor of the Chicago Tribune, and Roy, an associate editor of the Los Angeles Herald.
The Lincoln Star, 20 Apr 1938, Wed, p2

Birth:
Twin

Alice married Frederick Carver Mather on 1 Oct 1878. Frederick was born on 22 Feb 1856 in Michigan; died on 11 Nov 1933 in Aurora, Hamilton Co, Nebraska. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sherman married Estella May Kennedy on 16 Sep 1882 in Marshalltown, Marshall Co, Iowa. Estella (daughter of A. L. Kennedy and Mary F. Brook) was born on 18 Mar 1862 in Marshalltown, Marshall Co, Iowa; died on 6 Sep 1904 in Boulder, Boulder Co, Colorado. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Charles Madison Sears has the name spelled "Adah"

Ada married Walter Lowell Miller on 4 Jun 1892. Walter was born on 3 May 1862; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Nelson Evans Sears was born in Plano, Kendall County, Illinois on 15 Aug 1876 "of English and Welsh parentage"* namely Charles Madison Sears and Katherine Evans. In 1880 he moved with his father Charles Madison and his second wife, Celia Chambers, to Scranton, Iowa living for two years on the old John Henning farm two miles from town. In 1882 he returned to his home state where he made his home with his grandparents, Archibald Sears and Rachel Maria Carver, in Sandwich, Illinois. In May of 1886, he traveled to Nebraska to live with his father on a farm near Aurora. Four years later, in 1890, he returned to Plano to attend school. In 1896 he returned to Aurora to work on his father's farm. In the winter of 1898-1899 he attended Business College in Lincoln, Nebraska. In 1899 he began farming 80 acres of land in Nebraska which his grandmother had bought for him in 1897 for $2600. Nelson sold his Nebraska land early in 1901 for $7200 and traveled to Colorado in an emigrant car chartered by a David Titler arriving in Akron in March of that year. He worked in the harvest fields southwest of Akron for Ira M. Barnhouse. However, after a brief trip to California, he returned to his father's farm in Aurora, Nebraska in the fall of 1901. He returned to Colorado in 1903 where he resumed work with Ira M Barnhouse. In May of 1905 under the Homestead Act of 20 May 1862, Nelson E Sears obtained the South half of the SE quarter of Section 3, and the West half of the NE quarter of Section 10 both in Township 1S of Range 55W of the Sixth Principal Meridian, Washington County, Colorado containing 160 acres. On 20 Sep 1907 he was united in marriage to Ira Morgan Barnhouse's daughter, Edna Maude. Nelson proved up his homestead on 17 May 1909 and was issued Homestead Certificate No. 0585 of the Register of the Land Office at Sterling, Colorado. Later in 1909 Nelson and his wife Edna moved from their homestead into the town of Akron, Colorado where he purchased Lots 1, 2, & 3 facing Golden St. and Lots 10, 11, & 12 facing Gunnison St, Block 11, Original Town of Akron. On 22 Mar 1910 Nelson and Edna's first child, Alva Raymond Sears, was born in Akron. Their second, Margaret May Sears, was born 23 May 1912, and their third and last child, Faye Eleanor Sears, was born 8 Aug 1914. In 1916 Nelson began carrying mail on RFD (Rural Free Delivery) Route 1 out of the Akron Post Office. He carried mail for 25 years until 1941 at which time he retired from the Post Office and assumed the duties of Justice of the Peace for Washington County, Colorado, a position he retained until his death, 17 May 1948.
--------------*According to Nelson Sears' journal dated 1895. Sears is, indeed, an English name traceable back to Richard Sares, who arrived in America before 1632 but the Evans family, Evans typically a Welsh name, actually emigrated from Co. Wicklow, Ireland.

(Medical):Attendant: Park D. Keller MD, Akron, Colorado, May 19, 1948

Nelson married Edna Maude Barnhouse on 20 Sep 1907 in Akron, Washington Co, Colorado. Edna (daughter of Ira Morgan Barnhouse and Mary Francis Albin) was born on 24 Apr 1879 in South Bloomingville, Hocking Co, Ohio; was christened on 28 Aug 1881 in Nelsonville, Athens Co, Ohio; died on 24 Aug 1971 in Brush, Morgan Co, Colorado; was buried on 24 Aug 1971 in Akron Cemetery, Washington Co, Colorado. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

3rd cousin Dorothy Wilmore verified by Ancestry DNA; Common ancestor: 4. Charles Madison Sears m. Celia Amanda Chambers; 3. Vera A. Sears m. Jesse James Read; 2. Jack Harrison Wilmore m. ? 1. Dorothy Wilmore and Daniel Cooley.

Vera married Jesse James Read on 2 Mar 1904. Jesse was born on 21 Feb 1878 in Iowa; died on 23 Oct 1939 in Mesa County, Colorado. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

--Invalid Dates Birth: STILLBORN

Family/Spouse: Robert Bruce Saunders. Robert was born on 28 Jun 1892 in Stockdale, Wilson Co, Texas; died on 19 Apr 1958 in Riverside County, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Arthur married Lillian Little about Jan 1906 in Chicago, Cook Co, Illinois. Lillian was born on 11 Mar 1876 in Chicago, Cook Co, Illinois; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Ethel notes herself as a "Spinster"

Family/Spouse: Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Merle married Bessie Evans on 20 Sep 1905 in Lincoln, Lancaster Co, Nebraska. Bessie was born about 1881 in Probably Nebraska; died about 1968 in Aurora, Hamilton Co, Nebraska; was buried about 1968 in Aurora Cemetery, Aurora, Hamilton, Nebraska. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Roy married Albertyne Irmer on 23 Dec 1916. Albertyne died on 3 Jun 1945. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Archie married Mary Macdonald Hartley on 26 Feb 1908 in Nebraska. Mary was born on 1 Jan 1883 in Springfield Twp, Jefferson Co, Ohio; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Born 21 months after Archie Kennedy.

Mabell married Carl Pierce Hartley on 17 Feb 1912 in Nebraska. Carl was born on 7 Apr 1887 in Lincoln, Lancaster Co, Nebraska; died on 15 Dec 1968 in Wyuka Cemetery, Lancaster County, Nebraska. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Born 29 months after Mabelle Clarice.

Irma married Charles Harrison Arnold on 20 Jan 1912 in Nebraska. Charles was born on 18 Oct 1888 in Dorchester, Saline Co, Nebraska; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Born 69 months (5.75 years) after Irma Colotta.

Helen married Christopher Joseph Abbott on 10 Jul 1914. Christopher was born on 11 Oct 1889 in Bird City, Cheyenne Co, Kansas; died on 10 Jan 1954 in Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ruth married Leon Milo Clearwaters on 9 Oct 1919. Leon was born on 17 Mar 1898; died on 10 Dec 1922. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]