1776 - 1813 (36 years)
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| Name |
BALLOU, Silas |
| Birth |
23 Jul 1776 |
Providence, RI  |
| Gender |
Male |
| FindaGrave |
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| _COLOR |
11 |
| Death |
Jan 1813 |
Cazenovia, NY |
| Burial |
Cazenovia, NY |
Address:
Evergreen Cemetery |
| Person ID |
I12475 |
Puffers |
| Last Modified |
2 Nov 2019 |
| Family |
PRAY, Phoebe Ann, b. 18 Oct 1778, Foster, RI d. 8 Nov 1846, Mattison, MI (Age 68 years) |
| Marriage |
25 Sep 1794 |
Glocester, RI [1] |
| Family ID |
F1693 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
21 Apr 2024 |
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| Notes |
- About the 10th of Jan. 1813, he left home to go to Cazenovia, N. Y., on b usiness, and never returned. The event was most distressing to his wife a nd young chn. -- to whose number another was added three weeks later. N othing was heard from him, except that he was seen near a certain house i n the outskirts of Cazenovia by some one who knew him. There was natura lly much excitement in the general vicinity of Fenner, where he had res ided during the last ten years. Wild suspicions, surmises and rumors pr evailed for a considerable period. At length the new inhabitants of the h ouse near which he was last seen discovered the remains of a human bein g in a shallow grave of their cellar. On exhumation and examination of t he skeleton, the remnants of a man's coat were found with metal buttons b earing certain initials. These were finally recognized as those once wo rn by Silas Ballou, and were considered by his wife and intimate acquai ntances as conclusive evidence that he had been foully murdered. But fo r what reason, and by whom, is still a gloomy mystery. So we must take f or granted that Silas6 died by the hand of a murderer about the middle o f Jan. 1813, in the 37th year of his age. Mrs. Phebe (Pray) Ballou, his w idow, d. in Mattison, Mich., age not given.
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