Josiah Silver

  General Notes:

research of Virginia Meachum on worldconnect Project: he came to Cass co 1837. 1840 census Pokagon there were 6 family members in his HH


REF: "History of Cass Co. Michigan" p. 277
1850 US Census, Pokagon, Cass, MI, p. 320, 1062/1071,
SILVER, Josiah 56
NH, Polly 50 NH,
Osborn 22 NH,
Mary SAYBROOK 4 MI,
Gilman COLBY 24 NH,
Rosine EASTMAN 14 NH.

1860 US Census, Pokagon, Cass, MI, p. 49, 388/394,
SILVER, Josiah 66 NH,
Polly 60 NH,
Jeremiah 70 NH.

"History of Cass Co. Michigan 1825 to 1875" by Howard S. Rogers
(Cassopolis, MI, 1875) p. 385, "No name is more frequently met or more
prominently identified with the development of the southern portion of
Cass County, during the first twenty years of its history, than that
of the Silvers, and did space allow, a chapter, detailing their virtues
and experiences, could be written, which of itself would be a tolerable
history of that locality, but the limit which was place for this
volume, in its inception, having already exceeded, I must confine these
sketches to the barest minimum. . .
Josiah was born in New Hampshire in 1794, and came to this County in
1837. In 1818 he was married to Polly Straw, by whom he had three
children, two of whom are still living. He died in 1870. . ."
Sumnerville Cemetery Stone, states he died 1875. (Sumnerville, Cass, MI)

Find A Grave Memorial 62771788

Josiah married Polly Straw, daughter of Samuel Straw Esq and Mary Miranda Flanders, in 1818 in Hopkinton, Merrimack County, New Hampshire. (Polly Straw was born on 11 Mar 1800 in Hopkinton, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, died on 2 Oct 1871 in Pokagon, Cass County, Michigan, USA and was buried in Sumnerville Cemetery in Cass County, Michigan.)