Reuben Straw Prescott

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Name: Reuben Prescott
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 02 Jun 1802
Birthplace: STRAFFORD TWP,ORANGE,VERMONT
Father's Name: James Prescott
Mother's Name: Dorothy
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: 7450207 , System Origin: Vermont-ODM , GS Film number: unknown

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The Prescott memorial: or, A genealogical memoir of the Prescott families ...
By William Prescott pg 273
Reuben Straw,(3736) b. June 5,1802; m. May 22, 1821,Mary Baker, b. in Clifford, Luzerne Co., Pa. He was a wool carder, and cloth dresser, for 25 years, then he adopted the mercantile business. .

1850 St. Charles, Kane, IL
R S Prescott 48
Mary 46
ch: James 1829 NY; Lodaska [Loduska Jane] 1833 NY; Luona 1835 NY; Viletta 1841 NY and Amanda 1844 NY
ALSO
R L Prescott M 48 Vermont
Mary Prescott F 46 Pennsylvania
James Prescott M 21 New York
Lodaska Prescott F 17 New York
Luana Prescott F 15 New York
Viletta Prescott F 9 New York
Amanda Prescott F 6 New York
Household ID: 1766 , Line Number: 12 , Affiliate Name: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) , Affiliate Publication Number: M432 , Affiliate Film Number: 112 , GS Film Number: 7685 , Digital Folder Number: 004193361 , Image Number: 00348

1860 St. Charles, Kane, IL
Reuben S. Prescott 58
Mary 56
Maletta 18 [b. 1842 NY]

1870 Hyde Park, Cook, IL
R S Prescott 68
Mary 66
Vilette 1832 NY [married to T A. Wagoner b. 1831 KY]

1880 St. Charles, Kane, IL
Reuben S. Prescott b. 1802 VT; retired lumber dealer
Mary [wife] b. 1804 PA
Resign Strong [dau] b.1826 NY - divorced
Mary Strong [grand dau] b. 1867 IN

Saint Charles (Kane County, Illinois) Review, May 25, 1878,Fifty-Seventh Anniversary.
Our much respected citizens, Mr. and Mrs. Prescott, were the recipients, on Wednesday evening, of a surprise party. The provocation consisted in its being the fifty-seventh anniversary of their wedding. A very large number of friends were in attendance, their presence speaking in accents clear, of the universal love and veneration cherished for the long-wedded pair. Mr. Prescott was born in Vermont in 1802; his wife was born in Pennsylvania the following year -- 1803. They were married in New York in 1821, and in 1845 came to our great western state. Three years later they settled in St. Charles, and in our old city have grown to a ripe age. It is a pleasure to make record of this gathering, and to add our benediction. May they live to celebrate many more anniversaries. Their long lives have been nobly lived; and now in the down-hill path to the ominous river, are strewn with the flowers of friendship, and all the air rings with the rhythm of love and peace.

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Reuben married Mary Baker on 22 May 1821 in Clifford, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. (Mary Baker was born on 19 Nov 1803 in Clifford, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, died on 8 Dec 1885 in St. Charles, Kane County, Illinois and was buried in North Cemetery in St. Charles, Kane County, Illinois.)

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