Eliza SLAWSON

Family/Spouse: John S. BETTIS. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1860, Living in Perrysburg, Cattaraugus County, New York
• Census: 1870, Living in Hanover, Chautauqua County, New York
• Census: 1875, Living in Hanover, Chautauqua County, New York

Notes:

Name:
The "Slawson" book by George C. Slawson, shows Ebenezer as the son of William and Elizabeth Slawson. Through further research, I have found that this is incorrect.

The "Historical Gazetteer and Biographical Memorial of Cattaraugus Co., NY, ed. by William Adams, pg. 959 states - -

Ebenezer SLAWSON was born in Schenectady, NY, in 1795, and died in Hanover NY in 1877. His father, EBENEZER, was a tailor by trade and a farmer and served seven years in the Revolutionary War, dying in Yates County, in Jan. 1820. His wife was Lydia NASH. Ebenezer, Jr., married Betsey CARR, who died in this town in 1859. Children: Samuel, Melissa, Eliza, Daniel, Caroline, John, and Silas N.

Silas N. SLAWSON was born in Yates County, July 7, 1814. March 10, 1836, he married Temperance L. HOPPER. Children: Newton, Temperance A., and Samuel E. The latter was born in Hanover, NY, May 12, 1850, and married Inez PARSELL, Sept. 17, 1873. Silas N. SLAWSON marries, second, Alice I. FRINK, June 4, 1885. Newton SLAWSON died in April 1883. He married Rose C. BROWN. He was several years a teacher, twelve years a justice of the peace, and was deputy sheriff at the time of his death. Silas N. was superintendent of schools in Hanover, Chautauqua County, and town superintendent and commissioner of schools in Perrysburg. He was one of three delegates from this locality to Philadelphia to organize the U.S. Teachers' Association, and has taught school over twenty years.

Ebenezer married Betsey CARR on 12 Jun 1813 in Penn Yan, Yates County, New York. Betsey was born in 1798 in Maryland; died on 09 Mar 1858 in Chautauqua County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]