Elizabeth Sterling

• Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Oct 11 2019, 8:49:36 UTC

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from "the Sterling Genealogy": (husband) CAPTAIN SAMUEL STERLING (Joseph, Daniel, William), b. in Sterling City, Lyme, Conn., Oct. 14,1732. " This may Signifie and Certifie that Samuel Starling of Lyme was on the 2n4 Day December A.D. 1756 married to Elizabeth Perkins of the same town of Lyme by me. George Beckwith, Pastor." Elizabeth Perkins was b. in Lyme, Oct. 14, 1737, dau. of James and Margaret (Andrews) Perkins. She d. of smallpox, Mar. 18, 1777, The inscription on the stone once over her grave is: " In Memory of Mr? Elizabeth, Wife of Mr Samuel Starlin who died of Small Pox, March 18th A.D. 1777 in the 40th year of her age." She is buried near Stephen Sterling, son of John, who died of the same disease on the first of the same month. Their headstones are now in the Sterling City Cemetery.

mother of: Irene (Dr. Eleazor Mather), Sarah (Col. Lemuel Lee), Caroline (Joseph Lord), Samuel (Mehitable Whittlesey) Elizabeth (Gen.William Ross), Ruth Perkins (Joseph Atwell), Lucy (Christopher Lee), and James (Mabel Chester)* Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Feb 16 2020, 2:40:20 UTC