Lydia Howland

Great grandmother of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt:

Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President of the USA

Lydia Bill was born in 1753. She was the daughter of Ephraim Bill and Lydia Hungtinton. She passed away in 1838. [1]

She married Joseph Howland on 29 May 1772, in Connecticut (no city specified.)[2]

She died 1 May 1838, New York City, New York. Per Findagrave, Lydia Bill Howland is buried, along with her husband, Joseph Howland, in Green-wood Cemetery, Brooklyn Kings County (Brooklyn), New York, Section 94, Lots 3101-3128. Below a photograph of a burial vault is the following (unsourced) recitation: "Beneath this mound is the Howland-Wolcott vault. The vault entrance is in the foreground of this photograph. Only a few monuments stand on this hill-inscribed to members of the Howland and Wolcott families. But there are no stones inscribed to Lydia or Joseph Howland. Nevertheless, both were interred here June 1, 1852, moved from previous graves." [3]

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Bill-15

Lydia Howland formerly Bill

Born 7 Jul 1753 in Norwich Twp., New London Co, Connecticut

Daughter of Ephraim Bill and Lydia (Huntington) Bill

Sister of Silvester Bill, Lynde Bill, Gurdon Bill, Hannah Bill, Gurdon Bill, Ephraim Bill, Abigail Bill, Zachariah Huntington Bill, William Bill, Elizabeth Bill, Hannah (Bill) Lathrop and Silvester Bill

Wife of Joseph Howland Sr. — married 26 May 1772 in Norwalk, Fairfield County, Connecticut [uncertain]

Mother of Lydia (Howland) Coit, Abigail (Howland) Woolsey, Susan (Howland) Aspinwall, Joseph Howland Jr., Elizabeth Burt Howland, Harriet Howland, William Bill Howland, Gardiner Greene Howland, Nathaniel Howland, Samuel Shaw Howland, Mary Ann (Howland) Woodhull, Edward Howland and Francis Howland

Died 1 May 1838 in New York City, New York Co, New York

Profile last modified 3 Aug 2018 | Created 12 Sep 2010

Sources

↑ "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F7WX-7SQ : 3 December 2014), Lydia Bill, 07 Jul 1753; citing ; FHL microfilm unknown. ↑ "Connecticut Marriages, 1630-1997", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29L-WJNG : 31 March 2016), Joseph Howland and Lydia Bill, 1772. ↑ "Find A Grave," indexed database, Find A Grave (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed online 03 Oct 2016), Memorial# 28867240 for Lydia Bill Howland (died 01 May, 1838) with burial vault image,