Sluman Avery

Veteran of the War of 1812

'# Sluman, born about 18 May 1793 in Sharon, Litchfield Co., Connecticut, went to southern Oneida County, died October 1860, possibly in Lenox, Madison Co., New York, where his will (NY-27-P-151) was filed; married in 1831 in Maryland, Elizabeth Ross, born 20 November 1802 in Maryland, died 1869. His family is buried in Sunnyside Cemetery, Lincoln, Madison Co., New York, where their names are all inscribed on a single monument. Parents of:

  1. Ross, born 30 March 1833 in New York.

2. Ira, born 8 October 1834, died 8 February 1837.
3. Lodimma, born 12 May 1837, died 10 June 1843.
4. John, born 5 December 1839, died 24 June 1840.
5. Amos, born about 15 February 1842 in New York.
6. Gardner, born 17 Febraury 1844 in New York, died 21 November 1904 in Quincy, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts (according to 1959 letter from town clerk's office); married Helen Kern, born about 1840, according to the 1850 census of Lenox, Madison Co., New York, in which she was enumerated as a 10 year old girl living with her parents Charles and Mary A. Kern (pg.374/fam.278).
7. Russell, born about 1848 in New York.