Re: Niles family of Allegan Co., Michigan and La Porte Co., Indiana
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Niles family of Allegan Co., Michigan and La Porte Co., Indiana
William Kernan 11/10/09
I don't have anything on Ephraim Niles & Esther Cornell.
William Niles b 1799 GA married Roxana Russell on 16 Nov 1826 at Brooklyn, Windham Co, CT [source: Barbour Collection, v4:26]. I don't know who his parents were but there was a William Niles, Esq, at Abbeville, Abbeville Co,. SC, in the 1810 USC. Wm is listed as over age 45 and his prob wife, age 26 to 45, and a male under age 10. Abbeville Co is across the river that divides GA & SC. The elder Wm wasn't counted in SC in 1820. Possibly he died or moved away.
The younger Wm, born 1799 GA,married in in 1826 at Brooklyn, CT. It's possible he came or was brought there earlier, assuming his father died after the 1810 SC census.Interestingly, a Nathaniel Sweet Niles lived at Pomfret, Windham Co., CT, which is near Brooklyn. Nathaniel (b 1759) married 12 Aug 1792 Lucy Holt of Hampton CT. Four of their children were born before 1799 at Brooklyn & Pomfret. Nathl served in the Rev War. In his 1820 pension application he gives his age as 61 and wife's as 51. He mentions two other children at home, William Anson Niles, age 8, and George, age 12. He doesn't say they are his sons.
The 1860 USC (Brooklyn CT) for George A. Niles gives his age as 57, place of birth as GA. And in the 1880 USC (Killingly,CT) he gives his age as 77 and place of birth as SC, his father's as CT, and mother's as NY. His brother Wm. Anson Niles, age 48, in 1860 gave his place of birth as Pomfret.He died before the 1880 census so we don't have his father's place of birth as a check point.
That the younger Wm Niles (b1799) and Nathl's son Wm Anson Niles (b1803) were both born in GA/SC and end up later in the same town in CT suggests the elder Wm of Abbeville GA and Nathl of Pomfret & Brooklyn may have been related, perhaps brothers. A search of land and probate records ca.1800 for Abbeville County GA may provide guardianship or other clues.
Esther Niles, daughter of Wm & Roxana (Russell) Niles, was born in Oct 1830 and married Aurelius(sp)Talmadge. They were at Winona, MN, in 1880, and at 1900 at Seattle, WA.
If you have more on Ephraim Niles & Esther Cornell it may help also.
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Re: Niles family of Allegan Co., Michigan and La Porte Co., Indiana
William Kernan 11/12/09
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Re: Niles family of Allegan Co., Michigan and La Porte Co., Indiana
William Kernan 11/12/09