The Coopers of Long Hill

Document G.235 · find a grave memorial · transcription: verbatim

Find a Grave memorial 33621200 - Horace Sheldon, Old Center Cemetery, Suffield, Hartford County, Connecticut

repository
Find a Grave
date
1888

What is transcribed: The whole memorial: header with plot, family panel (two parents, spouse, four siblings and two children, with memorial ids) and one photograph of the family obelisk. No bio; the parser returned no Ancestry record links (the records in suggested_records were taken from an earlier reading of the page).

People named

As writtenRoleIdentified asWhat this document says
Horace Sheldon deceased
birth: 1802
death: 18 Jan 1888
burial: Old Center Cemetery, Suffield, Hartford County, Connecticut
Arastus Sheldon parent
Eunice King Sheldon parent
Caroline Sheldon spouse Caroline (Cross) Sheldon 1806–1873
Jairus Sheldon sibling
Gad Sheldon sibling
Caroline Julia Sheldon Smith sibling
Eliza Ann Sheldon Pomeroy sibling
Francis H Sheldon child
H Caroline Sheldon child

Transcription and notes

Family panel: - parent: "Arastus Sheldon", 1770-1840, memorial 67230125 - parent: "Eunice King Sheldon", 1773-1830, memorial 67230240 - spouse: "Caroline Sheldon", ?-1873, memorial 33621207 - sibling: "Jairus Sheldon", 1804-1833, memorial 124585442 - sibling: "Gad Sheldon", 1806-1882, memorial 85755960 - sibling: "Caroline Julia Sheldon Smith", 1813-1845, memorial 71017089 - sibling: "Eliza Ann Sheldon Pomeroy", 1816-1863, memorial 33686115 - child: "Francis H Sheldon", ?-1871, memorial 33621234 - child: "H Caroline Sheldon", ?-1907, memorial 33621215

Photograph (obelisk, the same image on both memorials):

H. CAROLINE, DAU. OF HORACE & CAROLINE SHELDON, DIED JUNE 25. 1907, AGED 68 YRS. FRANCIS H. SON OF HORACE & CAROLINE SHELDON DIED JAN. 19. 1871. AGED 24 YRS.

Base:

HORACE SHELDON, DIED JAN. 18. 1888, AGED 85. CAROLINE WIFE OF HORACE SHELDON, DIED DEC. 3. 1873, AGED 67.