My great grand half-uncle.
Born: 1 Sep. 1826, Washington, D.C. 1 2
Parents: STERLING HOLCOMB RHODES GRESHAM* AND MARY ELIZA WINGARD
Married: 5 June 1849. 1 3
Death: 23 March 1877. 1
Burial: 1877, Oakland-Gresham Cemetery, Greene Co., GA. 4
Notes:
Listed as a physician in the 1850 Federal Census, District 149, Greene, GA.
Listed as a farmer in the 1860 Federal Census, Greene, GA; also listed in the household: mother-in-law Phoebe Walker, half brother Albert, and half-sister Marion.
Listed as a physician in the 1870 Federal Census, Militia District 137, Greene, GA.
Wife Sarah listed as a farmer in the 1880 Federal Census, District 146, Greene, GA.
Spouse: SARAH ELAM STOKES b. 14 Oct. 1834, GA 1 2 d. 5 May 1906. 1
PICTURE
CHILDREN OF STERLING ARCHIBALD GRESHAM AND SARAH ELAM STOKES:
(my first half-cousins twice removed)
LAURA FRANCES GRESHAM b. 25 Oct. 1850, GA d. 5 Feb. 1855. 1
MARY ELIZA GRESHAM b. 26 July 1853, GA d. 2 Feb. 1945, Greene Co., GA.
SARA VERNON GRESHAM b. 24 Sep. 1856, GA. 1 PICTURE 5
STERLING STOKES GRESHAM b. 24 Sep. 1859, GA d. 1932.
ELLEN VIRGINIA GRESHAM b. 24 April 1862, GA.
JOHN CARTER GRESHAM b. 23 Feb. 1865, GA.
IRENE VICTORIA (CONE?) GRESHAM b. 4 Jan. 1868, GA d. 18 July 1925, Madison, GA.
Sources:
1. Gresham Bible, family of Sterling A. Gresham, owned by Mrs. Mae Morgan Atkinson, Madison, GA, excerpts reprinted by the Georgia Daughters of the American Revolution (D.A.R.).
2. 1850 Federal Census, District 149, Greene, GA.
3. Dodd, Jordan; Georgia Marriages to 1850 [database on-line] Provo, UT, The Generations Network, Inc., 1997; original data: Electronic transcription of marriage records held by the individual counties in Georgia; transcribed as 5 January. 1849.
4. "The Cemeteries of Greene County Georgia," E H. Armor, Agee Publishers, 1987.
5 From the MyFamily/Gresham website, posted by Carol Atkinson-Cross.
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