Ammon Metcalf Sheldon

1812 - Aft 1880  (> 68 years)

• Name	Ammon Metcalf Sheldon
  Birth	28 Mar 1812	Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island
  Gender	Male
  Death	Aft Jun 1880	prob, Arispie, Bureau, Illinois
  Person ID	I22024	Whipple Descendants
  Last Modified	18 Nov 2009

  
  

  Father	James Manning Sheldon,   b. 12 Dec 1791, of, Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island d. 15 Mar 1867 (Age 75 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth "Betsey" Ballou,   b. 11 Nov 1792, Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island
  Family ID	F10906	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary Jane Brightman,   b. 17 May 1817, Fall River, Bristol, Massachusetts d. 6 Oct 1880, Arispie, Bureau, Illinois (Age 63 years)
  Children	+ 1. Thomas Henry Sheldon,   b. 22 Sep 1838, Tiskilwa, Bureau, Illinois d. Dec 1927, Tiskilwa, Bureau, Illinois (Age 89 years) + 2. Sarah Frances Sheldon,   b. 9 Dec 1843, Putnam, Putnam, Illinois d. 1 Apr 1900, Putnam, Putnam, Illinois (Age 56 years)   3. Charles H. Sheldon,   b. Abt 1844, prob, , Bureau, Illinois   4. Albert H. Sheldon,   b. Mar 1846, Tiskilwa, Bureau, Illinois d. 20 Mar 1917, Tiskilwa, Bureau, Illinois (Age ~ 71 years)
  Family ID	F11512	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 28 Mar 1812 - Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island Death - Aft Jun 1880 - prob, Arispie, Bureau, Illinois  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  !SOURCE: Israel Wilkinson, _Memoirs of the Wilkinson Family in America_ (Jacksonville, Ill.: Davis & Penniman, 1869), p. 177. !SOURCE: "Descendants of Ammon Metcalf Sheldon," email from N. Combs to Weldon Whipple, 19 Oct 2007. Cites/notes the following: James Arnold, Vital Record of Rhode Island 1636-1850, 3:5:121 (Cumberland 2:205) (birth) Census 1: August 26, 1850, Age 38, farmer, living Bureau Co., IL w/wife Jane 35 & children Thomas H. 10, Sarah F. 9, Charles H. 6 & Albert 4 (Source: 1850 Census, Bureau Co., IL, 234, M432 99.) Census 2: July 30, 1860, Age 49, farmer, living Arispie, Bureau, IL w/wife Jane 44 & cyhildren Henry 21, Sarah F. 19 (school teacher), & Albert 14 (Source: 1860 Census, Arispie, Bureau, IL, 531.) Census 3: June 22, 1870, Age 58, farmer, living Arispie, Bureau, IL w/wife Jane 56 & son Albert 24 (working on farm) next to son Henry & family (Source: 1870 Census, Arispie, Bureau, IL, 165.) Census 4: June 02, 1880, Age 68, farmer, living Arispie, Bureau, IL w/wife Jane 62, son Albert 34 (farmer) & dau.-in-law Alice 29 (Source: 1880 Census, Arispie, Bureau, IL, 3.)