Eliza (Sornberger) Pierce Sanford and Her Descendants - Part 9

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Genealogical Summary [160]

Generation One

1. Uriah Sornberger, son of John Sornberger and Deborah Rau, was born about 1788 in New York and died 17 September 1850, most likely in Hillsdale, Columbia County, New York. He married Betsy Cole before 1813. She was born about 1789 in Connecticut and died 10 January 1858 in Hillsdale.

Uriah and Betsy had four children, all likely born in Egremont, Berkshire County, Massachusetts.

        2.       i.       Edward, born about 1813, died 11 January 1842 probably in Hillsdale.

+     3.      ii.       Eliza, born 28 April 1816, died 29 October 1859.

        4.    iii.       George, born about 1818, died 1885 probably in Hillsdale. He married Harriet Newell Osborn, daughter of Melvin Osborn and Betsey Pierce, 19 October 1852 in Washtenaw County, Michigan. She was born in February 1823 in Columbia County, New York, and died 19 September 1871, probably in Hillsdale. [161]

        5.     iv.       Emmeline, born 29 November 1820, and died 19 September 1890, probably in Hillsdale. She married William Leonard Johnson, son of  Quincey Johnson and Abigail Cook, on 12 September 1852. He was born 5 September 1815 in New York, and died 10 October 1891 in Pine Plains, Dutchess County, New York. [162]

Generation Two

3. Eliza Sornberger, daughter of Uriah Sornberger and Betsy Cole, was born 28 April 1816 in Egremont, Berkshire County, Massachusetts. She died 29 October 1859 at Great Barrington, Berkshire County. She married Levi Pierce, probable son of Joel Pierce and Peggy, on 15 June 1841 in Hillsdale, Columbia County, New York. He was born about 1815 and died 22 April 1844 in Palmyra, Wayne County, New York. Eliza then married John Farnham Sanford, son of John Sanford and Aurora Farnham, on  9 May 1854 in Hillsdale. He was born 16 June 1809 in West Stockbridge, Berkshire County, and died 6 December 1884 in Great Barrington. 

Eliza Sornberger and Levi Pierce had one child:

+     6.      i.       Elizabeth, born 16 May 1842 in Rochester, Monroe County, New York, died 7 September 1878 in Great Barrington.

Eliza Sornberger and John Farnham Sanford had one child:

        7.      ii.       Louise Emmeline, born 20 December 1856 in Great Barrington, died 30 September 1859 in Great Barrington.

 

Generation Three

6. Elizabeth (Lizzie) Pierce, daughter of Levi Pierce and Eliza Sornberger, was born 16 May 1842 in Rochester, Monroe County, New York, and died 7 September 1878 in Great Barrington, Berkshire County, Massachusetts. She married Merritt Seeley, son of Isaac Seeley and Electa Palmer, on 8 May 1862 at Great Barrington. He was born 6 December 1839 in Great Barrington, and died 8 April 1886 at Greenfield, Franklin County, Massachusetts.

Elizabeth and Merritt had six children:

        8.       i.       Child born before 1865, died young.

+     9.     ii.       Isaac, born 1 September 1865 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, died 16 September 1905 in Great Barrington.

+     10.   iii.       Eliza, born 2 March 1867 in Great Barrington, died 27 July 1927 in New Haven.

        11.   iv.       Julia E., born 13 September 1872 in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, died 11 January 1887 in Great Barrington.

        12.    v.       Merret, born 27 September 1875 in Detroit, died 28 February 1897 in Hickory, Catawba County, North Carolina.

        13.   vi.       Mary, born 2 January 1875 in Detroit, probably stillborn.

 

Generation Four

9. Isaac Seeley, son of Elizabeth Pierce and Merritt Seeley, born 1 September 1865 at New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, and died 16 September 1905 at Great Barrington, Berkshire County, Massachusetts. He married Sophie Curtis Vanschiak, daughter of H.C Vanschaack and Frank on 7 October 1886 in Great Barrington. They were divorced on 6 January 1894 in El Paso County, Colorado. Sophie was born 14 February 1869 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, and died 7 May 1922 in Saint Joseph, Buchanan County, Missouri. [163]

Isaac and Sophie had one child.

        14.     i.       George Slingerland, born 12 October 1887 in New York, New York, and died 24 November 1953 in San Francisco, San Francisco, California. Beginning in 1900, George used his mother’s second husband’s last name of Gilpin. He married first Mabel B. Chamberlain, daughter of William Chamberlain and Amy Dorst, on 1 August 1913 in Jackson, Kansas City, Missouri. She was born 17 August 1891 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois and died 1 September 1943 in Lakewood, Cuyahoga County, Ohio. George married second Hazel D. Seaman on 16 April 1953 in Contra Costa County, California. She was born 18 February 1890 in California and died 27 February 1969 in Contra Costa. George had two sons from his first marriage, Vincent Seeley, and William Chamberlain. [164]

 

10. Eliza Seeley, daughter of Elizabeth Pierce and Merritt Seeley, born 2 May 1867 in Great Barrington, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, died 27 July 1927 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut. She married Frederick James Hatch, son of Austin E. Hatch and Eliza A. Moree, on 23 August 1894 in Manhattan, New York. He was born in February 1866 in Great Barrington, and died 30 August 1925 in New Milford, Litchfield, Connecticut.

Eliza and Frederick had three children:

        15.    i.       Robert F., born 22 October 1895 in Great Barrington, died 30 September 1929 in Manhattan, New York. He married Mary Frances Dorothy Havens, daughter of Edward F. Havens and Mary A., on 19 June 1918 in Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut. She was born 13 February 1897 in Hartford and died 11 October 1971 in West Hartford. They had two daughters, Barbara Elizabeth, and Marian Frances.

        16.    ii.       Margaret, born 2 December 1896 in Great Barrington, died 30 December 1896 in Great Barrington.

        17.   iii.       Julia Eliza, born 15 May 1898 in Great Barrington, died 24 July 1976 in Burlington, Chittendon County, Vermont.


160. Citations for facts mentioned in earlier posts will not be repeated in the genealogical summary. 

161. New York, Columbia County, Hillsdale, Hillsdale Village Cemetery, Sornberger graves. See note 47. 

162. Paul Franklin Johnson, Genealogy of Captain John Johnson of Roxbury, Massachusetts (Los Angeles, California, 1951), pages 162-163.

163. Missouri, Buchanan County, Saint Joseph, Mount Auburn Cemetery, memorial 65174603, Sophie Curtis Vanschaack Seeley Gilpin; FindAGrave.com. 

164. For George Seeley, see California, San Mateo County, San Bruno, Golden Gate National Cemetery, memorial 3579212, George Seeley Gilpin; FindAGrave.com. For Mabel Chamberlin Giilpin, see Ohio, Cuyahoga County, Rocky River, Lakewood Park Cemetery, memorial 161972967, Mabel Chamberlain Gilpin; FindAGrave.com. For Hazel Dey Gilpin, see California, San Mateo County, San Bruno, Golden Gate National Cemetery, memorial 3579214, Hazel Bonnett Dey Gilpin; FindAGrave.com. For Seeley-Chamberlain marriage, "Cupid's Court," St. Joseph Gazette (Missouri), 10 August 1913, page 15, column 5. For Seeley-Seaman marriage, see California, Marriage Indez, 1949-1959, 195, 16 April 1953, George S. Gilpin; image, Ancestry.com, image 173 of 536.


Eliza (Sornberger) Pierce Sanford and Her Descendants

Patty Hankins
April 2024

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