John Sylvester

SYLVESTER, SLAUGHTER

Posted By: Marjorie Slaughter (email)
Date: 2/9/2003 at 07:41:35

Sylvester, John, farmer, Sec. 8: P.O. Adel; born in Boston, MA 11 Aug 1802, and was brought up there and served an apprenticeship to the cooper's trade; he followed a seafaring life for three years then went to NC and married Cassandra Slaughter from that state; they came to Indiana in 1833, lived there twenty-one years and came with their own wagon to IA and located there in the fall of 1854 and engaged in farming and has lived here over 24 years. They own a farm of seventy acres; they have three children: John A., Elizabeth and Maria L. (Cassandra Slaughter was a sister to Moses H., Watson Gates & Joseph Lawrence Slaughter who all lived in Dallas County, IA)