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Marriage: Children:
  1. Robert Lett: Birth: 29 OCT 1803 in County Carlow, Ireland. Death: 4 DEC 1883 in Lett Cemetery, Northville Township, LaSalle County, IL

  2. John Lett: Birth: 1806 in Ireland. Death: BEF SEP 1824 in Solina, Lower Canada

  3. Thomas Lett: Birth: 17 JUN 1809 in Kildemond, County Carlow, Ireland. Death: 8 JUL 1885 in Sandwich, IL

  4. Benjamin Lett: Birth: 14 NOV 1813 in County Carlow, Ireland. Death: 9 DEC 1858 in Milwaukee, WI

  5. Elizabeth "Betsy" Lett: Birth: 12 MAY 1816 in Wexford, Ireland. Death: 23 DEC 1897 in Adams Township, LaSalle County, IL

  6. Anne Lett: Birth: 1818 in Ireland. Death: 1839 in Natchitoches, LA

  7. Maria Lett: Birth: 29 OCT 1821 in Chatham Township, Quebec Region, Canada. Death: 2 MAR 1900 in Sec 34, Adams Township, LaSalle County, IL

  8. Sarah "Sally" Lett: Birth: 29 FEB 1824 in Chatham Township, Quebec Region, Canada. Death: 11 AUG 1887 in Adams Township, LaSalle County, IL


Notes
a. Note:   d a gruesome death.
  From her son Thomas Lett's obituary:
  "While young, his mother passed through the rebellion in Ireland of 1798 alive, barely, others of the family having been killed for their loyalty to Great Britain. Elizabeth, then eleven years old, was twice imprisoned to be burned alive, but each time was saved by the British Dragoons. It is believed one of the soldiers who saved her eventually became her husband at age 16, the soldier Samuel Lett.
  Elizabeth’s only brother, Benjamin Warren, 20 years old, was taken out of his mother’s house and barbarously murdered: he was at first shot, but finding this did not kill him, his murderers ran his body through twenty-four times with spikes. Subsequently, at his own solicitations, his brains were beaten out with a club to end his sufferings. His body was then left in the streets of Wexford to be devoured by swine.
  Suffering a nervous breakdown after being widowed in 1824, she moved with her family in 1833 to Solina, Darlington, Canada, never to recover from the breakdown.
  She died of yellow fever in 1839 while in Nacogdoches, TX, after her sons had moved her entire family to Texas, as far away as possible from the pressures brought upon the family by her son Benjamin's efforts in the Canadian Rebellion of 1838.
Note:   At the age of 11, in 1798, the Irish Rebellion broke out and she was imprisoned twice, to be burned. She was saved both times by the British Dragoons, but her only brother, Benjamin, was murdered for his loyalty to the British. Benjamin die


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