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Family
Marriage: Children:

  1. Elias Palmer Usher: Birth: 20 DEC 1804 in Chenango County (Madison) New York. Death: 17 FEB 1880 in South Wayne, Wisconsin


Sources
1. Title:   World Tree at ancestry.com
Page:   http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=0512&id=I2536
2. Title:   Memorial Sketch
Page:   p 91
Author:   Usher, Edward Preston
Publication:   1895
3. Title:   Website
Page:   http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gesk/LordBakerSteele/WC02/WC02_136.HTML
4. Title:   Website
Page:   http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gesk/LordBakerSteele/WC02/WC02_136.HTML
5. Title:   Cemetery records
Page:   findagrave.com
6. Title:   FindAGrave.com
Page:   Find A Grave Memorial# 7601013

Notes
a. Note:   ga County, Ohio, was named Lenox Township and on April 14, 1823, the first officers were elected, with Watrous Usher as trustee. In 1827 Elias P. Usher, the son of Watrous, was listed as one of the two overseers of the poor; Hezekiah Usher was one of the four supervisors of the highways; and Watrous Usher was a justic of the peace. In the late 1820's, Watrous Usher built a sawmill at the Rocky River Falls, which later was known as Olmstead Falls. On February 26, 1831, Watrous Usher, of Olmstead, was appointed by the Governor to serve for a 7-year term as one of the judges of the court of common pleas.
  There was a Watrous family in Conn.
  This is taken from a book published in July 1896 "Memorial To The Pioneer Women Of The Western Reserve" http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohcuyaho/olmstead.htm "Wealthy MORGAN (Mrs. Watrous USHER) lived in the first brick house in Olmsted after a residence of some years in one part frame and part logs."
Note:   Quote from "Usher's in America through Twelve Generations": When the Watrous Usher family moved from New York to Cuyahoga County, Ohio in the early 1820's, Elias was a young man in his teens. Early in 1823, township six, in range fifteen of Cuyaho

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