Silas Oliver Harding

M, (18 September 1808 - 17 July 1884)
Father-Biological*Captain Oliver Harding b. 3 Jun 1774, d. 22 Oct 1843
Mother-Biological*Elizabeth Browning b. 6 May 1777, d. 16 Feb 1845
Last Edited=9 Nov 2022
     Silas Oliver Harding was christened on 18 September 1808 at Rutland, Massachusetts, He is listed as Samuel Oliver Harding on his baptismal record.1 He was the son of Captain Oliver Harding and Elizabeth Browning.

Silas Oliver Harding, age 25, married Louisa Newcomb, age 26 , daughter of James Newcomb and Rhoda Partridge, in October 1833 at Barre, Massachusetts.

Children:
1. Lysander Harding (1836-____)
2. Gardner Harding (1837-1840)
3. Ellen Louisa Harding (1840-____)
4. Martha Elizabeth Harding (1845-1869.)2


Silas Oliver Harding died on 17 July 1884 at Barre, Massachusetts, at age 75. He was buried at Riverside Cemetery, Barre, Massachusetts. Silas's epitaph reads:

Silas O. Harding
died
July 17, 1884
76 yr 11 mo
-
Louisa
his wife
died
Jan 18, 1874
age 67, 1 mo.3




Compeller's Notes:
Marriage Date: Newcomb (1874) gives their marriage date as 14 October 1832.4

Citations

  1. Systematic History Fund. Vital Records of Rutland, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849. Worcester, Massachusetts: Franklin P. Rice, 1905.
  2. Morse, Abner. A Register of the Descendants of Several Ancient Puritans. volume IV. Boston: H. W. Dutton & Son, 1864.
  3. Roy, Robert A.. Gravestone Inscriptions at Riverside Cemetery in Barre, Massachusetts. Lexington Park, Maryland: manuscript, 1983.
  4. Newcomb, John Bearse. Genealogical Memoir of the Newcomb Family. Elgin, Illinois: Knight & Leonhard, 1874.