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Elizabeth Ostrander

Elizabeth Ostrander

Female 1771 - 1870  (98 years)

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  • Name Elizabeth Ostrander  [1] 
    Born 02 Nov 1771 
    Gender Female 
    Baptism 05 Jan 1772  St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Red Hook, Dutchess County, New York Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3] 
    Reference Number 1156 
    Reference Number 1532 
    Died 27 Apr 1870  97 y 5 m 4 d, Ghent, Columbia County, New York Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Buried 29 Apr 1870  Christ's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Ghent, Columbia County, New York Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • Ostrander and Southard are found in Ghent on the 1855 Columbia County Census, p. 14
      baptismal sponsors were David Fredenburg & wife Rebecca Vannetten
    Person ID I1156  new
    Last Modified 8 Jul 2009 

    Father Elias Ostrander,   b. Bef 31 Jan 1747/48,   d. 26 May 1834, Ithaca, Tompkins County, New York Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age > 86 years) 
    Mother Rachel Van Etten,   b. Bef 01 Aug 1749,   d. 1825  (Age > 75 years) 
    Married Bef 1769 
    Family ID F614  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Barend Southard,   b. 16 Oct 1772, Rhinebeck, Dutchess County, New York Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Between 1820 and 1830, Rhinebeck, Dutchess County, New York Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 47 years) 
    Married 20 Aug 1797  St. Paul's Zion Luth. Church, Red Hook, Dutchess County, New York Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4, 5] 
    • The Southward (Southard) bible record in the D.A.R. collection provides information on the birth and marriage of Barnet Southward and Elizabeth Ostrander. It also lists their eight children. Page 197 of the D.A.R. volume contains the following notation in addition to the information noted above:
      "Original in the possession of the Society.
      "This single leaf was presented to the Society recently by Ernest A. Maynard, 161-41 86th Avenue, Jackson Heights 72, New York, with a notation that the Bible from which it was taken was published in 1810, and that the family concerned lived in Ghent, Columbia County, New York. --Ed."
      The Southard Gazette pedigree chart shows the marriage date as 23 Nov 1797 in New York.
      Their son, John, is an ancestor of Richard G. Rider who authored an article, "A Case of Mistaken Identity: Two Joseph Southards" in the NYG&B Record Vol. 116, No. 4.
    Children 
     1. Benjamin Southard,   b. 09 Nov 1798
     2. Rachel Southard,   b. 14 Jan 1801
     3. Mary Southard,   b. 14 Jan 1803
    +4. Catherine Southard,   b. 07 Mar 1805, Rhinebeck, Dutchess County, New York Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 04 Feb 1877, Rhinebeck, Dutchess County, New York Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 71 years)
     5. Sarah Southard,   b. 23 Mar 1807
     6. John Southard,   b. 15 Jan 1810
     7. Hannah Southard,   b. 31 Mar 1813
     8. William Southard,   b. 19 Jun 1817
    Family ID F611  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S238] The Schoonmaker Family Books 1-9 at Kingston Libra.

    2. [S78] Church records, St. Paul's (Zion's) Lutheran Church, Red Hook, New York 1730-1899, p. 61, #1328.

    3. [S91] Daughters of the American Revolution, National Number 757700.

    4. [S91] Daughters of the American Revolution, Southward (Southard) Bible Record.

    5. [S175] New York Genealogical & Biographical Record: Bible, (1955), Bible of the Southward-Southard family of Ghent, NYG&BR 1955 86:197.