Adilia Sedgwick ELMER

1811 - 1842  (31 years)

• Name	Adilia Sedgwick ELMER  [1, 2]
  Birth	19 Jul 1811	Hartford, Hartford Co., CT   [3]
  Gender	Female
  Death	20 Dec 1842	Battle Creek, Calhoun Co., MI   [3, 4]
  Burial	Oak Hill Cemetery - Battle Creek, Calhoun Co., MI   [5]
  Person ID	I1376	Howell

  
  

  Father	Captian William ELMER,   b. Abt 1781, CT d. 2 May 1860, prb Bergen, Genesee Co., NY (Age 79 years)
  Mother	Sabra SEDGWICK,   b. Abt 1788, CT d. 8 Oct 1851, prb Bergen, Genesee Co., NY (Age 63 years)
  Marriage	4 Oct 1810	1st Church Hartford - Hartford, CT
  Family ID	F429	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	David William HOWELL,   b. 8 Jul 1808, Berkshire Valley, Jefferson Twp., Morris Co., NJ d. 2 May 1877, Bergen, Genesee Co., NY (Age 68 years)
  Marriage	Bef 1837	prb NY
  Children	1. Elmer HOWELL,   b. 25 Jul 1837, Battle Creek, Calhoun Co., MI d. 20 Oct 1906, Bergen, Genesee Co., NY (Age 69 years)   2. Phebe Adelia HOWELL,   b. 20 Apr 1839, Battle Creek, Calhoun Co., MI d. 4 Jan 1908, Bergen, Genesee Co., NY (Age 68 years) + 3. William Henry HOWELL,   b. 12 Feb 1841, Battle Creek, Calhoun Co., MI d. 21 Oct 1912, Bergen, Genesee Co., NY (Age 71 years) + 4. John Jenness HOWELL,   b. 26 Sep 1842, Battle Creek, Calhoun Co., MI d. 26 Apr 1919, Northumberland, Northumberland Co., PA (Age 76 years)
  Histories		History of David William Howell 1808-1877
  Family ID	F523	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  		Birth - 19 Jul 1811 - Hartford, Hartford Co., CT Marriage - Bef 1837 - prb NY Death - 20 Dec 1842 - Battle Creek, Calhoun Co., MI Burial - - Oak Hill Cemetery - Battle Creek, Calhoun Co., MI  = Link to Google Earth
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• Notes

  Known as Delia Surname sometimes spelled Elmur Delia Howell is buried in Oak Hill Cemetery in Battle Creek, Michigan. This is a very large cemetery and has served as the main cemetery for the city since the middle of the nineteenth century. The cemetery, as it now stands, was however not the original village burying ground and since it was not used until after 1850 it could not have been where Delia had been initially interned. In about 1836 a small parcel of land outside of the village was set aside as a village burying ground. It was here many of the early settlers of the area were buried. However because it was small and could not be enlarged and because of the rapid growth of the village burials were discontinued in 1844. A new and much larger area was acquired further south of town and what is the current Oak Hill Cemetery was started in the early 1850’s. The east five acres of this new cemetery were laid out into lots and eventually the remains (so far as they could be found) were disinterred from the old cemetery, as were those for the old “Quaker Burying Ground” and deposited here. It is not known where Delia Howell was originally buried whether in a lonely grave on the farm surrounded by a white picket fence, the original burying ground of the village or some other unnamed cemetery. It is known that she now rests in the current Oak Hill cemetery as does her son Leander and his wife Frankie. It is also known that the tombstone that now marks her grave was erected about 1918 as indicated in a letter which discusses a new headstone for “your mother” from a friend of Frankie Howell (widow of son Leander) to son John Jenness Howell.

  
  

• Sources

  [S7] Lucile (Howell) Jameson #I1436. [S3] Death Certificate. per son John's death certificate [S13] Published Biography, (J. L. Floyd & Co. Chicago, IL). [S23] Obituary, 6 Jan 1908. Daughter Phebe's Bergen Newspaper Obit [S11] Cemetery Record. Plot: Lot 142, Rt. 11