Hannah Christiana Staley

Notes:

Although news articles and her headstone states she was 115, she was actually 106 when she died.

1804 sold land as Hannah Chris Dobson near Kingsborough to her brother, John Staley, then of Palatine. The transaction was recorded in 1815 and she was known as Hannah Chris Davis (In 1830 the same land was sold to Henry Staley from John Staley Jr and his wife Betsey).

WOMAN, 115, HAD TWENTY CHILDREN
Married Fourth Time at Age of 80—Her Career Was Romantically Exciting.
In the Pierce cemetery, near Carthage, lies the body of a woman who died in 1862, aged 115 years. The inscription on the headstone states that she was the wife of four men and the mother of 20 children. Her maiden name was Hannah Susan Christiana Staley. She lived in Johnstown. She was married first to a man by the name of Shore, who was the father of 18 of her children, 15 sons and three daughters. Her second husband was named Dobson and by him she had one son. She later was married to a Mr. Davis, with whom she went to Jefferson County. She had one son by him. When 80 years of age this woman married Josiah Hurlburt. The genealogical committee of the LeRay de Chaumont chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, in an effort to learn something of this woman who lived to so great an age, found a grandson, Josiah Elijah Davis, living at Barnes Corners. He is 85 years old. His grandmother, Hannah Hurlburt, spent the last years of her life with him and died at his home when he was 22 years of age and his eldest child was a baby. - Mr. Davis, whose mind and memory are unimpaired, tells many interesting stories of his grandmother’s romantically exciting life during and preceding the Revolutionary war. She was twice captured by the Indians and bore through life a scar left by a wound caused by a projecting knot against, which she ran when escaping through the forest. Mr. Davis remembers hearing her tell many times of having run bullets for the soldiers during the Revolution. After she had passed her 100th birthday she walked from Wilna to Lewisburg one day and returned the next day. After passing the century mark she cared lor a quarter of ah acre of potatoes. In speaking of her 17 sons and three daughters she used to say she wished she had had four more children and make it an even two dozen. Mrs. Hurlburt spent the last few years of her life in bed between two feather beds, winter and summer, and died without a diseased organ in her body from the infirmities of her advanced age. Her son by her third husband was named Elijah Josiah Davis. Her grandson is Josiah Elijah Davis and her great-grandson, now about 60 years old, is Elijah Josiah Davis. Her son by her second husband, Dobson, went to Jefferson County with her, but so far as is known, none of her children by the name of Shore ever came to that part of the county. She was the great-great-great grandmother of Mrs. Albert Harker of Carthage.
(The Adirondack Record-Elizabethtown Post, Au Sable Forks, NY. Thursday, October 21, 1926)

Hannah married Shove est 1770. was born about 1750; died about 1795. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Hannah married Dobson est 1795. was born about 1750; died before 1804 in Johnstown, Fulton County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Hannah married Davis about 1805 in Montgomery County, New York. was born about 1750; died about 1830. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Hannah married Sergeant Josiah Hurlburt on 3 Nov 1832 in Wilna, Jefferson County, New York. Josiah was born in Dec 1760 in Massachusetts; died on 30 Jan 1847 in Wilna, Jefferson County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jacob married Hannah Kentner on 7 Aug 1811 in Ontario. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Mary Kutler. Mary was born in 1804; died in Jan 1878 in Rochester, Monroe County, New York; was buried in Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, Monroe County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

1865 census states: born Montgomery County, New York

Benjamin married Mary Bigford on 17 Jun 1821. Mary was born in 1799; died on 13 Sep 1873 in Lockport, Niagara County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Military Service: Abt 1861; American Civil War (North) 142nd NY Infantry died of Typhomalarial Fever - Fairfax Seminary

Family/Spouse: Harriet Legrow. Harriet was born in 1825; died on 22 Jun 1896; was buried in Brookside Cemetery, Waddington, St. Lawrence County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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1861 living in St Catherines, Ontario.

Family/Spouse: Julia Silance. Julia was born in ca 1836 in Monroe County, New York; died on 14 Sep 1905 in Middletown, Delaware County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Military Service: Abt 1862; American Civil War (North) 108th NY Infantry Battle of Antietam - wounded

Other Events and Attributes:

• Military Service: Abt 1864; American Civil War (North) 169th NY Infantry, Co.K

Notes:

In 1866 James served 3-6months in Auburn Prison for receiving stolen goods. Was a Painter by trade

Family/Spouse: Catherine Dillon. Catherine was born in 1847 in Ireland; died on 1 Jan 1891 in Rochester, Monroe County, New York; was buried in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Rochester, Monroe County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Military Service: Abt 1864; American Civil War (North) 140th NY Infantry, Co.C

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Christened:
Westminster Presbyterian Church

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Christened:
Westminster Presbyterian Church