Elijah ST. JOHN

1766 - 1854  (87 years)

• Name	Elijah ST. JOHN  [1]
  Birth	17 Nov 1766	Sharon, Connecticut   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	01 Mar 1854  [1]
  Notes	Excerpt from "The Whitney Family of Connecticut": They dwelt, in 1792, at Weybridge, Vt., and in March 1797, settled in Fabius, NY, a half-mile east of the present village of Apulia. There he was elected an assessor, at the first town-meeting, 3 Apr 1798; was a trustee and deacon of the First Baptist Church; and bore the reputation of "a pious, good man," and the title of Colonel. She died on the homestead, 3 June 1853, aged 86 years, 6 months and 13 days, having foretold, in the preceding February, that she should die about the last of May or first of June, that her husband should survive her eight days or eight months, and that none but a St. John should ever possess that house, with other particulars, which, the family say, were fulfilled in a remarkable way. The house was burned on Sunday night, 26 Feb. 1854. He was then quite ill, and arrangements had been made to take him to his daughter's home on the following day; but he died on Tuesday, 28 Feb. 1854, at the house of a neighbor, to which he had been carried when the fire was discovered. They were buried in Apulia Cemetery, which was laid out on his farm; and his gravestone states the date of his death as "1 March 1854, aged 87 years 3 months and 19 days."
  Person ID	I54305	Main Tree

  
  

  Father	Mark ST. JOHN,   b. 15 Aug 1715, Ridgefield, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA d. 1770 (Age 54 years)
  Relationship	Natural
  Mother	Ann GAY,   b. 03 Nov 1729, Litchfield, Litchfield County, Connecticut d. 1823 (Age 93 years)
  Relationship	Natural
  Marriage	1747	Sharon, Litchfield Co., Connecticut   [2]
  Family ID	F09826	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Nancy HOWELL,   b. 20 Nov 1766, Long Island City, Queens, New York, USA d. 03 Jun 1853, Fabius, New York (Age 86 years)
  Family ID	F22261	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S01702] S. Whitney, Ancestry.com: "The Whitney Family of Connecticut, and its Affiliations", (Name: Name: New York: Privately Printed 1878;;). [S00094] S. Whitney Phoenix, "The Whitney Family of Connecticut and its Affiliations; being an Attempt to trace the Descendants, as well in the Female as the Male Lines, of Henry Whitney, from 1649 to 1878" , (Privately Printed, New York - 1878).