Robert Sleeper, who had served in the Revolutionary war under Capt. Robert Pike of the Rhode Island troops, in 1818, emigrated from Vermont to Warren township, bringing his family and effects on wagons drawn by two yoke of oxen. He took up a farm in a deeply wooded country and was a faithful and heroic pioneer. He was a noted hunter and killed the last panther seen in that section. His wife was Catherine Fox, who died in 1850, aged 81; he died, also, 1850, aged 88 years; both inhumed in the Sleeper cemetery in Warren. Their ten children and marriages follow: Joseph, unmarried, died, 1814 of fever contracted while in service, War of 1812; Benjamin married Sarah Sleeper of Vermont; Catherine married Abraham Whitaker, Jr. of Warren; Robert married Jane Eaton of Vermont; John married Abigail Lathrop and had children, Charles J., John F. and Caroline (Mrs. James A. Nichols); Sarah married Abner Bowen; Charles married Mary Wilson; Polly died unmarried; Betsy married Caleb Brown; Josephus married 1st Mariah Bowen and had children, Catherine, Olive, George B., Thomas J., David A., Laura, Robert F. and James D.; married 2nd, Mary E. Bowen, sister of his first wife, and had children, William and Mabel.
Robert Sleeper, who had served in the Revolutionary war under Capt. Robert Pike of the Rhode Island troops, in 1818, emigrated from Vermont to Warren township, bringing his family and effects on wagons drawn by two yoke of oxen. He took up a farm in a deeply wooded country and was a faithful and heroic pioneer. He was a noted hunter and killed the last panther seen in that section. His wife was Catherine Fox, who died in 1850, aged 81; he died, also, 1850, aged 88 years; both inhumed in the Sleeper cemetery in Warren. Their ten children and marriages follow: Joseph, unmarried, died, 1814 of fever contracted while in service, War of 1812; Benjamin married Sarah Sleeper of Vermont; Catherine married Abraham Whitaker, Jr. of Warren; Robert married Jane Eaton of Vermont; John married Abigail Lathrop and had children, Charles J., John F. and Caroline (Mrs. James A. Nichols); Sarah married Abner Bowen; Charles married Mary Wilson; Polly died unmarried; Betsy married Caleb Brown; Josephus married 1st Mariah Bowen and had children, Catherine, Olive, George B., Thomas J., David A., Laura, Robert F. and James D.; married 2nd, Mary E. Bowen, sister of his first wife, and had children, William and Mabel.
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