Daughter of Israel and Elizabeth (Reed) Stoddard
Granddaughter of Eliakim and Joanna (Curtiss) Stoddard
Great-grandaughter of Reverend Anthony Stoddard of Woodbury and Prudence (Welles) Stoddard
Elizabeth Stoddard was the last child of Israel and Elizabeth Stoddard to be born at the house her father, Israel Stoddard, received in the division and distribution of the estate of his father, Eliakim Stoddard, in 1752.(Note: contrary to the date of the memorial, her birth was registered at Woodbury on June 14, 1769). Eliakim was originally gifted the house and property by his father, Reverend Anthony Stoddard, in 1736. The house is still standing today at 506 Main Street in Woodbury, Connecticut and is operated as an inn (2021).
Elizabeth married Taylor Sherman at Woodbury in 1787. The couple then moved to Norwalk, Connecticut. They resided at 89 Main Street in Norwalk. After Taylor Sherman's death in 1815, Elizabeth moved with the children to Ohio. She is buried with he daughter, Elizabeth (Sherman) Parker. The monument has inscription on three sides: One for Elizabeth (Stoddard) Sherman (memorial photo); one for Elizabeth (Sherman) Parker (wife of Jacob Parker) and their son Charles W. Parker (second memorial photo); and one side for Jacob Parker.
Their son, Charles Robert Sherman, married Mary Hoyt in 1811. The couple then moved to Lancaster, Ohio. Charles soon rose to became a Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court. Charles died suddenly, at age 40, in 1829, leaving his widow Mary with 11 children and no means of support.
Their son, William Tecumseh Sherman, was then raised by her deceased husband's friend, politician and JudgeThomas Ewing, Sr. and his wife Maria, while the other Sherman children were scattered among various foster-parents. In spite of this, or perhaps because of this, several other siblings, John Sherman and Hoyt Sherman, also had highly careers as politians and businessmen. Judge Thomas Ewing. Sr., William Tecumseh Sherman's foster-father, was a United States Senator from Ohio, Secretary of the Treasury under Presidents William Henry Harrison and John Tyler, Secretary of the Interior under Presidents Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore, trusted advisor to the President Andrew Johnson, and a highly successful lawyer.
William Tecumseh Sherman became the legendary Civil War general. General Sherman was well-acquainted with and close to his Stoddard relatives. They are mentioned reverantly in the general's autobiography.
Granddaughter of Eliakim and Joanna (Curtiss) Stoddard
Great-grandaughter of Reverend Anthony Stoddard of Woodbury and Prudence (Welles) Stoddard
Elizabeth Stoddard was the last child of Israel and Elizabeth Stoddard to be born at the house her father, Israel Stoddard, received in the division and distribution of the estate of his father, Eliakim Stoddard, in 1752.(Note: contrary to the date of the memorial, her birth was registered at Woodbury on June 14, 1769). Eliakim was originally gifted the house and property by his father, Reverend Anthony Stoddard, in 1736. The house is still standing today at 506 Main Street in Woodbury, Connecticut and is operated as an inn (2021).
Elizabeth married Taylor Sherman at Woodbury in 1787. The couple then moved to Norwalk, Connecticut. They resided at 89 Main Street in Norwalk. After Taylor Sherman's death in 1815, Elizabeth moved with the children to Ohio. She is buried with he daughter, Elizabeth (Sherman) Parker. The monument has inscription on three sides: One for Elizabeth (Stoddard) Sherman (memorial photo); one for Elizabeth (Sherman) Parker (wife of Jacob Parker) and their son Charles W. Parker (second memorial photo); and one side for Jacob Parker.
Their son, Charles Robert Sherman, married Mary Hoyt in 1811. The couple then moved to Lancaster, Ohio. Charles soon rose to became a Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court. Charles died suddenly, at age 40, in 1829, leaving his widow Mary with 11 children and no means of support.
Their son, William Tecumseh Sherman, was then raised by her deceased husband's friend, politician and JudgeThomas Ewing, Sr. and his wife Maria, while the other Sherman children were scattered among various foster-parents. In spite of this, or perhaps because of this, several other siblings, John Sherman and Hoyt Sherman, also had highly careers as politians and businessmen. Judge Thomas Ewing. Sr., William Tecumseh Sherman's foster-father, was a United States Senator from Ohio, Secretary of the Treasury under Presidents William Henry Harrison and John Tyler, Secretary of the Interior under Presidents Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore, trusted advisor to the President Andrew Johnson, and a highly successful lawyer.
William Tecumseh Sherman became the legendary Civil War general. General Sherman was well-acquainted with and close to his Stoddard relatives. They are mentioned reverantly in the general's autobiography.
Daughter of Israel and Elizabeth (Reed) Stoddard
Granddaughter of Eliakim and Joanna (Curtiss) Stoddard
Great-grandaughter of Reverend Anthony Stoddard of Woodbury and Prudence (Welles) Stoddard
Elizabeth Stoddard was the last child of Israel and Elizabeth Stoddard to be born at the house her father, Israel Stoddard, received in the division and distribution of the estate of his father, Eliakim Stoddard, in 1752.(Note: contrary to the date of the memorial, her birth was registered at Woodbury on June 14, 1769). Eliakim was originally gifted the house and property by his father, Reverend Anthony Stoddard, in 1736. The house is still standing today at 506 Main Street in Woodbury, Connecticut and is operated as an inn (2021).
Elizabeth married Taylor Sherman at Woodbury in 1787. The couple then moved to Norwalk, Connecticut. They resided at 89 Main Street in Norwalk. After Taylor Sherman's death in 1815, Elizabeth moved with the children to Ohio. She is buried with he daughter, Elizabeth (Sherman) Parker. The monument has inscription on three sides: One for Elizabeth (Stoddard) Sherman (memorial photo); one for Elizabeth (Sherman) Parker (wife of Jacob Parker) and their son Charles W. Parker (second memorial photo); and one side for Jacob Parker.
Their son, Charles Robert Sherman, married Mary Hoyt in 1811. The couple then moved to Lancaster, Ohio. Charles soon rose to became a Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court. Charles died suddenly, at age 40, in 1829, leaving his widow Mary with 11 children and no means of support.
Their son, William Tecumseh Sherman, was then raised by her deceased husband's friend, politician and JudgeThomas Ewing, Sr. and his wife Maria, while the other Sherman children were scattered among various foster-parents. In spite of this, or perhaps because of this, several other siblings, John Sherman and Hoyt Sherman, also had highly careers as politians and businessmen. Judge Thomas Ewing. Sr., William Tecumseh Sherman's foster-father, was a United States Senator from Ohio, Secretary of the Treasury under Presidents William Henry Harrison and John Tyler, Secretary of the Interior under Presidents Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore, trusted advisor to the President Andrew Johnson, and a highly successful lawyer.
William Tecumseh Sherman became the legendary Civil War general. General Sherman was well-acquainted with and close to his Stoddard relatives. They are mentioned reverantly in the general's autobiography.
Granddaughter of Eliakim and Joanna (Curtiss) Stoddard
Great-grandaughter of Reverend Anthony Stoddard of Woodbury and Prudence (Welles) Stoddard
Elizabeth Stoddard was the last child of Israel and Elizabeth Stoddard to be born at the house her father, Israel Stoddard, received in the division and distribution of the estate of his father, Eliakim Stoddard, in 1752.(Note: contrary to the date of the memorial, her birth was registered at Woodbury on June 14, 1769). Eliakim was originally gifted the house and property by his father, Reverend Anthony Stoddard, in 1736. The house is still standing today at 506 Main Street in Woodbury, Connecticut and is operated as an inn (2021).
Elizabeth married Taylor Sherman at Woodbury in 1787. The couple then moved to Norwalk, Connecticut. They resided at 89 Main Street in Norwalk. After Taylor Sherman's death in 1815, Elizabeth moved with the children to Ohio. She is buried with he daughter, Elizabeth (Sherman) Parker. The monument has inscription on three sides: One for Elizabeth (Stoddard) Sherman (memorial photo); one for Elizabeth (Sherman) Parker (wife of Jacob Parker) and their son Charles W. Parker (second memorial photo); and one side for Jacob Parker.
Their son, Charles Robert Sherman, married Mary Hoyt in 1811. The couple then moved to Lancaster, Ohio. Charles soon rose to became a Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court. Charles died suddenly, at age 40, in 1829, leaving his widow Mary with 11 children and no means of support.
Their son, William Tecumseh Sherman, was then raised by her deceased husband's friend, politician and JudgeThomas Ewing, Sr. and his wife Maria, while the other Sherman children were scattered among various foster-parents. In spite of this, or perhaps because of this, several other siblings, John Sherman and Hoyt Sherman, also had highly careers as politians and businessmen. Judge Thomas Ewing. Sr., William Tecumseh Sherman's foster-father, was a United States Senator from Ohio, Secretary of the Treasury under Presidents William Henry Harrison and John Tyler, Secretary of the Interior under Presidents Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore, trusted advisor to the President Andrew Johnson, and a highly successful lawyer.
William Tecumseh Sherman became the legendary Civil War general. General Sherman was well-acquainted with and close to his Stoddard relatives. They are mentioned reverantly in the general's autobiography.
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