From the Sterling Genealogy via Cheri Branca:
104 CAPTAIN SAMUEL STERLING (Joseph, Daniel, William), b. in Sterling City, Lyme, Conn., Oct. 14,1732. " This may Signifie and Certifie that Samuel Starling of Lyme was on the 2nd Day December A.D. 1756 married to Elizabeth Perkins of the same town of Lyme by me. George Beckwith, Pastor." Elizabeth Perkins 1 was b. in Lyme, Oct. 14, 1737, dau. of James and Margaret (Andrews) Perkins. She d. of smallpox, Mar. 18, 1777,and is buried back of the house occupied by Samuel in Sterling City, near a little brook. The inscription on the stone once over her grave is: " In Memory of Elizabeth, Wife of Mr Samuel Starlin who died of Small Pox, March 18th A.D. 1777 in the 40th year of her age." She is buried near Stephen Sterling, son of John, who died of the same disease on the first of the same month. Their headstones are now in the Sterling City Cemetery.
Samuel died in the house he built and had occupied for over sixty years, May 16, 1823, of palsy. He is buried in the Sterling burying ground. The inscription on the stone above his grave is: " Sacred to the memory of Mr Samuel Sterling who died May 16th 1823, aged 90 years. Behold a tender father gone, A much loved parent fled, entered his long eternal home, And numbered with the dead." His third wife d. Sept. 2, 1847, and is buried near him.
Aged 90 years. "A tender father. A much loved parent."
104 CAPTAIN SAMUEL STERLING (Joseph, Daniel, William), b. in Sterling City, Lyme, Conn., Oct. 14,1732. " This may Signifie and Certifie that Samuel Starling of Lyme was on the 2nd Day December A.D. 1756 married to Elizabeth Perkins of the same town of Lyme by me. George Beckwith, Pastor." Elizabeth Perkins 1 was b. in Lyme, Oct. 14, 1737, dau. of James and Margaret (Andrews) Perkins. She d. of smallpox, Mar. 18, 1777,and is buried back of the house occupied by Samuel in Sterling City, near a little brook. The inscription on the stone once over her grave is: " In Memory of Elizabeth, Wife of Mr Samuel Starlin who died of Small Pox, March 18th A.D. 1777 in the 40th year of her age." She is buried near Stephen Sterling, son of John, who died of the same disease on the first of the same month. Their headstones are now in the Sterling City Cemetery.
Samuel died in the house he built and had occupied for over sixty years, May 16, 1823, of palsy. He is buried in the Sterling burying ground. The inscription on the stone above his grave is: " Sacred to the memory of Mr Samuel Sterling who died May 16th 1823, aged 90 years. Behold a tender father gone, A much loved parent fled, entered his long eternal home, And numbered with the dead." His third wife d. Sept. 2, 1847, and is buried near him.
Aged 90 years. "A tender father. A much loved parent."
From the Sterling Genealogy via Cheri Branca:
104 CAPTAIN SAMUEL STERLING (Joseph, Daniel, William), b. in Sterling City, Lyme, Conn., Oct. 14,1732. " This may Signifie and Certifie that Samuel Starling of Lyme was on the 2nd Day December A.D. 1756 married to Elizabeth Perkins of the same town of Lyme by me. George Beckwith, Pastor." Elizabeth Perkins 1 was b. in Lyme, Oct. 14, 1737, dau. of James and Margaret (Andrews) Perkins. She d. of smallpox, Mar. 18, 1777,and is buried back of the house occupied by Samuel in Sterling City, near a little brook. The inscription on the stone once over her grave is: " In Memory of Elizabeth, Wife of Mr Samuel Starlin who died of Small Pox, March 18th A.D. 1777 in the 40th year of her age." She is buried near Stephen Sterling, son of John, who died of the same disease on the first of the same month. Their headstones are now in the Sterling City Cemetery.
Samuel died in the house he built and had occupied for over sixty years, May 16, 1823, of palsy. He is buried in the Sterling burying ground. The inscription on the stone above his grave is: " Sacred to the memory of Mr Samuel Sterling who died May 16th 1823, aged 90 years. Behold a tender father gone, A much loved parent fled, entered his long eternal home, And numbered with the dead." His third wife d. Sept. 2, 1847, and is buried near him.
Aged 90 years. "A tender father. A much loved parent."
104 CAPTAIN SAMUEL STERLING (Joseph, Daniel, William), b. in Sterling City, Lyme, Conn., Oct. 14,1732. " This may Signifie and Certifie that Samuel Starling of Lyme was on the 2nd Day December A.D. 1756 married to Elizabeth Perkins of the same town of Lyme by me. George Beckwith, Pastor." Elizabeth Perkins 1 was b. in Lyme, Oct. 14, 1737, dau. of James and Margaret (Andrews) Perkins. She d. of smallpox, Mar. 18, 1777,and is buried back of the house occupied by Samuel in Sterling City, near a little brook. The inscription on the stone once over her grave is: " In Memory of Elizabeth, Wife of Mr Samuel Starlin who died of Small Pox, March 18th A.D. 1777 in the 40th year of her age." She is buried near Stephen Sterling, son of John, who died of the same disease on the first of the same month. Their headstones are now in the Sterling City Cemetery.
Samuel died in the house he built and had occupied for over sixty years, May 16, 1823, of palsy. He is buried in the Sterling burying ground. The inscription on the stone above his grave is: " Sacred to the memory of Mr Samuel Sterling who died May 16th 1823, aged 90 years. Behold a tender father gone, A much loved parent fled, entered his long eternal home, And numbered with the dead." His third wife d. Sept. 2, 1847, and is buried near him.
Aged 90 years. "A tender father. A much loved parent."
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