Daughter of Esek Judson Preston and Sarah Ann Pine, wife of Dewitt Clinton Peek, founder of the Tuskegee Institute, whom she married on April 19, 1849, in New York City, NY, and mother of Dewitt Judson Peek.
Wife of George Griswold Sill, 37th Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut, whom she married on December 16, 1861, in Rockville, Tolland, Connecticut, and mother of George Elliott, Grace Preston, Helen (Ellen) Beecher, and William Raymond Sill.
Marriage - In this city, on the 19th inst., by Rev. Walter Clark, Mr. DeWitt C. Peek, of New York, to Miss Mary J. Preston, daughter of E.J. Preston, Esq. of this place.
Obituary - The Rev. E. DeF. Miel of Trinity Church and the Rev. Francis Goodwin conducted the funeral services yesterday afternoon of Mrs. George G. Sill, at the house, No. 124 Garden Street. Many flowers in the parlor where the services were held filled the room with their beauty and fragrance. A large number of the friends of the family were present. The Park Church Quartet, Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Marwick, Mr. Maercklein and Mr. Couch, under the direction of Joseph R. Barlow, sang Tennyson's "Crossing the Bar" and the hymns "Come, Ye Disconsolate," and "Art Thou Weary." Accompanying the casket to the grave as honorary bearers were; Congressman Lewis Sperry, Henry A. Redfield, J.M. Allen, William L. Matson, Judge Elisha Carpenter, John M. Taylor, George E. Hatch, and Senator E.S. Cleveland. Four colored porters carried the casket. The interment was in the family lot at Spring Grove.
(Mary J Preston in the U.S., Newspaper Extractions from the Northeast, 1704-1930, New York Evening Post, April 24, 1849; The Hartford Daily Courant, Hartford, CT, Apr 23, 1849, Page: 2; The New York Herald, Saturday, July 13, 1907; Hartford Currant, April 17, 1894; Connecticut, Deaths and Burials Index, 1650-1934; Bill Preston)
Wife of George Griswold Sill, 37th Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut, whom she married on December 16, 1861, in Rockville, Tolland, Connecticut, and mother of George Elliott, Grace Preston, Helen (Ellen) Beecher, and William Raymond Sill.
Marriage - In this city, on the 19th inst., by Rev. Walter Clark, Mr. DeWitt C. Peek, of New York, to Miss Mary J. Preston, daughter of E.J. Preston, Esq. of this place.
Obituary - The Rev. E. DeF. Miel of Trinity Church and the Rev. Francis Goodwin conducted the funeral services yesterday afternoon of Mrs. George G. Sill, at the house, No. 124 Garden Street. Many flowers in the parlor where the services were held filled the room with their beauty and fragrance. A large number of the friends of the family were present. The Park Church Quartet, Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Marwick, Mr. Maercklein and Mr. Couch, under the direction of Joseph R. Barlow, sang Tennyson's "Crossing the Bar" and the hymns "Come, Ye Disconsolate," and "Art Thou Weary." Accompanying the casket to the grave as honorary bearers were; Congressman Lewis Sperry, Henry A. Redfield, J.M. Allen, William L. Matson, Judge Elisha Carpenter, John M. Taylor, George E. Hatch, and Senator E.S. Cleveland. Four colored porters carried the casket. The interment was in the family lot at Spring Grove.
(Mary J Preston in the U.S., Newspaper Extractions from the Northeast, 1704-1930, New York Evening Post, April 24, 1849; The Hartford Daily Courant, Hartford, CT, Apr 23, 1849, Page: 2; The New York Herald, Saturday, July 13, 1907; Hartford Currant, April 17, 1894; Connecticut, Deaths and Burials Index, 1650-1934; Bill Preston)
Daughter of Esek Judson Preston and Sarah Ann Pine, wife of Dewitt Clinton Peek, founder of the Tuskegee Institute, whom she married on April 19, 1849, in New York City, NY, and mother of Dewitt Judson Peek.
Wife of George Griswold Sill, 37th Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut, whom she married on December 16, 1861, in Rockville, Tolland, Connecticut, and mother of George Elliott, Grace Preston, Helen (Ellen) Beecher, and William Raymond Sill.
Marriage - In this city, on the 19th inst., by Rev. Walter Clark, Mr. DeWitt C. Peek, of New York, to Miss Mary J. Preston, daughter of E.J. Preston, Esq. of this place.
Obituary - The Rev. E. DeF. Miel of Trinity Church and the Rev. Francis Goodwin conducted the funeral services yesterday afternoon of Mrs. George G. Sill, at the house, No. 124 Garden Street. Many flowers in the parlor where the services were held filled the room with their beauty and fragrance. A large number of the friends of the family were present. The Park Church Quartet, Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Marwick, Mr. Maercklein and Mr. Couch, under the direction of Joseph R. Barlow, sang Tennyson's "Crossing the Bar" and the hymns "Come, Ye Disconsolate," and "Art Thou Weary." Accompanying the casket to the grave as honorary bearers were; Congressman Lewis Sperry, Henry A. Redfield, J.M. Allen, William L. Matson, Judge Elisha Carpenter, John M. Taylor, George E. Hatch, and Senator E.S. Cleveland. Four colored porters carried the casket. The interment was in the family lot at Spring Grove.
(Mary J Preston in the U.S., Newspaper Extractions from the Northeast, 1704-1930, New York Evening Post, April 24, 1849; The Hartford Daily Courant, Hartford, CT, Apr 23, 1849, Page: 2; The New York Herald, Saturday, July 13, 1907; Hartford Currant, April 17, 1894; Connecticut, Deaths and Burials Index, 1650-1934; Bill Preston)
Wife of George Griswold Sill, 37th Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut, whom she married on December 16, 1861, in Rockville, Tolland, Connecticut, and mother of George Elliott, Grace Preston, Helen (Ellen) Beecher, and William Raymond Sill.
Marriage - In this city, on the 19th inst., by Rev. Walter Clark, Mr. DeWitt C. Peek, of New York, to Miss Mary J. Preston, daughter of E.J. Preston, Esq. of this place.
Obituary - The Rev. E. DeF. Miel of Trinity Church and the Rev. Francis Goodwin conducted the funeral services yesterday afternoon of Mrs. George G. Sill, at the house, No. 124 Garden Street. Many flowers in the parlor where the services were held filled the room with their beauty and fragrance. A large number of the friends of the family were present. The Park Church Quartet, Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Marwick, Mr. Maercklein and Mr. Couch, under the direction of Joseph R. Barlow, sang Tennyson's "Crossing the Bar" and the hymns "Come, Ye Disconsolate," and "Art Thou Weary." Accompanying the casket to the grave as honorary bearers were; Congressman Lewis Sperry, Henry A. Redfield, J.M. Allen, William L. Matson, Judge Elisha Carpenter, John M. Taylor, George E. Hatch, and Senator E.S. Cleveland. Four colored porters carried the casket. The interment was in the family lot at Spring Grove.
(Mary J Preston in the U.S., Newspaper Extractions from the Northeast, 1704-1930, New York Evening Post, April 24, 1849; The Hartford Daily Courant, Hartford, CT, Apr 23, 1849, Page: 2; The New York Herald, Saturday, July 13, 1907; Hartford Currant, April 17, 1894; Connecticut, Deaths and Burials Index, 1650-1934; Bill Preston)
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Mary Preston, Wife of George G. Sill
Died April 13, 1894
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