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Clint married Ida Marie CARDER on 1 Oct 1919 in Nucla, Montrose, Colorado, United States. Ida (daughter of John Lee CARDER and Adda Agnes Hewitt) was born on 7 May 1900 in Cairo, West Virginia, USA; died on 19 Sep 1973 in Moab, Grand, Utah, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Birthdate he gave himself was 2 April 1858.

1880 United States Federal Census Record about George A. Sly
Name: George A. Sly
Age: 23
Estimated birth year: abt 1857
Birthplace: Michigan
Occupation: Carpenter
Relationship to head-of-household: Self
Home in 1880: Juniata, Adams, Nebraska
Marital status: Married
Race: White
Gender: Male
Spouse's name: Katie N. Sly
Father's birthplace: NY
Mother's birthplace: IRE
note: Lester Sly (brother) living next door

1900 United States Federal Census
Name: Geo A Sly
Home in 1900: Pinon, Montrose, Colorado
Age: 42
Estimated birth year: abt 1858
Birthplace: Michigan
Relationship to head-of-house: Head
Spouse's name: Katie W
Race: White
Occupation: carpenter
Household Members: Name Age
Geo A Sly 42
Katie W Sly 37
Ford C Sly 18
Clint C Sly 17
Clyde Sly 14
Mabel R Sly 11
Leafy H Sly 8
Taynel Sly 5



1910 United States Federal Census
Name: George A Sly
Age in 1910: 52
Estimated birth year: abt 1858
Birthplace: Michigan
Relation to Head of House: Head
Father's Birth Place: New York
Mother's Birth Place: New York
Spouse's name: Kate N
Home in 1910: Nucla, Montrose, Colorado
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Gender: Male
Household Members: Name Age
George A Sly 52
Kate N Sly 48
Clint L Sly 25
Leafy E Sly 18
Tripell g Sly 14
Frank L Sly 7

1920 United States Federal Census
Name: George A Sly
Home in 1920: Nucla, Montrose, Colorado
Age: 61 years
Estimated birth year: abt 1859
Birthplace: Michigan
Relation to Head of House: Head
Spouse's name: Kate N
Father's Birth Place: New York
Mother's Birth Place: Michigan
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Sex: Male
Home owned: Own
Able to read: Yes
Able to Write: Yes
Image: 701
Household Members: Name Age
George A Sly 61
Kate N Sly 57
Frank L Sly 17

1930 United States Federal Census
Name: George H Sly
Home in 1930: Compton, Los Angeles, California
Age: 72
Estimated birth year: abt 1858
Birthplace: Michigan
Relation to Head of House: Head
Race: White
Occupation: builder/contracter Military Service: no, Rent/home value: Age at first marriage: 22, Parents' birthplace: NY, NY
Household Members: Name Age
George H Sly 72 widowed builder/contracter
Frank L Sly 24 single Mechanic/garage





LIFE STORY OF GEORGE ALBERT SLY
I, George A. Sly, have been asked by my children to write a history of my life as I remember it. As all of our family records have been lost, I will have to depend on my memory, When I was about five years old, we lived on a farm near St. Louis, Michigan and about that time father died leaving mother with six children and none of them old enough to take the responsibility of providing a living forthe family. After the funeral, the neighbors came in to see if they could help solve the problem for mother. The children were five boys and one girl, she being the baby and I was next to her. I went to live with a neighbor named Allen, and mother went to live with her brother near Pontiac. I was with Allens about a year when mother's brother died and again we were destitute when a man by the name of Exelby (or Axford) wanted me to live with him. I was then about 8 years old and able to do some work. Exelby lived on a farm in Clinton Co. (MI) and we stayed there about a year then moved to Saginaw Co. where his brother had a sawmill and he joined him in the mill. I helped around the mill. They had a young man as engineer and he had TB and got too weak to work, so I was to help him. He took all the pains to teach me how to fire the boiler and run the engine and pumps. Soon after he was taken much worse and died and then I was put in charge. After that time Exelby got the wandering blues and he made up a party and then went to Nebraska and filed a homestead and in the spring of 1872 Exelby and another man chartered a car and left for Lincoln, Nebraska and Hebron, and I went with the car as we had two teams of horses to look after when we arrived in Lincoln. We found the ........and we loaded the wagon and started for Hebron. The first thing was to build a place to live in which we did by digging a dugout and a sod house. This was April 1872 and that year the B&M railroad built the road from Lincoln to Kearney and the U.S. established a mail route to Red Cloud, 120 miles south, and Exelby took the contract to carry the mail two trips a week for a year and after a few trips I was put on to run the route. I had a pair of ponies anda spring wagon with........which was very good during the summer, but in the winter was tough and I had no winter woolen clothes on, overshoes, no overcoat but I got through and at the end of the contract, I had worked out a few dollars for myself. I paid extra both ways and a great many ..... of...... both ways. When I made the fast trip I got ready to go on my own as I lived with Exelby for several years and he had given me no schooling and lots of chores so one night I slipped out with a few dollars and hit east on the railroad and ................... I saw some men loading some wagons with machinery and I asked for the boss. He was pointed out to me and I told him I wanted a job. He called the foreman, Mr. George Carr, and said can you use this boy? Carr asked me if I could drive a team. I said, yes. All right, Carr said and I worked for him three years and I went to school winters and did chores for my board. Then there was a flouring mill being built a few miles from there and I got a job there and the millwright took a shine to me and took pains to see me put over the care of the tools. About a year after the mill was in operation, it changed hands which left us out and I drifted back to Juniata and put in the winter going to school. The next summer I went to work for a company, James & ...... who was running a general store, a grain elevator and a sawmill in Juniata and worked for them two years and during that time I met the finest girl, my future wife, and also where one of my brothers was in Michigan and in early winter went to visit them, coming back the next spring and at Christmas time we were married, December 14, 1879. I will remember the large one room log house where father died with a large fireplace in one end withthe drain crank hinged at one side where the meals were cooked, with the wide mantle above the fireplace on which was the family Bible with its well worn pages and at one side the old weight clock which always recorded the time. These were the happiest days of my childhood and the only happy house I ever knew until I moved and had a home of my own. The years I was with the Exelbys family, I was never happy as they were very cruel and brutal to me and as I write this for my children I must add that we have raised a family that I am proud of, Each and every one of them a respected citizen.

George married Catherine Helen HILDERBRAND on 24 Dec 1879 in Juniata, Adams, Nebraska, United States. Catherine (daughter of John HELDENBRAND and Rachel Ellen BUCK) was born on 27 Jun 1862 in Belle Plaine, Benton, Iowa, United States; died on 18 May 1928 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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father:John Heldenbrand mother:Rachel Ellen Buck

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John married Adda Agnes Hewitt. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Timeline for William Wesley Sly:

1807 Oct 22, William Wesley born in New York
1823 William's mother, Lodema died in Hopewell, New York
1842 Jul 17, William married Elizabeth Morris in Commerce, Oakland, Michigan,
1848 Jul 9, son, William Wesley born in Walled Lake, Oakland, Michigan
1852 Aug 1852, son, Lester Alonzo born in Orchard Lake, Oakland, MIchigan
1854 son, Alvannah Loren born in Michigan
1856 son, Daniel born in Grand Ledge, Eaton, Michigan,
1858 son, George Albert born in Grand Ledge, Eaton, Michigan,
1860 daughter, born in Michigan
1863 Jan 11, William died in Commerce, Oakland County, Michigan, at the age of 66

William Sly and Elizabeth Morris were married 17 July 1842 in Commerce, Oakland County, Michigan. William had been married previously to Ashah Davis, and they had 2 children, Anna and Rhoda. William and Elizabeth had 1 child, William when living in Hamburg, Michigan in 1850. By 1860 they lived in Oneida, Michigan and had 4 more boys, Lester, Alvanus, Daniel, and George. They also had a daughter, Hattie, who is not listed in the census but is listed as age 5 in 1863 Isabella County Probate Records for William Sly: "The petition of Elizabeth BROWN widow of William Sly, late of said county (Isabella), deceased, respectfully showeth that on or about the first day of Jan. 1863, The said William Sly died leaving goods and clothing, rights, credits, and real estate in the county, aforesaid, and that to the best of the knowledge and belief of your petitioner no last will and testament was left by the said William Sly, deceased. That the deceased has left a widow, Elizabeth Brown, your petitioner, age 37 years and six children: William, age 18, Lester, age 15, Alvan age 13, Daniel age 12, George, age 9, and Hattie, age 5: and that the deceased was immediately at his death an inhabitant of said county. Your petitioner therefore prays that letters of administration be granted on the estate of the said William Sly and that Philander Harnes may be appointed administration. signed with her X 28 July 1863."
William Wesley Sly was born 22 October 1807 in New York. He was the1st of 7 children born to Christopher Sly and Lodemia Mack. His mother died in 1823 when William was just short of 16 years of age. They were then living in Hopewell, New York near Palmyra.

This story was told by a grand daughter in law of William: " The Indians around Walled Lake (Michigan) called William Sly the `strong man' because every time the Indians went through Walled Lake, they had to shake hands all around. He got so tired of shaking hands that he started to squeeze their hands real tight so that it would hurt and they wouldn't ask to shake hands anymore. Hence he earned the name `the strong man'. William was a big, powerful man. He was a blacksmith, thus his strength. He died 11 Jan 1863 in Commerce, Oakland County, Michigan, at the age of 66.

Elizabeth Morris was born about 1820 in Ireland. She was the last of 6 children of William Morris and Jane Crawford. She immigrated to America with her parents and 2 sisters in 1830 possibly from Antrim, Ireland. A sister and 2 brothers had preceded them that year. About 1835 the family moved to Oakland County, Michigan. In January 1863 Elizabeth's husband died and in August of the same year she lost her 2 brothers, becoming their heir. The next year 4 October 1864 at Detroit, Michigan Elizabeth Sly married Sylvester C. Brown. They were both of Royal Oak, Michigan. He was 39 and she was 33.
The children were all in Isabella County in 1865. Sylvester Brown and wife, Rosannah, took care of Hattie, Daniel, and George. Mr. Brown submitted a bill for food and clothing 7 June 1869. (Could this be the parents of Elizabeth Sly's 2nd Husband, Sylvester C Brown?)
Elizabeth died about 1879 in Michigan.

Oakland Co, MI and Isabella Co. vital and probate records.
pg 141, family 114 Call # 0803542

1850 United States Federal Census Record
Name: Wm Sly
Age: 33 Blacksmith
Estimated birth year: abt 1817
Birth place: New York
Gender: Male wife Elizabeth age 38 born Ireland, son William age 1 born Michigan
Home in 1850 (City,County,State): Hamburg, Livingston, Michigan

1860 United States Federal Census Record about William Sly
Name: William Sly
Age in 1860: 52
Birth Year: abt 1808
Birthplace: New York
Home in 1860: Oneida, Eaton, Michigan
Gender: Male
Post Office: Grand Ledge
Value of real estate: real $500 personal $200
Household Members: Name Age
William Sly 52 Blacksmith
Elizabeth Sly 33 bn Ireland could not read or write
Wm W Sly 12 MI
Lester Sly 8 MI
Alvanus Sly 7 MI (Alvanuh)
Daniel Sly 6 MI
George Sly 3 MI
(no Hattie in 1860 census, but William's estate in Eaton Co. say she was 5 years old when her father died.)

U.S. General Land Office Records, 1796-1907 about William Sly
Name: William Sly
Issue Date: 10 Feb 1852
Acres: 40
Meridian: Michigan-Toledo Strip
State: Michigan
County: Oakland
Township: 3-N
Range: 9-E
Section: 12
Accession Number: MI0910__.233
Metes and Bounds: No
Land Office: Detroit
Canceled: No
US Reservations: No
Mineral Reservations: No
Authority: April 24, 1820: Sale-Cash Entry (3 Stat. 566)
Document Number: 30034

Grace Torrence, daughter in law of Rhoda Ann Sly who is the oldest daughter of William Wesley Sly, told this story to Gladys Porritt, grand daughter of Rhoda: " The Indians around Walled Lake called William Sly the `strong man' because every time the Indians went through Walled Lake, they had to shake hands all around. He got so tired of shaking hands that he started to squeeze their hands real tight so that it would hurt and they wouldn't ask to shake hands anymore. Hence he earned the name `the strong man'. Grace Torrence said William was a big, powerful man.

Isabella County Probate Records The petition of Elizabeth BROWN widow of William Sly, late of said county (Isabella), deceased, respectfully showeth that on or about the first day of Jan. 1863, The said William Sly died leaving goods and clothing, rights, credits, and real estate in the county, aforesaid, and that to the best of the knowledge and belief of your petitioner no last will and testament was left by the said William Sly, deceased. That the deceased has left a widow, Elizabeth Brown, your petitioner, age 37 years and six children: William, age 18, Lester, age 15, Alvan age 13, Daniel age 12, George, age 9, and Hattie, age 5: and that the deceased was immediately at his death an inhabitant of said county. Your petitioner therefore prays that letters of administration be granted on the estate of the said William Sly and that Philander Harnes may be appointed administration. signed with her X 28 July 1863

Name: William Wesley Sly
[Y Sly]
Birth Date: 22 Oct 1807
Birth Place: Ontario County, New York, USA
Death Date: 1 Jan 1863
Death Place: Isabella County, Michigan, USA
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William married Elizabeth MORRIS on 17 Jul 1842 in Commerce, Oakland, Michigan, United States. Elizabeth (daughter of William MORRIS and Jane CRAWFORD) was born about 1820 in Ireland, Free State; died on 7 Feb 1879 in Oakland, Michigan, United States; was buried in Walled Lake Cemetery, Walled Lake, Oakland, Michigan, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Notes for Elizabeth Morris, born about 1820 Ireland, Was living at West Bloomfield, Michigan, at time of marriage to William W. Sly.

Isabella County Probate Records: The petition of Elizabeth Brown, widow of William Sly, late of said county, deceased, respectfully showeth that on or about the first day of January 1863, the said William Sly died leaving goods and clothing, rights, credits and real estate in the county, aforesaid, and that to the best of the knowledge and belief of your petitioner, no last will and testament was left by the said William Sly, deceased. That the deceased has left a widow, Elizabeth Brown, your petitioner, age 37 years and six children; William age 18, Lester age 15, Alvorus(?) Loren, Daniel age 12, George age 9 and Hattie age 5/ and that the deceased was at his death an inhabitant of said county. Your petitioner therefore prays that letters of administration be granted on the estate of the said William Sly and that Philander Harness may be appointed administrater.
signed with her X 28 July 1863

In the 1870 Census It looks like Alvannah Loren was living with a John Sly in Bloomfield, Oakland, MI and Lester was living with Elizabeth's sister Jane Crawford and family in West Bloomfield, Oakland, MI. ( see their notes).

Michigan Marriages, 1851-75 about Elizabeth Sly
Name: Sylvester C. Brown
Spouse: Elizabeth Sly
Marriage Date: 4 Oct 1864
County: Wayne
State: MI

Children all in Isabella County 1865

Sylvester Brown and wife, Rosannah, took care of Hattie, Daniel, and George year ending 28 May 1866. Mr. Brown submitted a bill for food and clothing 7 June 1869. (Could this be the parents of Elizabeth Sly's 2nd Husband, Brown)

Marriage record in Wayne county, Michigan for a Sylvester C. Brown and Elizabeth Sly, both of Royal Oak, Michigan. He is 39 and she is 33. Date of Marriage 4 Oct 1864 at Detroit, Michigan by Timothy McCarthy.

Oakland County, Michigan probate files: #1983 George Morris, Intestate filed 10 Aug 1863, died 1 Aug 1863. Heirs: brothers and sisters, John Morris, Mary Hedican, Nancy Gilchrist, Jane Cummings and Elizabeth Sly. Adm George Crawford. (each of the sisters received 762.69 1/2 as heirs of the estate)

Oakland County, Michigan Probate files: file # 1993 John Morris; intestate filed 31 Aug 1863, Died 20 Aug 1863. Heirs: sisters; Mary Hedican, Nancy Gilchrist, Jane Cummings, Elizabeth H. Sly. (each sister received 367.77 1/2 as heirs of the estate.)

Jane Morris came to America with her 2 brothers, John and George Morris when she was only 15. They settled in New York State, remained for about 5 years and in 1835 came to Oakland County Michigan. In the meantime their father, mother and 3 sisters also came to the United States. (from Oakland County, Michigan History P. 872, see George Cummings)

Name: Elizabeth Sly
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Birth Date: 1827
Birth Place: Ireland
Death Date: 7 Feb 1879
Death Place: Oakland County, Michigan, USA
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Elizabeth Morris Sly
Birth: 1827, Ireland
Death: Feb. 7, 1879
Oakland County
Michigan, USA

Elizabeth married William on July 17, 1842 in Commerce, Oakland County, Michigan.

Elizabeth's second husband was Sylvester C Brown. They were married on Oct 4, 1864 in Detroit, Michigan.

Aged: abt 52.
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Elizabeth's mother's full name was Jane Crawford-Morris.
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Parents:
William Morris (1777 - 1835)
Jane Crawford Morris (1775 - 1845)
Spouse: William Wesley Sly (1807 - 1863)
Children:
William Wesley Sly (1848 - 1922)*
Hattie Sly (1849 - 1859)*
Lester Daniel Schley (1850 - 1935)*
Loren Alvanus Sly (1853 - ____)*
Daniel Sly (1856 - 1942)*
George Albert Sly (1858 - 1942)*
Burial:Walled Lake Cemetery, Walled Lake, Oakland County, Michigan, USA
Created by: RMW
Record added: Oct 15, 2011
Find A Grave Memorial# 78443251

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MI Genweb marriages
MORRIS,SLY,ELIZABETH - MORRIS,WILLIAM WESLEY SLY,OAKLAND,--,,17 JUL 1842,--,--,--

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John married Rachel Ellen BUCK. Rachel was born in in Ohio, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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