Sophia Flint1

b. 19 December 1837, d. 29 October 1937
Last Edited=8 Jun 2016
Relationship
2nd great-grandaunt of Joseph Michael Flint
     Sophia Flint was born on 19 December 1837 at New York.1,2 She was the daughter of Alvah Flint and Elizabeth Cross.1

Sophia Flint was 4 years old, when her father, Alvah Flint, died on 20 December 1841.3,4

Sophia Flint lived on 15 December 1853 at Town of Sharon, Schoharie County, New York.5

Sophia Flint married Henry Emmons Ramsdell, son of John Ramsdell and Taseah Theresa Moore, on 3 April 1860 at Tama County, Iowa.6,7

On 14 July 1870 Sophia Flint was enumerated in the household of Henry Emmons Ramsdell on the 1870 U. S. census for Richland Township, Tama County, Iowa as Sophia Ramsdale, 32 years old, birthplace of New York, occupation of Keeping House. Also enumerated in the household were William Ramsdell and Elizabeth Cross.2

Sophia Flint died on 29 October 1937 at Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, at age 99.8

Child of Sophia Flint and Henry Emmons Ramsdell

Citations

  1. C. Ellis Flint, The Flint Family: Robert Flint, (The Pioneer) and His Decendents (1931-1932; reprint, Salem, Massachusetts: Higginson Book Company, unkown year), 83.
  2. 1870 U. S. census, Tama County, Iowa, population schedule, Richland Township, Tama City Post Office, p. 19 (written) p. 360 back (stamped), dwelling 153, family 148, Henry E Ramsdale; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com/ : accessed 26 Jan 2014); citing NARA microfilm publication M593, Roll 420.
  3. C. Ellis Flint, Robert Flint, The Pioneer, 82.
  4. Judy Anger, preparer, "1st Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Buel Town of Canajoharie Mongomery County, N.Y.," document, Montgomery County NY GenWeb (http://montgomery.nygenweb.net/cemeteries/buelcem.html : accessed 23 Nov 2011), entry for FLINT, Alvah, died December 20, 1841, aged 39 years., Notes at end of the original document - "Copied by Roy E. McFee on September 2, 1938. In the fall of 1972 the Buel church was razed. Submitted by Carol H. Warner, General Chairwoman, Ft. Rensselaer Church, NSDAR, Canajoharie, NY, January 9, 1973. Recopied from Mr.McFee's records."
  5. C. Ellis Flint, Robert Flint, The Pioneer, 91, transcription of an Executor's Petition submitted by Benjamin I. Sammoons for the probate of the estate oh Adam Flint Jr.
  6. George A Ramsdell, The History of Milford Volume 1 (Concord, New Hampshire: The Rumford Press, 1901), 897; digital image, Google Books (https://books.google.com/books?id=eSv7YkPAXicC : accessed 26 Jan 2014).
  7. Toledo, Tama County, Iowa, Marriages v. A-C 1853-1882, book A page 27; FHL microfilm 1022734, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah.
  8. "California Death Index, 1905-1939," database, 2013, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com/: accessed 10 May 2016), entry for Sophia Ramsdell, Original data: California Department of Health and Welfare. California Vital Records-Vitalsearch (www.vitalsearch-worldwide.com). The Vitalsearch Company Worldwide, Inc., Pleasanton, California.