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Elizabeth Hier Lamphear                          Return to Main Family Page
Updated September 6, 2000

Elizabeth Hier was the daughter of Justus and Elizabeth Hier.

1851 Justus Hier, father of Betsy, dies in Canton, New York.

1854. Around 1854 Zebulon and Betsy moved to Weyeuwega, Wisconsin and then later Lind Township, Waupaca County, Wisconsin, becoming some of the first settlers of the area. It is said that they traveled in a wagon train with others from New York.

William, their last child was born around this same time, perhaps right before they began to travel west.

1897, March. Registrations of Death for Elizabeth Hier Lamphear Waupaca County. Page ?. 01182, NO 59. Registered by J. F. Corbet. June 29, 1897.

Age: 86 years
Parents: William and Jane Heire [Justus and Elizabeth Hier]]
Occupation: Housewife.
Birthplace: Vermont
Spouse: Zebulon Lamphear (Oct 29, 1810 - Feb 22, 1893) [actually died March]
Died: March 27, 1897 in Lind, Waupaca County, Interred in Lind
Cause: Pneumonia

1897, March. Obituary from the Waupaca Record [date correct?]

"DIED. Died, in Lind, on Monday the 22nd , Betsey Lamphear, widow of the late Zeblen Lamphear. She was born in Vermont in 1811. She, with her husband, came to Wisconsin in 1853 and settled in Lind, Waupaca county, where they continued to live til their death. Mr. Lamphear died about four years ago. There was a family of eleven children, seven sons and four daughters, one daughter died some years ago and the ten children remain to mourn the loss of an affectionate mother. The funeral was conducted at the late residence Wednesday, Rev. S. Jolliffe officiating."

1897 Probate Records - Waupaca County, Wisconsin

                    Betsy Lamphear, Case #781, Volume A, Page 161.

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