This is what I believe may be your family:
Sally Caroline Averill was born in Vermont in about 1810. She first married Augustus Balcom. This information is from posts on the internet.
This is what I located:
I think that Elijah C. Mears was married to a Sarah Everets who died between 1840 and 1848 [based on death record of their daughter Rachel Marion Mears Patridge Nye]; They had three daughters Frances H. [born Vermont], Rachel Marion, and Clarissa [both born in Canada]. Elijah then married Sally/Sarah (Averill) Balcom in about 1847-1848 and had a son, Theodore on January 11, 1849 in Illinois. In the 1850 census, they were living in Bloomfield, Clinton County, Iowa; from 1851 [when Frances Mears was buried in the Mount Hope Cemetery in Maquoketa] until at least 1854, they were living in Brookfield, Jackson County, Iowa where Elijah was the postmaster; By 1856, Elijah had purchased land in Olmsted County, Minnesota in Pleasant Grove Township where Sarah Mears died on February 23, 1863.
These are the sources I consulted:
According to John Dalby's Minnesota cemetery database: www.dalbydata.com
There is a Sarah Mears buried in the Pleasant Grove [Union] Cemetery in Pleasant Grove Township, Olmsted County, Minnesota. The listing:
County: Olmsted
Name: Sarah Mears
Death Date: 23 Feb 1863
Cemetery: Union
Comments: AGE 53 YRS. 2 MOS. WIFE OF E.C.
Section: 4 2 2 Pleasant Grove
In the same cemetery is Theodore Robert Mears and his wife, Sarah Bently Mears
County: Olmsted
Name: Theodore Robert Mears
Birth Date: 11 Jan 1848
Death Date: 25 Aug 1899
Cemetery: Union
Comments: SP. SARAH BENTLY
Section: 4 9 5 - Pleasant Grove;
1850 Census for Bloomfield, Clinton, Iowa,
E C Mears, 43, born New Hampshire
Sarah Mears, 40 born Vermont
Francis H Mears, 17, born Vermont
Rachael M Mears, 16, born Canada
Clarissa N Mears, 11, born Canada
Theodore Mears, 2, born Illinois
1860 Census for Pleasant Grove, Olmsted, Minnesota
Elijah Mears, 53, born New Hampshire, farmer, real estate worth $6000
Sarah Mears, 50, born Vermont
Marion Patridge, 24, born Canada plus her children;
Clarissa Mears, 21, born Canada
Theodore Mears, 12, born Illinois
1857 Minnesota Territorial Census for Township 105, Range 13, Olmsted County:
Elijah C. Mears purchased 160 acres of land from the US Government on June 10, 1856 in Olmsted County, Minnesota; Legal description: NE 1/4, Section 25, Township 105, Range 13. Consulting the 1878 Olmsted County Plat book, he was no longer the owner.
http://reflections.mndigital.org/cdm/ref/collection/olms/id/913
http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/details/patent/default.aspx?accession=MN2300__.096&docClass=STA&sid=i1bjnbtc.gws#patentDetailsTabIndex=1
The United States Post Office Directory and Postal Guide, published in 1853:
Listing for Post Office in Brookfield, Jackson County, Iowa - postmaster, Elijah C. Mears
Marion R. Nye, Female
Death Date: 18 December 1900
Pleasant Grove, Olmsted, Minnesota
Age: 66
Birth Date: 1834
Father's Name: Elizah C. Mears
Mother's Name: Sarah Everets
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Prescott Partridge and Marion Rachel Mears had a daughter, Frances H. Partridge who was born on June 29, 1854 in Jackson County, Iowa and died on September 10, 1867 in Pleasant Grove, Olmsted, Minnesota; She was probably named for her deceased aunt, Frances H. Mears.
Hope this helps a little.
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