Olive (Chievers) Silsbee Burrows (1802-1892)

CHIEVERS, SILSBEE, BURROWS, GLIDDEN

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 6/6/2012 at 23:55:40

From Story County Watchman February 26, 1892

Ames Watchman

Mrs. E. O. Glidden*, aged 90 years, died Wednesday, of last week at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Olive Burroughs*.

SUBMITTER'S NOTE: The last names of Mrs. Glidden and Mrs. "Burroughs" are interposed. This article actually reports the death of Mrs. Olive Burrows at the home of her daughter, Olive E. (Silsbee) Glidden, wife of Nathan C. Glidden. According to WPA Records, Olive S. Burrows was born 23 June 1802 and died 17 February 1892 and is buried in the Ames Cemetery, Story County, Iowa. Olive Chievers married twice: firstly to Jonathan Silsbee ca. 1819 and secondly to Mr. Burrows some time before 1880 (as she appears in the 1880 census with living with Nathan Glidden family as Olive Burrows.)