1. | Zilpha Davis was born 13 Apr 1771, Oxford, MA; died 10 May 1824. Zilpha married B. Sibley. (son of Timothy Sibley and Anna Waite) [Group Sheet]
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2. | Samuel Sibley (1.Zilpha1) was born 30 Nov 1792, Oxford, MA; died Est 4 Mar 1858, Mendon, NY. Notes: Brother of Hiram Sibley Samuel married Almira Sibley. Almira was born 3 Apr 1807, Paris, NY; died 2 Mar 1889; was buried , Honeoye Falls Cemetery, Honeoye Falls, NY. [Group Sheet]
Samuel married Lucinda Holbrook 7 Sep 1824. Lucinda was born 19 Mar 1806, Chautauqua, NY; died 2 Mary 1830, Mendon, NY. [Group Sheet]
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3. | Patty Sibley (1.Zilpha1) was born 6 Feb 1799, Oxford, MA; died 12 Jul 1805. |
4. | Nancy Sibley (1.Zilpha1) was born 7 Feb 1806; died 14 Feb 1806. |
5. | Hiram Sibley (1.Zilpha1) was born 6 Feb 1807, North Adams, MA; died 12 Jul 1888, Rochester, New York; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery. Notes: Entrepreneur and capitalist, nurseryman and founder of Western Union, Hiram Sibley was born in North Adams, Massachusetts. He moved to Western New York around 1829-1830, and by 1835 he and his lifelong friend and partner Don Alonzo Watson had opened a machine shop in Sibleyville (now Mendon). He was elected Monroe County Sheriff in 1843 and began to invest in local nurseries in 1844. Hiram married Elizabeth Maria Tinker 24 Jan 1833, North Adams, MA. Elizabeth (daughter of Giles Tinker and Zilpha Knight Tinker) was born 11 Aug 1815; died 11 Jul 1903, Rochester, New York ; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, New York . [Group Sheet]
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6. | Elizabeth Sibley (2.Samuel2, 1.Zilpha1) was born 20 Nov 1833, Mendon, NY; died Yes, date unknown. Elizabeth married Joseph Fiske. [Group Sheet] |
7. | Mary Sibley (2.Samuel2, 1.Zilpha1) was born 16 Jan 1838, Mendon, NY; died 17 Aug 1839. |
8. | Helen Sibley (2.Samuel2, 1.Zilpha1) was born 23 Sep 1842, Mendon, NY; died 3 Feb 1844. |
9. | George H. Sibley (2.Samuel2, 1.Zilpha1) was born 25 Aug 1845; died 30 Sep 1931. Notes: Nephew of Hiram Sibley George married Theodora Townsend. Theodora was born 1845, New York; died 31 Jan 1892. [Group Sheet] |
10. | Giles H. Sibley (2.Samuel2, 1.Zilpha1) was born 26 May 1825, Mendon, NY; died 10 Jun 1825, Mendon, NY; was buried , Honeoye Falls Cemetery, Honeoye Falls, NY. |
11. | Morilla Sibley (2.Samuel2, 1.Zilpha1) was born 19 Jun 1827, Mendon, NY; died 31 Jul 1846; was buried , Honeoye Falls Cemetery, Honeoye Falls, NY. |
12. | Lucinda Sibley (2.Samuel2, 1.Zilpha1) was born 12 Jun 1829, Mendon, NY; died 4 Sep 1854; was buried , Honeoye Falls Cemetery, Honeoye Falls, NY. |
13. | Zilpha Louise Atkinson (5.Hiram2, 1.Zilpha1) was born 7 Dec 1833; died 16 Jun 1868. Notes: Emily Sibley Watson's older sister Zilpha married Hobart Ford Atkinson 12 Oct 1854, Rochester, New York. Hobart (son of William Atkinson and Elizabeth Ford Atkinson Finney) was born 5 Oct 1825, Rochester, New York; died 4 Aug 1908. [Group Sheet]
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14. | Giles Benjamin Sibley (5.Hiram2, 1.Zilpha1) was born 1841 Apr 8; died 1843 Mar 14. Notes: first son of Hiram Sibley; Emily Sibley Watson's deceased brother |
15. | Hiram Watson Sibley (5.Hiram2, 1.Zilpha1) was born 2 Mar 1845; died 28 Jun 1932; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, New York. Notes: Emily Sibley Watson's brother, son of Hiram Sibley and Elizabeth Maria Tinker. He was named after Hiram Sibley's partner Don Alonzo Watson. He was a business man, and served as a trustee of the Rochester Savings Bank, Security Trust Co, and the Rochester Homeopathic Hospital (now Genesee Hospital), which his mother Elizabeth Sibley helped found. Hiram married Margaret Durbin Harper 1873. Margaret (daughter of Fletcher Harper, Jr. and Margaret Cook Durbin) was born 14 Feb 1852; died 28 May 1939. [Group Sheet]
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16. | Emily Sibley (5.Hiram2, 1.Zilpha1) was born 10 May 1855; died 8 Feb 1945. Notes: Youngest child of Hiram Sibley and Elizabeth Maria Tinker Sibley. Emily Sibley married Isaac S. Averell in 1876. They had two children, born 11 months apart, Elizabeth Louise Averell (1877-1886) and James G. Averell (1877-1904). Emily and Isaac separated ca. 1883, and were divorced in 1891. Later that year, Emily married James Sibley Watson, son of her father's partner Don Alonzo Watson. Together, Emily and "Jimmie" had one son, James Sibley Watson, Jr. Emily married Isaac Seymour Averell 27 Apr 1876, Rochester, New York; divorced ca. 1891, California. Isaac (son of James George Averell and Charlotte Hildebrand Seymour) was born 21 Jun 1850, Ogdensburg, NY; died 25 Oct 1909, San Francisco, CA. [Group Sheet]
Emily married James Sibley Watson, Sr. 1891. James (son of Don Alonzo Watson and Caroline Matilda Manning) was born 1860; died 1951. [Group Sheet]
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17. | Elizabeth Storer Atkinson (13.Zilpha3, 5.Hiram2, 1.Zilpha1) was born 2 Jun 1857; died 1945. Notes: Emily Sibley Watson’s niece, older daughter of Hobart Ford Atkinson and Zilpha Louise Sibley Atkinson. Although her niece, "Libbie" was only 2 years younger than Emily Sibley Watson, and they were playmates and close friends. "Libbie" married Arthur Coslett Smith, and their house on 6 Sibley Place would later become the home of James Sibley Watson, Jr. and his wife Hildegarde Lasell Watson. Elizabeth married Arthur Cosslett Smith 19 Jun 1879. Arthur (son of Emily W. Smith) was born 19 Jan 1851; died 21 May 1926; was buried , Rochester, New York. [Group Sheet]
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18. | Marie Louise Atkinson (13.Zilpha3, 5.Hiram2, 1.Zilpha1) was born 24 Feb 1864; died 29 Oct 1940. Notes: Emily Sibley Watson’s niece, younger daughter of Hobart Ford Atkinson and Zilpha Louise Sibley Atkinson. Her first husband was Gilman Henry Hubbell Perkins; after his death she married Ernest R. Willard. Her first husband’s mother, Caroline Perkins, was the founder of the Rochester Historical Society. After Marie Willard’s death she deeded her childhood home “Woodside” to the Historical Society, and it was the Society’s home for many years. Marie Willard was a charter member of the Children’s Auxiliary of Genesee Hospital and was a member of the hospital’s Board of Supervisors. She had been a member of the Memorial Art Gallery’s Board of Managers from its founding. Marie married Gilman Henry Hubbell Perkins 1889. Gilman was born 2 Nov 1861, Rochester, NY; died 12 May 1894, Rochester, NY. [Group Sheet] Marie married Ernest Russell Willard. Ernest was born 11 Mar 1854, Jamestown, NY; died 6 May 1937. [Group Sheet] |
19. | Margaret Harper Sibley (15.Hiram3, 5.Hiram2, 1.Zilpha1) was born 14 Dec 1873; died 30 Nov 1874. Notes: Oldest child of Hiram W. Sibley and Margaret Durbin Harper Sibley |
20. | Hiram J. Sibley (15.Hiram3, 5.Hiram2, 1.Zilpha1) was born 24 Jul 1875; died 12 Apr 1886. Notes: Son of Hiram W. and Margaret Harper Sibley |
21. | Ruth Sibley (15.Hiram3, 5.Hiram2, 1.Zilpha1) was born 1878; died 1977. Notes: Daughter of Emily Sibley Watson's brother Hiram Watson Sibley and his wife Margaret Durbin Harper Sibley, Ruth Sibley was close in age to her cousin James G. Averell. Her husband, John Allyne Gade, was architect of the Memorial Art Gallery. Mrs. Gade was one of the early donors of art to the Gallery's collection. In 1912, Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundson named a peak in the Queen Maud range on the South Pole in her honor, as a thank you for their support of his expedition. Ruth married 1907. Unknown [Group Sheet] Ruth married J.A. Gade [Group Sheet] |
22. | John Durbin Sibley (15.Hiram3, 5.Hiram2, 1.Zilpha1) was born 1883; died 1888. Notes: "Durbin" Sibley was the 4th child of Hiram Watson Sibley and Margaret Durbin Harper Sibley. He was the 3rd of their six children to die young. In a 1/23/93 letter to her daughter, Elizabeth Sibley describes her newborn granddaughter, Margaret Urling Sibley, in terms of her likeness to her deceased brother. |
23. | Fletcher Harper Sibley (15.Hiram3, 5.Hiram2, 1.Zilpha1) was born 1885; died 1959. Notes: Emily Sibley Watson’s nephew, and by the 1890s, sole surviving son of Hiram Watson Sibley and Margaret Durbin Harper Sibley. Known as Harper Sibley, he was a businessman, president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and active in mission and relief work worldwide. Fletcher married 1908. Unknown [Group Sheet] Fletcher married Georgiana Harding Farr. Georgiana was born 1887; died 10 Jun 1980. [Group Sheet] |
24. | Margaret Urling Sibley (15.Hiram3, 5.Hiram2, 1.Zilpha1) was born 1893; died 1951. Notes: “Urling,” the youngest child of Hiram Watson Sibley and Margaret Durbin Harper Sibley, was born during Emily Sibley Watson’s 1892-1893 trip to Egypt. She was near in age to and a close friend of Emily Sibley Watson’s son James Sibley Watson, Jr. Margaret married O'Donnell Iselin 4 Mar 1919. O'Donnell was born 6 Oct 1884, New York; died 7 Nov 1971, New York. [Group Sheet]
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25. | Elizabeth Louise Averell (16.Emily3, 5.Hiram2, 1.Zilpha1) was born 25 Jan 1877, Nice, France; died 2 Apr 1886, Rochester, NY. |
26. | James George Averell (16.Emily3, 5.Hiram2, 1.Zilpha1) was born 23 Dec 1877, Rochester, NY; died 20 Nov 1904, Rochester, NY. Notes: Emily Sibley Watson’s son by her first marriage. J.G., as he was called, was a promising architect when he died from typhoid at age 26. From an early age, J.G. accompanied his mother on her travels in the United States and Europe and he participated in the 1893 Trip Along the Nile. He was educated at the Fort Hill School in Rochester, St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, and Harvard College. Throughout, he studied violin, including under the tutelage of Rochester orchestral leader Herman Dossenbach, and performed with various musical groups. |
27. | James Sibley Watson, Jr. (16.Emily3, 5.Hiram2, 1.Zilpha1) was born 10 Aug 1894; died 31 Mar 1982, Rochester, NY. Notes: Son of James Sibley Watson and Emily Sibley Watson James married Hildegarde Lasell Watson 14 Oct 1916, Whitinsville, MA. Hildegarde (daughter of Chester Whitin Lasell and Jessie Maud Keeler) was born 1888; died 1976. [Group Sheet]
James married Nancy Prince 1977. Nancy was born 31 Jul 1915; died 1 May 2009. [Group Sheet] |