Ellen Cordelia Cogswell
1825 - 1906 (81 years)-
Name Ellen Cordelia Cogswell Born 7 Jun 1825 Ira, Cayuga, New York, USA 
Gender Female Reference Number 20146 Died 11 Nov 1906 Waterford, Stanislaus, California, USA Person ID I20146 Thompson-Milligan Last Modified 12 Apr 2018
Father William Cogswell, b. 7 Sep 1794, Galway, Saratoga, New York, USA , d. 11 Mar 1862, Ira, Cayuga, New York, USA (Age 67 years) Relationship natural Mother Prudence Sprague, b. 13 Feb 1805, Hannibal, Oswego, New York, USA , d. 1 Jun 1891, Waterford, Stanislaus, California, USA (Age 86 years) Relationship natural Married 17 Jun 1824 Ira, Cayuga, New York, USA Family ID F6607 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Francis Sturge, d. 27 Jan 1869, Empire City, Stanislaus, California, USA Married 1850 Ira, Cayuga, New York, USA Last Modified 12 Apr 2018 Family ID F6609 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 2 Charles Dallas, b. 1814, Aberdeenshire, Scotland , d. 14 Aug 1883, Stanislaus, California, USA (Age 69 years) Married 9 Apr 1873 Woodland, Yolo, California, USA Last Modified 12 Apr 2018 Family ID F6610 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Born - 7 Jun 1825 - Ira, Cayuga, New York, USA 
Married - 1850 - Ira, Cayuga, New York, USA 
Married - 9 Apr 1873 - Woodland, Yolo, California, USA 
Died - 11 Nov 1906 - Waterford, Stanislaus, California, USA = Link to Google Earth
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Notes - Her first husband, Francis died of small pox on January 27, 1869, and his wife, Ellen had only the doctor to help her bury her husband, since everyone else was too filled with dread of the disease, to come near. Twenty years later on January 27, 1889, Ellen wrote in her diary: "Since the frost melted, the day has been warm & lovely. So unlike this day twenty years ago when dark clouds, sleet and a bleak wind swept the plain, fit emblem for what was passing in my home and heart as we laid my first love to his long, last rest, near the banks of the Tuolumne River at Empire City."
Ellen had no children by either marriage. She and her first husband, Francis Sturge, of Ira, Cayuga Co., NY, came to the California Gold Rush in 1850, taking passage on a ship around Cape Horn.
- Her first husband, Francis died of small pox on January 27, 1869, and his wife, Ellen had only the doctor to help her bury her husband, since everyone else was too filled with dread of the disease, to come near. Twenty years later on January 27, 1889, Ellen wrote in her diary: "Since the frost melted, the day has been warm & lovely. So unlike this day twenty years ago when dark clouds, sleet and a bleak wind swept the plain, fit emblem for what was passing in my home and heart as we laid my first love to his long, last rest, near the banks of the Tuolumne River at Empire City."
