Fyler Family Day Book
Book, Account
1791 – 1866 (Date manufactured/created)
1791 – 1874 (Earliest/Latest dates)
1791 – 1874 (Earliest/Latest dates)
Small day book with a variety of accounts and notations dating between 1791 and 1874. The entries are in a variety of hands and were likely made by at least three different people. The entries describe day labor such as haying and sleighing; the sale or exchange of commodities such as butter, oats, corn, rye, potatoes, and meat; and pasturing cattle. One entry is a detailed list of provisions. Another itemized the number of letters received/sent in 1862.
The notation "Erastus Fyler married May 15, 1816, Sullivan, NY" is entered in a later hand. The inside of the front cover has the name Erastus Fyler, Torrington, Conn. inscribed multiple times. On the back flyleaf is the name Lorenzo S. Fyler. A small newspaper clipping announcing the marriage of Miss Beatrice E. Haszard to Edwin Wiltse Fyler is pasted on the last page. Entry near the end of the book describes cleaning the brick school house in Darien, Wisconsin in Dec. 1869 and Jan 1, 1870. Weather entries dated 1816 to 1825 and 1854 to 1869.
According to "The Fyler-Filer Family: Genealogy and History Volume 1" by Jean Fyler Arnold (Genealogy Publishing Services; Franklin, NC. 1992) page 12, Erastus was the son of Silas and Lucy (Drake) Fyler. He was born in Torrington, CT and served as a Private in the War of 1812. he married Abigail (daughter of Jonathan and Hannah (Allis) Smith) at Sullivan, NY in 1816. About 1821 they moved to Parish, NY, crossing Oneida Lake on the ice. Page 22-23: Their oldest son was Lorenzo Smith Fyler. He married Cordelia of Hanibal, New York in 1841. The couple had five children, but only the three oldest boys survived infancy. Cordelia died in 1864 and Lorenzo married her sister Catherine. The family moved to Roscoe, Ill. where Lorenzo worked as a druggist.
The notation "Erastus Fyler married May 15, 1816, Sullivan, NY" is entered in a later hand. The inside of the front cover has the name Erastus Fyler, Torrington, Conn. inscribed multiple times. On the back flyleaf is the name Lorenzo S. Fyler. A small newspaper clipping announcing the marriage of Miss Beatrice E. Haszard to Edwin Wiltse Fyler is pasted on the last page. Entry near the end of the book describes cleaning the brick school house in Darien, Wisconsin in Dec. 1869 and Jan 1, 1870. Weather entries dated 1816 to 1825 and 1854 to 1869.
According to "The Fyler-Filer Family: Genealogy and History Volume 1" by Jean Fyler Arnold (Genealogy Publishing Services; Franklin, NC. 1992) page 12, Erastus was the son of Silas and Lucy (Drake) Fyler. He was born in Torrington, CT and served as a Private in the War of 1812. he married Abigail (daughter of Jonathan and Hannah (Allis) Smith) at Sullivan, NY in 1816. About 1821 they moved to Parish, NY, crossing Oneida Lake on the ice. Page 22-23: Their oldest son was Lorenzo Smith Fyler. He married Cordelia of Hanibal, New York in 1841. The couple had five children, but only the three oldest boys survived infancy. Cordelia died in 1864 and Lorenzo married her sister Catherine. The family moved to Roscoe, Ill. where Lorenzo worked as a druggist.
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