The Sterling genealogy

410 THE STERLING GENEALOGY
Bridgeport Protestant Widow's Relief Society for
the establishment of a home and for general aid
and the organization has become one of the leading
charities of Bridgeport. The " Sterling Home
was incorporated by the General Assembly in 1885.
(Orcutt's Hist, of Bridgeport.)
760 tElam Sterling, b. Jan. 6, 1791 ; m. Susan Hurd.
761 Starr Sterling, b. in Apr. 1793. He is buried in the Long
Hill burying ground, Trumbull. On the headstone
is the following inscription : " In memory of Starr,
son of Elijah and Anna Sterling who left home Oct.
15, 1809 and arrived to his brother in the Isle of
Antigua [West Indies] Nov. 11 and died the 24 th
his brother Silvanus Sterling 15 months after took
up his remains & was buried here, May 1, 1811, aged
16 years, 6 mos."
762 tLucetta Sterling, b. Nov. 12, 1795; bapt. in Mar., 1796;
m. Albert Sherwood.
763 t Sherwood E. Sterling, bapt. Oct. 27, 1805; m. Rebecca
Cornwell.
764 Betsey Ann Sterling, m. Almon E. Plumb, b. Apr. 1, 1807 ;
d. July 13, 1902. She d. Oct. 15, 1886, aged 77
years. No issue.
320 PHILIP STERLING (brother of the above), b. in Trumbull,
Conn., Jan. 12, 1769; m. in the winter of 1802-3, Ruth
Hawley, b. in Trumbull, July 5, 1780, dau. of Ezra and Ruth
(Morehouse) Hawley. (See No. 41.)
Philip Sterling was a farmer and carpenter in Trumbull,
where he d. and where he is buried in the Long Hill burying ground.
" Philip Sterling Died Sept. 24, 1845, M. 76." Mrs. Sterling
is buried near her husband. " Ruth, wife of Philip Sterling, Died
Apr. 27, 1876, M. 95 yrs. 9 mos. 22 d's."
Children :
765 tGeorge Sterling, b. July 21, 1804; m. Emmeline Hawley.
766 tPamelia Sterling, b. June 13, 1806; m. Hezekiah Nichols.
767 tMary Sterling, b. July 20, 1809; m. John Booth.
768 tEsther Abby Sterling, b. Oct. 23, 1812; m. Roswell Starr
Nichols.
769 t Stephen Hawley Sterling, b. Jan. 23, 1816; m. Rebecca
J. Brinsmade.