The Sterling genealogy

WILLIAM STERLING OF HAVERHILL, MASS. 417
daga Co. he built the Baptist Church structure now standing at
Pompey Hill. He himself was a Presbyterian of the " auld licht
order, an omnivorous reader and serious thinker. An Onondaga
Co. History by Prof. W. W. Clayton says : " Nathaniel Sterling,
a carpenter and joiner, settled on the farm now (1878) occupied
by Luther Balse. He built the Baptist Church at Pompey Hill
and the church now standing in La Fayette village. The latter
part of his life was spent on a farm. He was a leading man in
religious and educational matters."
He was interested in his family's history and made some search
of early records. He d. in Wilton, Apr. 10, I860, and is buried
in St. Matthew's cemetery near his first wife.
Children :
811 Polly Almira Sterling, b. in Wilton, Dec. 26, 1801 ; d.
at Lafayette, N. Y., May 30, 1838, unm., and is
buried there.
812 t Charles Stephen Sterling, b. Mar. 24, 1804; m. Armenia
Hasbrouck.
813 Jonathan Hoyt Sterling, b. in Wilton, Aug. 6, 1808; m.
Sept. 13, 1836, Mary Ann Smith, b. in Pompey, N.
Y., Sept. 4, 1811. They removed to near Norwalk,
Huron Co., Ohio, where he d. Sept. 22, 1890. She
d. Jan. 20, 1888. No issue.
814 tEllice A. Sterling, b. Apr. 24, 1816; m. Philander Hasbrouck.
815 t William Wiltshire Sterling, b. Oct. 3, 1819; m. Mary
Miller.
In the family Bible of Nathaniel Sterling and his
father, is inserted the following: " Almira S. Goodell,
b. in La Fayette, On. Co., N. Y., Aug. 11, 1847;
named by special request as a token of friendship
between the families of Warren Goodell and >