The Sterling genealogy

462 THE STERLING GENEALOGY
Abner and Mary (Gould) Bond, natives of New Jersey. Mary
Gould was dau. of Sarah (Ward) Gould, a native of Edinburgh,
Scotland. Mr. Sterling was a minister of the Christian faith
and a farmer and cooper. He resided for some years at Knowles-
ville, Orleans Co., N. Y., later in Middleport, Niagara Co., N. Y.,
and for the last few years of his life in Rochester, N. Y., where
he d. July 9, 1892. Mrs. Sterling was living in 1908 at Rochester
with her two unmarried daughters.
Children
1364 Rosaltha Eustutia Sterling, b. Oct. 1, 1837; d. Jan. 28,
1850.
1365 tCoralin Iola Sterling, b. Aug. 7, 1839; m. Reuben P.
Toby.
1366 Everington Dunreath Sterling, b. Dec. 28, 1840; en-
listed in Aug., 1861 ; was in Burnside's division in
North Carolina; was orderly sergeant Co. F., 3d
N. Y. Cavalry and was killed in a skirmish with
guerillas, Mar. 4, 1863. Buried at Newbern, N. C.
1367 Mary Ariminta Sterling, b. Jan. 30, 1843; unm. Has
taught for many years in the schools of Rochester,
N. Y.
1368 Horace Greeley Sterling, b. Mar. 17, 1849 ; d. Mar. 3,
1850.
1369 Alice Viletta Sterling, b. July 31, 1851; unm.; lives
in Rochester.
1370 t Charles Ward Sterling, b. June 7, 1856; m. 1st, Nellie
A. Tuttle, 2d, Anna B. Gaaskjolen.
496 CAROLINE ANN ROSS (Elizabeth, Samuel, Joseph, Dan-
iel, William), b. in Wilkes-Barre, Perm., Feb. 24, 1797; m. 1st,
May 14, 1815, Samuel Maffet, b. in Linden, Penn., July 7, 1789,
son of John Maffet, of Scotch descent, a native of County Tyrone,
Ireland, who came to America about 1774. Samuel Maffet was
editor of The Susquehanna Democrat in Wilkes-Barre ; was after-
wards recorder of deeds, register of wills, prothonotary, clerk of
the courts, clerk of the Orphan's Court and a captain in the
Pennsylvania Militia. He d. of consumption Aug. 15, 1825.
Caroline m. 2d, Feb. 3, 1828, in Wilkes-Barre, Elisha Atherton,
b. in Wyoming Valley, May 7, 1786, son of James Atherton,
b. Sept. 19, 1751, who m. May 3, 1774, Lydia Washburn (b.