The Sterling genealogy

WILLIAM STERLING OF HAVERHILL, MASS. 531
Children
1863 t Elizabeth De Forest, b. Oct. 6, 1826; m. Frederick
Hawley.
1864 tAnna Maria De Forest, b. Aug. 11, 1828; m. Lucius B.
Boomer.
1865 Charles Sterling De Forest, b. Oct. 25, 1830 ; d. Oct. 8,
1839.
1866 t Sarah Sterling De Forest, b. Oct. 30, 1834; m. Henry
A. Rust.
1867 Edward Francis De Forest, b. Feb. 25, 1836; d. Sept.
19, 1839.
778 SUSAN E. STERLING (sister of the above), m. Jan. 6,
1836, Dr. David H. Nash, b. Mar. 21, 1811, son of Dr. William B.
and Ruth M. (Eliot) Nash of Bridgeport, Conn. He graduated
from Yale, M.D., in 1834, and practiced in Bridgeport. She
d. in 1888.
Children
1868 William S. Nash, b. Nov. 7, 1836.
1869 Andrew E. Nash, b. Jan. 29, 1837.
1870 Jesse E. Nash, b. July 10, 1842; living in Bridgeport
(1903).
779 CHARLES FREDERICK STERLING {brother of the
above), b. about 1814; m. Emeline Brooks, dau. of Benjamin and
Sybil (Benjamin) Brooks.
Mr. Sterling was a lawyer and associated with his wife's brother-
in-law, the eminent attorney, Charles Thorne Cromwell. He was
a writer of considerable repute, contributing to Bridgeport and
New York newspapers and was the author of several novels, among
them two works relating to New York and Long Island, named
respectively " Red Coats or the Sack of Unquowa " and " Buff and
Blue." Mr. Sterling d. in Bridgeport in 1851 and his wife d. the
same year.
Children
1871 Gregory Brooks Sterling, d. in infancy.
1872 Jessica Sterling, d. in infancy.
Two sons, d. in infancy.
1875 t Bertha Sterling, b. in 1850; m. Lucius S. Boomer.
780 SARAH CAROLINE STERLING (sister of the abort),
m. the Hon. Philo Clark Calhoun, b. at Danbury, Conn.,