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Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2020 12:11 pm Post subject: Henry Lentz ELDER - Christ Church Philadelphia bequest |
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Elder visitor saw a plaque "to ELDER FAMILY" in a church in Philadelphia.
Found a Bequest to Christ Church, part of an estate valued at
$100,000 (largest financial contributor to Christ Church)
1870 census for Henry L. ELDER, shows him as a Hardware merchant in Philadelphia.
Findagrave
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https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/104950987/henry-lentz-elder
Henry Lentz Elder
Birth unknown [1819 Philadelphia]
Death 1897
Burial Laurel Hill Cemetery
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA
Plot
Section G Lot 333
Memorial ID
104950987
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Ancestry Tree by “Brigid Sullivan”
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https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/151290039/person/112007235723/facts
Henry Lentz Elder
Birth 25 DEC 1819 • Philadelphia, PA
Death 30 NOV 1897 • Atlantic City, NJ
Father:
William Thomas Elder
Birth 1 OCT 1784 • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Death 11 MAR 1874 • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Father:
Thomas Elder
Birth 1743 • Greenwich, Kent, England
Death 18 MAY 1813 • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Then Google found ELDER of KENT ENG in my own “ELDER ONE-NAME STUDY” — which has been saved— at — https://one-name.org/name_profile/elder
Included the SKYE family, from descendant with Y-DNA kit #172862:
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http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~nancyelder/genealogy/ed/Skye.htm
Census 1901 ENGLAND
Household:
George Elder 60 (in 1891 - Clergyman-Presbyterian Church ) Where born: Isle of Skye, Scotland
Emma A Elder 56
George H Elder 25 (b. abt 1876 Greenwich, Kent, England)
Cathrine S Elder 22 (b. abt 1879 Greenwich, Kent, England)
William A Elder 20 (b abt 1881 Greenwich, Kent, England)
Edith G Elder 19 (b abt 1882 Greenwich, Kent, England)
Alexander H Elder 16 (b. abt 1885 Dover, Kent, England)
Helenor Wood 29 servant
Eliza A Stevenson 21 servant
Source Citation: Class: RG13; Piece: 537; Folio: 55; Page: 32. _________________ Nancy Elder Petersen
Vancouver, WA USA
Host, ELDER DNA project
results:
http://www.familytreedna.com/public/Elder
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