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Family of (unkn) HOWARD and Lydia C VESEY
(unkn) HOWARD
Lydia C VESEY b. 1826840 at Vermont2049. d. 1909 Apr 242063 at LaGrange Co., IN2063. bd. Greenwood Cem., LaGrange, IN840.
Married2047 1886 after2046.
It is assumed that Lydia married --- Howard after Sylvester Treat's death in 1886.
In the references listed for locations for Lydia, all but one clearly list "L," "Lydia," or "Lydia C" for a female living in the household of Sylvester Treat. In the 1880 census2052 "Allie H Treat," age 49, is listed as Sylvester's wife. She and both her parents were born in Vermont. For that reason, Hillman800 concludes that Lydia either died or was divorced from Sylvester, and he had remarried. However, the Goshen Daily News2046, May 10, 1886, reports "Sylvester Treat, brother-in-law of our fellow townsman, J. B. Vesey, died at Spring Valley, Minn., on the 6th instant." As Lydia (now Mrs. Lydia C Howard) did not die unti2056 1909, it is obvious, given other information about Lydia, that, for whatever reason, the 1880 census enumerator misheard or otherwise mis-reported Lydia's name.
Her will, described in the Goshen Democrat4614 and Fort Wayne Journal Gazette2047, states her estate was valued between $35000 and $40000, provided for cash bequests of $2000 each to (the heirs of) Benjamin W Vesey, John B Vesey, Miss Emma Rice, Lydia C Love, William H Vesey, and William J Vesey, in trust for John H Vesey. After the distribution of the cash bequests, the remainder to be divided equally among "the three brothers of Mrs. Howard": Horace J, John B and Benjamin Vesey (to be divided among Benjamin's heirs, as he had deceased.) However, in October, 1909, it was reported that there was a codicil with the will and the beneficiaries of that codicil had not been notified2047. The will proper left 160 acres in Bloomfield township to Horace J, Benjamin W, and John B Vesey. The codicil modified that provision to specify that the land was to go to Horace J Vesey, and, at his death, to go to William H Day and Amanda, his wife. The codicil also named beneficiaries of $1000 each to Alice Paxton Cox, Lydia Treat Ingalls, and Sylvester Treat Vesey. Judge Dodge decided the codicil should be probated. The referenced articles are a wealth of information regarding relationships and names of the Veseys in that part of Indiana at the time.
Lydia is buried with her brother Horace and Horace' wife Helen. On a VESEY monument below Horace' and Helen's names: "LYDIA TREAT HOWARD 1826 - 1909."