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Record for Joseph Lent (43) facts
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Joseph Lent
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Joseph Lent
BIRTH 22 May 1786
Fishkill, Dutchess County, New York, USA
DEATH 3 Mar 1869 (aged 82)
Sheshequin, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, USA
BURIAL Sheshequin Valley Cemetery
Sheshequin, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, USA
MEMORIAL ID43734143 ·
PHOTOS 1
FLOWERS 0
Private in War of 1812 in Eliphat Mason's Company out of Monroeton, Pa.
His stone & his wife's are mounted on a shared base of concrete. I visited cemetery on 6/4/89.
National Archives lists birth date as 20 May 1786 on Henry's Pension record. JOSEPH LENT, a soldier of the War of 1812, who was a son of Henry LENT, one of the Rome pioneers, was born near Peekskill, NY, May 22, 1786.
He came to this county with his father's family in 1798.
On the 17th of October, 1805, he was united in marriage with Mary Ann, daughter of John and Ann (HINMAN) JOHNSON ----- pioneers of Wysox.
Soon after his marriage he settled on Pond Hill, where he continued to reside till 1835 when he removed to Hornbrook.
In activie life Mr. LENT was both farmer and mechanic.
He spent his last years with his son, William J., where he died March 3, 1869.
His wife, born December 30, 1785, died August 5, 1855.
The children of Joseph and Mary Ann LENT were:
Harry, Barbara, Anna, Hiram C., William J., Polly A.,Catherine and Juliana.
Harry, born September 2, 1806, married Anna, daughter of Jesse SMITH, removed to Potter County, Pa., where he died April 15, 1866.
Barbara, born August 2, 1808, married William Henry HUMMEL of Wysox, removed to Illinois and died in Kansas.
Anna, born January 10, 1811, married Jesse SMITH, died at Shores Hill, June 23, 1850.
Hiram Crauf, born February 26, 1813, died unmarried in Sheshequin, March 3, 1839.
Polly Ann, born October 8, 1818 was a milliner, she went to Illinois, married a Mr. O'KANE and died in that state.
Catherine, born February 21, 1821 Married Freeman SHORES of Sheshequin, removed to Illinois where she died.
Juliana, born October 26, 1825, married Coline JENNINGS of Sheshequin, removed West and died in Iowa.
*William Johnson, the third son, was born July 16, 1815, on the King Place in Wysox. He became a resident of Sheshequin in 1835, which town, excepting an interim of about two years, has since been his home. In 1837 he was united in marriage with Harriet N., a daughter of Abraham B. GORE. He purchased and moved to what is now knows as the H. H. Johnson place in April 1844. The Johnson residence was erected by him and opened as a hotel in 1849 and continued as a house of entertainment for six years. Mr. LENT then engaged in lumbering and farming. He took an active part in the "old trainings," and was commissioned by Governor Porter captain of militia. His first vote was cast for Harrison in 1836, and he has voted at each succeeding presidential election since. He filled the office of justice of the peace for fifteen years, besides various other local offices.
He is one of the oldest Odd Fellows in the county, having been a member of Valley Lodge since 1853. "Uncle William," as he is familiarly known, is a genial old gentleman liked by everybody. He possesses a most accurate and retentive memory of incidents and families of severty years ago, and old and young alike deligh in listening to his accounts of pioneer days. Mrs. LENT died in 1855, since which time Mr. LENT has made his home with his son. Hiram B. His only daughter, Mary, is the wife of G.L. DECKER. C. F. HEVERLY was a editor of the Bradford Star & is the author of a number of historical books in that area of Pa.
Family Members
Parents Hendrick or Henry Lent 1745-1801
Catharine Croft Lent 1756-1848
Spouse Mary Ann Johnson Lent 1785-1855
Siblings Mary Polly "Polly" Lent Bull 1777-1858
Eleanor Lent L'Amoureux 1780-1855
James Lent 1782-1881
Abraham Lent 1789-1839
Richard Lent 1795-1874
Catherine Lent Rockwell 1798-1880
Margaret Lent Allis 1801-1894
Children Harry Lent 1805-1865
Hiram Croft Lent 1813-1839
Capt William J. Lent 1815-1907
Catherine Lent Shores 1821-1895
Annie Lent Smith unknown-1850
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1815 - 1907 (92 years)
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