Horace Havens (1808 - aft 4 May 1877)

Research to determine date and place of death of Horace Havens, born 8 Jun 1808 in Benton, Yates, New York, son of Joseph Havens and Mary Weed.

Many of the other trees on Ancestry show either no death date for Horace, or they give a death date of 23 Aug 1858 in Lansing, Ingham, Michigan.  I do not believe this date is correct for the reasons explained below.

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Horace appears in the following census records:

1840 US Census - Le Roy, Ingham, Michigan

1850 US Census - Meridian, Ingham, Michigan (his wife died in 1850, after the census)

1855 NY Census - Benton, Yates, New York (with his parents and some of his siblings)

1870 US Census - Benton, Yates, New York (with his mother, and his brother JWH Havens and family)

There is no question in my mind that the Horace Havens in the 1870 US Census in Benton is the correct Horace.  He is with his mother and sibling and his age is correct.

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In 1877, Horace’s brother Ephraim Smith Havens died.  A probate notice was published in the paper to alert Ephraim’s heirs to the settlement of his estate.  His heirs included all of his living siblings, plus the children of those siblings who had preceded him in death.  The location of the heirs was also given.

Siblings:

Minerva Havens - Perry, Wyoming, New York

Harrison Havens - Benton Centre, Yates, New York

Harriet Richards - Perry, Wyoming, New York

Fanny Blake - Ingham Centre, Ingham, Michigan

Horace Havens - Ingham Centre, Ingham, Michigan

Caroline Webb - Coldwater, Michigan

Eveline Penfield - Wickenburg, Arizona

Children of deceased brother John H Havens:

Mary Cowing - Cincinnati, Ohio

Hiram Havens - Quincy, Illinois

Nehemiah Havens - Hudson, Michigan

Children of deceased sister Nancy F Havens Gardner:

Hiram S Gardner - Truckee, California

John R Gardner - Potter, Yates, New York

Kate Potter - Ovid, Michigan

Mary Hunt - Baltimore, Maryland

Children of deceased sister Mary Havens Winslow:

Joseph Winslow - Salt Lake City, Utah

Lorenza Winslow - Omaha, Nebraska

William Winslow - Chicago, Illinois

The only sibling not mentioned in the notice is his brother Hiram, who died in 1850.  Hiram left a son, Joseph S Havens, who was living with his uncle Harrison Havens in Benton in 1875.  I can not find a record of him after that.  It may be that he died before Ephraim did, but I can not find anything definitive.  

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Based upon both the census records and his brother’s probate notice, it appears Horace Havens is alive and living in Ingham Centre, Michigan in 1877.  I have been unable to find any further records.