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Melissa Sarah Knollin

Melissa Sarah Knollin

Female 1846 - 1922  (75 years)


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  • Name Melissa Sarah Knollin  [1, 2] 
    Birth 26 Jul 1846  Sandy Creek Township, Oswego, New York Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2] 
    Gender Female 
    Death 19 Apr 1922  Richland Township, Oswego, New York Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I35197  Stewartsny
    Last Modified 2 Dec 2025 

    Father John Richards Knollin,   b. Abt 1813, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother Elizabeth Near,   b. Jul 1818, New York Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Relationship natural 
    Family ID F1800  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Elon Converse Stewart,   b. 3 Mar 1856, Richland, Oswego, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 2 Sep 1904, Richland, Oswego, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 48 years) 
    Marriage 1884  [2, 3, 4, 5] 
    Children 
     1. Carrol Knollin Stewart,   b. 28 Sep 1885, Richland Township, Oswego, New York Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 25 May 1975, Syracuse Onondaga County New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 89 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
    Family ID F11976  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 2 Dec 2025 

  • Notes 
    • After her husband Elon's death in 1904, Melissa lived with her son Carrol K. Stewart in Richland Township, Oswego County, New York. She was living with him in 1920, two years before she died.

      Newspaper Obituary - Wednesday, April 26, 1922 Pulaski Democrat - Pulaski, New York - Melissa Knollin Stewart, second daughter of John and Elizabeth Knollin and wife of Elon C. Stewart, who passed away seventeen years ago, died at her home one and one half miles south of Pulaski, Wednesday, April 19th. Mrs. Stewart was born at Sandy Creek, July 26, 1846. Early in life she gave her heart to Christ and he became to her a counselor and friend whose guidance and love she never doubted but with an increasing faith and unfaltering trust she loved and labored, not for self, but for those who were nearer and dearer to her than her own life. An only son, who was her earthly all in all and who with his devoted wife ministered to and lovingly cared for her through days and nights of intense suffering, are left to mourn with the precious consciousness that their loss is her eternal gain and that she is now with the dear ones who have gone before and of whom she often spoke while she fully realized that the end of her earthly pilgrimage was drawing near. A faithful daughter, a loving sister, a devoted wife, a supremely affectionate mother has joined the "Heavenly Host." We shall meet but we shall miss her. A brother, J. Spencer Knollin of Sandy Creek, and four sisters, Mrs. Gilbert Clark, of Adams; Mrs. L. K. Blodgett, of Lacona; Mrs. Edson Kent, of Sandy Creek and Miss Addie Knollin, of Sandy Creek; with numerous nieces and nephews will ever hold in precious remembrance the faithful and sincere loyalty of her Christian life and character, for as one has said, "The heart is a paradise from which memory refuses to be ejected." Rev. Frederick Maunder, a former pastor, spoke beautiful comforting words to the mourning family and relatives and Mrs. Charles Brooks and Mrs. Silas Holmes rendered two of her favorite hymns. With vernal beauty clothes anew, no more to suffer pain. To sleepless nights a glad adieu, our loss to thee blest gain.

      Vitals - April 19, 1922 - Melissa S. Stewart, age 75 years, 8 months, 5 days. Date of birth July 26, 1876,(1846?) born in Sandy Creek, New York. Sex, female; race, white; widowed; occupation, housework. Name of husband, Elon Stewart. Name of father, John Knollin, born in England. Name of mother, Elizabeth Near, born in New York. Informant, Carrol K. Stuart, Pulaski, New York. Cause of death, cerebral hemorrhage, contributed by arterio sclerosis. Signed by F. W. Crocker, M.D., April 22, 1922, Pulaski, New York. Place of burial, Sandy Creek, New York, April 22, 1922. Undertaker, Foster & Dain, Pulaski, New York.

  • Sources 
    1. Details: Year: 1880; Census Place: Sandy Creek, Oswego, New York; Roll: 915; Family History Film: 1254915; Page: 105B; Enumeration District: 264; Image: 0212. Citation Text: Birth date: abt 1847 Birth place: New York Residence date: 1880 Residence place: Sandy Creek, Oswego, New York, United States.

    2. Details: Year: 1900; Census Place: Richland, Oswego, New York; Roll: T623_1144; Page: 4A; Enumeration District: 140; FHL microfilm: 1241144. Citation Text: Birth date: Jul 1849 Birth place: new York Marriage date: 1884 Marriage place: Residence date: 1900 Residence place: Richland Township (south part excl. Pulaski vill.), Oswego, New York.

    3. [S829] Ancestry.com, 1900 United States Federal Census, (Name: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com OperationsInc, 2004.Original data - United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1900. T6;), Year: 1900; Census Place: Richland, Oswego, New York; Roll: T623_1144;Page: 4A; Enumeration District: 140; FHL microfilm: 1241144.
      Birth date: Jul 1849 Birth place: new York Marriage date: 1884 Marriage place: Residence date: 1900 Residence place: Richland Township (south part excl. Pulaski vill.), Oswego, New York

    4. Details: Year: 1900; Census Place: Richland, Oswego, New York; Roll: T623_1144; Page: 4A; Enumeration District: 140; FHL microfilm: 1241144. Citation Text: Birth date: Mar 1856 Birth place: New York Marriage date: 1884 Marriage place: Residence date: 1900 Residence place: Richland Township (south part excl. Pulaski vill.), Oswego, New York.

    5. [S829] Ancestry.com, 1900 United States Federal Census, (Name: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com OperationsInc, 2004.Original data - United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1900. T6;), Year: 1900; Census Place: Richland, Oswego, New York; Roll: T623_1144;Page: 4A; Enumeration District: 140; FHL microfilm: 1241144.
      Birth date: Mar 1856 Birth place: New York Marriage date: 1884 Marriage place: Residence date: 1900 Residence place: Richland Township (south part excl. Pulaski vill.), Oswego, New York