Emerson Delos Lester

1851 - 1925  (73 years)

• Name	Emerson Delos Lester  [1, 2]
  Birth	11 Jun 1851	Boylston Center, Oswego County, New York   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	14 Mar 1925	Orwell, Oswego, New York, USA
  Person ID	I70158	Stewartsny
  Last Modified	2 Dec 2025

  
  

  Father	Henry Lester,   b. Abt 1814, Troy, Rensselaer, New York d. 22 May 1878, Boylston Township, Oswego, New York (Age 64 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Jane Bartlett,   b. 20 Nov 1819, Salisbury, Herkimer, New York, USA d. 7 Oct 1872, Lacona, Oswego, New York, USA (Age 52 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	1840
  Family ID	F23378	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Sarah B. Cogswell,   b. Feb 1863   d. 1922 (Age 58 years)
  Marriage	8 Mar 1886	Orwell, Oswego, New York
  Children	1. Harry Emerson Lester  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. Ray James Lester,   b. 19 Apr 1879   d. 3 Mar 1931 (Age 51 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   3. Harald D. Lester,   b. 1887   d. 1888 (Age 1 year)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   4. Harry C Lester,   b. Abt 1889  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   5. Lloyd Leon Lester,   b. 25 Dec 1894   d. 1921 (Age 26 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F23422	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Dec 2025

  
  

• Notes

  EMERSON D. LESTER Saturday evening, about half past ten; Emerson D. Lester suddenly before a physician could reach his side. Thus one more of the highly esteemed men, long a resident of the town of Boylston and active in town affairs, has gone to his reward. Mr. Lester was the son of Henry W, Lester, who came to the town of Sandy Creek with his grandparents when he was a child, residing with Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Lester on the Ridge Road in what is today the north house on the Douglass farm. Henry W. Lester was born near Troy, N. Y:, in 1814. He became a carpenter and a leading citizen of the town of Boylston, where he cleared a farm of 114 acres; and built two saw mills; the first south of the highway and the other and better mill was constructed just to the north. Both were on the trout brook and their home was on the hill overlooking the stream. Here he built a home and later a better one a fine colonial house one of the best in the township. He held the office of Superintendent of Schools in the town; also Justice of the Peace twelve years; and Supervisor for five years in 1867-70 and '73. Emerson D. Lester was born on the homestead June 11, 1851, his mother being Jane Bartlett, and his active life, was spent on the farm where his father died in 1878. He was educated in the district schools and Pulaski Academy and Lawrence, Michigan, Union School. He married in 1878 Sarah Cogswell of Orwell and to them were born three sons, Harry E. Lester of Pulaski, Ray of Boonville and Lloyd L. who was killed in an automobile accident in April, 1921. Mr. Emerson Lester had been about, as usual, went to the movies Saturday evening and sat Conversing with his son when the fatal summons came. Besides the two sons a brother, H.W. Lester of Remsen survives. Funeral services were held at the home Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock, Rev. E.H. Scott, pastor of the Pulaski Methodist church, officiating. Burial was in the family plot in Evergreen cemetery in Orwell. He was a member of Iroquois Lodge, I. 0. O. source: Sandy Creek News March 19, 1925

  
  

• Sources

  [S1306] Ancestry.com, New York, State Census, 1875, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2013;). [S1327] Ancestry.com, New York, State Census, 1855, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2013;).