Mary Susan Upton

1831 - 1923  (91 years)

• Name	Mary Susan Upton  [1]
  Birth	12 Feb 1831	Oswego, Oswego, New York, United States   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	4 Jan 1923	Sandy Creek, Oswego County, New York, USA   [1]
  Burial	Pulaski, Oswego County, New York, USA   [1]
  Person ID	I8950	Stewartsny
  Last Modified	2 Dec 2025

  
  

  Father	James Upton,   b. Apr 1795   d. 9 Mar 1870, Sandy Creek, Oswego, New York, USA (Age 74 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Eunice Knowlton,   b. 1800   d. 1 May 1889 (Age 89 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F532	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Alonzo Tryon,   b. 5 May 1817, Richland, Oswego, New York, USA d. 11 Mar 1904, Pulaski, Oswego, New York, United States (Age 86 years)
  Marriage	1865	Oswego, Oswego, New York, United States
  Children	1. Daniel Dwight Tryon,   b. 2 Feb 1866, Sandy Creek, Oswego, New York, United States d. 20 Dec 1947, Sandy Creek, Oswego, New York, United States (Age 81 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. Frank Tryon,   b. 15 Sep 1868, Oswego Co., New York d. Nov 1918, Oswego County, NY (Age 50 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F2485	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Dec 2025

  
  

• Notes

  Newspaper Obituary - January 11, 1923 Sandy Creek News - Sandy Creek, New York - Mrs. Mary Tryon - Mrs. Mary Tryon, one of the oldest residents of the eastern end of Oswego county, having passed her ninety first birthday, February 1922, died Jan. 4th, at the residence of her son, Daniel D. Tryon, who lives on the Tryon homestead in the southwest part of the township of Sandy Creek. Mrs. Tryon was born in the town of Sandy Creek and for more than fifty years has lived in the vicinity where she died. She was born Feb. 12, 1831 and had enjoyed good health, considering her advanced years, for a long time. The son mentioned with four granchildren, Earl, Dorothy, Elvin and Leon Tryon, are the surviving relatives. Rev. William MacLeod, pastor of the Congregational church, Pulaski, officiated at the funeral held Saturday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock from the Tryon home. Interment in the Pulaski cemetery besides her husband, Olonzo(Alonzo) Tryon. Mrs. Tryon was a daughter of James and Eunice Knowlton Upton, and sister of the late Daniel Upton. Her father, James Upton, was in the war of 1812 and the family was among the first settlers of this township, having settled in 1825 on the farm now owned by Thomas Wilder. This is the first farm north of Deer Creek on the west side of the state road. The father came from Connecticut and the mother from New Hampshire. James Upton died in 1870 and Mrs. Upton in 1889, aged nearly 90 years. Besides the brother were three sisters none of whom survive. At one time or another the Upton families, have owned nearly all the land on the west side of the state or Salt road, as it was early called, from Deer Creek to the corners a mile south of the village of Sandy Creek, some two miles in extent. She was married to Olonzo Tryon, in 1865, who owned the farm now owned by her son, D. D. Tryon. Four years ago, her son, Frank Tryon, who kept the Outlet House together with his brother, Emery Tryon, were drowned in Ontario Bay. The Tryon family are descendants of Levi Tryon who settled in the northwest part of Richland about 1800 on the farm later owned by Wellington Tryon. The Tryon family has always owned large tracts of Lake Ontario shore in the towns of Richland and Sandy Creek, and have always been fishermen.

  
  

• Sources

  [S79] Ancestry.com, U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;).