Referenced in the family

Eliza Ann French

b. 1836

Life

1 Jun 1836Born

Records & Research

The prior dossier's "nothing-found" conclusion is OVERTURNED. A FamilySearch genealogies search restricted to parents John French / Sarah Clark returned multiple independent submissions (IGI, MyTrees.com partner trees, and several Pedigree Resource File GEDCOMs) for an Eliza Ann French born 1 June 1836 to John French and Sarah (W.) Clark — matching the known birth date and BOTH parents exactly. These trees converge on additional anchors: a husband named Wilson Jenkins (6+ independent submissions) and a death on 13 February 1918 at Sheridan, Sheridan County, Wyoming with burial there (4+ submissions). Birthplace is inconsistent across submissions: most give Amity Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania, while one cluster (Clark.ged family) gives Ohio and one gives Iowa, so birthplace remains unresolved. The birth date plus the parental couple constitute a clean two-anchor identity match and are confirmed; the spouse and death/burial are well-corroborated but rest on derivative user-submitted trees rather than original vital records, so they are recorded as likely pending an original source. The previously rejected Princeton, MA infant memorial (1837-1839) is correctly excluded.

Eliza Ann French was born 1 June 1836 to John French and Sarah (W.) Clark, matching the known birth date and both named parents. This pairing appears across multiple independent FamilySearch genealogy submissions (International Genealogical Index; MyTrees.com partner trees; and Pedigree Resource File GEDCOMs including Goodell-Young, Young-Johnstone, Michael Nolde Main Family Tree 2024, and the Clark family GEDCOMs).

1836-06-01 website ↗

Differs from the report

status: report says “nothing-found (no record located on two or more independent anchors)”, records indicate “researched — FamilySearch genealogies returns Eliza Ann French b. 1 June 1836 to John French & Sarah Clark across multiple independent submissions, a two-anchor identity match the prior dossier missed.”. The prior search apparently did not query the FamilySearch genealogies (IGI / Pedigree Resource File) index constrained by both parents. That query surfaces an exact birth-date-plus-both-parents match. website ↗

Open questions (5)

Birthplace is unresolved: independent FamilySearch submissions disagree (Amity Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania vs Ohio vs Iowa). An original 1850/1860 census household for John French & Sarah Clark, or a Sheridan, Wyoming death/cemetery record, would settle it.
All new anchors (spouse Wilson Jenkins; death 13 Feb 1918 at Sheridan, Wyoming; marriage 1859 Jones Co., Iowa) rest on derivative user-submitted trees. Confirm against an original record: a FindAGrave memorial in Sheridan County, Wyoming for Eliza Ann (French) Jenkins, an Iowa marriage record, or a Wyoming death certificate.
Verify the husband's name and the couple's children: trees consistently give Wilson Jenkins, but no children were captured in this search; a census household (e.g., 1870/1880 Iowa or 1900/1910 Wyoming Jenkins household) would corroborate the marriage and identify children.
Note an alternate father name 'John Scott French' appears in one submission (DNA file for western NY Sage relatives); reconcile against the known 'John French (1795-1874)'.
The FindAGrave memorial for an infant Eliza Ann French (29 Jan 1837 - 18 Feb 1839, Meetinghouse Cemetery, Princeton, Worcester Co., Massachusetts) remains correctly REJECTED: it is a different person who died in infancy with a non-matching birth date.

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Ancestry

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Eliza Ann French b. 1836

father John French 1795–1874

father Aaron Jr. French 1767–1850

father Aaron French 1739–1805

mother Mary Clark

mother Ruth Coe 1770–1835

father Joseph Coe

mother Abigail Moon

mother Sarah Clark 1801–1891

father Bethuel Clark

mother Van Dyke