Silas Carle (grandfather of a Rock County subject) died in his eighty-second year.

The evidence

• “Our subject's great grandparents were Nathan and Sarah Carle, born, respectively, March 11, 1747, and March 10, 1749. Their son, Silas our subject's grandfather, was born November 12, 1776, and died May 7, 1858, in his eighty-second year. He was a farmer by occupation ; his wife, Abigail, was born December 27, 1779, and died at the age of nearly eighty years, September 23, 1859.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34b-biographical-2.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 390 / book p. 883

  Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.

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