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Sylvester Family History
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Children of James Henry Sylvester and Catherine P. Wheeler were:
Plascida Brina Sylvester	b.	1815
Sarah Sylvester	b.	1819
Catherine Wheeler Sylvester	b.	1825
James Henry Asbury Sylvester	b.	14 Jul 1831
(all bom in Sumter, S. C.)
James Henry Asbury Sylvester, bom 14 July 1831, Sumter, S. C. moved with his father and mother and sister to Washington County, Alabama in 1834. He served as 1st Lt. with Company 1, 23rd Alabama Infantry Regiment, C.S.A. He died 18 Dec 1901 in Washington County, Alabama, and is buried at Bay St. Louis, MS. He married on 20 April 1851, Brdly Myles, bom 4 May 1833 in Baldwin County, Alabama; died 17 May 1903, and buried at Bay St. Louis, MS.
Children:
Kate Wheeler Sylvester	b.	1855,	d. 11 Mar 1923
Ida Beatrice Sylvester	b.	1857,	d. 2 Jun 1924
Walter Henry Sylvester	b.	1859,	d. 13 Oct 1878
James Howard Sylvester	b.	1861,	d. 18 Dec 1901
Willie Oliver Sylvester	b.	1863	
Myles Orlando Sylvester	b.	1867,	d. 1 Apr 1886
Bnna Earl Sylvester	b.	1869,	d. 24 Apr 1943
Died of yellow fever
James Howard Sylvester married Cornelia Corly 1 Jun 1892, Bay St. Louis William Oliver Sylvester married Fredonna Ann Speer 19 Apr 1893; she died 28 Feb 1903
Kate Wheeler married Hugh Pledger 16 Dec 1881, Bay St. Louis, MS Ida Beatrice married James D. H. Weir 27 Aug 1878, Bay St. Louis, MS.
She died in Gulfport, MS; he died in Toledo, FL.
Other deaths recorded, but unidentified are:
Sydney Sylvester Pledger, d. 15 Aug 1906 W. H. Myles, d. Feb 1893 Everline Myles, d. May 1887 Joseph Myler, d. 16 Aug 1902
Emma Earl Sylvester, b. 9 Sep 1869, Baldwin Co., AL; died 24 Apr 1943, Tyler, Texas, married Thomas Blanks Turner on 1 Dec 1891 at Bay St. Louis, MS.
Children:
Robert Jetton	Turner	b.	16 Jan 1894 (Bay St. Louis, MS)
Dnily Sylvester Turner	b.	4 Nov 1896 (Bay St. Souis, MS)
Thomas Blanks	Turner,	Jr.	b.	5 Jan 1901 (Bay St. Louis)
Robert Jetton	married	Willie Kibbie Cottrell	18 Mar 1918 (see Tumer-Cottrell)
Dnily Sylvester married George Cannon 6 Nov 1928 (no children)
Thomas Blanks Turner, Jr. married Lillian Broussard 5 Sep 1925 (see Tumer-Broussard)