Elizabeth
Ostrander was born on 2 November 1771. She was the daughter of
Elias Ostrander and
Rachel Van Etten. Elizabeth Ostrander married
Barend Southard, son of
Benjamin Southard and
Maria Ostrom, on 20 August 1797 at St. Paul's Zion Luth. Church, Red Hook, Dutchess Co., NY; The Southward (Southard) bible record in the D.A.R. collection provides information on the birth and marriage of Barnet Southward and Elizabeth Ostrander. It also lists their eight children. Page 197 of the D.A.R. volume contains the following notation in addition to the information noted above:
"Original in the possession of the Society.
"This single leaf was presented to the Society recently by Ernest A. Maynard, 161-41 86th Avenue, Jackson Heights 72, New York, with a notation that the Bible from which it was taken was published in 1810, and that the family concerned lived in Ghent, Columbia County, New York. --Ed."
The Southard Gazette pedigree chart shows the marriage date as 23 Nov 1797 in NY.
Their son, John, is an ancestor of Richard G. Rider who authored an article, "A Case of Mistaken Identity: Two Joseph Southards" in the NYG&B Record Vol. 116, No. 4.
2,3,4 Elizabeth Ostrander died on 27 April 1870 at 97 y 5 m 4 d, Ghent, Columbia Co., NY, at age 98; Ostrander and Southard are found in Ghent on the 1855 Columbia County Census, p. 14.
4 She was buried on 29 April 1870 at Christ's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Ghent, Columbia Co., NY.