Eighth Generation

2009. Sylvester Robbins MONNIER¹⁹² was born on 15 August 1835 in Pittsfield, Berkshire Co., MA. He died in May 1890 at the age of 54 in Springfield, Hampden Co., MA.¹⁹³ One source lists him as Sylvester Everett Monnier and born in 1838 rather than 1835. The 1870 Census estimates his birth as 1831. At that time he was living in Bennington, VT., working as a stone cutter, with wife Sarah and children William and May. On the Greenfield birth records for his son William, he was listed as a stonecutter born in Pittsfield.

Sylvester Robbins MONNIER and Sarah Jane DARLING were married in October 1861 in Greenfield, Franklin Co., MA. Sarah Jane DARLING, daughter of Moses Edwin DARLING and Sarah Emelia CHAPIN, was born on 14 September 1841 in Colraine, MA. She died on 21 January 1897 at the age of 55 in Springfield, Hampden Co., MA. She is listed as Jennie S. (Darling) Monnier on the Greenfield birth records for son William (Vol. 186, page 297). She is listed as having been born in Colraine.

Sylvester Robbins MONNIER and Sarah Jane DARLING had the following children: