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Huldah Ely
Museum purchase 1965.74.0 Photograph by David Stansbury. © 2009 The Connecticut Historical Society.
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Huldah Ely

American, born 1772
BiographyHuldah Ely was the youngest child of the Reverend Richard Ely and Jerusha Sheldon. She was born 26 July 1772 and married Uriah Hayden 2nd on 4 November 1792. Hayden died in 1801, and Ely married the Reverend Aaron Hovey on 9 September 1802. Hovey was the minister at the Second Ecclesiastical Society of Saybrook.

Ely had five children from her first marriage to Uriah Hayden 2nd: Electa Hayden (1793-1802), Prudence Amelia Hayden (1795-1880), William Sheldon Hayden (1797-1861), Charles Uriah Hayden (1799-1840), and Louise Cecelia Hayden (1801-1841).

Ely had four children from her second marriage to the Reverend Aaron Hovey: Aaron Ely Hovey (b. 1805), George Freeman Hovey (1807-1817), Richard Ely Hovey (b. 1813), and Henry Russell (1816-1871).
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