Book Description

Arthur Aylworth (ca. 1653-ca. 1726) was living in Rhode Island by 1679. He will was probated at Wickford Rhode Island, by 1679. Record follows line of descent to Caleb Sheldon Butts Ayelsworth (1829-1906) of the sixth generation. He was born a Butternuts, Otsego County, New York, the son of Samuel Aylesworth (1787-1849). He married Diantha V. Ketchum in 1848. She died shortly after their marriage. After her death, he migrated to Monroe County, Wisconsin, to join his brother, Porter. He married 2) Catherine Almina Bartlett (1839-1921) in Monroe County in 1861. They had nine children, 1863-1883. Sheldon and Minta Aylesworth are buried in the Mt. Hope Cemetery, Soarta, Monroe County, Wisconsin. Descendants lived in Wisconsin, Montana, Illinois, North Dakota, South Dakota, California and elsewhere.