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Person · Solomon Cleveland
The record
- HHomethe fan · what changed · open questions
- MMigrationbirths and deaths on a map, by decade
- TTimeline609 entries · 5 eras
- PPeople290 cards, by generationSolomon Cleveland
- LLines13 surname pages
The evidence
- DDocuments896 thumbnails, filterable
- SSourcesS1–S1207, with where each is cited
The findings
- How the wall came downProeger line
- The glass patentsProeger line
- How the Caffey half was closedCaffey line
- What the DNA saysits own page
- Four routesMigration
- The asymmetryLines
- Open questions20 questions
- Add to this recorda form, read by Earl
How to read this record
Every claim is tagged
Most family trees flatten everything into the same confident typeface. This one does not.
The three research tags below are the whole point of the exercise: they say what a document
proves, what the weight of evidence suggests, and what nobody has found yet. A fourth marks
what the family stated directly, where no document has been retrieved at all — it is kept
separate on purpose and is never quietly promoted to confirmed. A fifth, added on
13 September 2026, marks biological evidence: a DNA result is not a document, and it is not
testimony either. Two further labels mark where this page withholds information
rather than lacking it.
ConfirmedAttested by a document that was actually retrieved and read — a census sheet, a
government index, a grave marker, a family-written obituary.
ProbableStrongly supported but not nailed down: a user-contributed tree, a masked index field,
or a chain of consistent circumstances. Believable, not proven.
Not foundSearched for and not located. This is a statement about the search, not about the
person — the record may well exist somewhere unsearched.
Family testimonySupplied by the family and recorded on their word — no document has been retrieved for
it. Note the diamond rather than the dot: this is provenance, not proof, and it stands
apart from the three record tags above S24.
DNA evidenceBiological evidence consistent with a claim. It corroborates origins; it does
not by itself establish a person or a link. Note the bar rather than a dot or a diamond:
no DNA result on this page is ever counted as confirmed, because no document
was read for it S46.
Living — withheldThe person is living. By the privacy rule for this page, name and relationship are
shown, and at most a year the family has already published. Full dates of birth, ages,
places of residence and record identifiers are held back.
Research in progressA branch that is actively being worked on. The node exists in the structure so the
shape of the family is honest; the detail is simply not in yet.
- Born
- in St. Lawrence County, New York
- Died
- 22 October 1845
- Married
- Mrs. Mary Malinda (Thompson) Elliott
- Sources
- 5
Research status
Research status: PROBABLE — accepted by Earl 28 September 2026 pending more evidence. The printed
Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland Families (1899) enters him as Solomon
7 Cleveland (Enoch, Solomon, Enoch, Deliverance, Edward, Moses)
S822 and on p. 1939 numbers “Charles Edgar
8 Cleveland (Solomon
7)” as his son
S467; a FamilySearch index of a Nebraska marriage names Charles E. Cleveland's parents as Solomen Cleveland and Mary Thompson
S823. What is weak: the book is a compiled, derivative source, and no original record (the 1850 Michigan census with the widow and children, a probate of his 1845 estate, a guardianship) has been read; the Nebraska entry is an index with no image. Charles, born about 1846, fits a father who died in October 1845 only if he was born in 1845 or after his father's death
Evidence: The printed Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland Families (1899) enters him as Solomon Cleveland, died 22 October 1845 in Branch County, Michigan, husband of Mrs. Mary Malinda (Thompson) Elliott, and numbers Charles Edgar as his son; a FamilySearch index of Charles E. Cleveland's Nebraska marriage names his parents Solomen Cleveland and Mary Thompson. Weak or missing: The book is compiled and derivative and the Nebraska entry is an index with no image; no original record (1850 census, probate, guardianship) has been read, and Charles, born about 1846, fits a father who died in October 1845 only if born in 1845 or after his death. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →
Life in the order the records give it
Death1845
Died
22 October 1845 in California township, Branch County, Michigan, aged 39
S822, so born about 1806. The family tree's birth date of 1 September 1806 is not on the page read
Death1895
🆕 Another son:
Albert E. Cleveland, 58, born in
St. Lawrence County, New York, of Greeley County, Nebraska, married the widow Anna C. Shaffer in Hamilton County, Nebraska, on 13 November 1895. The record gives his father as Solomon Cleveland and his mother’s maiden name as
Mary Thompson Confirmed S1139.
Family parents, marriages, children, siblings
Marriage1834
Married
Mrs. Mary Malinda (Thompson) Elliott at Lowville, New York, on 11 February 1834, or at Fowler, New York, on 14 April 1834; the book gives both
S822Open questions what is probable, weak or missing — confirm or correct it
Probable
🆕 Probably him in 1840: Solomon Cleveland, 30–39, heading a household of six in
Diana, Lewis County, New York, with
Enoch Cleveland, 50–59, on the line above
Probable confirm or correct → S1003. Evidence: his age, a Lewis County home near Lowville, where he married in 1834, and an Enoch next door, the name the book gives his father
S822. Weak: 1840 names only the heads and states no relationships. Know more? Use “Add to this record”. added 29 September 2026
In the record
Generation 6 — Kristin's 3rd-great-grandparents
- S467Descendants of Moses Cleveland (printed genealogy), p. 1939, no. 11632: Charles Edgar Cleveland. Ancestry record 3845121. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Probable Charles Edgar Cleveland, son of Solomon, married 11 April 1866 at Rives, Michigan, Victoria Janette Smith, born 19 March 1844 in Ohio, daughter of Jeremiah Smith and Patience Kittle. In Placer County, California, 1883. Children Anna Jane (1869), Milton (15 July 1873) and Ella. A derivative book. The parents' names agree with the marriage register (S463) and the 1880 census (S465); the ancestry back of Charles Edgar rests on the book alone.
- S822Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland Families (1899), p. 1438, no. 5238: Solomon Cleveland. Ancestry collection 61157, record 3831102 (image 46155_b290469-01473). Image examined, read 28 September 2026. Probable “SOLOMON7 CLEVELAND (Enoch, Solomon, Enoch, Deliverance, Edward, Moses), d. California tp., Branch co., Mich., Oct. 22, 1845, a. 39, m. Lowville, N.Y., Feb. 11, 1834, or in Fowler, N.Y., Apr. 14, 1834, Mrs. Mary Malinda (Thompson) Elliott, b. Wightford, …” A compiled, derivative book; the same work as S467. The entry, with her birth and the list of children, runs onto the next page, which has not been read. Collection: North America, Family Histories.
- S823FamilySearch, Nebraska Marriages 1855–1995 — Charles E. Cleveland and Rachel Gibson, South Branch Township, Nance County, Nebraska. FamilySearch ark:/61903/1:1:QPQJ-17HD, checked 28 September 2026. Probable Charles E. Cleveland, born 1846; parents Solomen Cleveland and Mary Thompson; bride Rachel Gibson, born 1849, father W. Gibson. Index only; FamilySearch shows no image. Evidently a later marriage of Charles Edgar, whose son Milton married in Nance County in 1896 (S463). Reading the Nance County register would settle his parents.
- S10031840 United States Federal Census — Diana, Lewis County, New York, page 19. Ancestry record 2399501. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 29 September 2026. Probable Solomon Cleveland, a man of 30–39, with a woman of 30–39, a boy under 5, a boy 10–14 and two girls 5–9. Enoch Cleveland, 50–59, heads the household on the line above, and Josiah Cleveland, 20–29, the one below. 1840 names only the heads. The 1810 and 1820 Poultney, Vt., hints for a Solomon Cleveland were a different, older man and are not used.
- S1139Hamilton County, Nebraska, Marriage Record D, p. 89 — Albert E. Cleveland and Anna C. Shaffer (13 November 1895). Ancestry record 1050231574. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 29 September 2026. Confirmed Licence of 13 November 1895: Albert E. Cleveland, 58, white, born St. Lawrence County, New York, of Greeley County, Nebraska, father Solomon Cleveland, mother’s maiden name Mary Thompson; Mrs. Anna C. Shaffer, 58, born Pennsylvania, of Hamilton County, father Henry Potter. Married the same day in Hamilton County by William R. Todd, preacher of the gospel. The bride’s mother’s surname (possibly Weaver) is hard to read.