Sylvester Twins

Birth: unknown

Death: unknown
The information confirming the burial and biographical details is from Congregation Emanu-El Burial Register 1861 – 1866 as related through the JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry (JOWBR). JOWBR states this was one of 2 twins but has no further information as to the birth or death dates, nor any definite information as to parentage.

Plot:
When the grave was prepared for Hinda Shapiro (Row D- Plot 54) small bones and small metal handles were found. It is thought that these are the remains of the Sylvester twins.

Without a birth or death date, it’s hard to tell whether pioneer Cecelia Sylvester her daughter-in-law, Daisy was the one to give birth.

The First Two Years: A Record of the Jewish Pioneers on Canada’s Pacific Coast 1858-60 by David Rome, published by H.M. Caiserman in Montreal, 1942 has a footnote on page 8 which reads:The Sylvester children are: Miss Louise Sylvester, Mrs. H. Menkus, Mrs. Rachel Campbell, Mrs. McRae, Mrs. A.B. Ellis, William Sylvester (died 1931), Jesse Sylvester, Clarence Sylvester (traditionally secretary of May 24^th Celebration Committee, died in 1933 at the age of 57) and the Sylvester twins who died in infancy.

There is also a record that William Bill Sylvester, son of Frank and Cecelia Sylvester and his wife E.E. (Daisy) had twins who were born on February 12, 1906. One died on February 12, 1906 and another died on February 24, 1906.

It’s hard to tell which set of twins were discovered in this plot.