Though identified here as Sally, the oldest child of Olivia
Jillson and Watts Sherman
was actually Sarah Sherman.
Like her mother, Sarah, who married a young man in her father's employ, Henry Becker Gibson,
Olivia also married a young banker working in HER father's bank, Henry Livingston Lansing.
Both mother and daughter married young, Sarah being almost 15 years old and Olivia being just 16.
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