Hester Ann Shannon (maiden name: Bolster) was born on January 4, 1824, in New York. Her parents were Henry B. and Sarah Maria Bolster. Her first marriage was to James Andrew, which took place in the city on April 20, 1844. James died only a few years later in April 1848.
She married Robert Henry Shannon on January 28, 1852, at the home of her parents in New York City. Together the two had four sons: Henry Clay Bolster, born on August 8, 1854; William Pickell, born on February 17, 1856; Robert Irving, born on May 28, 1862; and Herbert Hahn, born on August 6, 1864. After her husband's death in 1896, she went to live with her son Herbert's family in Bergen County, New Jersey, where she died in 1901.
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1860, 1870, 1880, and 1900, U.S. Federal Censuses; The Archives of the Reformed Church in America; New Brunswick, New Jersey; Saint Paul's Dutch Church, Records, 1836-1873; New Brunswick, New Jersey; Reformed Dutch Church of Manhattan, Records, Consistory Minutes, 1829-1873; New Jersey, Wills and Probate Records, 1739-1991, accessed through Ancestry.com; "James Andrew," Findagrave.com (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/103999006).
