Silas Sloane was a farmer from Avonlea and the husband of Mrs. Silas Sloane.
In the 1850s, he sold his farm to David Gray, whose son sold it to Jabez Sloane after his wife's death.
On their way home in June 1877, on Mr. Phillips' last day as a teacher in Avonlea, Anne Shirley and her classmates passed Silas by.
In May 1882, Anne Shirley celebrated her 17th birthday. She roamed the Avonlea area with her friends Diana Barry, Jane Andrews and Priscilla Grant and they passed the willow covered with young greenery near of Silas' Farm.