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Gary Schumacher

Husband Gary Schumacher
 
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1. Occupation: Director of Public Relations for San Francisco Giants baseball team.

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1 M H. Richard Schumacher
 
         Born: 1930
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       Spouse: Mary C. Stokes (Abt 1929-1980)
         Marr: 23 Nov 1963 - First Unitarian Church, Philadelphia, Pa.
General Notes: Husband - Gary Schumacher

of San Fancisco

General Notes: Child - H. Richard Schumacher

magna cum laude at Harvard and editor of The Law Review. Worked at Cahill Gordon Reindelh & Ohl in New York. Now at 32 Old Slip. Admitted to Bar 1959

H. Richard Schumacher and Mary C. Stokes

Husband H. Richard Schumacher
 
         Born: 1930
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       Father: Gary Schumacher (      -      )
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     Marriage: 23 Nov 1963 - First Unitarian Church, Philadelphia, Pa.
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1. Education: Yale College, Harvard Law School.

2. Occupation: attorney.

Wife Mary C. Stokes
 
         Born: Abt Jun 1929 - Pennsylvania
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         Died: 19 Feb 1980 - Manhattan, NY
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       Father: Walter Stokes (1885-1971)
       Mother: Frances Kemble Wister (1901-1992)
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1. Education: Radcliffe College and Columbia School of Journalism.

2. Occupation: Financial Writer and Editor.

Children

General Notes: Husband - H. Richard Schumacher

magna cum laude at Harvard and editor of The Law Review. Worked at Cahill Gordon Reindelh & Ohl in New York. Now at 32 Old Slip. Admitted to Bar 1959

General Notes: Wife - Mary C. Stokes

Writer for The New York World-Telegram and The Sun. Editor of The Investor's Reader, published by Merrill Lynch. Graduated magna cum laud from Radcliffe.

G. Woolston and Rosemary Scovell

Husband G. Woolston
 
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Wife Rosemary Scovell
 
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       Father: F. Roosevelt Scovell (      -1931)
       Mother: Vivien Sartoris (      -      )
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1 F Rosemary Woolston
 
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Leonard Scurr and Elizabeth Wood

Husband Leonard Scurr
 
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         Died: 1679 - Beeston Park, Yorkshire
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     Marriage: 1650
Wife Elizabeth Wood
 
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         Died: 1651
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       Father: Thomas Wood (      -1649)
       Mother: Susan Pigot (      -1634)
Children

General Notes: Husband - Leonard Scurr

He was a miner. See the following link to the Wood file in the London Metro Archives:

https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/df783b48-b4a0-4d54-b935-9a548cdb3939#4-1-119

James Horton Taft and Frances A. Seney

Husband James Horton Taft
 
         Born: 23 Aug 1822 - White Plains, NY
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       Father: Jonathan Taft (1796-1851)
       Mother: Rebecca Ann Horton (1796-1868)
 
     Marriage: 9 Aug 1847
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1. Occupation: drug-broker, NYC.

Wife Frances A. Seney
 
         Born:  - Middlebury, VT
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1 M Robert Seney Taft
 
         Born: 21 Jul 1848 - New York City
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         Died: 13 Jul 1853 - New York City
       Buried:  - Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
 
2 M Rev. Marcus Lorenzo Taft
 
         Born: 2 Aug 1850
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3 M James Horton Taft Jr.
 
         Born: 7 Jul 1852
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4 M George Seney Taft
 
         Born: 17 Apr 1854 - New York City
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         Died: 29 Jan 1863 - New York City
       Buried:  - Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
 
5 M William Nicholsen Taft Rev.
 
         Born: 30 Mar 1856
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6 M Charles Hatfield Taft
 
         Born: 19 Aug 1857
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       Spouse: Agnus Barry (      -      )
General Notes: Husband - James Horton Taft

with firm of Degen, Taft, and Lee, drug-brokers in New York City. James began work there at age 13 and remained with the firm for 65 years . He retired in 1900.

General Notes: Child - Rev. Marcus Lorenzo Taft

missionary in China

Alfred L. Sewell and Esther Jane Taft

Husband Alfred L. Sewell
 
         Born:  - of Chicago, Illinois
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     Marriage: 7 Oct 1857
Wife Esther Jane Taft
 
         Born: 25 Oct 1833
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         Died: 5 Jun 1862
       Buried:  - Rose Hill Cemetery, near Chicago
 
       Father: Jonathan Taft (1796-1851)
       Mother: Rebecca Ann Horton (1796-1868)
Children

1 F Anne Lorraine Sewell
 
         Born: 24 Feb 1859
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2 M James Russell Sewell
 
         Born: 29 May 1862
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         Died: 7 Aug 1862
       Buried:  - Rose Hill Cemetery, near Chicago
 
General Notes: Husband - Alfred L. Sewell

Alfred worked for the firm of Dunlop, Lowell, Spalding, in Chicago.

James Sexton and Hannah Smith

Husband James Sexton
 
         Born: Abt 1818 - Kentucky
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         Died: Bef 1864
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Wife Hannah Smith
 
         Born: 16 Sep 1827 - Indiana
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         Died: After 1880
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       Father: John Smith (1799-1870)
       Mother: Massie Koons (Abt 1806-Abt 1840)
 
 Other Spouse: Oman (      -      )
 
 Other Spouse: George Washington Graybill (1821-1900)
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1 M James Sexton
 
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2 F Elizabeth Sexton
 
         Born: Abt 1847 - Missouri
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3 F Eliza Jeanette Sexton
 
         Born: Abt 1849 - Missouri
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4 F Aramintha Sexton
 
         Born: Abt 1854 - Iowa
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5 F Emily Sexton
 
         Born: Abt 1856 - Iowa
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6 M John Sexton
 
         Born: Abt 1858 - Iowa
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7 M George Sexton
 
         Born: 1860 - Iowa
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General Notes: Child - Elizabeth Sexton

BIRTH: possibly child of Hannah Smith and unknown Oman

Harry Sheets and Emily E. Trail

Husband Harry Sheets
 
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Wife Emily E. Trail
 
         Born: Aug 1929 - VA
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       Father: Rufus L. Trail (Abt 1908-1994)
       Mother: Sarah Elizabeth Hogston (Abt 1911-1975)
Events

1. Residence: 1975, Landover Hills, Maryland.

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Seth B. Sherwood and Catherine Van Alstyne

Husband Seth B. Sherwood
 
         Born: 10 Jan 1779 - CT
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         Died: 27 May 1862 - Carlton, Orleans County, NY
       Buried:  - Kent Cemetery, Kent, Orleans County, NY
 
     Marriage: Between 1840 and 1843 - Mohawk Village, Herkimer County, NY
 
 Other Spouse: Mary Bennett (1782-Between 1830/1840) - Bef 1802 - Stratford, Montgomery County, NY
Wife Catherine Van Alstyne
 
         Born: 29 May 1784
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         Died: 7 Jul 1864 - 161 S. 8th St., Brooklyn, NY ¹
       Buried:  - Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
 
       Father: Abraham Van Alstyne (      -      )
       Mother: Catherine (Abt 1748-1823)
 
 Other Spouse: William H. Harrison (1768-1838) - 1 Jan 1800 - Brick Presbyterian Church, between Chatham St.(now Park Row), Spruce St., Nassau St. and Beekman St., Manhattan, NY
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1. Baptism: 13 Jun 1784, First and Second Presbyterian Church, NY, NY.

Children

General Notes: Husband - Seth B. Sherwood

"History and Genealogy of Families of Old Fairfield" by Donald Lines Jacobus, records Seth's marriage to Mary Bennett in Vol. 1 page 108. He is listed as from Stratford. The 1820 census for Stratford shows Seth with two females under age 10. He was still in Stratford at the time of the 1830 census.

The Mohawk Courier reported that his property was being forclosed dated January 9, 1844.

By the time of the New York Census of 1855 he was living with his son, John G. Clark, in Carlton, Orleans County, NY. He was still there at the time of the 1860 federal census.

General Notes: Wife - Catherine Van Alstyne

According to the 1800 Census for the 6th Ward of Manhattan, Catharine and her new husband, William, were living with her mother and a child , under age 10. The date of the census was August 4. Since her mother was over 45 and a widow, this suggests that Catharine and William, who married in January, 1800, married because she was already pregnant . After her husband's death she moved to Herkimer Co. NY to live near her daughter Harriet. From the 1840 census information about her household in German Flatts, it appears likely that her grandchildren, Hart's children, were living with her.

A relative has provided a receipt from 1864 for grave number 109 in Lot 8999 in Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn. George Underhill Sands purchased the plot for $20 for Catharine Sherwood. Papers provided with the receipt indicate Ms. Sherwood was a widow born in 1783 who died at 161 so. 8th st. in Brooklyn. The gravesite, which is off Meadow Ave. in Section 114, does not contain a readable grave marker. I found a Brooklyn death certificate (#4482) indicating she died July 7, 1864 at age 81. An obituary in the NY Evening Post on July 8, 1864 indicates she was the widow of Seth Sherwood. I have evidence that Catharine Sherwood is, in fact Catharine (Harrison) Van Alstyne. George U. Sands was her grandson and she raised him as a child when his mother died. He would have been the only one of her family with enough money to purchase such a luxury cemetery plot. According to the records of the First and Second Presbyterian Church in lower Manhattan, the church in which Catharine Van Alstyne married William Harrison, a Catharine Van Alstyne was born to Abraham Van Alstyne and Catharine, his wife on May 29, 1784. Considering women of this period rarely knew their precise age and birth date, this is close enough a match to Catharine Sherwood to convince me that the two are one and the same. In addition, in the 1850 census for the 4th ward of Manhattan, her grandson, Charles Sands, was living with a Catharine Sherman, age 62. While the name and age are off somewhat, I believe Charles was living with his grandmother, who raised him. He was 15.

In February 1841 a new Baptist Church was founded in neighboring Mohawk called the First Baptist Society of Mohawk. According to "History of Herkimer County" (1879) by George A. Hardin, founding members were Uri C. Watson and his wife Harriet and Seth B. Sherwood. The church closed in 1873 and I have not been able to find its records but it appears that Seth B. Sherwood, who was living as a widower in German Flatts at the time of the 1840 census, acquired a wife named Catharine some time between 1840 and 1843 because the Mohawk Courier printed a notice dated September 30, 1843 from Seth B. Sherwood "Whereas, my wife Catharine has left my bed and board without any just cause or provocation; all persons are hereby notified not to harbor or trust her on my account, as I shall pay no debts of her contracting." This is undboubtedly the Seth Sherwood referred to in the 1864 obituary of Catherine Sherwood and Catharine is undoubtedly Catharine (Van Alstyne) Harrison.

Professor Horace Hayman Wilson and Frances Sarah Parr Siddons

Husband Professor Horace Hayman Wilson
 
         Born: 1786
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         Died: 1860
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     Marriage: 1829
Wife Frances Sarah Parr Siddons
 
         Born: 1808
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         Died: 1878
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       Father: George John Siddons (1785-1848)
       Mother: Mary Fombelle (1788-1871)
Children

Sources

1 1840 census, Herkimer Co., NY.

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