AMERICA THE GREAT MELTING POT
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Sarah Mott |
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Born: 06 Apr 1791 Old Mott House at Cow Neck, Hemstead, Queens Co., NY
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Married: 12 Dec 1815
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Died: 17 March 1872 | |||
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Silas Cornell |
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CHILDREN
Pg 367
Silas Cornell was in active business as Surveyor and Civil Engineer, and active
also in all the affairs of the Society of Friends. He usually attended the
Yearly Meeting in New York, in the Spring, and the "Representatives Meeting"
every December. He died of Erysipelas, which first appeared in the hand, after a
week's illness.
Sarah M Cornell was thus left with her eldest daughter, Anna M C Barnes, who had
made her home with her parents after her husband's death in 1848. In response to
the urgent invitation of her youngest daughter, Sarah Alice Walbridge and her
husband, Sarah M Cornell and her eldest daughter visited Toledo, intending only
a temporary stay, but they were never separated again while they lived. Ebenezer
Walbridge was in very active and very prosperous business, and for business
reasons removed, with all the family, to Chicago, in 1866. In 1867 he found his
health giving way under the strain of overwork and they came east for a change,
and he died in New York, in March, 1868, leaving his family in good
circumstances, with large interest at Toledo. They concluded, however, to make
their home at Yonkers, and Sarah M. Cornell, died there in March, 1872, just
before the family removed into the handsome stone house S. Alice Walbridge built
at Mr. St. Vincent, adjoining her brother's. S. Alice Walbridge herself, died
less than three years later, leaving her sister and her three boys in the house.
In 1878 Anna M. C. Barnes removed with the boys to Toledo where their property
was chiefly situated and where they have ever since made their homes." (*)
(*) Adam and Anne Mott, by Thomas Clapp Cornell, pg 367
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