Monday 25 November 2019

Birdsall Tidbits


courtesy of Lisa Jacobs - Find A Grave
John Graham Millar married into our line via Annie Harriet Birdsall, the daughter of Henry Dwight Birdsall & Ann Eliza Graves.  Their only child, Eleanor Graham Millar married Edward Weeks Lee. 

The New York Herald, Fri, 16 Oct 1903
MILLAR - At St Luke's Hospital, New York on October 15, 1903. John Graham Millar, beloved husband of Anna Birdsall Millar, in his 42d year. Interment at Westfield, Conn.

 
courtesy of Lisa Jacobs - Find a Grave
The Brooklyn Eagle, Tues, 28 Oct 1941  
Edward W Lee, Insurance Broker - Was Member of Noted Lee Family of Virginia
Special to the Brooklyn Eagle
Port Washington, Oct 28 - Edward W Lee, 51, an insurance broker, died of a cerebral hemorrhage Sunday in his home, 22 Ivy Way. He was associated with the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States since 1925. He had been secretary of the New York Alumni Association of Washington and Lee University for the last 12 years. Born in New Iberia, La, Mr Lee was a member of the Lee family of Virginia of which Gen Robert E Lee was a member. He was graduated in 1913 from Washington and Lee University. He served in the Navy as a Lieutenant in the World War. Survivors are his widow, Mrs Eleanor Graham Miller Lee; a daughter, Miss Joan Lucinda Lee of Port Washington; a son, Ensign James A Lee 2d; a sister, Miss Dora C Lee of New Iberia, and a brother, James A Lee of East Orange, NJ.
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NY Daily Tribune, 5 Sep 1900

Caroline Josephine Birdsall, the second daughter of Henry Birdsall & Ann Graves was a vaudeville performer who was the victim of fire in 1900.  

She married Dr Charles Cowan Osborne and lost their 2 year old son in 1897. Charles ran the Osborne Rest Cure in New Canaan, CT - the name was changed to the Osborne Sanatorium but around 1898, the pair left amid scandalous circumstances and the place became the Brooks Sanatorium. 

I couldn't find a death entry for Caroline or obits for either.  
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The third Birdsall girl, Charlotte Augusta Birdsall, married Edward Irving Williams, the son of Robert L Williams & Elizabeth Jones. They had one daughter, Dorothy Louise Williams who married Mark Leslie Hull.

Washington Post & Times Herald, 15 Mar 1957
Hull, Mark Leslie - On March 13, 1957 at Suburban Hospital. Mark Leslie Hull of 4125 Harrison St, NW, Washington, DC, beloved husband of Dorothy W Hull and father of John Webster and Donald S Hull. He also is survived by five grandchildren. Private memorial services will be held on Friday, March 15.
courtesy of Lisa Jacobs - Find A Grave

Tarrytown Daily News, Wed, 12 Oct 1977
HULL - Dorothy W, Wed, age 85, Glenmont Home, Columbus, Ohio of 59 Creekwood Glendale, Ohio. Widow of Marl L Hull/ Predeceased in death by son Jack W Hull. Survived by son Donald Hull, Glendale, Ohio, 5 grandchildren and 2 great-grandchildren. Formerly of West Chester, Pa and Mamaroneck. Private services were held Oct 6 at Weir-Arend Funeral Home, 4221 No High St, Columbus, Ohio. Friends who wish may make memorials in her name to Glenmont Home, 72 Woodland Ave, Columbus, Ohio 43203
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Their son Walter Dwight Birdsall is a dead end for me - he became a lawyer like his father and married but after that - nothing.  I think he may relocated to New Jersey which would explain the lack of records - a few trees on ancestry have his death in 1906 but I couldn't corroborate

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