My second great-grandparents, Esther Abigail Whitman and James Pyle, married in New York City in 1853, when they were recent immigrants from Guysborough, Nova Scotia. I have a lot of information about James Pyle, but much less about his wife.
Matrilineal Monday - Esther Abigail Whitman shared census records for her as well as a brief death notice from the New York Times.
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| Deaths, New York Times, 10 November 1921, p. 19, col. 7, Esther A. Whitman. |
The New York City Department of Records and Information Services (DORIS) now provides the ability to view some birth, marriage, and death records (as long as they're far enough back that the individuals named are long deceased). These images can also be found at MyHeritage (a subscription site).
I found Esther Pyle's November 10, 1921, death certificate at New York City Deaths, 1866-1948 at MyHeritage.
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| New York County, Manhattan death certificate no. 1921-25490, Esther Abigail Pyle; Municipal Archives; imaged, MyHeritage (https://www.myheritage.com/research/collection-20808/new-york-new-york-city-deaths-1866-1948 : accessed 3 May 2024.) |
She died at home, 200 West 58th Street, Manhattan, of general arteriosclerosis with a secondary cause of "Senility" which she had been suffering from for three years.
Esther outlived all her siblings and children except for daughter, Sara Carter (Pyle) McAlpin, who was married to Charles Williston McAlpin, the informant on her death certificate. The scribble on the side of the back page of the certificate reads: "Given names of parents unknown and unobtainable - later obtained by telegraph; C. W. McAlpin; son-in-law; 520 Park Avenue, N.Y." (My research shows that her parents' names are correct.)
Esther Pyle was buried in the Pyle family plot in Green-Wood Cemetery which we visited in August 2016. As we approached the family stone, this is how it looked, with James Pyle's name and dates appearing above the bush.
When I pulled the bush aside to see the remaining names, I could see the names of the four Pyle children who died in childhood, and a blank space where presumably Esther's information should have been engraved.
Her FindAGrave memorial links her to her family members.
I descend from Esther Abigail (Whitman) Pyle as follows:
This week's theme is Random Number and Esther is a randomly-selected ancestor who I haven't written much about.
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