All Mixed Up: Three Joseph Roses ~ 52 Ancestors #35

My Rose ancestral line has three generations of men named Joseph Rose. Because they lived in New York City and northern New Jersey in the late 18th century and well into the 19th century, where records may not have been easily viewed and analyzed in the past, they have been conflated in various reports. They also tended to name their children the same names, generation after generation.

The immigrant Joseph Rose, believed to be born in England about 1735, lived in Manhattan, New York, and died February 28, 1807. He is buried in Trinity Churchyard, a historic graveyard now in the financial district of Manhattan. See his FindAGrave memorial. His wife, Barbara Egbertse (or Egburson) predeceased him on April 13, 1806. She is buried next to her husband and also has a FindAGrave memorial.

Joseph Rose headstone, courtesy BKGeni at FindAGrave

Barbara Rose headstone, courtesy BKGeni at FindAGrave

They had seven children, mentioned in their father's will: Mary, Joseph, William Lucius, Isaac, Ann, Samuel, and Elizabeth. 

Deaf Ancestor Mary Emma Rose ~ 52 Ancestors #38

I am participating in this year's 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks writing challenge from Amy Johnson Crow. Each week has an optional writing prompt and this week's writing prompt is Unusual Source. In fact, Amy introduced the idea of this source in another blog post from last week: Researching Deaf Ancestors.

I didn't think I had any deaf ancestors; I'm still pretty sure that none of my direct ancestors were deaf. However, I explored the Ancestry database she mentioned, U.S. Special Census on Deaf Family Marriages and Hearing Relatives, 1888-1895, and I found a fourth great aunt. All I knew of this 4th great aunt was from her gravestone: Mary Rose Mitchell Totten, 1808-1897, which I photographed when visiting Rose Hill Cemetery in Matawan, New Jersey, in 2013.

Mary Emma Rose was the daughter of Joseph Rose and Frances Stanton. From the few records that I previously had on this family, I only knew of six children of Joseph Rose and Frances Stanton and I had complete birth and death dates for only my direct ancestor, Joseph Stanton Rose, whose detailed obituary I transcribed at Joseph Rose (1809-1877). He is buried at Rose Hill Cemetery in Matawan, New Jersey, and was the reason I visited the cemetery. Finding GGGG Aunt Mary's gravestone was by chance.

This survey of deaf individuals collected a lot of family information and WOW: I now know that Joseph and Frances had ten children with four dying very young. This is a wonderful example of researching collateral relatives to obtain more information. Not only does the survey include all of Mary's siblings, but their full names and birth dates. No specific death dates are listed, but several siblings died young and those are mentioned. Mary Emma signed the last page.

Joseph Rose, Gun Manufacturer - 52 Ancestors #34

For this week's 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks writing challenge from blogger Amy Crow Johnson of No Story Too Small, the theme is Non-Population, which refers to special census schedules: have you found an ancestor on a non-population census — agriculture, industry, manufactures, or 1890 Union veterans? Tell us about him or her.

I have known about these special census schedules, but have not fully explored them. I found a few 19th century ancestors while trying to decide who to write about this week. The most interesting to me was what I found for third great-grandfather, Joseph Rose.

He was born on October 25, 1809, in New York City to Joseph Rose and Frances Stanton. He married Frances Stanton Willet on October 23, 1827, and fathered six children with her.

In the 1850 U.S. Census, the first census that lists all names of household members, I find 40-year-old Joseph Rose, Jr. in New York City's Ward 4, with occupation of Gun Smith.

The household includes his wife, his four youngest children, a servant, and the last name in the image is that of his son-in-law, David Hunter McAlpin, who likely lived next door.

U.S. Federal Census. Year: 1850; Census Place: New York Ward 4, New York, New York;
Roll: M432_536; Page: 264B; Lines: 35-41; Record for Joseph Rose family

So in the Ancestry.com's Selected U.S. Federal Census Non-Population Schedules, 1850-1880 for New York Ward 4, page 373, I find some more information about Joseph's business:

Frances Stanton Willet - 52 Ancestors #18

For this week's 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks writing challenge from blogger Amy Crow Johnson of No Story Too Small, I am writing about my third great-grandmother, Frances Stanton Willet who was born on January 20, 1807, either in Connecticut or in Massachusetts (depending on the source).

The 1951 privately published Pyle, Smith and Allied Family Histories states that her parents are Jedidiah Willet and Mary Stanton. The frustrating thing is that I have found no primary source that confirms the birth place. (Her birth date is on her tombstone.) There is no record of a birth of Frances Willet in Ancestry.com's Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, nor in the Connecticut Town Birth Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection). I do find, in Norwich Vital Records, record of her father's first marriage to Frances Rogers, and the list of their children. This first wife died in 1805.

It appears that she grew up as the youngest sister of several half-siblings, some much older than her. I don't know if she had any full siblings, or if she was her mother's only child.

There is an 1806 newspaper wedding notice for her presumed parents, Jedediah Willet and Mary Stanton, which I shared here.

At not quite 21 years old, Frances (possibly named for her father's first wife?) married Joseph Rose, Jr. on October 23, 1827, most likely in New York City. (Joseph's obituary refers to their golden wedding anniversary celebration in 1877.)

Frances and Joseph had six children:
  Frances Adelaide Rose (1829-1870)
  Josephine Rose (1832-1920)
  Joseph Rose (1835-1905)
  George Lodowick Rose (1837-after 1920)
  William Rose (1840-????)
  Cordelia Maria Rose (1845-1927)

1870 Death of Frances Adelaide McAlpin

Last week I shared the obituary of my third great-grandfather, Joseph Rose (1809-1877). His oldest child, a daughter and my second great-grandmother, pre-deceased him by seven years.

Over a year and a half ago, I wrote about Frances Adelaide (Rose) McAlpin in response to a Saturday Night Genealogy Fun challenge. See Ancestral Name Roulette. I noted that Frances McAlpin had ten children and I shared her brief death notice.

New York Times, November 29, 1870

She was just a few months past her 41st birthday and I wondered what she died of. I recently obtained her death certificate.

Manhattan, New York deaths. FHL Microfilm 1324554, certificate no. 75063

Sunday's Obituary ~ Joseph Rose (1809-1877)

Thank you to the Matawan, New Jersey, historian who told me about the availability of The Matawan Journal at the website of the public library. The issue of December 8, 1877, has an extensive obituary of the recently deceased Joseph Rose, my 3rd great grandfather, on page 2 of this four page weekly newspaper. This obituary doesn't tell me much about his family, except that he and his wife were married for 50 years and had children, but it does tell me a lot about him: his integrity and honesty in politics and business dealings and how he treated all those in his life.

It is very hard to read and I have done my best to transcribe it below. If anyone can decipher the faded words in the last section, please let me know.  September 11, 2013 update: Thank you to Matawan local historian Al Savolaine for helping with deciphering some of these difficult-to-read words.

Obituary

Mr. Joseph Rose

Rose, one of the oldest residents of this township. For two or three days it had been reported that he was very ill; but so vigorous had he always seemed that few anticipated a fatal result. He had been complaining for two or three weeks, but was not confined to his bed until Friday last and from that time he seemed to fall into a frequent stupor and unconsciousness, and died on Tuesday morning, 4th inst., at 9 o’clock. The cause of his sudden death was Bright’s disease of the kidneys, and the rapid degeneration of these organs produced a condition of uremia which hastened his end.

Mr. Rose was a gentleman of intelligence, integrity of moral character, sociability and possessed of a very warm and benevolent nature. He began business in New York city in very early life, was married before he was nineteen, and growing up with the growth of the city he won to him very many friends by the close adherence to business, promptness in all his business engagements and strict honesty in all his dealings.

While a resident of New York, he represented the city in the Legislature for one term and refused a renomination. He was a Democrat in politics, and a warm partisan. He served for two terms as Collector of City Revenue under Comptroller Flagg, and his integrity was held so high that on the election of Comptroller Haws, though politically an opponent, he was urged to remain in his position, and he continued as Collector of the Revenue until compelled by vertigo to resign. He, in occupying the above place, has much to do with negotiating the purchase of Central Park.

He was an office in the old City Guards; and an intimate associate of Hon. John Kelly, Judge Chas. P. Daley and other prominent men of New York.

About 45 years ago he purchased a farm at Cliffwood, and has ever since been the owner of the same. He owned the site of Rose Hill Cemetery [see Tombstone Tuesday ~ Rose], and sold it to the cemetery corporation. That place is honored with his name, and in it is his family plot where his remains will be interred. For several years prior to his permanent removal to New Jersey his family spent their summers at Cliffwood. Shortly after the severe attack of vertigo that compelled him to give up a lucrative position and a profitable business besides, he removed in 1860 to his farm and has for the past 17 years resided among us, endearing himself to this community, and during the time represented the township for one term in the Board of Freeholders.

On the 23d of October last, only about six weeks ago, a merry company gathered at his delightful home to join with him and his wife in celebrating their golden wedding. We referred then to the miniature sheaf of wheat overhanging their heads as a symbol of the ripening years. In his case, it becomes also the symbol of his having been gathered in by the great harvester, Death.

Mr. Rose will be missed not alone by his widow and large family of children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren; but the whole community, and in his benevolence his loss will be keenly felt by many living in the immediate vicinity of his home.

The funeral will take place on Monday next, 10th inst., at 1.30, P. M., the long delay being occasioned that the youngest son, from Colorado, might be present at the funeral.

Tombstone Tuesday ~ Joseph Rose

According to a paragraph on page 53 of Matawan and Aberdeen: Of Town and Field, by Helen Henderson, of the Matawan Historical Association, found at Google Books, the Rose Hill Cemetery was established in 1858 on land previously owned by Joseph Rose, my third great-grandfather. The cemetery's highest point is where the Joseph Rose family plot is located and from there, you can see Raritan Bay and the skyline of New York City. My guess is that it has to be when the leaves are not on the trees (or before many of those trees were there), as we couldn't see those sites when we visited there a couple of weeks ago.

Having been told that the Rose family plot was at the highest point, we drove through the cemetery until we found it. While I took close up pictures with my iPhone and my son found half-buried, unreadable gravestones, my husband captured the plot from the side.

Rose Family obelisk

My third great-grandparents

Joseph Rose

Born

Oct. 25th, 1809,

Died

Dec. 4th, 1877

His Wife

Frances Stanton Willet

Born

Jan 20th, 1807,

Died

Oct. 26th, 1893

See Joseph Rose's Find A Grave memorial, which has links to the memorials for his wife Frances and a few of his children, as well as a link to a memorial for his father Joseph Rose (1770-1852) at this same cemetery.

Surname Saturday ~ Rose of New York and New Jersey

My immigrant Rose ancestor is Joseph Rose. It has been theorized that he was born about 1735 in England. I have been contacted a couple of times through my tree on ancestry.com asking me about his parentage but I don't have any information about where in England he was born or who his parents are.

NYC Directory for 1786, page 68
(NYC: H. J. Sachs & Company, 1905)

I also don't have information on when he immigrated to America, but he was in New York by 1786, when he is listed as a distiller in the NYC Directory for that year. (I don't know who "Rose, J. hair-dresser" is listed below "Rose, Joseph, distiller.")

It is said that he was a sea captain and a merchant.

His wife was Barbara Egburson / Egbertse, of Dutch ancestry. They were married in New York City on July 31, 1766.

His will can be found at FamilySearch.org under New York, Probate Records, 1629-1971. (Liber 46 p. 513 fol. old numbers, or p. 473 fol. new numbers.) (Thank you to fellow geneablogger and distant cousin, Leah, of Leah's Family Tree, for letting me know about this will.) The will was signed on March 20, 1805. He mentions his "beloved wife" Barbara and children, Mary (widow of Francis Lynch), Joseph, William, Isaac, Elizabeth, Ann, and youngest child, Samuel (who appeared to be the only one not yet 21 years old). His will also mentions that he has "certain claims against the British and French Governments" which he hopes will become part of his estate for his heirs.

Joseph Rose died February 28, 1807, less than a year after his wife, who died on April 13, 1806. They are buried together in New York City's Trinity Churchyard. See the Find A Grave memorial for Joseph and Barbara.

I descend from their son Joseph, believed to be his eldest son.

Generation 2: Joseph Rose was born about 1770 in New York and died on November 21, 1852, in Matawan, Monmouth County, New Jersey. He married Frances Stanton (daughter of Lodowick Stanton and Thankful Stanton) and they had six children. His wife died in November 1815. Her death is noted in the November 18, 1815, issue of the Weekly Museum, a New York newspaper (1788-1817) found at GenealogyBank.

Matawan is in red; Monmouth County
is gray and its location in NJ is at right.
Courtesy Wikimedia Commons.

This Joseph was a merchant in New York, but by 1850, he was in Monmouth County, New Jersey, where I found him, 80 years old, living alone in Raritan in the U.S. Federal Census for that year.

It appears that he and his wife had six children who were all baptized at St. Mark's in New York City on April 4, 1816: Frances Maria, Joseph, William (or Willet?), Cordelia, Mary, and Lodowick.

Joseph died in 1852 and has a memorial at Rose Hill Cemetery in Matawan, New Jersey.

I descend from their son Joseph.

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun ~ Ancestral Name Roulette

Randy Seaver of Genea-Musings has another Saturday Night Genealogy Fun project for us. Details are as follows:

1. What year was your paternal grandfather born? Divide this number by 100 and round the number off to a whole number. This is your "roulette number."
2. Use your pedigree charts or your family tree genealogy software program to find the person with that number in your ancestral name list (some people call it an "ahnentafel"). Who is that person?
3. Tell us three facts about that person in your ancestral name list with the "roulette number."

1. My paternal grandfather, Charles McAlpin Pyle, was born in 1893. Dividing by 100 and rounding gives me 19 as a roulette number.
2. Number 19 in my ancestral list is Frances Adelaide Rose, born August 23, 1829, died November 28, 1870, at age 41.
3. Three facts about Frances Adelaide Rose:

*  She is descended from Mayflower passengers, John Howland (1592-1672/3) and Elizabeth Tilley (1607-1687).
*  Married to David Hunter McAlpin (1816-1901), she gave birth to nine sons:
         Douglas P. McAlpin (1846-1847)
         Edwin Augustus McAlpin (1848-1917)
         David Hunter McAlpin, Jr. (1851-1853)
         Joseph Rose McAlpin (1853-1888)
         George Lodowick McAlpin (1856-1922)
         William Willet McAlpin (1858-1925)
         David Hunter McAlpin, Jr. (1862-1934)
         Charles Williston McAlpin (1865-1942)
         John Randolph McAlpin (1870-1893)
         and one daughter: Frances Adelaide McAlpin (1860-1937), my great grandmother.
*  The death notice in the New York Times indicates that she died suddenly on the morning of Monday, November 28, 1870. (I need to look for a death certificate, as I don't know what she died of, though giving birth to ten children in 24 years would certainly qualify as exhaustion!)

New York Times, November 29, 1870

She is buried in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York. See my recent Tombstone Tuesday post about the family gravestones there.

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun ~ Heritage Pie Chart

Thank you to Randy Seaver at Genea-Musings for the idea to write this blog post. See the details of the challenge at  Genea-Musings.

The basic details of my sixteen great-great-grandparents are as follows:

16.    James Pyle was born on 16 Aug 1823 in Manchester, Boylston, Nova Scotia, Canada. He was the son of Stephen Pyle and Elizabeth/Betsey Hull. He died on 20 Jan 1900 in New York, New York, New York, USA. He married Esther Abigail Whitman on 16 Aug 1853 in New York, New York, New York, USA.

17.    Esther Abigail Whitman was born 02 Feb 1828 in Manchester, Nova Scotia, Canada, died 08 Nov 1921 in New York, New York, USA. She was the daughter of Thomas Cutler Whitman and Diana Morgan.

18.    David Hunter McAlpin was born on 08 Nov 1816 in Pleasant Valley, Dutchess, New York, USA. He was the son of James McAlpin and Jane Hunter. He died on 08 Feb 1901 in New York, New York, New York, USA. He married Frances Adelaide Rose on 16 or 18 April 1845 in New York, New York, New York, USA.

19.    Frances Adelaide Rose was born 23 Aug 1829 in New York, New York, New York, USA, died 28 Nov 1870 in New York, New York, New York, USA. She was the daughter of Joseph Rose and Frances Stanton Willet.

20.    James Monroe Adsit was born on 05 Feb 1809 in Spencertown, Columbia, New York, USA. He was the son of Leonard Adsit and Frances Davenport. He died on 04 Sep 1894 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA. He married Susan Arville Chapin on 21 Jan 1841 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA.

21.    Susan Arville Chapin was born 09 Jun 1820 in Ludlow City, Hampden, Massachusetts, USA, died 06 May 1906 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA. She was the daughter of Orramel Chapin and Susan Rood [brick wall here].

22.    Daniel Morgan Ashby was born in Jan 1828 in Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, USA. He was the son of Stephen Ashby and Pamela Christian. He died on 13 Jul 1907 in Winnetka, Cook, Illinois, USA. He married Mary Elizabeth Gorin on 11 Feb 1857 in Glasgow, Barren, Kentucky, USA.

23.    Mary Elizabeth Gorin was born 28 Jun 1833 in Glasgow, Barren, Kentucky, USA, died 07 Jul 1891 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA. She was the daughter of Thomas Jefferson Gorin and Mary Ann Bowman.

24.    Henry Clay Copeland was born on 07 Jan 1832 in Norridgewock, Somerset, Maine, USA. He was the son of Thomas Jefferson Copeland and Julia Elvira Townsend. He died on 07 Nov 1912 in Calais, Washington, Maine, USA. He married Sarah Lowell on 15 Dec 1858 in Calais, Washington, Maine, USA.

25.    Sarah Lowell was born 30 Dec 1833 in Calais, Washington, Maine, USA, died Jan 1916 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA. She was the daughter of Reuben Lowell and Sarah Smith.

26.    Samuel Sewall Greeley was born on 11 Oct 1824 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA. He was the son of Samuel Greeley and Louisa May. He died on 08 Mar 1916 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA. He married Elizabeth (or Eliza) May Wells on 05 Sep 1866 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA.

27.    Elizabeth (or Eliza) May Wells was born 20 Aug 1839 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA, died 18 Sep 1880 in London, London, England. She was the daughter of Thomas Goodwin Wells and Elizabeth Sewall Willis.

28.    James Hunter was born on 20 Jun 1844 in Pennsylvania, USA. He was the son of Samuel K. Hunter and Catherine Carr. He died on 17 Oct 1902 in Allegheny City, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, USA. He married Mary Freeland on 13 Apr 1871 (probably in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA).

29.    Mary Freeland was born 11 Feb 1850 in (probably Allegheny County), Pennsylvania, USA, died 14 Mar 1902 in (probably Allegheny County), Pennsylvania, USA. She was the daughter of James Freeland and Nancy Rainey.

30.    George Lysle, Jr. was born in 1843 in Pennsylvania, USA. He was the son of George Lysle and Margaret McIlwaine. He died on 21 May 1900 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, USA. He married Marion Helen Alston on 13 Oct 1875 in Allegheny City, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, USA.

31.    Marion Helen Alston was born May or June 1850 in Allegheny City, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, USA, died 2 May 1885 in Allegheny City, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, USA. She was the daughter of John Alston and Lilleas Johnston.

Here is my "Heritage Pie" chart: