I have located a family group in the Flushing Cemetery, Flushing, NY and obtained copies of interment cards from the Cemetery with the names, COD, location, etc. The name of the owner of the plot is Samuel Wright, the father-in-law of Samuel Burrage REED who is the primary subject of my research here. Samuel, his wife (Eliza Wright), his mother (Sarah/Sally Thorp REED) and several children/grandchildren (Hazel D. Judd - daughter of Olive REED (Judd) Donges and others) lie there.

Now I wonder if there is someone who might be able and willing to take digital photographs of their headstones for me. I have additional information, names, etc. If we can work something out I would be most appreciative.

Carol

Hi Carol

I'm always interested when someone posts about a Flushing Wright family member, particularly a Samuel. I have a Samuel (aft. 1802- aft 1860) & Mary Wright (1810-1883) who had a daughter Eliza (c. 1839). Other than her being recorded (presumably) on the 1840 and explicitly in 1850 Census I don't have any further information. Samuel was a shoemaker in Flushing. Does any of this tie to what you see in the interment cards? If so maybe we can tie up some loose ends.

Best wishes,

Bruce

Bruce,
The Samuel age 45 who is the bootmaker in the Flushing 1850 census has wife Mary age 40 and daughter Eliza age 11 and multiple other children living with him. He would have been born in 1805, and Mary born 1810.

The Samuel and Mary bur. in Flushing Cemetery were born 1802 and 1809, so they could fit your parameters. There is no Eliza Wright, but the woman who married Samuel Burrage Reed was Eliza Wright, died as Eliza Reed, and she is there.

Samuel d. 1869 so he does not show up in the 1870 census. It looks like Mary is living with a Vandewater family in Hempsted by then. There are also some Webbs in the family plot, which is incidentally, owned by Samuel Wright, surely yours.

Now, what is your connection to these folks? Do they sound like a match?

Carol

Hi Carol

Sorry for delay – end of quarter is a busy time.

This appears to be a very good match and the presence of some Webbs pretty much cinches it.

Samuel Wright is the brother of William Wright of Flushing, a direct ancestor of mine. This line goes back to early 18th Century Flushing and is associated with the Roe's and the Hallet's, but I'm unable at this point to link them up definitively with the extended family of Jonathan Wright of Flushing.

With respect to Samuel’s family -- actually Mary remains in Flushing after Samuel's death (for which a date of 1869 is quite consistent). In 1870 Mary will be enumerated in Flushing as running a boarding house (on p. 241 for Flushing, lines 22-24). Two of her children are living with her. The enumerator makes a slight error(?) and lists Catherine (or Kate) as a Wright at this time. There’s an open question here however, as Catherine had married Benjamin F. Loweree (son of Owen and Phebe Loweree) on 30 September 1866 at St. George’s. Catherine as Kate is living with her mother four years hence and Benjamin is enumerated with his father. I don’t know if they are just separated or if there was a divorce or what. However, Kate will subsequently marry James Webb (c. 1844 - ?) on 29 October 1871 at St. George's and have two children, Samuel Wright Webb (b.1873) and Charlotte Rose Webb (b.1875). James was enumerated as a boarder in Mary Wright’s household in 1870. James might have a sister, Anna Webb, who was enumerated next to him in 1880 (The relationship is an assumption on my part at this time). I bet these are the Webbs in the family grouping at Flushing Cemetery.

They all clearly moved in the same circles. James’ son Samuel Wright Webb will own a home a few doors down from his cousin Samuel A. Wright (the son of John J. Wright son of Samuel and Mary A).

Bruce

Hi Bruce,

I think you've answered a question I've had for some time. I had been wondering how Samuel Burrage Reed happened to meet Eliza Wright and marry her. I knew that he and Eliza and an infant were living close to the Samuel Wright home in 1860, but couldn't get much beyond that. Now that you mention that Mary ran a boarding house, I've checked the 1860 census and I think that she was a landlady even as Samuel was a shoemaker. I conjecture that when Samuel Reed came from Connecticut he came to her boarding house and "married the landlord's daughter". It's certainly likely.

Interesting also that when Eliza died, he married Elizabeth Lowerre and had two more children. I see several of the Webbs buried in the Flushing Cemetery. I have more information as well if you are interested, I can email you about it.

Carol