*1889 12 11 Washington, DC, USA
+1977 06 19 Wakefield, RI, USA

Not to be confused with a similarly named person US SSN 221-50-9510, born 1889-11-25 died 1972-08 New Castle Co. DE

Find-A-Grave gives interment at New Fernwood Cemetery, South Kingstown, RI, USA.

(From JJC 10003) Middle name was probably Heard, her grandmother's family name.

Middle name confirmed as Heard in an acknowledgment by the Rhode Island Historical Society of her bequest in 1977 of the William Davis Miller papers. Interred at New Fernwood Cemetery, South Kingstown, Washington, Rhode Island, United States.

Drove an ambulance for the British Red Cross in France during World War I.

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*1848 10 10 Washington DC, USA
+1923 01 13 USA

Listed in 1900 Census, Washington Co., D.C., Roll 159 Book 1, Page 193a, Line 73; living at 1912 H Street, employed as a bank clerk.

(From JJC 10003) Started as a clerk at the Riggs Bank in Washington, D.C. Eventually became head of the credit department. Bought a 'cottage' in Jamestown, R.I. where his wife and children spent their summers growing up.

Listed in 1880 Census of Washington, see ERS 10044.

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*1811 11 04 VA, USA
+1873 08 03 Washington, DC, USA

Brief biography listed in Appleton's 1886 Encyclopedia, is mentioned elsewhere for his roles as aide to Seward (was present at signing of Alaskan treaty in 1867, painted by Emanuel Leutze, an excerpt of which is shown above) and wartime special messenger for Lincoln.

1834 07: Joined State Department (according to sworn testimony, p. 117 of Congressional Globe, 40th Congress, 2nd Session at memory.loc.gov)

1844 03 02: Is mentioned in National Intelligencer as an Assistant Marshal on horseback at the funeral for the late Secretary of State, the Hon. Abel P. Upshur, killed when a gun aboard the USS Princeton exploded during a demonstration.

1861 04 06: Carried a famous message (which survives, and can be viewed at memory.loc.gov) from Lincoln to Governor Pickens at Charleston.

1866 07: Promoted to Chief Clerk of the State Department.

1868 04 04: Testified before Senate in impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson (memory.loc.gov).

1880: widow listed in Washington, DC, USA census.

Should investigate Seward papers at U of Rochester.

Library of Congress has some correspondence with Hamilton Fish as part of the latter's archives (LC mm 78020602).

According to family lore, when his brother was captured in the Civil War, RSC negotiated his release into house arrest at RSC's home.

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*1815 03 24 Washington, DC, USA?
+1899 02 23 Washington, DC, USA

Listed in 1880 Census of Washington, DC, USA as widowed, living with sons Robert, John and Walter, sister Louisa and servants Kittie Walker, Caroline Green and Elenora Buckner.

A portrait of her, painted by Charles Bird King, is in the online collection of the Smithsonian, their object #DC990444

Some sources spell her middle name Ringgold.

JJC 10005 had her birth year as 1818.

Buried at Chapel Hill, Lot 538, Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, DC.

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*1862 09 14 Brooklyn NY, USA
+1943 01 05 Norfolk, VA, USA

LDS: R8LZ-3P. Findagrave.com: Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, DC, USA; Chapel Hill Lot 538.

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*1822 10 02 Killingly, Windham Co., CT, USA
+1889 03 23 Washington, DC, USA

1847: Howard C Cady listed as a lawyer at 16 Willow Street in Old Brooklyn Heights in Brooklyn City Directory (and the previous year "near Cranberry").

1849: Howard Cady listed as a lawyer at 41 Joralemon Street in Old Brooklyn Heights in Brooklyn City Directory.

1880: Listed in Washington, DC, USA Census, E.D. 39+40, FHL Film 1254122; Nat'l Arch. Film T9-0122; Page 362C.

LDS: R8LX-XV.

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*1821 08 01 Killingly, Windham Co., CT, USA
+1883 10 13

Possibly born 1821, in NYC, and named Mary Dennison Heard?

LDS: R8LX-Z2.

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