Reeve, Esther

Summary

Father: Benjamin Reeve
Mother: Joanna Corwin

Birth: c1818, New York
Birth Source: Census

Death: 29 Sep 1901, home of daughter, Southold, New York
Death Source: Obituary, Headstone

Spouse1: Silas H. Clark

Narrative

Children of Silas H. Clark and Esther Reeve:

1. Mary H. Clark, b. c1844, m. F. Asbury Tuthill

Times Union (Brooklyn, New York), 5 Oct 1901
Mrs. Esther Clark, one of Mattituck’s oldest citizens, died last Sunday, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. F. Asbury Tuthill, in the eighty-third year of her age. She had been a widow for nearly fifty years, her husband, Silas H. Clark, having died in 1852, leaving her with four little children. She bravely met her responsibilities, and lived to see her children’s children, and her children’s children’s children. She was laid to rest beside the husband of her youth, in the old burying ground, amid her ancestors or six generations.
The day of her burial, Tuesday last, was the ninetieth birthday of her sister, Mrs, Bethiah Cox. Mrs. Cox is now the only survivor of the ten children of Benjamin and Joanna (Corwin) Reeve. Like many or her ancestors in the Reeve, Corwin, Hubbard and Mapes families, she lives to see a good, old age. Her mind is clear and active, her sight and hearing remarkably good, and she is dearly loved and cherished by her children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren great-great-grandchildren, and by hosts of friends.

Research Notes

Sources

Death:        Obituary, Times Union (Brooklyn, New York), 5 Oct 1901
Burial:       Findagrave - Mattituck Presbyterian Burying Ground, Mattituck, Suffolk County, New York

1850 Census:  Southold, Suffolk County, New York
1860 Census:  
1870 Census:  Southold, Suffolk County, New York (Asbury Tuthill HOH)
1880 Census:  Mattituck, Suffolk County, New York (Asbury Tuthill HOH)
1900 Census:  Southold, Suffolk County, New York (Asbury Tuthill HOH)