Middleton Daily Argus, March 30, 1897 - The funeral of the late Mrs. Emily Rawlins Wait was held, yesterday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock from the residence of Miss Sarah J. Smith,on Church street. The interment was at Phillipsburgh. (Note: Church Street is at Goshen, NY)
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She was the daughter of General John Aaron Rawlins and his first wife Emily Smith Rawlins, ward of President U.S. Grant, and wife of Dr. Wesley Wait, inventor and dentist. She had one daughter Lucille Rawlins Wait Bull. She lost her mother at age one, her father went to the Civil War with U.S. Grant and left her with her mother's people at Goshen, New York. In 1869, her father died, while serving as Secretary of War in U.S. Grant's first administration, leaving her and her two siblings orphans. The Rawlins Fund was established for the benefit of the orphans and the widow. President U.S. Grant and their stepmother Mary E. Hurlburt Rawlins became their guardians. For some time they resided with their step-mother, Mary E. Hurlburt Rawlins at Danbury, Connecticut until her remarriage to Charles F. Daniels, a New York music professor. After she and her sister were sent to Seaside Seminary, Augusta Smith's boarding school at Southport, CT, U.S. Grant contacted her mother's people and in 1872, they were sent west with their uncle Wm. D. Rawlins of Chicago to live at Anamosa, Iowa with the Sheeans. In about 1873, both sisters returned to their maternal grandmother and aunt's home at Goshen, where they lived until their marriages. By 1874, her stepmother was deceased from TB. She died in 1897 at Newburgh, NY, her residence on the Hudson River. The funeral service was conducted at Goshen, NY at the home of her aunt Sarah Jane Smith. Her grave is located near her mother's grave and the grave of her older brother who died in 1917, near other Smith family burials at Wallkill cemetery near Goshen, New York. Her husband Dr. Wait and daughter Lucille Wait Bull and grandchildren are buried at Cedar Hill Cemetery at Newburgh.
Additional Information:
She was the daughter of General John Aaron Rawlins and his first wife Emily Smith Rawlins, ward of President U.S. Grant, and wife of Dr. Wesley Wait, inventor and dentist. She had one daughter Lucille Rawlins Wait Bull. She lost her mother at age one, her father went to the Civil War with U.S. Grant and left her with her mother's people at Goshen, New York. In 1869, her father died, while serving as Secretary of War in U.S. Grant's first administration, leaving her and her two siblings orphans. The Rawlins Fund was established for the benefit of the orphans and the widow. President U.S. Grant and their stepmother Mary E. Hurlburt Rawlins became their guardians. For some time they resided with their step-mother, Mary E. Hurlburt Rawlins at Danbury, Connecticut until her remarriage to Charles F. Daniels, a New York music professor. After she and her sister were sent to Seaside Seminary, Augusta Smith's boarding school at Southport, CT, U.S. Grant contacted her mother's people and in 1872, they were sent west with their uncle Wm. D. Rawlins of Chicago to live at Anamosa, Iowa with the Sheeans. In about 1873, both sisters returned to their maternal grandmother and aunt's home at Goshen, where they lived until their marriages. By 1874, her stepmother was deceased from TB. She died in 1897 at Newburgh, NY, her residence on the Hudson River. The funeral service was conducted at Goshen, NY at the home of her aunt Sarah Jane Smith. Her grave is located near her mother's grave and the grave of her older brother who died in 1917, near other Smith family burials at Wallkill cemetery near Goshen, New York. Her husband Dr. Wait and daughter Lucille Wait Bull and grandchildren are buried at Cedar Hill Cemetery at Newburgh.
Middleton Daily Argus, March 30, 1897 - The funeral of the late Mrs. Emily Rawlins Wait was held, yesterday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock from the residence of Miss Sarah J. Smith,on Church street. The interment was at Phillipsburgh. (Note: Church Street is at Goshen, NY)
Additional Information:
She was the daughter of General John Aaron Rawlins and his first wife Emily Smith Rawlins, ward of President U.S. Grant, and wife of Dr. Wesley Wait, inventor and dentist. She had one daughter Lucille Rawlins Wait Bull. She lost her mother at age one, her father went to the Civil War with U.S. Grant and left her with her mother's people at Goshen, New York. In 1869, her father died, while serving as Secretary of War in U.S. Grant's first administration, leaving her and her two siblings orphans. The Rawlins Fund was established for the benefit of the orphans and the widow. President U.S. Grant and their stepmother Mary E. Hurlburt Rawlins became their guardians. For some time they resided with their step-mother, Mary E. Hurlburt Rawlins at Danbury, Connecticut until her remarriage to Charles F. Daniels, a New York music professor. After she and her sister were sent to Seaside Seminary, Augusta Smith's boarding school at Southport, CT, U.S. Grant contacted her mother's people and in 1872, they were sent west with their uncle Wm. D. Rawlins of Chicago to live at Anamosa, Iowa with the Sheeans. In about 1873, both sisters returned to their maternal grandmother and aunt's home at Goshen, where they lived until their marriages. By 1874, her stepmother was deceased from TB. She died in 1897 at Newburgh, NY, her residence on the Hudson River. The funeral service was conducted at Goshen, NY at the home of her aunt Sarah Jane Smith. Her grave is located near her mother's grave and the grave of her older brother who died in 1917, near other Smith family burials at Wallkill cemetery near Goshen, New York. Her husband Dr. Wait and daughter Lucille Wait Bull and grandchildren are buried at Cedar Hill Cemetery at Newburgh.
Additional Information:
She was the daughter of General John Aaron Rawlins and his first wife Emily Smith Rawlins, ward of President U.S. Grant, and wife of Dr. Wesley Wait, inventor and dentist. She had one daughter Lucille Rawlins Wait Bull. She lost her mother at age one, her father went to the Civil War with U.S. Grant and left her with her mother's people at Goshen, New York. In 1869, her father died, while serving as Secretary of War in U.S. Grant's first administration, leaving her and her two siblings orphans. The Rawlins Fund was established for the benefit of the orphans and the widow. President U.S. Grant and their stepmother Mary E. Hurlburt Rawlins became their guardians. For some time they resided with their step-mother, Mary E. Hurlburt Rawlins at Danbury, Connecticut until her remarriage to Charles F. Daniels, a New York music professor. After she and her sister were sent to Seaside Seminary, Augusta Smith's boarding school at Southport, CT, U.S. Grant contacted her mother's people and in 1872, they were sent west with their uncle Wm. D. Rawlins of Chicago to live at Anamosa, Iowa with the Sheeans. In about 1873, both sisters returned to their maternal grandmother and aunt's home at Goshen, where they lived until their marriages. By 1874, her stepmother was deceased from TB. She died in 1897 at Newburgh, NY, her residence on the Hudson River. The funeral service was conducted at Goshen, NY at the home of her aunt Sarah Jane Smith. Her grave is located near her mother's grave and the grave of her older brother who died in 1917, near other Smith family burials at Wallkill cemetery near Goshen, New York. Her husband Dr. Wait and daughter Lucille Wait Bull and grandchildren are buried at Cedar Hill Cemetery at Newburgh.
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