Mary Jane Troup

(28 March 1877 - 30 July 1914)
Pedigree - three generations
Date this page was last edited=14 Jan 2017
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Descendants of John Troup (b. about 1772)
Mary Jane Troup, 18 years old
Mary Jane Troup was born on 28 March 1877 in Unionville (now Hawthorne), Westchester County, New York.1,2 She was the daughter of Charles Robert Troup and Rachel Amelia Walpole.

Mary Jane Troup appears in a family photograph taken about 1885. She was baptized on 5 January 1890 as an adult, probably in the Katonah Methodist Church.3 She resided with Frank and Eva DeVoe on Bank Street, White Plains, Westchester County, New York.4

Mary Jane Troup appeared on the census of 22 April 1910 at 24 Bank Street, White Plains, Westchester County, New York, in the household of her mother.5

Mary Jane Troup was a stenographer according to the 1910 census.5 She was a secretary in New York, New York.4,6 Frank Kenneth DeVoe remembered her as a lovely, gentle, settled person (whereas her sister Rae had a nervous disposition.)4

Mary Jane Troup died on 30 July 1914 in Katonah, Westchester County, New York, at age 37.7,8 She was buried on 1 August 1914 in lot 1350 (Walpole plot), Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, Westchester County, New York.9,7,10

Citations

  1. [S6] Family records from a very large bible belonging to Mrs. Charles Robert Troup.
  2. [S5] Bible presumably belonging to Walpole family.
  3. [S248] Note in Marion DeVoe's possession when she died in 1986.
  4. [S178] Telephone interview, Frank Kenneth DeVoe, 1 November 1992.
  5. [S258] Rachel R. Troup household, 1910 U.S. census, Westchester County, New York, White Plains, 2nd ward, enumeration district 131.
  6. [S262] Taped interview, Frank Kenneth DeVoe, probably 26 December 1992.
  7. [S232] Gravestone inscriptions, lot 1350, Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, New York.
  8. [S1043] Katonah Record, 6 aug 1914, 1.
  9. [S231] Record of Interments, Lot 1350, Kensico Cemetery, Vahalla, New York.
  10. [S849] Find A Grave memorial page for Mary Jane Troup (1877 - 1914).

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