Marianna Seaman
F, b. 20 April 1810, d. 15 October 1831
Marianna was born on Friday, 20 April 1810 in Manhattan, New York County, New York, at the family home at 90 Beekman Street. She was the daughter of Dr. Valentine Seaman and Anna Ferris. Marianna married George W. Middlebrook on 3 April 1828 in New York City.1 Marianna departed this life on Saturday, 15 October 1831 in New York City at her mother's home at 101E. Broadway at age 21 years, 5 months and 25 days.
Death Notice - On the evening of 15th inst. in thr 22nd yearof her age, Marianna S. wife of Geo. L. Middlebrook, and daughter of the late Dr. Valentine Seaman. Her friends and those of her family are respectfully invited to attend her funeral this afternoon at 3 o’clock, from the residence of her mother, No. 101 East Broadway.[The Evening Post Monday October 17, 1831]
She was buried there in the Friend's Burying Ground on North Street on Monday, 17 October 1831.2
Death Notice - On the evening of 15th inst. in thr 22nd yearof her age, Marianna S. wife of Geo. L. Middlebrook, and daughter of the late Dr. Valentine Seaman. Her friends and those of her family are respectfully invited to attend her funeral this afternoon at 3 o’clock, from the residence of her mother, No. 101 East Broadway.[The Evening Post Monday October 17, 1831]
She was buried there in the Friend's Burying Ground on North Street on Monday, 17 October 1831.2
Citations
- [S516] Gertrude A. Barber, Marriages Taken From the New York Evening Post, Last Eve George L. Middlebrook merchant, Marianna dau Dr. Valentine Seaman dec'd all of this city [New York Evening Post - Friday, 4 April 1828].
- [S1240] Elizabeth Seaman Leggett, My Book of Life for my grandson, Augustus Ives - 1 April 1888
, page 57 - The Ferris family “burying ground” this is the way they were designated, has received, far before the Revolutionary War, the departed of the Ferris family. My grandparents lie there, John and Myannah Ferris, my own mother, brother Percival Seaman, but my brother Doctor William F. Seaman and my sister Marianna Middle brook were buried in North Street - the bodies or as much as could be fathered of them were taken a few years ago to Greenwood, the society of friends burying ground attached to Greenwood Cemetery but as no one knows of a single dear one.