The Genealogy of David L. Moody & Yvonne L. La Pointe. - Person Sheet
The Genealogy of David L. Moody & Yvonne L. La Pointe. - Person Sheet
Burial27 Feb 1895, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA ®73
MemoGreenwood Cemetery Lot 8485, Section 30
FatherJohn BECKWITH M.D. (1785-1870)
MotherMargaret Cogdell STANLY (1787-1864)
Misc. Notes
Kate Devereaux Beckwith's story is the classic tale of the dutiful daughter who married to pay off the mortgage. Kate Beckwith first met Henry Spalding in New Jersey in 1848. He was thirty-five, A New Yorker and rich; she was an accomplished young southern lady of twenty. They were introduced by mutual friends and Henry thought he had found a wife. Kate, however, was in no hurry to get married, not to Henry Spalding anyhow, and so she rejected him and went back to Petersburg and her family. More than eight years went by before Kate and Henry met again; the second time she was in no position to dismiss his advances. Kate's father, Dr. John Beckwith, had been accused of quackery by the assembled regular physicians of Petersburg. The charges touched off a ferocious dispute. Dr. Beckwith soon tired of fighting, and he retired from the practice of medicine, leaving his large family with very little income. Into the breach stepped the Beckwith women. Kate's mother tried taking in boarders, but had to give it up "as her old fashion-open-house-entertaining was not money-making." Kate, for her part, tried to get some cash out of her accomplishments. She opened a school for young ladies in which she taught piano, voice, guitar, and drawing, and she was apparently a popular teacher. But she, too, failed to make enough to solve the family's continual financial problems. Then in 1856 who should appear but Henry Spalding. Spalding had experienced changes of his own over the eight years past; he had married, fathered three children, and been widowed. But he was still rich. Kate, as she later phrased it "accepted the situation." Kate and Henry were married in early 1857. Henry literally paid off the mortgage, and Kate began a new life in New York, homesick but determined to do her best for her new family. ®2074 On 15 June 1857 she married Henry F. Spalding in Petersburg City, Virginia and they returned to live in Henry’s home in Manhattan, New York. ®2752 Her mother died in Petersburg in 1864, and in 1865, Dr. Beckwith and his daughters Cornelia and Nancy went to live with Henry and Katherine Spalding, at Riverdale (now The Bronx), NY. ®134 ®2074 Dr. Beckwith died in 1870. On 1 June 1880 Henry S. Spalding, lived in New York City between Riverdale Avenue and the Hudson River. He was age 60, had been born in Vermont, as had both his parents, and was President of the Central Trust Company. He lived with his wife, Kate D., age 51, born in North Carolina, and no children. Boarding with them were Kate’s sisters, Cornelia Beckwith, age 30, born in North Carolina, and Nancy C. Beckwith, age 25, born in North Carolina. ®2734 “Katherine Devereux Beckwith, daughter of Dr. John Beckwith and the former Margaret Cogdell Stanly, was born in New Bern, North Carolina in 1828. Dr. Beckwith was one of the commissioners for building the capitol in Raleigh, North Carolina; which was completed in 1840. On July 19, 1857, Katherine Beckwith married Henry
Foster Spaulding, a widower with three small children: Thomas, Margaret and Rose; whom Katherine raised as her own. Katherine Devereux Beckwith Spaulding departed this life on Monday, February 25th 1895 at her residence at 628 Fifth Avenue Manhattan. Her funeral was held at St. Thomas Episcopal Church at 5th Avenue and 53rd Street on the morning of February 27th with Rev. John Wesley Brown, officiating. She was laid to rest beside her late husband, Henry, F. Spaulding at Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn.” ®73
Foster Spaulding, a widower with three small children: Thomas, Margaret and Rose; whom Katherine raised as her own. Katherine Devereux Beckwith Spaulding departed this life on Monday, February 25th 1895 at her residence at 628 Fifth Avenue Manhattan. Her funeral was held at St. Thomas Episcopal Church at 5th Avenue and 53rd Street on the morning of February 27th with Rev. John Wesley Brown, officiating. She was laid to rest beside her late husband, Henry, F. Spaulding at Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn.” ®73
Spouses
Death17 Jul 1893, Riverdale, Bronx County, New York, USA ®2762
Burial19 Jul 1893, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA ®73
MemoGreenwood Cemetery Lot 8485, Section 30
FatherSamuel Brown SPAULDING (1789-1878)
MotherAnne GRAY (1790-1841)
Misc. Notes
He lived in Riverdale, New York. ®135 ®134On 1 June 1880 Henry S. Spalding, lived in New York City between Riverdale Avenue and the Hudson River. He was age 60, had been born in Vermont, as had both his parents, and was President of the Central Trust Company. He lived with his wife, Kate D., age 51, born in North Carolina, and no children. Boarding with them were Kate’s sisters, Cornelia Beckwith, age 30, born in North Carolina, and Nancy C. Beckwith, age 25, born in North Carolina. Also boarding with them were Margaret Schley, 27, born in New York, her children Henry S. Schley, age 2, New York, and James M., 11 months, New York, and 7 servants. ®2734 “Henry Foster Spaulding, merchant, banker and financial advisor, was born in Brandon, Vermont on April 24th 1817 and died July 17th 1893 at his summer home in Riverdale-on-the-Hudson. Henry F. Spaulding was universally regarded in business and social circles in New York City.
Henry Spaulding was a son of Samuel Browne Spaulding and Anne [née Grey] Spaulding. Henry moved to New York City at the age of fifteen, with less than $20 of capital. He sought employment from store to store and found it in the house of Clark, Weyman & Co., importers of woolen goods. Having thus secured a foothold, he rose by unsparing labor from one position to another. About 1850, his name appeared in the title of the firm, which then became Weyman, Spaulding & Co. When the firm reorganized as Spaulding, Vail & Fuller, the clerk had at last risen to the head of a house into whose employment he had entered a poor lad. Owing to changes in the partnership, the house was known later as Spaulding, Hunt & Co., and Spaulding, Swift & Co.
Mr. Spaulding was the first president of The Central Trust Co., and held the office for eight years. His salary went entirely to charity. He remained a director the rest of his life and was also a director of The Continental Insurance Co. and The Mechanics' National Bank and a member of the Chamber of Commerce and of the Committee of Seventy. The stone upon which the bronze statue of Washington stands at the Sub-Treasury building is the identical one, upon which Washington stood at his first inauguration. It was traced and rescued by Mr. Spaulding from a place in the walls of Bellevue Hospital. He was exceedingly philanthropic and served as treasurer of the fund for the pedestal of Bartholdi's statue of Liberty, president of The Home for Incurables and Commissioner for Appraisal of Lands for the new Croton Aqueduct, and belonged to the Century, Manhattan, Reform, Country and Down Town clubs and New England Society, and aided in the support of the public museums of the city.
In 1850, he married Rose Thompson, of Penn's Manor, Pennsylvania, who died four years afterward. Of their three children, two survived to adulthood, Thomas Hunt Spaulding and Margaret Thompson, wife of Dr. James Montfort Schley. In 1857, he married Miss Katherine Devereux Beckwith, of Petersburg, Virginia. There were no children born to this union.”
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Henry Spaulding was a son of Samuel Browne Spaulding and Anne [née Grey] Spaulding. Henry moved to New York City at the age of fifteen, with less than $20 of capital. He sought employment from store to store and found it in the house of Clark, Weyman & Co., importers of woolen goods. Having thus secured a foothold, he rose by unsparing labor from one position to another. About 1850, his name appeared in the title of the firm, which then became Weyman, Spaulding & Co. When the firm reorganized as Spaulding, Vail & Fuller, the clerk had at last risen to the head of a house into whose employment he had entered a poor lad. Owing to changes in the partnership, the house was known later as Spaulding, Hunt & Co., and Spaulding, Swift & Co.
Mr. Spaulding was the first president of The Central Trust Co., and held the office for eight years. His salary went entirely to charity. He remained a director the rest of his life and was also a director of The Continental Insurance Co. and The Mechanics' National Bank and a member of the Chamber of Commerce and of the Committee of Seventy. The stone upon which the bronze statue of Washington stands at the Sub-Treasury building is the identical one, upon which Washington stood at his first inauguration. It was traced and rescued by Mr. Spaulding from a place in the walls of Bellevue Hospital. He was exceedingly philanthropic and served as treasurer of the fund for the pedestal of Bartholdi's statue of Liberty, president of The Home for Incurables and Commissioner for Appraisal of Lands for the new Croton Aqueduct, and belonged to the Century, Manhattan, Reform, Country and Down Town clubs and New England Society, and aided in the support of the public museums of the city.
In 1850, he married Rose Thompson, of Penn's Manor, Pennsylvania, who died four years afterward. Of their three children, two survived to adulthood, Thomas Hunt Spaulding and Margaret Thompson, wife of Dr. James Montfort Schley. In 1857, he married Miss Katherine Devereux Beckwith, of Petersburg, Virginia. There were no children born to this union.”
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