Mrs. Rochester, nee Evelina Throop Martin, was the widow of James H. Rochester. The daughter of Thaddeus Martin and the former Mehetable Throop, her maternal uncle was New York Governor Enos Thompson Throop, and her older brother the prominent attorney and journalist Enos T. T. Martin.
Born in Johnstown, NY, she was only three years old when her father died. Fortunately, both she and her brother Enos, who was 14 years her senior, found a generous and affectionate father-figure in their distinguished uncle, whose own children had died in infancy. Evelina eventually became the bride of James Rochester, a descendant of the founder of Rochester, NY, but their happiness was cut short by his untimely death. Having been widowed at the relatively young age of 38, she came to live at "Willowbrook", the Throop-Martin estate on Lake Owasco near Auburn. There she joined her own widowed mother, Governor Throop, and her brother Enos' large and lively family, enjoying their company and the society of the many 19th Century luminaries who were their friends and visitors.
By the turn of the 20th Century she was the last of her generation in residence in the family home. Predeceased by her mother, uncle, brother, and sister-in-law, she died in 1907 at the age of 85, joining the husband she had buried 47 years earlier in the Throop-Martin plot. Mrs. Rochester was survived by six of her brother's eleven children, including her namesake, Evelina Throop Martin Alexander, who continued to live at Willowbrook. The estate remained in the family's possession until it was sold and demolished in the 1950's. GRAVE PHOTO: Nikita Barlow
Born in Johnstown, NY, she was only three years old when her father died. Fortunately, both she and her brother Enos, who was 14 years her senior, found a generous and affectionate father-figure in their distinguished uncle, whose own children had died in infancy. Evelina eventually became the bride of James Rochester, a descendant of the founder of Rochester, NY, but their happiness was cut short by his untimely death. Having been widowed at the relatively young age of 38, she came to live at "Willowbrook", the Throop-Martin estate on Lake Owasco near Auburn. There she joined her own widowed mother, Governor Throop, and her brother Enos' large and lively family, enjoying their company and the society of the many 19th Century luminaries who were their friends and visitors.
By the turn of the 20th Century she was the last of her generation in residence in the family home. Predeceased by her mother, uncle, brother, and sister-in-law, she died in 1907 at the age of 85, joining the husband she had buried 47 years earlier in the Throop-Martin plot. Mrs. Rochester was survived by six of her brother's eleven children, including her namesake, Evelina Throop Martin Alexander, who continued to live at Willowbrook. The estate remained in the family's possession until it was sold and demolished in the 1950's. GRAVE PHOTO: Nikita Barlow
Mrs. Rochester, nee Evelina Throop Martin, was the widow of James H. Rochester. The daughter of Thaddeus Martin and the former Mehetable Throop, her maternal uncle was New York Governor Enos Thompson Throop, and her older brother the prominent attorney and journalist Enos T. T. Martin.
Born in Johnstown, NY, she was only three years old when her father died. Fortunately, both she and her brother Enos, who was 14 years her senior, found a generous and affectionate father-figure in their distinguished uncle, whose own children had died in infancy. Evelina eventually became the bride of James Rochester, a descendant of the founder of Rochester, NY, but their happiness was cut short by his untimely death. Having been widowed at the relatively young age of 38, she came to live at "Willowbrook", the Throop-Martin estate on Lake Owasco near Auburn. There she joined her own widowed mother, Governor Throop, and her brother Enos' large and lively family, enjoying their company and the society of the many 19th Century luminaries who were their friends and visitors.
By the turn of the 20th Century she was the last of her generation in residence in the family home. Predeceased by her mother, uncle, brother, and sister-in-law, she died in 1907 at the age of 85, joining the husband she had buried 47 years earlier in the Throop-Martin plot. Mrs. Rochester was survived by six of her brother's eleven children, including her namesake, Evelina Throop Martin Alexander, who continued to live at Willowbrook. The estate remained in the family's possession until it was sold and demolished in the 1950's. GRAVE PHOTO: Nikita Barlow
Born in Johnstown, NY, she was only three years old when her father died. Fortunately, both she and her brother Enos, who was 14 years her senior, found a generous and affectionate father-figure in their distinguished uncle, whose own children had died in infancy. Evelina eventually became the bride of James Rochester, a descendant of the founder of Rochester, NY, but their happiness was cut short by his untimely death. Having been widowed at the relatively young age of 38, she came to live at "Willowbrook", the Throop-Martin estate on Lake Owasco near Auburn. There she joined her own widowed mother, Governor Throop, and her brother Enos' large and lively family, enjoying their company and the society of the many 19th Century luminaries who were their friends and visitors.
By the turn of the 20th Century she was the last of her generation in residence in the family home. Predeceased by her mother, uncle, brother, and sister-in-law, she died in 1907 at the age of 85, joining the husband she had buried 47 years earlier in the Throop-Martin plot. Mrs. Rochester was survived by six of her brother's eleven children, including her namesake, Evelina Throop Martin Alexander, who continued to live at Willowbrook. The estate remained in the family's possession until it was sold and demolished in the 1950's. GRAVE PHOTO: Nikita Barlow
