Daughter of Ira Davenport and Lydia Cameron
Eliza Davenport married Joshua W. Waterman, son of Thomas Glasby Waterman and Pamela Whitney, on 4 July 1849, in Bath, NY. After Eliza's death, he married her sister, Fanny Davenport (18 Sep 1833-6 Nov 1881). Joshua Waterman was born 31 Dec 1824, Binghamton, NY and died 24 June 1892, in Detroit, MI.
Known children:
Ira Davenport Waterman
Cameron Davenport Waterman
Pamela Whitney Waterman (m. Ernest T. Tappey)
Thomas Glasby Waterman
Per contributor T. Taylor:
Eliza and Fanny's aunt, Elizabeth Cameron (sister of their mother, Lydia Cameron who m. Ira Davenport) married Franklin Whitney, son of Joshua Whitney. Franklin Whitney was also the brother of Pamela Whitney (m. Thomas Waterman), parents of Joshua Whitney Waterman.
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The Veiled Lady
When Joshua Waterman's wife died, he commissioned world famed scuptor Randolph Rogers, a native of Ann Arbor, to carve a 12-foot Carrara marble bas-relief in 1876 as a memorial. It is a mesmerizing piece, with a woman who appears to be neither in heaven nor in earth, but somewhere in between, her face covered with a delicate veil that seems to float on the wind of her urgent flight. Is she trying to tell us something? Is she resisting her plight? The history of the gravestone's passage feeds the lore. Created in Italy, the sculpture was shipped from Rome but lost at sea when the ship sank near Spain. It was salvaged two years later, only to fall off another ship on the Hudson River.
Retrieved again, it was finally put in place at Elmwood, but toppled and broke during a fierce storm in 1919. Reassembled but flawed, she seems more an enigma than ever.
From The Detroit News, 30 Apr 1995
Eliza Davenport married Joshua W. Waterman, son of Thomas Glasby Waterman and Pamela Whitney, on 4 July 1849, in Bath, NY. After Eliza's death, he married her sister, Fanny Davenport (18 Sep 1833-6 Nov 1881). Joshua Waterman was born 31 Dec 1824, Binghamton, NY and died 24 June 1892, in Detroit, MI.
Known children:
Ira Davenport Waterman
Cameron Davenport Waterman
Pamela Whitney Waterman (m. Ernest T. Tappey)
Thomas Glasby Waterman
Per contributor T. Taylor:
Eliza and Fanny's aunt, Elizabeth Cameron (sister of their mother, Lydia Cameron who m. Ira Davenport) married Franklin Whitney, son of Joshua Whitney. Franklin Whitney was also the brother of Pamela Whitney (m. Thomas Waterman), parents of Joshua Whitney Waterman.
***************
The Veiled Lady
When Joshua Waterman's wife died, he commissioned world famed scuptor Randolph Rogers, a native of Ann Arbor, to carve a 12-foot Carrara marble bas-relief in 1876 as a memorial. It is a mesmerizing piece, with a woman who appears to be neither in heaven nor in earth, but somewhere in between, her face covered with a delicate veil that seems to float on the wind of her urgent flight. Is she trying to tell us something? Is she resisting her plight? The history of the gravestone's passage feeds the lore. Created in Italy, the sculpture was shipped from Rome but lost at sea when the ship sank near Spain. It was salvaged two years later, only to fall off another ship on the Hudson River.
Retrieved again, it was finally put in place at Elmwood, but toppled and broke during a fierce storm in 1919. Reassembled but flawed, she seems more an enigma than ever.
From The Detroit News, 30 Apr 1995
Daughter of Ira Davenport and Lydia Cameron
Eliza Davenport married Joshua W. Waterman, son of Thomas Glasby Waterman and Pamela Whitney, on 4 July 1849, in Bath, NY. After Eliza's death, he married her sister, Fanny Davenport (18 Sep 1833-6 Nov 1881). Joshua Waterman was born 31 Dec 1824, Binghamton, NY and died 24 June 1892, in Detroit, MI.
Known children:
Ira Davenport Waterman
Cameron Davenport Waterman
Pamela Whitney Waterman (m. Ernest T. Tappey)
Thomas Glasby Waterman
Per contributor T. Taylor:
Eliza and Fanny's aunt, Elizabeth Cameron (sister of their mother, Lydia Cameron who m. Ira Davenport) married Franklin Whitney, son of Joshua Whitney. Franklin Whitney was also the brother of Pamela Whitney (m. Thomas Waterman), parents of Joshua Whitney Waterman.
***************
The Veiled Lady
When Joshua Waterman's wife died, he commissioned world famed scuptor Randolph Rogers, a native of Ann Arbor, to carve a 12-foot Carrara marble bas-relief in 1876 as a memorial. It is a mesmerizing piece, with a woman who appears to be neither in heaven nor in earth, but somewhere in between, her face covered with a delicate veil that seems to float on the wind of her urgent flight. Is she trying to tell us something? Is she resisting her plight? The history of the gravestone's passage feeds the lore. Created in Italy, the sculpture was shipped from Rome but lost at sea when the ship sank near Spain. It was salvaged two years later, only to fall off another ship on the Hudson River.
Retrieved again, it was finally put in place at Elmwood, but toppled and broke during a fierce storm in 1919. Reassembled but flawed, she seems more an enigma than ever.
From The Detroit News, 30 Apr 1995
Eliza Davenport married Joshua W. Waterman, son of Thomas Glasby Waterman and Pamela Whitney, on 4 July 1849, in Bath, NY. After Eliza's death, he married her sister, Fanny Davenport (18 Sep 1833-6 Nov 1881). Joshua Waterman was born 31 Dec 1824, Binghamton, NY and died 24 June 1892, in Detroit, MI.
Known children:
Ira Davenport Waterman
Cameron Davenport Waterman
Pamela Whitney Waterman (m. Ernest T. Tappey)
Thomas Glasby Waterman
Per contributor T. Taylor:
Eliza and Fanny's aunt, Elizabeth Cameron (sister of their mother, Lydia Cameron who m. Ira Davenport) married Franklin Whitney, son of Joshua Whitney. Franklin Whitney was also the brother of Pamela Whitney (m. Thomas Waterman), parents of Joshua Whitney Waterman.
***************
The Veiled Lady
When Joshua Waterman's wife died, he commissioned world famed scuptor Randolph Rogers, a native of Ann Arbor, to carve a 12-foot Carrara marble bas-relief in 1876 as a memorial. It is a mesmerizing piece, with a woman who appears to be neither in heaven nor in earth, but somewhere in between, her face covered with a delicate veil that seems to float on the wind of her urgent flight. Is she trying to tell us something? Is she resisting her plight? The history of the gravestone's passage feeds the lore. Created in Italy, the sculpture was shipped from Rome but lost at sea when the ship sank near Spain. It was salvaged two years later, only to fall off another ship on the Hudson River.
Retrieved again, it was finally put in place at Elmwood, but toppled and broke during a fierce storm in 1919. Reassembled but flawed, she seems more an enigma than ever.
From The Detroit News, 30 Apr 1995
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