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Elizabeth Wolcott <I>Stites</I> Parker

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Elizabeth Wolcott Stites Parker

Birth
Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia, USA
Death
1 Jan 1907 (aged 79)
Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, USA
Burial
Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, USA GPS-Latitude: 40.7625167, Longitude: -74.1634972
Plot
Section F, Lot 103
Memorial ID
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Mrs. Cortland Parker Dead

Newark, Jan. 2 – Mrs. Elizabeth Wolcott Parker, wife of Cortland [sic] Parker Sr., dean of the New Jersey bar, died yesterday at her home, Broad and Fulton streets, Newark, N. J., after four days' illness with pneumonia. She was in her eightieth year.

Mrs. Parker was an accomplished linguist, and she was noted for her works of charity. She for many years was a manager of the Protestant Foster Home.

The funeral will take place Friday.

~ Trenton Evening Times, Weds., 2 Jan 1907
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PARKER – On Tuesday, Jan. 1, 1907, at her home, 568 Broad St., Newark, N.J., Elisabeth Wolcott, wife of Cortlandt Parker.

Funeral service at Trinity Church, Newark, on Friday, Jan. 4, at 2:30 P.M.

~ New York Times, 4 Jan 1907
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John Cortlandt Parker (VIII, known throughout his business life as Cortlandt Parker), b. 27th June, 1818, at Perth Amboy; d. 29th July, 1907, at Newark, N.J.,; m., at Morristown, N.J., 15th Sept., 1847, Elisabeth Wolcott Stites, b. at Savannah, Ga., 11th Apr. 1927; d. at Newark, N.J., 1st Jan 1907, (dau. of Richard Wayne Stites, b. 24th Nov., 1802, d. 7th July, 1877, m. 31st Aug. 1824, Elizabeth Cooke. He was the son of Richard Montgomery and Mary (Wayne) Stites. Richard Montgomery Stites was the son of Richard Stites, wounded at the Battle of Long Island, d. Sept. 1776, descended from John Stites, b. in England, 1595; d. in Hempstead, L. I., 1717, aetat. 122 years).

~ Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society, 1920
Mrs. Cortland Parker Dead

Newark, Jan. 2 – Mrs. Elizabeth Wolcott Parker, wife of Cortland [sic] Parker Sr., dean of the New Jersey bar, died yesterday at her home, Broad and Fulton streets, Newark, N. J., after four days' illness with pneumonia. She was in her eightieth year.

Mrs. Parker was an accomplished linguist, and she was noted for her works of charity. She for many years was a manager of the Protestant Foster Home.

The funeral will take place Friday.

~ Trenton Evening Times, Weds., 2 Jan 1907
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PARKER – On Tuesday, Jan. 1, 1907, at her home, 568 Broad St., Newark, N.J., Elisabeth Wolcott, wife of Cortlandt Parker.

Funeral service at Trinity Church, Newark, on Friday, Jan. 4, at 2:30 P.M.

~ New York Times, 4 Jan 1907
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John Cortlandt Parker (VIII, known throughout his business life as Cortlandt Parker), b. 27th June, 1818, at Perth Amboy; d. 29th July, 1907, at Newark, N.J.,; m., at Morristown, N.J., 15th Sept., 1847, Elisabeth Wolcott Stites, b. at Savannah, Ga., 11th Apr. 1927; d. at Newark, N.J., 1st Jan 1907, (dau. of Richard Wayne Stites, b. 24th Nov., 1802, d. 7th July, 1877, m. 31st Aug. 1824, Elizabeth Cooke. He was the son of Richard Montgomery and Mary (Wayne) Stites. Richard Montgomery Stites was the son of Richard Stites, wounded at the Battle of Long Island, d. Sept. 1776, descended from John Stites, b. in England, 1595; d. in Hempstead, L. I., 1717, aetat. 122 years).

~ Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society, 1920


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