Moses James McMath
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Son of Henry McMath and Ellen Jackson, husband of Jane Emma Gillette, whom he married on March 22, 1889 in Rosendale, New York. Husband of Zalaide Elma Fitzgerald, whom he married on July 24, 1911, and father of Esmeralda Estella McMath. Moses McMath, aged 20, laborer, sailed from Liverpool, England, to Quebec, Canada, on September 24, 1871 aboard the S.S. Nestorian. In 1880, Moses McMath, aged 29, could be found living in Milford, Oakland, Michigan, working as a laborer. "Moses had the property next to the Gillette family. He married the daughter of Edgar when she was 50 and single and ten years his senior. She died in 1907 and he went on to marry a much younger woman Zalaide, aged 63, and together they had daughter, Esmeralda Estella McMath." -Alida Thorpe Marriage - Sayville, July 25 - One of the popular members of the summer colony here was married yesterday afternoon to a leading business man of the village, and by this union a Brooklyn woman of thirty years becomes the bride of a man just twice her age. It was in the ivy-covered stone chapel of St. Ann's that the Rev. J.H. Prescott, "the marrying parson of Long Island," joined Miss Zalaida E. Fitzgerald, of Brooklyn, to Moses J. McMath in wedlock. The age of the bride is given as thirty years and that of her husband as sixty. Miss Fitzgerald spent a number of happy summers here and will now make this place her permanent home. Her husband is a well-to-do farmer and a member of the Public School Board. Estate - The will of Moses J. McMath, late of Bayport, disposes of an estate valued at $10,000. Zalaide McMath, the widow, and the Patchogue Bank, who ire named as executors and trustees, are given $2,000 in trust, the income to be paid to Kate Shaw, sister, of Bayport, during her life time. The will stipulates that the sister may also be paid as much of the principal as the executors and trustees deem necessary for her support and at her death whatever remains is to be equally divided among the testator's heirs. The executors and trustees are also, given $100, which is to be deposited in a savings bank and the income is to be paid to the Cedar Grove Cemetery Association of Patchogue for the upkeep of the family plot. The residue of the estate is to be equally divided between the widow and the daughter, Esmeralda E. McMath.
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- First: Moses
- Middle: James
- Last: McMath
- DOB: Saturday, 01 June 1850
- DOD: Friday, 04 March 2022
- Location: Cedar Grove Cemetery Jennings Ave Patchogue
- Age: 71
- URL: http://www.individual-it.net
- notes: Son of Henry McMath and Ellen Jackson, husband of Jane Emma Gillette, whom he married on March 22, 1889 in Rosendale, New York. Husband of Zalaide Elma Fitzgerald, whom he married on July 24, 1911, and father of Esmeralda Estella McMath. Moses McMath, aged 20, laborer, sailed from Liverpool, England, to Quebec, Canada, on September 24, 1871 aboard the S.S. Nestorian. In 1880, Moses McMath, aged 29, could be found living in Milford, Oakland, Michigan, working as a laborer. "Moses had the property next to the Gillette family. He married the daughter of Edgar when she was 50 and single and ten years his senior. She died in 1907 and he went on to marry a much younger woman Zalaide, aged 63, and together they had daughter, Esmeralda Estella McMath." -Alida Thorpe Marriage - Sayville, July 25 - One of the popular members of the summer colony here was married yesterday afternoon to a leading business man of the village, and by this union a Brooklyn woman of thirty years becomes the bride of a man just twice her age. It was in the ivy-covered stone chapel of St. Ann's that the Rev. J.H. Prescott, "the marrying parson of Long Island," joined Miss Zalaida E. Fitzgerald, of Brooklyn, to Moses J. McMath in wedlock. The age of the bride is given as thirty years and that of her husband as sixty. Miss Fitzgerald spent a number of happy summers here and will now make this place her permanent home. Her husband is a well-to-do farmer and a member of the Public School Board. Estate - The will of Moses J. McMath, late of Bayport, disposes of an estate valued at $10,000. Zalaide McMath, the widow, and the Patchogue Bank, who ire named as executors and trustees, are given $2,000 in trust, the income to be paid to Kate Shaw, sister, of Bayport, during her life time. The will stipulates that the sister may also be paid as much of the principal as the executors and trustees deem necessary for her support and at her death whatever remains is to be equally divided among the testator's heirs. The executors and trustees are also, given $100, which is to be deposited in a savings bank and the income is to be paid to the Cedar Grove Cemetery Association of Patchogue for the upkeep of the family plot. The residue of the estate is to be equally divided between the widow and the daughter, Esmeralda E. McMath.
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