Notes for Mary Adelaid MCNARY
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle-Thursday, June 6, 1895
Marriages
Ramsey-McNary
At the Embury Memorial M.E. church yesterday afternoon, at 2 o’clock, Miss Mary Adelaide McNary, daughter of Mrs. Josephine McNary, was married to the Rev. David W. Clark Ramsey. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Dr. W.W. Bowdish, pastor of the church. The best man was Frank Ramsey, brother of the groom, and the ushers were the Rev. G.W. Downes, the Rev. C.L. Mead, the Rev. A.A. Anderson and C. Herbert McNary, brother of the bride. The maid of honor was Miss Sarah J. McNary, sister of the bride, who wore a gown of white mousseline desole of silk and carried Bon Silene roses. The bride was attired in white satin and carried bride roses. Her fail of tulle was caught with a spray of orange blossoms. A reception followed the ceremony, at the Quincy parlors. The groom is the pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church at West Heverstraw and, on their return from a brief tour, the Rev. Mr. and Mrs.Ramsey will take up their residence at that place.
(C. Herbert McNary and Sarah J. McNary (Crawford) were aunt and uncle to the bride)
Brooklyn Eagle, Thursday, Dec. 7, 1943
Death notice and obituary
Rites Tomorrow for Mrs. Ramsay
Daughter of General
Was Native of Brooklyn
South Orange, J.J., Dec 7-Funeral services will be conducted here tomorrow for Mrs. Mary Adelaide Ramsay, native of Brooklyn, and daughter of a famous Brooklyn Civil War officer, Brig. Gen. William H. McNary, who was in Europe when the war broke out and came home to lead the 23rd Regiment into battle. Her mother was the former Josephine Dobbs. Mrs. Ramsay died yesterday.
She was 76 and the widow of the Rev. Dr. W.C. Ramsay. She lived in one of the oldest houses in Brooklyn at Pearl and Tillary sts., part of which still stands.
She was educated in Brooklyn, France and Germany, and was graduated from Queens College, Cambridge, England. Mrs.Ramsay is survived by a son, Clarke McNary Ramsay of Fairfield Conn., and a daughter, Mrs. W. Roderick Wheeler of South Orange. Burial will be in Cypress Hills Cemetery, Brooklyn.
Obituary same date same page:
Ramsey-Mary Adelaide, age 76, on December 6, 1943, daughter of the late Brig. Gen. and Mrs. William H. McNary. Funeral services on Wednesday, South Orange, N.J. Interment Cypress Hills Cemetery, Brooklyn.
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