Barrett, Mary Elizabeth (b. 7 SEP 1837, d. 14 JUN 1842)

Note: !Mary Elizabeth Barrett died of a whooping cough seizure, one month following her mother's death. SOURCE: (1)Katharine Barrett Kelly

Death: 14 JUN 1842 Bedford, Westchester Co., NY

Burial: Buxton Cemetery, Bedford, NY

Reference: 405

Note: !Joseph Barrett was born on Broad Brook Road. He attended Bedford Academy and
graduated from Lafayette College, Easton, PA in 1861, a member of Delta Kappa
Epsilon fraternity. He was a farmer and School Commissioner when he married
Emma Robertson. Joseph was interested in politics and when Moses W. Fisk did
not run for Supervisor of the Town of Bedford in 1879, Joseph did, and was
elected. He was Supervisor until 1885. He became cashier of the New York City
Custom House in 1885, to which he was appointed by William H. Robertson. This
meant a daily trip to the City. Trains had arrived in Northern Westchester
County in 1847, soon after Joseph and Emma were born. Joseph was president of
the Katonah Improvement Society. He was a member of the Bedford Farmers Club,
which was organized in March 1852, and he was it's Secretary from 1867-1881.
He was Treasurer of the State Reformatory for Women at Bedford. He was a
Presbyterian and a Republican. In 1883-1884 he wrote chapters for "Town of
Bedford and Town of New Castle and North Castle" for J. Thomas Scharf's
1885-1886 two volume "History of Westchester County, N.Y." At the age of 50,
commuting to the City and farming became more and more difficult, and since
the boys were older and in school, in 1889 they sold the Robertson Homestead
and bought the Moses Smith Deer Park farm in Katonah of 45 acres for $4560.
A beautiful old house, it was taken away from them in 1895 by New York City to
be used as the home for the City Engineer. The Katonah firemen burned it to
the ground when Route 35 was widened at old Route 22 and Route 35. Life in the
Deer Park Farm was busy, with more community affairs -- music, church, and
learning. From here the two younger boys walked to the Palmer Avenue School,
and when that burned in 1894, the Silkmill. Rob must have gone to the new
North Street School, the first building in New Katonah. Joseph Barrett was
President of the Katonah Village Improvemant Society, interested in the Choral
Club, and Treasurer of the Reformatory for Women in Bedford. He was Rev.
Joseph H. Eastman's right and sometimes left hand in the management of the
Katonah Presbyterian Church as Trustee, Treasurer, Superintendent of the Sunday
School, and Elder for 31 years. All were interested in the New Village -- the
parks, roads, fire department, new stores and homes. Joseph bought a lot next
to the Presbyterian Church and built their new home in 1898. Marty Griffin
says he remembers Joseph well. He used to have peppermints in his pockets for
his grandchildren. He loved to have his hair and beard combed. And on
Thanksgiving Day, the whole family assembled at his home on Edgemont Road. He
became Receiving Teller in the Cashier's Officer and resigned in 1905. Still
Treasurer of the Reformatory until his death, he joined his sons in local real
estate, developing Robertson Heights on the east, and Cottage Place, Valley and
Glen Roads on the west of the tracks. His health began to fail and
hemorrhaging took its toll. In hopes that a change would help, Joseph, Emma
and Elizabeth went to Atlantic City, where he died at 2 p.m. on Sunday, 13
March 1910. Joseph was a tall, thin man, kind, but stern.
1850 - U.S. Census Bedford - aged 10 with father
1860 - U.S. Census Bedford - aged 20 with father, a student at college
1870 - U.S. Census Bedford - aged 28, School Commissioner with wife and two
children living with Henry Robertson of Cantatoe
Road
1880 - U.S. Census Bedford - aged 40, married with family living with Henry
Robertson
The Barrett home on Edgemont Road was purchased by the First Presbyterian
Church of Katonah in September 1958 and is used as their parsonage.

SOURCE: (1)Katharine Barrett Kelly.
See historial Sketch of Town of Bedford Delivered by Joseph Barrett, Esq.
at the forth of July Celebration of Katonah, 1876, for a very informative
reitation of the history of Bedford

Death: 13 MAR 1910 Atlantic City, Atlantic, NJ

Burial: Union Cemetery, Bedford, NY

Reference: 406

Note: !Emma Robertson(4) was born in the Robertson Homestead on Cantatoe Road, the
youngest of 5 children. She attended the local Cantatoe School. Also when
young girls, Emma and her sister Marietta were given additional lessons from a
male French teacher, who boarded with them. They attended school in New York
City boarding with uncle Sherwood's family. On Emma's 18th birthday in 1859,
her brother William gave her an alarm clock, the first in the household. Emma
received her license to teach from School Commissioner James W. Husted and
taught in the Mt. Holly School on North Salem Road, a Bedford District. This
school building existed until the 1960s. Emma was a beautiful, tall, slim girl
with brown hair and gray-brown eyes. The Robertsons provided their own
household with meat, vegetables, milk, candles, soap and wove their own
clothing and sheets from home-grown flax. It was an early-to-bed and early-
to-rise living. She and Joseph Barrett were married by Rev. Richard Harris.
After Joseph died in 1910 Emma, Elizabeth, and Rob were living at home.
After Rob's marriage in 1913 and the death of Anna, Harry's wife, in February
1914, Emma found herself with grandchildren Henry 13, Emily 11, Jack and Jill
8, and Dorothy 5. Katonah was their home until after December 1925 when Harry
remarried. Emma, at 72 plus, started again to shape children into adults. In
Katonah at this time was her son Will and his 6, son E. Percy and his 2. Rob
was in Yonkers with one. To grandma were born 19 grandchildren; 3 died young
and as of Dec 1974 there were 10. Emma may not have been a politician, but she
contributed to the Grand Old Party four civic-minded sons. She last voted,
from a wheelchair, for Herbert Hoover at the age of 91 in November 1932. She
She died on Edgemont Road, aged 92.

SOURCE: (1) Katharine Barrett Kelly

Death: 16 NOV 1933 Katonah, Bedford Twsp, NY

Burial: Union Cemetery, Bedford, NY

Reference: 61

Note: !Elizabeth Nexsen Barrett, Aunt Libbie, was born on the Robertson Cantatoe Road
homestead. She attended the Cantatoe school and Blair Academy in Blairstown,
NJ. She never married, and if she had lived in our time, she would have been
Governor of New York State. She had a keen, brilliant mind. A loveable and
remarkable person, her life was people, whether her family, neighbor or one in
a foreign land. She did not nag or preach -- it was her warm personality. She
was always ready to one in need, ill, or just a newcomer to our village. She
was there, first with a homemade cookie or an encouraging word. She worked for
the Presbyterian Church, Katonah V.I.S., Westchester Bible Society, Missionary
Society, District Nurse, anyone who needed help but not for public notice. She
died at Brookside Nursing Home in South Salem on Monday, her 91st birthday, 17
November 1958. A Bible Scholars Memorial was set up in her name at the Katonah
Library.

SOURCE: (1) Katherine Barrett Kelly.

Death: 17 NOV 1958 Katonah, Bedford Twsp, NY

Burial: Union Cemetery, Bedford, NY

Reference: 607

Note: !Henry Robertson Barrett was educated at Cantatoe School, Bedford Academy,
Blair Academy, Lafayette College Class of 1890. He was admitted to the Bar in
1892 and received his M.A. in 1893. He completed the first store building in
New Katonah as an investment in 1896. He also worked on the last legal cases
in the moving of Old Katonah. He was a Presbyterian, Republican leader,
lawyer, and public servant. He was interested in the White Plains Hospital,
Roger Smith Hotel and Daily Reporter. He resided in Katonah and White Plains.
He died aged 70.

SOURCE: (1) Katherine Barrett Kelly.

Death: 4 FEB 1940 White Plains, Westchester, NY

Burial: Kensico Cemetery, Westchester, NY

Reference: 608

Note: !Anna Rathborne Parker died aged 37.

Death: 17 FEB 1914 White Plains, Westchester, NY

Burial: Kensico Cemetery, Westchester, NY

Death: 27 MAY 1965 White Plains, Westchester, NY

Note: !Henry Robertson Barrett was educated in White Plains and Katonah public schools, Blair Academy, Blairstown, NJ, Dartmouth College, Class of 1923, Hanover, NH, and New York Law School, 1927. He was a Presbyterian, Republican and lawyer in White Plains, NY. His residences were in White Plains, Katonah, and White Plains.

Death: 18 APR 1964 White Plains, Westchester, NY

Burial: Kensico Cemetery, Westchester, NY

Reference: 748

Note: ! Lillian Ellis Daniel, known as "Lil".

Death: 22 FEB 1989 Naples, Collie, FL

Burial: 15 APR 1990 Kensico Cemetery, Westchester, NY

Note: !Henry Robertson Barrett was educated at White Plains Public School, Hackley
School in Tarrytown, Class of 1948, Middlebury College, Class of 1955, and
New York University, LL.B. He graduated a 2nd Lt from the Infantry
Officer Candidate School at Fort Benning, GA, 1952. He married Shirley Ann
Flosom in Church in the Highlands in White Plains. They divorced in 1959. He
was engaged to Dolores Cupp-Jones 22 Jul 1963 and married in the Rye
Presbyterian Church. He was elected Supervisor in White Plains 7 Nov 1967
and served Jan 1968 until 1974. He and Dolores Cupp Jones divorced and he
married Jane Bastian at the Box Tree in Purdy's by Rev. Frank Watson. He
resided at 20 Reynal Road in White Plains and in 1982 was at Heritage Hills in
Somers. He was a Republican and member of the Presbyterian Church. He was a
lawyer at Bleakley, Platt, Schmidt, Hart & Fritz.

Reference: 874

Note: !Dolores Cupp-Jones "Dode" graduated from Penn State University and obtained an
M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania. She was Assistant to the Director of
New York Hospital, Cornell Medical Center in New York City.

Note: !Dwight L. Cupp and Mrs Robert Newton Jones were of Johnstown, PA.

Note: !Max E. Bastian was of Valhalla, Westchester, NY.

Reference: 975

Reference: 976

Note: !Jean Elizabeth Barrett was educated at White Plains Public School, Good Council, and White Plains High School. She married John Baptist Dolan at 10 o'clock in the Church of Our Lady of Sorrows, Gedney Circle in White Plains.

Reference: 875

Note: !John Baptist Dolan graduated from Mamaroneck High School. He served in the U.S. Army Infantry.

Note: !George F. Dolan was of Mamaroneck, NY.

Reference: 977

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