_Unknown MURRY _______________
_John MURRAY _______|______________________________
_John MURRAY ______|
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| |_Catherine BATEMAN _|______________________________
_Charles Welsh MURRAY ______|
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| | _Joshua? SMALLMAN __|______________________________
| |_Ann SMALLMAN _____|
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_Major Charles Gerraty MURRAY _|
| | _James SELLICK _______________
| | _James SELLICK _____|_Mary SOUTHWOOD ______________
| | _Samuel SELLICK ___|
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| | | |_Sarah YENDOLE _____|______________________________
| |_Elizabeth Harriet SELLICK _|
| | _Andries Thomasen VANBUSKIRK _
| | _Jacob VANBUSKIRK __|_Annejte VERVEY ______________
| |_Eliza VANBUSKIRK _|
| | _James TOWNSEND ______________
| |_Susannah TOWNSEND _|______________________________
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|--Victoria Harriet MURRAY
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| _UNKNOWN CROSSMAN _|
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| _James Spencer CROSSMAN ____|
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|_Matilda CROSSMAN _____________|
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| _John B CROSMAN ___|
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|_Maria CROSMAN _____________|
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|_Margaret KINLEY __|
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. Printha recalls that Hattie was considered very adventurous and independent for a woman of her time. She was only about 15 years old when she moved away from home. Not knowing exactly where to go, she decided upon Yarmouth, Maine because she had a sister-in-law who was teaching school there. She took a job at a boarding house and eventually met the widower J. Greely Mansfield, whom she married. She and her husband had several children who died at childbirth or in infancy.
Regarding Hattie's parentage, Grace (Mrs. Pomeroy Murray - Hattie's "aunt") simply wrote me in 1993, that, "According to what I heard, Victoria was no relation to the Murrays, but was adopted when she was an infant." Many years before the letter, Carol Ann, Hattie's granddaughter, visited Grace at her home on PEI. At that time, Grace told Carol Ann that Hattie was "adopted down in London" by Mrs. Murray, who was very active in her church as a "do-gooder", and that she raised Hattie "as her own". She said that Hattie left PEI when she was about 15 years old to live with her brother, whom she thought was a teacher in Massachusetts. [The brother would be Wesley, who met his wife in Yarmouth. He did later move to Massachusetts.]
Pomeroy & Grace Murray's daughter, Eleanor, wrote me:
. "I believe my dad & Victoria went to school at the same time because I recall him saying some of the school children used to tease her. They added a lot of names to her given names and would call her, if I remember correctly "Victoria Hattie Amanda,Jane Mary Maud,Moria" Children can be very cruel! Dear knows what else they may have put in her head about her birth. What mother, Grace would have said was that they got her in New London. This is not a french speaking community and never was. The oldest son's name was Major, he was a farmer and married young. This is a strange story about a french maid.
. Grandmother Murray did have a brother who lived in New London and I'd be more inclined to think that maybe one of his daughters had a child out of wedlock."
. The brother referred to would probably be William Sellick, who married Sarah Woodside Heany, who was born in New London. Their eldest of four daughters, Emma Jane, was born 16 Oct 1870. This would have made Emma Jane 14 or 15 years old when Hattie was born in 1885. She could have born a child that young, but this would have been highly unusual.
As related to me by two of Hattie's daughters, Printha and Gertrude, in 1991:
. The Murrays were very religious and were stern, yet loving parents. They were strongly of the baptist [actualy Campbellite] persuasion. Printha, to this day, recalls that, on the one occasion that J.Greely and Hattie visited Hattie's parents on Prince Edward, her grandparents gave them a black labrador retriever named Lief (after Lief Erickson). The dog remained as part of the family for nineteen years.
As related by Hattie's daughter, Printha:
. The family had aquired a household servant, Rebecca Inman (known to the family as "Beck"), while living in New Jersey. Beck stayed with the family when they moved to Niles, Michigan. When J. Greely moved on to his next mill in Stockport, New York, he took Beck with him while Hattie stayed behind. J. Greely repented of that decision and asked Hattie if she would let him come back to her. Hattie had told her daughters that she really wanted to, but that she foolishly let her pride stand in the way and refused. A divorce was agreed upon and a week after the divorce, J. Greely and Beck married.
. After the divorce in 1922, Hattie lived with her oldest daughter, Nellie, on Clover Street in South Bend, Indiana for just a few months. Printha and Gertie moved to New York with their father just long enough for their mother to get financially established in South Bend, Indiana. For 2 or 3 years Hattie and Nellie lived at 526 25th Street. Printha and Gertie moved from their father's home back east and joined their mother in South Bend, attending Nooner Elementary School. Next, the family moved to 1114 28th Street. This was a little before Nellie got married.
. About a year before she died, Hattie re-married to a wealthy South Bend banker, who was also a farmer - William Fassnacht. The marriage lasted only a few months. Printha recalls that her new husband treated Hattie very roughly. Printha recalls living on his large farm on Miami Road.
. Hattie moved in with her son-in-law, Rudy and daughter Nellie at 1109 Cleveland where she is enumerated in their household in the 1930 census as Hattie Fassnacht. Printha and her sister, Gertie were also part of the household.
. Printha recalls that in mid 1930, Hattie suddenly got sick. She remembers her not being able to finish Christmas dinner. She was diagnosed with stomach cancer and died the following March 13. She was buried in the Riverside Cemetery in Yarmouth, Maine, next to J. Greely's first wife, Addie. A year later, J. Greely died and was buried next to his two wives.
For more information, see the notes for her husband.