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Arabella DOB #2 June 1 1850 (CORRECT!)Arabella DOB #3 June 1 1851: Cerinda WIlliams pamphletArabella Dies, NYC 5th Ave, Sept 16, 1924.Collis Potter Huntington Dies Aug 13, 1900ADHH Will is executed Aug 30 1923A codicil added to ADHH WIll ___ 1923Archer Passes Dec 11 1955Archer Born NYC (maybe Galveston TX) March 10 1870. NYC Census show ADH owning 15,000 of NYC real estateMausoleum Construction Begins Feb 1, 1927HEH divorces Mary Alice Prentice 1906Belle and Collis wed July 12, 1884
AMHs diary confirms p 52Belle marries HEH and signs prenup July 12 1913Mausoleum completed 1929 MayHEH dies May 17 1927A and HEH arrive in San Marino Jan 23 1914HEH makes huge purchase of French work from DuveenCollis Huntington Born Oct 22 1821HEH born Feb 27 1850Archer marries Ann Hyatt March 10 1923Ann Hyatt born March 10 1876Archer marries Helen Manchester Gates Aug 6 1895Acher divorces Helen Manchester Gates 1918Karyl's bornRichmond fell to UnionADH temporarily interred Dec 17, 1924Anna & Archer create Arabella memorial @ Woodlawn RECIEVED BY WOODLAWN April 18 1949 at 10 am. [Col Avery]HEH letter to Archer re Mausoleum progress April 8 1927July 1869 - Collis in Richmond negotiating
Chesapeake and Ohio merger (C&O) [Maher 263 no cite]Arabella DOB #1 June 1 1847HEH SUPPOSEDLY tells Hertrich that he plans a mausoleum on the knoll 1919Mausoleum is commissioned to Pope 1925Excavation for foundation of mausoleum begins "autumn" 1926Archer (5 yrs) and Arabella return to NYC from Texas [Cerinda Williams pmphlet\Belle and Collis build HUGE mansion on Fifth Ave and 57th 1890Cabanel Portrait of Arabella painted 188219th Amendment gives women the right to vote! Aug 18 1920NYC Women's Suffrage March Oct 23 1915Arabella 10th Bday DOB June 1 18601860 Census A listed as Carolina B. Yarrington 9yrs4 West 54th St. Mansion demolished 1938Arabella DOB #4 "abt 1854" NYC Death Cert1884 John D. Rockefeller purchases 4 West 54th Street from A & CRockefeller purchases 4 W 54th St 1884CPH????? [I don't think he was there -KK] drives the golden spike May 10 1869, finishing the country's first transcontinental railroad (note/link attached)Richard Milton Yarrington , A's father, dies, April 10, 1859, Richmond VirginiaRichmond Bread Riot April 2 1863 - https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Bread_Riot_Richmond
The Riot began IN FRONT OF SPOTSWOOD!: http://www.mdgorman.com/Written_Accounts/National_Tribune/national_tribune,_8_17_1899.htm(James) Yarrington Boarding house on 12th St. is listed as destroyed in post Civil War evacuation April 15 1865Rebel capital of Richmond, Virginia, falls to the Union April 3 1865 See map: https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3884r.cw0645500/Richmond was evacuated on the 2nd of April, 1865Arabella would have conceived around June 1869Yarrington house in Richmond auctioned May 31 1869Feb 2 - 14, 1878 - advert for heirs of RM Yarrington wanted by NYC post officeWomen can vote in NYC Nov 6 1917J Worsham declares bankruptcy in Virginia March 23, 18731880 census has A @ 4 54th St w Archer and Catherine
along w 4 servants - later sold to Rockefellers1840 RM and Catherine appear
in Richmond census w 1 slaveMarch 23 1841 E.G. Briggs boarder has
an advert for stuttering school "at Mr. RM Yarrington's
opposite Mr Stebbins China store, Shockoe Hill"Dec 14, 1841 RM leader in IOOF and
participated in dedication of their
new hallFeb 28 1844 RM declares bankruptcyJan 14, 1852, RM starts business selling
remedy for rheumatism and neuralgie
@ 18 Main St over JB Stegal's storeJuly 12 1867 James Yarrington
dies (Catherine's gaurdian for marriage and Poe host)March 15 1857 Martha Yarrington
(Poe boarding host and wife
James) diesMarch 25 1911 Triangel Shirtwaist Fire1891 Woodlawn Mausoleum is completed March 15 1891Oct 5 1883 Elizabeth Stoddard
Huntington diesCatherine Yarrington dies June 6 1888The Catherine and Elizabeth get dug up July 7, 1891Catharine's 1st interment June 30 1888Catherine and Elizabeth are interred
for the 3rd and final time Jan 17 18951872 begins NYC Directory "Worsham Belle D.
wid. John, A. h 109 Lex Ave."1877 NYC Directory begins listing widow
Worsham at 4 W. 54th1876 This ONE year NYC Directory list "Isabella D. Worsham"
widow of "James" and living at 68 E. 54th StArabella is traveling abroad w CPH and AMH sends the letter
"love to Miss Clara)--the families are somewhat integrated July 7 1879.
Though Accordint to his diaries, AMH didn't know CPH until he married ADH.1868 Catherine is listed in NYC City Directory.
Worsham is also listed at his own address near them
and near CPH. 1869 Worsham is gone from NYC
and does not return.March 13, 1868 Clara is born in Sacramento and adopted by CPH and Elizabeth the following year.Dec 1877 Austin Statesman which reported, “Mrs. B. D. Worsham,
mother, and son … are in the city, stopping at the Raymond House
… Mrs. Worsham is a niece of Collis P. Huntington, the railroad man.”April 1, 1839, Catherine marries Richard Milton YarringtonKEK at Syracuse UniBy Nov of 1867 CPH purchases 65 Park Ave and is lavishly outfitting it as evidenced from bills at SyracuseMarch - April 12, 1833: Edwin Maddox Is dismissed
from Quakers for "marrying contrary to discipline."
This is 3 years BEFORE marrying Catherine!Nov 19, 1835: Catherine J. Simms (Sims)
marries Edwin Maddox.
James Yarrington of Richmond (Poe boarding house owner)
acting as her guardian. She was 16 yrs.Edwin Milton Maddox dies - sometime before Aug 30, 1836 (BB)Alfred Yarrington (A's older brother) drowns, Oct 21, 1855 DOB Oct 8, 1847Sept 29 1849 RM Yarrington mortgages all his personal property to one
Lisby Redford to satisfy a debt to Robert J.? Clarke, operator/owner Marshall Theater.April 13 1853 Benefit for very ill RM Yarrington and Marshall Theater1837 Elizabeth Horton signs over her personal property to RM to satisfy a debt to him.June 19, 1860, Richard James Yarrington (Junior!), 8 yrs, broke arm
playing in the southern portico of the Capitol. Newspaper mentions
it (via BB) and Catherine, too!July or August 1815 - Mary Bryant Yarrington dies and her will is executed giving property to John Yarrington and his wife, Arianna Duval Yarrington, A's grandmother.
Also provides $ for the education of RM and his brother, John. Estate included 6 slaves...June 1830 - First lot-- one of 5 of the subdivided sections of LOT 470!!--on E St sold to John aka Jack Morris (a free colored man)
by Richard Henry Yarrington (via BB)June 1848 - John B Yarrington and Kirby family sell lot on 8th adjacent to Lot 470 across from Spottswood to John/Jack Morris
a free man of color. This is the second lot signed over to him??August 1819, Catherine J Sims Maddox Yarrington was bornJan 19 1861 Spottswood opens1863 pre Bread Riots the "Worshams" (weird puctuation) pay to get out of Richmond and escape conscription, which otherwise befell
gamblers there. See National Tribune article, EvernoteNov 13, 1861 J Worsham in Richmond court for running Faro ParlorJuly 12, 1867 - James Yarrington, Catherine's apptd gaurdian, dies peacefullyNov 1860, Lincoln is electedJuly 5 1862 announcement Catherine has
"charge of the hospital" set up in the
Spotswood Hotel - Virginia ChroniclePeriods
Civil War April 12, 1861- May 13, 1865John A. Worsham b. Oct 22 1821 - May 26 18781860 census June - OctWWI
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