Her 98th Birthday: Mrs. Eliza Ann Wade Has a Party at Her Son's Home

Citation: "Her 98th Birthday: Mrs. Eliza Ann Wade Has a Party at Her Son's Home," The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York), 3 March 1914, p. 13; image, Newspapers.com (clipping by mattjameswade, 4 July 2019).

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HER 98TH BIRTHDAY. Mrs. Eliza Ann Wade Has a Party at Her Son's Home.
Surrounded by her six grandsons, two granddaughters, three great-grandchildren and numerous friends, Mrs. Eliza Ann Wade celebrated her ninety-eighth birthday last Saturday at the home of her son, Dr. John E. Wade, 908 Greene avenue, where she lives. Although almost five score years of age, Mrs. Wade is still hale and hearty. Though a trifle deaf, she sees fairly well, and occasionally attends services at the Trinity Baptist Church, of which she is a member, and where her husband, the late James M. Wade, was long a deacon.
Between 2 and 4 Saturday afternoon and 7 and 9 in the evening, Mrs. Wade held a reception, and was the recipient of many floral tokens and congratulations from her visiting relatives and friends. Of her six children, one daughter and one son died in their early childhood. Her sons, Durlyn, William H. and Dr. James D. Wade, the latter a prominent physician in the Eastern District for over forty years, died within the past decade. Dr. John E. Wade, prominent likewise in his section of the city, is the only living son.
Mrs. Wade was born in Gold street, New York City, on March 1, 1816, and entertained her birthday callers with reminiscences of old New York—New York of the days when the present City Hall was considered "far uptown," and the section north of what is now Canal street was "all open, farming country."
One of her pleasantest recollections is that of the reception in New York City tendered General Lafayette on a visit from France, which she attended as a young girl. She also recalls crossing the East River on one of the first steam ferry boats, and says that Brooklyn's Anniversary Day parade is antedated by a similar parade, on a smaller scale in New York City. The anniversary exercises were held in Castle Garden.
Mrs. Wade attended, with her parents, the old Gold Street Baptist Church in New York City, and later the old Oliver Street Baptist Church. As a devout Christian and Baptist, she takes peculiar delight in reading "religiously," as she puts it, "the Monday night sermon page of the Eagle."
Among the relatives and friends at Mrs. Wade's reception were: Dr. John E. Wade, Frank E. Wade, Miss Adele Wade, Dr. and Mrs. H. Albert Wade, Mrs. Durlyn Wade, Durlyn Wade, jr., Wilbur Wade, Miss Evelyn Wade, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Wade, Mr. and Mrs. Harry E. Wade, Frank Wade, Miss Ethel Wade, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Fyfe, Mrs. Van Orden, Dr. and Mrs. Lewis Anderson, Lewis Anderson, Mrs. William N. Lewis, Mrs. Helen Gent, Miss Helen Gent, Miss Hattie Brown, Mrs. H. M. Montgomery, Miss Anna McGuire, Mrs. E. S. Lanz, Miss K. E. Schnabel, Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Teeple, Mr. and Mrs. William Dubocq, Miss Whittemore, Miss Williams, Miss Hollingsworth, Miss Frances Walsh, Miss Elizabeth Walsh, Miss May Enright, Miss Eva Stansfield, Mrs. Annie H. Pendleton, Mr. Gelabert, Miss Eleanor Gelabert, Mrs. Harry Burroughs, Mrs. Robert Hill, Miss Hannah Allen, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Wadsworth, Miss Ruth Wade [?].