Wade & Webb Family History

Eliza Ann Marvin1816–1915

A founder of Trinity Baptist Church, Brooklyn, who lived to within three months of her hundredth birthday. New York · Williamsburg · Brooklyn · Cypress Hills Cem

Born on Gold Street in Manhattan in 1816, Eliza Ann Wade remembered shaking hands with General Lafayette and crossing the East River on one of the first steam ferries. She raised four sons in Williamsburgh, where her husband James M. Wade was a builder, saw two of them go to war, and in 1874 opened her home to the meetings that founded Trinity Baptist Church. She died in Brooklyn in December 1915, in her hundredth year, still reading the Eagle's sermon page every Monday.

On this page
  1. Family Record
  2. Life
  3. Documents (19)
  4. Places
  5. Timeline
  6. Open questions
  7. Searches made
  8. Notes

Birth

  1. 1 Mar 1816 New York 3

Marriages

  1. Date unknown James M Wade

Death and burial

  1. 15 Dec 1915 Death: Kings, New York 8, 44
  2. Date unknown Burial: Cypress Hills Cem.

Family

Parents
John Wade 1781–?
Spouse
James M Wade 1816–1876
Children
John Edward Wade 1847–1919
Washington Wade 1843–?
Sophia Wade 1849–?
William Henry Wade 1848–1908
James Duncan Wade 1838–1902
Durlyn Wade 1853–1907

Line of descent Wade line

  1. Eliza Ann Marvin
  2. William Henry Wade, son
  3. William Henry Wade Jr, son
  4. Frank Edward Wade, son
  5. William Albert Webb Wade, son

2nd great-grandmother of Webb Wade, from whom this history is traced. Why Webb Wade?

Life

Eliza Ann Wade was born on 1 March 1816 in Gold Street, New York City, according to the accounts she gave the Brooklyn Daily Eagle at her 98th birthday and that the paper repeated at her death.1 The Standard Union, another Brooklyn paper, also gave her birth as 1 March 1816, in Manhattan.2 The FamilySearch tree records the same date, without a source.3

Gold Street

In old age she entertained her visitors 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.'"4 One of her pleasantest memories, the Eagle wrote, was the reception given in New York to General Lafayette on his visit from France, which she attended as a young girl; at her death the paper added that it was held in old Castle Garden and that she shook hands with him.5 Inference The Marquis de Lafayette toured the United States in 1824 and 1825, so she would have been eight or nine at the time.5 She also remembered crossing the East River on one of the first steam ferry boats.4 With her parents she attended the old Gold Street Baptist Church, and later the Oliver Street Baptist Church.6

Who her parents were is not settled.7 The FamilySearch tree gives them as John Wade and Mary Elizabeth Hickey.7 Her obituary in the Eagle says she was "the daughter of John and Mary Elizabeth Wade, both dead more than half a century," and the New York City record of her death names her father as John Wade and her mother as Mary Hickey.8 But the New York City record of her son William's marriage in 1868, made while she was alive, gives his mother's name as Eliza Marvin, and a New York City marriage of about 1836 or 1837 is indexed on FamilySearch under the name Eliza Marvin.9 Inference Either she was born a Wade and married a man of the same surname, or she was born a Marvin and those who reported her death gave her parents her married name; the 1868 record is the earlier and the better evidence for her maiden name, but the question stays open until that indexed marriage is shown to be hers, with James M. Wade as the groom.10 The Eagle also wrote that her "ancestors were of old English stock," a family tradition the paper did not explain.11

Williamsburgh

She married James M. Wade, who was born in New York on 12 February 1816, a son of Edward Wade Jr.12 The date and place of the marriage are not established; their eldest known son, James Duncan Wade, was born in New York City on 15 March 1838.13 The tree gives the couple six children: James Duncan (1838), Washington (1843), John Edward (1847), William Henry (1848), Sophia (1849) and Durlyn (1853).14 At her 98th birthday in 1914 the Eagle reported that "of her six children, one daughter and one son died in their early childhood," leaving the four sons who were named in her obituaries: James D., William H., Durlyn and John E.15 A note on the tree, however, says the federal census of 1910 recorded her as the mother of seven children, one of them then living.16 Inference The 1910 figure of seven may count a child who died at birth or was not remembered in 1914, or may be an error by the enumerator; the census page itself should be read.16 The tree's dates for two of the sons cannot both be right: it gives John Edward's birth as 24 August 1847 and William Henry's as April 1848, eight months apart.17

The Standard Union wrote that she "came to Brooklyn in 1845," and the federal census of 1850 found the family at Williamsburg, Kings County, then a separate town from the City of Brooklyn.18 The obituaries of two of her sons, however, place their births in New York City: John in 1847 and Durlyn, "born in Manhattan," on 4 January 1853.19 Inference Either the family moved between the two cities more than once, or the obituaries' "old New York City" is a loose memory; the censuses of 1850 and 1855, which give each child's birthplace, would settle it.19 In 1855 the New York State census listed "Ann E Wade" in the household of James M. Wade in the Fifteenth Ward of the City of Brooklyn, and in 1865 in the Thirteenth Ward, in a household the index enters under "Chas M Wade".20 Her husband was remembered as "one of the pioneer builders and real estate brokers in the Eastern District," the old Williamsburgh, who "erected many of the old landmarks still standing" there.21

In 1858 Eliza Ann Wade and "James M. Wade, her husband" were named among the defendants in an action brought in the Supreme Court of Kings County, which in New York is the general trial court, by Benjamin Harris against William Burr and others, filed on 20 August 1858.22 Inference That she is named first, with her husband described as "her husband", suggests that she held property in her own right which the suit concerned, perhaps through a mortgage or a partition; the complaint in the county clerk's files would say.22

The war years

Two of her sons, James and William, went to war in 1862, and the letters they wrote home, to their parents and several to her alone, survive.23 In October 1863, while her sons' regiment waited in Louisiana to learn whether its three-year men would be sent home, she went to Rikers Island, where men bound for the regiment were held, and Willie wrote of "the Convasation you had with Capt. Howe"; the letters do not say where that conversation took place.24 Other women had gone with her, and Willie supposed that "those woman that was with you must have gave him a good talking too"; a few days later the conscripts reached his camp with handkerchiefs from home ("they smelt very sweet," he wrote) and word that they had seen her on the island.25 On 27 December 1863 she wrote to James herself, on a sheet sent with the letter William, home again by then, wrote to his brother.24 James's letters, she told him, were "like water to a thirsty Man"; she described how Willie had got away, the three-year men being called out by name at the boat, and "they Called Willie name three times but did not get an answer," and how, after a Mr. Coombs had read James's letter to the Sunday school, "O what a rush the Teachers made Sunday after school to enquire after you."26 She signed the note "E A Wade", closing with his parents' prayer that God would watch over him.24 Willie had brought home James's straw hat and "also your shells which Mother highly Apprecheated."27 James wrote to her from New Orleans in October 1863 that he could not get along without her letters, that she was the chief reason for him to come home, and "I never knew I loved Mother so much" until he came to Louisiana.28 He sent his pay home to be banked in his name, and in January 1864 told her to "keep for your own use five dollars a week," from the first of that month.28 In February he put down his having had so few friends among the young people of Williamsburgh to pride at home: "At home I was to proud, or at least Mother was, with all due respect to her, to let me associate with the poor and common class."29 In April he looked forward to the day when he would "walk up the Isle to our pew with Mother's arm in mine," and in June he gave her address to a Mrs. Perry, a captain's wife from Albany who was going home by way of Brooklyn and meant to call on her.30 From June 1863 to September 1864 the brothers' letters were addressed to J. M. Wade at 183 South Sixth Street, Williamsburgh, described in January 1864 as "near 7th Street" and on two envelopes of 1863 as near Eighth Street.31 In October 1867 the family was living in South Sixth Street, where her husband and two of the sons were charged with assault by two brothers from Scholes Street, the Wades saying that the brothers Bittner had come into the house and attacked "the head of the family, James M. Wade."32

Trinity Baptist Church

Eliza Ann Wade was among those who met at the home of David Hathaway, 25 Dodworth Street, on 31 October 1874 to prepare for a new Baptist church, with her husband and her sons John E. and Durlyn.33 The name Trinity Baptist Church was adopted on 1 December 1874, and the church was organised on 18 December at her husband's house, 10 Kossuth Place; he was "long a deacon" there.34 Her husband died in Brooklyn on 1 April 1876.35

She outlived him by almost forty years.36 The state census of 1875 found her in Brooklyn, and by 1900 she was living with her son Dr. John E. Wade, with whom she made her home for the rest of her life, latterly at 908 Greene Avenue.37 She remained a member of Trinity.38 When the church welcomed a new pastor in February 1912, "one of the first to be introduced" was "Mrs. Eliza A. Wade, 96 years young, and one of the oldest living charter members."38 That October the congregation dedicated its new church at Greene and Patchen Avenues; the pastor had planned that she, "in whose home, in 1874, the church was organized," should offer the prayer of dedication, but an accident kept her away, and the prayer she had written out was read at the service.39 In December 1914 she was the oldest of the five original members present at the church's fortieth anniversary.40

Her last years

On her 98th birthday, celebrated on Saturday 28 February 1914 at 908 Greene Avenue, she was "still hale and hearty," "a trifle deaf," and read "religiously," as she put it, "the Monday night sermon page of the Eagle."41 A year later, on 1 March 1915, about a hundred guests and four generations of the family came to the house for her 99th birthday; she received them with her granddaughter Adele, and the Eagle reported that she "sews, knits, quilts and reads much."42 The guest lists of the two birthdays name her son John E. and his children Frank E. and Adele, her grandsons Dr. H. Albert Wade, William H. Wade, Harry E. Wade, Durlyn Wade Jr. and Wilbur Wade, her granddaughter Mrs. Arthur Fyfe, and great-grandchildren including Frank E. and Ethel Wade.43

She died of broncho-pneumonia at 908 Greene Avenue on the afternoon of 15 December 1915, "aged 99 years, 9 months," after an illness of a week.44 The Rev. Maurice Ambrose Levy of the Greene Avenue Baptist Church conducted the funeral at her son's house, and on Saturday 18 December only the immediate family attended her burial in the family plot at Cypress Hills Cemetery.45 The Eagle's notice of the burial says she died "last Thursday" and that the services were held on the Saturday, while its death notice of 16 December announced them for Friday 17 December; 15 December 1915 was a Wednesday, and the earlier notices are to be preferred.46 The news of her death was carried as far as Baltimore.47 She was survived by her son John, several grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.48 The Eagle printed her photograph, captioned "Mrs. E. A. Wade", with the report of her 99th birthday, and a photograph of her again with its obituary.49

Her name in the records

Records give her name in several forms.50 The census of 1850 indexes her as Ann Wade and the state censuses of 1855 and 1865 as "Ann E Wade", the form the Standard Union also used in its headline at her death; her sons' marriage records of 1869, 1876 and 1879 name her Eliza, Eliza A. and Eliza Ann Wade, and only the 1868 record calls her Eliza Marvin.50

Documents

  1. 20 October 1858 Supreme Court, Kings County: Harris v. Burr, Wade and others (summons) The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York) · clipping
  2. 1862 Brothers at the Front: American Civil War Letters & Documents of James D. Wade and William H. Wade, 1862–1864 Transcribed and edited by Melissa K. Dewey & David M. Jones, Jacksonville, Florida, 2007 (unpublished, for Webb Wade) · letter
  3. 1902 A History of Long Island, vol. 2: biographies of Dr. John E. Wade and Dr. James D. Wade Peter Ross, A History of Long Island, from its earliest settlement to the present time, vol. 2 (New York and Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company, 1902) · book
  4. 20 October 1902 Dies While Writing Out a Prescription The Brooklyn Citizen (Brooklyn, New York) · clipping
  5. 20 October 1902 Dr. Wade's Sudden Death in House of a Patient The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York) · clipping
  6. 26 February 1907 Durlyn Wade (obituary) The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York) · clipping
  7. 29 February 1912 Reception to New Pastor: Rev. Robert E. Hill and Mrs. Hill Welcomed to Trinity Baptist Church The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York) · clipping
  8. 10 October 1912 Dedicatory Feast by Uptown Baptists: Trinity Church Has Dinner in Gymnasium of New Building (with a brief history) The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York) · clipping
  9. 11 October 1912 Baptists Dedicate New Church Home: Woman 96 Years Old, Unable to Attend, Sends Written Prayer of Dedication The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York) · clipping
  10. 3 March 1914 Her 98th Birthday: Mrs. Eliza Ann Wade Has a Party at Her Son's Home The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York) · clipping
  11. 6 December 1914 Church Forty Years Old: Trinity Baptist Society Celebrates With "Old Home Night" The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York) · clipping
  12. 2 March 1915 Mrs. Wade, 99, Happy With 4 Generations: Her Offspring and Guests, Numbering 100, Extend Love on Birthday The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York) · clipping
  13. 16 December 1915 Mrs. Eliza Ann Wade Dies in 100th Year: Born in New York City When All Above Canal Street Was Farming Land; Shook Hands With Lafayette The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York) · clipping
  14. 16 December 1915 Ann E. Wade Dies in Her 100th Year: Husband Was Builder of Many Landmarks in Eastern District The Standard Union (Brooklyn, New York) · clipping
  15. 16 December 1915 Wade—Eliza Ann (death notice) The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York) · clipping
  16. 17 December 1915 Dies in Her 100th Year: Mrs. Eliza Ann Wade Bright Mentally Until End The Evening Sun (Baltimore, Maryland) · clipping
  17. 19 December 1915 Mrs. Wade Buried Yesterday The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York) · clipping
  18. 11 January 1919 Dr. John E. Wade Dies The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York) · clipping
  19. 27 May 2024 Find a Grave memorial: Eliza Ann Marvin Wade Find a Grave · memorial

Places

  1. 1850Williamsburg
  2. 1855–1910Kings
  3. 1915New York
  4. 1915Kings
  5. undatedCypress Hills Cem

Timeline

  1. 1 Mar 1816BirthNew York
  2. 1850ResidenceWilliamsburg, Kings, New York
  3. 1855ResidenceE.D. 1, Ward 15, Brooklyn City, Kings, New York
  4. 1865ResidenceWard 11, Brooklyn, Kings, New York
  5. 1865ResidenceWard 13, Brooklyn, Kings, New York
  6. 1875ResidenceBrooklyn, Kings, New York
  7. 1900ResidenceBorough of Brooklyn, Election District 26 New York City Ward 23, Kings, New York
  8. 1910ResidenceBrooklyn Ward 23, , New York
  9. 1915ResidenceNew York, Kings, New York
  10. 15 Dec 1915DeathKings, New York

Open questions

What was her maiden name, and who were her parents? (priority: high)

The tree calls her Eliza Ann Marvin, with parents John Wade (b. 1781) and Mary Elizabeth Hickey (1789–1909). Her Eagle obituary (1915-12-16) says she was "the daughter of John and Mary Elizabeth Wade, both dead more than half a century." The parents in the tree look built from that obituary, with her married surname, and the 1909 death conflicts with it (and would make Mary Elizabeth 120).

  • Likeliest: her parents were John and Mary Elizabeth Marvin, and the paper used her married name (inference).
  • Look at: the NYC marriage record indexed on FamilySearch as "Eliza Marvin" (about 1836–37); the 1855/1865 NY state censuses (birthplace, years in county); Gold Street and Oliver Street Baptist Church records; 1820–1840 NYC directories for a John Marvin on Gold Street.

A lead from the Civil War letters (found 2026-11-09, biography drafting): on 27 December 1863 William H. Wade wrote that he earned money "helping Uncle Joe in his store". The tree gives Eliza Ann a brother Joseph Wade (L26L-Z4M, born about 1819), and James M. Wade has no brother Joseph, which slightly favours her being born a Wade. Checked against the image (2026-11-09): Willie first wrote "helping him in his store", struck out "him" and wrote "Uncle Joe" above it, in smaller writing; no surname or street. Still to check in directories for a Joseph Wade (or a Joseph of another surname) with a store in Williamsburgh or New York about 1863. Two more leads from the same letters: "Cousen Mary", who sent James her picture and was 22 in February 1864, and "the Jackson family", innkeepers known to a quartermaster's clerk named Dickenson (James, 21 February 1864).

A further lead from the full read of the letters (2026-11-09): on 1 September 1863 James had a letter from "Coz Louisa", whose brother "died at Vicksburg on the afternoon of the 4 of July" 1863. A first cousin of the brothers, so a niece of James M. Wade or of Eliza Ann. If Union deaths at Vicksburg on or about 4 July 1863 (Roll of Honor; regimental rosters) turn up a Marvin, or a man whose mother was a Marvin or a Wade, it would point to Eliza Ann's (or James M.'s) brothers and sisters. Search with "Uncle Joe" and "Cousen Mary" together.

The family's church in the 1860s

Her son James taught in a Sunday school at home whose head was a Mr Coombs, who read James's letters to the school (27 Dec 1863), and in April 1864 the family's congregation was "about building a house of Worship", where they had a pew (13 Apr 1864). Identify the church (Williamsburgh, 1863–1865); its records may name her and her family, and perhaps her maiden name.

Two children who died young

Her 98th-birthday article (1914-03-03) says six children, of whom a daughter and a son died in early childhood. The tree's Washington (b. 1843) and Sophia (b. 1849) have no deaths: they are probably those two. Check the 1850 and 1855 censuses and the Cypress Hills family plot.

New evidence for a Wade birth (2026-11-09)

Peter Ross, A History of Long Island (1902), in her son John E. Wade's biography, calls her "Elizabeth (Wade) Wade" and makes the doctor "a grandson of John Wade and great-grandson of Edward Wade, who became the founder of the family in America, emigrating to this country from England about 1800" (1902). With her 1915 obituary and death record (parents John Wade and Mary Hickey) and "Uncle Joe", that is now three family-supplied pointers to a Wade birth against the one "Eliza Marvin" of 1868. The "Likeliest: Marvin" inference above needs revisiting; the marriage record of James M. Wade and Eliza Ann (about 1836-37) is still the deciding record.

Searches made

  1. 2026-11-08Bulk review of Matt's OneDrive genealogy folder (Phase 3): all documents transcribed and compared with the tree17 document(s) name this person; see Documents above. Conflicts and new facts are in each document record and in research/sources/document-review-2026-11-08.md
  2. 2026-11-08Correction made in FamilySearch by MattMatt corrected her parents in FamilySearch (the John Wade / Mary Elizabeth Hickey couple was built from her obituary). Maiden name research still open.
  3. 2026-11-09Find a Grave search: Eliza Marvin, b. 1816 ±3, d. 1915 ±3: 0 results; Eliza Wade, b. 1816 ±3, d. 1915 ±3: 1 resultsbest: [Eliza Ann Marvin Wade (1 Mar 1816 – 15 Dec 1915), Cypress Hills Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/270701181/eliza-ann-wade); score 17 (high, before review)
  4. 2026-11-09Civil War letters: the biography's quotations checked against the scans of the originals (research agents, reviewed by Claude; table in research/documents/civil-war-letters/brothers-at-the-front.md)Signed "E A Wade"; the word for "prayer" is uncertain (pre[y?]), so not quoted; "spoke there with Captain Howe" corrected (the letters do not say where); address 183 South 6th Street June 1863 to September 1864, "near 7th" (Jan 1864) and "near 8th" (two 1863 envelopes). New leads for her maiden family: "Uncle Joe" was written above a struck-out "him" (27 Dec 1863); "Cousen Mary", 22 in 1864, and the innkeeping "Jackson family" (21 Feb 1864)
  5. 2026-11-09Find a Grave memorial recorded[memorial 270701181](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/270701181), high confidence: [record](../documents/findagrave/270701181-eliza-ann-marvin-wade.md); 2 headstone photo(s)
  6. 2026-11-09Internet Archive: "Eliza Ann Marvin", New York1 page; first: [CEMETERY INSCRIPTIONS, n.d., p. ](https://archive.org/details/cemeteryinscript0004unkn?q=%22Eliza%20Ann%20Marvin%22)
  7. 2026-11-09Internet Archive: "Eliza Marvin", New York163 pages; first: [Family History Capers (1984.07) [8.1], n.d., p. ](https://archive.org/details/family_history_capers_1984.07?q=%22Eliza%20Marvin%22); [Family History Capers (1984.07) [8.1], n.d., p. ](https://archive.org/details/family_history_capers_1984.07?q=%22Eliza%20Marvin%22); [Minutes of the-- session of the Detroit Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church [microform], 1856, p. ](https://archive.org/details/31178631.1905.emory.edu?q=%22Eliza%20Marvin%22)
  8. 2026-11-09Internet Archive: "Marvin", inside 1887BPL15 pages; first: [Lain's Brooklyn Directory for the year ending May 1, 1887, 1887, p. 101](https://archive.org/details/1887BPL/page/n101/mode/1up?q=Marvin); [Lain's Brooklyn Directory for the year ending May 1, 1887, 1887, p. 153](https://archive.org/details/1887BPL/page/n153/mode/1up?q=Marvin); [Lain's Brooklyn Directory for the year ending May 1, 1887, 1887, p. 269](https://archive.org/details/1887BPL/page/n269/mode/1up?q=Marvin); 0 with the given name (Eliza, Ann)
  9. 2026-11-09Internet Archive: "Marvin", inside brooklyn-city-directory-1858-1859-lain-yale-university-librarynot searchable: brooklyn-city-directory-1858-1859-lain-yale-university-library: No hOCR or Abbyy file present
  10. 2026-11-09Civil War letters, detailed read of all 33 items from the scans (three research agents, one per period; digests reviewed by Claude, readings spot-checked against the scans)New for her: other women went with her to Rikers Island, and the conscripts brought Willie handkerchiefs from home and word that they had seen her there (22 and 25 Oct 1863); her note of 27 Dec 1863 read in full (James's letters "like water to a thirsty Man"; how Willie got away, his name called three times; the teachers' rush and Mr Coombs reading James's letter to the school); Willie brought home James's shells, "which Mother highly Apprecheated"; James: "At home I was to proud, or at least Mother was" (21 Feb 1864); the family pew and the new house of worship (13 Apr 1864); a Mrs Perry of Albany to call on her (26 Jun 1864); a neighbour, Mrs Vale of 10 South 6th Street (15 Oct 1863; reading uncertain). Lead for her maiden family: cousin Louisa's brother, died at Vicksburg 4 July 1863 (Open questions). Nothing contradicts the tree. Biography revised; new quotations listed.
  11. 2026-11-09Internet Archive assessment: "Eliza Ann Marvin", New York (1 page)A cemetery inscriptions compilation listing "Abraham A Eliza Ann Marvin" among Grable and Howenstine burials, with Ohio and Pennsylvania places; not her (she was buried as Eliza Ann Wade at Cypress Hills, 1915).
  12. 2026-11-09Internet Archive assessment: "Eliza Marvin", New York (163 pages)First 20 reviewed: Family History Capers, Detroit Methodist conference minutes and other namesakes; none in New York City about 1816-1840. Not her.
  13. 2026-11-09Internet Archive assessment: "Marvin" inside 1887BPL (15 pages, none Eliza)No Eliza Marvin, as expected for a woman married about 1837; and no "Wade Eliza A. wid." on the Wade page: she was probably living with a son.
  14. 2026-11-09Internet Archive assessment: Ross, *History of Long Island* (1902), found under LVPD-1F4MATCH (high): her son Dr. John E. Wade's biography says "His parents were James M. and Elizabeth (Wade) Wade, natives of New York city ... the mother is still living, at the age of eighty-four" and that he was "a grandson of John Wade and great-grandson of Edward Wade, who ... emigrat[ed] to this country from England about 1800". A second family-supplied account (with her 1915 obituary) that she was born a Wade; conflicts with the tree's surname Marvin and the 1868 marriage record's "Eliza Marvin". Record [1902](../documents/1902-ross-history-of-long-island-wade-physicians.md).
  15. 2026-11-09Internet Archive hits assessed: 4 searchesNo match under Marvin; the 1902 Ross biography of her son names her "Elizabeth (Wade) Wade" (record written).
  16. 2026-11-09DPLA: "Eliza Ann Marvin"no matches
  17. 2026-11-09DPLA: "Eliza Marvin", New Yorkno matches
  18. 2026-11-09New York Times: "Eliza Wade", 1915–1916no matches
  19. 2026-11-09New York Times: "Eliza Ann Marvin", 1851–1916no matches
  20. 2026-11-09New York Times: "Eliza A Marvin", 1851–1916no matches
  21. 2026-11-09DPLA assessment: 2 searchesNo match: no hits.
  22. 2026-11-09New York Times assessment: 3 searchesNo match: no hits. The Times index has nothing under "Eliza Wade" for 1915–1916, although the Brooklyn papers carried her death widely; the index may give her another name (e.g. "Mrs. Wade" or "Ann E. Wade").

Notes

  1. Her 98th Birthday: Mrs. Eliza Ann Wade Has a Party at Her Son's Home, The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York): Mrs. Wade was born in Gold street, New York City, on March 1, 1816 Mrs. Eliza Ann Wade Dies in 100th Year: Born in New York City When All Above Canal Street Was Farming Land; Shook Hands With Lafayette, The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York): born in Gold street, New York City, on March 1, 1816 back to the text
  2. Ann E. Wade Dies in Her 100th Year: Husband Was Builder of Many Landmarks in Eastern District, The Standard Union (Brooklyn, New York): Mrs. Wade was born in Manhattan on March 1, 1816 back to the text
  3. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LVPD-4NH: birth 1 Mar 1816, New York, United States; no source attached back to the text
  4. Her 98th Birthday: Mrs. Eliza Ann Wade Has a Party at Her Son's Home, The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York): reminiscences of old New York ... crossing the East River on one of the first steam ferry boats back to the text
  5. Her 98th Birthday: Mrs. Eliza Ann Wade Has a Party at Her Son's Home, The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York): the reception in New York City tendered General Lafayette ... which she attended as a young girl; notes: his visit was 1824–25 Mrs. Eliza Ann Wade Dies in 100th Year: Born in New York City When All Above Canal Street Was Farming Land; Shook Hands With Lafayette, The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York): the reception in old Castle Garden to General Lafayette ... and shook hands with General Lafayette back to the text
  6. Her 98th Birthday: Mrs. Eliza Ann Wade Has a Party at Her Son's Home, The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York): attended, with her parents, the old Gold Street Baptist Church in New York City, and later the old Oliver Street Baptist Church back to the text
  7. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LVPD-4NH: parents John Wade and Mary Elizabeth Hickey back to the text
  8. Mrs. Eliza Ann Wade Dies in 100th Year: Born in New York City When All Above Canal Street Was Farming Land; Shook Hands With Lafayette, The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York): the daughter of John and Mary Elizabeth Wade, both dead more than half a century "New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949", FamilySearch, John Wade in entry for Eliza Ann Wade, 15 Dec 1915. Record: John Wade in the death entry for Eliza Ann Wade, 15 Dec 1915 "New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949", FamilySearch, Mary Hickey in entry for Eliza Ann Wade, 15 Dec 1915. Record: Mary Hickey in the death entry for Eliza Ann Wade, 15 Dec 1915 back to the text
  9. "New York, New York City Marriage Records, 1829-1938", FamilySearch, Eliza Marvin in entry for William H Wade and Emma May Goodrich, 10 August 1868. Record: Eliza Marvin in the marriage entry for William H Wade and Emma May Goodrich, 10 August 1868 Research log, searches made: the New York City marriage record indexed on FamilySearch as Eliza Marvin, about 1836–37 back to the text
  10. Mrs. Eliza Ann Wade Dies in 100th Year: Born in New York City When All Above Canal Street Was Farming Land; Shook Hands With Lafayette, The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York): notes: Eliza Ann's maiden name, a conflict to resolve Research log, searches made: open question: what was her maiden name, and who were her parents? back to the text
  11. Mrs. Eliza Ann Wade Dies in 100th Year: Born in New York City When All Above Canal Street Was Farming Land; Shook Hands With Lafayette, The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York): Mrs. Wade's ancestors were of old English stock back to the text
  12. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LVPD-4ZV (their page): James M Wade, born 12 Feb 1816, New York; son of Edward Wade Jr. Supreme Court, Kings County: Harris v. Burr, Wade and others (summons), The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York): Eliza Ann Wade, James M. Wade, her husband back to the text
  13. Research log, searches made: the New York City marriage record indexed as Eliza Marvin, about 1836–37, not yet confirmed as hers Dr. Wade's Sudden Death in House of a Patient, The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York): Dr. Wade was born in New York City on March 15, 1838 back to the text
  14. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LVPD-4NH: children of James M Wade and Eliza Ann back to the text
  15. Her 98th Birthday: Mrs. Eliza Ann Wade Has a Party at Her Son's Home, The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York): Of her six children, one daughter and one son died in their early childhood Ann E. Wade Dies in Her 100th Year: Husband Was Builder of Many Landmarks in Eastern District, The Standard Union (Brooklyn, New York): She was the mother of four sons, James D., William H., Durlyn and Dr. John E. back to the text
  16. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LVPD-4NH: note: 1910 census indicates mother of 7 with 1 living in 1910 "United States, Census, 1910", FamilySearch, Eliza Ann Wade in entry for John E Wade, 1910. Record: Eliza Ann Wade in the entry for John E Wade, 1910 back to the text
  17. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KZG4-F2N (their page): birth 24 Aug 1847 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LVPD-PCM (their page): birth Apr 1848 "United States, Census, 1900", FamilySearch, Wm C Wade, 1900. Record: Wm C Wade, 1900 census, birth April 1848 back to the text
  18. Ann E. Wade Dies in Her 100th Year: Husband Was Builder of Many Landmarks in Eastern District, The Standard Union (Brooklyn, New York): Mrs. Wade came to Brooklyn in 1845 "United States, Census, 1850", FamilySearch, Ann Wade in entry for James Wade, 1850. Record: Ann Wade in the entry for James Wade, 1850 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LVPD-4NH: residence 1850, Williamsburg, Kings, New York back to the text
  19. Dr. John E. Wade Dies, The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York): Seventy-one years ago he was born, in old New York City Durlyn Wade (obituary), The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York): He was born in Manhattan, January 4, 1853 back to the text
  20. "New York, State Census, 1855", FamilySearch, Ann E Wade in entry for James M Wade, 1855. Record: Ann E Wade in the entry for James M Wade, 1855 "New York, State Census, 1865", FamilySearch, Ann E Wade in entry for Chas M Wade, 1865. Record: Ann E Wade in the entry for Chas M Wade, 1865 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LVPD-4NH: residences 1855, E.D. 1, Ward 15, Brooklyn City; 1865, Ward 13 and Ward 11, Brooklyn back to the text
  21. Ann E. Wade Dies in Her 100th Year: Husband Was Builder of Many Landmarks in Eastern District, The Standard Union (Brooklyn, New York): one of the pioneer builders and real estate brokers in the Eastern District ... erected many of the old landmarks still standing in the Eastern District back to the text
  22. Supreme Court, Kings County: Harris v. Burr, Wade and others (summons), The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York): Benjamin Harris, Plaintiff, against William Burr, Eliza Ann Wade, James M. Wade, her husband ... filed ... on the 20th day of August, in the year 1858; notes: suggests a dispute over property in which she had an interest back to the text
  23. Brothers at the Front: American Civil War Letters & Documents of James D. Wade and William H. Wade, 1862–1864, Transcribed and edited by Melissa K. Dewey & David M. Jones, Jacksonville, Florida, 2007 (unpublished, for Webb Wade): letters of James D. and William H. Wade, 1862–1864, to their parents and to their mother back to the text
  24. Brothers at the Front: American Civil War Letters & Documents of James D. Wade and William H. Wade, 1862–1864, Transcribed and edited by Melissa K. Dewey & David M. Jones, Jacksonville, Florida, 2007 (unpublished, for Webb Wade): Willie to Parents, 22 October 1863, page 1 (Folder25a): Your first letter speaks about your going to Rikers Island ... you speak of the Convasation you had with Capt. Howe; J. M. Wade to Willie, 3 October 1863 (Folder27a): Howe had a pass to come to the city; Mother to James, Sunday Night 27 December 1863 (Folder30b): May God watch over you for good is the pre[y?] of your Parents. E A Wade back to the text
  25. Brothers at the Front: American Civil War Letters & Documents of James D. Wade and William H. Wade, 1862–1864, Transcribed and edited by Melissa K. Dewey & David M. Jones, Jacksonville, Florida, 2007 (unpublished, for Webb Wade): Willie to Parents, Bonnet Carre, 22 and 25 October 1863, pages 1 and 3 (Folder25a, 25c): I expect those woman that was with you must have gave him a good talking too; got those Handkerchifs they smelt very sweet they said that you [been, struck out] there on the Island and [you, written above] look well back to the text
  26. Brothers at the Front: American Civil War Letters & Documents of James D. Wade and William H. Wade, 1862–1864, Transcribed and edited by Melissa K. Dewey & David M. Jones, Jacksonville, Florida, 2007 (unpublished, for Webb Wade): Mother to James, Sunday Night 27 December 1863 (Folder30b): I tell you they were to us like water to a thirsty Man.; the three year men were put into the Battery by the river the others went aboard of the vessel. they Called Willie name [twice, struck out] three times but did not get an answer; O what a rush the Teachers made Sunday after school to enquire after you, Mr Coombs had read your letter to the school back to the text
  27. Brothers at the Front: American Civil War Letters & Documents of James D. Wade and William H. Wade, 1862–1864, Transcribed and edited by Melissa K. Dewey & David M. Jones, Jacksonville, Florida, 2007 (unpublished, for Webb Wade): Willie to James, Williamsburgh, 27 December 1863, page 2 (Folder30a2): I brought your straw hat home also your shells which Mother highly Apprecheated back to the text
  28. Brothers at the Front: American Civil War Letters & Documents of James D. Wade and William H. Wade, 1862–1864, Transcribed and edited by Melissa K. Dewey & David M. Jones, Jacksonville, Florida, 2007 (unpublished, for Webb Wade): James to Mother, 19 October 1863, page 4 (Folder26d): You are the principal inducement I have to come home, I never knew I loved Mother so much untill[?] I cam to this country; James to Mother, 17 January 1864, page 1 (Folder32a): You will take out and keep for your own use five dollars a week hereafter commencing from the 1st day of January 1864 back to the text
  29. Brothers at the Front: American Civil War Letters & Documents of James D. Wade and William H. Wade, 1862–1864, Transcribed and edited by Melissa K. Dewey & David M. Jones, Jacksonville, Florida, 2007 (unpublished, for Webb Wade): James to Parents, Clarksville or Boca del Rio, 21 February 1864, page 2 (Folder34b): At home I was to proud, or at least Mother was, with all due respect to her, to let me associate with the poor and common class, and too poor to mingle with that class of people which through taste and from habit we belonged. that account for my having so few associates among the young folks of the Burgh back to the text
  30. Brothers at the Front: American Civil War Letters & Documents of James D. Wade and William H. Wade, 1862–1864, Transcribed and edited by Melissa K. Dewey & David M. Jones, Jacksonville, Florida, 2007 (unpublished, for Webb Wade): James to Parents, Boca del Rio, 13 April 1864, page 5 (Folder36d): Then how proud I shall feel to walk up the Isle to our pew with Mother's arm in mine; James to Mother, Boca del Rio, 26 June 1864, pages 2 and 3 (Folder42b, 42c): A Mrs Perry wife of Capt Perry stationed at this place and a native of Albany — N. Y. expects to return home soon — and will stop a few days in Brooklyn where she has friends she has your address and will call upon you back to the text
  31. Brothers at the Front: American Civil War Letters & Documents of James D. Wade and William H. Wade, 1862–1864, Transcribed and edited by Melissa K. Dewey & David M. Jones, Jacksonville, Florida, 2007 (unpublished, for Webb Wade): James to Mother, 17 January 1864, reverse (Folder32b): J. M Wade 183 South 6th Street near 7th Street Williamsburgh L. I.; envelopes postmarked New Orleans June 1863 (Folder15e), July 1863 (Folder18), October 1863 (Folder25e), April 1864 (Folder36e) and September 1864 (Folder45e): 183 South 6th Street; envelopes of 15 October 1863 (Folder23e) and one postmarked 4 September (Folder11): South 6th near 8th Street back to the text
  32. 1867-10-05-wade-brothers-police: the Bittners entered their residence in South Sixth street, and without any provocation assaulted the head of the family, James M. Wade 1867-10-05-wade-brothers-police-1: at their residence, in South Sixth street, E.D. back to the text
  33. Dedicatory Feast by Uptown Baptists: Trinity Church Has Dinner in Gymnasium of New Building (with a brief history), The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York): held at the home of David Hathaway, 25 Dodworth street, October 31, 1874, attended by ... James M. Wade, Eliza Ann Wade, John E. Wade, Durlyn Wade Church Forty Years Old: Trinity Baptist Society Celebrates With "Old Home Night", The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York): when thirteen persons were present back to the text
  34. Dedicatory Feast by Uptown Baptists: Trinity Church Has Dinner in Gymnasium of New Building (with a brief history), The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York): The name Trinity Baptist Church adopted December 1, 1874. Church organized December 18, 1874, at the home of James M. Wade, 10 Kossuth place Her 98th Birthday: Mrs. Eliza Ann Wade Has a Party at Her Son's Home, The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York): where her husband, the late James M. Wade, was long a deacon back to the text
  35. "New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949", FamilySearch, James M. Wade, 1 Apr 1876. Record: James M. Wade, 1 Apr 1876, New York City Municipal Deaths FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LVPD-4ZV (their page): death 1 Apr 1876, Brooklyn back to the text
  36. Mrs. Eliza Ann Wade Dies in 100th Year: Born in New York City When All Above Canal Street Was Farming Land; Shook Hands With Lafayette, The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York): the widow of James M. Wade, who died nearly forty years ago back to the text
  37. "New York, State Census, 1875", FamilySearch, Eliza Wade in entry for James Wade, 1875. Record: Eliza Wade in the entry for James Wade, 1875 "United States, Census, 1900", FamilySearch, Eliza Wade in entry for John Wade, 1900. Record: Eliza Wade in the entry for John Wade, 1900 Mrs. Eliza Ann Wade Dies in 100th Year: Born in New York City When All Above Canal Street Was Farming Land; Shook Hands With Lafayette, The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York): For the past fifteen years she had made her home with her only surviving son, Dr. Wade Her 98th Birthday: Mrs. Eliza Ann Wade Has a Party at Her Son's Home, The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York): the home of her son, Dr. John E. Wade, 908 Greene avenue, where she lives back to the text
  38. Reception to New Pastor: Rev. Robert E. Hill and Mrs. Hill Welcomed to Trinity Baptist Church, The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York): Mrs. Eliza A. Wade, 96 years young, and one of the oldest living charter members of Trinity back to the text
  39. Baptists Dedicate New Church Home: Woman 96 Years Old, Unable to Attend, Sends Written Prayer of Dedication, The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York): the unavoidable absence of Mrs. James M. Wade, in whose home, in 1874, the church was organized ... owing to an accident she was unable to be present. However, she wrote out the prayer back to the text
  40. Church Forty Years Old: Trinity Baptist Society Celebrates With "Old Home Night", The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York): Of these, five were present last night, the oldest being Mrs. E. A. Wade back to the text
  41. Her 98th Birthday: Mrs. Eliza Ann Wade Has a Party at Her Son's Home, The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York): celebrated her ninety-eighth birthday last Saturday ... still hale and hearty. Though a trifle deaf ... the Monday night sermon page of the Eagle; notes: last Saturday was 28 February 1914 back to the text
  42. Mrs. Wade, 99, Happy With 4 Generations: Her Offspring and Guests, Numbering 100, Extend Love on Birthday, The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York): The guests numbered about 100 ... Assisted by her granddaughter, Miss Adele Wade, Mrs. Wade received the guests ... She sews, knits, quilts and reads much back to the text
  43. Her 98th Birthday: Mrs. Eliza Ann Wade Has a Party at Her Son's Home, The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York): Among the relatives and friends at Mrs. Wade's reception Mrs. Wade, 99, Happy With 4 Generations: Her Offspring and Guests, Numbering 100, Extend Love on Birthday, The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York): The four generations were represented by back to the text
  44. Wade—Eliza Ann (death notice), The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York): On December 15, 1915, at her residence, 908 Greene av ... of broncho-pneumonia, ELIZA ANN WADE, widow of James M. Wade, aged 99 years, 9 months Mrs. Eliza Ann Wade Dies in 100th Year: Born in New York City When All Above Canal Street Was Farming Land; Shook Hands With Lafayette, The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York): died yesterday afternoon ... Mrs. Wade had been ill only a week "New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949", FamilySearch, Eliza Ann Wade, 15 Dec 1915. Record: Eliza Ann Wade, 15 Dec 1915 back to the text
  45. Mrs. Eliza Ann Wade Dies in 100th Year: Born in New York City When All Above Canal Street Was Farming Land; Shook Hands With Lafayette, The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York): conducted by the Rev. Maurice Ambrose Levy, pastor of the Greene Avenue Baptist Church. The interment will be in Cypress Hills Cemetery on Saturday Mrs. Wade Buried Yesterday, The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York): Only the immediate relatives attended the burial in the family plot in Cypress Hills Cemetery "Find a Grave Index", FamilySearch, Eliza Ann Marvin Wade. Record: Eliza Ann Marvin Wade, Find a Grave Index back to the text
  46. Mrs. Wade Buried Yesterday, The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York): who died last Thursday ... were conducted at her late home ... yesterday; notes: this item is the one in error Wade—Eliza Ann (death notice), The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York): Funeral services at her late residence, Friday, December 17, at 7:45 p.m. Dies in Her 100th Year: Mrs. Eliza Ann Wade Bright Mentally Until End, The Evening Sun (Baltimore, Maryland): died Wednesday back to the text
  47. Dies in Her 100th Year: Mrs. Eliza Ann Wade Bright Mentally Until End, The Evening Sun (Baltimore, Maryland): Mrs. Eliza Ann Wade died Wednesday in her one hundredth year back to the text
  48. Mrs. Eliza Ann Wade Dies in 100th Year: Born in New York City When All Above Canal Street Was Farming Land; Shook Hands With Lafayette, The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York): survived, besides her son, by several grandchildren ... and six great-grandchildren back to the text
  49. Mrs. Wade, 99, Happy With 4 Generations: Her Offspring and Guests, Numbering 100, Extend Love on Birthday, The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York): with a photograph captioned Mrs. E. A. Wade Mrs. Eliza Ann Wade Dies in 100th Year: Born in New York City When All Above Canal Street Was Farming Land; Shook Hands With Lafayette, The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York): with a photograph captioned Mrs. Eliza Ann Wade back to the text
  50. "United States, Census, 1850", FamilySearch, Ann Wade in entry for James Wade, 1850. Record: Ann Wade, 1850 "New York, State Census, 1855", FamilySearch, Ann E Wade in entry for James M Wade, 1855. Record: Ann E Wade, 1855 "New York, State Census, 1865", FamilySearch, Ann E Wade in entry for Chas M Wade, 1865. Record: Ann E Wade, 1865 Ann E. Wade Dies in Her 100th Year: Husband Was Builder of Many Landmarks in Eastern District, The Standard Union (Brooklyn, New York): ANN E. WADE DIES IN HER 100TH YEAR "New York, New York City Marriage Records, 1829-1938", FamilySearch, Eliza Wade in entry for James D. Wade and Harriet N. Ricker, 21 October 1869. Record: Eliza Wade in the entry for James D. Wade and Harriet N. Ricker, 21 October 1869 "New York, New York City Marriage Records, 1829-1938", FamilySearch, Eliza A. in entry for John Edward Wade and Hester Rogers, 30 August 1876. Record: Eliza A. in the entry for John Edward Wade and Hester Rogers, 30 August 1876 "New York, New York City Marriage Records, 1829-1938", FamilySearch, Eliza Ann Wade in entry for Durlyn Wade and Catherine Watson Guillan, 14 September 1879. Record: Eliza Ann Wade in the entry for Durlyn Wade and Catherine Watson Guillan, 14 September 1879 "New York, New York City Marriage Records, 1829-1938", FamilySearch, Eliza Marvin in entry for William H Wade and Emma May Goodrich, 10 August 1868. Record: Eliza Marvin, 10 August 1868 back to the text
Every FamilySearch record attached to Eliza Ann Marvin (16)
  1. 1850Ann Wade, "United States, Census, 1850"
  2. 1855Ann E Wade, "New York, State Census, 1855"
  3. 1865Ann E Wade, "New York, State Census, 1865"
  4. 10 August 1868Eliza Marvin, "New York, New York City Marriage Records, 1829-1938"
  5. 21 October 1869Eliza Wade, "New York, New York City Marriage Records, 1829-1938"
  6. 1875Eliza Wade, "New York, State Census, 1875"
  7. 30 August 1876Eliza A., "New York, New York City Marriage Records, 1829-1938"
  8. 14 September 1879Eliza Ann Wade, "New York, New York City Marriage Records, 1829-1938"
  9. 1900Eliza Wade, "United States, Census, 1900"
  10. 19 Oct 1902Eliza, "New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949"
  11. 24 Feb 1907Eliza A. Wade, "New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949"
  12. 1910Eliza Ann Wade, "United States, Census, 1910"
  13. 1915Eliza A Wade, "New York, State Census, 1915"
  14. 15 Dec 1915Eliza Ann Wade, "New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949"
  15. 10 Jan 1919Eliza A. Wade, "New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949"
  16. Eliza Ann Marvin Wade, "Find a Grave Index"