The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1874-08-01
The Death Of Mrs. Elizabeth d. s. Al
laire Reed Born During the Rev
olution Baptized in Gen.
Washingtons Tent

widow of Capt William Reed. who was
lost at sea in 1906, died on Thursday, At
the residence IF her grand nephew, Phillip
Allaire, 636 Greenwich street. corner of
Morton, at the age of 96.
In the death Of this estimable lady the
present loses one of the strong links con
Meeting it with the far distant past. She was
born two years after the Openingof the Am
erican revolution, at Greensburg, a part of
what was then known as the Phillips
Manor, and about five miles from larry
town. AT the time Of her birth, Gen.
Washington headquarters were on her
grandmother ground, and it was III his
marquee she was baptized, a brother Of
the Generals wife acting as one Of the
sponsors. Mrs. Reed WAS fond of repeat
ing to her relatives and friends what she
had heard concerning the ceremony. Her
godfather promised after the babe had been
chrlstened that when she had reached the
age Of twenty-one he would give her fine
horse with all the accoutrements, but he
died long before the time arrived for him
to make good his promise. She rcmem-
bered Washington Irving as a boy he hav-
ing been for some time one of her school
mates. She was the eldest If sixteen
children, and was cousin Of James =.
Allalre, the great engine builder, who
died IN 1855, at Squankum, n. j.
ln 1902 she married Capt. William Reed,
who had been a midshipman in the young
navy, but who was at the time Of the mar
rage IN command Of merchant vessel
-Four years afterward, when ON return
voyage and only a few hours sail from
New ! lork, his ship was caught i'll a storm
and he and all his crew were lost His
warrant midshipman had been gwen
him by Thomas Jefferson, at the personal
request Of the patriot Tom Pane.
Mrs Reed Joined the then weak and
struggling Methodists, in 1910, on the old
Croton Camp Ground at that time part
of Pierre Van Courtlandts land She af-
terward became a member Of the Forsyth
Street Church, and remai,.ed III close con
nection with il until her death.
Her grandmother was a Lespineau. a
name afterward corrupted to Lispenard,
who married All Allaire, a descendant of
the first Huguenot in New York State
Alexander AllaIre came over from France
IN 1850, before the evocation of the Edict
Of Nantes, and settled in Westchester
county, where he founded town which
he named New Rochelle, after the place
from which he had fled He belonged to
a family Of high rank, and was himself a
nobleman Of France. From the Huguen-
OTIS who settled New Rochelle and its
neighborlng towns, have sprung many dis
tinguished men who have conferred honor
upon their country, their name and their
race. Among them were the P..yards. the
Pintards, the De Lanceys, tie Leruys. and
many others equally identified with the
progress of the country. The original AL
laire, who lived To- the age Of 93, lies III
the old burying ground at New Rochelle,
and not far of still stands the house in
which Mrs. Reeds father, Uytendale Al
lalre, was born III 1883. The uld building
looks much Ike All ancient fort, Is as
strong and solid az II was a century ago,
and bids fair To last a century longer, nm
less the demands Of AN advancing civilza-
tlon should necessitate the destruction of
the interesting relic
The ground ON which the New York
York Custom House stands was once owned
by the grandfather Of Mrs Reed He
gave 1t to the French congregation VI the
city, expecting that they would build a
church upon il but they sold it. much to
his regret, and after passing through var
iOui hands It became the property of the
Government
Mrs. Reeds faculties did not begin To
fail until about year ago, when she began
to experience difficulty i'll remembering
things of recent occurrence. Her
in regard to names, dates, scenes connected
with the past fifty and eighty years, was
remarkably acute. Although oman If
great pride IN her ancestry, she was re-
marksble for the simplicity Of her man
ners, her uniform courtesy to all with
whom she came i'll contact. From the time
she connected herself with the church IN
til her death her apparel was always PLAIN,
and she was never known III all those
years 10 devIate from the simple and
chaste fashion Of the early Methodsts
whose costume, now rarely seen, was sim
liar to that Of the Quakers.
The funeral services were held at her
grand nephew s bouse yesterday afternoon,
tn ; Rev. Gilbert II. Gregory Of the Bed
ford Street Methodist Church officiating.
The body will be taken to New Rochelle
this morning and laid beside that of Alex
ander Allaire, the first Huguenot settler
in this State, and the founder Of family
noted for the integrity, usefulness and
public spirit of it's members. York
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