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Note: N18 From the Burlington Free Press and Times, Saturday, Sept. 15. 1928:
Mrs. Mary Hertz passed away at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Harry S.Howard, in this city, last evening after an illness following a shock in April. Mrs. Hertz was the widow of Ferdinand Hertz of New York, who died in 1881. She was born in Galveston, Texas, February 20, 1843, the daughter of the Reverend James Isaac and Mary Ann (Mussina) Henderson. During her long widowhood she brought up a family of three daughters and gave her life unstintedly to the service of others in her church and mission work in New York and Brooklyn, NY. Mrs. Hertz came to Burlington with her daughter in 1902 and since then has made her home here at intervals. Her daughter Olga died in 1909. She is survived by two daughters, Anna H. Burgess of Canon City, Colorado, and Mrs. H. S., Howard of this city and by six grandchildren. She had made many friends in Burlington who will remember her charming southern manners, her cordial greetings, and her loving, unselfish Christian spirit. Funeral arrangements will be announced later.
From the Burlington Free Press and Times, Sept. 17,1928:
The funeral of Mrs. Mary Hertz who died in this city last Friday will be held this afternoon at 2 o'clock at the home of her daughter, Mrs. H. S. Howard of 421 Main St. Interment will be made in the Hertz-Henderson family lot in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY, tomorrow morning.
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Notes based on old family letters:
Mary and her husband Ludwig Ferdinand traveled back and forth between Europe and the USA, as attested by the places where their children were born and the recollections of their daughters. An April 24, 1922 letter from Anna Hertz Burgess to her son Paul recalls that her mother traveled in the Black Forest in 1873, and "there were frequent times when all she dared eat were eggs boiled in the shell."
Apparently Ludwig Ferdinand Hertz was so ill the last few years of his life that he had little contact with his family, and his wife and uncles (Michel and Armand Heine) handled the family finances. The Heine brothers took out $35,000 worth of life insurance policies on their ill nephew.
After Ludwig Ferdinand Hertz died, his widow Mary Ann moved with her daughters to Clifton Springs, New York, and was still there when her daughter Anna was married in 1885. After this Mary Ann moved a good many times. In 1910-1911 she was renting rooms in Chicago. In her later years she visited her daughter Anna in Colorado, but lived most of the time with her daughter Sue in Vermont.
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Notes regarding Armand and Michel Heine's support of Mary Henderson Hertz:
After Ludwig Ferdinand Hertz died, Michel and Armand Heine sent regular monthly support of $300 a month, through M. Morgan's sons in NY, to Mary Ann. This may have been from investments made with the $35,000 life insurance money they took out on him.
Receipts show that Mary Ann received regular monthly payments of $300 a month from the Heine Co. in Paris, sent through M. Morgan's Sons in NY until June, 1884. At that time, Mary Ann received a letter from M. Morgan's sons stating: "I regret to have to announce the frailure of M. Morgan's Sons and would suggest that you cvommunicate with Heine Co. as to their making some other arrangement with regard to making these payments to you."
After this, the money came through Heidelbach Ickelheimer and Co.
Source1: Receipt signed by Mary Hertz, dated New York Nov. 1, 1882 (original in possession of Anna Marie Sywulka Dahlquist):
"Received from Mssrs. M. Morgan's sons, Three hundred Dollars Currency being [word unclear] regular monthly payment made under Mssrs. A. and M. Heine letter of credit dated March 23, '81."
Source 2: Letter to Mary Hertz from M. Morgan's Sons, dated New York June 28, 1884 (original in possession of Anna Marie Sywulka Dahlquist):
Source 3: Receipt signed by Mary Hertz, dated Clifton Springs, New York Sept. 8, 1884 (original in possession of Anna Marie Sywulka Dahlquist):
"Received from Heidelbach Ickelheimer and Co, by order of and for act of Messrs. Heine and Co. in Paris, fifty-two hundred francs.
When Mary Henderson Hertz died, she left an estate of $26.000 to be divided between her two survivng daughters. (Source: June 9, 1929 letter from Anna Hertz Burgess to her son Paul).
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From a letter from Anna Hertz Burgess to her son Paul, dated Sept. 23, 1928, in regard to the death of Mary Henderson Hertz:
"From Aunt Sue has come word that Mother's death came very suddenly. She had had a pleasant, cheerful day, in the evening her nurse had read to her from the Bible, and later they had had a laugh together. Aunt Sue had come in to say good night and noticed nothing unusual and then the change came and it was all over. Sue has written of Mother's beauty in death. Of the prayer service in which many different groups united -- Congregationalist, Episcopalian, Christian Scientist, Rosacrucian, and others. Father Joyce, a very charming young priest, whom I have met and of whom Mother was fond, had prayer by her side. The flowers were very abundant and very beautiful. The body was taken to Brooklyn, to Greenwood Cemetery, and laid by the side of your grandfaher and Mother's children. Nettie Wengeworth was among those present. Carrie Ormsbee, Jim Wadhams, and Marcia, Carrie Wadhams ---Will's wife, and Francis Ladd were also there. In some ways it has almost seemed as if I should have been there too, but I am so glad I had the month of June with Mother. it meant so much more than the funeral."
Burial notes: She was buried as "Mary Henderson Hertz" on 18 Nov. 1928 in Brooklyn's Greenwood Cemetery, Lot 15802, Section 124.
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