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Note: !DEATH: Tombstone Inscriptions: Bergen County NJ and Rockland County NY,
George H. Budke Vol 4 Cemetery at the Dutch Reformed Church at
Ridgefield, NJ.
#7508 Mary wife of David MacDonald died 4.16.1891 @@ 77 years
Newspaper clipping in Bible of Mary Eliza Macdonald.
MacDonald, - At Hackensack, N.J. April 18, Mary, widow of David
MacDonald, age 77 years.
Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend her funeral
on Sunday, April 19 at 3 o'clock P.M. from the First Baptist Church,
Hackensack."
NJ Archives Death Records, Reel 97, Bergen County
Died Apr 15, 1891, Female, Widow, Age 77. b US, Parents b US
Death Certificate, NJ Archives, b N. Y. City. Father Conrad Sedore
Mother - Elthea Smith
English Neighborhood Reformed Church cemetery, Old, lot 55-56
!MARRIAGE: History of Bergen and Passaic Counties, New Jersey, W Woodford
Clayton and William Nelson, 1882.
"David(McDonald) married Mary Seddon, and settled at Fairview, and
reared a large family."
Van Valen, J.M., "History of Bergen County, N.J.", p. 249. MaryMcDonald was one
of the original 19 members of the Baptist Church in English Neighborhood(now
Fairview) in 1848.
The Sedore Genealogy, Walter B Smith II - Mary and her husband David lived in
Fairview, Ridgefield Township, Bergen County, NJ> They were residing nearby at
Old Bulls Fery, now Edgewater, Bergen County, at the time their child(son) was
born in January 1849. David was a farmer and also owned and operated a general
store. The first public school of Fairview was organized about 1845, with 15
boys and girls gathering in the basement of David's store. He was one of the
original 19 members and one of the first trustees of the 1st Baptist Church of
English Neighborhood, of which Fairview was then a part. Mary's sister-in-law,
Mary(Earle) Sedore, was also much involved in organizing that church. Mary and
David are said to have had many children. Mention has ben found of only five
of them, two of whom periched in the cholera epidemic of 1856.
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