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Note: oodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y., which Plot is immediately behind the William H. Leggett Plot (Lots 522 and 523, Section 9 Spring Hill Section, Magnolia Drive) near the Cemetery office at the Webster Avenue gate in the extreme northeast corner of the grounds.
At least 20 Charles Beldens served in the Civil War in some capacity, according to online records. Eliminating those with the wrong middle initials, notes that seem to indicate their name was Belding, Beldon, Bellder, Beldia, and the wrong geography, and one from the Colored Infantry, we are left with two possibilities:
Civil War Service Records
Surname Given Name Middle Initial Company Unit Rank - Induction Rank - Discharge Notes Allegiance
Belden Chas B 13 N. Y. National Guard. Private Private Union
Belden Charles G 125 N. Y. Infantry. Private Private Union
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Full Context of American Civil War Soldiers
Charles Belden
Residence: Occupation: Service Record: Enlisted as a Private on 03 January 1865 at the age of 21 Enlisted in Company G, 125th Infantry Regiment New York on 03 January 1865.
Discharged Company G, 125th Infantry Regiment New York on 16 March 1865
This database has no entry for the Charles Belden listed as in the 13th N. Y. National Guard, above.
Insription on the gravestone of Maria Mullen who was a servant of Charles and Sarah (Allen), although buried next to the graves of Edith B. and Charles W. Palmer:
MARIA M. MULLEN
DIED AUG. 3, 1926
A FAITHFUL SERVANT
FOR 66 YEARS
19 May 2003--Catherine Cluett Belden has a book of reminiscences concerning this servant, who was apparently a tiny woman, but a "real pistol."
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3 Sept 2003 to Ancestry.com
I reported this error many months ago, don't know if you got the message, anyway it has not been fixed. Is it possible for you to acknowledge these messages? I want to help improve this wonderful resource.
Thanks,
David Leggett
This terrible misreading of the name by the indexer renders Charles D. Belden (who actually turns out to be Mrs. Charles D. Belden, as he died in 1912) virtually unfindable. Found only in a search for her cousin, Laura Lacey Leggett. She was living with her first cousin, the widow Mrs. Charles D. Belden (Sarah R. Allen, daughter of Catherine Maria (Leggett) Allen) and her son, William Allen Belden, and servant Maria Mullen. Catherine Maria, her husband, and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Belden are buried in the Allen plot in Woodlawn Cemetery, with Maria Mullen, "A faithful servant for 66 years." William Belden does not appear to be in the index at all, even under the creative rendering of his father's surname.
Belaev, Charles D
Age: 72 Year: 1920 Birthplace: New York Roll: T625_179 Race: White Page: 6A State: Connecticut ED: 163 County: Fairfield Image: 13 Township: Stamford Catherine Cluett Belden has no recollection of hearing of Laura Lacey Leggett. I thought her father might have, as he was born in 1925, and his father lived with her in the household, according to the 1920 Census. My father, born in 1931, can vaguely remember her as an old woman visiting his parents in the 1930s.
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Pertinent affidavit from the Record of the William M. Allen Plot, Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx:
Heirs of Lot Number 1765-66
Deed Number 1208 Section 9 Plot SPRING LAKE
State of NEW YORK
County of BRONX
Agnes Belden Arthur residing at 320 East 72nd Street in the City of New York and State of New York being duly sworn, doth depose and say: Sarah Belden, deceased heir of Lot Number 1765-1766 section 9 plot Spring Lake in the Woodlawn Cemetery, situated in the City of New York and County of Bronx, died on or about the first day of March one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven and did not specifically refer to said lot by Last Will and Testament.
That at the time of the death of the said Sarah Belden she left surviving, as her sole heirs, the following three children:
Edith Belden Palmer, 480 Park Avenue
William Allen Belden, since deceased, leaving one child,
William Allen Belden, who also left a wife Hala Belden
Agnes Belden Arthur, this deponent
And the following no children of deceased children:
That the said Sarah Belden left surviving no husband by name of
Signature Agnes Belden Arthur
Sworn to before me this
4 day of January 1937
Edward H. Smith
Notary Public, Westchester Co.
Bronx Co. No. 107, Reg. Nop. 374S38
Term Expires March 30, 1938
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Note: Birth and death dates taken from stones in the William M. Allen Plot, W
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