Florence Haight (1866 - 1933)

Born 1866 in Stillwater, NY

Ancestors

Wife of Frederick Lester McNaughton — married 25 Sep 1890 in Stillwater, New York

Descendants

Died 1933 at about age 67 in Troy, NY

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Biography

Religious Confirmation: BURIED AT OAKWOOD CEMETARY, TROY, WITH HER HUSBAND BUT HAS NO STONE.

Note: FLORENCE HAIGHT WIFE OF FREDERICK L. MCNAUGHTON - GENERATION IV. 2 I know very little about Florence Haight McNaughton. I remember a. comment Grandma (Anna Peetz) made once of her husband's mother being a. lovely lady. She had a difficult life, obviously, having to support. herself and her son after the death of her husband and it must have been. very hard for her to give up the care of her daughter to her. sister-in-law to raise. Most of this information was given to us by Ruth. Gentile, the daughter of Herbert, who was very close to her father and he. conveyed much of the family history to her. Ruth informed us of the. whereabouts of all the family grave sights, as well as supplying. pictures, wills and marriage certificates. I do know from census records that she lived most of her life in. Stillwater, had a brother and a sister, and that at one time her father. was a bartender at one of the hotels in Saratoga. She was eight years older than her husband, and never remarried. She went to work in one of the clothing factories after her husband's. death, and worked there until she retired. After her retirement, she. went to live with her daughter, until her own death. Prior to that, she. had lived with her son, but I was happy to know that she did get to share. in her daughter's life in her later years. At the time of her husband's death, his body was wedged between two. cars, and could not be removed until the cars were moved. He was. decapitated, so the whole scene had to be quite grusome. She went with. her father-in-law to identify the body and take it to the funeral home. I found this strange, as at that time, women were for the most part,. spared a scene like that. Certainly, his father could have accomplished. the identification without her. Perhaps it was a need within her to see. for herself that the nightmare was real. The newspaper article regarding this crash stated that they resided. on Fifth Avenue in Troy at the time of his death, and mentioned the. sadness of the fact that the family was planning a birthday party for. their young daughter that evening, and that he was hoping to get back in. time for it. The Letters of Administration for his estate, however, were drawn. from the Saratoga Surrogate's Court by Florence, naming her as a resident. of the Town of Halfmoon, as was he. This, I would presume an error, as. it seems more likely to me that after his death, she may have gone back. to her parent's home. I do not believe that her husband ever resided in. Halfmoon. I'm also not aware of her parents ever living in Halfmoon,. although I know they did live in Saratoga County most of their lives, and. are buried in Stillwater. She may also, have gone to stay with her. brother, or perhaps they had purchased a house that they had not yet. moved into before he died. She was designated as the Administrator of. his estate the 8th of July, 1901. The remainder of her life, I know little about. She came from a. very historic and colorful family, as will become evident as this. genealogy unfolds. The one picture I have of her presently, is of her. later years. She is attractive and looks pleasent and good natured. Whether her eyes are blue or hazel like her father's is difficult to. determine, but they do not appear to be brown. It is also evident in. that one picture that she had a stigmatisim in one of her eyes. Whether. she had it all of her life, or just in her later years, I do not know. Aunt Lillian showed me a younger picture of her once when we were going. over pictures with them, but I do not know what has become of it. She is buried with her husband in Oakwood Cemetary in Troy, in the. only unmarked grave in the plot.

Sources

• Marriage announcement (Orig. in possession of Glen MacNaughton.
• The Troy Daily Press, Thursday, March 28, 1901.
• Letter of Administration, 8 July 1901.
• Ruth McNaughton Gentile, RI.
• The Wildbores in America, 2nd Edition, Pub. 1933 by John Reid Wilbor and Benjamin F. Wilbour Ref. J-8421 (3)where her name is incorrectly written Shrene (Shreve).