Catherine G. (Fitzmartin) Neville (1866 - 1928)

Born 6 Apr 1866 in Pennsylvania

Ancestors

Descendants

Died 3 Oct 1928 at age 62 in Endicott, Broome, New York, USA

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Biography

This biography is a rough draft. It was auto-generated by a GEDCOM import and needs to be edited.

Name

Name: Catherine G /FITZMARTIN/

Name: Catherine /Fitzmartin/^[1]

Name: Cathin /Nevill/^[2]

Name: Catherine /Neville/^[3]

Name: Catherine /Fitzmartin/^[4][5][6]

Name: Catharine /Fitzmartin/^[7]

Found multiple versions of NAME. Using Catherine G /FITZMARTIN/.

Birth

Birth: 1870, 1880, 1910 census

Date: 1866

Place: Pennsylvania^[8][9][10]

Birth:

Date: 06 APR 1866

Birth: 1920 census

Date: 1869

Place: Pennsylvania^[11]

Found multiple copies of BIRT DATE. Using 1866

Death

Death: per descendant Bonnie Weant.

Date: 07 OCT 1928

Place: Endicott, Broome, New York, USA^[12]

Residence

Residence: 1920 census

Date: 1920

Place: Union, Broome, New York^[13]

Residence: 1910 census

Date: 1910

Place: Auburn Ward 4, Cayuga, New York^[14]

Residence: 1880 census

Date: 1880

Place: Apolacon, Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, United States^[15]

Residence: 1870 census

Date: 1870

Place: Apolacon, Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, United States^[16]

Note

Note: #N528

Sources

1. ↑ Source: #S426 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for William S Neville
2. ↑ Source: #S29 Page: Database online. Year: 1910; Census Place: Auburn Ward 4, Cayuga, New York; Roll: ; Page: ; Enumeration District: ; Image: . Data: Text: Record for Cathin Nevill
3. ↑ Source: #S27 Page: Database online. Year: 1920; Census Place: Union, Broome, New York; Roll: T625_1087; Page: 1B; Enumeration District: 90; Image: . Data: Text: Record for Catherine Neville
4. ↑ Source: #S25 Page: Database online. Year: 1880; Census Place: Apolacon, Susquehanna, Pennsylvania; Roll: 1196; Family History Film: 1255196; Page: 42A; Enumeration District: 116; Image: 0086. Data: Text: Record for Patrick Fitzmartin
5. ↑ Source: #S32 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Patrick H Fitzmartin
6. ↑ Source: #S25 Page: Database online. Year: 1880; Census Place: Apolacon, Susquehanna, Pennsylvania; Roll: 1196; Family History Film: 1255196; Page: 42B; Enumeration District: 116; Image: 0087. Data: Text: Record for Catherine Fitzmartin
7. ↑ Source: #S35 Page: Database online. Year: 1870; Census Place: Apolacon, Susquehanna, Pennsylvania; Roll: M593_; Page: ; Image: . Data: Text: Record for Catharine Fitzmartin
8. ↑ Source: #S25 Page: Database online. Year: 1880; Census Place: Apolacon, Susquehanna, Pennsylvania; Roll: 1196; Family History Film: 1255196; Page: 42A; Enumeration District: 116; Image: 0086. Data: Text: Record for Patrick Fitzmartin
9. ↑ Source: #S35 Page: Database online. Year: 1870; Census Place: Apolacon, Susquehanna, Pennsylvania; Roll: M593_; Page: ; Image: . Data: Text: Record for Catharine Fitzmartin
10. ↑ Source: #S29 Page: Database online. Year: 1910; Census Place: Auburn Ward 4, Cayuga, New York; Roll: ; Page: ; Enumeration District: ; Image: . Data: Text: Record for Cathin Nevill
11. ↑ Source: #S27 Page: Database online. Year: 1920; Census Place: Union, Broome, New York; Roll: T625_1087; Page: 1B; Enumeration District: 90; Image: . Data: Text: Record for Catherine Neville
12. ↑ Source: #S712
13. ↑ Source: #S27 Page: Database online. Year: 1920; Census Place: Union, Broome, New York; Roll: T625_1087; Page: 1B; Enumeration District: 90; Image: . Data: Text: Record for Catherine Neville
14. ↑ Source: #S29 Page: Database online. Year: 1910; Census Place: Auburn Ward 4, Cayuga, New York; Roll: ; Page: ; Enumeration District: ; Image: . Data: Text: Record for Cathin Nevill
15. ↑ Source: #S25 Page: Database online. Year: 1880; Census Place: Apolacon, Susquehanna, Pennsylvania; Roll: 1196; Family History Film: 1255196; Page: 42A; Enumeration District: 116; Image: 0086. Data: Text: Record for Patrick Fitzmartin
16. ↑ Source: #S35 Page: Database online. Year: 1870; Census Place: Apolacon, Susquehanna, Pennsylvania; Roll: M593_; Page: ; Image: . Data: Text: Record for Catharine Fitzmartin

• WikiTree profile Fitzmartin-8 created through the import of Johnson Family Tree 2011-08-24.ged on Aug 24, 2011 by Rosemary Palermo. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Rosemary and others.

• Source: S25 Author: Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Title: 1880 United States Federal Census Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2005; Repository: #R2 NOTETenth Census of the United States, 1880. (NARA microfilm publication T9, 1,454 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
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• Source: S27 Author: Ancestry.com Title: 1920 United States Federal Census Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2009; Repository: #R2
• Source: S29 Author: Ancestry.com Title: 1910 United States Federal Census Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006; Repository: #R2
• Source: S32 Author: Ancestry.com Title: Public Member Trees Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006; Repository: #R2
• Source: S35 Author: Ancestry.com Title: 1870 United States Federal Census Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2009; Repository: #R2
• Source: S426 Title: Public Member Trees - McCarthy Family Tree
• Source: S712 Title: Binghamton NY Press Grayscale 1928 b - 4815.pdf

Notes

Note N5281870 - 15 July - dwelling 10- family 10 - Apolacon Township, Montrose PO, Susquehanna, PA

Patrick (50) farmer - farm worth 00-pp00, born IR, cannot read, cannot write, Catherine (45) keeping house, born IR, cannot read, cannot write, Margaret (20) at home, born PA, can read and write, John (17) born PA, works on farm, Cornelius (15) works on farm, born PA, Michael (14) born PA, works on farm, Patrick (13) twin, born PA, works on farm, Ellen (13) twin, at home, born PA, Mary J (10), born PA, James (9), born PA, Thomas (5), born PA, Catherine (4), born PA, William E (1) born PA

1880 - 5 June census - dwelling 45 - family 48 - Apolacon, Susquehanna, PA

Patrick (60) farmer, Catherine (55) keeps house, John (27), farmer, Cornelius (25), farmer, Michael (24) farmer, Mary Jane (20) at home, Thomas H (15), farmer, Catherine (14), at home, William E (12), farmer, also Adam Lewis (43) boarder, shingle maker

Missing from this census are:

Margaret (30)

Patrick (23)

Ellen (23)

James (19)

1887 - James (26) now a mason has moved to Binghamton with sister Katie (Catherine) and they are living at 18 Charles St. Binghamton, NY

1888- James , Katie and Lizzie (Elizabeth) are at 139 Clinton St, Binghamton, NY and brother Thomas has come also

James - Mason

Katie - no occupation listed

Lizzie - cigar maker

Thomas - clerk boards at 120 Washington St.

1889 - James, Katie, Lizzie are at 5 Mary St, Binghamton, NY

James - mason

Katie - no occupation

Lizzie - cigarmaker

Thomas - clerk - works and boards at 120 Washington.

1890- 21 Jan - William S Neville (36) marries Catherine G Fitzmartin per family information from descendant, Bonnie Weant.

William and Catherine then moved to Elmira, NY.

Note: Per 1910 census notation - married 15 years - would make marriage date 1895.

1894 -24 Sept - birth of son James - dies 2 days later

1895 - 23 October - birth of twin girls: Mary Ethel and Margaret Esther

1896- 4 Sept - death of Margaret Esther - 11 months old.

1 Dec - birth of twin boys Joseph Bartholomew (dies as 2 days old) and Francis J.

1898 - 17 Jan - birth of Katherine - Endicott, NY

1899- 18 Dec - birth of Helen

Binghamton, NY - per the city directory - Fitzmartin & Co.

William S Neville (45) and William E Fitzmartin are running a saloon at 132 Washington Ave, Binghamton, NY per city directory.

William E boards at 62 1/2 Pine as does William S Neville per the directory.

Note: William E Fitzmartin is Catherine G Fitzmartin's younger brother. He would have grown up with William Neville in Apolacon, PA.

other Fitzmartins in Binghamton directory:

Catherine G Fitzmartin is noted as a cigar maker residing at 64 Lewis (using maiden name?)

James Fitzmartin, h 64 Lewis (James is Catherine G Fitzmartin's younger brother)

Mary Fitzmartin, widow of James, h 64 Lewis

Other Nevilles in Binghamton directory:

Bridget, widow of Patrick, h 17 Liberty (possibly Patrick survived the bedbug poison?)

Patrick, fireman, h 17 Liberty (possibly son of Bridget and Patrick Jr?)

1899- 18 Dec birth of Helen in Endicott, Broome, NY (this is near Binghamton, NY)

1900 - cannot locate family in census

Per family members, William was a guard at Sing Sing Prison. This is in Ossining, NY about 50 miles north of NY City.

This must have occurred between 1899 when he was located in Binghamton, NY and 1902 when his daughter Margaret is born in Auburn which is at the other end of NY State about 250 miles apart.

Sing Sing Prison:

Sing Sing was the third prison built by New York State. The first prison was built in 1797 in Greenwich Village and a second one in 1816 called Auburn State Prison. When it was opened in 1826, Sing Sing was considered a model prison, because it turned a profit for the state, and by October 1828 was finally completed.

Warden Lynds employed the Auburn system, which imposed absolute silence on the prisoners; the system was enforced by whipping and other brutal punishments.

Thomas Mott Osborne's tenure as warden of Sing Sing prison was brief but dramatic. Osborne arrived in 1914 with a reputation as a radical prison reformer. His report of a week-long incognito stay inside New York's Auburn Prison indicted traditional prison administration in merciless detail. Prisoners who had bribed officers and intimidated other inmates lost their privileges under Osborne's regime. One of them conspired with powerful political allies to destroy Osborne's reputation, even succeeding in getting him indicted for a variety of crimes and maladministration. After Osborne triumphed in court, his return to Sing Sing was a cause for wild celebration by the inmates

1902 - 22 Oct - birth of daughter Margaret in Auburn, Cayuga, NY per descendant Bonnie Weant

William was working at Auburn State Correctional Institution by this date.Per descendant Bonnie Weant, William was well regarded by the prisoners at Auburn per a letter of condolence sent by an inmate following his death.

Auburn Prison:

Constructed in 1816 as Auburn Prison, it was the second state prison in New York (after New York City's Newgate, 1797-1828), the site of the first execution via electric chair in 1890, and the namesake of the "Auburn System," a correctional system believed to rehabilitate prisoners.In contrast with the purely reformatory type prison instituted in Pennsylvania, introduced by the Quakers, the "Auburn System" modified the schedule of prayer, contemplation, and humane conditions with hard labor and work.

Prisoners were compelled to work during the day, and the profit of their labor helped to support the prison. Prisoners were segregated by type of criminality into different locations within the prisons and by the use of special clothing. The traditional American prison uniform, consisting of horizontal black and white stripes, originated at the Auburn prison. The prisoners had their heads closely cropped and walked in lockstep, keeping step with their heads bowed. Each prisoner placed a hand on the shoulder of the man in front of him to maintain a rigid separation.

There was a communal dining room so that the prisoners could gather together for meals, but a code of silence was enforced harshly at all times by the guards. Thus the inmates worked and ate together, but in complete silence. At night the prisoners were kept in individual cells (even though the original plan called for double cells).

For several decades, this system was adopted by other jurisdictions. This system was also called the "Congregate System." The Sing Sing Correctional Facility, also in New York, was built using this system under the supervision of the former warden of the Auburn prison, Elam Lynds.

1905- 9 Jan - birth son William Peter Neville - in Auburn, NY

7 April - death daughter Margaret in Auburn, NY of Pneumonia - abt 3 yrs old

1906 - 6 June - birth daughter Nora Marie -

1909 - 16 Sept - birth of Alice Elizabeth in Auburn, Cayuga, NY

1910- 26 April census - dweling 251- family 328 - 193 Seymour St, Auburn Ward 4, Cayuga, NY, USA

William (49) head, married 1-15 years, born PA, keeper-state prison, house rented, Catherine (44) married 1-15 years, 12 children-7 living, born PA, Mary (14) born NY, Francis (13) born NY, Catherine (12) born NY, Helen (10) born NY, William (5) born NY, Nora (3) born NY, Alice (7 months) born NY

note: Census lists him as 49 however based on birth date of 1854 he was actually 56.

1918- 26 Jan - William S Neville (64) dies in Auburn, NY.

Per descendant Bonnie Weant, he was first buried in St. Joseph's Cemetery in Auburn, NY but later moved to St. Patrick's Cemetery in Broome County, NY probably because wife Catherine moved back to Endicott following his death to be closer to her Fitzgerald family.

1920 - 2 Jan census - dwelling 7 - family 13: 30 Washington Ave, Endicott Village, Union Township, Broome County, NY

Catherine (51) head, widowed, no occupation, Francis (23) son, single, typer-newspaper, Catherine (21) daughter, single, eyeletter - shoe factory, Helen (19) daughter, single, stitcher-shoe factory, William P (14) son, single, none, Nora M (13) daughter, single, none, Alice E (10) daughter, single, none.

There are 4 families living at this address - a total of 15 people.

1927 - 7 October 1928 -

Mrs. Catherine G Neville Is Dead

Highly Respected Resident of Endicott Succumbs After Several Weeks' Illness

Mrs Catherine G Neville of 527 South St, widow of William S Neville, died at Ideal hospital last night at 6:30 o'clock after an illness of several weeks. She was 64 years of age.The survivors are five daughters, Mrs Joseph T Doyle of Ossining. and Mrs. Clarence P Clune, Miss Catherine G Neville , Miss Nora M Neville and Miss Alice Neville all of Endicott; two sons, Francis J Neville of New York and William P Neville of Endicott; eight grandchildren, three sisters, Mrs Anna Murphy and Mrs Nellie Burgin both of Little Meadows, PA nad Miss Jane Fitzmartin of Endicott, and one brother Thomas Fitzmartin of Little Meadows. The funeral will be held on Friday at 9 o'clock at the home and at 9:30 at St Ambrose Church. Burial will be in St Patrick's cemetery, Johnson City. Mrs Neville was a highly respected resident of Endicott, and through her sterling character and lovable disposition was endeared to a large circle of friends.

at Ideal Hospital and buried in St. Patrick's cemetary, Johnson City, NY. Father Patrick Fitzmartin, Mother Catherine Hickey. Death info per Bonnie Weant, descendant.

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