The Standard Union, Brooklyn, New York City, Wednesday, December 3, 1913
Aged Mrs. VanNess Loses Alimony Suit
Paper She Signed Released Her Late Husband From Obligation
Third Wife Got Estate
Waited Forty Years Before Beginning Action.
Mrs. Deborah Van Ness, 93 years old, of Garden City, who was divorced from Cornelius Van Ness on Aug. 21, 1867, to-day lost her suit in the Supreme Court to recover $26,400 back alimony from the executors of his estate. She claimed she hadn't been paid alimony for forty years. The opinion was written by Justice Benedict.
Van Ness died June 25, 1911. Before his death he had transferred to his third wife, fifty-three years his junior, and estate said to be worth more that $1,000,000.
Van Ness was born in 1819. In 1854 he married the daughter of his employer, Deborah Brandt. They had on Child, Alice, who married Albert Ross Parsons, formerly secretary of the American Embassy at Berlin. Neither of the parents told the daughter of the decree for many years.
In 1875 Van Ness married again. The decree, although granted in his first wife's favor, did not forbid his remarriage. His second wife, Emma Louise Burr Wright, was wealthy. She died in 1898, leaving Van Ness her estate. He moved to Cornwall, Orange County.
There is 1900 a young Brooklyn woman named Alice Wood was carried into his home with a broken ankle. Shortly after, on Feb. 21, 1900, they were married. Van Ness was then eight years old. The marriage took place in New York. They were married again in New Jersey on May 11 of the same year.
By his will, dated June 24, 1901, Van Ness left $25,000 to his daughter, Mrs. Parsons, and the residue to his wife. By a codicil made a year later he gave all of his estate to his young wife.
There was a contest over the will by the daughter and surviving relatives of the second wife. Last year Surrogate Fowler in New York County refused to admit the will to probate.
The executor of the Van Ness estate was Rastus S. Ransom. After Van Ness' death the first wife began her action to recover back alimony.
The defense made by the executor was the statute of limitations and that Deborah Van Ness had signed an agreement with her husband many years after their divorce whereby she agreed to accept $10.000 and give up all her clain to dower rights and alimony.
Justice Benedict calls it "rather singular"that after a silence of forty years and after the death of her husband, Mrs. Van Ness should bring suit for arrears in alimony. He says by the payment of $10,000, Van Ness was "released, discharged and extinguished " from all possible claims. He granted thirty days in which to make an appeal.
Name Deborah Van Ness
Date of interment January 19, 1915
Lot number (of current burial site) 30279-30282
Grave number (of current burial site) Vault
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Birthplace New York
Marital status Widow
Age at death 92 years, 3 months, 12 days
Late residence Garden City Nassau Co NY
Place of death Garden City Nassau Co NY
Cause of death Lobar Pneumonia
Date of death January 16, 1915
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Lot owner? false
Undertaker / Funeral Director C E Cornell
Burial Registry Volume 51
Burial Registry Page 92
Interment Number 368572
Aged Mrs. VanNess Loses Alimony Suit
Paper She Signed Released Her Late Husband From Obligation
Third Wife Got Estate
Waited Forty Years Before Beginning Action.
Mrs. Deborah Van Ness, 93 years old, of Garden City, who was divorced from Cornelius Van Ness on Aug. 21, 1867, to-day lost her suit in the Supreme Court to recover $26,400 back alimony from the executors of his estate. She claimed she hadn't been paid alimony for forty years. The opinion was written by Justice Benedict.
Van Ness died June 25, 1911. Before his death he had transferred to his third wife, fifty-three years his junior, and estate said to be worth more that $1,000,000.
Van Ness was born in 1819. In 1854 he married the daughter of his employer, Deborah Brandt. They had on Child, Alice, who married Albert Ross Parsons, formerly secretary of the American Embassy at Berlin. Neither of the parents told the daughter of the decree for many years.
In 1875 Van Ness married again. The decree, although granted in his first wife's favor, did not forbid his remarriage. His second wife, Emma Louise Burr Wright, was wealthy. She died in 1898, leaving Van Ness her estate. He moved to Cornwall, Orange County.
There is 1900 a young Brooklyn woman named Alice Wood was carried into his home with a broken ankle. Shortly after, on Feb. 21, 1900, they were married. Van Ness was then eight years old. The marriage took place in New York. They were married again in New Jersey on May 11 of the same year.
By his will, dated June 24, 1901, Van Ness left $25,000 to his daughter, Mrs. Parsons, and the residue to his wife. By a codicil made a year later he gave all of his estate to his young wife.
There was a contest over the will by the daughter and surviving relatives of the second wife. Last year Surrogate Fowler in New York County refused to admit the will to probate.
The executor of the Van Ness estate was Rastus S. Ransom. After Van Ness' death the first wife began her action to recover back alimony.
The defense made by the executor was the statute of limitations and that Deborah Van Ness had signed an agreement with her husband many years after their divorce whereby she agreed to accept $10.000 and give up all her clain to dower rights and alimony.
Justice Benedict calls it "rather singular"that after a silence of forty years and after the death of her husband, Mrs. Van Ness should bring suit for arrears in alimony. He says by the payment of $10,000, Van Ness was "released, discharged and extinguished " from all possible claims. He granted thirty days in which to make an appeal.
Name Deborah Van Ness
Date of interment January 19, 1915
Lot number (of current burial site) 30279-30282
Grave number (of current burial site) Vault
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Birthplace New York
Marital status Widow
Age at death 92 years, 3 months, 12 days
Late residence Garden City Nassau Co NY
Place of death Garden City Nassau Co NY
Cause of death Lobar Pneumonia
Date of death January 16, 1915
Diagram available (see digital image) false
Lot owner? false
Undertaker / Funeral Director C E Cornell
Burial Registry Volume 51
Burial Registry Page 92
Interment Number 368572
The Standard Union, Brooklyn, New York City, Wednesday, December 3, 1913
Aged Mrs. VanNess Loses Alimony Suit
Paper She Signed Released Her Late Husband From Obligation
Third Wife Got Estate
Waited Forty Years Before Beginning Action.
Mrs. Deborah Van Ness, 93 years old, of Garden City, who was divorced from Cornelius Van Ness on Aug. 21, 1867, to-day lost her suit in the Supreme Court to recover $26,400 back alimony from the executors of his estate. She claimed she hadn't been paid alimony for forty years. The opinion was written by Justice Benedict.
Van Ness died June 25, 1911. Before his death he had transferred to his third wife, fifty-three years his junior, and estate said to be worth more that $1,000,000.
Van Ness was born in 1819. In 1854 he married the daughter of his employer, Deborah Brandt. They had on Child, Alice, who married Albert Ross Parsons, formerly secretary of the American Embassy at Berlin. Neither of the parents told the daughter of the decree for many years.
In 1875 Van Ness married again. The decree, although granted in his first wife's favor, did not forbid his remarriage. His second wife, Emma Louise Burr Wright, was wealthy. She died in 1898, leaving Van Ness her estate. He moved to Cornwall, Orange County.
There is 1900 a young Brooklyn woman named Alice Wood was carried into his home with a broken ankle. Shortly after, on Feb. 21, 1900, they were married. Van Ness was then eight years old. The marriage took place in New York. They were married again in New Jersey on May 11 of the same year.
By his will, dated June 24, 1901, Van Ness left $25,000 to his daughter, Mrs. Parsons, and the residue to his wife. By a codicil made a year later he gave all of his estate to his young wife.
There was a contest over the will by the daughter and surviving relatives of the second wife. Last year Surrogate Fowler in New York County refused to admit the will to probate.
The executor of the Van Ness estate was Rastus S. Ransom. After Van Ness' death the first wife began her action to recover back alimony.
The defense made by the executor was the statute of limitations and that Deborah Van Ness had signed an agreement with her husband many years after their divorce whereby she agreed to accept $10.000 and give up all her clain to dower rights and alimony.
Justice Benedict calls it "rather singular"that after a silence of forty years and after the death of her husband, Mrs. Van Ness should bring suit for arrears in alimony. He says by the payment of $10,000, Van Ness was "released, discharged and extinguished " from all possible claims. He granted thirty days in which to make an appeal.
Name Deborah Van Ness
Date of interment January 19, 1915
Lot number (of current burial site) 30279-30282
Grave number (of current burial site) Vault
show more
Birthplace New York
Marital status Widow
Age at death 92 years, 3 months, 12 days
Late residence Garden City Nassau Co NY
Place of death Garden City Nassau Co NY
Cause of death Lobar Pneumonia
Date of death January 16, 1915
Diagram available (see digital image) false
Lot owner? false
Undertaker / Funeral Director C E Cornell
Burial Registry Volume 51
Burial Registry Page 92
Interment Number 368572
Aged Mrs. VanNess Loses Alimony Suit
Paper She Signed Released Her Late Husband From Obligation
Third Wife Got Estate
Waited Forty Years Before Beginning Action.
Mrs. Deborah Van Ness, 93 years old, of Garden City, who was divorced from Cornelius Van Ness on Aug. 21, 1867, to-day lost her suit in the Supreme Court to recover $26,400 back alimony from the executors of his estate. She claimed she hadn't been paid alimony for forty years. The opinion was written by Justice Benedict.
Van Ness died June 25, 1911. Before his death he had transferred to his third wife, fifty-three years his junior, and estate said to be worth more that $1,000,000.
Van Ness was born in 1819. In 1854 he married the daughter of his employer, Deborah Brandt. They had on Child, Alice, who married Albert Ross Parsons, formerly secretary of the American Embassy at Berlin. Neither of the parents told the daughter of the decree for many years.
In 1875 Van Ness married again. The decree, although granted in his first wife's favor, did not forbid his remarriage. His second wife, Emma Louise Burr Wright, was wealthy. She died in 1898, leaving Van Ness her estate. He moved to Cornwall, Orange County.
There is 1900 a young Brooklyn woman named Alice Wood was carried into his home with a broken ankle. Shortly after, on Feb. 21, 1900, they were married. Van Ness was then eight years old. The marriage took place in New York. They were married again in New Jersey on May 11 of the same year.
By his will, dated June 24, 1901, Van Ness left $25,000 to his daughter, Mrs. Parsons, and the residue to his wife. By a codicil made a year later he gave all of his estate to his young wife.
There was a contest over the will by the daughter and surviving relatives of the second wife. Last year Surrogate Fowler in New York County refused to admit the will to probate.
The executor of the Van Ness estate was Rastus S. Ransom. After Van Ness' death the first wife began her action to recover back alimony.
The defense made by the executor was the statute of limitations and that Deborah Van Ness had signed an agreement with her husband many years after their divorce whereby she agreed to accept $10.000 and give up all her clain to dower rights and alimony.
Justice Benedict calls it "rather singular"that after a silence of forty years and after the death of her husband, Mrs. Van Ness should bring suit for arrears in alimony. He says by the payment of $10,000, Van Ness was "released, discharged and extinguished " from all possible claims. He granted thirty days in which to make an appeal.
Name Deborah Van Ness
Date of interment January 19, 1915
Lot number (of current burial site) 30279-30282
Grave number (of current burial site) Vault
show more
Birthplace New York
Marital status Widow
Age at death 92 years, 3 months, 12 days
Late residence Garden City Nassau Co NY
Place of death Garden City Nassau Co NY
Cause of death Lobar Pneumonia
Date of death January 16, 1915
Diagram available (see digital image) false
Lot owner? false
Undertaker / Funeral Director C E Cornell
Burial Registry Volume 51
Burial Registry Page 92
Interment Number 368572
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