Catherine Wood Pharris

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Catherine Wood Pharris (van Beuren)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: New York, Kings, New York, United States
Death: January 13, 1888 (57)
Almena, Norton, Kansas, United States (died in the great blizzard of 1888)
Place of Burial: Superior, Nuckolls, Nebraska, United States
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Captain William van Beuren, silversmith and Jemima van Beuren
Wife of James William Pharris
Mother of Edward Francis Pharris
Sister of Moses van Beuren; Rachel Miner; Sarah Ann van Beuren; Peter van Beuren; Michael van Beuren and 3 others
Half sister of Maria Clarke; Eliza Magonagle; Beekman van Beuren; Sally van Beuren; Hannah Ann van Beuren and 4 others

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About Catherine Wood Pharris

Birth: Jan 26 1830 Brooklyn, NY

Marriage: Marriage to: James William Pharris 1847 Fulton County, Ill

Death: Died in great blizzard of 1888 known as "the Schoolhouse Bizzard" that killed a reported 235 people Jan 13 1888 Almina, KS

married at age 17

birth order of her siblings not specified in VB genealogy of New York and New Jersey

Burial: Greenwood cemetary Superior, NB

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schoolhouse_Blizzard

Her Children

Elizabeth Sarah A Pharris 1848 – 1868

DeWitt Clinton Pharris 1850 – 1868

James William Pharris Jr. 1852 – 1867

Alonzo Peter Pharris 1854 – 1886

Edward Francis Pharris 1856 – 1920

Andrew Jackson Pharris 1859 – 1928

Henry Lindberger Pharris 1860 – 1932

Wallace George Pharris 1862 – 1947

Julia Clara Pharris 1864 – 1879

Further tree additions

There are quite a few! -> mapped out on ancestry.com at

http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/26564938/family?cfpid=1869837128

note that her birth surname spelling is "Van Buren"

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Catherine Wood Pharris's Timeline

1830
January 26, 1830
New York, Kings, New York, United States
1856
1856
1888
January 13, 1888
Age 57
Almena, Norton, Kansas, United States
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Superior, Nuckolls, Nebraska, United States