Mary S. Schermerhorn

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Mary S. Schermerhorn (Hone)

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Birthplace: New York, NY, United States
Death: November 13, 1840 (26)
New York, United States
Place of Burial: Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, United States
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Philip Hone and Catherine Hone
Wife of John Jones Schermerhorn
Sister of Margaret Hone; John Philip Hone; Robert Swartwout Hone; Philip Hone and Catherine Blatchford

Managed by: Douglas Arthur Kellner
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About Mary S. Schermerhorn

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/170774492/mary-s-schermerhorn

Her father had recorded, upon her engagement several months earlier: "Schermerhorn is a young man of most amiable disposition, good morals, agreeable deportment, and a gentleman, of a family with whom I shall consider it an honour to be allied." (The Diary of Philip Hone, 1928-1851, 1910, part 1, p. 60). On November 16, 1840, he wrote: "My heart sinks within me whenever my thoughts are concentrated upon the greatest grief which has ever oppressed it. . . . My dear, beloved Mary left this world of trouble and affliction, and, as I firmly and confidently believe, joined her sister angels in heaven, on Friday morning." (Ibid., part 2, p. 52). There were no children. Thomas Crawford had gone to Rome in 1835, the first American sculptor to take up permanent residence there. It was not until 1839 that he established his reputation as a sculptor with his statue of Orpheus (now owned by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston). In the meantime, although he had been accepted as a student by the great neo-classicist Bertel Thorwaldsen, he produced portrait busts such as that of Mrs. Schermerhorn to help meet the expenses of his studio. After about 1840 Crawford did relatively few portrait busts, for his time was generally occupied with "ideal pieces" or full-length portrait statues."
from http://www.nyhistory.org/exhibit/mrs-john-jones-schermerhorn-ca-181...

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Mary S. Schermerhorn's Timeline

1814
April 8, 1814
New York, NY, United States
1840
November 13, 1840
Age 26
New York, United States
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Green-wood cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, United States