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Bertha Furman Sanford
née Furman
Bertha Furman Sanford (née Furman) (died 10 July 2004) was born in Spring Valley / Ramapo, Rockland County, New York to Abraham Furman and Isabella Van Riper Furman. She married John Wheeler Sanford. Her child was Elizabeth Sanford Lewis. She died in 2004.
Life and records
Rockland News 11 Feb 1921 lock: Mrs. Isabella Furman, widow of Abram, leaves one daughter Mrs. John W. Sanford of Warwick (= Bertha M. Furman); Baird: m. John Wheeler Sanford 6 Oct 1897, mother of Bertha Elizabeth b. 29 Jan 1905.
Parents now found: Abram/Abraham Furman × Isabella Van Riper Furman (d. 3 Feb 1921), daughter of Col. Jacob A. Van Riper. Lock: Rockland News 11 Feb 1921 naming the only surviving daughter as Mrs. John W. Sanford of Warwick. Natal family is Spring Valley / Ramapo, Rockland County — not the Warwick George/Margaret Smith Furman farm family (Hettie A. Furman of that farm is a rejected false match). Church: Bertha M. Furman joined Warwick Reformed 1 Mar 1891 on confession (no asterisk), later annotated Mrs. John W. Sanford (M); already a Warwick member six years before the 1897 marriage. Also styled Bertha Maria Furman (WikiTree; not independently dated). Halcyon Days index 'Sanford, Bertha F. Van Orden' not used without the page. Own birth date not on a fetched page. Death calendar day not found: 2004-07-10 is her SON John Wheeler Sanford Jr.'s obituary date stating she was already deceased — precision remains 'before', not her death day.
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- Warwick Reformed Church: Bertha M. FURMAN joined 1 Mar 1891 on confession of faith (no *), later annotated Mrs. John W. SANFORD, still (M) in 1904. Names her as Furman before marriage; does not name her parents. Member in Warwick six years before the 1897 marriage.
1 Mar 1891 Bertha M. FURMAN (Mrs. John W. SANFORD) (M)
- Son's 2004 obituary: John W. Sanford Sr. of Maple Terrace Farm, the Sanford family homestead; husband of Bertha Furman Sanford.
The son of the late John W. Sanford Sr. and Bertha Furman Sanford
- LOCK as father of Capt. Nathaniel Wheeler Baird: Baird family centennial lists Nathaniel Wheeler among the ten children of William Eagles Baird and Sarah DeKay, and states William left real estate to his two sons Nathaniel Wheeler and Abia Francis.
John Wheeler, b May 13. 1864; m Oct, 6, 1897, Bertha Furman. ... Bertha Elizabeth, b Jan. 29, 1905.
- Named as the only surviving son of Isabella Furman in the 1921 obituary: Louis H. Furman, assistant cashier of the First National Bank of Spring Valley and Spring Valley fire chief. Therefore brother of Mrs. John W. Sanford (Bertha M. Furman), not her child.
Mrs. Isabella Furman died last Thursday; widow of Abram Furman who died thirty seven years ago; daughter of the late Col. Jacob A. Van Riper; born in Spring Valley about 71 years ago and lived there all her life; leaves one daughter, Mrs. John W. Sanford of Warwick, Orange county, and one son Louis H. Furman, assistant cashier of the First National Bank of Spring Valley and Spring Valley fire chief; funeral at Louis H. Furman's home; burial Oak Hill Cemetery.
- Warwick Reformed Church: Frances Amelia (Baird) Sanford, wife of George W.
Bertha M. FURMAN (Mrs. John W. SANFORD) (M)
- Warwick obituary name-index independently tags Isabella as Furman (VanRiper), 1921.
Furman(VanRiper) Isabella | 1921 | F13 | T3
- 1890 veterans census already lists her as widow of Abraham Furman, PO Spring Valley (spelling Isabellia).
Hs 43 Fam 46 | Isabellia widow of Abraham Furman | Private | K | 133 NY Inf | Oct 1, 1864 | June 6, 1865 | 0 yrs 8 mos 6 dys | Spring Valley, NY