Mayflower Descendants: Who’s Who, Part 43 (part 3)

Introduction: In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry continues her series on Mayflower descendants, with more on the Snow family lines of Marblehead, Massachusetts, who descend from Mayflower passengers Stephen Hopkins and his daughter Contance Hopkins. Melissa is a genealogist who has a website, americana-archives.com, and a Facebook group, New England Family Genealogy and History.

Today I continue with my series on “Mayflower Descendants: Who’s Who,” focusing on the Snow family lines of Marblehead, Massachusetts, who descend from Mayflower passengers Stephen Hopkins and his daughter Contance Hopkins, who married Nicholas Snow. Some of the Snow scions married into other Mayflower lines including a few from William Brewster.

Here is a photo of Pilgrim reenactors for the Plymouth Tercentenary Pageant, with William Brewster in the middle holding the Mayflower Compact, 1 August 1921.

Below is a photo of the Elder William Brewster Monument located on School Street in Plymouth, Massachusetts, courtesy of the Historical Marker Database (HMDB.org).

To recap: My last story, “Mayflower Descendants: Who’s Who, Part 43 (part 2),” featured Mayflower descendant Joseph White Snow (1806-1858) and his wife Mary (Quiner) Snow (1805-1882), whose daughter Mary Ann Snow (1833-1907) married Jonathan Cole (1833-1903), a direct descendant of Mayflower passengers William Brewster and Stephen Hopkins.

A copy of a page from the family Bible that belonged to Jonathan Cole lists his birth, along with his wife and their five children (and I added the children’s death dates and spouses). Here is the information:

• Jonathan Cole was born in Orleans, Massachusetts, on 26 August 1833
• Mary Ann Snow was born in Marblehead on 14 December 1833
• Daughter Mary Ella Cole was born 27 May 1856 and died 1926
• Son John Henry Cole was born 24 July 1858 and died 1867
• Son George Atwood Cole was born 20 October 1860 and died 1907; married Jennie Laura Crockett
• Son Arthur Wilson Cole was born 10 February 1861 and died 1948; married Gertrude Louise Manson
• Son Howard Nelson Cole was born 11 July 1874 and died 1952; married Janet Pope

The Cole family lived at 71 Green Street in Marblehead. Below is a photo of the house taken at the time when they occupied it. Standing outside is Mary Ella Cole, daughter of Jonathan and Mary Ann (Snow) Cole.

Arthur Wilson Cole, the fourth child of Jonathan and Mary, was a successful sales manager for M. J. Whittall Associates out of New York. In addition, he served as director of the National Bank of New York and director of Marblehead Savings Bank.

Other positions Mr. Cole held in his career include president of both Pelham Securities Corp., and Colesite, Inc.

Mr. Cole was a savvy real estate developer, and according to the “Annual Real Estate Review and Forecast,” in 1913 the Roosevelt estate sold its large holdings at Pelham, New York, extending into New York City, for $150,000 ($4,800,000 today) to Arthur W. Cole. (p. 23)

Oftentimes Mr. Cole would lease the land for sportsmen’s entertainment such as golf. I found several newsclips in GenealogyBank’s Historical Newspaper Archives about his business ventures.

Here is an announcement in the New York American about a lease to create Groll’s Riding School on Cole’s five-acre estate in Pelham Manor (a separate village within the town of Pelham) called “Rosedale.” In addition to the riding school, Leon Groll will conduct a gymnasium on Cole’s land.

In 1896 Arthur Wilson Cole married Gertrude Louise Manson (1861-1938), daughter of John Thompson and Mary Jane (Sawyer) Manson. Below is a wedding notice published in the Boston Journal.

This article reads:

At the home of Mrs. John Manson, 473 Massachusetts Avenue, there occurred last evening one of the brilliant weddings of the season. The contracting parties were Miss Gertrude Louise Manson and Arthur Wilson Cole. The ceremony being performed by Rev. Stephen Herbert Roblin of the Second Universalist Church. The house was beautifully decorated with laurel by the deft fingers of the Altar Club, connected with the above church. The bride was gowned in white duchesse satin with pearl trimmings, carrying a large bunch of bride roses. Here veil was fastened back with a diamond cluster pin. The newly wedded couple will sail from New York on Saturday per steamer Servia, remaining abroad until April 1. They were the recipients of many beautiful and costly presents. Among the large number of guests present were many of the groom’s old friends from Marblehead.

Ruth Manson Cole (1899-1981), a daughter born to Arthur and Getrude, married Robert Eugene Gill (1893-1981) on 6 April 1923 in Pelham, New York.

In these photos, we see Ruth Manson Cole on her wedding day, a snapshot of her gold monogramed wedding chest plate, and a newspaper wedding announcement.

Robert Eugene Gill was a 10th generation lineal descendant of Mayflower passenger William Brewster through his maternal side.

Lineage:

• William Brewster and Mary
• Jonathan Brewster and Lucretia Oldham
• Mary Brewster and John “the Elder” Turner
• Ezekial Turner and Susanna Keeney
• Sarah Turner and Jonathan Calkins/Caulkins
• Thomas Caulkins and Mary Rogers
• Jonathan Caulkins and Lydia Smith
• David Caulkins and Delia French
• Julius Francis “Frank” Caulkins and Eugenia Mary “Jennie” Keeler
• Eugenie Eyland Caulkins and Robert Gill. Note: after Mr. Gill died in 1899 Eugenie married her brother-in-law Lyman Francis Gray (1864-1938).
• Robert Eugene Gill

Stay tuned for more on this Mayflower line!

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Note on the header image: “Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor,” by William Halsall, 1882. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

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