A One-Name Study for the BARNUM/BARNHAM Surname
Elizabeth Ryerse also went by the name of Betsy. After 1828, she visited Cuba several times, under the name Elizabeth Roulliet. On 18 May 1840, she arrived in New York on a ship from Havana, Cuba and was found on the 1840 Federal Census living at 352 South 4th Street, Southwark Ward No. 4, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was listed at that address for the next several years; although whether she was physically there is not known, as she was also found found in 1841 living at 24 Amistad Street, near the corner of Virtudes, Street in Havana, Cuba. On 17 July 1847, she again arrived in the United States, disembarking at Philadelphia on SS Louisa, from Havana. She was listed as one of 24 passengers and as 72 years of age. In 1852, she was again at 352 South 4th Street with her son, John Liger, who was listed as a carpenter. She married ________ Roulliet. Elizabeth died on 6 March 1856 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, of a inflammation of the bladder, as described by the attending physician, Dr. H. T. Childs (from the Register of Deaths). Her obituary was in the Public Ledger of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and read "Died on Thursday 6 March 1856, Mrs. Elizabeth Roulliet in the 82nd year of her age. Her friends are invited to attend the funeral from her late residence at 352 So. 4th St. on Sunday afternoon at 12 o'clock." She was buried at Gloria Dei (Old Swedes) Church Cemetery, corner of Christian & Swanson Streets, Philadelphia, where her gravestone reads:
"Rest! Thou weary pilgrim Rest,
In the Mansions of the blest,
In those supernal bowers,
Where bloom eternal flowers,
Now live's trials all are o'er,
And landed on Canaan's Shore,
Thou canst look back again to earth
And bless death - Thy heavenly birth."
Elizabeth left a large estate at her death. It included $9,000 worth of bank stock, silver flatware, a writing desk, a knife case, a gold watch and chain (given to her brother, Edward Powers, in Canada), a traveling trunk, six dresses left to her caregiver, Hannah Byrne, a red lounge to her friend & physician, Dr. H. T. Childs, a large bedstead, her gold spectacles and several white counterpanes. Cash bequests included $200 to each of the children of her brother, Samuel Ryerse, "late of Canada West", $100 to the Swedish Church [Old Swedes] for the poor, $300 to the Temporary House Association in Philadelphia to promote their society and another $2,500 to be divided among several grandchildren. She left $300 to "Ellen, wife of Thaddeus Irish, merchant in the town of Garland in the state of Maine, for the use of her daughter, Elizabeth Roulliet Irish, named after me." Bequests also included 50 acres to her grandson, Edmund Liger, and 2 lots of land in the town of La Guaira, Venezuela to her grandson, Francis Edgar Liger.
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