In a message dated 11/26/2001 12:25:18 PM Pacific Standard Time,
JRice79761(a)aol.com writes:
New York Times
Sept. 3, 1883
The body of Charles S. Sisson one of the victims of the Riverdale disaster
was received at Tarrytown yesterday and placed in the Receiving vault at
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, where that of his wife is also temporally placed.
They will be buried in the cemetery side by side.
New York Times
August 29, 1883
Sisson, Charles
Mr. Sisson, a retired drygoods merchant, 72 years of age, was sitting on
the
forward deck, near the funnel with his wife when the explosion occurred. He
was instantly killed. He was vigorously in good health and as energetic as
a
man ten years younger. He was a native of Connecticut, and retired from
business about 15 years from Windsor Locky, Conn. where he had amassed a
fortune. Mr. Sisson owned a fine estate in Tarrytown where he had resided
for
the past 14 years.
Sisson, Julia Mrs.
The wife of Charles Sisson was instantly killed by the explosion. She was a
native of Connecticut, and was married 43 years ago. She was a member of
the
Blanchard family, of Connecticut. Her body was recovered at the foot of
fifteenth street from which it was removed to Merritt's undertaking
establishment in eight avenue
New York Times August 29, 1883
Sinking of the Riverdale in the North River
Wrecked by Explosion
The body of Mrs. Charles Sisson, of Tarrytown, who was drowned, was conveyed
in a small boat off the foot of fourteenth street., and was allowed to be
there untouched for nearly half and hour. The poor old woman was clad in
a black plain dress of cheap and scant material, coarse shoes were upon her
feet, and a small unadorned dark straw bonnet was upon her head. The rough
but well meaning men who had pulled her out of the water threw her, upon the
little float, and there she lay in her dripping garments with wrinkled hand
twisted under her slender body, in the plain sight of thousands of people,
without so much as even a shawl to cover her. A considerate policeman, who
had been guarding the float, stooped down after a while and, gently pulled
the battered bonnet down, over the pale face, thus disclosing to view, a mass
of white hair wet and tangled. Mr. W. B. Chapman, also of Tarrytown,
grandson of Mrs. Sisson, remained with the little old woman's body until it
was lifted into an undertakers wagon and carried away.
Jeffery G. Scism, IBSSG
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