Notes for: Washington Hunt Beaudine
The information below is from K Smoot on Find A Grave. I'm guessing K Smoot is a family member. This gives Emma's maiden name as Davis, not Smith.
Emma Davis married William Croley or Crowley on 6 December 1865 in New York City. They had four children that I know of: A stillborn infant born 26 Sept 1866, William Pryor born 21 Aug 1867, Theodore Thomas born 29 June 1870, and Sarah "Sadie" born in November 1873.
Emma married Washington Hunt Beaudine twice. According to family records, they were married on 5 December 1880 in New York City (but I don't have any official documents to back that up, just a handwritten date in a family notebook) and then again on 16 October 1894 in Hoboken, New Jersey. They had two children: May Emma Carlton Beaudine born 12 November 1881 and Washington Brooks "Wash" Beaudine born 22 February 1884.
All five of Emma's living children took on the last name of her second husband.
Emma died on 2 August 1910 in the Bronx from cancer of the uterus, according to her death certificate.
*****End of information from K Smoot on Find A Grave.
Also from K Smoot:
Yes, there was some serious family drama so they changed their names a lot. But Benjamin Thomas Davis and Mary Prior are indeed her parents. The 1894 marriage record says Thomas and Mary Prior as I read it. But even if wasn't, one of her brothers, James Thomas Pryor Davis was a con man, bigamist, and a gangster and was shot and killed during a cash/fraud deal gone wrong. Another brother, William Theodore Davis was also a gangster but never went to jail as far as I can find out. Her youngest sister Mary Eliza Clara Davis married as her first husband, Dutch Heinrich (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Heinrichs) who started the Hells Kitchen Gang.
From Ronny Bodine (Dec. 23, 2022):
Mary Emmaline Davis was the daughter of Benjamin Thomas Davis (1811-1868 Manhattan) and Mary Prior (1811-1875 Manhattan). They had married 22 April 1833 in Dixton Newton, Monmouthshire, Wales.
According to a note by Kelly Smoot on Family Search (https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/KGSH-B4B), Emma distanced herself from her family over the years, eventually using her mother's maiden name as her own.
Emma was 1st married to William Crowley who died before June 1880. The couple had three children, William (1867-1905), Theodore (1870-1908) and Sarah (1873-1938). These children were raised by Washington and Emma Beaudine and thereafter bore the name Beaudine which passed on to their descendants.
1880 NYC: Emma CROWLEY 30 NY, William 13 NY son, Theodore 11 NY son, Sadie 8 NY dau.
According to family records, Washington Beaudine and Emma Crowley were married 5 Dec 1880 in NYC, but no official record of this marriage has yet been found.
From New York City Birth Records:
Mary Emma Bertine, born 14 Nov 1881 in Manhattan to Washington H. Bertine, 31, and Emma Pryor, 32.
Washington Thomas Bodine, born 22 Feb 1884 in Manhattan to Washington H. Bodine, 34, and Emma Pryor, 35.
Records of the German Evangelical Church, Hoboken, NJ.
Washington Hunt Beaudine, 202 E. 75th N.Y. born 23. Nov 1851 in Albany, NY. Pts. David M. & Mary Jane Pike.
Emma Prior, born 18 Oct 1849 in NY, Pts. Thomas & Mary Prior. Married 16 Oct 1894.
1900 Bronx, Bronx Co., NY: Washington BEAUDINE Nov 1852 NY agent, Emma Oct 1852 NY wife, Sarah Nov 1873 NY dau, May Nov 1881 NY dau, Washington Feb 1884 NY son. Married 30 years. 5 children born/5living.
1905 Bronx, Bronx Co., NY: Washington BEAUDINE 53 Insur. Agent, Emma 55 wife, Washington B. 21 son Insur. Agent.
From New York City Death Records:
Washington H. Beaudine died 28 Aug 1910 in the Bronx, Bronx County, aged 58.
Emma Beaudine, dau. of Thomas Benjamin Smith & Mary Pryor, was born in NYC and died 2 Aug 1910 in the Bronx.
New York County Wills, vol. 891, pp. 431-436.
The will of Washington H. Beaudine of the city, county and State of New York, dated 10 Aug 1910, was proved 10 Sept 1914. Therein he named his brother Milton C. Beaudine, son Washington Brooks Beaudine, daughters Mrs. Sadie Schaffer and Mrs. Mary Murray, grandsons William Washington Beaudine, Harold Thomas Beaudine, Royal Clinton Beaudine and George Washington Murray, and granddaughter Celestine Theodore Beaudine.
Burials in Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, Bronx County, New York.
Washington H. Beaudine 1851---1910 His Wife Emma 1850---1910