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Emily Post

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Emily Post

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    Marian Bruce

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    • Grandmother of Emily Post — 3rd Generation
    • Ahnentafel No:
    • 5 
    • Birth Date:
    • ABT 1812 
    • Birth Location:
    • Maryland 
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    • Marriage Date:
    • 23 May 1842 
    • Marriage Location:
    • Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Cumberland, Allegany, Maryland 
    • Children:

      • Marian Price

      Bruce Price (Ahnentafel No:2 )

    • Notes: 

    • Published accounts of Marian Bruce's life refer to her as a first cousin of Francis Scott Key. The will of her brother Charles Key Bruce confirms the relationship with the following bequest in his will:

      “To my cousin, Francis Scott Key, of Washington City, the sum of one thousand pounds sterling, and to each of his two unmarried daughters, the sum of 500 pounds sterling.”

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  • Sources for Marian Bruce

    • 1 Cumberland Times (Cumberland, Maryland), 01 JUN 1952, p. 4 .
    • 2 Cumberland Times (Cumberland, Maryland), 16 JAN 1949, p. 5.
    • 3 Federal Census, MD, Baltimore (Independent City), 1860, Baltimore Ward 11, p. 90, Image 89 of 257.
    • 4 Federal Census, MD, Allegany County, 1850, Cumberland, Image 120 of 140.
    • 6 The Mayflower Descendant, Spring 2012, Vol. 61, No. 1, p. 87.
    • 7 Brown, Jacob, Brown's Miscellaneous Writings Upon a Great Variety of Subject: Prepared and Written from 1880 to 1895, Cumberland, Maryland: J. J. Miller (1896), 149.
    • 8 Claridge, Laura, Emily Post: Daughter of the Gilded Age, Mistress of American Manners, New York: Random House Trade Paperback Edition (2009), 7.
    • 9 Thomas, James W. and Judge T.J. C. Williams, History of Allegany County, Maryland, Volume 1, Baltimore: Regional Publishing Company (1969), 309.