Person:Hannah Van Alen (1)

Hannah Louise Van Alen

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m. 10 Oct 1844

Facts and Events

Name	Hannah Louise Van Alen
Gender	Female
Birth^[1]	30 Oct 1847	New York, United States
Death^[1]	7 Aug 1883	Ischia, Napoli, Campania, Italyon the Island of Ischia, died from injuries sustained during the earthquake of 28 Jul 1883
Burial^[1]		Fishkill, Dutchess, New York, United Statesinterred beside her mother in Van Wyck family burial plot

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 Family Recorded, in Van Alen, Benjamin Taylor. Genealogical history of the Van Alen family: embracing a record of births, marriages, and deaths : also biographical sketches. (Chicago, Illinois: unknown, 1902)
p 34.

... She was a long sufferer from inflammatory rheumatism, and for several years had travelled in Europe in search of health. While sojourning at the Hotel Pacollo-Santinella, at Ischia, an island in the Bay of Naples, Italy, trying there the efficiency of the mud baths, on Saturday evening, July 28, 1883, a terrible earthquake occurred, which so seriously injured her, that death relieved her sufferings after a lapse of ten days. Her remains were brought to Bergen, N.J., (Jersey City) where funeral services were held at the residence of her uncle, C.C. Van Reypen, and from thence taken to Fishkill, N.Y. and interred beside her mother. ...