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BURIAL OF A GYPSIE QUEEN.

—TWENTY THOUSAND PERSON PRESENT—THE SERVICES—CHARACTER AND HISTORY OF THE GYPSIES.

Special Dispatch to the New York Times
September 6, 1878

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Cincinnati, Sept. 15.—The funeral of Matilda Stanley, the late Queen of the Gypsies in the United States, took place at Dayton to-day in the presence of over 20,000 people. The programme of the services did not differ essentially from any Christian burial. If any exercises of a peculiar character took place, they were apart from the public demonstration. There was a long line of carriages, and the services in the cemetery were conducted by Rev. Daniel Bergher, of the United Brethren Church, of Dayton, assisted by a quartet from the church choirs of the city. The Gypsy Queen dies in Vicksburg last February, and her boy was embalmed in such a manner that it still retains the natural aspect of life. It was placed in a vault in the cemetery, and every day members of late Queen’s family have come with fresh flowers to sterw over her. To-day there were a dozen chiefs and their tribes in the city from different sections of the United States, to pay their last tribute to the dead Queen. The deceased was a plain, hardy-looking old woman, with a touch of Meg Merrilies in her appearance, and a manner indicative of a strong and pronounced character. There are stories told of her wonderful faculty of telling fortunes, when she pleased, and her remarkable powers as a mesmerist, both qualities being explained by the assertion they were handed down to her as the eldest daughter in the Stanley family, and were secrets possessed by her alone. She possessed a singular influence over her people that has not entirely ceased with her death. Her subjects came to America in 1856, and shortly after selected Dayton as their head-quarters for he Summer months, and it became the centre for the gypsies of the country. They are good neighbors, industrious and thrifty, contrary to the usually conceived idea. They have several large farms near the city. In the Winter they pack up for the South, to speculate and trade, leaving one or two of the tribe to look after their property at home. They are reverent church people, and the reigning King, Levi Stanley, and his son and heir, known as Sugar Stanley, are members of the I. O. O. F. in good standing. The grave of the Queen, in which the coffin will rest, is a box made of stone slabs, 2 feet deep and 10 by 4 in dimensions. Over the grave will be raised in the form of a monument a bowlder, 8 feet in diameter, surmounted by life-size figure of the Queen in white marble.

1860 United States Federal Census

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Name: Matilda Stanley
Age: 40
Birth Year: abt 1820
Gender: Female
Birth Place: England
Home in 1860: Troy, Miami, Ohio
Post Office: Troy
Dwelling Number: 52
Family Number: 52
Occupation: Wanderer
Household Members:
Name Age
Sarah Cromer 41
William W Cromer 21
Sarah A Cromer 19
Robert M Cromer 17
Mary J Cromer 15
John C Cromer 11
Dilia Cromer 4
Eugene Cromer 4
Henry Wecht 27
Benj Stanley 35
Mary Stanley 34
Gentelia Stanley 13
Levi Stanley 11
Samuel Stanley 8
Thomas Stanley 6
Matilda Stanley 4
Dillie Stanley 3
Levi Stanley 40
Matilda Stanley 40
Sarah Stanley 18
Paul Stanley 14
Adam Stanley 12
Missouri Stanley 4
Louisa Stanley 3
James Guy 30
Maria Guy 25
Halena Guy 5
Harriet Harrison 25
Edward Harrison 6
John Harrison 4
Henry Jeff 24
Phillie Jeff 25
William Jeff 2
Gentea Jeff 9/12
Source Citation
Year: 1860; Census Place: Troy, Miami, Ohio; Roll: M653_1011; Page: 258; Family History Library Film: 805011

1851 England Census

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Name: Matilda Stanlick
Age: 32
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1819
Relation: Wife
Spouse's Name: Levy Stanlick
Gender: Female
Where born: Halanton, Somerset, England
Civil Parish: Sourton
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County/Island: Devon
Country: England
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Registration district: Okehampton
Sub-registration district: Bratton Clovelly
ED, institution, or vessel: 2b
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Household schedule number: 34
Piece: 1885
Folio: 319
Page Number: 15
Household Members:
Name Age
Levy Stanlick 32
Matilda Stanlick 32
Levy Stanlick 11
Paul Stanlick 3
Mary Stanlick 8
Adam Stanlick 4 Mo
Source Citation
Class: HO107; Piece: 1885; Folio: 319; Page: 15; GSU roll: 221034-221035

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Ancestry.com. 1851 England Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.

New York, Passenger Lists, 1820-1957

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Name: Matilda Stanly
Arrival date: 1 Jul 1854
Birth Date: abt 1818
Age: 36
Gender: Female
Ethnicity/ Nationality: English
Place of Origin: England
Port of Departure: Glasgow, Scotland
Destination: England
Port of Arrival: New York, New York
Ship Name: Try
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Source Citation
Year: 1854; Arrival: New York, New York; Microfilm Serial: M237, 1820-1897; Microfilm Roll: Roll 142; Line: 45; List Number: 828

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Ancestry.com. New York, Passenger Lists, 1820-1957 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.