Person:Julia Langdon (1)

In the 1910 census, she's a widow; it indicates she had 4 births and only two are living. One of them is her daughter, Bertha, living with her, also a widow, with the last name Vance. The other living child must be Lorena who had married Samuel Davis in 1897. Ledroit died in 1905 (although one biographer says he was still alive in 1913 at which time he sold the Belmont; perhaps this was the adopted son, Rowland, and perhaps the sale contributed to his disownment?)

Also living with Julia in 1910 is a daughter-in-law, Leopardius, also widowed, along with a granddaughter, Julia L. Barber. This was the widow and child of Ledroit. The two would, in a couple of years, return to Austria.

NY Times, 7 July 1912: Mrs. Barber dies on train. Widow of Asphalt King Suddenly Stricken on Congressional Limited.

Washington, July 6-- Mrs. Amzi L. Barber of this city, widow of the "Asphalt King," died suddenly tonight while returning from New York on the Congressional Limited. As the train was laving Baltimore the conducted discovered that Mrs. Barber was dead. She was travelling alone, and so quietly had the end come that none of her fellow passengers as aware that she had been stricken.

Mrs. Barber was 69 years old, and for some time had suffered from heart disease and indigestion. She had gone to New York to bid good-bye to her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Leopoldine K. Barber, who with her little son [wrong; daughter] sailed this morning for Europe. The younger Mrs. Barber, who is the widow of LeDroit D. Barber, has long been suffering from a nervous breakdown and a few weeks ago narrowly escaped death when she leaped from an upper window of the Barber home in this city. She is en route to Vienna, her former home.

1. ↑ Stevenson, Langdon R.
   Email of 28 Apr 2005.