Person:Mary Bruce (28)

May be mixed with Native. All are very light skinned, looked white. Was raised by the Patterson family as her stepfather didn’t want (per Bruce Lee) a light-skinned step-daughter. She was raised by James and Luvisa Patterson in Niagara Falls, NY.

1860 Unable to find her. She wasn’t living with her mother and step-father in Niagara Falls, nor with the Pattersons, or her father in Rochester, NY. Also checked CT, but nothing, yet. ** 12/18/06

1861 Baptism record, St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Buffalo, NY, original ledger, scanned by Buffalo State College, emailed to me by Pete Ames ([email protected]) on 11 May 2012, penned sh 73, 3rd item: March 22nd At Evening Prayer in the Church Mary Louisa, daughter of Wm H, and Caroline Bruce (colored) Born June 27, 1851 Mrs. Lucretia McKinney and Ellen Jarvis sponsors, N. O. Jarvis, Rector.

1865 NY State Census, Niagara, Niagara Falls, I strongly suspect that the “Lula Patterson, 9 years old” living in the home of James and Lovisa Patterson was our Mary Bruce.

1870 she was living with her mother and stepfather in Middletown Twp, NJ Mary Bruce, B, 18 (b. NJ), listed as hairdresser

1899 Deed between Eugene W. Leake to Mary L. Jackson, dtd Oct 23, 1899 (NJSA film no. 4486, liber 735, pp. 288-289), “This indenture made the twenty-third day of October in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety nine Between Eugene W. Leake (unmarried) party of the first part and Mary L. Jackson, party of the second part, Witnesseth that the said party of the first part for and in consideration of the sum of One dollar lawful money of the United States of America to him in hand paid by the said party of the second part at in before the eriscaling? and delivery of these presents the receipt whereof is hererby acknowledged and the said party of the second part her heir executors and administrators forever released and discharged from the >>> by these presents, Has granted bargained sold alieved revised released conveyed and confirmed and by these presents ... All these certain lot of land situate lying and being in Jersey City in the County of Hudson and State of New Jersey and which on a certain map on file in the Register’s Office of Hudson County entiteld “Map of South Lafayette Hudson County New Jersey” made by Mallory and Miller is known and designated as lot numbered thirty-eight (38) in block numbered four hundred and ninety-four (494) fronting on the south easterly side of Whiton Street and being twenty five (25) feet deep throughout ... Witnessed by Charles K. Jackson.

1908-09 Tax List Jersey City, New Jersey 1908-09 Old Bergen Lafayette, Blocks 1551-2154 (Jersey City Library photocopy, original source not stated), 220 Whiton = block 2045 (Lafayette Area of Jersey City), p. 221: Mary L. Jackson, owner, lot 38, no. 220, 1 house and lot, 50x100, value of land 450, value of improvements 1200, total value 1650, amt of tax 31.81; Mary L. Jackson, owner, lot 38, no. 222, 1 house and lot, 50x100, value of land 450, value of improvements 1200, total value 1650, amt of tax 31.81.

1930 US Census (NY, Erie, Buffalo, 12th Ward, ED 15-154, sh 8B, ln 87), Mary L. Jackson, neg, 77, widow, b. NY, father b. VA, mother b. CT, was 27 at the time of her first marriage, could read and write, owned her home at 138 Glenwood Avenue, which was valued at $10,000. Her daughter, Ethel, neg, 34, b. NJ, father b. VA, mother b. NY, could read and write. Living with them as renters: Bernard P. Evans, neg 41, b. KY, both parents b. KY, worked as a moulder at a steel co, could read and write, was not a veteran, was 21 at the time of his first marriage, and paid $35/month rent. His family: Wife, Marianna, neg, 41, b. NY, both parents b. KY; sons, George B. 6, b. NY, and Bernard P., Jr., 3-11/12, b. NY; His father, Geroge, neg, 76, widower, b. KY, both parents b. KY, was 25 at the time of his first marriage and was retired.

1935 May 23, 1935, NY State Death Cert #3062, Mary L. Jackson of 138 Glenwood Ave, 12th Ward, Buffalo, NY, white, widowed, husband Charles K. Jackson, died May 23, 1935 at home, 79 years, 10 mos, 26 days, of chronic para...? nephritis. DOB June 27, 1855, housewife, b. Batavia NY, father William K. Bruce, b. Rochester, NY, mother Caroline Geer, b. Hartford, CT, informant Ethel R. Jackson, 138 Glenwood Avenue. Buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Niagara Falls, on May 27, 1935, undertaker Smith & Smith, 344 Jefferson Avenue.

1. ↑ Lot 97, grave 9, Smith & Smith undertakers, 344 Jefferson Ave, Buffalo, Erie, NY.