BEULAH BENTON EDMONDSON, b. February 17, 1884, Beatty's Prarie, Cherokee nation West; d. Aft. 1906; m. Richard Eyre CROKER on 26 Nov 1914 in St Agnes's Roman Catholic Church, New York Aft. 1906, New York City, NY; b. Abt. 1880, Black Rock, Ireland. Notes for BEULAH BENTON EDMONDSON:Starr, pg 551: ... Being possessed of superior histrionic talents she specialized in music and expression in Boston and in New York City. Having a brilliant personality and much of the impelling magnetic qualities of her distinguished Uncle, William W Hastings, she soon rose to an eminant rank in her chosen profession. She married in New York City, Richard Croker, a native of Black Rock, Ireland and Chieftain of Tammany Hall. Mr and Mrs Croker divide their time between their home in New York City, Miami, Florida and their castle in Ireland. More About BEULAH BENTON EDMONDSON:1890 Census [CN]: Delaware, 755 as Bulia Edmondson1902-07 Dawes roll: card# 6564, roll# 15728 as Beulah D Edmondson1906-09 Miller roll: Maysville, AR, ap# 26688, roll# 10501 as Bula Benton EdmondsonBlood: 1/16 CherokeeGraduation: May 29, 1902, Cherokee National Female SeminaryPhoto: Images of America, The Cherokee Nation and Tahlequah by Deborah L Duval, pg 28Starr's Notes: A650 More About RICHARD CROKER:Occupation: Chieftain of Tammany Hall.
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Five years after her husband, Tammany boss Richard Croker, died and was laid to rest at his beloved Glen Cairn castle outside Dublin, Beulah Edmondson Croker built this imposing mausoleum, befitting one of Palm Beach's largest oceanfront property owners. She died in 1957; she shares her resting place with Edmondson family members.
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Ricard Croker married Beulah Benson Edmondson (1884-1957) in 1914 when he was 71 years old. He died in 1922 in Ireland died in 1922 in Ireland leaving a fortune estimated to $3–5 millions to his second wife, disinheriting the children. This resulted in a celebrated lawsuit in which the children unsuccessfully claimed that their father's second marriage was invalid for bigamy, in that their stepmother was at the relevant time married to another man. They were, however, unable to produce any credible evidence that the gentleman existed.
Snubbed by High Society
30-year-old Croker married 78-year-old mob boss
Claiming to be a Cherokee princess and descendant of Sequoyah from Oklahoma, beautiful Bula Croker attended a Cherokee college before moving to New York where at 3o, she married Richard Croker, the 78-year-old former mob boss of the Tammany Hall political machine.
In 1914, they arrived in Palm Beach where Croker owned a house with 10,000 feet of ocean frontage, south of Widener's Curve. They called it "The Wigwam." Newspaper accounts say the Indian princess and Irish mob boss husband were snubbed by Palm Beach society.
Her crypt looms mysteriously under one of Woodlawn's large banyan trees, with no birth or death dates visible. Historian Ginger Pedersen has occasionally found pennies laid on the tomb's stoop.
After her husband died in Ireland in 1922, Bula unsuccessfully sought a Florida Congressional seat, while fighting her step-children for the right to inherit her husband's estate. At one point, she was near destitute. She sold off portions of "The Wigwam" in 1937; the house was torn down years later.
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Five years after her husband, Tammany boss Richard Croker, died and was laid to rest at his beloved Glen Cairn castle outside Dublin, Beulah Edmondson Croker built this imposing mausoleum, befitting one of Palm Beach's largest oceanfront property owners. She died in 1957; she shares her resting place with Edmondson family members.
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Ricard Croker married Beulah Benson Edmondson (1884-1957) in 1914 when he was 71 years old. He died in 1922 in Ireland died in 1922 in Ireland leaving a fortune estimated to $3–5 millions to his second wife, disinheriting the children. This resulted in a celebrated lawsuit in which the children unsuccessfully claimed that their father's second marriage was invalid for bigamy, in that their stepmother was at the relevant time married to another man. They were, however, unable to produce any credible evidence that the gentleman existed.
Snubbed by High Society
30-year-old Croker married 78-year-old mob boss
Claiming to be a Cherokee princess and descendant of Sequoyah from Oklahoma, beautiful Bula Croker attended a Cherokee college before moving to New York where at 3o, she married Richard Croker, the 78-year-old former mob boss of the Tammany Hall political machine.
In 1914, they arrived in Palm Beach where Croker owned a house with 10,000 feet of ocean frontage, south of Widener's Curve. They called it "The Wigwam." Newspaper accounts say the Indian princess and Irish mob boss husband were snubbed by Palm Beach society.
Her crypt looms mysteriously under one of Woodlawn's large banyan trees, with no birth or death dates visible. Historian Ginger Pedersen has occasionally found pennies laid on the tomb's stoop.
After her husband died in Ireland in 1922, Bula unsuccessfully sought a Florida Congressional seat, while fighting her step-children for the right to inherit her husband's estate. At one point, she was near destitute. She sold off portions of "The Wigwam" in 1937; the house was torn down years later.
BEULAH BENTON EDMONDSON, b. February 17, 1884, Beatty's Prarie, Cherokee nation West; d. Aft. 1906; m. Richard Eyre CROKER on 26 Nov 1914 in St Agnes's Roman Catholic Church, New York Aft. 1906, New York City, NY; b. Abt. 1880, Black Rock, Ireland. Notes for BEULAH BENTON EDMONDSON:Starr, pg 551: ... Being possessed of superior histrionic talents she specialized in music and expression in Boston and in New York City. Having a brilliant personality and much of the impelling magnetic qualities of her distinguished Uncle, William W Hastings, she soon rose to an eminant rank in her chosen profession. She married in New York City, Richard Croker, a native of Black Rock, Ireland and Chieftain of Tammany Hall. Mr and Mrs Croker divide their time between their home in New York City, Miami, Florida and their castle in Ireland. More About BEULAH BENTON EDMONDSON:1890 Census [CN]: Delaware, 755 as Bulia Edmondson1902-07 Dawes roll: card# 6564, roll# 15728 as Beulah D Edmondson1906-09 Miller roll: Maysville, AR, ap# 26688, roll# 10501 as Bula Benton EdmondsonBlood: 1/16 CherokeeGraduation: May 29, 1902, Cherokee National Female SeminaryPhoto: Images of America, The Cherokee Nation and Tahlequah by Deborah L Duval, pg 28Starr's Notes: A650 More About RICHARD CROKER:Occupation: Chieftain of Tammany Hall.
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Five years after her husband, Tammany boss Richard Croker, died and was laid to rest at his beloved Glen Cairn castle outside Dublin, Beulah Edmondson Croker built this imposing mausoleum, befitting one of Palm Beach's largest oceanfront property owners. She died in 1957; she shares her resting place with Edmondson family members.
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Ricard Croker married Beulah Benson Edmondson (1884-1957) in 1914 when he was 71 years old. He died in 1922 in Ireland died in 1922 in Ireland leaving a fortune estimated to $3–5 millions to his second wife, disinheriting the children. This resulted in a celebrated lawsuit in which the children unsuccessfully claimed that their father's second marriage was invalid for bigamy, in that their stepmother was at the relevant time married to another man. They were, however, unable to produce any credible evidence that the gentleman existed.
Snubbed by High Society
30-year-old Croker married 78-year-old mob boss
Claiming to be a Cherokee princess and descendant of Sequoyah from Oklahoma, beautiful Bula Croker attended a Cherokee college before moving to New York where at 3o, she married Richard Croker, the 78-year-old former mob boss of the Tammany Hall political machine.
In 1914, they arrived in Palm Beach where Croker owned a house with 10,000 feet of ocean frontage, south of Widener's Curve. They called it "The Wigwam." Newspaper accounts say the Indian princess and Irish mob boss husband were snubbed by Palm Beach society.
Her crypt looms mysteriously under one of Woodlawn's large banyan trees, with no birth or death dates visible. Historian Ginger Pedersen has occasionally found pennies laid on the tomb's stoop.
After her husband died in Ireland in 1922, Bula unsuccessfully sought a Florida Congressional seat, while fighting her step-children for the right to inherit her husband's estate. At one point, she was near destitute. She sold off portions of "The Wigwam" in 1937; the house was torn down years later.
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Five years after her husband, Tammany boss Richard Croker, died and was laid to rest at his beloved Glen Cairn castle outside Dublin, Beulah Edmondson Croker built this imposing mausoleum, befitting one of Palm Beach's largest oceanfront property owners. She died in 1957; she shares her resting place with Edmondson family members.
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Ricard Croker married Beulah Benson Edmondson (1884-1957) in 1914 when he was 71 years old. He died in 1922 in Ireland died in 1922 in Ireland leaving a fortune estimated to $3–5 millions to his second wife, disinheriting the children. This resulted in a celebrated lawsuit in which the children unsuccessfully claimed that their father's second marriage was invalid for bigamy, in that their stepmother was at the relevant time married to another man. They were, however, unable to produce any credible evidence that the gentleman existed.
Snubbed by High Society
30-year-old Croker married 78-year-old mob boss
Claiming to be a Cherokee princess and descendant of Sequoyah from Oklahoma, beautiful Bula Croker attended a Cherokee college before moving to New York where at 3o, she married Richard Croker, the 78-year-old former mob boss of the Tammany Hall political machine.
In 1914, they arrived in Palm Beach where Croker owned a house with 10,000 feet of ocean frontage, south of Widener's Curve. They called it "The Wigwam." Newspaper accounts say the Indian princess and Irish mob boss husband were snubbed by Palm Beach society.
Her crypt looms mysteriously under one of Woodlawn's large banyan trees, with no birth or death dates visible. Historian Ginger Pedersen has occasionally found pennies laid on the tomb's stoop.
After her husband died in Ireland in 1922, Bula unsuccessfully sought a Florida Congressional seat, while fighting her step-children for the right to inherit her husband's estate. At one point, she was near destitute. She sold off portions of "The Wigwam" in 1937; the house was torn down years later.
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