"Mrs. Pawling survived her husband over ten years. After his death she removed to Black Rock and made her home with her only surviving son, William Augustus Bird, who was born at Salisbury, Conn., March 23, 1797, and who was married in Troy, Dec. 23, 1820, to Joanna M. Davis, daughter of Colonel Thomas [Davis] and Grace (Noble) Davis. He removed at an early date to Erie county, became an extensive landowner, president of the Savings Bank of Buffalo and was several times elected to the state legislature. His wife Joanna died just prior to Colonel Pawling. The widow Pawling made her home with this son for ten years and died there the 15th of March, 1848, and is buried in Black Rock cemetery, now a part of the city of Buffalo. Her son died in Buffalo August 19, 1878, leaving children and grandchildren. [...]
"Pawling died before the art of Daguerre was known and the only portrait of him in existence is among the treasures of the William Floyd chapter, Sons of the American Revolution and may be seen in the north gallery of the Troy public library [...] the picture originally was a family group of Albert and Eunice Pawling seated on a mahogany sofa and between them John Herman Bird, Mrs. Pawling's first grandchild, who was not born until Sept. 3, 1821. From the apparent age of this child one may say that the painting was made about 1823 when Pawling was 73 and his wife about sixteen years his junior. [...]
"An earlier portrait of Mrs. Pawling, as the youthful bride of John Bird, is owned in Buffalo, showing her an unusually beautiful woman. In the later family groups, though in her late fifties, her beauty is not diminished, but enhanced by the lines of age and experience. Her hair, still dark, can be seen beneath her big matron's cap. Her eyes of a clear blue have finely arched brows. She has thin lips and her hands supporting her little grandchild are long, with tapering fingers. Birth and breeding are unmistakable. Her black gown is lightened by a white shoulder shawl with a gay Persian border. A superficial examination reveals no jewels, but her favorite ones are known to have been yellow topaz surrounded by pearls. [...] Regrettable it is that no photograph of this group exists since the [Pawling family] painting has to some extent been destroyed. Miss Grace Bird, its owner, was in 1896, induced to part with a portion of it so that Troy might have a portrait of its first mayor, and it was found possible to cut away part of the canvas containing the head and shoulders of Colonel Pawling and to mount it separately.
"The remaining portion, decidedly cut down, and thereby losing the signature (if any) of the artist, was reframed and is still in Buffalo. Reproductions of the colonel's picture have been frequently published in Troy and elsewhere."
"Sanatorium Name Is Fitting Memorial Tribute to First Mayor Elected In This City." Troy Record. July 5, 1919: 3-4.
She might have been reinterred from Black Rock Cemetery (which no longer exists) to Forest Lawn Cemetery:
"'The Circle' being a part of the old Black Rock Cemetery, many bones were exhumed in the progress of the work there. All these were carefully handled, put in new coffin-boxes, and re-interred in a lot purchased for the purpose in Forest Lawn Cemetery. All the headstones found were kept distinct, and replaced over the remains to which they belong."
First Annual Report of the Buffalo Park Commissioners. Buffalo, NY: Warren, Johnson & Co., 1871. 20-21.
"Laborers at work paving the Circle on the Fourteenth Street side yesterday discovered a number of human skeletons and two coffins containing skeletons. The site of the Circle was formerly occupied by the old Black Rock Cemetery, and in the Potter's field the remains of many early settlers were buried. Inspector Nicholson notified Coroner Kenney, who will have the bones reburied."
"Dead Men's Bones." Buffalo Courier. September 25, 1890: 5 col 6.
"Pawling died before the art of Daguerre was known and the only portrait of him in existence is among the treasures of the William Floyd chapter, Sons of the American Revolution and may be seen in the north gallery of the Troy public library [...] the picture originally was a family group of Albert and Eunice Pawling seated on a mahogany sofa and between them John Herman Bird, Mrs. Pawling's first grandchild, who was not born until Sept. 3, 1821. From the apparent age of this child one may say that the painting was made about 1823 when Pawling was 73 and his wife about sixteen years his junior. [...]
"An earlier portrait of Mrs. Pawling, as the youthful bride of John Bird, is owned in Buffalo, showing her an unusually beautiful woman. In the later family groups, though in her late fifties, her beauty is not diminished, but enhanced by the lines of age and experience. Her hair, still dark, can be seen beneath her big matron's cap. Her eyes of a clear blue have finely arched brows. She has thin lips and her hands supporting her little grandchild are long, with tapering fingers. Birth and breeding are unmistakable. Her black gown is lightened by a white shoulder shawl with a gay Persian border. A superficial examination reveals no jewels, but her favorite ones are known to have been yellow topaz surrounded by pearls. [...] Regrettable it is that no photograph of this group exists since the [Pawling family] painting has to some extent been destroyed. Miss Grace Bird, its owner, was in 1896, induced to part with a portion of it so that Troy might have a portrait of its first mayor, and it was found possible to cut away part of the canvas containing the head and shoulders of Colonel Pawling and to mount it separately.
"The remaining portion, decidedly cut down, and thereby losing the signature (if any) of the artist, was reframed and is still in Buffalo. Reproductions of the colonel's picture have been frequently published in Troy and elsewhere."
"Sanatorium Name Is Fitting Memorial Tribute to First Mayor Elected In This City." Troy Record. July 5, 1919: 3-4.
She might have been reinterred from Black Rock Cemetery (which no longer exists) to Forest Lawn Cemetery:
"'The Circle' being a part of the old Black Rock Cemetery, many bones were exhumed in the progress of the work there. All these were carefully handled, put in new coffin-boxes, and re-interred in a lot purchased for the purpose in Forest Lawn Cemetery. All the headstones found were kept distinct, and replaced over the remains to which they belong."
First Annual Report of the Buffalo Park Commissioners. Buffalo, NY: Warren, Johnson & Co., 1871. 20-21.
"Laborers at work paving the Circle on the Fourteenth Street side yesterday discovered a number of human skeletons and two coffins containing skeletons. The site of the Circle was formerly occupied by the old Black Rock Cemetery, and in the Potter's field the remains of many early settlers were buried. Inspector Nicholson notified Coroner Kenney, who will have the bones reburied."
"Dead Men's Bones." Buffalo Courier. September 25, 1890: 5 col 6.
"Mrs. Pawling survived her husband over ten years. After his death she removed to Black Rock and made her home with her only surviving son, William Augustus Bird, who was born at Salisbury, Conn., March 23, 1797, and who was married in Troy, Dec. 23, 1820, to Joanna M. Davis, daughter of Colonel Thomas [Davis] and Grace (Noble) Davis. He removed at an early date to Erie county, became an extensive landowner, president of the Savings Bank of Buffalo and was several times elected to the state legislature. His wife Joanna died just prior to Colonel Pawling. The widow Pawling made her home with this son for ten years and died there the 15th of March, 1848, and is buried in Black Rock cemetery, now a part of the city of Buffalo. Her son died in Buffalo August 19, 1878, leaving children and grandchildren. [...]
"Pawling died before the art of Daguerre was known and the only portrait of him in existence is among the treasures of the William Floyd chapter, Sons of the American Revolution and may be seen in the north gallery of the Troy public library [...] the picture originally was a family group of Albert and Eunice Pawling seated on a mahogany sofa and between them John Herman Bird, Mrs. Pawling's first grandchild, who was not born until Sept. 3, 1821. From the apparent age of this child one may say that the painting was made about 1823 when Pawling was 73 and his wife about sixteen years his junior. [...]
"An earlier portrait of Mrs. Pawling, as the youthful bride of John Bird, is owned in Buffalo, showing her an unusually beautiful woman. In the later family groups, though in her late fifties, her beauty is not diminished, but enhanced by the lines of age and experience. Her hair, still dark, can be seen beneath her big matron's cap. Her eyes of a clear blue have finely arched brows. She has thin lips and her hands supporting her little grandchild are long, with tapering fingers. Birth and breeding are unmistakable. Her black gown is lightened by a white shoulder shawl with a gay Persian border. A superficial examination reveals no jewels, but her favorite ones are known to have been yellow topaz surrounded by pearls. [...] Regrettable it is that no photograph of this group exists since the [Pawling family] painting has to some extent been destroyed. Miss Grace Bird, its owner, was in 1896, induced to part with a portion of it so that Troy might have a portrait of its first mayor, and it was found possible to cut away part of the canvas containing the head and shoulders of Colonel Pawling and to mount it separately.
"The remaining portion, decidedly cut down, and thereby losing the signature (if any) of the artist, was reframed and is still in Buffalo. Reproductions of the colonel's picture have been frequently published in Troy and elsewhere."
"Sanatorium Name Is Fitting Memorial Tribute to First Mayor Elected In This City." Troy Record. July 5, 1919: 3-4.
She might have been reinterred from Black Rock Cemetery (which no longer exists) to Forest Lawn Cemetery:
"'The Circle' being a part of the old Black Rock Cemetery, many bones were exhumed in the progress of the work there. All these were carefully handled, put in new coffin-boxes, and re-interred in a lot purchased for the purpose in Forest Lawn Cemetery. All the headstones found were kept distinct, and replaced over the remains to which they belong."
First Annual Report of the Buffalo Park Commissioners. Buffalo, NY: Warren, Johnson & Co., 1871. 20-21.
"Laborers at work paving the Circle on the Fourteenth Street side yesterday discovered a number of human skeletons and two coffins containing skeletons. The site of the Circle was formerly occupied by the old Black Rock Cemetery, and in the Potter's field the remains of many early settlers were buried. Inspector Nicholson notified Coroner Kenney, who will have the bones reburied."
"Dead Men's Bones." Buffalo Courier. September 25, 1890: 5 col 6.
"Pawling died before the art of Daguerre was known and the only portrait of him in existence is among the treasures of the William Floyd chapter, Sons of the American Revolution and may be seen in the north gallery of the Troy public library [...] the picture originally was a family group of Albert and Eunice Pawling seated on a mahogany sofa and between them John Herman Bird, Mrs. Pawling's first grandchild, who was not born until Sept. 3, 1821. From the apparent age of this child one may say that the painting was made about 1823 when Pawling was 73 and his wife about sixteen years his junior. [...]
"An earlier portrait of Mrs. Pawling, as the youthful bride of John Bird, is owned in Buffalo, showing her an unusually beautiful woman. In the later family groups, though in her late fifties, her beauty is not diminished, but enhanced by the lines of age and experience. Her hair, still dark, can be seen beneath her big matron's cap. Her eyes of a clear blue have finely arched brows. She has thin lips and her hands supporting her little grandchild are long, with tapering fingers. Birth and breeding are unmistakable. Her black gown is lightened by a white shoulder shawl with a gay Persian border. A superficial examination reveals no jewels, but her favorite ones are known to have been yellow topaz surrounded by pearls. [...] Regrettable it is that no photograph of this group exists since the [Pawling family] painting has to some extent been destroyed. Miss Grace Bird, its owner, was in 1896, induced to part with a portion of it so that Troy might have a portrait of its first mayor, and it was found possible to cut away part of the canvas containing the head and shoulders of Colonel Pawling and to mount it separately.
"The remaining portion, decidedly cut down, and thereby losing the signature (if any) of the artist, was reframed and is still in Buffalo. Reproductions of the colonel's picture have been frequently published in Troy and elsewhere."
"Sanatorium Name Is Fitting Memorial Tribute to First Mayor Elected In This City." Troy Record. July 5, 1919: 3-4.
She might have been reinterred from Black Rock Cemetery (which no longer exists) to Forest Lawn Cemetery:
"'The Circle' being a part of the old Black Rock Cemetery, many bones were exhumed in the progress of the work there. All these were carefully handled, put in new coffin-boxes, and re-interred in a lot purchased for the purpose in Forest Lawn Cemetery. All the headstones found were kept distinct, and replaced over the remains to which they belong."
First Annual Report of the Buffalo Park Commissioners. Buffalo, NY: Warren, Johnson & Co., 1871. 20-21.
"Laborers at work paving the Circle on the Fourteenth Street side yesterday discovered a number of human skeletons and two coffins containing skeletons. The site of the Circle was formerly occupied by the old Black Rock Cemetery, and in the Potter's field the remains of many early settlers were buried. Inspector Nicholson notified Coroner Kenney, who will have the bones reburied."
"Dead Men's Bones." Buffalo Courier. September 25, 1890: 5 col 6.
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