Elizabeth Barlow
Elizabeth Barlow, called Lizzie, was born in Brooklyn in 1869, probably on 12 March. On her first marriage certificate she is Lizzie A. Barlow. She was a daughter of Charles Barlow and his second wife, Annie C. Halley, who had married at Englewood, New Jersey, in 1866. Her father was born at Dudley, England, and had risen in New York from copying clerk to a partner of Robert G. Dun in Dun, Barlow & Co., the mercantile agency that reported on the credit of merchants across the country. Her mother was the New York-born daughter of Scottish parents.
In the summer of 1879, when she was ten, the family stayed at the Hotel Brighton at Brighton Beach, and the Brooklyn Daily Times listed "Miss Lizzie Barlow" among the guests with her parents and her brother, "Master Dudley Barlow". Her father died at the family's summer house at Long Branch, New Jersey, in July 1880, when she was eleven. Two of her full siblings had died by then; a brother, E. Dudley Barlow, survived, and she had three older half-siblings from her father's first marriage, among them William Barlow and Mary Eberhardt.
On 20 April 1889, at twenty, she married Arthur McGeorge in New York. The rector of the Church of the Holy Apostles, Brady E. Backus, performed the ceremony. The groom was a chemist, born in England, the son of James McGeorge and Jessie Forsyth, and living at 201 West 44th Street. Lizzie gave her age as twenty-one and her home as 110 West 64th Street, where she lived with her widowed mother. Across the line meant for a widow's maiden name the clerk wrote "has mother's consent". What became of that marriage is not known.
She next married George Hall Hoyt, a Vermont-born leather merchant in New York City. New York City's marriage record dates that wedding to 15 May 1897 in Manhattan, and names the bride as Lizzie Barlow Mc..., her married surname from the first marriage, born in Brooklyn in 1869, daughter of Charles Barlow and Annie Halley. Their son Reynold was born in New York City in April 1893 or 1894, before that date. Why the son came first is not known. He carried her maiden name as his middle name, Reynold Barlow Hoyt. The 1910 census and the New York state census of 1915 list her as Elizabeth Hoyt, with George and Reynold, in Manhattan.
She died suddenly on 14 June 1919, at the family's apartment at 1 West 81st Street, facing Central Park, aged fifty. The New York Times notice read: "HOYT. Elizabeth Barlow, beloved wife of George Hall Hoyt, suddenly, on June 14, at her residence, 1 West 81st St. Funeral private." The Times reported her estate in October 1919, valued at about $103,000, with her husband and her son Reynold as the beneficiaries. She was buried on 17 June 1919 in her parents' lot at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, and her name, "Elizabeth Barlow Hoyt / Died June 14, 1919", was cut on the side of her father's obelisk below her mother's. When Reynold married the next year, the Times described him as the son of George Hall Hoyt "and the late Mrs. Hoyt". George's own death certificate in 1938 still named him the husband of Elizabeth Barlow Hoyt.
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Cite: Heirology, "Elizabeth Barlow (1869-1919)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/elizabeth-barlow-1869-1919-c78b91.