Lucile Alger1

F, #39856, b. Oct 10, 1870, d. Dec 24, 1936
Pedigree
Father*Charles Coffey Alger1 b. Jul 4, 1809, d. Jul 13, 1874
Mother*Marie Louise Molt1 b. circa 1836, d. Nov 3, 1886

Chronological Events

Birth*Oct 10, 1870 Lucile Alger was born on Oct 10, 1870 at Norwich, New London County, Connecticut, United States.1,2 
 She was the daughter of Charles Coffey Alger and Marie Louise Molt.1 
Death*Dec 24, 1936 Lucile Alger died on Dec 24, 1936, at age 66 at Great Neck, Nassau County, New York, United States.2 
ObituaryDec 26, 1936  OBITUARY: She was Lucile Alger (but some of her records refer to her as Lucille Alger). She was born at Norwich, New London County, Connecticut on October 10, 1870 to Charles Coffey Alger and his second wife Marie Louise Molt. Her father is listed as C. C. Alger on the birth certificate. Charles Coffey Alger had finally secured a divorce after 7 years of living apart from his first wife Sarah Palmer Alger. They divorced in the first part of 1868 and had a daughter Grace Alger (never married) in 1833/1834 at Stockbridge, Berkshire County, Massachusetts and a son Charles Alger, born Feb. 22, 1836 at Stockbridge. Grace died in 1899 at Massachusetts at a home for the aged and her brother Charles Alger died at Hudson, Columbia County, New York on January 2, 1897. (He was my ancestor with his wife Helena Willett Freeland who died in February of 1879 with whom he had three daughters and one son.) Sarah Palmer Alger, the first wife of C. C. Alger, died about 8 weeks after her son at the Hudson, Columbia County, New York home on Allen Street where she and her widowed son lived with his children.

Lucile was the second child of her parents. The first child Marie Alger was born in London, England and died as an infant. (The child was baptized at a Church of England ceremony and her father is listed as Charles Coffy Alger.) I have never been able to find a marriage date for the second marriage of C. C. Alger to Marie Louise Molt and it is possible that they may have been married somewhere in Europe although both were citizens of the United States. Marie Louise Molt was about 30 years younger than her husband and he died in New London County at their summer home in July of 1874 when Lucile was 3 years old. Charles Coffey Alger left a very large estate to his second wife and their child Lucile in the form of a trust which was to end when their last child reached the age of 21. That child was Lucile as there were no children after her. Marie Louise Molt Alger (may have been born at Stowe, Vermont) died in 1886 on a trip to Germany but her body was brought back to Connecticut for burial).

Lucile's mother died when she was about 16 years old. Lucile never married and moved from Connecticut to New York as a young lady and decided to finally settle in Saddle Rock, one of the nine villages of Great Neck about 1900. There she built a home on ten acres that was added to when her partner Louise Nathalie Grace moved in. They purchased 100 more acres over time and added two wings on to the original house. They also built many large homes on the property where most of their poodles were housed (but the favorites lived in the house with them). Miss Lucile Alger died Christmas Eve of 1936 after the ladies decided to live apart after 25 years of living in the same house at the estate at 100 Beach Road in Saddle Rock. The will of Miss Alger left $5,000 to a former girlfriend who had married and moved to Paris and the rest to Miss Grace. Miss Grace died in February of 1954 at another home she then owned in Nassau County, New York. She left an estate of over ten million dollars. Her smallest bequest was to Carl Wirth Alger, a great nephew of the half blood of Miss Lucile Alger. The two ladies had befriended Carl as a child when he developed childhood diabetes. Louise Nathalie Grace left him $5,000 and a sterling or coin silver tea set with large A's on the serving pieces except for the tray which had a particular design on it.

Lucile Alger was cremated on December 26, 1936 at the Fresh Pond Crematory. It appears that the ashes were not placed in niches there and were probably taken by Louise Nathalie Grace.

Information found at Find-A-Grave.com.3
 
Burial*Dec 26, 1936 She was buried on Dec 26, 1936 at Fresh Pond Cemetery, Middle Village, Queens County, New York, United States, Find A Grave Memorial# 145126550.4 

Citations

  1. [S201] Document (E-Mail) in Possession of Malcolm McKown.
  2. [S802] Site - Ancestry.com, online at http://www.ancestry.com
  3. [S19] Obituary - Online, Newspaper or Funeral Home.
  4. [S58] Gravestones - Death Cert, Find-A-Grave, BillionGraves.