Biography

Mentioned in 18500310FMS_LMW, Frances mentions Mrs. Curtis not being impressed with the ministrations of Rev. Pyne in Washington, D.C.

    Troy Daily Times – Dec 1, 1873
"Sorrow on the Sea—The Last Marine Disaster — Its Local Aspect.
Our telegraph columns contain all the particulars yet received of the loss of the steamship Ville du Havre of the French line. The inference from these dispatches is that the deadly collision occurred at night, when nearly all the passengers were asleep. Among the passengers were LeGrand C. Cramer and Mrs. Edward Curtis, son and sister of George H. Cramer of this city.
LeGrand C. Cramer is the only one of the party of whose safety we are assured; a telegram from him early this morning to his father says: "Alone saved. Send letters of credit to Paris."
This dispatch was at first taken to mean that the sender was the sole survivor of the wreck. Later tidings assure us that eighty odd persons were saved, and now the dispatch is interpreted as indicating that the sender was the only member of his party who escaped a watery grave.
We trust that Mrs. Curtis is yet spared to her friends. Her loss would be to Waterford a public calamity. Mrs. Curtis is or was the eldest daughter of the late Hon. John Cramer, and widow of the Hon. Edward Curtis. Mrs. Curtis was left very wealthy, inheriting a large sum from her father's estate, which, added to upwards of $100,000 which had been left her by her husband, placed her in circumstances that enabled her to do much good. Her benevolence was very great; no poor person who was worthy ever applied to her for relief and was turned away empty-handed. Almost her first act before leaving Waterford was to leave a large sum of money to be given from time to time to those needy ones that she had been in the habit of assisting, and her last injunction was to see that they did not suffer during the winter. A member of the Episcopal church, she by her liberality had been for some time one of the main supports of the church in Waterford. She was truly a Christian woman in every respect, and one whose loss will be deeply grieved.
—Our latest telegrams destroy all hope of the safety of any of the persons named above, excepting Mr. LeGrand Cannon Cramer."
The family vault is at Waterford Cemetery where she may have a cenotaph.