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Irish-born Tammany Hall boss Richard Eyre Croker (1843-1922) was 71 in 1914, when he married Beulah Benton (or Benson) Edmonson (or Edmondson) (1884-1957), who was 1/16 Cherokee and an alumna of the Cherokee National Female Seminary, shortly after his first wife's passing. He left his fortune to this second wife, and not to his children; Croker's children tried to claim that the Croker-Edmonson marriage wasn't valid, but they were unsuccessful in proving their claims. The will was still being contested as late as 1937. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Croker She's buried in West Palm Beach, FL, where she owned a lot of beachfront property in later life: www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=62332174

Amazing man BossCroker what a life Absolute legend

Helped all the Irish landing in New York to start new lives wpuld love to know more. Don't know why on earth he left nothing to his kids though apart from Florence he left her the equivalent of 5 million in today's terms of value but he left his new wife 300 million

Died in Dublin and is buried in Stepaside

We also have a photo apparently of Mr Croker's horse, called 'Mr Boss' in our Poole Imperial photographs, but unfortunately it's not digitised yet.

This reminds me of the child catcher! great photo!

maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,719658,725490,7,9 Glencairn

Glencairn House, County Dublin A neighbour of mine, the British Ambassador, lives in here. The Dublin Transport authorities have built a light rail line right past this gate and a station called Glencairn is to open outside it in a few months. From - www.geograph.ie/photo/1848267

FUNERAL OF MR. CROKER: - The funeral of Mr. Richard Croker took place yesterday [May 5, 1922], when the body was buried in the grounds of Glencairn House, Mr. Croker's residence in South County, Dublin. After a Requiem Mass in the private oratory, the burial service was conducted by the Right Rev. Dr. W. J. Miller, Roman Catholic Bishop of Eumenia. The body was clothed in evening dress, and before the coffin was closed Mrs. Croker desired the mourners to look at her husband's face for the last time. The coffin was covered with a pall made of natural violets and evergreen. The pall-bearers were Mr. Arthur Griffith, President of Dail Eireann, the Lord Mayor of Dublin, Mr. A. H. Flauley, of Chicago, Mr. Oliver Gogarty, Alderman Macdonagh, and Mr. J. E. Tierney. Mr. Michael Collins, Chairman of the Provisional Government, was represented by Mr. Kevin O'Shiel From - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glencairn_House

"Tsianina Redfeather Blackstone (December 13, 1882 – January 10, 1985) was a Creek/Cherokee singer and performer." [...]"she was first wed in 1920, to David F. Balz of Denver" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsianina_Redfeather_Blackstone

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