Agnes Abbott

Agnes, the seventh of Jameson and Antoinette Abbott's children, was born 19 November 1920 at the family home, located at 689 East 132nd Street in the Bronx, New York. Baptism took place on 2 January 1921, in St. Luke's Church in the Bronx, by the Reverend R. N. Lavyers.¹ The sponsors were Richard Abbott and Catherine Riesse. The Certificate of Baptism states that her name was Catherine Agnes Abbott, but she was always known as Agnes by her family. Agnes was only five years and ten months old when she died from pneumonia on 30 September 1926.² She is buried in the Abbott family grave in St. Raymond's Cemetery in the Bronx.³ According to Dorothy Delaney, at the time of Agnes' death, Jameson wrote the following epitaph for his daughter: "A bud on earth to bloom in heaven". The epitaph is on the headstone of the grave at St. Raymond's.

¹ Certificate of Baptism from St. Luke's Church, obtained by Dorothy Delaney, Agnes' sister, in March of 2001. The certificate, dated March 5, 2001, was transcribed from church records by Pastor Gerald Ryan.
² Certificate of Dealth, #7052, Bronx, Department of Health of the City of New York..
³ St. Raymond's Cemetery, Section 14, Range 26, Grave 45.