Mary Edith Depue
By
RachelMiss Mary Edith Depue was born November 11th 1873 and lived
in Mount Hermon near Hope, N.J.. Her father was George G. Depue
and her mother was Sarah Catherine Brands Depue. She was 22 when she
taught at Free Union. She was a kind, good teacher. She may have
attended the academy in Mount Hermon. She
married William Theodore Greenberg on April 13th, 1898. He was the
superintendent of the Atlantic Highlands, Red Bank and Long Branch
Railway, a trolley company. His brother, Adolph Greenberg, was the
company's president. Bill and Mary originally lived in Red bank after
their marriage. However, the trolley company went into bankruptcy a
little over a month later. They eventually moved to East Orange and, by
1904, had moved to 206 South 11th Street, Newark, NJ. Mary had five
children, the first two dying at childbirth or shortly thereafter. Mary
died on December 14th, 1916.
