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Family HistoryFamily History - Mary Spies


Key:1.“+” before a child’s name indicates the child has their own entry in the next generation.
 2.“born xxxx” indicates the child is under 18 years of age so the birth date is not shown.
This family history features Mary Spies and one of her descendants down to the second generation.


First Generation
1. Mary Spies,1 born ____ (parents not determined). Mary married William Evarts Barnes (born ____, parents not determined).

Child of Mary Spies and William Evarts Barnes:

+2i. Cornelia Elizabeth Barnes, born 1 October 1862; died 16 March 1940. Married Edward Heartt Schell.

Second Generation
2. Cornelia Elizabeth Barnes2 (Mary1), born 1 October 1862;1 died 16 March 1940.1 Cornelia married, 27 October 1886 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, Edward Heartt Schell4, 6 (born 30 September 1848 in Troy, Rensselaer County, New York, the son of Edward Schell and Jane Lamberson Heartt;2, 3, 4, 5 Edward died 25 January 1910 in New York, New York4). Cornelia is buried in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York.1

The publication, Documents of the Senate of the State of New York of 1910, provides an interesting biographical sketch for Edward:4

Edward Heartt Schell

Edward Heartt Schell was born in Troy, New York, in 1848, where he lived with his grandfather, Jonas Heartt, who was at one time mayor of Troy. He moved to New York city when a boy and lived here up to the time of his death on the 25th of January, 1910.

He was elected a trustee of the Northern Dispensary in 1889 and served the dispensary as a member of the board, until a few days before his death. His father, Edward Schell, was also a member of the board of trustees of the dispensary, having been elected in 1861, and serving as such to the time of his death in 1893. In 1876 his father served as second vice-president; in 1877 as first vice-president, and in 1878 as president of the board of trustees.

Edward Heartt Schell was graduated from Yale University in the class of 1870, and later studied law at Columbia, and was admitted to the bar of this State. He was married in 1886 to Cornelia E. Barnes, daughter of the late William Evarts Barnes, who survives him, as does also his sister, Miss M. E. Schell, who resides at 9 Washington Square North in this city. Among the many clubs and societies that he was a member of were the St. Nicholas and Manhattan Clubs, the Bar Association of the City of New York, and the St. Nicholas Society; he was also a director of the Manhattan Life Insurance Company and of the Manhattan Savings Institution.

Mr. Schell was a genial companion, a gentleman in the broadest sense of the word, and a fellow member whose memory we will all cherish in fond recollections, and in his death the trustees have lost an esteemed associate.

We extend to his widow and his sister our heartfelt sympathy in their bereavement.


  1. Find a Grave (website). Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York; Cornelia Elizabeth Barnes McDonald, born: 1 October 1862; died: 16 March 1940 (from record, which provides the names and links for her parents and one sibling).
  2. U.S. Federal Census, 1870, New York, New York County, New York, Third District, 15th Ward, Page No. 40, family of Edward Schell (50, NY, silverware dealer); Jane Schell (42, NY); Edward Schell (22, NY); Kitty Schell (16, NY); Mary Schell (14, NY); Catherine McGulick (30, Ireland); Winnefred Davis (26, Ireland); Jane Currin (26, Ireland).
  3. U.S. Federal Census, 1880, New York, New York County, New York City, Enumeration District 772, Page No. 20, family of Edward Schell (60, NY, bank pres.); son Edward H. Schell (30, NY, law); daughter Mary E. Schell (22, NY); sist. in law Mary Hart (59, NY); servant Jane Curran (36, Ireland, waitress); servant Mary Grey (23, Ireland, cook); servant Annie Delany (22, Ireland, semptress [i.e., seamstress]).
  4. Documents of the Senate of the State of New York, One Hundred and Thirty-Third Session. 1910, Vol. XXVI - Nos. 39-50. Albany, J. B. Lyon Company, Printers, 1910. Available at Google Books. No. 39, page 11, Eighty-Third Annual Report of the Board of Trustees of the Northern Dispensary of the City of New York for 1909. In Memoriam for Edward Heartt Schell, providing vital details and a biographical sketch.
  5. The Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York, Genealogical Record. Printed by order of the Society, 1905. Available at Google Books. Page 138, entries for Edward Schell and son Edward Heartt Schell, providing vital details for both of them and also their wife/mother, Jane Lamberson Heartt.
  6. New York City Marriage Records, 1829-1940, Edward Heartt Schell, 39, father: Edward; mother: Jane Lamberson Heartt; Cornelia E. Barnes, 25, father: William E.; mother: Mary Spies; married on 27 October 1886 in Manhattan, New York County, New York.