John Garrison Ryer

1851 - 1921  (70 years)

• Name	John Garrison Ryer  [1, 2]
  Birth	28 Aug 1851	Yonkers, Westchester, New York, USA   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Census	9 Jul 1870	Yonkers, Westchester, New York, USA   [1]
  Occupation	9 Jul 1870  [1]
  	hat shop worker
  Death	29 Aug 1921	Valhalla, Westchester, New York, USA   [2]
  Burial	Y  [2]
  Person ID	I90	Ryer Genealogy
  Last Modified	21 May 2024

  
  

  Father	Abraham B. Ryer,   b. 2 Apr 1817, Westchester, Westchester, New York, USA d. 17 Sep 1854, Yonkers, Westchester, New York, USA (Age 37 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Ann Majory,   b. 10 Aug 1823, Yonkers, Westchester, New York, USA d. 6 Aug 1885, Yonkers, Westchester, New York, USA (Age 61 years)
  Marriage	30 May 1841	Methodist Episcopal Church, Yonkers, Westchester, New York, USA
  Family ID	F36	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Emma Josephine Van Orden,   b. 13 Dec 1851, Yonkers, Westchester, New York, USA d. 7 Feb 1893, Yonkers, Westchester, New York, USA (Age 41 years)
  Children	1. Capt. John A. Ryer,   b. 31 Mar 1875, Yonkers, Westchester, New York, USA d. 11 Jun 1955, Miami, Miami-Dade, Florida, USA (Age 80 years)   2. Sarah Esther Ryer,   b. 18 Feb 1877, Yonkers, Westchester, New York, USA d. 17 Dec 1947 (Age 70 years)   3. Frederick Ryer,   b. 1 May 1879, Yonkers, Westchester, New York, USA d. 8 Sep 1883, Yonkers, Westchester, New York, USA (Age 4 years)   4. Casper Van Orden Ryer,   b. 1 Mar 1887, Yonkers, Westchester, New York, USA d. 5 Mar 1913, Sonyea, Livingston, New York, USA (Age 26 years)   5. Cornelius Abram Ryer,   b. 28 May 1891, Yonkers, Westchester, New York, USA d. 12 Dec 1962, Buffalo, Erie, New York, USA (Age 71 years)
  Family ID	F37	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	11 Mar 2024

  
  

• Notes

  OBITUARY. JOHN GARRISON RYER. John Garrison Ryer, father of Police Sergeant John Ryer, and who had been substantially a resident of Yonkers all his life, died at Grasslands Hospital, Valhalla, yesterday. He was taken there nine days ago. For the past five years he has been an invalid, having suffered an apoplectic stroke. He made his home with his son John, at 93 Maple street. Heart failure is given as the cause of death. Mr. Ryer was 71 years of age. He was born in Mosholu when it was a part of the town of Yonkers. He was a son of the late Abram and Elizabeth Ryer. His grandfather, Dennis Majory, for many years was the keeper of a toll-bridge at Kingsbridge. When his father died, Mr. Ryer, who was then a boy, came to Yonkers proper with his mother and his grandmother, Mrs. Margaret Majory. For sixty years Mr. Ryer lived at 247 New Main street. He was a graduate of School No. 2. He was a hat-cutter by trade, and worked in the different local factories. For thirty years he was employed by the Waring Company, and for a long time was foreman of one of the departments in the plant. His wife, who was Miss Emma Van Orden, died about twenty-five years ago. Of the eight children only three survive – Sergeant Ryer, Cornelius Ryer of Buffalo, N. Y., and Mrs. Hugh M. Stevenson, of Lincoln, Neb. There are also two sisters, Mrs. Jennie Parry of this city, and Mrs. Sarah Baguley of Poughkeepsie, N. Y. The funeral services will be held at his late residence, 93 Maple street, tomorrow afternoon; interment, Oakland Cemetery. source: Obituary of John Garrison Ryer. Yonkers, NY: The Yonkers Statesman, 30 Aug 1921, p. 6.

  
  

• Sources

  [S60] National Archives and Records Administration, 1870 United States Federal Census, Yonkers, Yonkers Post Office, Westchester County, New York, National Archives Microfilm Roll M593_1116; 1870 United States Federal Census [database on-line]., (Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009). [S205] Obituary of John Garrison Ryer, (Yonkers, NY: The Yonkers Statesman, 30 Aug 1921, p. 6).