Biography

Mentioned in 18680908JWS_WHS1. Janet writes to WHS that the whole family is invited to Eliza's wedding.

 

From findagrave: "Eliza (nee Martin) Tremain, 61, was the widow of Grenville Tremain, Esq., a prominent young lawyer and rising political star who had predeceased her 30 years earlier. Known to friends and family as "Lylie", she died at her winter residence at 114 East 71st Street in New York City after a brief but fatal bout with pneumonia. The daughter of the late Enos T. Throop Martin and his wife, the former Cornelia Williams, Mrs. Tremain was the seventh of their eleven children, and the grand-niece of former New York Governor Enos Thompson Throop. Raised in the stimulating atmosphere of "Willowbrook", the Throop-Martin estate on the shores of Owasco Lake near Auburn, she had been introduced to her future husband by her brother "Throop", a Union College classmate, who would, in turn, marry Mr. Tremain's sister Helen. Wed in the autumn of 1868, Grenville and Lylie Tremain became the parents of five children during the course of their 10-year marriage, which was cut short by her spouse's sudden death at age 32. Mrs. Tremain subsequently resided at Willowbrook with her children until they were grown, and in her later years divided her time between the estate and a residence in New York City. In addition to her husband and her parents, she was predeceased by five of her siblings: Mary, Harriet, Throop, and John Martin, and Mrs. Emory Upton. Her survivors included her daughters Mrs. W.B. Anderson, Mrs. Mabel Tremain Brewster and Miss Emily Tremain, her son Lyman Tremain; her brothers George B. and Edward S. Martin, and her sisters Miss Cornelia Martin, Mrs. A.J. Alexander, and Mrs. Wilber E. Wilder."