--- title: Collateral relations description: My grandfather’s box of family papers continues to yield treasures – and some fresh mysteries. image: https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/Margaret-Steward-query-in-case-216x300-1.jpg --- # [Vita Brevis A resource for family history from AmericanAncestors.org](https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/) This is a search field with an auto-suggest feature attached. - There are no suggestions because the search field is empty. # Collateral relations [November 13, 2015](https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/2015/11/collateral-relations) [Photographs](https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/tag/photographs), [American History](https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/tag/american-history), [Collections](https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/tag/collections), [Brick Walls](https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/tag/brick-walls), [Family papers](https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/tag/family-papers), [A Genealogist's Diary](https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/tag/a-genealogists-diary), [Object Lessons](https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/tag/object-lessons), [Family stories](https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/tag/family-stories) [Scott C. Steward](https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/author/ssteward) [![Margaret Steward query in case](https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/Margaret-Steward-query-in-case-216x300-1.jpg?width=216&height=300&name=Margaret-Steward-query-in-case-216x300-1.jpg)](https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/Margaret-Steward-query-in-case-1.jpg)My grandfather’s [box of family papers](http://vita-brevis.org/2015/08/family-papers/) continues to yield treasures – and some fresh mysteries. Among the former (and the latter) are a pair of small leather traveling photo frames: one, the larger, is maroon and holds a photograph of a middle-aged woman; the other (biscuit colored) shows an older man being circled by a dog. I suspect that the subjects of this pair of photos are my Steward great-grandparents,[[1]](https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/2015/11/collateral-relations#_ftn1) although it is certainly possible that the woman is not Daisy Steward (1861–1951) but one of her sisters: Katharine Livingston (Beeckman) Lorillard (1855–1941), Helen (Beeckman) Lyman (1858–1938), or Martha Codwise (Beeckman) French (1863–1951). The Beeckman sisters – like their grandmother and her sisters[[2]](https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/2015/11/collateral-relations#_ftn2) – were famous beauties when young, and all of them looked very much the same in later years, as can be seen in a photo from my grandparents’ wedding in 1927. [![](https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/Wedding-guests-leaving-the-church-for-VB-1.jpg?width=978&height=768&name=Wedding-guests-leaving-the-church-for-VB-1.jpg)](https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/Wedding-guests-leaving-the-church-for-VB-1.jpg) My grandparents' wedding in 1927. Two of my great-grandmother's sisters may be seen in the center of the photo, somewhat isolated from the other guests. [![Campbell Steward query](https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/Campbell-Steward-query-211x300-1.jpg?width=211&height=300&name=Campbell-Steward-query-211x300-1.jpg)](https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/Campbell-Steward-query-1.jpg) Campbell Steward? The lady’s carrying case is stamped *Vienna* in gold, which is perplexing: if it were actually meant for the local market, one would expect it to be marked *Wien*. As for the gentleman, where is he? I thought the steps behind him seemed familiar, like the entrance to the Stewards’ house in Goshen, but I don’t think that’s it. Perhaps the building is a hotel? As Aunt Helen Lyman and Aunt Mattie French outlived their husbands and had no children of their own, their effects probably passed to their sisters and then their sisters’ children: Louis Lasher Lorillard Jr. (1875–1938),[[3]](https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/2015/11/collateral-relations#_ftn3) Campbell White Steward (1886–1960), Margaret Atherton Steward (1888–1975), Katherine Elizabeth (Steward) Johnson (1888–1969), Gilbert Livingston Steward (1898–1991), and John Steward (1902–1957). It seems entirely possible that a photo of Helen Lyman or Mattie French ended up with their nephew, my grandfather, both because he was often chosen as a family trustee and since he outlived all of his siblings, three of whom were themselves unmarried – and so the process of dividing up their effects among collateral relatives would have continued! *Continued* [here](http://vita-brevis.org/2015/11/heres-three-times-three/). ### Notes [[1]](https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/2015/11/collateral-relations#_ftnref1) Campbell Steward (1852–1936) married Margaret Atherton Beeckman in 1885. [[2]](https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/2015/11/collateral-relations#_ftnref2) Catherine McPhaedris (Livingston) (Cuyler) Beeckman (1788–1863) was the older sister of Helen (Livingston) Smith (1789–1867), Martha (Livingston) Codwise (1791–1865), and Susan Maria (Livingston) Constable (1794–1830). [[3]](https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/2015/11/collateral-relations#_ftnref3) Cousin Louis was my grandfather’s godfather. In due course, my grandfather served as godfather to Cousin Louis’ son, Louis Livingston Lorillard (1919–1986), a founder of the Newport Jazz Festival. ### Share this: - [mailto:?body=https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/2015/11/collateral-relations](mailto:?body=https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/2015/11/collateral-relations) - - - More - - ![Scott C. Steward](https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/hubfs/Imported%20images/f0ca00236a2eb95f2a42a6692ce1ee9c%3Fs=96%26d=identicon%26r=g.jpeg) ## About Scott C. Steward Scott C. Steward has been NEHGS’ Editor-in-Chief since 2013. He is the author, co-author, or editor of genealogies of the Ayer, Le Roy, Lowell, Saltonstall, Thorndike, and Winthrop families. 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