Notes for MARY ELIZABETH WHITMAN VAN NOSTRAND:

Daughter of Walter and Louisa (Van Velsor) Whitman, Sr.
Born: February 3, 1821 in Unknown.
Died: August 6, 1899 in Greenport, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York.
Buried: Green Hill Cemetery, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York.
Residence: Greenport, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York.
Married: Ansel Van Nostrand January 2, 1840 in Unknown.

Greenport was the last stop on the Long Island Railroad. Greenport was an old whaling village. The couple's five children are the only source of the Whitman family's descendants today.

Ansel Van Nostrand was a shipyard worker. He was also an alcoholic whose regular binges gave Walt Whitman another reason to visit the elder of his two sisters in Greenport.