Amanda Elizabeth RUPPERT

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1930, Living with husband in Manhatten, New York Co., New York
• Census: 1940, Living with husband in Greenwich, Fairfield Co., Connecticut

Notes:

Name:
Amanda Elizabeth ("Lizzie") Ruppert-Silleck was the beloved wife of Henry Garrison Silleck, Jr. and daughter of Jacob and Anna Gillig-Ruppert and sister of Hon. Col. Jacob Ruppert, Jr., famous beer baron and owner of the New York Yankees until his death in 1939. She had three children: Henry Garrison Silleck III, Helen Ruppert Silleck (Mrs. Frank Jos. Holleran) and Ruth Rita Silleck (Mrs. Jos. Basil Maguire). Amanda lived her entire life in New York City, within a few blocks of the very home in which she was born on the corner of East 93rd and Fifth Avenue. She passed of cancer on April 25, 1952. Also surviving her were her three grandchildren, Glenna, Richard and Romer Holleran. A requiem mass was held at St. Paul's Roman Catholic Church of Glenville, Connecticut (now St. Paul's Roman Catholic Church of Greenwich, Connecticut). She was the last survivor of her siblings, Cornelia, Frank, Jacob, Anna and George, all interred herein.
--- K. Jacob Ruppert, New York/New Orleans.

Family/Spouse: Henry Garrison SILLECK, Jr.. Henry was born on 22 Nov 1870 in New York City, New York; died on 5 Oct 1962 in Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1930, Living in Manhattan, New York Co., New York
• Census: 1940, Living in Huntington, Suffolk Co., New York

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New York Post, Thursday, August 11, 1941.

The Sillecks Are at It Again
He's Not Responsible for Her Debts

For the second time, Henry Garrison Silleck 3d, socialite, flier and nephew of the late Jacob Ruppert, has plunged into print with one of those "I will not be responsible, etc." ads. The target is his attractive wife, the former Virginia Cobb. Silleck, now a captain in the 3d Reconnaissance Squadron stationed at Orlando, Fla., said today that she had been "running hog-wild, piling up debts, in the stores."

"She's taken my personal belongings we had stored in our old home at Northport, L. I., which is now rented," he said from his home at Brae Head, Greenwich, Conn., where he's on furlough. "I came up here from Orlando to answer her separation suit and keep her from confiscating my clothes." . Answering her charge that he had failed to support her, he said, "She has refused my pleas to live with me at various stations to which I have been assigned in line of duty, so I did stop supporting her. Now I can't find her,"

Silleck was secretly married to Miss Cobb in 1934 after he and his first wife, the former Adelaide Slosson, whom he married at 19, were divorced. He inserted his first blast against her in the papers in 1938 but they were reconciled.

Henry married Adelaide Willets SLOSSON on 15 Feb 1925 in Elkton, Maryland. Adelaide (daughter of Charles Aubrey SLOSSON and Rosetta WILLETS) was born on 29 Sep 1906 in New York City, New York; died in Mar 1973 in Cos Cob, Fairfield County, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Henry married Virginia COBB in 1934. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Henry married Frances DOUGLASS on 16 Oct 1948. Frances (daughter of Frederick H. DOUGLASS and Anna DISCO) was born on 26 Oct 1913 in Lake Placid, New York; died on 5 Jul 2006 in Lake Placid, New York; was buried in Saint Agnes Cemetery, Lake Placid, Essex Co., New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]