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=Maria Latham Anderson= A certain amount of reservation must be used when stating that Maria Latham Anderson and Woodbury Blair were ancestors to the actor Montgomery Clift. Other than the biography of Montgomery Clift by Patricia Bosworth, which must ultimately rest on the word and memory of Sunny Clift, we have '''nothing whatosever''' to tie Sunny either to the Blairs or the Andersons. Patricia herself did nothing new to verify this connection, merely copying out what she was told by Sunny or Brooks. That is a tenuous position. If Sunny fabricated, or if Dr Edward Montgomery did so, we have no way to tell yes or no. Certainly Brooks would simply believe his mother, and proceed with researching the families, without the necessary evidence to build this bridge. One remaining way might be to prove that Maria's surviving sister Sophie really did give Sunny $25,000 in her will. If that evidence surfaces, that might be an acceptable way to say that yes, there was some link there. Please cite this link with reservations! Maria Latham Anderson was born about 1848 probably in Ohio, but possibly in Maryland, the third child and second daughter of [[#Robert Anderson|Major Robert Anderson]] by his wife [[#Eliza Bayard Clinch|Eliza Bayard Clinch]]. Maria's father Robert died in 1871 in Nice, France where they had gone for his health. But per the story related by Patricia Bosworth, her mother Eliza hysterically kept her daughters under close watch desiring them to stay with her as maidens until her death. This is supposed to have occurred in Washington, DC, but Pat incorrectly states that Robert "died in 1880". Maria's eldest surviving sibling also named [[Eba Anderson Lawton|Eliza]] married for the only time in 1886 when around 40 years old and moved to New York City. The next sibling was Maria who '''reportedly''' married Woodbury Blair, somewhere around Washington, between 1886 and 1888. Maria is supposed to have from this had a child in Philadelphia which was given up for adoption in 1888, and the marriage annuled. The youngest sister Sophie never married. One eldest sibling, a boy died an infant, and the only other sibling Robert died at age 20 unmarried. It would appear that at some point the entire extended family was living in New York City when they appear in the Social Register, but this is not perfectly clear yet. Maria and Sophie were the executors of their mother's estate in 1905, and Maria was still living when her eldest sister died in 1919 leaving half her house in Elizabethtown, New York to her (the other half to Sophie). Maria is said-to-have died in 1925, either unmarried or not remarried. ==Primary sources for 7== *[http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&rank=0&gsfn=Eliza&gsln=Anderson&sx=&f23=&f3=&f4=&f13=Maryland&rg_81004011__date=1845&rs_81004011__date=1&f11=&f12=&f6=&f2=&gskw=&prox=1&db=1850usfedcenancestry&ti=0&ti.si=0&gss=angs-d&pcat=35&fh=0&recid=315955&recoff=1+3+16+17 1850 Census of Cape Elizabeth, Cumberland County, Maine] : "Major Robert Anderson, 45, KY; Elisa B Anderson, 26, GA; Eliza Mc Anderson 5 MD; Maria L Anderson 2 OH; Will Johnson" *[http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&rank=0&gsfn=Robert&gsln=Anderson&sx=&f23=&f3=&f4=&f13=Kentucky&rg_81004011__date=1805&rs_81004011__date=5&gskw=&prox=1&db=1860usfedcenancestry&ti=0&ti.si=0&gss=angs-d&pcat=35&fh=5&recid=25837730&recoff=1+2+15+16 1860 Census of Fort Monroe, Elizabeth City County, Virginia] : "Robert Anderson 53 KY, Eliza B Anderson 39 GA; Eliza Mc J C Anderson 15 MD; Maria L Anderson 11 MD; Sophie D Anderson 9 MI or MD; Robert Anderson 1 NY; Adelaide Schmidt 50, servant, France; Will Johnson" *[http://books.google.com/books?id=ty4BAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA255&lpg=PA255&dq=%22eba+anderson%22&source=web&ots=SoQR3jibgY&sig=4QgYEZubRG6LENAXdhvQTUCbgwU&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=27&ct=result ''Social Register, New York''], page 255 : "Lawton, Mrs James Marsland (Eba Anderson), Mrs Rob't Anderson and The Misses Anderson, 37 Fifth Avenue" *[http://www.newspaperarchive.com/PdfViewerTags.aspx?img=4327350&firstvisit=true&src=search¤tResult=3 ''The Washington Post'', 20 Apr 1905], announcing Eliza (Clinch) Anderson's probate and that "Maria L Anderson, Sophie C Anderson" have obtained letters testamentary on the estate. *''New York Times'', [http://scplweb.santacruzpl.org:2249/pqdweb?index=0&did=118162987&SrchMode=1&sid=11&Fmt=10&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=HNP&TS=1217564320&clientId=54310 report about Eba's will (in 1919)] states that she gives, inter alia, her sisters "Maria L and Sophie C Anderson" her home at Elizabethtown, New York and $5,000 each.
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