Born in Israel Ward's house, the largest in Bloomfield, N.J., Sunday evening, February 23, 1845 at eleven o'clock. Following family custom she was given a geographical name: "Alabama." (Eliza Catherine Dunscombe Colt notes).
Marriage performed at the 4th Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York City by Reverend George N. Boardman (Hitt, Maurice R., Jr. Genealogical gleanings from early Broome County New York newspapers 1812-1890. Citing Broome County Republican, November 25, 1868).
Lakeview Cemetery records indicate she was born 2/23/1846 (Dunscombe family bible has 2/23/1845) in Bloomfield, N.J. and died 10/13/1914. Father Edward Dunscomb, Bermuda, mother Ann M. Seon, Bermuda.