#7 - Maude G. Seip (1871 - 1905) - Phoenix Socialite

 

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Maude G. Seip was born on April 4, 1871 in Kansas.  She married Sam N. Seip around 1891, who was a notable cigar manufacturer in the city of Phoenix, and an admirer of the inventions of Orville Wright. Sam was also a well known and successful volunteer firefighter with the Pioneer Hose Company 1 in Phoenix AZ.  They had two children both of whom died in childhood and are buried at the PMMP.  

Maude was a known socialite who often gave garden parties and luncheons at their prominent home located at 373 N 1st Avenue in Phoenix.  In 1893, on a tour of the east, Maude and her husband were dragged from their sleeping car on a train in Texas, and told they were being arrested for murder.  After a telegram arrived to the police providing a more accurate description of the actual perpetrators, they were set free. 

 Maude died on December 25, 1905 of acute yellow atrophy of the liver, and is buried in the Knights of Pythias Cemetery. -Donna C.

#2 - Ann Murray Alsap (1855 - 1902) - Socialite

 

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Anna Murray Alsap was born in 1855 in Texas to William Pinckney Murray and his wife Margaret White. The Murrays had nine daughters who became known as “the Murray girls”.  They all married, and several are remembered as the matriarchs of prominent Phoenix families.   In 1876, Anna became the second wife of Judge John Tabor Alsap, who was considerably older than she. During Judge Alsap’s brief tenure as the first mayor of Phoenix, she undoubtedly gave dinner parties attended by the town’s elite. The Alsaps had five children before Judge Alsap’s death in 1886. Anna died on December 20, 1902, and was buried in the Masons Cemetery.