Edward Emile Potter

1883 - 1929  (45 years)

• Name	Edward Emile Potter  [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Birth	21 Jul 1883	NY   [2, 4, 5]
  Gender	Male
  Birth	1897	New York, United States
  Death	1929	Brookhaven, Suffolk County, New York, USA   [2, 6]
  Burial	Brookhaven (Oaklawn Cemetery), Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY   [2]
  Person ID	I13439	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	17 Sep 2023

  
  

  Father	Wilhelm Louis Conrad Potthast,   b. 6 Jun 1856, Hannover, Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany d. 5 Jun 1911, Brooklyn, Kings, New York, United States (Age 54 years)
  Mother	Anna Katharine Jürgens,   b. Abt 1849, Schortens, Friesland, Lower Saxony, Germany d. 2 Nov 1902, New York City (All Boroughs), New York, USA (Age 53 years)
  Family ID	F11852	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Lillian E. Bishop, <,   b. Abt May 1882, NY d. 1969 (Age 86 years)
  Children	1. Ralph Bishop Potter, <,   b. 1907   d. 1951 (Age 44 years)   2. John Bishop Potter, ^,   b. 3 Jan 1919, NY d. Sep 1994, Brookhaven, Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY (Age 75 years)
  Family ID	F5842	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	19 Oct 2026

  
  

• Sources

  [S49] Long Island Advance (Long Island Advance, 20 Medford Ave, Patchogue, NY), 26 Aug 1929, p. 16. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Potter and family of Shady Grove spent the week-end in Brooklyn, where they attended the birthday party of Mrs. Potter's father, George Bishop. That Tillie married Edward Potter is suggested by this article, but not proved. [S11] gravestone, Oaklawn Cemetery, Brookhaven, Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY (); May, 2005. [S1433] John Deitz. Research Note: George Bishop Family. 27 July 2011. See details., 27 July 2011. Nearly all the information on the George Bishop family has been obtained from publicly available records—principally census records and the local Patchogue Advance newspaper. While the family is well represented in these sources, ambiguities and inconsistencies exist. Therefore, there is significant uncertainties in this record that have not yet been fully resolved. [S490] Ancestry.com, U.S., Veterans Administration Master Index, 1917-1940 (Lehi, UT. USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2019). [S278] Ancestry.com. 1920 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch. Original data: Fourteenth Census of the United States, 1920. (NARA microfilm publication T625, Census Place: Brooklyn Assembly District 17, Kings, New York; Roll: T625_1170; Page: 5B; Enumeration District: 1027; Image: 1061. [S1442] , Mary R. England Family Tree (N.p.: n.p., n.d.)., Emil Potter.