Cantatore and Brophy connection?

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Thank you Susan !

Eminent and Representative Men of Virginia and the District of Columbia in the Nineteenth Century. With a Concise Historical Sketch of Virginia by Ainsworth R. Spofford c.s., Madison, Wis., Brant & Fuller, 1893 has more information re. the Waggaman family.

1) Henry Waggaman, third son of Henry and Mary Elliott Waggaman, was born in 1758. He married Sarah, daughter of Col. Thomas Ennalls of Dorchester county, province of Maryland.
2) Thomas Ennalls Waggaman, the eldest son of Henry and Mary Elliott Waggaman, was born in 1770, and married, in 1805, Martha Jefferson Tyler, the sister of President Tyler; he died in 1832 and was buried at Greenway, the homestead of Governor Tyler of Virginia. He left a widow and seven children, viz: John H., George Granville, Mary Agnes, Ann Countess, Mary Stephenson, Floyd and Sarah.
3) Sarah Waggaman, the youngest daughter of Thomas E. Waggaman, married John Baptist Cantatore, of Italy — a gentleman of rare attainments. During the administration of her uncle, Mr. Tyler, she assisted in the hospitalities of the White house. After her husband's death she entered the convent of the Visitation, Georgetown, where she still lives.

I did some research.

Elizabeth Warren Tyler, wife of John Patrick Brophy was a daughter of William Wyatt Tyler and Frances Annett Stephenson.
William Wyatt Tyler was a son of Wat Henry Tyler and his first wife Elizabeth Warren Walker. Wat Henry Tyler was a brother of President Tyler.

My conclusion: Sarah Waggaman Cantatore was a first cousin of President Tyler and Elizabeth Warren Tyler was a first cousin once removed of President Tyler.

I agree that they all knew each other and corresponded frequently and may be befriended with each other. John Tyler Jr. (eldest son of President Tyler) died in 1896, Sarah Waggaman in 1901, Anna Surratt in 1904, her husband William Tonry in 1905, John Brophy in 1914 and Elizabeth Warren Tyler in 1924.