Individual Details

Frieda Elizabeth Haden

(2 May 1898 - )



[Miss] Frieda E. Haden applied for her passport at the American Legation in Berne, Switzerland on 19 Sep 1917. She was born 3 May 1898 at Kiangyin, China. Her father Robert A. Hade, born Keatchie, LA, was deceased. She was last in the U.S. in 1901 and had arrived at Neuchatel, Switzerland on 17 Sep 1912 where she is now living. She has requested a passport for used in traveling in Switzerland and France. Documents presented included certificate of registration for her father at Shanghai, China, on 13 May 1908; Permission of domicile at Neuchatel, 9 Feb 1917, and application of her mother submitted 7 Sep 1917. She has never lived in the U. S. but visited there for about one year. Her father was victim of a submarine disaster on the S.S. "Athos" en route from China to Marseilles in 1917. She hope to return to China with her mother when the receive orders from the missionary board in Nashville, TN.

Another application to the American Consulate in Lyon, France, is dated 17 Dec 1918. She is doing war work for the Y.M.C.A. in Lyons. She lived in China from 1898 to 1900; again in China from 1902-1910; Switzerland, Germany & France from 1910 to 1918. She wants a passport for temporary residence in France. She signed "F. Elisabeth Haden". She was then age 20, 5' 11" tall, blue-gray eyes and blond hair.
Her affadavit states that she was raised abroad because of her father's missionary work. He was drowned 17 Feb 1917 on the Athos. She has a brother Julian Haden living in New Britain, Connecticut.

Events

Birth2 May 1898Kiangyin, China

Families

FatherRobert Allen Haden (1865 - 1917)
MotherEugenie Clara Hiltbolt (1869 - )
SiblingEric George Haden (1899 - )
SiblingDorothee Janie "Dot" Haden (1901 - )
SiblingErnest Faber Haden (1904 - 1993)
SiblingRobert Allen Haden Jr. (1908 - )
SiblingJoseph Henderson Haden (1911 - )

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