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The Topeka state journal. [volume], October 01, 1896, Page 6
IN THE SOCIETY WORLD.
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Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Hunt and daughter Vic and Miss Adelle Duval of Osage City are visiting Miss Amy Hunt.

Newspaper article probably about 1901 from Dayton, Ohio:

A Genuine Surprise.

A pleasant and complete surprise was given Chas. W. Adams Thursday evening at his home, 25 Hershey street, when a number of friends gathered in honor of his birthday and also in honor of Miss Adele J. Duval, a visiting cousin from Kansas. Music by the Gibson Mandolin Club, games and refreshments were among the pleasures of the evening. Those present were, Miss Ilo Crider, Miss Frances Hewitt, Miss Grace Baker, Miss Esther Waymire, Miss Isabelle Wolf, Miss Grace Defenderfer, Miss Bertha Randall, Miss Viola Hicks, Miss Bessie Wolf, Miss Elsie Clemmer, Miss Carrie Guckes, Miss Estella Kilo, Misses Edna and Eleanor North way, Mrs. H. G. Henley and Lucile Henley, Mr. and Mrs. Louie Adams and son, Adelbert Adams, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. B. Rauch, Harry E. Bausman, Chester Engle, Thomas J. Henley, Berlin Hous, Byron Ricketts, E.C. Maeder, F.E. Gard, M.H. Albyn, Jno. F. Kilmer, C. F. Driehurst, James F. McGrew, Thomas Whelan, Charleton S. Baker, Dan Ehrhart and Will Potsmith.

The Osage City Free Press (Osage City, Kansas) Wed, Mar 14, 1906, Page 8
Tuesday evening the Dorcas Rebekah lodge of this city held a special meeting and initiated the following persons into the order: Mrs. Harry Frid, Mrs. Lloyd Green, Mrs. Alfred Frid, Mrs. Frank Smith, Miss Adele Duval, L. E. Duval, Harry Frid, Mrs. Jennie Jones and Miss Leia Halpin. The Rebekahs also have candidates to be taken through the mysteries of the degree Thursday evening of next week.

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Adele and her cousin Hazel spent some time together when they were young. When Adele's mother died in 1905, Adele stayed with Hazel's family. For unknown reasons Adele didn't like Hazel's first husband, Charles Vernon Bruce. I don't know what the two women did together and how they got along, but in later years they said cruel things about each other. Adele said that Hazel had tried to kill herself once. Hazel said back that Adele had an abortion, and that's why she could never have children. Who knows if either is true. But if Hazel had, remember she had lost two babies and then went through a divorce, if that doesn't depress someone, I don't know what does. Around 1908 Adele, Fred and her father left Kansas for California. In the 1910 census, 27 years old, Adele was living in an apartment in San Francisco. Her brother (my grandfather) is in a different apt and their father is down in Merced. Who knows what Adele was up too running around in San Francisco when she was young.
It's true Adele never had children. Marion (Duval) Heiken said that when she was born in 1931 during the depression, Adele and Steve Dewitt came to the hospital to visit and told her mother Irene Duval that they would take her. Irene told them, "I think I'll keep her."
Adele didn't like the young man her niece Lyle Duval chose to marry either. She told the family,"Why does she want to marry that nitwit for?" Unfortunately she was right, as Lawrence Thurman left Lyle for another woman some years later.


San Mateo Times - July 15, 1947, San Mateo, California

two presidents, Mary L. Foster of Redwood City and Adele DeWitt of San Mateo-Burlingame, conducted the meeting. Rebekahs Plan Formal Evening...
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City: San Mateo
State: California

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Birth	18 Nov 1883	Osage City, Osage, Kansas, United States
Residence	16 Nov 1907	Lock Box No. 1, Macksville, Stafford, Kansas, United States
Residence	Bef 1910	1807 Octavia St., San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States
Census	1910	San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States
Residence	28 Dec 1911	1259 O'Farrell St., San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States
Marriage	17 Apr 1915	Marin, California, United States - Stephen Morgan DeWitt
Residence	1916	1424 Valencia St, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States
Census (family)	20 Jan 1920	Burlingame, San Mateo, California, United States - Stephen Morgan DeWitt
Census (family)	15 Apr 1930	Burlingame, San Mateo, California, United States - Stephen Morgan DeWitt
Census (family)	1940	Judicial Township 5, Burlingame, San Mateo, California, United States - Stephen Morgan DeWitt
Death	19 Jan 1964	Burlingame, San Mateo, California, United States
Burial	22 Jan 1964	Alta Mesa Cemetery, Palo Alto, Santa Clara, California, United States
No Children		Stephen Morgan DeWitt

Spouse

Stephen Morgan DeWitt (1881 - 1956)

Father	Louis Edward Duval (1850 - 1916)
Mother	Mary Catherine Geneva Guizlo (1855 - 1905)
Sibling	Louis Albert "Albert" Duval (1886 - 1948)
Sibling	Arthur Fredrick "Fred" Duval (1888 - 1949)

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