Individual Details
Myrtle Augusta Hope
(30 May 1890 - 23 Feb 1981)
Blind From Blow Of Husband, Complaint
Charging cruelty, Mrs. "Myrtle A. Dewitt today filed suit for divorce against Clarence D. Dewitt, connected with a large mercantile firm in Oakland. Mrs. Dewitt avers her husband hit her several years ago. and she has been blind in one eye since. While intoxicated he has beaten their little daughter, avers Mrs. Dewitt, who wants a divorce, custody of their child and $150 a month.
Events
| Birth | 30 May 1890 | Picton, Ontario, Canada |  | ||
| Marriage | 9 Jun 1910 | Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States - Clarence Douglas DeWitt |  | | |
| Census | 13 Jun 1920 | San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States | | | |
| Census (family) | 6 Apr 1930 | Assembly District 26, San Francisco, California, United States - Clarence Douglas DeWitt | | | |
| Census | 1940 | 1537 Franklin St, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States | | ||
| Death | 23 Feb 1981 | Sonoma, California, United States | | |
Families
| Spouse | Clarence Douglas DeWitt (1882 - 1937) |
| Child | Marie Bertha DeWitt (1915 - 1989) |
| Father | Frank Hope ( - ) |
| Mother | Ella O Hudgin ( - ) |
Notes
Marriage
Copy of postcard : Front is photo of Clancy and ? (See linked photos)Dear Papa,
Myrtle & I were
married Wednesday Mr. L. DeWitt
June 8th by !st #656 4th Ave
Christian minister. Louisville
Spending honeymoon Kentucky
at Catalina Island.
Love to all -
Census
SD 4, ED 266, sheet 7A, Ward 33.Eddy St. 144, 4, 4
DeWitt, Myrtle Lodger 29, 1905 Na 1910, Canada 3x's English speaking.
Bertha Lodger 4 9/12 CA, CA, Canada
Census (family)
Hayes Street, 1145, 127,DeWitt, Clarence, Head, rent $23.50, MW 47, Married, 27 yrs at first marriage, KY IL KY, Marker, Store
Myrtle, Wife, FW 39, M-20 yrs, Canada Scotland Canada, 1904 na, none
Bertha M, Daughter, FW 15, single, CA KY Canada,
Census
DeWitt, Myrtle, Head FW, 49, Wd, Canada-French, manager Rooming houseDeWitt, Marie, daughter, FW, 25, Divorced, CA, salesgirl millinery
Winchell, Clarence H, Roomer MW, CA machinist wool cleaner
Death
Last Name First Name Middle Birth Date Mother Maiden Father Last Sex Birth Place Death Place Residence Death Date SSN AgeDEWITT MYRTLE A 05/30/1890 HUTRIN HOPE F CANADA SONOMA 02/23/1981 567-78-0707 90 years
Press Democrat, Volume 124, Number 106, 25 February 1981
DE WTTT --- In Santa Rosa; February 23. 1981. Myrtle A. DeWitt. loving mother of Marie B ollatCollatz of Sonoma. A native of Picton, Ontario, Canada, age 90 years.
Friends are invited to attend the funeral services February 26. 1981 at 2:00 pm at the CHAPEL OF THE CHIMES MORTUARY, 2601 Santa Rosa Ave.. Santa Rosa Inturnment will be private. Memorial contributions may be made to the Hospice Valley ol the Moon. 347 Andrieux, Sonoma, CA 95476.
Endnotes
1. DeWitt family records written by Lafe DeWitt and Olive DeWitt, 1938 (Santa Rosa, CA: Family records held by Charles DeWitt Prouty.).
2. "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org: accessed 7 January 2019), Frank Hope in entry for Clarence D Dewitt and Myrtle Augustia Hope, 09 Jun 1910; citing Los Angeles, California, United States, county courthouses, California; FHL microfilm 1,033,220..
3. U.S. Census images. Heritage Quest Online. Subscription database through the Sonoma County Public Library. (ProQuest LLC, 2009.).
4. Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com/ Copyright © 1998-2000, MyFamily.com Inc. and its subsidiaries.), Year: 1930; Census Place: San Francisco, San Francisco, California; Roll: 199; Page: 8B; Enumeration District: 140; Image: 963.0..
5. California Death Records, Rootsweb.com online [http://vitals.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ca/death/search.cgi], accessed 2008-2012.