Individual Details
Adele Josephine Duval
(18 Nov 1883 - 19 Jan 1964)
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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State: California
Events
Families
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) |
Notes
Census
Census - SD 4, ED 247, sheet 3B.# 1807 Octavia SC, San Francisco. Part of Assembly District 40, Precinct 4
16 April, 1910
F B Nunn Head M 47 England, collector - installments
Huldah A Nunn Wife F 36 United States keeper - lodging house
Dorothy A Nunn Daughter F 14 California
A J Duval Lodger F 26 Kansas France Pennsylvania seamstress - alterations - out of work for 8 weeks in 1909 and was not working April 10, 1910.
Marriage
Marin Journal, Volume 53, Number 16, 22 April 1915Marriage Licenses
April 17 --- Stephen M. DeWitt, age 33, and Adele J. Duval, age 31, both of San Francisco.
Census (family)
Vol. 117, SD 7, ED 69, sheet 28 B, line 98San Mateo Co., Burlingame, Arundel Road #29
760, 844, DeWitt, Stephen Head, Own-Mortage, MW, 38, Kentucky, KY, KY, Chauffer, Gas Co.
Adele Wife, 36, Kansas. France, Penn.
Census (family)
ED 41-4 SD 10, sheet 16A, line 17. Arundel 25, 367, 422DeWitt, Stephen M, Head, Own, 7500, radio, MW 48, married at 33, KY KY KY, Truck driver, gas & elec. company
Adele J, Wife, FW 46, married at 31, KS France PA, none
Census (family)
Head Stephen De Witt M 58 Kentucky, 8th grade, Carpenter, gas & electric Co, PW, 52 wks $1612 in 1939Wife Adele De Witt F 56 Kansas, H4,
Residence in 1935: Same House
Supplementary questions
Adele Dewitt: Father France, Mother Pennsylvania, spoke English as a child, yes-wife of a veteran, 1 marriage at age 31, 0 children.
Death
Last Name First Name Middle Birth Date Mother Maiden Father Last Sex Birth Place Death Place Residence Death Date SSN AgeDEWITT ADELE J 11/18/1883 F SAN MATEO CALAVERAS 01/19/1964 80 years
The Times (San Mateo, California) Mon, Jan 20, 1964, Page 27
ADELE DEWITT
Adele Josephine DeWitt, 80, 25 Arundel road, Burlingame, died at her home yesterday. She had lived in this community 45 years.
A native of Kansas, she is survived by two nieces, Mrs. Lyle Thurman, Palo Alto, and Mrs. Marion Heiken, San Jose.
She was a member of Burlingame chapter, OES, and of the Burlingame-San Mateo County Senior Citizens.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 2 p.m. from Crosby-N. Gray, under OES auspices. Interment will be in Alta Mesa Memorial Park, Los Altos.
Endnotes
1. Bruce, Charles and Charlene., Guizlo Family Bible Records. 1871 - 1906. Two pages copied from Bible of Hazel Mary Guizlo. FHL US Film [1320608 Item 25] (Salt Lake City, UT: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1987.).
2. US Federal Census. 1920. California, San Francisco Co. ED 51 and ED 247. (read June 20, 2002, Nancy Prouty, SR Annex.).
3. Chas to Adele J. Duval, 28 December 1911, N. Prouty collection, Postcard; 1912 New Year Greetings.
4. "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org: 1/3/2017 ), Stephen M. Dewitt and Adele J. Duval, 17 Apr 1915; citing Marin, California, United States, county courthouses, California; FHL microfilm 1,514,083..
5. U.S. Census images. Heritage Quest Online. Subscription database through the Sonoma County Public Library. (ProQuest LLC, 2009.), 1920 > California > SAN MATEO > 1-WD; BURLINGAME; 2-TWP Series: T625 Roll: 145 Page: 195 .
6. Soundex - California 1920. (read July 14, 2001, Nancy Prouty Sonoma Co. Library Annex, Santa Rosa), D 300.
7. Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com/ Copyright © 1998-2000, MyFamily.com Inc. and its subsidiaries.), 1930; Census Place: Burlingame, San Mateo, California; Roll: 216; Page: 16A; Enumeration District: 4; Image: 161.0..
8. California Death Records, Rootsweb.com online [http://vitals.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ca/death/search.cgi], accessed 2008-2012.