Person:Edna Tanner (1)

Watchers
m. Abt 1870
  1. Louise Beatrice Tanner
  2. Edna Jane Tanner1875 - 1913
  3. Anna L. Tanner1882 -
  4. Ada Gladys Tanner1891 -
m. 4 May 1898
  1. Helen DeVoe HILL1899 - 1990
m. 14 Feb 1911
  1. Unknown Pridgeon, male stillborn1911 - 1911
Facts and Events
Name[1] Edna Jane Tanner
Gender Female
Birth[2] 17 Dec 1875 New York, New York, United States
Marriage 4 May 1898 Worcester, MAto George Hampton HILL
Reference Number 2864
George Hampton HILL
Marriage 14 Feb 1911 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United Statessource = OLT, verification needed
to John Pridgeon, Jr.
Death? 9 Apr 1913 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United Statesdied of pneumonia after childbirth
References
  1. Plumley, Judith Dick (2).

    Attended Radcliff (but didn't graduate?); had a lovely voice; sang in the Boston Opera Choir.
    [All per Judith Dick Plumley.]

  2. Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records 1841-1915. (From Massachusetts state archives)
    Marriage: 5 May 1898.

    Edna Jane Tanner, age 20

  3.   .

    See Massachusetts Vital Records, Volume 441, p. 245 for her birth.
    (Image not yet digitized on newenglandancestors.org as of April 2007.)

  4.   Family notes per User:Jillaine.

    Beautiful and sad story about Edna Jane, all of which emerged through examination of records. (The family knowledge about her was far more limited than this:)

    Her first marriage to my husband's great-grandfather was not a happy one (George may have been an alcoholic), and their daughter Helen was raised more by her uncle than her parents-- when she wasn't in some sort of boarding school.

    By about 1910 (11 years into her marriage with George), Edna Jane hooked up with a married John Pridgeon Jr, former mayor of Detroit. They probably met in Boston. His wife requested and received a divorce by 21 Jan 1911-- I have yet to find a divorce record between Edna Jane and George Hill, but the family's own storytelling does include it. Edna Jane and John Pridgeon Jr married in Boston 3 weeks later, on Valentine's day; and 4 months after THAT, she gave birth to a stillborn in June (in Massachusetts). (From this we can surmise the reason for John's first wife's request for a divorce.)

    Edna must have moved to Detroit; the following year, she gave birth to another stillborn, buried in Detroit. A year after that, while pregnant, she came down with pneumonia, gave birth prematurely to yet another stillborn, and then succumbed to the pneumonia a few weeks later. Two months after she died, the body of her first stillborn by John (the one born in Massachusetts) was moved to Detroit and re-interred with her.

    John married a year later, a third wife-- who he had met and connected with as a result of "a death notice the year before."

    His biographer (see Wikipedia) chose to exclude the second, short-lived marriage to Edna Jane Tanner Hill.
    commented Feb 2, 2013 by Jillaine Smith
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