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Elizabeth Norma <I>Prall</I> Anderson

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Elizabeth Norma Prall Anderson

Birth
Michigan, USA
Death
3 Jan 1976 (aged 91)
Taxco, Taxco de Alarcón Municipality, Guerrero, Mexico
Burial
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Elizabeth Norma Prall

Born: December 14, 1884 Saginaw Saginaw County Michigan

Died: January 3, 1976; Taxco Mexican state of Guerrero. Mexico
Age at Death: YRS: 91
Cause of Death: Death Record Pending
Burial unknown at this time
Interment: Taxco Mexican State of Guerrero Mexico
If you have this info pls contact me

Spouse: third wife of Sherwood Berton Anderson, the famous author
Married from April 5th 1924 Berkeley Alameda California to 1932
Separation: January 1929
Divorced: FEBRUARY 2, 1932 MARION SMYTH COUNTY VIRGINIA

Parents: Delbert Elwin Prall and Cynthia Jane Sophia Wight

Ocupation: Bookstore Manager For DoubleDay Bookstore, School Teacher Liberian

Political Party: Democrat

Religion: Protestant


ALL INFO FROM JEANETTE'S TAKE ON LIFE WEBSITE

NOTES
Meeting: 1922 finally abandoned his work as an advertising writer, left his second wife and Chicago for life in New York City, where he met Elizabeth Prall, bookstore manager and daughter of successful merchant.

came to New Orleans with Anderson shortly after their marriage in April 1924 by 1937
She had joined William Spratling and Natalie Scott pursued her new career as fashion designer.

In January, 1929, Elizabeth went to California to visit relatives.
Sherwood wrote to her, asking her not to return to Virginia.
The marriage came to an end, and Sherwood continued to get the newspapers out.
His older son, Robert Lane Anderson, came to work with him at the papers, and gradually took over most of the duties of editor and publisher.
Sherwood transferred the papers to Robert Lane legally in January, 1932

February 1, 1932 MARION SMYTH COUNTY VIRGINIA
1. Elizabeth Prall Anderson, who asked that her belongings left in Virginia be shipped to her family home in California

Packing things to send Elizabeth… the sense again of her queer passion for spending money that destroyed me. So many useless things. Everything duplicated over and over. There is a kind of dreadful gloom descends upon you in thinking

Source:
Sherwood Anderson Secret Love Letters Page 60-61
Edited By Ray Lewis White

Tuesday March 1, 1932 Marion Smyth County Virginia
Now I am at any rate, unmarried man.

Source:
Sherwood Anderson Secret Love Letters Page: 96
Divorced: 1932

1932 Became divorced from Elizabeth Prall Anderson and continued courting Eleanor Copenhaver: traveled to a radical labor conference in Europe; and published beyond Desire, a political novel about southern labor organizing.

ALL INFO FROM JEANETTE'S TAKE ON LIFE WEBSITE


Elizabeth Norma Prall

Born: December 14, 1884 Saginaw Saginaw County Michigan

Died: January 3, 1976; Taxco Mexican state of Guerrero. Mexico
Age at Death: YRS: 91
Cause of Death: Death Record Pending
Burial unknown at this time
Interment: Taxco Mexican State of Guerrero Mexico
If you have this info pls contact me

Spouse: third wife of Sherwood Berton Anderson, the famous author
Married from April 5th 1924 Berkeley Alameda California to 1932
Separation: January 1929
Divorced: FEBRUARY 2, 1932 MARION SMYTH COUNTY VIRGINIA

Parents: Delbert Elwin Prall and Cynthia Jane Sophia Wight

Ocupation: Bookstore Manager For DoubleDay Bookstore, School Teacher Liberian

Political Party: Democrat

Religion: Protestant


ALL INFO FROM JEANETTE'S TAKE ON LIFE WEBSITE

NOTES
Meeting: 1922 finally abandoned his work as an advertising writer, left his second wife and Chicago for life in New York City, where he met Elizabeth Prall, bookstore manager and daughter of successful merchant.

came to New Orleans with Anderson shortly after their marriage in April 1924 by 1937
She had joined William Spratling and Natalie Scott pursued her new career as fashion designer.

In January, 1929, Elizabeth went to California to visit relatives.
Sherwood wrote to her, asking her not to return to Virginia.
The marriage came to an end, and Sherwood continued to get the newspapers out.
His older son, Robert Lane Anderson, came to work with him at the papers, and gradually took over most of the duties of editor and publisher.
Sherwood transferred the papers to Robert Lane legally in January, 1932

February 1, 1932 MARION SMYTH COUNTY VIRGINIA
1. Elizabeth Prall Anderson, who asked that her belongings left in Virginia be shipped to her family home in California

Packing things to send Elizabeth… the sense again of her queer passion for spending money that destroyed me. So many useless things. Everything duplicated over and over. There is a kind of dreadful gloom descends upon you in thinking

Source:
Sherwood Anderson Secret Love Letters Page 60-61
Edited By Ray Lewis White

Tuesday March 1, 1932 Marion Smyth County Virginia
Now I am at any rate, unmarried man.

Source:
Sherwood Anderson Secret Love Letters Page: 96
Divorced: 1932

1932 Became divorced from Elizabeth Prall Anderson and continued courting Eleanor Copenhaver: traveled to a radical labor conference in Europe; and published beyond Desire, a political novel about southern labor organizing.

ALL INFO FROM JEANETTE'S TAKE ON LIFE WEBSITE




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