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Ada Eleanor <I>Sterland</I> Ayers

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Ada Eleanor Sterland Ayers

Birth
Nottingham, Nottingham Unitary Authority, Nottinghamshire, England
Death
21 Jun 1919 (aged 60)
Long Lake Township, Grand Traverse County, Michigan, USA
Burial
Forest Park, Cook County, Illinois, USA Add to Map
Plot
Section 10, lot 52
Memorial ID
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Daughters: Lena (Daisy?), Florence, Edith

Article about daughter Florence:
Mrs. Wolcott Moves To California
Mrs. Benjamin C. Wolcott, 421 North Oak Park, left the village Friday to take up residence in California. She will join her daughter, Elizabeth, now of Westwood, who went to California earlier this summer on business (she is associated with the Marghab Linen shops). Mrs. Wolcott's son and his family, the Ayres Wolcotts, with their children, twin sons, Robert and Charles, and her daughter, Mrs. Gale Stanton, reside in Glendale, while Mrs. Wolcott's sister and niece, Mrs. James [Edith] Howell and Miss (sic - s/b Mrs.) Margaret [Hall] Clark, live in Los Angeles.
Mrs. Wolcott, the former Florence Ayres, came to Oak Park with her parents when she was in the fifth grade of grammar school.A graduate of Oak Park-River Forest high school, she was married in 1910 to the late Mr. Wolcott. The couple made their home in the Oak Park avenue residence where Miss Ayres had lived with her parents. When Mr. Wolcott died in 1915, Mrs. Wolcott continued to live in the same house.
Occupying Mrs. Wolcott's home will be Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Leatherwood, and daughter, of Nashville, Tenn. Mr. Leatherwood is the newly appointed principal of Irving school.
—Oak Leaves (Oak Park, IL), 30 Aug 1956, pg. 18

Notes: Florence died in California in 1960. Husband's memorial: Benjamin C. Wolcott
In the 1920 census, Florence Wolcott had a widowed BIL named Fred E. Hall and niece Margaret Eleanor Hall [Clark] in her household in OP.
Florence's sister Edith's first husband: Leslie Francis McCullough
Ada's sister's name might be Gertrude, and if so, appears in the 1910 census as "Gertrude Howard", and she ran a beauty salon in the '10s.
Daughters: Lena (Daisy?), Florence, Edith

Article about daughter Florence:
Mrs. Wolcott Moves To California
Mrs. Benjamin C. Wolcott, 421 North Oak Park, left the village Friday to take up residence in California. She will join her daughter, Elizabeth, now of Westwood, who went to California earlier this summer on business (she is associated with the Marghab Linen shops). Mrs. Wolcott's son and his family, the Ayres Wolcotts, with their children, twin sons, Robert and Charles, and her daughter, Mrs. Gale Stanton, reside in Glendale, while Mrs. Wolcott's sister and niece, Mrs. James [Edith] Howell and Miss (sic - s/b Mrs.) Margaret [Hall] Clark, live in Los Angeles.
Mrs. Wolcott, the former Florence Ayres, came to Oak Park with her parents when she was in the fifth grade of grammar school.A graduate of Oak Park-River Forest high school, she was married in 1910 to the late Mr. Wolcott. The couple made their home in the Oak Park avenue residence where Miss Ayres had lived with her parents. When Mr. Wolcott died in 1915, Mrs. Wolcott continued to live in the same house.
Occupying Mrs. Wolcott's home will be Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Leatherwood, and daughter, of Nashville, Tenn. Mr. Leatherwood is the newly appointed principal of Irving school.
—Oak Leaves (Oak Park, IL), 30 Aug 1956, pg. 18

Notes: Florence died in California in 1960. Husband's memorial: Benjamin C. Wolcott
In the 1920 census, Florence Wolcott had a widowed BIL named Fred E. Hall and niece Margaret Eleanor Hall [Clark] in her household in OP.
Florence's sister Edith's first husband: Leslie Francis McCullough
Ada's sister's name might be Gertrude, and if so, appears in the 1910 census as "Gertrude Howard", and she ran a beauty salon in the '10s.


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