One of the untold myriad of children (perhaps up to 17 in total) of Russian immigrants Simon Davidson and his first wife, Jennie Betsey (née Simansky) Davidson, Annie Tobey Davidson met an Englishman, London-born Albert Fletcher (1875-1931), and the two were married on 26 December 1899, two days after Annie's 19th birthday; the couple had five children together:
Ina Fletcher Diehl ((1902-1975)
Edward Fletcher (1905-1957)
Lillian Fletcher Fuller Ghiloni (1907-1986)
Ruth M. Fletcher (1909-?)
Gladys Fletcher Goldblatt (?-?)
Albert and Annie were divorced on 28 October 1919. On 16 December 1922 she married Irishman James Quinn, an ironworker born in Ireland on 1 April 1892 and 12 years her junior.
Like her mother, however, Annie suffered from early-onset Alzheimer's, then known as senile dementia. She and her second husband James Quinn had one child, a daughter, born on 20 June 1923, named Catherine, known as Jeanette, Quinn (1923-1985), who later married Norman Wrigley.
Allegedly in either 1923 or 1924, Annie was caught putting her infant child in her oven, and she was diagnosed with senility at only 43 years of age. Institutionalized at the Rhode Island State Hospital, she died there on 25 September 1925 at age 44. Her death certificate lists the causes of death as pyelitis (a failure of the renal gland due to an infection), pneumonia, and "insanity" - in other words, she probably died from Alzheimer's, the same disease that her mother had suffered and died from in 1917. Annie was buried in Lincoln Park Cemetery in Warwick, Rhode Island, near her grandfather, Isaac Davidson.
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A side note: a recent copy of Annie's 1925 death certificate says that her date of death was 25 September 1925; however, the official document (shown to the immediate right of this note) from the time of her death, filed with the state of Rhode Island, gives the actual date of her death as being 20 September 1925. There is no reason cited for the discrepancy, although it is probably just a clerical error.
Ina Fletcher Diehl ((1902-1975)
Edward Fletcher (1905-1957)
Lillian Fletcher Fuller Ghiloni (1907-1986)
Ruth M. Fletcher (1909-?)
Gladys Fletcher Goldblatt (?-?)
Albert and Annie were divorced on 28 October 1919. On 16 December 1922 she married Irishman James Quinn, an ironworker born in Ireland on 1 April 1892 and 12 years her junior.
Like her mother, however, Annie suffered from early-onset Alzheimer's, then known as senile dementia. She and her second husband James Quinn had one child, a daughter, born on 20 June 1923, named Catherine, known as Jeanette, Quinn (1923-1985), who later married Norman Wrigley.
Allegedly in either 1923 or 1924, Annie was caught putting her infant child in her oven, and she was diagnosed with senility at only 43 years of age. Institutionalized at the Rhode Island State Hospital, she died there on 25 September 1925 at age 44. Her death certificate lists the causes of death as pyelitis (a failure of the renal gland due to an infection), pneumonia, and "insanity" - in other words, she probably died from Alzheimer's, the same disease that her mother had suffered and died from in 1917. Annie was buried in Lincoln Park Cemetery in Warwick, Rhode Island, near her grandfather, Isaac Davidson.
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A side note: a recent copy of Annie's 1925 death certificate says that her date of death was 25 September 1925; however, the official document (shown to the immediate right of this note) from the time of her death, filed with the state of Rhode Island, gives the actual date of her death as being 20 September 1925. There is no reason cited for the discrepancy, although it is probably just a clerical error.
One of the untold myriad of children (perhaps up to 17 in total) of Russian immigrants Simon Davidson and his first wife, Jennie Betsey (née Simansky) Davidson, Annie Tobey Davidson met an Englishman, London-born Albert Fletcher (1875-1931), and the two were married on 26 December 1899, two days after Annie's 19th birthday; the couple had five children together:
Ina Fletcher Diehl ((1902-1975)
Edward Fletcher (1905-1957)
Lillian Fletcher Fuller Ghiloni (1907-1986)
Ruth M. Fletcher (1909-?)
Gladys Fletcher Goldblatt (?-?)
Albert and Annie were divorced on 28 October 1919. On 16 December 1922 she married Irishman James Quinn, an ironworker born in Ireland on 1 April 1892 and 12 years her junior.
Like her mother, however, Annie suffered from early-onset Alzheimer's, then known as senile dementia. She and her second husband James Quinn had one child, a daughter, born on 20 June 1923, named Catherine, known as Jeanette, Quinn (1923-1985), who later married Norman Wrigley.
Allegedly in either 1923 or 1924, Annie was caught putting her infant child in her oven, and she was diagnosed with senility at only 43 years of age. Institutionalized at the Rhode Island State Hospital, she died there on 25 September 1925 at age 44. Her death certificate lists the causes of death as pyelitis (a failure of the renal gland due to an infection), pneumonia, and "insanity" - in other words, she probably died from Alzheimer's, the same disease that her mother had suffered and died from in 1917. Annie was buried in Lincoln Park Cemetery in Warwick, Rhode Island, near her grandfather, Isaac Davidson.
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A side note: a recent copy of Annie's 1925 death certificate says that her date of death was 25 September 1925; however, the official document (shown to the immediate right of this note) from the time of her death, filed with the state of Rhode Island, gives the actual date of her death as being 20 September 1925. There is no reason cited for the discrepancy, although it is probably just a clerical error.
Ina Fletcher Diehl ((1902-1975)
Edward Fletcher (1905-1957)
Lillian Fletcher Fuller Ghiloni (1907-1986)
Ruth M. Fletcher (1909-?)
Gladys Fletcher Goldblatt (?-?)
Albert and Annie were divorced on 28 October 1919. On 16 December 1922 she married Irishman James Quinn, an ironworker born in Ireland on 1 April 1892 and 12 years her junior.
Like her mother, however, Annie suffered from early-onset Alzheimer's, then known as senile dementia. She and her second husband James Quinn had one child, a daughter, born on 20 June 1923, named Catherine, known as Jeanette, Quinn (1923-1985), who later married Norman Wrigley.
Allegedly in either 1923 or 1924, Annie was caught putting her infant child in her oven, and she was diagnosed with senility at only 43 years of age. Institutionalized at the Rhode Island State Hospital, she died there on 25 September 1925 at age 44. Her death certificate lists the causes of death as pyelitis (a failure of the renal gland due to an infection), pneumonia, and "insanity" - in other words, she probably died from Alzheimer's, the same disease that her mother had suffered and died from in 1917. Annie was buried in Lincoln Park Cemetery in Warwick, Rhode Island, near her grandfather, Isaac Davidson.
________________________
A side note: a recent copy of Annie's 1925 death certificate says that her date of death was 25 September 1925; however, the official document (shown to the immediate right of this note) from the time of her death, filed with the state of Rhode Island, gives the actual date of her death as being 20 September 1925. There is no reason cited for the discrepancy, although it is probably just a clerical error.
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