Ada L. GARTON

  General Notes:

Photo: The gravemarker of Ada L. (Garton) Dewey, 1864-1885, is at Woodland Cemetery, Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa. Ada died at age 21.

Photo, taken in 2005, from DeeAnna Allum Granston


1864 BIRTH of Ada L. Garton

1870 CENSUS, Iowa, Polk County, DesMoines ("Ada," age 5, is with her parents)

1880 CENSUS, Iowa, Polk County, DesMoines 3rd Ward ("Ada," age 15, with parents)

1880 CENSUS, Iowa, Polk County, Des Moines 2nd Ward, DesMoines (Fred Dewey, "Clerk in store," age 17, is a lodger in the household of Charles Stream and his wife; Charles is also designated, "Clerk in store")

1884 MARRIAGE of Ada L. Garton and Fred W. Dewey on October 29 in Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa

1885 DEATH, Ada L. (Garton) Dewey at approximately 21 years

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1900 CENSUS, "a" Fred W. Dewey, Farmer, born July 1864 in Iowa, is in Cass Township, Shelby County in Iowa, married for 13 years; wife Samantha, children William, Cecil and Hazel


It is possible Fred's parents were Chester and Nancy Dewey who lived in Marshall County, Iowa in 1870; Marshall County is directly northeast of Polk County. Fred, whose middle initial is "W," could be "William," age 7, in the 1870 census.



PHOTOGRAPH:

Gravestone of Ada L. (Garton) Dewey at Woodland Cemetery, DesMoines, Polk County, Iowa, Section 14, Lot 144

Ada married Fred W. DEWEY, son of George DEWEY and Sarah A. ELDER, on October 29, 1884 in Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa. (Fred W. DEWEY was born in 1861 in Cedar Rapids, Linn County, Iowa.)