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     Charles Baldwin Fee was born on 24 August 1859 in Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., Ohio.^2,3,1 (His death certificate lists his birth date as 24 August 1865, and this is consistent with his age listed in the censuses from 1930-1950, and in his second marriage record (see below for citations). However, he's listed with his parents at age 10/12 in the 1860 census, consistent with the birth date of 24 August 1859 given in the Vick genealogy.)^3,2 He married first Laura Lane Glover, daughter of John George Glover and Emily Vick Morse, on 1 September 1883 at the bride's parents' home near Amite, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana.^4,5,6 He married second Bessie Mildred DeCoursey on 9 March 1920 at St. Paul's Chapel in Manhattan, New York Co., New York.⁷ He died on 29 May 1950 at home in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, at age 90 from heart disease.¹ He had a Masonic funeral, and was buried at Metairie Cemetery (Section 110, C. B. Fee tomb) in New Orleans.^8,9
     He and his first wife Laura and their children are listed in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, in the 1910 census. Living with them were Charles's widowed mother Carolina, and Laura's sister Lilly Glover.⁵
     He is listed in New Orleans with his second wife Bessie in the censuses from 1930 to 1950.^10,11,12
     He worked for the American Sugar Refining Co. in New Orleans for many years, then for several years as a stockbroker⁶, then as a storekeeper in the Ordnance Dept. of the the U.S. Army during and after World War I.^4,1 In the census, he was listed as a stockbroker in 1910⁵, and as a government storekeeper in 1930.¹⁰
     He was a Mason, joining the Jerusalem Temple of the Mystic Shrine of New Orleans on 9 April 1910.⁴

     Virginia Fee was born on 1 June 1884 in Mississippi, probably in Bay St. Louis, Hancock Co..^4,5,6 (A 1938 passenger list gives her birthplace as neighboring Pass Christian, Harrison Co.)⁷ She married William Thomas Carpenter, son of James Thomas Carpenter and Annie Maria Castleman, on 3 December 1910 at the First Presbyterian Church in Manila, Philippine Islands.^2,8 She died on 26 August 1973 at the LaRocca Nursing Home in Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa Co., Alabama, at age 89.³ She was buried at Arlington National Cemetery (Section 6, Site 8468-A) in Arlington, Virginia.^3,9
     She and her husband William may have met when she was on a six-month visit with her sister Sarah and her husband Robert Arthur in the Philippines in September 1910.² After their marriage she and William and their children lived in many different places due to his military career. They are listed at Fort Hamilton in Brooklyn, Kings Co., New York, in the 1915 state census¹⁰, at Camp Lewis in Pierce Co., Washington, in the 1920 census¹¹, and at Fort Leavenworth in Leavenworth Co., Kansas, in 1930.¹² They were living in the Canal Zone, in Panama, in 1935¹³, and are listed in Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa Co., Alabama, in the 1940 and 1950 censuses.^13,14

     Sarah Abbie Fee was born on 22 January 1890 at home in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana.^1,2 She married Robert Arthur, son of John Watson Arthur and Clara Frances McDougall, on 26 January 1909 at her parents' home in New Orleans.^2,3 She died on 11 July 1971 at age 81.⁴ She was buried on 15 July 1971 at Arlington National Cemetery (Sect. 6, Site 8402-A) in Arlington, Virginia.^5,4
     Due to his military career, she and her husband Robert and their children lived in many different places. They are listed at Fort Mills on Corregidor Island in the Philippines in the 1910 census⁶, in Ann Arbor, Washtenaw Co., Michigan, in 1920⁷, in Kickapoo Twp., Leavenworth Co., Kansas, in the 1925 state census⁸, in Belmont, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts, in 1930⁹, in Washington, D.C., in 1940¹⁰, and in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, in 1950. In 1950 they were lodgers in a guest house run by the sisters Irene and Louise Wiltz.¹¹

     Edwin Irving Fee was born on 1 May 1892 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana.^3,4,2 (His birth record, filed on 24 November 1893, gives his birth date as 1 May 1891, apparently an error. The Vick genealogy and his cemetery marker say 1 May 1892, and his newspaper death notice says he died at age 3 years, 4 months.)¹ He died on 28 August 1895 in Ocean Springs, Jackson Co., Mississippi, at age 3, according to his newspaper death notice.² (His cemetery marker and the Vick genealogy say 24 August.)^3,4 He was buried at Metairie Cemetery (Section 110, Lot 26, C. B. Fee tomb) in New Orleans.³

     Carolyn Baldwin Fee was born on 6 January 1894 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana.^3,4 She married Wirt Adams Rodgers, son of William Calhoun Rodgers and Anna Elithia Baley, in New Orleans on 18 December 1917, the day after he was called to active duty with the U.S. Army Medical Corps.^1,5,6 She died on 21 December 1993 at age 99.^3,4 She was buried at Christ Church Cemetery in Bastrop, Morehouse Parish, Louisiana.⁴
     She and her husband Wirt are listed in Collinston, Morehouse Parish, Louisiana, in the 1920 census.⁷ They moved to Bastrop, Morehouse Parish, in 1927⁸, and are listed there in the censuses from 1930 to 1950.^9,10,11

     Robert Fee was born on 24 April 1896 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana.² He died on 13 February 1940 at the State Colony and Training School in Alexandria, Rapides Parish, Louisiana, at age 43 from tuberculosis.^2,3 He was buried on 14 February 1940 at Metairie Cemetery in New Orleans.⁴

     Laura Glover Fee was born on 8 July 1898 in Pass Christian, Harrison Co., Mississippi.^1,3 (The Vick genealogy says 1899.)² She married John Elmer Baugus, son of Amsel Washington Baugus and Sallie Greer, on 13 October 1924 in Baltimore, Maryland.⁴ She died on 19 October 1989 at the Powhatan Nursing Home in Falls Church, Fairfax Co., Virginia, at age 91.¹ She was buried on 25 October 1989 at Arlington National Cemetery (Sect. 33, Site 1341) in Arlington Co., Virginia.^1,3
     Sometime before 1920 she moved to Washington, D.C. She's listed there in the 1920 census living as one of fourteen boarders in the household of James C. Buchanon, an eye doctor, and working as a typist for the Treasury Department.⁵
     She and her husband John are listed in Washington in the 1930 census⁶, and in Arlington Co., Virginia, in 1950.⁷ They have not been found in the 1940 census.

     John Elmer Baugus was born on 7 October 1889 in Lobelville, Perry Co., Tennessee.^2,5,3 He married Laura Glover Fee, daughter of Charles Baldwin Fee and Laura Lane Glover, on 13 October 1924 in Baltimore, Maryland.¹ He died on 20 April 1955 at age 65.^6,7 He had a Masonic funeral service, and was buried on 22 April 1995 at Arlington National Cemetery (Sect. 33, Site 1342) in Arlington Co., Virginia.^6,7
     He worked as an assistant bookkeeper from 1911 to 1915, and attended Southwestern University (probably Southwestern Presbyterian University (now Rhodes College) in Clarksville, Montgomery Co., Tennessee) from 1915 to 1917.⁵
     He served as a private first class in the U.S. Army during World War I, entering on 25 July 1918.⁴ As part of the Camp Gordon September Automatic Replacement Draft, he was initially assigned to infantry Co. 20, and sailed from New York for England on the SS Olympic on 14 September.⁸ He was later transferred to the Army Service Corps, Depot Co. 54⁹, serving in Le Mans, France.⁴ He was honorably discharged on 18 July 1919.⁹
     After the war he worked as an assistant bank cashier/bookkeeper in Gibson Co., Tennessee, from 1919 to 1922⁵, and is listed there living with his parents in the 1920 census.¹⁰ He then moved to the Washington, D.C., area, where he worked as a clerk for the General Accounting Office from 1922 to 1930. He was apparently also taking courses via correspondence during this time from LaSalle Extension University, a distance learning institution based in Chicago, Cook Co., Illinois, and graduated in 1929. On 13 May 1930 he joined the Department of State in Washington as a clerk. He was named assistant unit chief on 6 September 1945⁵, and was listed as an auditor there in the 1950 census.¹¹
     He and his wife Laura are listed in Washington, D.C., in the 1930 census¹², and in Arlington Co., Virginia, in 1950.¹¹ They have not been found in the 1940 census.

     William Thomas Carpenter was born on 13 December 1878 in Arkadelphia, Clark Co., Arkansas.¹ He married Virginia Fee, daughter of Charles Baldwin Fee and Laura Lane Glover, on 3 December 1910 at the First Presbyterian Church in Manila, Philippine Islands.^2,3 He died on 23 October 1962 at home in Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa Co., Alabama, at age 83 from cor pulmonale (a heart condition caused by lung disease).⁴ He was buried on 25 October 1962 at Arlington National Cemetery (Section 6, Site 8468-A) in Arlington, Virginia.^5,6
     He graduated from the University of Kentucky in Lexington with a B.M.E. degree in 1898, and returned later to earn an M.E. degree in 1918.⁷
     He served in the U.S. Army for nearly 45 years, enlisting during the Spanish-American War in 1898 with the Second U.S. Volunteer Engineers. He served as battalion sergeant major from 6 July 1898 to 23 April 1899, then was promoted to second lieutenant, and was mustered out on 16 May 1899.⁸
     He joined the Artillery Corps as a second lieutenant on 11 April 1905, was promoted to first lieutenant on 25 June 1907⁸, and served in the Philippines from 1909 to 1911, stationed on Corregidor Island.^3,9 In 1912 he graduated from the Coast Artillery School at Fort Monroe, Virginia, and was promoted to captain in the Coast Artillery Corps on 2 November 1914.⁸
     He was part of the American Expeditionary Forces in France during World War I, from August 1917 to April 1919, commanding the 58th Artillery^3,7, first as a major (temporary) until June 1918. He then became part of the National Army, with a promotion to lieutenant colonel on 20 June 1918, and to colonel on 16 October. The National Army was disbanded in 1920, and he reverted to the rank of major in the regular army.^8,10
     He graduated from the Field Officer's Course in 1922, the Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, in 1923, and the Army War College in Washington, D.C., in 1926. He was promoted to lieutenant colonel on 22 January 1929, served in the General Staff Corps from August 1932 to August 1936, and became a full colonel on 1 August 1935. He retired on 30 June 1942.⁸
     Over the course of his military career he served with both the French and British armies, and all over the world, including Cuba, the Philippines, England, France, and the Canal Zone.⁷ During his time in the Canal Zone, from 1936 to 1939, he was credited with drastically lowering the number of malaria cases at Fort Sherman from 130 per 1000 men to just 2 by requiring more use of screens, head nets and gloves, and mosquito netting. He also served as professor of military science at the Universities of Kentucky, Michigan, and Alabama, and as an instructor at the Command and General Staff School.¹¹
     He and his wife Virginia may have met when she was on a six-month visit with her sister Sarah and her husband Robert Arthur in the Philippines in September 1910.² After their marriage, he and Virginia and their children lived in many different places due to his military career. They are listed at Fort Hamilton in Brooklyn, Kings Co., New York, in the 1915 state census¹², at Camp Lewis in Pierce Co., Washington, in the 1920 census¹³, and at Fort Leavenworth in Leavenworth Co., Kansas, in 1930.¹⁴ They were living in the Canal Zone, in Panama, in 1935¹⁵, and are listed in Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa Co., Alabama, in the 1940 and 1950 censuses.^15,16
     He was a 32nd degree Mason, and a member of various social, veterans, historical, and genealogical organizations. He joined the Virginia chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution in 1940, and the Alabama chapter in 1946. He organized the local chapter in Tuscaloosa, and in 1946 served as its first president. He was secretary/treasurer/registrar of the statewide Alabama chapter for eight years, and served as its president from 1953 to 1954. He was also a national trustee, and vice president of the Southern District. In 1955 he received the SAR's Minute Man award.⁷

     Robert Arthur was born on 4 February 1886 in Webster, Day Co., Dakota Territory (now South Dakota).^1,2 He married Sarah Abbie Fee, daughter of Charles Baldwin Fee and Laura Lane Glover, on 26 January 1909 at her parents' home in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana.^2,3 He died on 26 October 1970 at the U.S. Public Health Service Hospital in New Orleans at age 84.⁴ He was buried on 3 November 1970 at Arlington National Cemetery (Sect. 6, Site 8402-A) in Arlington, Virginia.^5,4
     He graduated from the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York, in 1907, and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Coast Artillery Corps on 14 June⁶, serving at Jackson Barracks in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana.⁷ He was promoted to first lieutenant two months later, on 7 August⁶, and served at Fort Mills on Corregidor Island in the Philippines from 1909 to 1911.^7,8
     Returning to the U.S., he graduated from Coast Artillery School at Fort Monroe, Virginia, in 1912, then served as an instructor there until 1915. He was promoted to captain on 1 July 1916, and served as part of the defenses of Boston Harbor and Long Island Sound until the U.S. entered World War I.^6,7
     He was sent to France in 1917 as part of the American Expeditionary Forces⁴, where he first served as an instructor at the heavy artillery school at Mailly, then as brigade executive with the 57th Field Artillery Brigade.⁷ He initially held the temporary rank of major, then as part of the new National Army was promoted to lieutenant colonel of the 121st Field Artillery, 32nd Division, on 17 August 1918.⁶ His regiment took part in the Aisne Marne, Oise Aisne, and Meuse Argonne offensives, and he was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal for his service as commander.⁴ After the armistice was signed on 11 November 1918 he served for a time with the 33rd Division in Luxembourg before returning to the U.S. in 1919.⁷
     The National Army was disbanded in 1920, and he reverted to the rank of major in the regular army.^6,9 From 1919 to 1924 he was professor of military science and tactics at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He continued his military education, graduating from the advanced course at the Coast Artillery School in 1924, and with distinction from the Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, in 1925. He served as librarian at the Coast Artillery School, and editor of the Coast Artillery Journal, from 1925 to 1929, and as associate professor of military science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1929 to 1935.⁷ He was awarded an A.M. degree from Harvard University in Cambridge, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts, in 1933.⁶
     He was promoted to lieutenant colonel on 1 November 1930, and to colonel on 20 December 1935.⁶ From 1935 to May 1937 he commanded the 13th Coast Artillery at Pensacola, Florida, then was assigned as chief of staff of the Hawaii Separate Coast Artillery Brigade in Honolulu.⁷ From there he joined the Army War College as chief of the historical section.⁴ In 1941 he was named commanding officer of a new Barrage Balloon Training Center at Camp Davis in North Carolina.¹⁰ During World War II he served as chief of staff of the Gulf Sector, Southern Defense Command.⁴ He retired after the war, on 28 February 1946.⁶
     Due to his military career, he and his wife Sarah and their children lived in many different places. They are listed at Fort Mills on Corregidor Island in the Philippines in the 1910 census⁸, in Ann Arbor, Washtenaw Co., Michigan, in 1920¹¹, in Kickapoo Twp., Leavenworth Co., Kansas, in the 1925 state census¹², in Belmont, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts, in 1930¹³, in Washington, D.C., in 1940¹⁴, and in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, in 1950. In 1950 they were lodgers in a guest house run by the sisters Irene and Louise Wiltz.¹⁵

     Wirt Adams Rodgers was born on 16 December 1890 in Jackson, Hinds Co., Mississippi.⁴ He married Carolyn Baldwin Fee, daughter of Charles Baldwin Fee and Laura Lane Glover, in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, on 18 December 1917, the day after he was called to active duty with the U.S. Army Medical Corps.^1,2,4 He died on 27 January 1971 at home in Bastrop, Morehouse Parish, Louisiana, at age 80 from a heart attack.⁵ He was buried at Christ Church Cemetery in Bastrop.^5,6
     He graduated from Jackson High School in Jackson, Hinds Co., Mississippi, in 1907⁷, then from Southwestern Presbyterian University (now Rhodes College) in Clarksville, Montgomery Co., Tennessee, with an A.B. degree in 1911.⁸ He went on to medical school at Tulane University in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, graduating in 1917.⁹
     The U.S. entered World War I in April 1917, and he enlisted as a first lieutenant in the U.S. Army Medical Corps. He started active duty with the 61st Coast Artillery on 17 December 1917. During his service he was stationed at Fort Oglethorpe in Georgia, Fort Moultrie in South Carolina, Fort Monroe in Virginia, and Camp Upton in New York. He was honorably discharged after the war, on 17 May 1919.⁴
     He was a doctor in Morehouse Parish, Louisiana, for more than 50 years. He began his practice in Collinston in 1919⁵, and he and his wife Carolyn are listed there in the 1920 census.¹⁰ They moved to Bastrop in 1927⁵, and are listed there in the censuses from 1930 to 1950.^11,12,13 He also served several times as chief of staff at Morehouse General Hospital in Bastrop.⁵
     He was a member of the American Medical Association, the Louisiana Medical Society, and the Morehouse Parish Medical Society, serving several terms as its president. He was also a member and elder at the First Presbyterian Church, a member of the American Legion, a 32nd-degree Mason, and served on the board of directors for the Boys Club.⁵

     Anthony Gatien Medine was born on 31 December 1859 in Donaldsonville, Ascension Parish, Louisiana.^2,3 He married Emma Vick Glover, daughter of John George Glover and Emily Vick Morse, on 8 January 1887 at the Lafayette Presbyterian Church in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana.^1,4,2 He died on 29 May 1937 at Southern Baptist Hospital in New Orleans at age 77. His death certificate lists his cause of death as hiccoughs and myocarditis (heart inflammation).⁵ He was interred at Hope Mausoleum in New Orleans.^6,7
     His mother Augustine's surname is a bit uncertain, but may have been Falcon. She's listed as Augustine Corbb in his marriage record, but as Augustine Falcon in his death record.^1,5 The FamilySearch family tree lists him as Anthony Gathan Medine, and his parents as Juan Clotilda Medine and Augustine Marie Falcon.⁸ Augustine's parents are listed as Antoine Ramon Falcon and Carmelite Antoinette Falcon. Further, a note about her name in the tree says "Based on research in Diocese of Baton Rouge Catholic Church Records, it is more likely that Augustine Falcon is the wife [of Juan Clotilda Medine], not Augustine Corbo."^9,10
     He was a well-known packet steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River in the late 1800s. His interest may have been sparked in 1870, when at age 10 he was aboard the famous Robert E. Lee when she won a historic race from New Orleans to St. Louis against the Natchez. Later, as pilot of the John H. White, he broke the Robert E. Lee's upstream speed record from New Orleans to the mouth of the Red River. But the White's owner John W. Tobin was aboard, and ordered him to slow down to avoid taking the glory away from the Robert E. Lee, and the record times were never made public.¹¹
     As a pilot, he was famous for somehow being able to travel at night without mishap, never having accidents. He later revealed that he'd learned to navigate by judging distance from shore by the time it took echoes from three whistle blasts to bounce back.¹¹
     He left the steamboat business in the 1890s¹¹, then worked for a time at Werlein's Music Store², then opened his own Medine Music Co. in New Orleans.¹¹ That business eventually failed, and he became an attache at the district civil court.¹¹
     On 2 January 1912 he sued the New Orleans Railway and Light Company on behalf of his eight-year-old son Walter for $7500. Walter and two other boys had boarded a car the night of 2 May 1911 to ride home after a Boy Scout meeting. The conductor claimed that Walter didn't pay the five-cent fare, and ejected him from the train into a heavy rain. The other two boys got off at the next stop, and "accompanied the weeping child to his home." The suit claimed that his "nervous system has been seriously injured with the shock of the incident." On 20 April 1912 a jury ruled in his favor, but awarded him just $250.^12,13
     He and his wife Emma are listed in New Orleans in the 1900, 1910, and 1930 censuses. They have not been found in 1920.
     In 1900, in addition to their children Emily (listed as Elma) and Clifford, Emma's sister Lillie was living with them, listed as a servant with the occupation housemaid. Another servant, Clara Auer, a cook, was also with them.¹⁴
     They and their children are listed twice in 1910, first on 21 April in a "travelers boarding house" at 3004 Peytania St. run by Edgar McEntire, wife of Malcolm McEntire, and second on 23 or 24 April on "Lake Avenue on Shell Road - Suburb."^15,16
     In 1930 they were living in a boarding house run by the widow Margret Handly.¹⁷

     Clifford Glover Medine was born on 17 January 1888 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana.¹ He died on 24 January 1924 at the Compton Sanitarium in Compton, Los Angeles Co., California, at age 36. His death certificate lists the cause as general paralysis of the insane (aka general paresis, an organic mental disorder caused by late-stage syphilis). His obituary says he died from the aftereffects of shell shock suffered during World War I.^3,4 He was buried on 26 January 1924 at Grand View Memorial Park and Crematory (Section M) in Glendale, Los Angeles Co., California.^3,5
     He served with the U.S. Marine Corps in France during World War I, enlisting in New Orleans on 30 July 1917. After undergoing training at Parris Island, South Carolina, he was sent to Quantico, Virginia, on 8 January 1918. He sailed for France on the USS Von Steuben, arriving in Brest on 15 February. From there he was sent to Chatillion, where he joined the 55th Company, 5th Regiment, on 29 March.^6,7
     He was wounded on 8 April when he was hit by shrapnel and poison gas. In a letter home he said that he was at a listening post around two in the morning when hit, knocking him unconscious and dislodging his gas mask.⁸ Newspaper accounts reported that he was guiding a work party at the time, and that after being hit he made his way to a shelter where he laid semi-conscious for 11-12 hours before being taken to a field hospital, then to a base hospital. He was initially reported missing, and his family assumed he'd been killed. It was several weeks later when he realized the mistake, and cabled his family to let them know he was alive.^9,7
     He rejoined his unit in late May at Chateau Thierry, and saw action at Belleau Woods in June, with hand-to-hand fighting using bayonets and grenades. His unit returned to the front on 18 July, where he was wounded twice more, first when he was shot in the hip.⁷ Then on 11 September he suffered a foot injury when an explosion tossed him into an old dugout, and the walls caved in. One news report says his foot was hit by a shell, another says the caved-in walls crushed his ankle.^9,7 On another occasion he narrowly escaped death when he was part of a craps game with about fifteen soldiers and a German shell landed among them, but didn't explode.⁸
     He was awarded the Croix de Guerre by the French government for his actions during the war. One account says it was for bringing in two wounded men under heavy fire. Another says that while manning an outpost he "laid low and practically handed over a silent raiding party of 19 Germans to the Marines." He was also awarded the French regimental Legion of Honor in Paris on 4 July 1918.^9,7
     After his third injury he was sent back to the U.S. for treatment, arriving in New York on the hospital ship Northern Pacific the second week of December.⁷ He returned home to New Orleans the following week on furlough from Pelham Bay Hospital in New York.⁹ He was transferred to the 2nd Casualty Detachment in Philadelphia on 7 February 1919, then to the 1st Casualty Detachment on 1 March. He was honorably discharged as disabled on 31 May in Philadelphia.⁶
     Before the war he worked as a bank clerk, then as a salesman for Philip Werlein (a music store in New Orleans).⁷ When he registered for the World War I draft on 5 June 1917 he was living at the Crosby Hotel in Beaumont, Jefferson Co., Texas, and working as a salesman for the Arco Co. in Cleveland, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio.¹⁰
     In 1920, after the war, he's listed in the census in Monroe, Ouachita Parish, Louisiana, living as one of 17 roomers with the widow Pauline R. Bernhardt. His occupation is listed as traveling salesman, for oil products.¹¹ According to his obituary, he moved to California after about two years as an invalid, and was thought to be improving, but died there in early 1924.⁴

     Emily Vick Medine was born on 5 July 1892 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana.^5,3 She married first Frank Joseph Dittgen on 17 February 1911 in New Orleans.^1,3 She married second John Herman Peterson, son of Henry C. Peterson and Elizabeth Milford, on 17 July 1920 in New Orleans.² She died on 23 January 1952 at Touro Infirmary in New Orleans at age 59 from a stroke.^5,4 She was interred at Hope Mausoleum in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana.^4,6
     In early 1920, after the death of her first husband Frank and before she remarried, she was living in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, in a boarding house run by the widow Alice Hayes, and working as a bank clerk.⁷ She's listed in New Orleans with her second husband John in the censuses from 1930 to 1950.^8,9,10

     Frank Joseph Dittgen was born on 18 November 1887 in Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., Ohio.^2,4,3 He married Emily Vick Medine, daughter of Anthony Gatien Medine and Emma Vick Glover, on 17 February 1911 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana.^1,3 He died on 20 October 1918 in Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., Ohio, at age 30 from pneumonia, due to flu. He had traveled from New Orleans to Madison, Ohio, two weeks earlier, when his father was dying. On his way home after his father's death he stopped at an uncle's home in Cincinnati where he fell ill. His wife Emily was called, and reached Cincinnati just before he died.^5,6 He was buried on 23 October 1918 in New Orleans.⁵
     He was a foreign exchange clerk at the New Orleans National Bank in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana.⁶