Adeline A Crittenden (1866 - 1947)

Born 10 Sep 1866 in Saline, Washtenaw, Michigan, United States

Ancestors

Died 20 Aug 1947 at age 80 in Tecumseh, Lenawee, Michigan, United States

Genealogically Defined

Biography

Adeline Crittenden has Welsh ancestors.

Adeline Crittenden has English ancestors.

The daughter of William Crittenden and Rosetta Morgan, Adeline Crittenden was born in Saline Township, Michigan,^{[citation needed]} in 1866, residing there with her family..^[1][2] Addie did not marry, however, she is listed as a widow on the 1880 census in her father's household, under her maiden name, likely an error by the census enumerator.

Addie attended a rural Saline school and Macon High School, and was graduated from the State Normal College at Ypsilanti, graduating in the Class of 1888. After teaching school for a number of years, she took classes at Cleary's Business College in Ypsilanti and became a bookkeeper for a Detroit business firm.^[3]

The last illness of her mother made the resignation of that position necessary and, after the death of her mother, Addie returned home to keep house for her father and brother, and she did that for as long as they lived.^[4] By 1920, Addie and her father, then 81 years old, lived with her brother, Schuyler Crittenden, residing in Macon Township, Michigan.^[5]

Addie's father passed away in 1924 and Addie remained in her brother's Macon Township household.^[6] Her brother died in March of 1938;^[7] afterward, Addie did secretarial work for Dr. James Breakey in Ypsilanti and kept up her Macon home. She was visiting with her friend, Wilma Everest, in Ionia, at the time of the 1940 census, and was enumerated in her household that year.^[8]

Addie Crittenden passed away in Tecumseh Township, Michigan^[9] at the age of 80^[3] and is buried in the family plot at Macon Cemetery in Macon Township, Michigan.^[10]

Sources

1. ↑ "United States Census, 1870", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHCL-Z6J : Fri Oct 06 13:01:13 UTC 2023), Addie Crittenden in Entry for Harrison Crittenden and Rossetta Crittenden, 1870.
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MWSG-17J : 26 August 2017), Addie Crittenden in household of Harrison Crittenden, Macon, Lenawee, Michigan, United States; citing enumeration district ED 159, sheet 266C, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm 1,254,591.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} "Michigan Obituaries, 1820-2006," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVP1-L5V2 : 1 April 2020), Miss Addie Crittenden, 1947; citing , Obituary, Grand Rapids Public Library, Michigan; FHL microfilm 7,615,412.
4. ↑ "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MLTH-KVR : accessed 3 May 2020), Addie Crittinden in household of William H Crittinden, Saline, Washtenaw, Michigan, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 138, sheet 7B, family 139, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 677; FHL microfilm 1,374,690.
5. ↑ "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZQ7-M34 : accessed 3 May 2020), Addie Crittenden in household of Schuyler Crittenden, Macon, Lenawee, Michigan, United States; citing ED 74, sheet 1B, line 93, family 25, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 781; FHL microfilm 1,820,781.
6. ↑ "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XQBB-H3W : accessed 3 May 2020), Addie Crittenden in household of Schuyler Crittenden, Macon, Lenawee, Michigan, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 30, sheet 2B, line 94, family 48, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 1007; FHL microfilm 2,340,742.
7. ↑ "Michigan Obituaries, 1820-2006", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVP1-L5KW : Wed Dec 13 16:26:25 UTC 2023), Miss Addie Crittenden in Entry for Mr C Schuyler Crittenden and Miss Addie Crittenden, 1938.
8. ↑ "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K4LJ-M42 : 29 July 2019), Addie Crittenden in household of Wilma Everest, Ward 2, Ionia, Ionia City, Ionia, Michigan, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 34-15, sheet 4A, line 7, family 81, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 1764.
9. ↑ "Michigan Death Certificates, 1921-1952", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KF3B-5T3 : Thu Jan 04 18:08:05 UTC 2024), Entry for Addie Crittenten and William H Crittenden, 20 Aug 1947.
10. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/65123290/addie-a-crittenden: accessed 28 January 2024), memorial page for Addie A Crittenden (1866–1947). Macon Cemetery, Macon, Lenawee County, Michigan, USA; Maintained by Jack Williams (contributor 46856865). Find A Grave: Memorial #65123290