Addah Belle (Hair) Teague (1870 - 1920)

Born 25 Oct 1870 in Pendleton, Madison, Indiana, United States

Wife of Merrill Arthur Teague — married 18 Mar 1895 in Muncie, Delaware, Indiana, USA

Descendants

Died 16 Sep 1920 at age 49 in Pendleton, Madison, Indiana, United States

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Biography

Addie B. Hair was born 25 October 1870 in Pendleton, Madison County, Indiana. She was the daughter of Stephenson "Daddy" Hair and Mary Catherine Coffman. ^[1]

After previously refusing seven months prior, ^[2] Addie married Merrill Teague 18 March 1895 in Muncie, Indiana. ^[3] Addie and Merrill Teague had one child, Mildred Addison (Teague) Schoen (1903-1961).

Addie's husband Merrill died rather suddenly from tuberculosis in 1914. At the time they were living in New Jersey, where "Mrs. Teague, at the time of her husband's death, was a patient in Overlook Hospital, Summit, where she had been removed but a short time previous, suffering from nervous prostration." ^[4]

After Merrill’s death Addie and Mildred moved from Baltimore back to Pendleton, Indiana. Addie worked as a stenographer, and they lived with her parents Stephen and Mary Hair. ^[5]

Addah Belle Teague died of liver cancer in 1920. She is buried in Grove Lawn Cemetery in Pendleton. ^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ 1880 U.S. census, Madison County, Indiana, population schedule, Fall Creek Township, enumeration district (ED) 31, page 46 (penned), dwelling 375, family 396, Stephenson Hair; digital images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/sharing/5530293?mark=7b22746f6b656e223a22626e6c467a5537797a4c715037794b714e42447839486265533839754f5679736b3037517471377a6867553d222c22746f6b656e5f76657273696f6e223a225632227d : accessed 09 August 2023); citing NARA microfilm publication T9, roll 293 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.). Ada B Hair, age 10, daughter.
2. ↑ “He Would, but She Wouldn’t,” The Indianapolis Journal (Indianapolis, Indiana), 25 August 1894 (Sat.), p. 2, col. 6; digital image, Newspapers (https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-indianapolis-journal-he-would-but-s/14127804/ : originally downloaded 02 October 2017).
3. ↑ "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2019," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XXR9-1QJ : 3 August 2022), Merrill Teague and Addah B Hair, 18 Mar 1895; citing Delaware, Indiana, United States, Marriage License, Indiana Commission on Public Records, Indianapolis; FHL microfilm 004476457.
4. ↑ "Merrill A. Teague" [obituary], The Madison Eagle (Madison, New Jersey), 25 September 1914 (Fri.), p. 2, col. 4; digital image, Newspapers (https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-madison-eagle-funeral-of-merrill-a/14125788/ : downloaded 01 October 2017).
5. ↑ 1920 U.S. census, Madison County, Indiana, population schedule, Fall Creek Township, Town of Pendleton, enumeration district (ED) 116, sheet 6B, family 191, Stephenson Hair; accessed via "United States Census, 1920", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MFWX-9S3 : 21 July 20230; citing NARA microform publication T625, roll 449 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1920). Addie Teague, daughter, age 48 and Mildred A. Teague, granddaughter, age 16.
6. ↑ "Indiana, U.S., Death Certificates, 1899-2017, database with images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/sharing/5560680?mark=7b22746f6b656e223a2246455464704c723039614664543642563852425a704275334b6e3953733041325572594f5a5a6c703452513d222c22746f6b656e5f76657273696f6e223a225632227d : 2015); citing Indiana State Board of Health, Death Certificates, 1900–2017, Microfilm, Year: 1904; Roll: 17 (Indianapolis, Indiana: Indiana Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).