Adams-Potter: Miss Alice Key Potter, niece of Sophia E. Blatchford, to Mr. Newton Adams, Newport, Rhode Island, Sept 5, 1908[1]</blockquuote>
- Received an inheritance from her Aunt, Miss Selina Blatchford.[2]
- Was quite rich when she married her first husband for love but penniless when she divorced him. She also married her second husband for love.[2]
- Died in a bus accident during a sight-seeing tour. She was the only one on the bus when the brakes failed and the bus fell off the mountain road and into a canyon.[3]
Sources
- ↑ Brooklyn Blue Books found at Google Books Adams-Potter Marriages
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "The Love Match Disappointed Mrs. Vanderbilt Made for her Dearest Friend." Richmond-Times Dispatch. Richmond, VA. 7 September 1919. Digital Scan & Transcribed Text, Library of Virginia (online). Web. 18 July 2015.
- ↑ "Heartbreaks of Society." The Milwaukee Sentinel. 17 July 1949. p6-7. Digital Scan, Google News Archive (Web). 18 July 2015.
- Daviddgorton.com (personal genealogy): Francis Hunter Potter Family Group, Web, 18 July 2015.
- Daviddgorton.com (personal genealogy): Alice Potter, Individual, Web, 18 July 2015.
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