Ethel Demouth Weeden was born on October 26, 1895, in Phillipsburg, Warren, New Jersey.[1] She was the daughter of Harry Weeden and Rachel Jane Demouth.
In 1900 and 1905, Ethel lived with her family in Lopatcong, Warren, New Jersey.[2][3] In 1910, Ethel and her family had relocated to Warwick, Orange, New York.[4] In 1915, she lived with her mother and brother and grandmother (her father was not present for the census) in Warwick, Orange, New York.[5]
At the age of 19, Ethel married Seymour Andrew Decker on June 26, 1915, in Warwick, Orange, New York, when he was 23.[6][7][8] They had four children - Carolyn (died before 1 year), Harley Seymour, Norman Keith, and Warren Ezra.
In 1920, Seymour and Ethel lived with Ethel's mother in Warwick, Orange, New York, and Seymour worked as a railroad foreman.[9] In 1925 and 1930, the couple and sons lived in Warwick, Orange, New York, where Seymour continued to work for the railroad.[10][11]
Ethel began suffering from mental illness sometime after 1930, and by 1935 she had been institutionalized in Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital in Orange County, New York. She was residing in the hospital in 1940 (with an indication that she had been there in 1935), and she appears to have resided there in the facility until her death.[12] Sometime during this period, Seymour and Ethel were divorced, and Seymour remarried in February 1945.
Ethel died on December 30, 1947, in Middletown, Orange, New York, at the age of 52.[13] She was buried at Warwick Cemetery in Warwick, Orange, New York.[14]
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