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Message:: [QUOTE="Bakersgma, post: 6492, member: 59"]Ok. From elarnia's finds I was able to locate Adelaide Schell and Francis Sutorius' marriage in Burlington, Des Moines, Iowa in 1906. Her parents' names are given as Richard and Adeline. In 1910, they are living in Fremont County, Colorado. In 1918 when he had to register for the WWI draft, they are in Denver. In 1920, when she is in Kingston NY with her father Richard, Francis is a patient at the Homeopathic Hospital in Orange County, NY (across the Hudson River.) In any event, forget everything about a husband named Otto Satorius. That's where the record seems to end. Perhaps he died? Part of the problem I had was that the 1900 Census gave her birthplace as NYC, but all the other records say she was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. Probably enumerator error or misunderstanding. Now, back to the inscription on the photo. Given that there was a rather "scandalous" story attached to them and the significant possibility that her brother's wife (who would have written this) may have never met her, it is definitely possible that what was told to her about Adelaide's "concert pianist" debut was puffery or mistake in memory.[/QUOTE]