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Continued: I don't know that much about Adolphine, or Genie (sic?). According to Lorraine Mule, she was "not right." I think that meant mentally, but she also could have had physical problems. She never married, and always lived with either her parents, or her brother George or sister Kate.
Her cause of death "locomotor ataxia," means advanced syphilis. This is disturbing in many ways. Assuming this diagnosis was correct, and because of the still unsophisticated early 20th century state of medicine that may not have been the case, she might have had a very difficult time her whole life. It is possible to contract syphilis in utero, so she could have been born with it--and because her mother had had two husbands, Anna Maria could have contracted the disease from either. Or, she could have contracted it later in life from a sexual contact. Because she was unmarried, and seemingly sheltered by her family, I'm not sure how likely this scenario is.
In any case, an advanced case of syphilis could have caused her to have many mental and physical impairments including paralysis.
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