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Note: BIOGRAPHY: "Harriet (Hattie) Louisa Shoemaker. A commencement program of Ivy Hall in Bridgeton, 1886, says 'Essay and Valedictory. American Women in Liberature. Harriet L. Shoemaker.' She continued her education at Smith College. She took a trip on the first transcontinental train from the East to the West coast, and rode a glass bottom boat at Catalina Island. A trip to Europe began on a ship from Boston to Liverpool. Passengers gave a program for the benefit of the Liverpool Seamen's Orphan Institution. Mother added a note saying, 'A collection of $289.02 was given to the sailors for their bravery during the fire last night.' Bales of cotton were smoldering in the hold, and as they were brought up and tossed overboard, they burst into flames leaving a fiery trail behind the ship. Harriets brother Paul was making trips to Texas as a cattle broker, and after her parents died, she asked him to look out for a nice ranch family who would need a tutor. This resulted in her going to the LaFayette Ward ranch in south east Texas, and they became dear friends. Dr. Leonidas Alfonzon Suggs was the young doctor in the area. When the young people would gather, and it was time for the gentlemen to leave, the ladies would hold their coats for them to put on. This was not the custom in mother's part of the country, and she refused. The men had a bet up to see if Lon could get Hattie to hold his coat. He must have been able to, for he won her love. The Ward family made the trip to Bridgeton for the wedding in the Shoemaker home. Dr. and Mrs. Suggs established their home in Fort Worth [Texas].
She was active in the Daughters of the American Revolution, Euterpean Club (music), Wednesday Club (literary), Medical Auxiliary, church organizations, and sang in the choir of the Broadway Presbyterian Church, and played the piano. Dr. Suggs' interests outside of his practice, were deacon in Presbyterian Church, president of the Tarrant County Medical Assoc., radio talks on preventive medicine, organizer of life-saving team in WWI, chairman of the court of honor of the Boy Scouts of America. Their children were Mary Erety Suggs Monger in Roseburg, Oregon, and Katherine Sherrill Suggs Shive in Manhattan Beach, California." Katherine Suggs Shive, September 1982
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DEATH
Name: L. A. Suggs
Death Date: 27 Jul 1930
Death Place: Fort Worth, Tarrant, Texas
Gender: Female
Race: White
Death Age: 65 years 4 months 14 days
Estimated Birth Date:
Birth Date: 13 Mar 1865
Birthplace: Bridgeton, N.J.
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name:
Father's Name: Wm. Shoemaker [ERROR - Horace Brewster Shoemaker]
Father's Birthplace: Pa. [ERROR - Cumberland County, New Jersey]
Mother's Name: Mary Erety
Mother's Birthplace: Pa.
Occupation: Housewife
Place of Residence:
Cemetery: Greenwwod
Burial Place:
Burial Date: 29 Jul 1930
Additional Relatives:
Film Number: 2135388
Digital Film Number: 4163676
Image Number: 2430
Reference Number: cn36859
Collection: Texas Deaths, 1890-1976
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