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1. Title:   Social Security Administration
Author:   Elgin MEntal Health Hospital, Elgin Illinois

Notes
a. Note:   Edith Aleumena Montgomery Born September 1, 1880, in Sandwich. Her parents moved the family (4 children) to the Lett farm property south of Sandwich in 1883.
  Age 13 (1893): living with her parents, J. Ivor and Mary, her brothers Florian and Ward.
  Age 20 (1900): 1900 Census - living at the Lett Farm, Northville Township, LaSalle County, IL.
  Age 28-40 (1908-1920) Engaged to be married between 1908-1920, Engagement was reportedly broken up by her mother as "he was not good enough for her". (per Mary Louise Montgomery O'Brien, ca. 1995)
  Her sister Jesse married in 1892 and was divorced between 1920-1925.
  Age 30 (1910): living with her parents, Ivor and Mary, her brother Ward and his wife May and niece Marilla - 1910 Census - on the Montgomery Farm, Northville Township, LaSalle County, IL.
  Age 33 (1913): living with her parents, Ivor and Mary - 1920 Census - at 374 Oak Avenue.
  Age 36-38 (1916-1918): living on Plum Street in Aurora with her divorced sister Jessie, parents Ivor and Mary, Jessie's son Stanley and daughter Mary, and her niece Marilla who was finishing high school at West Aurora High School.
  Parents died 1928 (J. Ivor) and 1929 (Mary), respectively.
  Age 50 (1930): living with her sister, Jessie Montgomery Bernard age 58 - 1930 Census - at 236 Plum Street.
 (Aurora's street numbering system changed about 1929.)
  Age 55 (1935): living with her sister Jessie Bernard, at 236 Plum Street, Aurora.
  Age 55 (ca. 1935): Committed to the Elgin Asylum / Mental Health Center perhaps by her sister and before her sister Jessie (age 63) moved to Grand Rapids with her daughter and son-in-law, Robert Joseph and Mary Sophia Bernard Duchene (age 23, newly married May 20, 1935), in about 1935.
  SSN issued 1966: 334-44-7154.
 Died at age 88, at Elgin Mental Health Center, July 1968.
 Records of her Committal to Elgin are not attainable as of 2020.


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