| Name |
Violet Elizabeth OAKS |
| Birth |
19 Nov 1902, Phila., Pa.225 |
| Death |
18 Oct 1944, Women's Homeopathic Hospital, Phila., Pa.226 Age: 41 |
| Death Memo |
Asphyxiation by Carbon Monoxidein Illumiating Gas; Suicide Ten___ less, As a result of depression and a bad marriage, she threatened suicide
several times over a period of about five years prior to her death.
She committed suicide at age 42 in a second floor apartment at a
friend's house, at 2541 N. 16th Street. She suffocated from fumes
coming from a gas oven.
Age 42y, 10m, 29d. |
| Burial |
21 Oct 1944, Mount Moriah Cemetery, Phila., Pa.227 |
| Burial Memo |
Buried |
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| Spouses |
| 1 |
Stanley HAHN |
| Birth |
29 Dec 1896, Phila., Pa.223 |
| Death |
5 Nov 1951, Temple Hospital, Phila., Pa.224 Age: 54 |
| Death Memo |
Acute Cardiac Dilation, Age 54 years.
He died in his 50s and was buried in Beverly National Cemetery,
Beverly, New Jersey. He had a military funeral (navy, private first
class). Matilda May Hahn recalls her daughter, Susan being 4 or 5
years old at his funeral. |
| Burial |
9 Nov 1951, Beverly National Cemetery, Beverly, Burlington Co., N.J.224 |
| Burial Memo |
Buried,
Sec. Grave Name of Deceased Date of Birth Date of
Death Next of Kin
K 487 Stanley Hahn 12/29/1896 Nov. 5,
1951 Matilda Guido Navy Landsman, served in WW1. |
| Father |
Isaac HAHN (1857-1930) |
| Mother |
Matilda (Tillie) MANN (1858-1926) |
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| Marriage |
18 Oct 1926, Phila., Pa.228 |
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| Notes for Violet Elizabeth OAKS |
According to Matilda May Hahn:
She fought much with her husband over his drinking. She had no
siblings. She had diabetes. She would go on drinking binges and
stay in rooming houses for days at a time.
1920 United States Federal Census Record:
She was temporarily un-employed with 49 other women she was
incarcerated with ("temporary out of work inmates Municipal Court").
1930 United States Federal Census Record (on 1 April, enumerated 15
April):
In 1930, at age 27, she was married four years to her first husband,
Stanley Hahn, the first marriage for both of them, and they lived
with their 24 month old daughter in a home rented at 1906 W. Norris
St., Philadelphia. It states that she and her mother were born in
Pennsylvania and her father was born in Canada.
1940 - Not living with husband, children or mother in 1940 census.
Not yet found.
According to Joan Mary HAHN, her grandmother, Mary Jane HESS told her
that her mother, Violet Elizabeth OAKS, attempted suicide by drinking
a bottle of iodine (i.e. "orange stuff you put on cuts").
She stood about 5 feet tall. |
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