User:Richard Arthur Norton (1958- )/Marion Webb

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Marion Webb (March 1894 - August 1931), took her own life when she discovered her husband was already married.

Contents 1 Birth and siblings 2 Marriage 3 Bigamy 4 Death and burial

[edit] Birth and siblings

She was the daughter of Cornelia M. Patterson (1863-1940) and Edwin Webb. Edwin eventually abandoned the family and it is not known if he remarried or when he died. She had the following siblings: Louise Florence Webb (1883-1943) who married Jacob Henry Stark; John G. Webb (1887-?) who married May; and Lillian R. Webb (1890-?) who married Edward Meyer.

[edit] Marriage

She married Frederick T. Lewis in 1927 in Connecticut who worked for the merchandising department of Hahne & Company in Newark, New Jersey. Frederick was previously married to Augusta C. X. Augusta had her divorce from Frederick annulled, but he had already married Marion and moved to New Jersey. Legally he was now a bigamist.

[edit] Bigamy

The New York Times, February 12, 1929:

"Attacks marriage of her ex-husband. Former Mrs. Frederick T. Lewis alleges she had divorce set aside. Mrs. August C. Lewis of the Hotel Leonori, Madison Avenue and Sixtythird Street, sued in the Supreme Court yesterday to void the marriage of Frederick T. Lewis, who she asserts is still her husband, and Marion Webb, to whom Lewis was married in Connecticut in 1927, after obtaining a divorce decree which Mrs. Lewis had set aside. Mrs. Lewis asks that the defendents be restrained from living together and that Marion Webb be enjoined from using the name Lewis, on the ground that Lewis's pretended divorce from the palintiff 'subjects her to ignominy and unpleasantness and to a false suspicion that the defendent divorced the plaintiff because of infidelity.' Justice Glennon ordered that the papers be served on Lewis by mail to the merchandising department of Hahne & Company, Newark. The affidavits of Mrs. Lewis and her attorney, Henry Woog, asserted that Lewis is now living in East Orange with Marion Webb and that he is remaining out of New York to avoid alimony in a suit for seperation brought by the plaintiff."

[edit] Death and burial

Her cause of death was "asphyxiation by illuminating gas". She died in Bloomfield, Essex County, New Jersey. She was buried on August 14, 1931 at Evergreen cemetery in Hillside, New Jersey, in lot 5A of the Lawn Crest 4 section on map 7. The undertaker was T.J. O'Mara.