First wife of James Norris Gillett, the Eureka City Attorney in Eureka, California. Mother of three.
Adelaide Pratt Gillett did not live long enough to see her husband hold any state or federal political office. Cause of death: abdominal tumor.
After her death, her husband remarried and entered the field of politics, eventually serving as State Senator, U.S. Congressman, and the 22nd Governor of California before he returned to the practice of law.
∼Death Index records that she was originally interred elsewhere and then later removed to Forest Lawn:
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L9SF-F9MK-K?i=123&wc=SJ5Z-YW5%3A285176601%2C285638901%3Fcc%3D2001287&cc=2001287
Adelaide Pratt Gillett did not live long enough to see her husband hold any state or federal political office. Cause of death: abdominal tumor.
After her death, her husband remarried and entered the field of politics, eventually serving as State Senator, U.S. Congressman, and the 22nd Governor of California before he returned to the practice of law.
∼Death Index records that she was originally interred elsewhere and then later removed to Forest Lawn:
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L9SF-F9MK-K?i=123&wc=SJ5Z-YW5%3A285176601%2C285638901%3Fcc%3D2001287&cc=2001287
First wife of James Norris Gillett, the Eureka City Attorney in Eureka, California. Mother of three.
Adelaide Pratt Gillett did not live long enough to see her husband hold any state or federal political office. Cause of death: abdominal tumor.
After her death, her husband remarried and entered the field of politics, eventually serving as State Senator, U.S. Congressman, and the 22nd Governor of California before he returned to the practice of law.
∼Death Index records that she was originally interred elsewhere and then later removed to Forest Lawn:
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L9SF-F9MK-K?i=123&wc=SJ5Z-YW5%3A285176601%2C285638901%3Fcc%3D2001287&cc=2001287
Adelaide Pratt Gillett did not live long enough to see her husband hold any state or federal political office. Cause of death: abdominal tumor.
After her death, her husband remarried and entered the field of politics, eventually serving as State Senator, U.S. Congressman, and the 22nd Governor of California before he returned to the practice of law.
∼Death Index records that she was originally interred elsewhere and then later removed to Forest Lawn:
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L9SF-F9MK-K?i=123&wc=SJ5Z-YW5%3A285176601%2C285638901%3Fcc%3D2001287&cc=2001287
Gravesite Details
It is not clear whether or when Adelaide M. Pratt Gillett's remains were removed, along with the remains of her son Horace Pratt Gillett, from the cemetery in Eureka, California to this columbarium in Los Angeles, California.
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