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Harriet Amanda “Hattie” Elsom Eldridge

Birth
Charlottesville, Charlottesville City, Virginia, USA
Death
28 Jan 1922 (aged 40)
Washington, District of Columbia, District of Columbia, USA
Burial
Washington, District of Columbia, District of Columbia, USA Add to Map
Plot
Sec D Lot 197 Site 14
Memorial ID
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Obituary---Washington, District of Columbia
1922---Washington Post, The (1877-1954)

ELDRIDGE – Suddenly, on Saturday, January 28, 1922, at 10 p.m. HARRIETTE ELSOM, wife of Alfred George Eldridge.

Funeral from St. Margaret's Protestant Episcopal church on Wednesday, February 1, at 11 a.m. Friends of family invited to attend. (Boston and Norfolk papers, please copy.) (Per death certificate Harriette and Alfred were victims of Knickerbocker Theatre collapse)


From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Knickerbocker Theatre was a Washington, D.C., movie theater located at 18th Street and Columbia Road in the Adams Morgan neighborhood. It collapsed on January 28, 1922 under the weight of snow from a two-day blizzard that was later dubbed the Knickerbocker Storm. The theater was showing Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford at the time of the collapse, which killed 98 patrons and injured 133 more. The disaster ranks as one of the worst in Washington. D.C. history.
Obituary---Washington, District of Columbia
1922---Washington Post, The (1877-1954)

ELDRIDGE – Suddenly, on Saturday, January 28, 1922, at 10 p.m. HARRIETTE ELSOM, wife of Alfred George Eldridge.

Funeral from St. Margaret's Protestant Episcopal church on Wednesday, February 1, at 11 a.m. Friends of family invited to attend. (Boston and Norfolk papers, please copy.) (Per death certificate Harriette and Alfred were victims of Knickerbocker Theatre collapse)


From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Knickerbocker Theatre was a Washington, D.C., movie theater located at 18th Street and Columbia Road in the Adams Morgan neighborhood. It collapsed on January 28, 1922 under the weight of snow from a two-day blizzard that was later dubbed the Knickerbocker Storm. The theater was showing Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford at the time of the collapse, which killed 98 patrons and injured 133 more. The disaster ranks as one of the worst in Washington. D.C. history.


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  • Created by: batr3a
  • Added: Sep 10, 2013
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/116854838/harriet_amanda-eldridge: accessed ), memorial page for Harriet Amanda “Hattie” Elsom Eldridge (Feb 1881–28 Jan 1922), Find a Grave Memorial ID 116854838, citing Glenwood Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District of Columbia, USA; Maintained by batr3a (contributor 47764628).