This Alice Tifft corresponds to the 3 year old Mary in the 1880 census on her father's memorial.
Deaths and Burials at FamilySearch:
Name: Alice Nash
Burial Place: Bramerd [sic], Wisc [sic]
Death Date: 21 Nov 1903
Death Place: Tenstrike, Beltrami, MN
Age: 26
Birth Date: 1877
Birthplace: Mn
Marital Status: Married
Father's Name: Joseph Tifft
Father's Birthplace: Ny
Mother's Name: Mary Austin
Mother's Birthplace: Ohio
[Contributed by John Van Essen]
Notice.
Warning is hereby given that I have given special notice to all houses of ill-fame (the Tifft’s house especially included), located on Front street, in the town of Brainerd, State of Minnesota, that they are required to remove from their present location on said street within ten days from the date of this order, and that unless the tenor and substance of this notice be carried into effect within and during that period, the specific requirements of the statutes to abate nuisances, in such cases made and provided, shall be carried into rigid execution, and a refusal to obey the command hereby given, shall subject the persons so refusing to obey, to a prompt and forcible ejection from such premises. My reasons for giving this order are evident. Front street is the principal thoroughfare of traffic in Brainerd, and a general pleasure route to the river as well, and respectable people are loth to travel thereon. Patience and lenience are no longer virtues to be entertained in this matter, and I propose to fulfill and enforce this, my official order, to the word and letter. “A word to the wise is sufficient.”
P. MERTZ, Sheriff,
Crow Wing County.
(Brainerd Tribune, 25 June 1881, p. 5, c. 5)
Note: Joseph Tifft, Alice/Mary Tifft's father, operated this house of ill-fame.
The police raided a bawdy house on Fourth street south on Saturday, and as a consequence Mrs. Winters, Miss Tifft and Miss Hicks were brought before the court. The first named individual, who by the way has a very unsavory record, was fined $25. The girls were fined $10 and costs, sentence being suspended pending good behavior. (Brainerd Dispatch, 13 February 1891, p. 4, c. 4)
The municipal court was a very busy place on Tuesday morning. Jennie Winters was fined $12.40 for being drunk and disorderly, while her companion in sin, Mary Tifft, was given $15 for frequenting a house of ill-fame. Both were sent to jail in default of the fine. John McCormick and A. H. Reid each went up for thirty days for being found in a house of ill-fame. Frank Willis, P. Smith and Ike Mullen were each found guilty of vagrancy and will spend the holidays in close confinement. Claude Crowley, for keeping a tough joint, was given ninety days, which she took rather than put up 100 silver dollars, Alfred Rusk, a plain drunk, got off with seven days. (Brainerd Dispatch, 18 December 1891, p. 4, c. 5)
In the police court on Tuesday Geo. Richardson and Mrs. Annie Lamson were fined $15 each and Geo. Duffany and Mary Tifft $10 each. The former were charged with adultery and the latter fornication. The whole outfit plead guilty to disorderly conduct. (Brainerd Dispatch, 11 August 1893, p. 4, c. 3)
Joseph Tifft was convicted of keeping a disorderly house on Wednesday morning but as the man said he would leave the city sentence was suspended. (Brainerd Dispatch, 10 August 1894, p. 4, c. 4)
Note: Joseph Tifft was Alice/Mary Tifft's father.
Jennie Winters and Mary Tifft were arrested on Wednesday, on complaint of David Pomerleau a lumberman, charged with grand larceny. Pomerleau says he was spending the night at the house in which the girls hold forth, when the Winters girl induced him to entrust her with $75 of cold cash, which she refuses to return, hence he charges her with stealing that amount. The case came on for a hearing this morning and the girls were discharged. (Brainerd Dispatch, 26 April 1895, p. 4, c. 5)
Mary Tifft a Third street resident, was up before Judge Alderman on Wednesday, charged with being found in a saloon, contrary to a city ordinance. She was found guilty and a fine of $10 imposed. The case has been appealed to the district court, and the defendant is out on $50 bail. (Brainerd Dispatch, 08 January 1897, p. 4, c. 4)
State of Minnesota vs. Mary Tifft. Appeal from municipal court; charged with violating ordinance 134, restraining prostitutes, jury trial. Verdict guilty, and sentence $10 or 10 days in jail imposed. (Brainerd Dispatch, 12 March 1897, p. 4, c. 5)
TOOK CARBOLIC
ACID ROUTE
_____
Mrs. Sam Nash, Until a Short Time
Ago a Resident of This City,
Commits Suicide
_____
AT HER HOME IN TENSTRIKE
_____
Remains Brought to This City and
Interred This Morning in
Evergreen Cemetery.
The remains of Mrs. Sam Nash were brought down from Tenstrike yesterday afternoon by her husband and it was the first intimation of some of those in the city who were acquainted with the family that the woman was dead. Some of the relatives of the woman had been informed of her death, which occurred on the evening of November 21, last Saturday, and it was afterward learned that she had committed suicide by taking a large dose of carbolic acid at 8:30 o'clock in the evening.
The Nashs lived in this city up to about a year ago when they went north. They are well known to many in the city, the wife especially, as she had been quite a notorious character and was a frequent caller at the police court on various charges. She was indicted at a term of the district court last year on the charge of robbery, but was acquitted. She was commonly known as "Topsy" Tifft in this city.
Brief services were held at the undertaking parlors of Losey & Dean [sic] this morning at 10 o'clock and interment was made in Evergreen cemetery. (Brainerd Daily Dispatch, 25 November 1903, p. 4, c. 3) [Contributed by John Van Essen]
Note: The Losey & Dean Mortuary Record states that Alice/Mary was buried from the Episcopal Church.
Deaths and Burials at FamilySearch:
Name: Alice Nash
Burial Place: Bramerd [sic], Wisc [sic]
Death Date: 21 Nov 1903
Death Place: Tenstrike, Beltrami, MN
Age: 26
Birth Date: 1877
Birthplace: Mn
Marital Status: Married
Father's Name: Joseph Tifft
Father's Birthplace: Ny
Mother's Name: Mary Austin
Mother's Birthplace: Ohio
[Contributed by John Van Essen]
Notice.
Warning is hereby given that I have given special notice to all houses of ill-fame (the Tifft’s house especially included), located on Front street, in the town of Brainerd, State of Minnesota, that they are required to remove from their present location on said street within ten days from the date of this order, and that unless the tenor and substance of this notice be carried into effect within and during that period, the specific requirements of the statutes to abate nuisances, in such cases made and provided, shall be carried into rigid execution, and a refusal to obey the command hereby given, shall subject the persons so refusing to obey, to a prompt and forcible ejection from such premises. My reasons for giving this order are evident. Front street is the principal thoroughfare of traffic in Brainerd, and a general pleasure route to the river as well, and respectable people are loth to travel thereon. Patience and lenience are no longer virtues to be entertained in this matter, and I propose to fulfill and enforce this, my official order, to the word and letter. “A word to the wise is sufficient.”
P. MERTZ, Sheriff,
Crow Wing County.
(Brainerd Tribune, 25 June 1881, p. 5, c. 5)
Note: Joseph Tifft, Alice/Mary Tifft's father, operated this house of ill-fame.
The police raided a bawdy house on Fourth street south on Saturday, and as a consequence Mrs. Winters, Miss Tifft and Miss Hicks were brought before the court. The first named individual, who by the way has a very unsavory record, was fined $25. The girls were fined $10 and costs, sentence being suspended pending good behavior. (Brainerd Dispatch, 13 February 1891, p. 4, c. 4)
The municipal court was a very busy place on Tuesday morning. Jennie Winters was fined $12.40 for being drunk and disorderly, while her companion in sin, Mary Tifft, was given $15 for frequenting a house of ill-fame. Both were sent to jail in default of the fine. John McCormick and A. H. Reid each went up for thirty days for being found in a house of ill-fame. Frank Willis, P. Smith and Ike Mullen were each found guilty of vagrancy and will spend the holidays in close confinement. Claude Crowley, for keeping a tough joint, was given ninety days, which she took rather than put up 100 silver dollars, Alfred Rusk, a plain drunk, got off with seven days. (Brainerd Dispatch, 18 December 1891, p. 4, c. 5)
In the police court on Tuesday Geo. Richardson and Mrs. Annie Lamson were fined $15 each and Geo. Duffany and Mary Tifft $10 each. The former were charged with adultery and the latter fornication. The whole outfit plead guilty to disorderly conduct. (Brainerd Dispatch, 11 August 1893, p. 4, c. 3)
Joseph Tifft was convicted of keeping a disorderly house on Wednesday morning but as the man said he would leave the city sentence was suspended. (Brainerd Dispatch, 10 August 1894, p. 4, c. 4)
Note: Joseph Tifft was Alice/Mary Tifft's father.
Jennie Winters and Mary Tifft were arrested on Wednesday, on complaint of David Pomerleau a lumberman, charged with grand larceny. Pomerleau says he was spending the night at the house in which the girls hold forth, when the Winters girl induced him to entrust her with $75 of cold cash, which she refuses to return, hence he charges her with stealing that amount. The case came on for a hearing this morning and the girls were discharged. (Brainerd Dispatch, 26 April 1895, p. 4, c. 5)
Mary Tifft a Third street resident, was up before Judge Alderman on Wednesday, charged with being found in a saloon, contrary to a city ordinance. She was found guilty and a fine of $10 imposed. The case has been appealed to the district court, and the defendant is out on $50 bail. (Brainerd Dispatch, 08 January 1897, p. 4, c. 4)
State of Minnesota vs. Mary Tifft. Appeal from municipal court; charged with violating ordinance 134, restraining prostitutes, jury trial. Verdict guilty, and sentence $10 or 10 days in jail imposed. (Brainerd Dispatch, 12 March 1897, p. 4, c. 5)
TOOK CARBOLIC
ACID ROUTE
_____
Mrs. Sam Nash, Until a Short Time
Ago a Resident of This City,
Commits Suicide
_____
AT HER HOME IN TENSTRIKE
_____
Remains Brought to This City and
Interred This Morning in
Evergreen Cemetery.
The remains of Mrs. Sam Nash were brought down from Tenstrike yesterday afternoon by her husband and it was the first intimation of some of those in the city who were acquainted with the family that the woman was dead. Some of the relatives of the woman had been informed of her death, which occurred on the evening of November 21, last Saturday, and it was afterward learned that she had committed suicide by taking a large dose of carbolic acid at 8:30 o'clock in the evening.
The Nashs lived in this city up to about a year ago when they went north. They are well known to many in the city, the wife especially, as she had been quite a notorious character and was a frequent caller at the police court on various charges. She was indicted at a term of the district court last year on the charge of robbery, but was acquitted. She was commonly known as "Topsy" Tifft in this city.
Brief services were held at the undertaking parlors of Losey & Dean [sic] this morning at 10 o'clock and interment was made in Evergreen cemetery. (Brainerd Daily Dispatch, 25 November 1903, p. 4, c. 3) [Contributed by John Van Essen]
Note: The Losey & Dean Mortuary Record states that Alice/Mary was buried from the Episcopal Church.
This Alice Tifft corresponds to the 3 year old Mary in the 1880 census on her father's memorial.
Deaths and Burials at FamilySearch:
Name: Alice Nash
Burial Place: Bramerd [sic], Wisc [sic]
Death Date: 21 Nov 1903
Death Place: Tenstrike, Beltrami, MN
Age: 26
Birth Date: 1877
Birthplace: Mn
Marital Status: Married
Father's Name: Joseph Tifft
Father's Birthplace: Ny
Mother's Name: Mary Austin
Mother's Birthplace: Ohio
[Contributed by John Van Essen]
Notice.
Warning is hereby given that I have given special notice to all houses of ill-fame (the Tifft’s house especially included), located on Front street, in the town of Brainerd, State of Minnesota, that they are required to remove from their present location on said street within ten days from the date of this order, and that unless the tenor and substance of this notice be carried into effect within and during that period, the specific requirements of the statutes to abate nuisances, in such cases made and provided, shall be carried into rigid execution, and a refusal to obey the command hereby given, shall subject the persons so refusing to obey, to a prompt and forcible ejection from such premises. My reasons for giving this order are evident. Front street is the principal thoroughfare of traffic in Brainerd, and a general pleasure route to the river as well, and respectable people are loth to travel thereon. Patience and lenience are no longer virtues to be entertained in this matter, and I propose to fulfill and enforce this, my official order, to the word and letter. “A word to the wise is sufficient.”
P. MERTZ, Sheriff,
Crow Wing County.
(Brainerd Tribune, 25 June 1881, p. 5, c. 5)
Note: Joseph Tifft, Alice/Mary Tifft's father, operated this house of ill-fame.
The police raided a bawdy house on Fourth street south on Saturday, and as a consequence Mrs. Winters, Miss Tifft and Miss Hicks were brought before the court. The first named individual, who by the way has a very unsavory record, was fined $25. The girls were fined $10 and costs, sentence being suspended pending good behavior. (Brainerd Dispatch, 13 February 1891, p. 4, c. 4)
The municipal court was a very busy place on Tuesday morning. Jennie Winters was fined $12.40 for being drunk and disorderly, while her companion in sin, Mary Tifft, was given $15 for frequenting a house of ill-fame. Both were sent to jail in default of the fine. John McCormick and A. H. Reid each went up for thirty days for being found in a house of ill-fame. Frank Willis, P. Smith and Ike Mullen were each found guilty of vagrancy and will spend the holidays in close confinement. Claude Crowley, for keeping a tough joint, was given ninety days, which she took rather than put up 100 silver dollars, Alfred Rusk, a plain drunk, got off with seven days. (Brainerd Dispatch, 18 December 1891, p. 4, c. 5)
In the police court on Tuesday Geo. Richardson and Mrs. Annie Lamson were fined $15 each and Geo. Duffany and Mary Tifft $10 each. The former were charged with adultery and the latter fornication. The whole outfit plead guilty to disorderly conduct. (Brainerd Dispatch, 11 August 1893, p. 4, c. 3)
Joseph Tifft was convicted of keeping a disorderly house on Wednesday morning but as the man said he would leave the city sentence was suspended. (Brainerd Dispatch, 10 August 1894, p. 4, c. 4)
Note: Joseph Tifft was Alice/Mary Tifft's father.
Jennie Winters and Mary Tifft were arrested on Wednesday, on complaint of David Pomerleau a lumberman, charged with grand larceny. Pomerleau says he was spending the night at the house in which the girls hold forth, when the Winters girl induced him to entrust her with $75 of cold cash, which she refuses to return, hence he charges her with stealing that amount. The case came on for a hearing this morning and the girls were discharged. (Brainerd Dispatch, 26 April 1895, p. 4, c. 5)
Mary Tifft a Third street resident, was up before Judge Alderman on Wednesday, charged with being found in a saloon, contrary to a city ordinance. She was found guilty and a fine of $10 imposed. The case has been appealed to the district court, and the defendant is out on $50 bail. (Brainerd Dispatch, 08 January 1897, p. 4, c. 4)
State of Minnesota vs. Mary Tifft. Appeal from municipal court; charged with violating ordinance 134, restraining prostitutes, jury trial. Verdict guilty, and sentence $10 or 10 days in jail imposed. (Brainerd Dispatch, 12 March 1897, p. 4, c. 5)
TOOK CARBOLIC
ACID ROUTE
_____
Mrs. Sam Nash, Until a Short Time
Ago a Resident of This City,
Commits Suicide
_____
AT HER HOME IN TENSTRIKE
_____
Remains Brought to This City and
Interred This Morning in
Evergreen Cemetery.
The remains of Mrs. Sam Nash were brought down from Tenstrike yesterday afternoon by her husband and it was the first intimation of some of those in the city who were acquainted with the family that the woman was dead. Some of the relatives of the woman had been informed of her death, which occurred on the evening of November 21, last Saturday, and it was afterward learned that she had committed suicide by taking a large dose of carbolic acid at 8:30 o'clock in the evening.
The Nashs lived in this city up to about a year ago when they went north. They are well known to many in the city, the wife especially, as she had been quite a notorious character and was a frequent caller at the police court on various charges. She was indicted at a term of the district court last year on the charge of robbery, but was acquitted. She was commonly known as "Topsy" Tifft in this city.
Brief services were held at the undertaking parlors of Losey & Dean [sic] this morning at 10 o'clock and interment was made in Evergreen cemetery. (Brainerd Daily Dispatch, 25 November 1903, p. 4, c. 3) [Contributed by John Van Essen]
Note: The Losey & Dean Mortuary Record states that Alice/Mary was buried from the Episcopal Church.
Deaths and Burials at FamilySearch:
Name: Alice Nash
Burial Place: Bramerd [sic], Wisc [sic]
Death Date: 21 Nov 1903
Death Place: Tenstrike, Beltrami, MN
Age: 26
Birth Date: 1877
Birthplace: Mn
Marital Status: Married
Father's Name: Joseph Tifft
Father's Birthplace: Ny
Mother's Name: Mary Austin
Mother's Birthplace: Ohio
[Contributed by John Van Essen]
Notice.
Warning is hereby given that I have given special notice to all houses of ill-fame (the Tifft’s house especially included), located on Front street, in the town of Brainerd, State of Minnesota, that they are required to remove from their present location on said street within ten days from the date of this order, and that unless the tenor and substance of this notice be carried into effect within and during that period, the specific requirements of the statutes to abate nuisances, in such cases made and provided, shall be carried into rigid execution, and a refusal to obey the command hereby given, shall subject the persons so refusing to obey, to a prompt and forcible ejection from such premises. My reasons for giving this order are evident. Front street is the principal thoroughfare of traffic in Brainerd, and a general pleasure route to the river as well, and respectable people are loth to travel thereon. Patience and lenience are no longer virtues to be entertained in this matter, and I propose to fulfill and enforce this, my official order, to the word and letter. “A word to the wise is sufficient.”
P. MERTZ, Sheriff,
Crow Wing County.
(Brainerd Tribune, 25 June 1881, p. 5, c. 5)
Note: Joseph Tifft, Alice/Mary Tifft's father, operated this house of ill-fame.
The police raided a bawdy house on Fourth street south on Saturday, and as a consequence Mrs. Winters, Miss Tifft and Miss Hicks were brought before the court. The first named individual, who by the way has a very unsavory record, was fined $25. The girls were fined $10 and costs, sentence being suspended pending good behavior. (Brainerd Dispatch, 13 February 1891, p. 4, c. 4)
The municipal court was a very busy place on Tuesday morning. Jennie Winters was fined $12.40 for being drunk and disorderly, while her companion in sin, Mary Tifft, was given $15 for frequenting a house of ill-fame. Both were sent to jail in default of the fine. John McCormick and A. H. Reid each went up for thirty days for being found in a house of ill-fame. Frank Willis, P. Smith and Ike Mullen were each found guilty of vagrancy and will spend the holidays in close confinement. Claude Crowley, for keeping a tough joint, was given ninety days, which she took rather than put up 100 silver dollars, Alfred Rusk, a plain drunk, got off with seven days. (Brainerd Dispatch, 18 December 1891, p. 4, c. 5)
In the police court on Tuesday Geo. Richardson and Mrs. Annie Lamson were fined $15 each and Geo. Duffany and Mary Tifft $10 each. The former were charged with adultery and the latter fornication. The whole outfit plead guilty to disorderly conduct. (Brainerd Dispatch, 11 August 1893, p. 4, c. 3)
Joseph Tifft was convicted of keeping a disorderly house on Wednesday morning but as the man said he would leave the city sentence was suspended. (Brainerd Dispatch, 10 August 1894, p. 4, c. 4)
Note: Joseph Tifft was Alice/Mary Tifft's father.
Jennie Winters and Mary Tifft were arrested on Wednesday, on complaint of David Pomerleau a lumberman, charged with grand larceny. Pomerleau says he was spending the night at the house in which the girls hold forth, when the Winters girl induced him to entrust her with $75 of cold cash, which she refuses to return, hence he charges her with stealing that amount. The case came on for a hearing this morning and the girls were discharged. (Brainerd Dispatch, 26 April 1895, p. 4, c. 5)
Mary Tifft a Third street resident, was up before Judge Alderman on Wednesday, charged with being found in a saloon, contrary to a city ordinance. She was found guilty and a fine of $10 imposed. The case has been appealed to the district court, and the defendant is out on $50 bail. (Brainerd Dispatch, 08 January 1897, p. 4, c. 4)
State of Minnesota vs. Mary Tifft. Appeal from municipal court; charged with violating ordinance 134, restraining prostitutes, jury trial. Verdict guilty, and sentence $10 or 10 days in jail imposed. (Brainerd Dispatch, 12 March 1897, p. 4, c. 5)
TOOK CARBOLIC
ACID ROUTE
_____
Mrs. Sam Nash, Until a Short Time
Ago a Resident of This City,
Commits Suicide
_____
AT HER HOME IN TENSTRIKE
_____
Remains Brought to This City and
Interred This Morning in
Evergreen Cemetery.
The remains of Mrs. Sam Nash were brought down from Tenstrike yesterday afternoon by her husband and it was the first intimation of some of those in the city who were acquainted with the family that the woman was dead. Some of the relatives of the woman had been informed of her death, which occurred on the evening of November 21, last Saturday, and it was afterward learned that she had committed suicide by taking a large dose of carbolic acid at 8:30 o'clock in the evening.
The Nashs lived in this city up to about a year ago when they went north. They are well known to many in the city, the wife especially, as she had been quite a notorious character and was a frequent caller at the police court on various charges. She was indicted at a term of the district court last year on the charge of robbery, but was acquitted. She was commonly known as "Topsy" Tifft in this city.
Brief services were held at the undertaking parlors of Losey & Dean [sic] this morning at 10 o'clock and interment was made in Evergreen cemetery. (Brainerd Daily Dispatch, 25 November 1903, p. 4, c. 3) [Contributed by John Van Essen]
Note: The Losey & Dean Mortuary Record states that Alice/Mary was buried from the Episcopal Church.
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