QUESADA JEANNIE A H 3/3/1928 K 01 19 1856 1928 Inf dau moved fr Nyack NY to Mothers gr
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FURTHER HUNGERFORD INFORMATION:

Reference page 103 of a Hungerford genealogy put together by Orville Hungerford, son of Congressman Orville Hungerford, sometime in 1894--with an index added by H. Hungerford Drake July 1901. About this person he reports: Jeanie Augusta Hungerford. Daughter of Marcus and Sarah (Kelsey) Hungerford, was born December 27, 1856, in Watertown, New York.

Reference the front page of NYC's "The World," 7 Oct 1898 issue. It reports: Took Wives By Contract. Carlos Vincente De Quesada Thus Married Twice in a Month. Bogus Clergyman as Witness. Two Sets of Loving Letters from Him--Disillusioned, His First Wife Gets a Divorce. When Justice Cohen yesterday absolutely divorced Louise C. G. De Quesada from Carlos Vincente De Quesada, he perforce humiliated Jeanie A. Hungerford, who firmly believed she was De Quesada's wife. It was an extremely delicate position for the Justice; he expressed the utmost sympathy with Miss Hungerford, who was in court. For the testimony proved that De Quesada had most cruelly deceived her, as well as his wife. He married, or pretended to marry, both at a month's interval, entering into a written marriage contract with each which was signed in the presence of a witness who, the women were convinced, was a clergyman. De Quesada is a Cuban, his mother owned real estate in Cuba, and dying lately, left him $5,000. Louise Quesada is an English woman, born in Hindustan, a teacher of languages. In the winter of 1890 she met Quesada, who is a translater. In July of that year they were married by contract, and she handed up the document to Justice Cohen yesterday. Quesada soon deserted her, but she learned where he was and they corresponded--his letters full of loving protestations, hers breathing a religious spirit, begging him to marry her again in church. And while the faithless De Quesada was writing these loving letters he cajoled Miss Hungerford into a false marriage in August, 1890. They signed a contract which he sealed and gave to her. When he afterward asked her for it she surrendered it. She has loving letters from him, too, and with bold assurance he had a religious marriage ceremonial performed in church, yielding to her prayerful request. She lived with him, she testified yesterday; she actually supported him, and only a few months ago maintained him in a sanitarium to which his love of drink had driven him. De Quesada has not been seen in New York since his wife began her suit. Justice Cohen expressed his sympathy for Miss Hungerford and said Mrs. De Quesada was entitled to a decree.

Thanks to Contributor: Charlie Morgan (47142894) for above information •