ID: ind04478
Name: Katherine Ann FONDA
Given Name: Katherine Ann
Nickname: Katie
Surname: Fonda
Sex: F
Birth: APR 1896
Death: Y
Note: b. NY; 1900 & 1910 US Federal Census, Johnstown, Fulton Co., NY; not sure if this fits: [The Wife's Money - By Mrs. Eva Leonard - "Oh! Herbert" was all Mrs. Fonda said as she handed her husband a letter. She was very pale, and her eyes were red. He opened it and read: "Dear Mother - I know that what I am doing will give you and father pain, but I cannot help it I have tried, God knows I have tried, to make you understand my position, but I have utterly failed, and I simply cannot live as I have been living any longer "Four years ago I wanted an allowance I wanted to be independent, but rather would not listen, and you were indifferent. I surely did my part in the home. I helped with the work and did all the children's sewing, yet I never had any money of my own. I had to ask for everything. I did all the shopping for you and the children, but my heart sank every time a shopping trip was necessary, for try as I would I could not please you, and we were sure to have a stormy scene. "You thought I paid too much for everything, and I, driven to desperation, told you to do your own buying. Why you would not I never could see. In short, your attitude on the money question made me prefer to go without anything rather than ask for it. I never had what the other girls had. If we could not have afforded those things I would have been all right, but we are not poor. "I married Clarence last night and we are on the way to our new home. I was sure you would object to the marriage on account of my youth if for no other reason, and scenes are distressing to me. So we went quietly to the minister's from Ella's house and then took the train. You may be sure of one thing. I have made it very plain to Clarence that I must have money of my own to spend unquestioned. He is going to give up part of his salary and we shall divide the expenses. I hope now that we are separated that we can better understand one another. Kiss the dear children for me and forgive... Your daughter, Clara Mr. Fonda laid the letter on the table took off his coat and hung it in the hall then came and sat down by his wife, who was crying softly. Poor little girl, she sobbed, to think I could be so blind "I can remember her leaving the table in tears because I refused to get something she asked for when I did not think she needed it," said Mrs. Fonda I thought she was getting so much more sensible lately because she asked for so little." And now she's married and only nineteen." We have driven her from home with our stupidity and if she is unhappy in her marriage she has us to blame," added the mother. "I don't know much about Clarence. I never dreamed that she cared for him said Mr. Fonda. "That's it, we neither of us "dreamed." We were so busy with our humdrum work that we did not take time to understand our daughter. Mr. Fonda was quick to take a. more cheerful view, "We will both write her a letter that will let her see we love her anyway. We'll invite them right here for New Year's and fit her out with a bride's clothes and help with the furnishing of the new home. "We'll do everything we can to make their marriage a success." "Maybe it will be all right," Mrs. Fonda said, brightening, "He seemed a nice boy. They are both only children. We must help them," and she rose to serve the dinner. Lincoln (NE) Daily News, Wednesday, December 16, 1914] >> www.fonda.org <<
Father: Herbert H. FONDA b: 1874
Mother: Margaret LASHER b: MAR 1874
Marriage 1
Sanford Asael PERHAM b: 07 JUN 1894
- Married:
02 JUL 1913
Religious Marriage
- Note: m. Johnstown, Fulton Co., NY
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