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purported second husband Grant Jackson while tacking on "Yda" to her new first name, and spent nearly thirty years in Texas (after perhaps living in San Francisco and México). Mainly residing in San Antonio, Adelayda Hillis Jackson spent the last decade of her life committed in the state hospital in that city and died in 1941.
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While it was long assumed that Addis disappeared in 1901, with some sources claiming she was committed by Storke to an asylum, from which she escaped, research by Ashley C. Short suggests that Addis reinvented herself as Adelayda Hillis Jackson, taking a name from her mother's family and that of her
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Addis' history of Santa Barbara, her only book, was published in 1891. However, Addis claimed she was treated badly by both Storke and his teenage son Tommy, accusing Storke of peculiar intimate behaviors and violence toward her. Storke retaliated with a divorce complaint on the grounds that Addis
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and threatened to shoot him. One bullet was fired, which passed through the floor. Jackson overpowered Addis and called for the police, and she was placed in jail. Addis spent eight months in prison. In February 1900, she was sentenced to serve a year in the Santa Barbara County Jail in a
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When the editors of the various publications to which Addis was connected discovered that she was often going out of the country, they took advantage of the opportunity to employ her as a
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case. After serving ten months she was released in May 1900 with two months credit time. In June 1901 in the case of C.A. Storke vs Ada Storke order dismissing motion for new trial.
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Her death certificate indicates her birth was October 3, 1857. However, one authority suggests 1859 as the year of her birth. See "Addis, Alfred Shea", in
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stepped in briefly to defend Addis. Storke refused to pay the $ 500 a month that Addis requested and instead had Addis committed to an
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When Addis was released from jail, her divorce from Storke was not final and she requested
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Treviño, Rene H. (2020). "Yda H. Addis (ca. 1857–?): An Annotated Bibliography".
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During the divorce Addis discovered that her attorney,
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With this unfavorable publicity, Addis left Mexico for
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The daughter of an itinerant photographer, 249:into English, some of which she submitted to 8: 893: 891: 439:Downey to Ireland, leading Addis to sue for 1070:Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 427:Pixley introduced Addis to his good friend 872:"Yda Storke charged with attempted murder" 122: 1123:19th-century American short story writers 628: 626: 111:Learn how and when to remove this message 464:. 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