Louisa Maria Rice Gillette (1859-1939)

Louisa Maria Rice Gillette

Birth

12 May 1859

Millbury, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA

Death

11 Mar 1939 (aged 79)

Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA

Burial

Inglewood Park Cemetery

Inglewood, Los Angeles County, California, USA Add to Map

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Salvation Army missionary and the mother of famous murderer Chester Gillette who campaigned endlessly to save her son from being executed for the murder of Grace Brown which inspired Theodore Dreiser's "An American Tragedy."

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Frank Starr Gillette

1852–1915 (m. 1883)

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Emma Dulcina Rice

1860–1934

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Josiah Leonard Rice

1854–1939

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Louisa Maria Rice Gillette

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Leonard Rice

Dulcena Salina Gale Rice

Frank Starr Gillette

Emma Dulcina Rice

Josiah Leonard Rice

Chester Ellsworth Gillette

Lloyd Humphrey Gillette

Hazel Dulcina Gillette McWade

Lucille Isabelle Gillette Sternard

Paul Clifford Gillette

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