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Biographical Sketch -- (Findagrave.com):

American Folk Figure. She was the wife of explorer and adventurer John Charles Fremont, and the daughter of United States Senator Thomas Hart Benton. Born in Lexington, Virginia, her father raised and educated her as if she were his son and made her wise in the ways of social structure and politics, an unusual thing for the period. By 1841, her father was a Senator from Missouri and protagonist of "Manifest Destiny". The now seventeen year old Jesse, a student in a girl's seminary, met and fell in love with Lieutenant John C. Fremont, who is ten years her senior. The couple eloped and was married on October 19, 1841. Senator Benton was so disappointed that he becomes estranged for a time from his headstrong daughter. Jessie, in the mean time, settled in as the wife of a junior Army officer, following her husband from assignment to assignment. Some where around this time, her parents decide to reconcile with Jessie and John who had been living a less than luxurious life on Army posts. John Fremont then gained famed a "The Pathfinder to the West" in the name of "Manifest Destiny". She and her husband begin writing best-selling stories of Western Explorations that make John C. Fremont and his scout, Kit Carson, famous. In 1856, Jessie became the first presidential candidate's wife to play an active part in a political campaign. When first-ever Republican Party candidate Fremont's name came up in rallies for votes, the slogan was "Fremont and Jessie too." Fremont garnered many northern votes, but lost over all. The Fremonts then moved to California where they discovered more gold on their property. They settled into San Francisco society with Jessie leading the way and enjoying discussing politics with the many educated men in that city. When war became imminent, John Fremont returned East to get a new commission, and Jessie went with him. In 1861, they returned to St. Louis when John was appointed commander of the Western Region. They shared the belief that St. Louis was unprepared for war and needed reinforcements and supplies, and both pressured Washington to send more supplies and troops to St. Louis. Jessie threw herself into the war effort, helping to organize a soldier's relief society in St. Louis and becoming very active in the Western Sanitary Commission which provided medicine and nursing to soldiers injured in the war. These endeavors were some of the few acceptable avenues of participation for women in the 1860's, but Jessie, the late senator's daughter, wanted more. She used her political expertise to make decisions for John and organized his military campaign to the extent that she was called, "General Jessie" by his critics. In spite of Jesse's help, Fremont was always in trouble. One decision caused him to be removed from command - he overstepped his authority when he trumped the Commander in Chief by issuing, of his own volition, his own emancipation proclamation which summarily freed all Missouri slaves. John Fremont had a deep hatred for slavery and saw that it needed to end, but he neglected to confer with his President before issuing the order and Abraham Lincoln became angry with him. Jessie, the senator's daughter, and ever her husband's protector, went to see President Lincoln in Washington to plead Fremont's case. Lincoln listened but still removed John Fremont from the command of St. Louis and the Union's Western area. The Fremonts would not live in St. Louis again, moving to New York and then California, where she that state's first First Lady. Being unsuccessful in both places, John Fremont declared bankruptcy in 1873. Jessie started writing books and articles to support the family, and remained faithful to her husband, even when she heard rumors that he was being unfaithful. In 1890, three months after having been allowed to resign with pension, rather than being drummed out of the Army for insubordination in an incident in California, John Fremont died in New York. Twelve years later, Jessie, then a resident of the then back-water pueblo of Los Angeles, died as well and she was cremated and buried in Los Angeles at Angelus Rosedale Cemetery. Jessie Fremont had, within the framework of her era, demonstrated that women were capable of equal rights of citizenship and full participation with their male counterparts in family life, business and politics. Her husband lies in Rockland Cemetery,high atop the crest of The Palisades of the Hudson River just south of the Tappan Zee Bridge.

Bio by: John T. Chiarella.

Biographical Note -- (Findagrave.com):

Actor. Best known for creating the character Jeeter Lester, a down and out Georgia farmer who chewed tobacco, for Broadway in 1933 for the Broadway play "Tobacco Road." Hull also appeared in film, televison and other stage productions in a career that spanned 50 years. He died in Cornwall, England.

Obituary -- The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, California; Tuesday, 15 MAR 2005, p.93 (Newspapers.com):

Shelley Hull, 85; TV Producer Worked on 'Charlie's Angels'

Shelley Hull, 85, associate producer on such hit television series as "Charlie's Angels" and "Starsky & Hutch," died Feb. 27 in his Santa Monica home of emphysema that developed into pneumonia.

Brought up in New York City and Old Lyme, Conn., Hull was the son of actor Henry Hull and the nephew of actress Josephine Hull. He spent more than 45 years in television, stage and screen production.

In 1967, he began working with Aaron Spelling on "The Guns of Will Sonnett" and later "The Mod Squad." Spelling in a statement called Hull "a great associate producer and a fantastic friend."

Most recently, Hull had worked as associate producer of "7th Heaven," which is in its ninth season. Hull also served as associate producer of the 1976 ABC television movie "The Boy in the Plastic Bubble," starring John Travolta.

Obituary -- Daily News, New York, New York; Thursday, 22 APR 1965, p.382 (Newspapers.com):

FREDERICK ALMY

Services for Frederick Almy, 77, a rodeo performer known as the Cowboy Millionaire in the 1920s, will be held in the home of a sister, Mrs. Millicent Warner, on Selleck Hill Road, Salisbury, Conn., at noon tomorrow.

Almy died Tuesday at his residence in the Alpine Hotel, 987 Eighth Ave. He inherited an estimated $50 million from his first wife, the dowager Lady Michelham, but lost most of it in the 1929 stock market crash. Lately he ran a business transporting race horses from one country to another.

Obituary -- The Montclair Times, Montclair, New Jersey; Thursday, 2 JUN 2018, p.C7 (Newspapers.com):

Maryl Riter Walker

Maryl Riter Walker, of Lincoln Park, died on May 20.

Born March 7, 1922, Mrs. Walker was an avid equestrienne, having been inducted into the Montclair Kimberley Academy Athletics Hall of Fame in 2002 for her accomplishments as a rider. She rode in the National Horse Show at New York's Madison Square Garden, qualifying for the National Equitation Champ;ionship five years running, and also competed in the NJHA Adult Equitation Championship. She was also a respected horse show judge. Mrs. Walker was the commandant for many years of the Girls Mounted Troup, an organization that offered horsemanship training for hundreds of girls.

Mrs. Walker is predeceased by her husband, John Y. G. Walker Jr., and her daughter, Caryl Walker Griesenbeck. She is survived by her daughter, Maryl W. Lewis; her son, John Y. G. Walker III, and his wife Kim B. Walker; her granddaughters, Dana Griesenbeck Howard (Robert) and Rebecca Walker Stern (Cameron); her grandson, John Y. G. Walker IV; and great-grandchildren, Emma Hazel Howard, Lucy Caryl Howard, James Henry Howard and Imogen Rose Stern.

Services will be held today, Thursday, June 2, at 4 p.m. at the Presbyterian Church of Upper Montclair, 53 Norwood Ave. Arrangements are by the Keri Memorial Funeral Home of Lincoln Park. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the St. Barnabas Medical Center Burn Unit, sbmcgiving.org, or the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, giving.mskcc.org.

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Mary may or may not have been buried at Silver Mound Cemetery with her husband -- there is a headstone with her name and birth year there, but it was not inscribed with her death year.