On October 18, 1920, 30-year-old homemaker Alice Jolly died at Chicago's Englewood Hospital after having been admitted there three days earlier.
Who was Alice?
According to public records, Alice's parents had a son who was either stillborn or died shortly after his birth. Alice was the next child, steadily followed by 5 other girls and 3 boys.
Alice's father was a carpenter and house painter, and her mother was a homemaker. As of 1910, 19-year-old Alice was working as a servant in a private home but still living with her parents. Her elderly maternal grandfather was also living with the family.
Then Alice, not yet married, gave her parents their first grandchild in 1911. This child was about 7 months old when Alice married his father, a French-Canadian garage superintendent, in October of 1911.
There is evidence that George did not get along with his in-laws or had some sort of falling-out with them, because when it came time to provide information for Alice's death certificate, George said that he didn't know their names.
Alice and George went on to have three more daughters, in 1912, 1914, and 1916. Alice's father died while she was pregnant with her youngest daughter.
Alice and George went on to have another son in 1918. When Alice died, she left her husband to care for four children all under the age of 10.
The Tragic End
Her cause of death is given as "Ether anesthesia following curretment as a result of an abortion - criminal." This would indicate that Alice likely suffered an anesthesia complication while doctors were doing a D&C to treat complications of a criminal abortion.
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