THE people

Grace Tuttle

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

DATE OF BIRTH:
June 15, 1861
DATE OF DEATH:
December 30, 1903
GENDER:
F
OTHER KNOWN NAMES:
MAIDEN NAME:
Tuttle
ETHNICITY:
KNOWN ADDRESS:
22 Wisconsin St 
 Chicago 
 IL
RELATED TO:

Judge Hiram & Caroline Tuttle
Evelyn Tuttle Pond

AT THE TIME OF the fire

AGE:
42
MARITAL STATUS:
Single
ROLE:
Audience Member
ORGANIZATIONAL AFFILIATION:
Chicago Public Schools
ORGANIZATIONAL ROLE:
Teacher

other information

CEMETERY:
Oakwood Cemetery, Beloit, WI
MORGUE:
IDENTIFIED BY:
OTHER NOTES:

"Miss Tuttle had been for eighteen years a teacher in the Chicago public schools. Miss Tuttle attended the performance at the Iroquois with her sister and her sister's children and none of them emerged alive." Chicago Tribune

Beloit, Wis., Jan. 4. - The bodies of Beloit's victims in the Iroquois Theatre fire were brought here for burial today. They were Mrs. Fred Pond and two children and Miss Grace Tuttle. The other and her little girl were in one casket and three hearses were used to convey the bodies to the cemetery where, Rev. H. J. Purdue read the burial service of the Episcopal church.

CITATION:

Chicago Tribune (Chicago, Illinois) 02 Jan 1904, Sat Page 2 & 5
Kenosha News (Kenosha, Wisconsin) 05 Jan 1904, Tue, Page 1
Mount Carmel Item (Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania) 02 Jan 1904, Sat page2
McCurdy, p 146
Everett, M. (1904). The Great Chicago Theater Disaster. Chicago: Publishers Union of America, p 359

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: Iroquois Theatre Fire Historical Society

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