Adda Arabella Metcalf

1890 - 1915  (25 years)

• Name	Adda Arabella Metcalf  [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Birth	28 Apr 1890	Cedar Vale, Chautauqua, Kansas, USA   [1, 2, 3]
  Gender	Female
  Death	6 Oct 1915  [2]
  Burial	Cedar County, Missouri, USA   [2]
  Person ID	I447	Horton Test
  Last Modified	11 Nov 2025

  
  

  Father	De Algeroy Adelbert Metcalf,   b. 8 Oct 1846, Rushford, Allegany, New York, USA d. 1921, Dade, Missouri, USA (Age 74 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Carrie Armina Cross,   b. 1 Apr 1857, Cook, Illinois, USA d. 23 Jul 1938, Dade, Missouri, USA (Age 81 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	2 Aug 1876	Erie, Neosho, Kansas, USA   [1]
  Family ID	F37	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	John William Horton,   b. 11 Oct 1863, Iowa, USA d. 24 Mar 1945, Covina, Los Angeles, California, USA (Age 81 years)
  Marriage	27 Jan 1907	Missouri, USA   [4]
  Children	1. Virgil R Horton,   b. 11 Apr 1908, Cedar, Missouri, USA d. 27 Jul 1959, Stockton, Cedar, Missouri, USA (Age 51 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F166	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	11 Nov 2025

  
  

• Notes

  As told by Lula L. Horton Adda was working in the fields when a terrible storm came up. She quickly unhitched the horses and ran to tie them in the barn. After the long run she doubled over in pain and took to her bed. She was with child. She told her mother she no longeonger felt life with the baby. She and her mother begged John to call for the doctor but he wouldn't have it. She died later. It took John so long to build the coffin that during the burial, her body exploded and seeped out of the coffin. Virgil, a child, saw this and Lula felt it later led to his being hospitalized.

  
  

• Sources

  [S3] Ancestry.com, 1900 United States Federal Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2004;), Year: 1900; Census Place: Jefferson, Chautauqua, Kansas; Roll: 473; Page: 8A; Enumeration District: 0007; FHL microfilm: 1240473. [S4] Ancestry.com, U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;). [S1] Ancestry.com, 1910 United States Federal Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;), Year: 1910; Census Place: Linn, Cedar, Missouri; Roll: T624_768; Page: 2A; Enumeration District: 0057; FHL microfilm: 1374781. [S56] Ancestry.com, Missouri, Marriage Records, 1805-2002, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2007;).