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    Adelia Storrs Tuttle (Genung)

    Birth: 3-25-1820

    Death: 2-20-1898

    Nickname: Delia

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She was the daughter of Seth Johnson Genung and Sarah Mead. She had 6 children with her husband John Tuttle, all born in Albany. Adelia and John's marriage was not approved by her father and her father created a scene at her wedding in which FMS describes in a 1838 letter to LMW: "he rushed in with a club for the purpose of dimolishing the bridegroom — they all ran but Hobart Bostwick  who stood his ground and refused to obey Genung's command to leave the house whereupon Genung stuck him a blow in the face."

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Biography: 
She was the daughter of Seth Johnson Genung and Sarah Mead. She had 6 children with her husband John Tuttle, all born in Albany. Adelia and John's marriage was not approved by her father and her father created a scene at her wedding in which FMS describes in a 1838 letter to LMW: "he rushed in with a club for the purpose of dimolishing the bridegroom — they all ran but Hobart Bostwick who stood his ground and refused to obey Genung's command to leave the house whereupon Genung stuck him a blow in the face."
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https://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=121697665
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https://archive.org/details/genealogyofbostw00bost Genealogy of the Bostwick family in America: The descendants of Arthur Bostwick, of Stratford, Conn. Page 567
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https://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=121697665
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Tuesday, April 4, 2017 - 11:00
Citation Notes: 
https://archive.org/details/genealogyofbostw00bost Genealogy of the Bostwick family in America: The descendants of Arthur Bostwick, of Stratford, Conn. Page 567