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exact birthdate is based on her age at death as recorded on her death record, with her husband Harry as informant.

arrived in Cleveland 1917, according to her death record

1920 Federal Census, Ohio, Cuyahoga Co., 24th Ward of Cleveland
Series T625, Roll 1371, ED 466, Sheet 13A, ancestry.com image 0412

Renting at 813 Parkwood Drive, (which had four families in it)

Hamilton, Henry N., 37, PA, PA, PA, stereotyper, newspaper publisher
--------, Anna, 35, born in Bosnia/Austria, parents also, arrived 1890, naturalized 1900

"United States Census, 1920," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MDR1-15S : accessed 15 Feb 2014), Henry N Hamilton, Cleveland Ward 24, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States; citing sheet , family 303, NARA microfilm publication T625, FHL microfilm 1821371.

January 24, 1920
C T Austin to Anna Hamilton
sublot 215, northerly side of Everton Avenue, Cleveland
mortgage, etc., no mention of Harry

May 21, 1923
Anna Hamilton et al to Israel Smith et al
sublot 215, northerly side of Everton, Cleveland
and Henry quitclaims his rights etc in the property

March 14, 1927
Anna Hamilton to Henry Hamilton
sublot 53 etc [1374 East 141st]
witnesses 28 February 1927: Jennie A Hamilton, Herbert H Tow [he was the notary public on the document]

June 2, 1928
Last Will and Testament
Anna Hamilton of East Cleveland ...
1. 'pay all my debts and funeral expenses'
2. I will to my husband, Henry N Hamilton, the two family house at 1374 East 141st St East Cleveland O. and lot No 698 (six-nine-eight) 12th Salida subdivision [Mentor, Ohio]
names Henry as executor
signed 2 June 1928, Anna Hamilton

witnesses:
R P Rhodes, 1376 East 141st
Mrs R P Rhodes, 1376 East 141st

Certificate of Death
Anna Hamilton
died Feb 8, 1929
at 1374 E 141st, East Cleveland
had lived in Cleveland 12 years when she died
female, white, married, housewife
born June 5, 1886, in Germany
age 42y 8m 3d
parents' names unknown
cause: double broncho pneumonia
informant: Henry Hamilton, husband, same address
burial: Acacia Park, Feb 11, 1929

"Ohio, Deaths, 1908-1953," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/X8PJ-W82 : accessed 15 Feb 2014), Anna Hamilton, 08 Feb 1929; citing Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, reference cn 13149; FHL microfilm 1991763.

Acacia Cemetery online index:
Hamilton, Anna
Section: B
Lot: 718
Location: N/E
DOB: 1/5/1886
DOD: 2/8/1929

Cleveland Plain Dealer, February 10, 1929, page 32
HAMILTON-Anna, beloved wife of Henry, passed on at the late residence, 1378 E. 141st. Remains at Dodge's Funeral Home, 1331 Hayden Avenue, where funeral will be held Monday Feb 11, at 2 p.m. Burial Acacia Park Cemetery.

Probate Court, Cuyahoga County, Ohio
Docket 217, Number 180150
In re Estate of Anna Hamilton
Presented February 15, 1929
Filed February 18, 1929
February 19, 1929, S.P. Bond
March 6, 1929, Inv. Appr.
March 15, 1929, widower elects under will
April 11, 1929, Inheritance tax receipt filed

Application for probate of will
15 February 1929
Estate of Anna Hamilton ...
leaving her husband Henry N Hamilton, age 46, at 1374 East 141st
and the following named persons, her next of kin:
"The decedent left no children, brothers, or sisters or the survivor of them to the knowledge of the applicant"

Henry N Hamilton, executor named in the will
'personal estate: consists of money in the bank and stocks, the probable value of which will not exceed $200'

real estate: house and lot No 1374 East 141st St, East Cleveland and vacant lot in Mentor, Lake County, Ohio
the probable value of which will not exceed $7500.

her indebtedness: none
signed Henry N Hamilton, 1374 East 141st, East Cleveland, February 18, 1929