Ada Iddings Gale

[2] In her early childhood her literary inclining was apparent and received careful fostering from her father, Rev.

[3] She lectured on the "Attributes of Beauty " and published two books, one a volume of verse, "A Little English Portfolio",[2] the other, "Zenobia", a 17th-century romance.

[2] She lived at Albion, Michigan, and had three children: Lieutenant Alfred Harvey Gale, 4th Field Artillery, U.S. Army; Mrs. Leroy Anderson of Prescott, Arizona; and Winifred Lee Gayle of Fort Sam Houston, Texas.

[2] She remarried Maj Henry D. Thomason (1858–1936), a doctor who served during the Spanish–American War and in the army medical corps in Cuba and in the Philippines and then worked as surgeon on several ocean steamships.

[2] She died on February 25, 1915, in Fort Sam Houston, and is buried with her husband at Riverside Cemetery, Albion, Michigan.