[4] She married the landscape painter Christopher Shearer (1846–1926) who abandoned her and their sons Victor and Bernard to study in Europe and whom she subsequently divorced.

[7] Her profession often brought her into conflict with the forces of law and order and she regularly appeared in the Reading newspapers for criminal matters, often when local politicians were running for office with promises to clamp down on vice.

[10] Also arrested were Lizzie Hamilton of 942 Buttonwood, Flo Wilson of 1021 Walnut, and Harry Weaver who ran an establishment of black women known as "Mahogany Hall".

[8] In the early 1890s, the women in her brothel were the subjects of a secret collection of photographs made by William Goldman that was discovered by the historian of photography Robert Flynn Johnson around 2010 in the stock of a postcard dealer in Concord, California.

Agents of the Law and Order Society of Philadelphia testified that they had bought liquor from her and Shearer on that day and in that place on multiple occasions in 1906.

[4] She was buried at Alsace Lutheran Church Cemetery in Reading, her remains "attired in a cream silk robe and lay in a purple cloth covered couch casket with extension bar handles, silver trimmings and plate bearing name and age".