Ada Hainer Blaise

HAINER, BLAISE, SHEPHERD

Posted By: Thomas Blaise Shepherd <existentialpress@compaq.net>
Date: 7/19/2002 at 19:44:56

Ada Hainer Blaise was born in Hungary to Etelka Barthos Hainer and Ignace Hainer. Ignace Hainer was secretary to the Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and a lawyer and journalist. After coming to America he settled in New Buda, Decatur County, Iowa, in about 1854. He was employed as a professor of modern languages at the University of Missouri for five years, then returned to New Buda, where he farmed, taught school, served as school director,served as a Presbyterian minister, as Postmaster, and as a U.S. Delegate to the National Convention.

Ada Hainer married John Theodore Blaise, a Memphis, Tennessee furniture merchant, who was from Alsace-Loraine. (The Blaise family were from Strausbourg. Mr. Blaise's mother's maiden name was Baden. Her family were from Baden-Baden, Germany.)

Ada Hainer Blaise and John Theodore Blaise had one son, Eugene Frank Blaise, born November 21, 1878. John died when his son, Eugene, was only three years old, so Ada and her son, Eugene returned to Decatur County, Iowa, until Eugene completed his high school, when they resettled in St. Louis, Missouri. Eugene Frank Blaise then settled in Oklahoma Territory in about 1900, when his uncle Judge Bayard T. Hainer, was appointed Associate Supreme Court Justice of Oklahoma Territory by President McKinely.

Eugene Frank Blaise married Laura Greek Miller in 1905. They had one son, Dudley Eugene Blaise, born November 25, 1908 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Dudley married the former Clara Olive Snyder, daughter of Mabel Mitchell Snyder and John Abbott Snyder, Joplin, Missouri, on December 26, 1934, at the First Presbyterian Church in Joplin, where Dudley was employed as a mine superintendent by the Admiralty Zinc Co., which his father, Eugene Frank Blaise, headed as president.

Two sons were born of that marriage, Dudley Jr., in 1937, at Mexico City, and Thomas, born in 1938. In 1939 Dudley Blaise abandoned his wife and two children, taking with him an inheritance his wife, Clara Olive, had received from her family. Ten years later Clara Olive was granted a divorce on grounds of desertion in the State of Missouri. The divorce was registered in Jasper County Court House, Joplin, Missouri, on November 30, 1949. A second decree was obtained in 1952 after Dudley E. Blaise was located by the State Department in La Paz, Bolivia, awarding Clara Olive Blaise $80 monthly child support for their two sons, Dudley Jr. (John) and Thomas. Dudley Blaise then returned to Mexico City to live.

Clara Olive Blaise remarried to Charles M. Shepherd, treasurer of the Empire District Electric Co. in Joplin. Mr. Shepherd died in 1955. Dudley Euegee Blaise Sr. moved from Mexico City to Texas in about 1975. He died in Spring, Texas in 1988. His mother, Greek Blaise (Canterbury), died in Los Angeles in 1960. Dudley's stepmother, Marie Howard Blaise, died in Houston, Texas in 1976.

The exact date of the death of Ada Hainer Blaise is not known, although she was known to have been residing with her sister, Vesta Hainer Chase, in St. Louis at the time.

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