Background
Kate Farmer was born in Fremont County, Iowa about 1864. Kate's mother died in 1865, and at the age of two, she was sent to live with her maternal grandfather, Joe Chandler.
In 1870, Kate's father, George Washington Farmer, was appointed to be the Postmaster of Hamburg, Iowa. He remarried in 1871, fathered two more daughters and then moved to Texas, where he died in 1876.
On December 30, 1885 Kate married Thomas Edwin Morgan and they had one child, a boy, born on October 31, 1886; he lived only two days.
Around 1890 Kate ran off with Albert Allen, a stepson of Tom's stepmother, Emily Dennison Allen Morgan.
Kate was hired as a housemaid by the Grant family in Los Angeles and told her co-workers she was married to a gambler. From this statement, Tom Morgan was assumed to be the gambler in question, but in fact, he was a rural mail carrier in Burchard, Nebraska at the time of Kate's death on November 28, 1892.
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