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Belle W. Adams Pinney (b. 1876) was twenty-six when she lost her
life at the Iroquois. She was the wife of Sidney
Breese Pinney (1877-1948) and one of four children
born to George K. Adams (1846-1909) and Lillian
Adams (1852-1906).
The son of attorney Daniel Pinney (1837-1921) and
Kentucky native, Mary E. Pinney (1849-1928), Belle's
husband Sidney had worked as a cashier in 1900. By 1909 he became a
pastor at the Presbyterian church in Chicago suburb,
Forest Park. Like Belle, Sydney had three siblings. Belle and Sidney were active in their church
from the early days of their relationship. In 1898 they were in the wedding party of
Rose Barton and Robin White, a year later they were
bride and groom in their own wedding.
Belle's body was found at Rolston's Undertakers
two days after the fire when dental fillings enabled
her brother-in-law and dentist to identify the body.
He was Chicago dentist, Harry B. Pinney (1875-1942), who had placed
the fillings.
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Belle's funeral was
held at her father's recently constructed home at 415 Waters
St. in Waukegan, Illinois, and at the Waukegan
Presbyterian Church.
Reverends Samuel W. Chidester and William E. Toll
conducted services at the church and
graveside. Members of Sydney's Sunday school class served
as pallbearers. Burial was at Oakwood
Cemetery.
After the Iroquois fire, Sidney moved in with his
parents and siblings for a while, eventually
remarried (Lulu Antoinette Rautman), had two
daughters and in 1914 relocated his family to become
a pastor of the Presbyterian church in Neillsville,
Wisconsin.
Belle was named as a plaintiff along with Vivian
Jackson in one of the state's early cases of
manslaughter brought against
Davis,
Noonan and
Cummings. She remained as a plaintiff in October, 1904 when judge
George Kersten granted the defendants a change
of venue to Peoria, IL and until March, 1905 when
Kersten was forced to quash all three indictments.
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Discrepancies and addendum
I prefer to discuss all the members of a
theater party on a single page because
sometimes a fuller picture of individuals is
revealed by seeing them in relationship to
their companions. In this case,
however, I did not discover that
Florence Hutchins and
Belle Pinney attended the theater together until
after having made two separate web pages. I'm opting to let both pages stand alone
for the time being and
connect them with links.
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