
442A, dwelling 602, family 555, Francis Stoy household digital image, ( : accessed on various dates) citing National Archives microfilm publication M653, roll 1105. Census, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, population schedule, Media Borough, p. 117B, line 20, Francis P Stoy household digital image, ( : accessed on various dates) citing NARA microfilm publication M704, roll 457. Census, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, Upper Darby Township, p. 64B, line 1, Francis P Stoy household digital image, ( : accessed on various dates) citing NARA microfilm publication M33, roll 148. Census, Chester County, Pennsylvania, East Cain Township, p. "Chester County Archives: Tax Discounts 1785-1823 Sn-Sy," Chester County, Pennsylvania ( : accessed ), entry for Stoy, Francis P.147B, dwelling 145, family 150, Frances P Stoy household digital image, ( : accessed on various dates) citing National Archives microfilm publication M432, roll 776. Census, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, population schedule, Ridley Township, p. Household: Francis Stoy (57) and Margarett (51), residing in Media Borough where Francis was a laborer with no real estate and had personal property valued at $25. He appeared on the 1860 federal census of Delaware Co, Pennsylvania, enumerated 25 June 1860. Household: Frances P Stoy (53) and Margaret (45), residing in Ridley Township where Frances P was a laborer. He appeared on the 1850 federal census of Delaware Co, Pennsylvania, enumerated 6 August 1850. Household of Francis P Stoy: one male 40-50 (Francis P), one female <5, and one female 30-40, residing in Upper Darby Township. He appeared on the 1840 federal census of Delaware Co, Pennsylvania, on census date. Household of Francis P Stoy: one male 30-40 (Francis P), one female <5, one female 20-30, and one female 30-40, residing in East Cain Township. He appeared on the 1830 federal census of Chester Co, Pennsylvania, on census date. In 1823 he was in the township of Coventry on their tax list. He appeared on the 1822 tax list for in Chester Co, Pennsylvania.

She was known to ride a tricycle around town with a red flag on the handlebars that read, ‘Danger.’ Around 1977, she finally began receiving money from the estate of Marilyn Monroe,” Taraborrelli wrote about the last few years of Gladys’ life before she died in March 1984.Francis P Stoy was born between 17 at Pennsylvania. “Gladys continued to live in Florida, spending infrequent time with her daughter Berniece-at her own decision-for many more years. In 1970, she moved to the retirement home in Gainesville, which wasn’t far from Berniece’s place. In 1967, Gladys was released from the hospital under the care of Berniece Baker Miracle, her daughter. Gladys (center) and Monroe (right)/Image Credit: vintage_actors/Twitter She was then transferred to Camarillo State Mental Hospital. In 1963, Gladys managed to escape from Rockhaven but she was found at Lakeview Terrace Baptist Church, which was located fifteen miles away from Rockhaven.

Monroe had left a trust fund of $100,000 for her mother to receive $5,000 annually but the latter didn’t receive the same until 1977 reportedly due to legal and financial issues. “You’re such a good girl, Norma Jeane,” Gladys told Monroe before the latter departed, as per Taraborrelli’s book. When the daughter asked her to take medicines, Gladys replied that all she needed was prayers. Monroe and Gladys met for the last time in the summer of 1962. Randy Taraborrelli wrote in his book ‘The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe.’ She wrote to her daughters that she needed to be released very soon or, as she noted to Berniece, ‘I will most certainly die in here from all of the poison,’” J. “ with her mental illness affecting her intensely, she’d become firmly convinced that the doctors at Rockhaven had been poisoning her food. At the time, Gladys used to refuse medicines that were prescribed to control her schizophrenia since the medicines didn’t align with her religious teachings. As per reports, Gladys used to write to Monroe regularly, pleading for her release from the establishment. Image Credit: Marilyn18/Find a Graveĭuring her stay at Rockhaven, Gladys was found unconscious in her room with her left wrist slit. After Eley’s death, Gladys’ condition worsened and she got admitted to Rockhaven Sanitarium, presently located in Glendale, California.

At the time, she was working at the Homestead Lodge nursing home in Eagle Rock, California. In 1949, she married an electrician named John Stewart Eley, with whom she lived for three years until Eley’s death due to a heart infection. After getting diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, Gladys was released from San Jose’s Agnews State Hospital in 1946.

At the time, she was staying at a retirement home in Gainesville, Florida. Gladys Pearl Baker died on March 11, 1984, at the age of 81, due to heart failure.
