According to Ragtime historian and Scott Joplin biographer Ed Berlin, Freddie Joplin was NOT the girl on the cover of Scott Joplin's work "Bethena" nor did Freddie have Bethena as a middle name or nickname. We do not know who the girl was on the cover of Bethena and, indeed, we may never know.
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From the Sedalia Weekly Conservator, Sedalia, MO, September 16, 1904:
Mrs. Freddie, wife of Mr. Scott Joplin, and a bride of only two months, after an illness of seven weeks duration, died Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock p.m. Her death was not unexpected, as she had contracted a cold which developed into a complication of complaints either of which might have resulted in her death.
She was married to Mr. Joplin two months ago at the home of her parents in Little Rock, Ark., and had traveled some with Mr. Joplin who was billed to give piano recitals in western towns. They arrived here seven weeks hence, and from their first day here Mrs. Joplin has been confined to her bed at their rooms at 124 E. Cooper St.
Thruout her sickness Mr. Joplin has administered to every want. Her sister, Miss Lovie Alexander, arrived here last Thursday and was constantly at her side until death separated them.
The interment was in the colored cemetery from the Morgan St. Baptist church. Rev. S.A. Norris preached the funeral which occurred at 2 o'clock in the afternoon.
'Tis needless to say that Mr. Joplin has the sympathy of all the community, and we too, who have stood at the bier and took the last look at the face of those dear to us; who have followed in the march, as it would its way to the City of the dead, and there watched the remains lowered, while it seemed that the world had forsook us--we extend our shallow sympathies to him in his bereavement.
(Her remains are presumed to have been moved here from their original burial location along with the others from whichever "colored cemetery" she was buried in. However, she may be in an ummarked Sedalia grave never to be located.)
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From the Sedalia Weekly Conservator, Sedalia, MO, September 16, 1904:
Mrs. Freddie, wife of Mr. Scott Joplin, and a bride of only two months, after an illness of seven weeks duration, died Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock p.m. Her death was not unexpected, as she had contracted a cold which developed into a complication of complaints either of which might have resulted in her death.
She was married to Mr. Joplin two months ago at the home of her parents in Little Rock, Ark., and had traveled some with Mr. Joplin who was billed to give piano recitals in western towns. They arrived here seven weeks hence, and from their first day here Mrs. Joplin has been confined to her bed at their rooms at 124 E. Cooper St.
Thruout her sickness Mr. Joplin has administered to every want. Her sister, Miss Lovie Alexander, arrived here last Thursday and was constantly at her side until death separated them.
The interment was in the colored cemetery from the Morgan St. Baptist church. Rev. S.A. Norris preached the funeral which occurred at 2 o'clock in the afternoon.
'Tis needless to say that Mr. Joplin has the sympathy of all the community, and we too, who have stood at the bier and took the last look at the face of those dear to us; who have followed in the march, as it would its way to the City of the dead, and there watched the remains lowered, while it seemed that the world had forsook us--we extend our shallow sympathies to him in his bereavement.
(Her remains are presumed to have been moved here from their original burial location along with the others from whichever "colored cemetery" she was buried in. However, she may be in an ummarked Sedalia grave never to be located.)
According to Ragtime historian and Scott Joplin biographer Ed Berlin, Freddie Joplin was NOT the girl on the cover of Scott Joplin's work "Bethena" nor did Freddie have Bethena as a middle name or nickname. We do not know who the girl was on the cover of Bethena and, indeed, we may never know.
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From the Sedalia Weekly Conservator, Sedalia, MO, September 16, 1904:
Mrs. Freddie, wife of Mr. Scott Joplin, and a bride of only two months, after an illness of seven weeks duration, died Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock p.m. Her death was not unexpected, as she had contracted a cold which developed into a complication of complaints either of which might have resulted in her death.
She was married to Mr. Joplin two months ago at the home of her parents in Little Rock, Ark., and had traveled some with Mr. Joplin who was billed to give piano recitals in western towns. They arrived here seven weeks hence, and from their first day here Mrs. Joplin has been confined to her bed at their rooms at 124 E. Cooper St.
Thruout her sickness Mr. Joplin has administered to every want. Her sister, Miss Lovie Alexander, arrived here last Thursday and was constantly at her side until death separated them.
The interment was in the colored cemetery from the Morgan St. Baptist church. Rev. S.A. Norris preached the funeral which occurred at 2 o'clock in the afternoon.
'Tis needless to say that Mr. Joplin has the sympathy of all the community, and we too, who have stood at the bier and took the last look at the face of those dear to us; who have followed in the march, as it would its way to the City of the dead, and there watched the remains lowered, while it seemed that the world had forsook us--we extend our shallow sympathies to him in his bereavement.
(Her remains are presumed to have been moved here from their original burial location along with the others from whichever "colored cemetery" she was buried in. However, she may be in an ummarked Sedalia grave never to be located.)
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From the Sedalia Weekly Conservator, Sedalia, MO, September 16, 1904:
Mrs. Freddie, wife of Mr. Scott Joplin, and a bride of only two months, after an illness of seven weeks duration, died Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock p.m. Her death was not unexpected, as she had contracted a cold which developed into a complication of complaints either of which might have resulted in her death.
She was married to Mr. Joplin two months ago at the home of her parents in Little Rock, Ark., and had traveled some with Mr. Joplin who was billed to give piano recitals in western towns. They arrived here seven weeks hence, and from their first day here Mrs. Joplin has been confined to her bed at their rooms at 124 E. Cooper St.
Thruout her sickness Mr. Joplin has administered to every want. Her sister, Miss Lovie Alexander, arrived here last Thursday and was constantly at her side until death separated them.
The interment was in the colored cemetery from the Morgan St. Baptist church. Rev. S.A. Norris preached the funeral which occurred at 2 o'clock in the afternoon.
'Tis needless to say that Mr. Joplin has the sympathy of all the community, and we too, who have stood at the bier and took the last look at the face of those dear to us; who have followed in the march, as it would its way to the City of the dead, and there watched the remains lowered, while it seemed that the world had forsook us--we extend our shallow sympathies to him in his bereavement.
(Her remains are presumed to have been moved here from their original burial location along with the others from whichever "colored cemetery" she was buried in. However, she may be in an ummarked Sedalia grave never to be located.)
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