The Tragic Case of the Sterilized Heiress | Ann Cooper Hewitt

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Welcome to Forgotten Lives! In today's episode we are looking into the life of Ann Cooper Hewitt, a millionaire heiresses who was sterilized by her mother, but why?
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[@danysanerd2383]

🫶 You are such a wildly talented storyteller.

[@Reina.Nijinsky]

Instead of repeating American history, why not explore cases from ur country? 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@almabatchelor8619]

What a sad story for this girl. Greed does evil things.

[@hollieBlu303]

Ironically one of the reasons that light-house keepers were known to be very susceptible to madness was because of the introduction of mercury lamps. The lamps were perfect for light houses, vastly improving the range and brightness of their lights. Unfortunately, in addition to the extreme isolation of the job itself, this meant that the keepers were in constant contact with mercury which would often badly affect both their mental and physical health. Thus the stereotype of the 'mad lighthouse keeper'.

[@kerryberman609]

Most informative! Thank you

[@rabbit0664]

Huh. Thanks for the info.

[@wiggilytaco7570]

Same thing with Mad Hatters.

[@WestCoastCanuck]

Is this where " a case of the vapours" or "attack of the vapours" comes from too?

[@julietrask7497]

@@WestCoastCanuckYes !

[@starcrossreverie]

I am so glad her mom wasn't able to get the money. Makes me wonder if the dad knew what type of woman she was

[@Machelle3200]

She was a Narc.... SMFH

[@squirrellyswirl]

I think the dad did know the kind of woman Marion was. She had a string of wealthy husbands and still had an affair with him which was extremely scandalous. Since he only had Ann as a child, he wanted to leave his legacy to her, and not to scheming wife.

[@alphaomega8373]

He knows, they always know, but she gave good back.

[@alicewilloughby4318]

Sad that Ann couldn't bring herself to testify against her mother.

[@idorus]

at least her mom died only a few years later so she could not try to murder her.

[@Kat-zx1pj]

I'm sure that public scrutiny was more than enough to ruin her reputation and life.

[@mellie4174]

Happens à lot in the world.

[@mylamberfeeties875]

Probably because they were both crazy and liars

[@joylives_4her668]

The power people used to have to manipulate especially because they were rich was not only disturbing but illegal. That wasn't a mother that was her worst enemy.

[@AlexaLake1]

People who have authority, power, and position STILL manipulate and control !

[@13lilsykos]

As someone who has always wanted children but could never had them, I don't know what I'd never do if my own mother did something like that to me.

[@jaynesegman7847]

I couldnt have kids either. I tried hard. you could have your eggs frozen and fertilize later. im sorry for this loss

[@Madronaxyz]

Frances Farmer's mother had Frances lobotomized

[@sadiewagstaff890]

​@@MadronaxyzSo did the Kennedy's with their daughter and sister.

[@lynntownsend100]

My mother was an abusive narcissistic...she went on and ON about how the most important right that women ever got was the right to...erm..."execute trespassers" in the womb... (Yep! Over and ABOVE the right to vote!) At the end of ger life, she mourned not getting any grandchildren...(Personally? She didn't *DESERVE* them!)

[@tinahale9252]

This is the darkness of the human heart when greed is at the helm

[@semigoth299]

Greed knows no bounds 😢

[@DianeLake-sw3ym]

what a horrid and nasty mother. but, what goes around comes around. She tried to steal her daughter's money and ended up in poverty and alone. If the mother was a good person she would have had much much more

[@magesalmanac6424]

And she ended up an alcoholic . It sounds like she was miserable and took it out on her daughter

[@squirrellyswirl]

@@magesalmanac6424the mother was an alcoholic long before Ann was born. The mother was an alcoholic and gambler, and the father knew that’s the woman he gotten in deep with but he married her because he wanted to leave his legacy to his only child. Marion’s greedy motivations was due to her lifelong bad habits that went along with being a social climber- all that partying of gambling and alcoholism eventually caught up to Marion and that’s why she died broke. Marion died alone because of what she did to her daughter and only saw her daughter as a meal ticket. Ann was merciful to not testify against her mother, but Ann also was completely alienated from Marion. So while Ann didn’t want to cause more strain on her mother, she also didn’t forgive and alleviate any of the destruction her mother caused, either. I’m sure Ann knew that if she left Marion to her own devices, Marion would fuck herself over like she did with everything else in her life. In the end, Marion got what was coming to her because she made too many bad choices and didn’t rectify any of them. Ann just stood aside and allowed the consequences to fall on her mother, as she should. What’s tragic is that Ann died so young and could have used her father’s money to make a real difference in society, something her father wanted. I think her father knew his money would be squandered by his destructive wife and made the provisions that he did to preserve what financial rewards he accumulated during his life time that he worked towards to have it mostly funneled to his child. Obviously he couldn’t cut his wife out of his will, it would be unseemly. He had to provide for his wife, knowing she’d gamble and drink it all away.

[@jasminkrieger8464]

Sadly she could never have kids on her own because sterilized but im sure she adopted or something

[@genxx2724]

So the Dowager Countess of Grantham in Downton Abbey was right to refuse to have electric lights. I remember her saying she was worried about “all those vapors”.

[@Charlotte66666]

What a narcissistic monster of a mother!

[@garywait3231]

Thanks for your sympathetic narration of this tragic story. As always, an excellent presentation. May I offer, as an American cultural historian, one small correction? The bearded gentleman singled out from a group photo early in your narration was the industrialist Peter Cooper. ( New York's famous Cooper Union is named for him, its founder) Hewitt, Ann's father, was his grandson, thus the name of Ann's father, Peter Cooper Hewitt. Otherwise a thoroughly accurate, and always interesting, if tragic, reminder of one of history's "forgotten lives. "

[@ForgottenLives]

I'm very glad you enjoyed it, thanks! And yes, I put his image there as I was talking about Peter Cooper Hewitts family and his grandfather !

[@randocalrissian347]

What a horrific and interesting story. I would hypothesize her mother had a mood disorder or dealt with Narcissistic Personality Disorder and thought of her daughter only as an extension of herself, something she owned, not an autonomous, independent human. I imagine the emotional manipulation was intense, and so was the guilt which I’m sure is why she “couldn’t” send her to prison.

[@squirrellyswirl]

The mother was an alcoholic and gambler, and the father knew that’s the woman he gotten in deep with but he married her because he wanted to leave his legacy to his only child. Marion’s greedy motivations was due to her lifelong bad habits that went along with being a social climber- all that partying of gambling and alcoholism eventually caught up to Marion and that’s why she died broke. Marion died alone because of what she did to her daughter and only saw her daughter as a meal ticket. Ann was merciful to not testify against her mother, but Ann also was completely alienated from Marion. So while Ann didn’t want to cause more strain on her mother, she also didn’t forgive and alleviate any of the destruction her mother caused, either. Most of the time, when you leave people to their own devices, you realize they’re perfectly capable of ruining their own lives and that is punishment enough. I think as outsiders, we’re rooting for justice to the wronged party, but Ann must have known all her life and didn’t dilute herself into believing her mother was something she wasn’t. Ann did the right thing to step aside and in time, let Marion destroy her life like she destroyed everything else. Ann was determined to live a full and happy life based on what she could control, despite what her mother did to her, and I think Ann won. She didn’t want to suffer major psychological repercussions of causing any harm to her mother and I think she was right to not pursue further legal recourse. What’s tragic was Ann had a very short life, but that was due to natural causes of cancer and not by anyone else.

[@francesbernard2445]

What about Dr. Tillman? Could he have been a psychopath instead?

[@SewardWriter]

What a monstrous excuse for a parent.

[@toniremer1594]

That’s an EVIL mother, and she died getting a bit of Karma dished to her; she died alone, penniless, and in, what is now called, a single room occupancy. I used to live in one about 30 years ago. To be honest, Ann had a pretty awful mother, and Karma made sure that she, along with those doctors, were sued. It’s a shame that Ann just couldn’t bring herself to follow through with the trial for her mother. May Ann be resting peacefully in her eternal slumber.

[@belindapaul9828]

All that & Ann still refused to testify against her in court.

[@thewitt55]

I have been a fan of your history videos for a couple of years. I was pleasantly surprised to see this video on Ann Cooper Hewitt. Her father Peter Cooper Hewitt is a distant cousin of mine. Having done much of my family's genealogy I first encountered records of Ann's mother about 40 years ago. I had thought about writing a book on Marion and Ann but am not a writer. Have you seen the book "The Unfit Heiress" by Audrey Clare Farley? It is an excellent book about Ann and Marion's contentious relationship. Tim Hewitt

[@ForgottenLives]

Very interesting, and yes, the historian I worked with for this video used that as one of his sources!

[@anjachan]

Im glad her mother had nothing in the end. poor Ann deserved a longer live.

[@bobbysenterprises3220]

As of 2008 the US banned selling of new mercury vapor fixtures. However metal halide lamps are based on the same princesbke and are still in use. Still conmon in outdoor lighting and in some cars. Ive been seeing them quicky be rellaced with leds in the past decade

[@JBrodo]

Thanks for this, I thought the same thing 😅

[@ELKE-]

I am here, of course! It's 1am but sleep can wait. Thank you for the great work you provided for us. Enjoying my listening now

[@ForgottenLives]

Enjoy!

[@ELKE-]

@@ForgottenLives I did! Thank you

[@arfriedman4577]

This was awful that her mother did that to her daughter.

[@georginaellison6280]

Dear FL, I've watched ur vids for years, as u have done some wonderful research and coverage on fascinating women!! Keep up the great work, I look forward to seeing more.❤👍

[@ForgottenLives]

Thanks for the great support!!!

[@tracylalonde4972]

How does someone have power over someone else's body? That's crazy.

[@williamparker7025]

They still do today. Anywhere abortion is illegal. Forcing someone to carry a baby is worse than sterilizing them

[@ZolaClyde]

Unfortunately, we have an assload of Republicans (here in the US) who now have that kind of power over women’s bodies - not sterilization, but forced birth. Incest? Rape? That’s no excuse! A fetus with no chance of life outside the womb? Let the woman’s womb become a tomb. No problem according to the clueless idiots who overturned Roe v Wade. (Can you imagine the psychological damage?) And the forced sterilization of Black women didn’t end until the mid-seventies.

[@toriladybird511]

America does in many states and is giddy with joy that women no longer have autonomy.

[@elenalatici9568]

Don't you know what's going on in the United States regarding women's autonomy over their bodies? They don't have it anymore. Hopefully that will change in the 2024 election.

[@averycheesypotato]

It still goes on today in different forms. There’s always some mixed in with current celebrity gossip, just like it was back then. Conservatorships abused, parents stealing money from child stars, etc. Permanent sterilization might have fallen out of favour, but someone can still be made to take birth control or be denied it

[@bennymoreira1443]

The mother was a classic narcissist.

[@nancycurtis7315]

Thank you. Greetings from Dimboola in Victoria, Australia.

[@ForgottenLives]

Welcome!

[@OneBentMonkey]

I’m not sure why, but I love hearing of women of this era marrying so many times. You know it had to be viewed as absolutely scandalous. The fact that Ann clearly married for love or whimsy and not for money makes her that much more colorful. To be so victimized by her malignant narcissist of a mother is just beyond tragic.

[@13lilsykos]

I love hearing about it as well. But for me, it's more of a contradiction to people who say divorce never happened by then. 😂 My grandma, who was born in 1933, said divorce never happened and I'm "nuh uh"... of course I was smart enough to not disagree with her like that, to her face.

[@averycheesypotato]

@@13lilsykos It likely depended more on social status. Middle & working class individuals wouldn’t have had the resources or support to do so. But a wealthy socialite would have had the means, and the fact that her husbands did not come from wealth probably helped further still. Either way, divorce is not the great evil it is painted to be

[@beastshawnee]

@@13lilsykos On her level of society, divorce probably was extremely rare. But the rich and famous they could divorce it’s always about the money huh? But small town America it was definitely not the thing to do.

[@mylamberfeeties875]

​@@averycheesypotatoit depended on how badly a person was treated AND how the community viewed it. My great grandmother divorced her abusive husband and the entire community looked after her. Langlois Oregon Hazel Hofsess. FYI that was the 20s.

[@mylamberfeeties875]

​@@beastshawneenot true

[@deecooper1567]

Ironic how money changes people. So very sad 😢👵🏻👩‍🌾❣️

[@frijofroisdeern3783]

Money doesn't Change people. Power doesn't Change people. It dismantles their true self to the outside more visibly. Plenty of people are selfish with their siblings. Ignorant to their coworkers. Lickspittle manipulating their bosses to Climb the ladder. Abusive to their children. Illoyal to their friends. Unfaithful with their Partners, greedy with their peers. Exploitative of their parents. They used people all the time. But it only shows after you outlived use for them and they dropped you, betrayed you. Only after they made it high up....the pile of people they wronged increased visibly enough for people to exclaim: He changed.

[@frijofroisdeern3783]

Money doesn't Change people. Power doesn't Change people. It dismantles their true self to the outside more visibly. Plenty of people are selfish with their siblings. Ignorant to their coworkers. Lickspittle manipulating their bosses to Climb the ladder. Abusive to their children. Illoyal to their friends. Unfaithful with their Partners, greedy with their peers. Exploitative of their parents. They used people all the time. But it only shows after you outlived use for them and they dropped you, betrayed you. Only after they made it high up....the pile of people they wronged increased visibly enough for people to exclaim: He changed.

[@stephanebelizaire3627]

Very Instructive, Bravo !

[@ForgottenLives]

Many thanks!

[@amyferguson8856]

Very well done video.

[@ForgottenLives]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@bubblelemodrop3]

Another fantastic video, FL!!!

[@ForgottenLives]

Thanks again!

[@Eleanoraaaaa]

Damn, and I thought I had mommy issues.

[@zero_bs_tolerance8646]

Thank you, FL.

[@ForgottenLives]

Thanks for the amazing support ❤️

[@Codehead3]

Tragic tale!

[@blazefairchild465]

Such an evil greedy mother. And poor Ann she had her share of husbands too , what a wild life ,I wonder I hope she found some happiness and at least she was able to be happy.

[@juliapalmer2344]

I just downloaded a book about Ann Cooper Hewitt on Kindle to read. I read the description and thought it would be fascinating.

[@sta333sim]

Sad life having a evil greedy mother,making bad choices of husbands.never had a chance at happiness.😔😪

[@squiggleworks9]

Ann doesn’t look at all like her mom. She actually looks a bit mixed race. I wonder if someone else was her birth mother

[@lovelymix8056]

Or her father? 😒 she looks black and white biracial

[@cadillacdeville5828]

Good evening and thank you for the video ☺️

[@ForgottenLives]

You’re welcome 😊

[@cruisepaige]

I have watched you grow, and you are doing so great!!!

[@ForgottenLives]

Thanks very much 😀

[@ratso4443]

I’d love you to cover the sad life of Diana Barrymore.

[@ZolaClyde]

Ooh! Good idea.

[@ForgottenLives]

I will look into her!!

[@ZolaClyde]

@@ForgottenLives Thank you!😊

[@sta333sim]

SAd life a greedy evil mother and horrible husband.she did not have a chance at happiness.😪🤥

[@aariley2]

How sad.

[@kellyburgess671]

so tragic

[@baliyae]

Her mother was a monster.

[@richardnieuwhof2028]

So well researched! What a mother...

[@ForgottenLives]

Thanks!

[@renatatarnawski5974]

Mercury vapor lamp? Those who used them often I'm sure was a little bit Touched! Anybody who used 2 be close 2 Mercury like hatmakers Went insane MAD HATTERS

[@h.j.hatcher6265]

I enjoy all your content it’s always done with the greatest respect on every subject and your voice makes it so easy to cozy up and relax to thank you ☺️

[@ForgottenLives]

Thank you so much 😊

[@2anthro]

Our mother tried to have my younger sister sterilized. I could never understand that.

[@oooh19]

Yea did she not want grandchildren?

[@jotann6430]

🙏🏼YOU, my friend, are TRULY AWAKENED 🙏🏼

[@ChildfreeMatto]

Thank you, Forgotten Lives for another spectacular and interesting video. It's always a pleasure listening to each upload. 😊

[@ForgottenLives]

So nice of you!!

[@jenniferlonnes7420]

Ann could've adopted children. Idk if there was a stupulation that her children had to be naturally born to her in order for her to recieve her inheritance or not.

[@pennylockhart9553]

The love of money is the root of all evil

[@samcrawley3839]

Hi so I just looked up what she died from according to her death certificate and it sounds more like leptospirosis aka weils disease xxx

[@h0rriphic]

It’s wild to me how little agency women have over our own bodies. I have been trying to _be sterilized_ for years and years - and bc drs are certain I will “change my mind” I cannot find any surgeon willing to perform a tubal ligation on me…their excuse in addition not believing I have the ability to make my own decisions (yet doctors are willing to mutilate and sterilize people who “feel” like they were born in the wrong body) because I “haven’t had any children yet.” Biiitch I don’t Want to. I have a slew of extremely valid medical reasons why- but if the sole reason was that I simply didn’t want to have children- that should absolutely be enough. I am an independently diagnosed schizophrenic, by several different psychiatrists from totally unaffiliated practices, over many years and locations, autism runs heavily in my family- on Both sides, I have an extremely rare autoimmune disorder that will eventually kill me if I don’t throw in the towel first, and I’ve struggled with a gnarly heroin addiction since I was a teenager. Ive been stable on methadone for almost four years now, which I never thought possible, but still- I am forever opiate dependent as my body doesn’t naturally make them like most people. I’m extremely messed up and would never willingly pass this genetic cesspool onto another innocent generation. I know what it’s like to grow up not having my basic needs met- I would never wish nor willingly contribute to recreating that hell for another child, born of my body or otherwise. Parenting is such a huge and important responsibility. I’m simply not cut out for it. It kills me to see people who are able and willing denied that experience while those of us that are unable and/or unwilling are manipulated and forced into parenthood.

[@Imlastudios]

Greed is scary

[@britpoppansy]

I tend to wonder if this "invention" of his was actually already around before and he claimed it and patented it. Truthers will get where I'm going with this.

[@ForgottenLives]

I believe he made big improvements to prior versions, so it was deemed an invention

[@miaw.5819]

Such a violent betrayal. 😢

[@Nancy-px7hn]

Cruelty which knew no bounds.

[@marybedward9381]

The affairs and children all over the place these poor children 😢

[@lucysimons653]

These are amazing stories, where do you find them?

[@BrianJosephMorgan]

Both sad and fascinating.

[@alexmiles40]

24,000 hours is 1,000 days.

[@LaurieValdez-zk3dy]

Her mother after her money Too Sad 😢

[@wildwaning9427]

"She was the product of an extra-marital affair." We can clearly see that. 🤔

[@ImmortalChaos]

Pure nightmare fuel. Awful mother, ended her own bloodline. Ann seemed like a lovely young woman.

[@moondancer4660]

Great video ❤

[@kimsherlock8969]

Thankyou quality viewing 🎉 Poor rich girl. Money Money Money Is Not Funny in a Rich humans World ....ABBA......esque.😊

[@Tempe1962]

The mother should have been sent to prison.But she had a fitting miserable end.

[@Curlyblonde]

Sadly this story is common in many families. Despite people's public facade and standing in society, when it comes to Inheritance Time, the Devil emerges without restraint.

[@jbills3000]

Thank you!

[@ForgottenLives]

You're welcome!

[@m.f.richardson1602]

Always interesting Thank you

[@ForgottenLives]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@jhamaul-antoinegreatness1529]

Bless You, very good story. ✨

[@ForgottenLives]

Thank you! 😊

[@cadillacdeville5828]

I bet her last husband remarried SOON after.

[@jabbermocky4520]

Wow. Ann must have been a model for one of Clare Boothe Luce's characters in her stage play "The Women" ( 1936 ) . The film version starred Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford and Paulette Goddard among many other 1930s starlets and female stars. The mother! OMG. More of a true monster than Luce could conjure for her high society/reality based caricatures in "The Women'.

[@Ug1i]

Can you do Jean du barry

[@ForgottenLives]

I already have 3 years ago! kzbin.info/www/bejne/ioKropRnmJ2Agtksi=zLTfftOrJ1dJVUxI

[@Ug1i]

@@ForgottenLives awesome, I was looking for that, somehow, couldn’t find it. Thank you!

[@yeseniah7373]

Rodeo Roy died the next year, in 1957, and he left the money (whatever was left), to his daughter Marilyn Ann.

[@maryroberts9315]

How can so many men fall for that evil woman?

[@jaynesegman7847]

Why do so many women fall for the ‘bad guy’ could also be asked.

[@karawilliamson106]

🥺💔

[@edw8889]

What a horrid story

[@ohmightywez]

Unusual accent. I’ve been trying to place it but I’m hearing too many different influence.

[@joanhamilton2651]

Talk about evil!

[@seanbela2847]

This was a double atrocity; she cut off her ex-husband’s lineage forever and attempted to steal her daughter’s estate… what an ugly soul.

[@yoyoclodie]

I hate when spoiler comments are top of the list when watching these videos.

[@hilareebrand]

So interesting!

[@ForgottenLives]

Glad you think so!

[@LatoyaRamnarine-p9q]

Thing evil mom would do for money

[@anastasia10017]

those eyebrows though.....

[@cheetavontiebolt9971]

Violation of human rights

[@noorgonzalez1076]

Poor sisterwoman😢😮

[@WVgrl59]

Waiting 4 days to have an appendectomy should make you suspicious. 😊

[@AmandaBowe-be6vd]

Why did the mother die in poverty when she had so much money?

[@KittynFranky7643]

She partied too much. Remember in the video she married a few more times and soon ran out of money. I'm checking it out again.😅 It's on 7:30 onwards

[@averycheesypotato]

Alcoholism + gambling

[@deechapman4474]

She should have left her fortune to charity

[@marthaperdew]

The mother was a controlling narcissist and a witch

[@marthaperdew]

My mom was the same way

[@user-dt9qc5uv2m]

Reminds me of Joe Kennedy lobotomizing his daughter Rosemary

[@ForgottenLives]

I have covered that too, very sad

[@you2angel1]

Wow the painting of Lucy is fantastic! Many of the clips are admirable good job! °~•.☆.•~° Ghastly story but not unthinkable.

[@you2angel1]

Oh and good job explaining the engineering behind the Mercury vapor lamp 🤙🏼

[@EmilyLavinder-lv1bb]

Greed is the root of all evil.

[@safiremorningstar]

Your young woman that she had a appendicitis and then sterilizing her was not an uncommon practice in fact it was still being used up to the 1970s.

[@campfamily63]

The erratic behavior could have been from mercury exposure.

[@graceyoung3771]

She probably died from lack of hormone replacement from the surgery her mother had her undergo which caused her cancer.