! (1) The Oakland Post-Enquirer, Oakland, CA, 1 Sep 1925, p4. Obituary of Mrs. George W. Bunnell (mother).
(2) Adelina Alice Hodgkin Davidson, granddaughter.
(3) Death certificate, CA #46-033858. Informant Alice Elliot Hodgkin, daughter.
(4) Mountain View Cemetery Assn., Ledger 11/1483 B.
(5) Supplemental Report of Birth for Albert H. Elliot Jr. (son), Oakland, Alameda Co., CA, 4 Jun 1902.
(6) Return of Birth for Albert H. Elliot Jr. (son), Oakland, Alameda Co., CA, from the Office of the County Recorder, Alameda Co. Courthouse, 12th & Fallon St., Oakland, CA 94612, record no. 487.
(7) Marriage License, Contra Costa Co., CA, #41, 9 Jun 1894.
(8) Marriage Certificate, Contra Costa Co., CA, recorded 12 Jun 1894.
(9) 1880 census, Oakland, Alameda Co., CA, ED 7, sheet 4. FHL #1,254,061. Household of E.F. Bunnell.
(10) Probate record of father George W. Bunnell, Superior Court of Alameda Co., CA #38370.
(11) Husted's Oakland City Directory. (a) 1 Jan 1894, p.422. FHL #1,000,836. (b) 1899, p.176. FHL #1,000,838. (c) 1 Dec 1892, p.133. FHL #1,000,836.

! Birth: (3) 7 Dec 1868, Fruitvale, Alameda Co., CA. (7,8) Age 24 on 9 Jun 1894 (b. 1870). (9) Age 11 in 1880 (b. 1869), CA. d/o G.W. and Allice BUNNELL.
Marriage to Albert H. ELLIOT: (1,2,3) (7,8) 9 Jun 1894, Contra Costa Co., CA. (8) Martinez, CA, by Eugene W. STODDARD, Pastor, Congregational Church.
Death: (3) 15 May 1946, at her home 540 29th St., Oakland, Alameda Co., CA, 1:41 p.m., of pneumonia, 1 week, due to congestive heart failure, 2 weeks.
Burial: (4) 25 May 1946, Mountain View Crematory, Oakland, Alameda Co., CA. (3) 16 May 1946, cremated at Mt. View Crematory, Albert Brown Undertaking Co., Oakland, CA, funeral directors.

(9) 1880, 1 Jun: Adaline BUNNELL, age 11, b. CA, occupation "at home", living in household of grandparents E.T. and A.W. BUNNELL, 2nd ward, Oakland, Alameda Co., CA, with parents G. W. and Allice BUNNELL and siblings Woodbury, Edwin H., and George BUNNELL.
(11c) 1892: Student, residence 1955 Telegraph Ave., Oakland, CA, with Mrs. E.F., Geo. W., and Geo. W. Jr. BUNNELL.
(11a) 1893: Miss Adelina BUNNELL, residence 1955 Telegraph Ave., Oakland, CA, with Geo. W., Mrs. A.W., Edwin, Geo. W. Jr., and Woodbury BUNNELL.
(7,8) 1894, 9 Jun: Residence was Oakland, CA.
(11b) 1899: Mrs. Adelina ELLIOTT, residence 1305 Telegraph Ave., Oakland, CA, with Albert H. ELLIOT, Mrs. Alice BUNNELL, and Geo. W. BUNNELL.
(5,6) 1902, 4 Jun: Was living at 1305 Telegraph Ave., Oakland, CA. Her son Albert was born at 540 29th St., Oakland, on that day.
(1) 1925, 1 Sep: Living in Oakland, CA.
(10) 1926, 12 Jan: Living at 2901 Telegraph Ave., Oakland, CA. This had been her parents' home, which her father left her in his will. She also inherited various bonds, total value of inheritance $188,747.51, less tax of $8,862.32.
(2) Her grandchildren called her Mamee'.
(2) Was the first woman to ride astride in the Bay area. Men would stand outside and hoot at her. Was the first, or one of very few, to own an automobile in the Bay Area. She was asked to drive Admiral somebody in a ticker tape parade in San Francisco. "Mamee always looked so lost & bewildered & almost angry in her pictures holding babies (Uncle Bill, in this case). This amazes me, as I doted on her & always remember her as a gay, sociable, & MOST self-sufficient person."
(3) 1946, May: Residence at death was 540 29th St., Oakland, CA.


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1. 2. Alice Bunnell "Honey" ELLIOT   b. 19 Oct 1895, Oakland, Alameda Co., California; d. 25 May 1965, Altadena, Los Angeles Co., California; bur. 27 May 1965.
2. 3. Albert Howell "Bill" ELLIOT, Jr.   b. 4 Jun 1902, Oakland, Alameda Co., California; d. 28 Aug 1965, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara Co., California; bur. 30 Aug 1965, Santa Barbara Crematorium, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara Co., California.

! (1) Source unknown, from a book on Biographies, "Greater Oakland, 1911", biography of Albert H. Elliot (father), p.392.
(2) Personal knowledge of Adelina Alice Hodgkin Davidson, McGill, NV (daughter).
(3) Death certificate, CA 65-063789, informant George B. Hodgkin Jr. (son).
(4) Marriage certificate, Santa Cruz Co., CA 20-042597.
(5) Birth record of son George Barclay Hodgkin, Jr., CA 1904-1001.
(6) Handwritten notes in George Barclay Hodgkin's Hodgkin Pedigree Book, p.33. (Book was used as family Bible for recording family data.)
(7) Personal knowledge of compiler.
(8) Probate of grandfather George W. Bunnell, Superior Court of CA, Alameda Co., #38370.

! Birth: (1) Age 15 in 1911 (b. 1896). (2,3,6) 19 Oct 1895, CA. (2,5,7) Oakland, Alameda Co., CA. (4) Age 24 on 26 Dec 1919 (b. 1895), b. CA.
Marriage to George Barclay Hodgkin: (2,4,6) 26 Dec 1919. (4) Mount Harmon, Santa Cruz Co., CA, by W.R.H. Hodgkin, husband's brother. (NOTE: Should be Mount Herman.)
Death: (2,3,6) 25 May 1965. (2,3,7) At home at 2534 Ganesha Ave., Altadena, CA, from rheumatoid arthritis. (3) Immediate cause generalized arthritis due to rheumatoid arthritis, 9:20 p.m.
Burial: (3) Cremated 27 May 1965, Live Oak Memorial Park Crematory, Funeral Director Turner & Stevens Co., Pasadena, CA. (NOTE: Live Oak Memorial Park, 200 E. Duarte Rd., Monrovia, CA.)

(2) 1906, Apr: Was at Mount Herman, Santa Cruz Co., CA at the time of the San Francisco earthquake.
(1) 1911: At 15, "exhibited marked dramatic ability some time ago when she took the leading part in "Miss Somebody of Somewhere," which play was given under the auspices of the Oakland Club and prominent society people."
(4) 1919, 26 Dec: Living in Los Angeles, CA. Occupation, actress.
(2) Performed at the Pasadena Playhouse Theater at one time. Was in some silent movies, including "Sundown Trail." Received a fan letter from South America.
(5) 1923, 4 Nov: Living at Clover Crest, Monrovia, Los Angeles Co., CA.
(8) 1926, 12 Jan: Living at 2768 Ganesha St., Altadena, CA. Inherited a Life Estate Trust fund of $20,000, income from which was payable monthly, from her grandfather George Woodbury Bunnell.
(2,7) She was a small woman, with size 2 shoes. She always kept various exotic birds in a cage in the kitchen as pets, and she would talk to them whenever she was in the kitchen.
(2,7) She began to be crippled with rheumatoid arthritis at about age 35. As the disease progressed, it became more and more difficult for her to perform any physical activity, but she was determined that she should not be bedridden. Handles were installed throughout the house so that she would be able to move about on her own. At one point, she fell and broke her hip, and the doctors told her she would never walk again, but she was determined that she would, and she did, with assistance. When she fell and broke her hip a second time, it became almost impossible for her to walk, and she spent more and more of her day in bed. She was given cortisone to take, and it made her skin extremely sensitive, so that it would turn black and blue if bruised even slightly. When at last it became too painful for her to rise from her bed, the end was near. Despite her pain, she was always a very loving grandmother, and her courage was an inspiration.


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1. 4. Adelina Alice "Gub" HODGKIN   b. 1 Feb 1927, Pasadena, Los Angeles Co., California; c. 23 May 1953, Fallbrook, San Diego Co., California; d. 10 Jun 2004, Duck Creek, White Pine Co., Nevada; bur. 3 Nov 2004, Ely City Cemetery, Ely, White Pine Co., Nevada.

! (1) Supplemental report of birth, Oakland, Alameda Co., CA, signed by mother Adelina B. Elliot.
(2) Birth record, Vital Registration Section, Alameda Co. Public Health Service, Oakland, CA, No. 487.
(3) Marriage record information extracted by Office of the Registrar General, Ministry of Consumer and Commercial Relations, Ontario, Canada, Registration No. 1927-05-024961.
(4) Death certificate, CA, 65-088669, Vol. 63, p.126.
(5) Death certificate of father Albert H. Elliot, No. 196, 430-E 3177, Oakland, Alameda Co., CA, on which Dr. Albert H. Elliot was informant.
(6) Personal knowledge of Adelina Hodgkin Davidson, Steptoe Ranch, McGill, NV, niece.
(7) Marriage certificate, State Index No. 2913, Local Reg. No. 317, 38-954575, Santa Barbara Co., CA.
(8) Robin Shepard Thorne, P.O. Box 292521, Sacramento, CA 95829 (1997).

! Birth: (1,2,4) 4 Jun 1902, Oakland, Alameda Co., CA, s/o Albert H. Elliot/ Adelina Bunnell. (1) b. at 540 29th St. in Oakland. (3) Age 25 in Jul 1927 (b. 1902), b. CA.
Marriage to Dana Isabella North: (3) 26 Jul 1927, Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada, by C. P. Murhead.
Marriage to Adelaide Leighton Salter: (7) 4 Jun 1938, Santa Barbara, CA, by Royce H. ?, Rector Trinity Church.
Death: (4) 28 Aug 1965, Valley Hospital, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara Co., CA, 4:55 PM, from acute liver failure due to chronic hepatic insufficiency which had lasted for 3 years.
Burial: (4) Cremated 30 Aug 1965, Santa Barbara Crematorium. Funeral Director, Welch-Ryce Associates. (8) Oakland, CA with his father.

(3) 1927, 16 Jul: Religious denomination listed as Unitarian.
(6) Adelina Hodgkin Davidson called him Uncle Bill.
(5,6,7,8) Was a physician. (4) Medical doctor, internal medicine.
(7) 1938, 4 Jun: Living at 102 Barranes Ave., Santa Barbara, CA.
(5) 1940, 18 Jan: Was living at 288 Elstay St., Santa Barbara, CA.
(4) 1965, 28 Aug: Residence was 4280 Calle Real, Santa Barbara, CA.
(8) Had his license to practice medicine revoked and was fired from Cottage Hospital for operating drunk or because he was doing experiments with drugs on himself.


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1. 5. Dana Vienne "Bambi" ELLIOT   b. 1 Feb 1929, , San Francisco Co., California; d. 24 Sep 1987, San Jose, Santa Clara Co., California.
2. 6. Stephen Eugene "Steve" ELLIOT   b. 13 May 1930, , San Francisco Co., California; d. 29 Aug 1984, West Covina, Los Angeles Co., California.
3. 7. Shelby North "Tokie" ELLIOT   b. 15 Feb 1935, , San Francisco Co., California; d. 23 Jan 1988, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara Co., California.

! (1) Birth certificate.
(2) Baptismal certificate.
(3) Marriage certificate.
(4) Adelina Hodgkin Davidson, Steptoe Ranch, McGill, NV.
(5) Account in unknown Washington, D.C. newspaper of wedding of Judith Ament Davidson/Maj. Anthony Walker (sister-in-law, m. 12 Apr 1947, Washington D.C.)
(6) Confirmation certificate.
(7) Wedding reception invitation.
(8) Account of Wedding in "Pasadena Star News," Pasadena, CA, Sun. 3 Nov 1946, p.27.
(9) Student's Record, Pomona College, Claremont, CA.
(10) Unknown Chicago, IL newspaper containing photographs of Pomona College.
(11) A. Christine Davidson Kraft (daughter, compiler).
(12) Account of wedding in "The Altadenan," Altadena, CA, Thurs., 31 Oct 1946, p.7.
(13) Alice A. Davidson Gedge (daughter), Riverton, UT.
(14) Death certificate 252350 issued by Nevada Department of Human Resources, Division of Health, Section of Vital Statistics, 29 Jun 2004. Informant William G. Davidson, McGill, NV.

! Birth: (1,2,4,11,14) 1 Feb 1927. (1,2,4,11) Pasadena, CA.
Baptism: (2) 23 May 1953, St. John's Episcopal Church, Fallbrook, San Diego Co., CA, by her uncle, Rev. W.R.H. Hodgkin, with her 2 daughters Alice and Christine. Sponsors Marjorie E. Wetzel, Burt L. Wetzel, William G. Davidson.
Marriage to William G Davidson: (3,4,7,8,11,12) 27 Oct 1946, Altadena, Los Angeles Co., CA. (3,4,11,12) By her uncle, Rev. W.R.H. Hodgkin. (4,7,8,11,12) At home of her parents, 2534 Ganesha Ave., 4:00 PM, Sun. (4,8,12) Everything was in pink, even her wedding dress and cake. Maid of Honor was Christine Kayser. Matron of Honor was Patricia H. Hodgkin. Best Man was Milton Petersen. (4,12) She wore a pale pink net gown. Married in front of the fireplace in the living room, which was decorated with pink chrysanthemums and gladiolus. Her bouquet was pink roses and bovardia. Chris Kayser & Patti Hodgkin carried pink carnations. Sylvia Sia played the music. (14)
Death: (11,14) 10 Jun 2004, at her home on Kalamazoo Road, Duck Creek, White Pine Co., NV. (11) Suffered from Alzheimer's disease. Had recently been placed on new medication, Namenda, and had receiving full dosage for 3 days. Husband was hopeful new medication was helping, and had had a good morning of discussion with her. He left the house to water a neighbor's flowers and tend to a few chores outside. When he re-entered the house, he found her dead on the floor. She had apparently died suddenly right after he left the house. No autopsy was ordered. (14) Cardiac arrest due to dementia, Alzheimer's type.
Burial: (11) Arrangements made by Mountain Vista Chapel, 450 Mill St., Ely, NV. Remains cremated. Burial of ashes 3 Nov 2004 by her husband in Ely City Cemetery, 501 Mill St., Ely, White Pine Co., NV. Memorial service among family 5 Nov 2004 at graveside.

(4) Known as "Gub" by the family. Her brother gave her the nickname "Gooby", which the family later converted to "Gub."
(4) Had a nurse named Ottie while young.
(4) Had a crush on her Uncle Phil, her father's younger brother, when she was quite small. During one visit, he informed her mother that Adelina should have her tonsils out. After they were taken out, the family went to visit a man named Ray FRITT in Berkeley, CA, who was the brother of a very dear family friend, Gladys SHEPHARD. Adelina mistook Ray for her Uncle Phil. "This man very nicely picked me up on his knee, and all I did the whole time I was visiting him was sit on his knee with my mouth wide open to show him that my tonsils had been removed."
(4) She adored her grandfather ELLIOT, whom she called "Papa". She called her grandmother Elliot "Mamee." "I'd hear that Mamee and Papa were going to come visit, and I can just remember standing by the front door and standing by the front windows for hours, saying, 'When are they coming? When are they coming?'" Her granfather ELLIOT loved to listen to operas. "He would look at me at the dinner table, and he'd say, 'Someday you will sing Carmen with a rose behind your ear.' He had me pegged as an opera singer... We sometimes went with him (from his home iat 'The Acre' in Oakland, CA to work in San Francisco) when we were up there in the summer. I remember we watched them building the Bay Bridge. That's when the ferries were still running. And then sometimes when we were up there in the summer we would go to the city, and the ladies, my mother and grandmother, would get all dressed up in their gloves and their hats. And it was cold in San Francisco. The fog would be there in the summer. I had a plaid, pleated skirt I was made to wear. But we'd go over and we would drive across the bridge, my grandmother at the wheel, and we would pick up my grandfather at his office, and we'd go to lunch at a place called the Mona Lisa. I always had salmon. And we would do the things - we would go to the zoo, and we would ride the merry-go-round. ... And then we would drive out sometimes in the fields and we'd go along the wharf and look at the boats. And that was always the thing I liked best, would you believe?... These weren't yachts or pleasure boats. These were the working ships on the wharf, and I got a big kick out of that for some reason."
(4) Many houses in CA, especially in Berkeley and San Francisco, were on the sides of hills. "As a child I imagined that all these houses had floors that matched the hillside, an incline. So my recurrent nightmare was being in one of these things and rolling down the floor. That's because, partly, when my grandmother would go to San Francisco, as we often would do, there would be a big discussion about parking this big car on the hill. There were lots of hills, and I suppose my grandfather was very upset about it rolling. To this day I am terrified of hills in San Francisco. Going down a hill at speed just terrifies me."
(4) "When I was a smallish child, there was a movie of the "Mikado" around, and I can't count how many times I saw that." (11) She loved all Gilbert & Sullivan operettas, but especially "The Mikado", partly because it was also her grandfather ELLIOT's favorite, and partly because her mother had sung the part of "Pitti-Sing" on stage.
(4) "I remember Bod teaching me the alphabet and shepherding me around. It was sweet then. I still take his criticism very seriously. It isn't sweet now... He was all the older brother, and he taught me my alphabet and everything, and he was a wonderful companion when I was little. We shared cribs in the same room and we talked all hours. I mean, he was very important in my life."
(4) She wanted to be a boy, and was told she couldn't be one. So then she wanted to be a sailor, then a cowboy when a relative in the Bay area gave her a horseback ride. If she could have had her way, she would have become a horse, and used to lie in bed, imagining hard that she was turning into one.
(4) 1932, 22 Sep: When she was in kindergarten, their house burned down. Her grandparents on her mother's side were visiting, "My brother and I, Barclay and I, had smelled gas when we went to bed, and nobody paid any attention. The furnace had ignited the gas that had leaked up in the walls. ... This was about 1 or 2 in the moening. Everybody would have been burned if it had happened earlier. The furnace blew up, and the floor came up in a big cone, and blew a grand piano out the front door and across the street. The neighbors all turned over in bed, and said, 'Oh, the HODGKINs are brewing again.' It was during the Depression. Then the front page of the 'L.A. Times' had an article about this. It was on the big center of the front page, and on the side in a little column, it said, 'Franklin Delano ROOSEVELT Visits California.' My father pulled me out of bed, I know, and carried me down the stairs, in smoke and flames." She remembers being carried down the stairs as an oil painting above her was eaten by the flames.
(4) After the fire, the family moved down the street to the LUDLOW house.
(4) At the time of the Long Beach earthquake, "Grandma (her mother) and Barclay and I were riding along in an automobile. This was shortly after the fire. And the people were standing out in the street looking at the sky. And Grandma wondered why, what was going on? Here it was an earthquake and they were all standing out looking at the sky. We didn't feel it because we were in a car."
(4) 1937, 16 May: The family was still living in the LUDLOW house. "I can recall that my grandparents were down there in Altadena when a phone call came, and Aunt Dana had killed herself. ... So I recall we all packed up, at least my mother and Barclay and I, and went up to Santa Barbara where Uncle Bill was living in a house out on the cliff, to keep him company that summer. We stayed, Bod and I, in kind of a little guest room place. It was in the 100's... it was a very hot summer, and I remember it was a very miserable summer."
(4) Her father would take her hiking and riding. "Every morning he'd get up early, and he'd go for a hike up in the foothills... He used to take me hiking on Sundays... He spanked me just once... I went in a muddy hole out in the lot, as I remember. I think he was upset about other things."
(4) She was given a horse and rode it often in the foothills above Pasadena, CA.
(4) Attended Eliot Junior High School in Altadena, CA.
(4) "Webster's Pharmacy in Altadena was my home away from home, the drug store fountain where you had ice cream sundaes and hamburgers and things. I knew the pharmacist all my life."
(4,8) Graduated from Flintridge-Anoakia School for Girls, Pasadena, CA. (9) Entered Pomona College from Flintridge School, Arcadia, CA. (4) Her mother's cousin taught English at Anoakia, and Adelina went there on scholarship. The other girls that attended were mostly from wealthier families. She was editor of the yearbook while there.
(9) 1944, 8 Aug: Enrolled at Pomona College, Claremont, CA. Attended through the spring semester, 1946, with a 3.65 grade point average. (4) Studied Spanish at Pomona.
(10) ca. 1945/6: Was attendant to the Sage Vet's Carnival queen at Pomona College. (4) Her father, while on a business trip in Chicago, was reading the morning paper and saw her picture in it as the queen's attendant.
(4) 1946, Mar/Apr: While at Pomona, Adelina dated a man named Gordon who had been a captain in the infantry in World War II, and had returned to Pomona to finish college before going to medical school. He was several years older than she was. "He was rather a shy, nice young man. ... He was kind of a homely guy, but I liked him. He had suggested that I join a group over Easter skiing, and I'd never been skiing, but they were to go someplace. I don't know whether it was chaperoned or not. I mean, it was not an indecent thing, but it was a nice group of people. But anyway, it seems to me this was called off for some reason. Snow melted or something. So Aunt Violet had extended an invitation to come to Madera and meet her captain (Bill DAVIDSON). ... So I sent up to Madera. I got on the train. I think Gordon drove me to the train. ... I was kind of disappointed at the ski trip being called off, so I just picked Madera as a second choice. ... I guess (Aunt Violet MORDECAI) invited her captain to dinner the first night. I was only there for three days, if I remember. And he came to dinner, and he talked a lot. ... And then she'd arranged to have us go skiing, and I'd never been on skis before or since. Terrified going downhill. ... It's the last thing in the world I would ever do. ... This was up in Yosemite. ... we went back to her house for dinner, and she was very nervous, and seems to me she put the enchiladas in the freezer and the ice cream in the oven, or something. But we had dinner there, and then he was to take me to the train, I think the next day, and I remember there was some scramble about getting home. I couldn't get all the way home. There was a strike, or I don't know what had happened, so I think I got part way, and Grandpa (her father) had to meet me in someplace or other. Eventually I got back."
(4) 1946, Jun: "I went back again (to Aunt Violet MORDECAI's) in the summer. Grandma (her mother) didn't want me to go up and bother Aunt Violet again, but I headed straight back the minute school was out. June. And it wasn't but a couple of days after that that we (Adelina and Bill DAVIDSON) announced our engagement, and I remember calling Altadena (her parents' home) and getting my mother after I'd been there only a couple of days, and just barely met this person, and she'd never even met him. And I said, 'We're engaged.' And nothing happened on the other end of the line. I said, 'You sound so blank.' She was just bowled over. She informed me that we had to bring him down to meet the family, of course. By then he'd grown a mustache somewhere along the line, and I believe he shaved it for the occasion. He also had something on his lips... he was wearing gentian violet for something he'd picked up somewhere. He also had his front teeth coming out. ... shortly after we met he had to have them replaced. ... Here I was in my second year of college and they wanted me to continue. So, anyway, we got... a late start, of course, And then we got hung up somewhere along the line, and they were waiting dinner for us, and I remember (her mother) had a pot roast, and we didn't get in until 11 o'clock at night. Aunt Patti and Uncle Bod (her brother and his wife) were waiting there. And they opened the door after waiting and sitting in the living room, probably having drink after drink waiting for us to arrive at 11 o'clock, and then here came in your father (Bill),... six feet five and a half of him, with these front teeth out and gentian violet, and I don't know whether the mustache was present or not. I understand that Grandma went back into the kitchen and grabbed Aunt Patti and she said, 'My God! I can't have THIS is the family!' And then later she just adored him. ... Then we were there a few days, and Uncle Bod was working at a radio station in Los Angeles. And he had dinner with us, and he was very outspoken, and he went back to the station, and then he called back... to the house and he got me, and he said, 'You know this won't last.' And I must have had my doubts, because I was just totally devastated. Of course, I thought Uncle Bod was God to some extent. ... This just shattered me. And I remember Aunt Patti took me out and walked me around the block and talked to me, and tried to calm me down. ... It sort of lasted. Forty years coming up. And Uncle Bod dotes on him... he really admires and respects him."
(4) Later, when she went back up to Madera for a visit, "we drove back to Aunt Violet's house where I was living, of course, and he said, 'Let's go down by the river,' which was right below her house. I guess there wasn't anybody at her house. He didn't know I couldn't drive a car, so he stopped it on the hill without turning it off, and he said, 'I'll get out and open the gate. You put your foot on the brake.' Well, I didn't know the brake, and I put my foot on the clutch and went sailing through the gate and down the hill... He said he was never so scared in his life. He came running downhill because I was headed for the river, the San Juaquin River, and it would have been car and me and goodbye. (The car) ran into a tree; I still have a scar on my knee... I ran into part of the car. Had a big gash. He had to take me into the emergency hospital at 12 o'clock at night there in Madera and have me sewn up."
(4,8) 1946, Nov: Honeymooned in Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico.
(4,11) 1946-1960: Lived in San Louis Rey Heights, Bonsall, CA on an avocado ranch owned by her father.
(5) 1947, 12 Apr: Was bridesmaid at her sister-in-law Judith DAVIDSON's wedding at St. John's Episcopal Church, Washington, D.C. Residence given as Pasadena, CA. (4) The airplane ride across the country was very rough and bumpy. She had had some strawberry pie at one stop. Later, she overheard another passenger remark, "I was all right until I heard that woman say, 'Oops! Here comes the strawberry pie.'"
(4) Before her great-aunt Grace ELLIIOT died, "she was giving away her things. And her things that I received, and that very beautiful china set... that white china with the gold edge."
(6) 1957, 6 Jun: Confirmed at St. John's Episcopal Church, Fallbrook, CA. Presented by the Rev. Hale B. EUBANKS.
(4,11) 1960, 14 Feb: Moved to Steptoe Ranch, near McGill, NV. (4) The smoke and dust from the copper smelter in McGill irritated her. "I thought I'd left the L.A. smog behind." (11) There was no telephone, and the electrical generator could not tolerate the vacuum and the iron being run at the same time. The clothes dryer had to be discarded. The generator would quit running whenever it got extremely cold and the diesel fuel became too sluggish to move through the supply lines. Other times it just broke down. The day we moved there it was dark and gloomy, with remnants of the last snowstorm creating much mud all around, and the next storm was blowing its way over the mountain. The house was very cold, the gas refrigerator was empty, and the movers tracked mud in by the tons. Mom sent us into McGill with Dafd to buy some groceries. (4) Bill's purchase proved to be a bag of dried beans, something he recalled from his trail days on the MORDECAI Ranch. "I could have killed him."
(11) Learned to love the ranch. She loved to drink tea, and she especially loved to sit on the porch on summer afternoons at tea time with "The New Yorker" magazine or a book to read. She went for a long walk each evening, followed by the family dogs. She exercised every morning in her bedroom.
(11) 1995: Moved to a home they built on the road to Kalamazoo camp ground in the area known as Duck Creek, White Pine Co., NV, across the valley from the ranch. It is situated in the Schell Creek Range in a little mountain valley behind and north of McGill.


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! (1) Barbara York Sargent, 625 Sonora Dr., McPherson, KS 67460 (1984).
(2) Adelina Hodgkin Davidson, cousin, Steptoe Ranch, McGill, NV 89318 (1984).
(3) Robin Shepard Thorne, Sacramento, CA (1997, 2002). Cites: (a) Elliot Clive Thorne.
(4) "California Birth Records," from CA Dept. of Health Services Office of Health Information and Research Vital Statistics Section, http://userdb.rootsweb.com/ca/birth/search (5 Jun 2000).

! Birth: (1,2) Dana Isabella. (1,2,3) d/o Albert Howell ELLIOT Jr. (2) Was born 1 Feb on Adelina HODGKIN's birthday, was 1 or 2 years younger (1928/9). Parents living in Santa Barbara, CA. (3) Dana Dean. 1929, Santa Barbara, CA. (4) Dana Vienne. Mother maiden name NORTH. 1 Feb 1929, San Francisco Co., CA.
Marriage to Richard Clive THORNE: (1) (3) 1955?
Divorce from Richard Clive THORNE: (3) After 1975.
Death: (3) 24 Sep 1987. Was living with her daughter Rhonda in San Jose, CA.
Burial: (3) Ashes scatted over E Street Bridge, Sacramento, CA, by son Elliot and daughter Rhonda. Most of the ashes fell on the railroad tracks and were run over by a train. Then the container was stolen when Rhonda's purse was stolen from her car.

(1) Went to high school in Santa Barbara, CA.
(3a) Had a temper. Treated her depression with alcohol and became alcoholic. Also had some kind of seizure and/or disease that ate away at her brain. She lost the use of all one side of her body.
(3) Went to live with her daughter Rhonda in San Jose, CA.


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! (1) Barbara York Sargent, 625 Sonora Dr., McPherson, KS 67460.
(2) Robin Shepard Thorne, P.O. Box 292521, Sacramento, CA 95829 (1997).
(3) "California Birth Records," from CA Dept. of Health Services Office of Health Information and Research Vital Statistics Section, http://userdb.rootsweb.com/ca/birth/search (5 Jun 2000).
(4) "California Death Records," from CA Dept. of Health Services Office of Health Information and Research Vital Statistics Section, http://userdb.rootsweb.com/ca/death/search (5 Jun 2000).

! Birth: (3,4) Mother's maiden name NORTH. 13 May 1930. (3) San Francisco Co., CA.
Marriage to __ ENDER: (3) Maiden name of daughters' mother was ENDER.
Death: (2) Aug 1985, West Covina, CA. Shot himself in the head. (4) 29 Aug 1984, Los Angeles Co., CA.

(1) Went to high school in Santa Barbara, CA.
[NOTE: Oct 1984 Los Angeles Airport Area Telephone Directory lists Steve and Sylvia ELLIOT, 501 Pruitt Dr., Redondo Beach, CA, telephone (213) 318-6632.]


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! (1) Barbara York Sargent, McPherson, KS.
(2) Robin Shepard Thorne, P.O. Box 292521, Sacramento, CA 95829 (1997).
(3) "California Birth Records," from CA Dept. of Health Services Office of Health Information and Research Vital Statistics Section, http://userdb.rootsweb.com/ca/birth/search (5 Jun 2000).
(4) "California Death Records," from CA Dept. of Health Services Office of Health Information and Research Vital Statistics Section, http://userdb.rootsweb.com/ca/death/search (5 Jun 2000).

! Birth: (1) Barbara's mother and Tokie's were in Oakland, CA together and Tokie was born right after Barbara, who was born in Feb. 1935. (3) Mother's maiden name NORTH. 15 Feb 1935, San Francisco Co., CA. (4) 13 Feb 1935, CA. Father's last name ELLIOT.
Marriage to __ ROESER: (3) Daughters' birth names were ROESER.
Marriage to __ WEEDA: (4) Name at death was WEEDA.
Death: (2) 10 Feb 1988, Santa Barbara, CA, from overdose of alcohol. (4) 23 Jan 1988, Santa Barbara Co., CA.

(1) Went to high school in Santa Barbara, CA.
(1) Was in the Air Force.


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