Individual 14: Lucy Mildred Coleman

Individual Record 14

Name} Coleman, Lucy Mildred

Family History} Hancock

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Race} White

Sex} Female

Birth: Date} Fam 22 Jan 1865

Place} , , Nebraska

Marr.: Date} Exa 14 Mar 1883

Place} Napa, Napa, California (Link)

Death: Date} Exa 8 Dec 1913

Place} 21 North Street, Napa, Napa, California

Burial: Date} Exa 9 Dec 1913

Place} Tulocay, Napa, Napa, California

Grave Marker} Yes (4 photos)

Source 1}	45 = Family notes
Source 2}	374 = 1870 USA cen
Source 3}	51 = Newspaper
Source 4}	211 = Marriage rec
Source 5}	18 = 1880 USA cen
Source 6}	19 = 1900 USA cen
Source 7}	127 = Interviews
Source 8}	243 = Probate rec
Source 9}	84 = Town directy
Source 10}	24 = 1910 USA cen
Source 11}	777 = Letter
Source 12}	736 = Photograph
Source 13}	738 = Photograph

Parents: } Samuel Louis Coleman & Mary Powers
Relationship No.} 23

1st Household No.} 84 = Blue Mountain, Napa, California

Occupation 1} Housewife
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Spouses: Prime} Samuels, George Washington
Total Number of} 1

Source 14}   751 = Photograph
Source 15}   776 = Death certif
Source 16}   861= Death record

Source 17} 43 = Obituary
Source 18} 30 = Cemetery rec
Source 19} 1588 = Cemetery rec

Source 20}     13 = Family history
Source 21}     85 = Family history
Source 22}   589 = Family history

Notes: Lucy Mildred Samuels was born 22 Jan 1865 in Nebraska. Her parents were Samuel Louis Coleman and Mary Powers. She was the fourth of what was to be eleven children. Lucy was not yet two years old in 1866 when her parents left Nebraska and came across the plains in a covered wagon to California. They settled in Wragg Canyon in the Berryessa Valley, Yount Township, Napa County.

In the 1870 US census, Lucy, 5, was living with her family in Yount Township, Napa. Her father was a farmer. Her siblings were Irene, 7, Mattie E., 5, and Ada Bell, 3. Also living with her family was her grandfather Phineas Coleman, 72, her uncle James Coleman, 38, and Vina Smith, 21.

In the 1880 US census, Lucy M., 15, and the family were still in Yount Township, and her father was still farming. Her siblings now included Irene J., 17, Mattie, 13, Belle, 10, May, 8, Willie L., 5, Samuel O., 3, and Henry B., 4 months.

Lucy married George Samuels on 14 Mar 1883 in Napa. The marriage record shows her residence as Cherry Valley. She was 18 years old and described as small, thin, weighing about 95 pounds, with brown hair and grey eyes.

Using a dowry from Lucy's parents, Lucy and George homesteaded and built a 4-room house at Blue Mountain in Napa County. Their daughters lived in the big attic. Lucy didn't want to come down off the mountain; however, the land was rocky and unfarmable. George needed to make a living — so he moved down to Vacaville and visited her at Blue Mountain periodically.

During the 1900 US census, Lucy M. Samuels, 35, and the children were living in Blue Mountain, Knox Township, Napa — while George lived in Vacaville, Solano. The children were Walter R., 16, Edith M., 14, Alma C., 12, Bessie E., 10, Nora A., 8, Millie, 5, and Gerna B., 2.

In the Fall of 1905 Lucy quit Blue Mountain and moved, with her children, to a new family residence at 21 North Street in the city of Napa. George, however, remained in Vacaville.

In the 1910 US census, Lucy M. 43, was living at 113 North Street, Napa Ward 2, Napa. George was a foreman for a fruit farm, presumably in Vacaville. The children still at home were Walter R., 26, a laborer doing odd jobs, Bessie E., 20, an office stenographer, Norah A., 17.

By 1910, after 27 years of marriage, Lucy had become very unhappy and wrote the following: Many men are like that. They use a woman as if she were a rose to be worn on their breast for an hour and then thrown aside. Little things gave me joy: a book, a picture, a new dress, a cheap jewel, a little journey. It would have taken so little to make me happy and yet I have not had that little. Because he did not enjoy the things I did, I was never permitted to have them. I have had nothing in all these 27 years but hard work, a ceaseless heart-breaking struggle to keep the mantle of wifely duty pinned around my skeleton to keep the world from seeing or hearing that I am unhappy. I weep for the love that he killed. Poor little fool that I was! When you take a woman's love away from her there is nothing else left in life for her to hope for. Nothing. That is the end and the end came for me long ago.
Lucy became ill with tuberculosis in 1912. She died 8 Dec 1913 at her North Street residence. She is buried in the Samuels plot, Tulocay Cemetery, Napa, California.

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Time of Death} 4:45 A.M.

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