This evening, Keesa the cat decided to get involved in my genealogy project.
I should have known better to leave binders of genealogy paperwork out for her to crawl up on.
Which reminds me, happy 128th birthday Great Grandpa Florencio!
Tonight, I started to dig a little deeper into my Grandma Gerry’s father’s side – The Nobles. Most of them stayed in the Midwest except my Great Grandfather James Edward Noble, who came to San Francisco, I believe somewhere in the early 1900s. I thought he was the only Noble to do so, but a couple of his other siblings headed to the West Coast as well. Then I read that his sister, Mary, died in San Francisco two months shy of her 30th birthday!
I don’t know the circumstances behind her death. My grandmother only wrote that her aunt “died when we lived in Stockton“. Stockton is where my grandmother’s family lived temporarily during her early childhood before moving back to the Bay Area.
I did find Mary’s Obituary in the San Francisco Chronicle. It’s a little hard to read:
Too young, too soon.
Sunday, February 23, 2025:
Theresa Donahoe 