Individual 8: Nora Agnes Samuels

Individual Record 8

Name} Samuels, Nora Agnes

Family History} Hancock

Title}

Race} White

Sex} Female

Birth: Date} Exa 1 Jan 1893

Place} Blue Mountain, Napa, California

Marr.: Date} Exa 8 Aug 1911

Place} San Francisco, San Francisco, California (Link)

Death: Date} Exa 1 Apr 1979

Place} Hy-Lond Convalescent, Napa, Napa, California

Burial: Date} Exa 4 Apr 1979

Place} Tulocay Mausoleum, Napa, Napa, California

Grave Marker} Yes

Source 1}	41 = Birth certif
Source 2}	19 = 1900 USA cen
Source 3}	24 = 1910 USA cen
Source 4}	247 = Church recrd
Source 5}	135 = Newspapers
Source 6}	306 = 1920 USA cen
Source 7}	746 = 1930 USA cen
Source 8}	47 = Church dirct
Source 9}	8 = Biography
Source 10}	822 = Death certif
Source 11}	30 = Cemetery rec
Source 12}	833 = Medical recs
Source 13}	13 = Family hstry
Source 14}	85 = Family hstry
Source 15}	733 = Photographs
Source 16}	751 = Photographs

Parents: } George Washington Samuels & Lucy Mildred Coleman
Relationship No.} 7

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

Occupation 1} Housewife
Occupation 2}

Religion/Church} Presbyterian

Spouses: Prime} Hancock, Wilfred Charles
Total Number of} 1

Notes: Nora was born in Napa County in the Blue Ridge area where her parents had a cattle ranch. She lived and worked on the ranch for 12 years until her parents decided to move their two sons and four daughters to within the city limits of Napa.

Nora recalled that when she moved to Napa the most popular mode of transportation was walking — because the streets were not paved and most of the stores and buildings were clustered around Main and First Streets.

In 1906 when the earthquake him San Francisco, Nora said that her family's house swayed, their chimney crumbled, and a smokey haze was visible for days. Many San Franciscans were evacuated from their homes and sent to Napa where people put them up in their spare rooms.

Nora graduated from Napa Grammar School in 1907.

She attended Napa High School which was a three-story wooden building then located on Jefferson between Polk and Clay Streets. On 27 and 28 Feb 1911, Nora and nine other girls of the Civics Class journeyed to Sacramento to attend several of the sessions of the Legislature and to see for themselves how laws are made. Nora proudly graduated from Napa High School, along with then other students, in May 1911.

Nora had a very busy social life during the years of 1908 through 1912. She attended numerous parties — and kept a scrapbook of the newspaper articles on the parties, trips, engagements, marriages, and deaths of the young men and women of Napa that she knew.

Nora was baptised on 2 Dec 1910 in the First Presbyterian Church of Napa. She was a quietly religious person, usually attending services at the Church by herself.

Wilfred and Nora were married in August 1911 in San Francisco. She had dark brown hair, a medium build, and was taller than Wilfred. They settled in a home at 1100 West Second Street in Napa.

During the next 50+ years Nora was active in Napa's Rebekah Lodge and frequently volunteered her services for various civic or church-related activities — such as her time with the Napa chapter of the American Red Cross (see 1945 photo at the right).

The photo at the left was included in the 1967 membership directory of Napa's First Presbyterian Church.

She fell and fractured her hip on 15 Dec 1971 and was never to walk after that. This resulted in her staying at the Hy-Lond Convalescent Hospital in Napa from 27 Dec 1971 until her death over seven years later on 1 Apr 1979.