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}	211 = Marriage rec
Source 4}	18 = 1880 USA cen
Source 5}	19 = 1900 USA cen
Source 6}	127 = Interviews
Source 7}	243 = Probate rec
Source 8}	24 = 1910 USA cen
Source 9}	777 = Letter
Source 10}	776 = Death certif
Source 11}	43 = Obituary
Source 12}	30 = Cemetery rec
Source 13}	13 = Family hstry
Source 14}	85 = Family hstry

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

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

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

Notes: Lucy was two years old in 1867 when her parents left Nebraska and she came across the plains in a covered wagon to California. They were settled and lived in Yount Township in Napa County during the 1870s.

Lucy was 18 years old and living in Cherry Valley in Napa County when she married George in 1883. She was small, thin, weighed about 95 pounds, and had brown hair and grey eyes.

Using a dowry from Lucy's parents, George and Lucy 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 census, Lucy and the children were living in Blue Mountain — while George lived in Vacaville.

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.

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 and passed away at North Street in December 1913.

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Time of Death} 4:45 A.M.

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