Relationship Record 7

Male/Husband}   Samuels, George Washington (Geo)		Family History} Hancock
Female/Wife}    Coleman, Lucy Mildred		Relationship Type} Marriage
Marriage: Date} Exa 14 Mar 1883	Place} Napa, Napa, California
Ended: On Date} Exa   8 Dec 1913                      By} Death of wife		Source 1}   51 = Newspaper Source 2} 211 = Marriage rec Source 3}   19 = 1900 USA cen Source 4}   24 = 1910 USA cen Source 5}   42 = Death record Source 6}   43 = Obituary Source 7} 751 = Photographs Source 8} 738 = Photographs Source 9} 735 = Photographs
1st Household No.} 84 = Blue Mountain, Napa County, Calif.
Photos}  See below
Last Updated         by} Dan Hancock Date Updated} 19 Jul  2008 Date Created}  17 Jun 1994
Notes:  Party at the Canyon House   27 Oct 1882, Napa, California
"Our correspondent at Capall valley writes as follows:  A social party was given at the Canyon House, Friday enening, by the proprietor, which all in attendance pronounced a grand success.  At an early hour wagons and buggies began to arrive from all parts of the surrounding country.  At midnight the guests sat down to a sumptuous repast.  Music was furnished by the Monticello string band.  Dancing began at an early hour and was kept up until broad daylight.  Among those present we noticed the following ladies and gentlemen:  . . . . Lucy Coleman . . . George Samuels . . ." Lucy was 18 years old and living in Cherry Valley in Napa County when she married George Samuels of Gordon Valley in March 1883.  (The wedding photograph at the right was taken about then.)  Lucy was small, thin, and weighed about 95 pounds. Using a dowry from Lucy's parents, George and Lucy homesteaded and built a 4-room house at Blue Mountain in Napa County.  Their eight children were born there between 1883 and 1901.  The 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.  In the time of the 1900 census, Lucy and the children were living at Blue Mountain — while George was living in Vacaville. By 1908, 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.  The photo at the right shows the family in 1908. 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 in December of 1913.     (To view George and his surviving children in later years, click here.)
Children:	Total # of Children} 8	Seq. # of Primary} 5
1st Child} Samuels, Walter Rodney 2nd Child} Samuels, Edith Margaret 3rd Child} Samuels, Alma Claire 4th Child} Samuels, Bessie Edna (Bess) 5th Child} Samuels, Nora Agnes 6th Child} Samuels, Mildred Mary (Millie) 7th Child} Samuels, Gerna Bell 8th Child} Samuels, Osmond Lloyd
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