Opel Manng Clements

• Birth: 14 JUN 1906, Midway,OK
• Death: 13 NOV 1980, Temple,TX

                                                                               _Bernard Clements _
                                                        _Gabriel Clements ____|___________________
                             _A. Maning Clements ______|
                            |                          |                       _David McGee ______
                            |                          |_Barsheba McGee ______|___________________
 _Gabriel Jackson Clements _|
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|                           |                           _Cullen H. Lunceford _|___________________
|                           |_Mary Angeline Lunceford _|
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|                                                      |_Mariah Lunceford ____|___________________
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|--Opel Manng Clements 
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|                                                                              _Dixon Naylor _____
|                                                       _William M. Naler ____|_Nancy Neil _______
|                            _John Columbus Naler _____|
|                           |                          |                       _Stephen C. Naler _
|                           |                          |_Martha Jane Naler ___|_Celia Cole _______
|_Buena Vista May Naylor ___|
                            |                                                  _James Bagley _____
                            |                           _James Ervin Bagley __|_Elizabeth Allen __
                            |_Celia E. Bagley _________|
                                                       |                       _Stephen C. Naler _
                                                       |_Mary Naler __________|_Celia Cole _______

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Annette Elizabeth Alves

• Birth: 11 JUN 1872, Fruitvale,Alameda,CA
• Death: 14 MAY 1948, Houston,Harris,TX
• Burial: Glenwood,Lakewood,Houston,TX

• Marriage: 24 FEB 1906, San Rafael,Marin Co,CA

1. William Henry Carter
2. James Watkins Carter
3. Annette Elizabeth Carter
4. Leland Stanford Carter

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 _Manuel Alves __________|
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|--Annette Elizabeth Alves 
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|                         _Francisco Nevas _|
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|_Isabella Louise Nevas _|
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                         |_Isabella ? ______|
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Notes

A check of the Mormon family database shows many, many Alves in California, almost all Hispanic and mostly of Portuguese ancestry.

At the Clayton Library they looked up Fruitvale for me and found that it is a near suburb of Oakland, CA which is just across the Bay bridge from San Francisco. This is the one where Annie was born I am sure.

I found her when she was 8 years old in the 1880 U. S. Census records: Manuel Alves (vol 11, E. D. 23, sheet 44, line 21) white, male, age 58, born Azores Islands, laborer, couldn't read or write living in: Eden Township, Alameda County, Winton Road, Hayward, CA(just South of Oakland and Fruitvale) wife: Isabella age 40 born Azores Islands, housewife, couldn't read or write children: Mary D 13, Margaret D 10, Anna D 8, Manuel S 6, Minnie D 5, Antoine S 3 other relatives: Francisco Nevas FL 60 Azores, couldn't read or write, father in law Isabella 80 ML Azores, couldn't read or write, mother in law Almost all of the other people recorded by the census taker on their street were also from the Azores Islands. Was this a community of fruit pickers?

I looked very carefully in the 1900 census and found only Minnie and Antoine listed. They were both boarders in boarding houses. I wonder where the older girls were staying. Possibly with husbands under another name. Why didn't Annie go to stay with an older sister. Why didn't she keep correspondence from her family to Houston? How did this group of very young women with two baby brothers support themselves after their laborer father died? A very dangerous situation in San Francisco at that time! I found only one postcard from Minnie in1909 announcing her marriage. A very strange family.

I located a history of Alameda County that is contemporary with Annie Alves, using the internet, and got a copy through interlibrary loan from UNC at Wilmington. It is M. W. Wood, History of Alameda County, California (Holmes Book Co., Oakland, 1883). I also found a somewhat more modern book: Joseph E. Baker. Past and Present of Alameda County, CA(S. J. Clarke Pub, Chicago, 1914). Here are some interesting facts from these books: Eden Township was covered by orchards and fields as late as 1883 with marshes near the Bay. The population of Hayward in 1883 was about 1200 and the town had no manufacturing. Brooklyn Township (7 miles by 8 miles, near Fruit Vale?), separated from Oakland Township by Lake Merritt, contains San Antonio Creek and once was partly covered by giant redwoods before they were all cut down. In 1883 it produced grain, hay, fruits, & vegetables.

From two books (August M. Vaz, The Portuguese in California (IDES Supreme Council, Oakland, CA)) and Jerry R. Williams, And Yet they Come: (Portuguese Immigration from the Azores to the United States (Center for Migration Studies, New York, 1982)) we learn that many Portuguese immigrated to New England and later to California via the Whaling industry. It seems that as early as 1787 New England whalers began sailing around South America and into the Pacific Ocean in search of new whaling grounds. In the early part of the nineteenth it became increasingly difficult to find enough American sailors to man whaling ships. It soon became common to obtain Americans for ship's principal officers and sign on remaining crews wherever they could be found on the voyage. One place was the Azores. As early as 1780 a flotilla of 200 whalers dropped anchor in the Azores to round out its crew. The practice was well established by 1820 and grew significantly in the 1840's and 1850's. Over-population and lack of farmland in the Azores made the hard life at sea and prospects of starting over in America attractive to the Azorians. Many signed on for the voyage usually ending in New England. From the beginning a few of these Portuguese signed on again for a Whaling voyage to the Pacific and jumped ship in San Francisco, but when Gold was discovered in 1849, the numbers doing this swelled. In 1850 there were 512 ships left abandoned in San Francisco Bay some with their cargoes still unloaded.

In the early 1850's two events occurred to stimulate this flood, the gold rush and a potato rot which struck the Azores. In 1850 the Nantucket and Bedford fleets were regularly whaling in Arctic waters of the Pacific Ocean- an eighteen thousand mile voyage down the east coast of South America around Cape Horn and up the west coast to the blowhead whaling grounds on the north shores of Alaska. San Francisco was a regular port of call for these ships; the port provided a final opportunity to replenish supplies before completing the journey to the north. Many sailors deserted ship in San Francisco to hunt gold. The first Azorian known to do so was Antonio Silva in 1840. There were 109 Portuguese enumerated in the California 1850 census. Between 1860 and 1870 the number of Portuguese in California doubled from 1,580 to 3,435-forty percent of the Portuguese population of the United States. By 1880 there were 7,990 Portuguese in California-sixty percent in the San Francisco Bay area and engaged in agriculture. When gold hunting proved a failure for most they turned to farming. A network of communications and familial ties was thereby established between America and the Azores which encouraged migration, provided temporary housing for new immigrants, and helped to locate jobs. Before 1869 emigrants to California from the east had to come around Cape Horn by ship, but afterward, they could come across the heartland by railroad. Typically new Azorian immigrants worked first as farm laborers to get money to buy a small plot of farm land. They then employed the intensive farming techniques from their homeland and hard work to build a successful fruit and vegetable farm and ultimately often a dairy farm.

From the History of Alameda, CA, I found that Fruitvale did not exist as a township in 1883 or before; however from before 1840, on the Rancho San Antonio, Antonio Maria Peralta had a hacienda named Fruit Vale. Rancho San Antonio carried 800 head of cattle and 2000 head of horses in about 1850. The Rancho also raised barley. The original Rancho San Antonio hacienda was located in the vicinity of 105th Street near San Leandro Creek. The Peraltas slowly lost their property to squatters between 1850 and 1855 so that by 1970 Fruitvale was a suburb of Oakland, supplying a portion of its water. It seems probable that in 1872 Anne Alves' family were squatters. According to the 1880 census, her parents were immigrants from the Azores Islands of Portuguese ancestry, living in a community of similar immigrants from the Azores near Haywood, CA, to the south of Fruitvale. Her father was an illiterate laborer, who perhaps originally came for gold or followed earlier gold rush types from his island and finally became a farm laborer. In an Alameda County history book a group of Portuguese immigrants were very briefly mentioned (page 413) living in 1852 near the embarcadero of San Antonio (the mouth of the San Antonio Creek and future Oakland harbor from where the timber from the San Antonio red woods were shipped) in connection with establishing ferry service to San Francisco. It was said that they earned a living raising chickens, boating, and fishing. These people might have been connected to Annie Alves' family since there were few Portuguese in the area at the time and they seemed to band together. I would guess that they were all forced away from the waterfront in Oakland by development and increased property values in the early 1850's, forced away from Fruitvale by the water supply development around Lake Chabot in the early 1870's, and finally settled in Hayward in 1880 where they might have been driven out yet again by the sale of "the Garden of Eden" property in 1884.

According to her daughter Elizabeth, Annie's parents died when she was a child, and the children were raised by an older sister (the oldest was only six years older than Annie) who married a cousin to provide them all with a home. The oldest sister was Mary who could have been only in her early teens when her parents died. One must wonder as to how such a young girl was able to support her younger sisters and brothers. Perhaps she did marry, and was supported by the close Portuguese community. Clearly Annie lied about her age when she consistently, and under oath, said that she was born on 11Jun1881. She might have been embarrassed by both the age difference between her and her husband and the low regard Hispanics were held in by Americans in California and Texas. Henry Carter was never known for his wonderful taste or intelligence. Mary had gone to school, could probably read and write, and seems to have done a better job of educating her siblings than their parents could have done. Nancy Carter, her daughter in-law, who knew Annie Carter very well, told me that she behaved like an aristocrat, insisting that Nancy call her Mrs. Carter even after Nancy married her son, Leland. Nancy, as a new daughter in law, was not allowed to use a familiar name. My Mother, Fannie Carter, lived with Annie Alves for a year in 1942, while her husband was working for APL. She said that "Mrs. Carter" was "distant" and had some sort of faint foreign accent. According to an old visiting card that her husband kept, she was living at 301 Fulton St. in San Francisco before she married.

William Carter was a corporal in the Army, was ordered to California, met, and married Annie just before the San Francisco earthquake and fire. They met sometime before Easter in 1905. He was discharged (excellent character) after he met Annie on 5Sep1905, because of varicose veins in his left leg from phlebitis resulting from typhoid fever (from Africa?). According to an old visiting card that her husband kept, she was living at 301 Fulton St. in San Francisco before she married. In a letter dated 30Mar1906 she reminded her husband that a year ago, while she was living at the "Elaine" (a hotel?), he "came down" and had Easter dinner with her (first Sunday in Apr1905). She had fixed chicken but neither of them liked it. After leaving the Army he lived for awhile at 1225 Eddy St. and was still getting mail there as he traveled to Houston. According to the certificate they were married on 24Feb1906 in San Rafael, Marin County, CA by the Rev. Arnold T. Needham (Res. 914 4th St.) with a license issued 24Feb1906 at the San Rafael Courthouse (recorded in book L of Marriage Certificates, page 259 in the records of Marin County). They were very worried about money. According to their correspondence, she was a Department Head (saleswoman) at a shirt and coat retail company (J. Brett & Co. 738 Mission St.) and he was just out of the Army with no job. He went to Houston to look into the job prospects there and to visit with his parents. She stayed in San Francisco to earn some money for them. In her letters to her husband she describes the weather in San Francisco in late March and early April as particularly sunny and beautiful. While in Houston he received a check for $50 from Brett & Co. with confirmation of some orders that he had gotten for them for several "assortments". Annie told some acquaintances that he was traveling "for his company". She was in San Francisco during the famous earthquake & fire which started at 5:13AM on 18Apr1906. At the time of the fire she was living at 1901 Gough St. (Geary & Gough) in San Francisco. In a letter to her husband a few days after the fire she said that she was awakened by the earthquake, was dressed and out in the street within 12 minutes, tried to walk downtown on Geary St. with falling bricks and timbers on either side of the street, she got as far as Market and Sutter Sts. and could go no further. She came to a solid mass of flames smoke and humanity from there to the ferry. Mr. Hamrick, Minnie's friend, carried Annie's telegram to her husband to Oakland when he went. On 22Apr1906 she wrote her husband that she was alive and living with Mrs. Tally at 2516 Pine St. in San Francisco. They worried for days that the fire would get to them on Pine St. She had not taken off her clothes since the earthquake and had gotten to sleep only six hours in four days. He had already left to get her and didn't find out that she was all right until he found her much later. Upon hearing about the fire he immediately came back to San Francisco and, after a search, found her sitting on some rubble near her home. The fire had stopped just two blocks from her house. She moved to Houston with her husband. There are other letters for most of the rest of the year from Annie to her husband as he traveled about Texas selling pianos for the Carter Music Company. They did not have very much time together. She was very kind to me when I was young. She lived with her unmarried daughter Elizabeth until she died. I remember her long illness in bed with cancer, I think. I would tell her silly jokes and she would pretend to be amused. She and Elizabeth had two cocker spaniel dogs, Rusty and Caper, which they both very dearly loved.

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Hank, Read the section on Grandmother Alves, and remembered the story our Aunt Elizabeth always told about the earthquake. This is the tale straight from her: When grandfather Carter received word of the quake he rushed from Houston to San Francisco, if "rushed" had much meaning in 1906. Like all able-bodied men in the city at that time he was promptly press-ganged into fire-fighting and rescue service by the Army under martial law. He was not pleased. For several days he slaved amid the rubble until the Army CofE finally stopped the advance of the fire by dynamiting a swath across the city an entire block wide along the alignment of Van Ness Street. To this day that street is still a block wide as a memorial. Grandfather Carter was all this time only a few blocks from the house where he expected to find his wife, if still alive, but the Army wouldn't let him go over and see. All those days he didn't know if she had survived. He was really NOT a happy camper. Finally relieved of duty, he staggered to the house at Eddy and Gaugh streets, which had survived. Annie was sitting primly on the stoop in a fresh white dress waiting for him. Grandfather Carter was cut and bleeding and in filthy rags from the work he'd been forced to do. He took one look at his beautifully attired wife whom he had come halfway across the continent to rescue and blew his stack! Elizabeth loved to tell this story. I can't vouch for its accuracy of course. I did go looking for the address when I was in San Francisco in the early 70's. The block is at the top of Cathedral Hill and the area is now the site of a large, futuristic, and extremely ugly church. One point I'm fairly sure of is that the Eddy house did survive the fire as it was several blocks past the Van Ness firebreak.

Grandmother Alves lived with Liz at her house at the NE corner of Wakeforest and Barbara Lane in West University. Years later, in 1976 the people who then owned the house put it on the market and I tried in vain to come up with the wherewithall to buy it. It was torn down in about 1992 or 1993 to make way for an oversized ugly cubical two story house. I mentioned this to Liz when I was in Houston for Mother's hip replacement. Liz didn't know, was horrified that her cute little cottage had been razed. Anyway, whatever it's worth, Annie Alves passed away in the front bedroom of the West University house, not actually in Houston proper.

Jim

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Celia E. Bagley

• Birth: 1 JAN 1850
• Death: 1883

1. Buena Vista May Naylor

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                                           _Harmon Bagley __|_______________
                       _James Bagley _____|
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                      |                   |_Mary Brogdon ___|_______________
 _James Ervin Bagley _|
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|                     |_Elizabeth Allen __|
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|--Celia E. Bagley 
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|                                                            _James Naylor _
|                                          _Dickson Naylor _|_______________
|                      _Stephen C. Naler _|
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|                     |                   |_Mary Carpenter _|_______________
|_Mary Naler _________|
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                      |                    _James Cole _____|_______________
                      |_Celia Cole _______|
                                          |                  _______________
                                          |_Lavona Clark ___|_______________

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James Jameson

• Birth: 28 OCT 1790, NC
• Death: 1 FEB 1869
• Burial: Old Elim Cem,Ft White,FL

1. Elizabeth L. Jameson
2. James K. Jameson
3. Nancy E. Jameson
4. Frances Jameson
5. Georga Ann Jameson

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                           _John James Jameson _|
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 _James Jameson __________|
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|                         |_Martha ? ___________|
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|--James Jameson 
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|_Christianna Linnington _|
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