Una Elizabeth HANSON

Notes:

Listed in the 1928 San Francisco city directory as Una E Hanson, student, living at 1922 Lake, the home of her parents.

Listed in the 1929 San Francisco directory as Una E Hanson, clerk, living at 1922 Lake, the home of her parents.

Not listed with her parents in the 1930 census.

The 1935 Pasadena city directory lists a Una Hanson living at 266 Arcadia.

A Una E Davis, wife of Wendell H, a lawyer, lived in Monterey Park in 1963 according to that city’s directory.

Birth:
Birth name recorded as Hilda F Hanson.

Died:
As Una Elizabeth Hanson Davis

Family/Spouse: DAVIS. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In the 1910 census, he and his family lived in San Francisco. The census form is illegible.

He registered for the draft in San Francisco on June 5, 1917. He was married and had four children. He was a scout executive for the Boy Scouts of America. He was stout and of medium height with blue eyes and brown hair.

In the 1920 census, he and his wife and their four children lived in San Francisco. Raymond was a secretary in the Boy Scouts.

In the 1930 census, he and his wife and Ivy, Raymond, and Donald were living in San Francisco. Raymond was an executive with the Boy Scouts.

In the 1940 census, he and his wife Hilda lived in Los Angeles although they had lived in San Francisco five years earlier. Raymond was a regional director for the Boy Scouts. He had made more than $5000 in 1939 and the house that he and Hilda lived in, which they owned, was worth $8500.

Hilda and Raymond are recorded as arriving at the Port of Los Angeles aboard the Lurline on 31 Oct 1941. They had sailed from Honolulu on October 24th. He was 54, she was 57. They had originally left Los Angeles for Honolulu aboard the Luline on 19 September 1941 and arrived at Honolulu on 24 Sept.

His wife’s obit suggested donations to the Raymond O Hanson scholarship fund at Stanford University.

Raymond married Hilda Frances BEAVIS. Hilda was born on 15 Dec 1883 in England; died on 22 Feb 1962 in Los Angeles County, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The birth of a Hilda Frances Beavis was registered in the Oct-Dec quarter of 1884 in Plymouth, Devon, England.

In the 1900 U.S. census, a Hilda F Beavis, b. Dec 1883, in England, lived in Cripple Creek, Colorado, with her parents and younger brother. She had come to the U.S. in 1889.

Hilda and her parents lived in Salt Lake City according to that city’s directories of 1902-1906.

She is called Frances in the 1928 and 1929 San Francisco city directories.

Hilda F Hanson, widow of Raymond, lived in Long Beach, California, at 616 Grand Avenue, according to that city’s 1951 and 1955 city directories.

Her funeral, and, presumably, her interment, were at Woodlawn Memorial Park, Colma, California.

Died:
as Francis H Hanson

Notes:

In the 1900 census, he was a minister in West Chicago. His father was born in Norway and his mother in Denmark.

In the 1920 census, he’s shown as Hans Hansen. He and Charlotte live at 1657 Richmond Street in Chicago. He is a minister of the gospel.

He’s still at that address in the 1930 census but he is now a widower. He is a minister in the Lutheran church. He was not a veteran.

Henry married Charlotte CHRISTY on 4 Nov 1885 in Hennepin County, Minnesota. Charlotte (daughter of Richard Watson CHRISTY and Emma C CRAFT) was born in Jun 1867 in England; died on 30 Jun 1927 in Cook County, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In the 1900 census, she was living with her family in West Chicago. She had had 5 children, 2 still living.

The family is still there in the 1910 census. Raymond has left home but Flora is still living with her parents.

In the 1920 census, she is shown as born in Illinois.

Notes:

Married:
MOMS indexed them as H A Harkuray and Charlottee E Christy

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 12 Jun 1840, Weston, Hertfordshire, England

Notes:

From 1868 until his departure for the U.S., Richard ran the Lannock Mill in Weston, North Hertfordshire, that had been built by his father in 1860. This five-storey tower windmill ground corn and had four pairs of millstones. The mill tower still stands but without its wind engine or any of its other machinery. It was last used as a production mill in the 1920s. In 1882, Richard sold the mill to Thomas Sanderson.

He and his family arrived in the U.S. in New York City on 20 February 1882 aboard the SS City of Montreal. The family traveled in a cabin, not in steerage. The family consisted of: Richard Christy, 39, Sarah Christy, 36, Susan Christy, 74, Susan Christy, 16, Lottie Christy, 15, Charles Christy, 14, Glyn Christy, 12, Florence Christy, 11, Alma Christy, 10, Ernest Christy, 9, Eleanor Christy, 8, Bernard Christy, 6, Ethel Christy, 4, and George Christy, 2.

In the 1885 Minnesota census, the Christys (indexed as Christa) were living in Minneapolis. Richard’s mother Sara, age 76, is living with them.

In the 1895 Minnesota census, he and his family were living in Worthington, Minnesota, where he was a baker. Still at home with him and Emma were Ernest, 20, Bernard, 16, Ethel, 14, and George, 13.

In the 1900 census, he was a salesman living in Minneapolis with his wife, son, and granddaughter. The household consisted of Richard, Emma, Bernard B., and granddaughter Fannie Simpson born in April of 1892 in Minnesota with an Irish father.

Birth:
probably in Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire

Buried:
Section 15, Lot 413, Grave 1

Richard married Emma C CRAFT about 1865. Emma (daughter of Richard CRAFT and Suzanna CLARKE) was born in Jul 1841 in England; died on 9 Nov 1922 in Hennepin County, Minnesota; was buried on 11 Nov 1922 in Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1922-MN-020517

Notes:

In the 1900 census she is shown as having had 14 children, 11 still living.

The 1909 Minneapolis city directory shows her as Emma, the widow of Richard, boarding at 4415 Xerxes Ave. S. (the home of her daughter Ethel).

In the 1910 census, she is a 67 year-old widow living with her daughter Ethel and her family at 4415 Xerxes in Minneapolis. Emma has had 11 children, 9 still living.

Living in a rooming house on Hennepin Avenue at the time of the 1920 census. No occupation.

Emma died from heart lesions. She had been in Minneapolis for 40 years at the time of her death. Her daughter Eliza was the informant for the information on her death certificate. According to the notice in the Star, her address at the time of her death was 301 Hennepin Avenue.

Birth:
Her death certificate says 5 February 1840.

Buried:
Section 15, Lot 413, Grave 2 (Monument Lot)