Page Family - Merle Page - Obituary

I remember when Merle died. I was in the kitchen at the 4610 N. Vagedes house, when my Dad came in and said that Merle had died after having an auto accident. Dad said that Mearl had a heart attack.

This news clipping from a Fresno paper reads as follows:

Mearl W. Page Dies After Dispute With Motorist

     Mearl Weit Page, Sr., 59, of 4638 East Madison Avenue, a sale supervisor for a local bakery company, died late yesterday after suffering a heart attack at Belmont and Cedar Avenues.

     The police reported Page telephoned them to report another motorist kicked his car, damaging a door, in a dispute. Patrolmen Edward Haddad and J. L. Packard said Page collapsed shortly after they arrived at the scene.

     He was dead on arrival in the Fresno County General Hospital a few minutes later.

     The officers reported Page's widow, Elizabeth, told them her husband had been under treatment for heart disease.

     Page was born in Effingham, Kan. He came to Fresno when he was a child. Later he lived in San Francisco and San Jose and in 1942 returned to Fresno.

     He was a member of Fresno Masonic Lodge No. 247.

Sons Survive

     In addition to his widow he is survived by two sons, Mearl W., Jr., and Fred Earl of Fresno; two brothers, Fred of Porterville, Tulare County, and Earl of Stockton, San .....

     I do not have the rest of the article. I looked through Newspapers.com in Fresno for this time period and could not find the rest of the obituary. I am wondering if it is from a Bay area paper. 

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Page Family - Fred Page and Lola Winch

I am thinking that this photo was taken prior to Fred and Lola's marriage. All I know is that my mother, Lorna Triplett Winch wrote the names into the photo album. I am thinking that this picture was taken at 1483 N. First St. house, where Lola, Emily and Myron lived.

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Page Family - Solomon Page, MD - Obituary

 

As I was working on the Page family history today, I found this. I believe that Samuel Page sold his property in Juniata County, Pennsylvania and moved to Atchison, Kansas. From there they moved to Kings County, California. His oldest son Solomon Page was memorialized in Atchison. This is his obituary that reads:

PIONEER ATCHISON COUNTY                     PHYSICIAN PASSES AWAY

Porterville, Cal., Feb. 27

     Dr. Solomon C. Page, one of the pioneer physicians of Atchison county, Kansas, died at his home at Visalia, near here early yesterday morning, after a three weeks' illness with pleuro-pneumonia. The remains were taken to Fresno and cremated. The funeral occurred from the residence today and was private. Interment was in the Visalia cemetery.

     Dr. Page was a native of Juniata county, Pa., and was born July 16, 1845. His father, Rev. Samuel Page, was a Seventh-Day Baptist minister, and died here a number of years ago. Dr. Page was educated in the schools of his native state, after which he took up the study of medicine. In 1867-'68 he attended Bellevue Hospital 

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Medical college in New York. In 1867, he came to Kansas and located in Center township, in Atchison county, five miles south of Effingham, where he engaged in the practice of medicine and farming. Later, he moved to Effingham and practiced his profession there for many years. In 1879-'80 he took a course at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in St. Joseph, Mo., and graduated from that institution. In 1898 he moved to California, locating at Visalia, where he built up a large practice. He also owned a fine ranch near that place. Dr. Page's last visit to his old home in Atchison county was in 1913. He has a son, Presley Page, now living at Effingham, another in Kansas City, and a daughter at Pittsburg, Kansas. He is also survived by a widow.          

     Dr. Page was eminently successful as a practitioner. At the time of his death he had practically retired. The writer enjoyed a most pleasant visit with him a while back and found him

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very agreeably situated, with every comfort and convenience at his
command that one could ask for in old age. At that time he was apparently very rugged for one of his years. He was nearly 74 years of age at the time of his death. He was a regular reader of The Atchison Globe and seemed to take much interest in affairs in the old home county back in Kansas. - G. J. R.

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Coffman Family - Nancy Coffman - Headstone

This is the headstone for Nancy Coffman Page, the wife of Samuel Page. She is buried in the same lot as her husband Samuel.

This headstone reads as:

Nancy Coffman Page

BIRTH                   Sep 1824

                               Pennsylvania, USA
DEATH                  14 Jul 1896 (aged 71)

                               Hanford, Kings County, California, USA

BURIAL                Hanford Cemetery

                              Hanford, Kings County, California, USA

PLOT                     Sec: Old Log: 197

MEMORIAL ID    35592504 - View Source

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Page Family - Samuel Page - Newspaper Discussion regarding will - Part 2

I found this through Newspapers.con on 4/9/2022. This article reads as:

ELIAS PAGE TO RESIGN

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As Administrator of the Estate of S. Page.
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The Latest Phase of This Long Standing Case as Decided by

Judge Trask

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     After about four years litigation, the estate of Samuel Page is apparently little nearer a settlement that it was where the old man, Samuel Page, died.

     By the decision of Judge Trask Wednesday the case will be re-opened again by a sit to determine the validity of the trust made by Samuel page before his death transferring all his property to his sons and daughter.

     In the suit just decided Mrs. Lillian Page, the widow, endeavored to have Elias Page removed as administrator and a man named Galloway of Los Angeles substituted in his stead. Judge Trask in

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deciding the matter stated that he thought the best interests of all concerned would be best subserved by Mr. Page resigning as administrator. He stated that Mr. Page was in a very embarrassing position as administrator. The Judge said that a suit should be brought in the administration of the estate to determine the validity of the trust, and as Elias Page was a beneficiary under the trust, a disinterested party should be put in as administrator to bring this suit.

     After a long legal argument, Elias Page decided to resign as administrator and submit to the appointment of a disinterested party. The petition of Mrs. Page to have Mr. Galloway, the one she desired, appointed as administrator, was denied.

     As soon as a new administrator is appointed a suit will again be brought to determine the validity of the trust created by Samuel Page prior to his death for the distribution of his property, and if said trust is declared invalid Mrs. Page will be entitled to the widow' share of the estate-one third.

     Judge Trask intimated that he was of the opinion that under the decision of the Supreme Court in the Fair estate, the trust transfer in the Page case would be declared illegal.

     If this trust is declared illegal, Mrs. Page will probably endeavor 

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to establish the birth of Winifred Page, which child she claims she gave birth to in Oakland. As the legal heir of this child, Mrs. Page would, in case of its birth being proven, come in for another slice of the estate.

     As the case stands now, however, it will undoubtedly still be a long time now before the property is ready for distribution.

     

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Page Family - Samuel Page - Newspaper Discussion regarding will - Part 1

I found this article on 8 April 2022 on Newspapers.com. This article reads as:

HANFORD

DAILY JOURNAL

VOL.III.      HANFORD, KINGS COUNTY, CAL., FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 28, 1899, NO. 74

A WILL CONTEST.

The Will of Samuel Page, Deceased, Attacked.

     Solomon C. Page, a son, and Mary A. Garver, a daughter of Samuel C. Page, deceased, today filed in the Superior Court of Kings county a contest against the will filed in the Superior Court, purporting to be the last will and testament of the deceased. The grounds of contest are numerous, and they cover seven pages of closely type-written copy.

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The first ground of contest is that said Samuel Page was not, at the date when said instrument was written, of sound and disposing mind; that he was at that date and had been for a time prior thereto, suffering with paresis, or what is commonly called softening of the brain; the said Samuel Page was when he signed said alleged will acting under undue influence exerted by Lillian H. Page, his wife, whom deceased had recently married, and whose marriage with the deceased was the consumation of a plot or design to complicate certain ligitation pending at the date of said marriage, between said Samuel Page and these contestants.

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     It recites how Mrs. Page first met the deceased and signed a marriage contract with him, and that at that date the said Samuel Page was practically insolvent, and that he had no property with which to carry out the purported will now proposed for probate, and that the terms of the purported will now proposed for probate are inconsistant with the said contract; that said purported will is ambiguous and is not susceptible of interpretation in connection with other instruments and suits and controversies referred to therein.

     For the purpose of further showing that the said Samuel Page's signature was fraudulently obtained to the said purported will, contestants allege that they are informed and believe, and on such information allege that in the month of April, 1898, M.L. Short drew and prepared for said Samuel Page an instrument

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as the last will and testament of the said Samuel Page, and which will, together with a certain codicil, executed in 1898, is, as contestants are informed, now on file in the
Superior Court of Kings county, California; that thereafter, on the sixth day of April, 1899, the said Samuel Page for the purpose of carrying out his independent and sole purpose, at the Bank of Hanford, wrote out and signed an article as his last will and testament, and deposited the same with J.O. Hickman.

     That the purported will now prepared for probate is dated just twelve days later than the one dated April 6th; that the one of April 6, 1899, is consistent with the one of April 18, 1898, but that the purported will for probate is incompatible with and antagonistic to the Said Samuel Page's purposes expressed just twelve days previously, and that during all the time intervening between the 6th day of April and the 18th day of April, said Samuel Page was suffering 

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  with softening of the brain, technically termed "Paresis," and with which disease said deceased died just sixty-seven days after the said purported will was written and signed.

     That the contestants are informed and believe that at the time of writing said last will, Rowen, Irwin and Ed Shuey, the attorneys in the employ of the deceased became interest in the advancement of the said conspiracy and counseled and advised the said Samuel Page that it was his duty to provide for the said Lillian H. Page by making a will in her favor, and that it was his duty to cut off these contestants. And the said Lilian H. Pate, for the purpose of encouraging and in-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

fluencing him to sign the said purported will, falsely pretended to the said Samuel Page that she was a strong believer of the peculiar religious theories adhered to by the said Samuel Page. 

     Contestants are informed and believe that the testament is not a last will and testament at all, and that the same was not entirely written, dated and signed by the said Samuel Page, but that the entire instrument was written by some other person than the deceased, with the single exception of the signature thereto, which appears to be in the hand writing of decreased.

     T.E. Clark and Hudson & Pryer are the attorneys for contestants and Rowen Irwin, Roth & McFadzean and Ed Shuey are attorneys for proponent.

    

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Page Family - Samuel Page - Headstone

This is the FindaGrave entry for Rev Samuel Page. The address is: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/35592546/samuel-page.

You should be able to copy and paste the link into the search engine and be directed to this page.

This memorial reads as:

Rev Samuel Page

Birth                     11 Oct 1823 

                             Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, USA
Death                    24 Jun 1899 (aged 75)
                            Hanford, Kings County, California, USA
Burial                   Hanford Cemetery
                      Hanford, Kings County, California, USA

Plot                      Sec: Old Lot: 197

Memorial ID         35592546

                             

Source Citation: 

Find a Grave, database and images

(https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/35592546/sanyek-page : accessed 9 April 2022), memorial page for Rev Samuel Page (11 Oct 1823-24 Jun 1899), Find a Grave Memorial ID 35592546, citing Hanford Cemetery, Hanford, Kings County, California, USA; Maintained by JC (contributor 46996543).

This stone reads:

SAMUEL PAGE

BORN

OCT. 11, 1823

DIED

JUNE 24, 1899

ELIAS C. PAGE

MARY A. CARVER

H.C. PAGE

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Winch Family - 1950 Census - Fresno, California

To find use this link:

 https://1950census.archives.gov/search/?county=Fresno%2C%20Fresno&name=Winch%2C%20Emily&page=1&state=CA

This census reads as:

This record is from Fresno, Fresno, California. the enumeration district is 63-38. The family is listed on lines 41, 42, and 43. The property & house was not of a farm, nor was it on land that was greater than 3 or more acres.

The address of the house in 1438 N. First Street in Fresno, Fresno, California. They are in Judicial Township 3.

This census reads as:

The house is the 163rd dwelling visited in the township.

Emily Winch was a divorced, white head of household [fe]male, and was 51 years of age. She was born in Iowa. I do not know what "042" references at present. Emily is not employed, possibly because my Dad, Myron, and aunt, Lola are working.

Myron is Emily's son. He is listed on line 22. He is a white male who is 27 years old, and has never married. He was born in Minnesota. He works as a estimator in [the] line dept. His employer is the gas and electric company.  [I do not know if Dad was working for "San Jouquin Power and Gas or if the name had already been changed to Pacific, Gas, and Electric. The class of worker is 390-588-1.

Lola is listed on line 23. She is Emily's daughter. She is a white female who is 23 years old. She has never been married and lives in California. She is working as a bookkeep[er]ing at the newspaper office [The Fresno Bee]. The class of worker is 310-459-1.

I believe that my parents were dating during this time period.

I believe that Lola and Fred Page were dating at this time period.

To pull this record up on FamilySearch.org you will have to sign up and make a 3-4 person family tree. If you want to do that, let me know and I will give you the "person numbers" for the Page family.

To search this census on FamilySearch.org pull up the following link: https://1950census.archives.gov/search/?county=Fresno%2C%20Fresno&name=Winch%2C%20Emily&page=1&state=CA

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