William Samuel Stone

[KiwiChris]

Can someone please have a look at the 1910 US census on Ancestry for this man?
FMP has William S Stone b England 1871 and married with no wife there, living in Oakland Ward 4 Alameda California, but it appears to have the wrong image loaded against it. Hopefully Ancestry has the right image and I can get some more information!
With him is Ada Stone b c1888 England single.
The Head is Edgar F Gee b 1864 England.

The William Samuel Stone that I want is a clergyman who is supposed to be dead in the 1906 California earthquake. Is this the same man or someone else??

Thanks

[Shona]

It's the correct image on Ancestry.

Edgar Gee, head, white, 46, single, clergyman, b England, mother and father b England, immigration year 1885, naturalised

William S Stone, lodger, white, 39, clergyman, married, b England, mother and father b England, immigration year 1906, alien

Ada Stone, lodger, white, 22, single, b England, parents b England, immigration year 1906

Mary Pinkerton, lodger, white, 70, married, b New York, father b Mass, mother b New York

[KiwiChris]

Yes! Thank you so much. He obviously did not die in 1906! :d

I wonder who Ada was, I cannot find him a sister called Ada.

He does have a wife and child in England in 1911. I have found what looks like his USA naturalisation papers in 1913, so it looks like he stayed in the USA.

[Merry]

Someone was searching for him in 2005. They said he went from Tasmania to US (Chicago) in 1906 and that he died in 1949. Someone else found this death reg:

State of IL death index
STONE WILLIAM S M/W Y-79 Cert # 6027295 died 1949-09-21 COOK Co.

[KiwiChris]

Thanks Merry. I will look through some more US census and see if his wife ever caught up with him again!

[Merry]

Could you also look to see if she died/remarried in Eng/Wales and/or the same for their child?

[Uncle John]

I wonder if his wife was still around at the start of women's suffrage and appears on an electoral roll somewhere. Don't forget Scotland or possibly an outgoing passenger list.

[KiwiChris]

He does not seem obviously on US census with his wife and child, and he is not really obvious either. He may have morphed into a teacher, but I cannot be certain it is really him.

At least I have disproved the died in the earthquake theory. I will see if I can find what happened to his wife and child when I get home tonight.