Emma Euphemia (Pickett) Simpson (1895 - 1988)

Born 14 Sep 1895 in Ventura, Ventura, California, USA

Ancestors

Wife of Henry Cooper Simpson — married 18 Apr 1952 in Calaveras, California, United States

Died 12 Jun 1988 at age 92 in Santa Barbara, California

Biography

Emma "Emily" Euphemia Pickett was born on 14 Sep 1895 in Ventura, California, ^{[1] [2]} to Edward Samuel Pickett (1866–1952) and Louise Alice Eastwood (1875–1943). She had a sister Florence Felicite Pickett.

She married Eugene Shirrell Kellogg of a prominent Santa Barbara family ^[3]. They had two children:

1. Eugene Edward Kellogg
2. Marjorie May Kellogg

After the death of Eugene, she remarried Henry C Simpson on 18 April 1952 in Calaveras, California. She was 56 and he was 60. ^[4] They had no children.

Emma Kellogg was a housewife with a natural artistic gift who pursued woodcarving in college extension classes and designed and carved beautiful furniture. ^[5]

Emma passed away on 12 Jun 1988 in Santa Barbara, California. She was living in Exeter, situated in the San Joaquin Valley near the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains, at the time of her death. ^{[1] [2]} She is buried in Goleta Cemetery, Goleta, Santa Barbara County, California in Plot: 3 East- Lot- 048-1/2- Space- 2. ^[6]

Residence

Residence Date: 1900, in Hueneme Township, Ventura, California^[7]

Residence Date: 1910 In Oxnard, Ventura, California ^[8]

Residence Date: 1920, Hope, Santa Barbara, California ^[9]

Residence Date: 1940, Judicial Township 3, Santa Barbara, California ^[10]

Research Notes

I searched Ancestry, FamilySearch, and MyHeritage and could not find a 1930 US Census. (29 October 2020)

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} "California Death Index, 1940-1997", database, FamilySearch, 26 November 2014, accessed 29 October 2020, Emma Euphemia Simpson, 12 Jun 1988; Department of Public Health Services, Sacramento.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} "United States Social Security Death Index", database, FamilySearch, 23 August 2020, accessed 29 October 2020, Emma K Simpson, 12 Jun 1988; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).
3. ↑ "California Marriages, 1850-1945", database, FamilySearchk 24 March 2020 accessed 29 October 2020, Emma Euphemia Pickett in entry for Eugene Shirrell Kellogg, 1917.
4. ↑ California, Marriage Index, 1949-1959 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013. Original data: California Department of Health and Welfare. California Vital Records—Vitalsearch (www.vitalsearch-worldwide.com). The Vitalsearch Company Worldwide, Inc., Pleasanton, California, citing Emma E Kellogg to Henry C Simpson.
5. ↑ https://www.enotes.com/topics/marjorie-kellogg Biography of Marjorie Kellogg] Her daughter
6. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images, accessed 29 October 2020), memorial page for Emma Euphemia Simpson (14 Sep 1895–12 Jun 1988), Find A Grave: Memorial #82419279, citing Goleta Cemetery, Goleta, Santa Barbara County, California, USA ; Maintained by Ron West (contributor 47389384) .
7. ↑ "United States Census, 1900", database with images, FamilySearch, accessed 29 October 2020, Emily E Pickett in household of Edward S Pickett, Hueneme Township, Ventura, California, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 163, Sheet 37B, Line 58, Family 950, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,116.
8. ↑ ", United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch, accessed 29 October 2020, Emma E Pickett in household of Edward S Pickett, Oxnard, Ventura, California, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 209, Sheet 5A, Line 19, family 115, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 111; FHL microfilm 1,374,124.
9. ↑ "United States Census, 1920" database with images, FamilySearch, accessed 29 October 2020), Emma Kellogg in household of Eugene S Kellogg, Hope, Santa Barbara, California, United States; citing ED 100, Sheet 3B, Line 97, family 81, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 145; FHL microfilm 1,820,145.
10. ↑ "United States Census, 1940" database with images, FamilySearch, 29 November 2019, accessed 29 October 2020, Eugene Kellogg, Judicial Township 3, Santa Barbara, California, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 42-46, sheet 13B, line 77, family 330, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 334.

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