Micaela B. (Venzor) Williams (1891 - 1961)

Born 8 May 1891 in San Diego, Duval, Texas, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Samuel Stuart Williams — married 15 May 1913 in Santa Barbara, California, United States

Died 21 Aug 1961 at age 70 in Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California

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Biography

May Venzor was born to Pablo Venzor and Natalia Hernández in Teas in 1891. IN 1913, she married Samuel Williams in California. They lived in San Diego, CA and had two sons, Ted and Danny in 1918 and 1920, respectively. Ted Williams was the Hall of Fame outfielder for the Boston Red Sox. May was known for her work with the Salvation Army, primarily across the border in Mexico, where she was known as "The Angel of Tijuana." She passed away in 1961 at the age of seventy.

This about May Williams from the book "Ted Williams, Season of the Kid" by Richard Kramer:

His mother was the strength of the family, a small woman with a will of steel who gave her life to the Salvation Army. She was always out on the streets of San Diego or south of the border. 'The Angel of Tijanua', out fighting the devil drink, selling the War Cry, or playing on the cornet, and God-blessing those who vouchsafed a nickel.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ Cramer, Richard Ben, Ted Williams, Seasons of the Kid, page 17. Prentice Hall, New York, 1991.

• "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XLX7-13D : 8 December 2017), Samuel Stewart Williams and May Venzar, 15 May 1913; citing Santa Barbara, California, United States, county courthouses, California; FHL microfilm 1,289,285.

• "California Birth Index, 1905-1995," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VLNF-HN3 : 27 November 2014), Venzor in entry for Theodore S Williams, 30 Aug 1918; citing San Diego, California, United States, Department of Health Services, Vital Statistics Department, Sacramento.

• "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHWX-W6B : accessed 22 August 2019), May Williams in household of Samuel S Williams, San Diego, San Diego, California, United States; citing ED 325, sheet 1B, line 89, family 35, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 132; FHL microfilm 1,820,132.

• "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XC6X-FBM : accessed 22 August 2019), May B Williams in household of Samuel S Williams, San Diego, San Diego, California, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 77, sheet 7A, line 10, family 195, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 191; FHL microfilm 2,339,926.

• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K9HD-634 : 27 July 2019), May V Williams in household of Samuel S Williams, Councilmanic District 3, San Diego, San Diego Judicial Township, San Diego, California, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 62-53B, sheet 1A, line 18, family 7, 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 451.

• "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVVZ-XJTQ : 11 July 2016), May Venzor Williams, 1961; Burial, Goleta, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America, Goleta Cemetery; citing record ID 13591017, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.