Carrie Ann (Lucas) Partridge (1865 - 1966)

Born 13 Nov 1865 in Silver City, Owyhee Co., ID

Ancestors

Wife of Alfred H Partridge — married 22 May 1891 in Los Felos, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California

Descendants

Died 17 Jul 1966 at age 100 in Alameda Co., CA

Problems/Questions Profile manager: Steven Mix [send private message]

Biography

Descendants of Carrie Ann Lucas

1 Carrie Ann Lucas b: November 13, 1865 in Silver City, Owyhee Co., ID d: July 17, 1966 in Alameda Co., CA .. +[1] Alfred H. Partridge b: April 14, 1858 in Johnson St. home, Brooklyn, Kings Co., NY m: May 22, 1891 in Los Felos, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co., CA d: October 25, 1924 in Oakland, Alameda Co., CA ........ 2 William 'Bill' Henry Partridge b: June 28, 1892 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co., CA d: May 14, 1974 in Fortuna, Humboldt Co., CA ............ +Emma Gilliam b: May 09, 1894 in San Francisco, CA m: August 20, 1916 in Oakland, Alameda Co., CA d: March 29, 1965 in Humboldt Co., CA ........ 2 Alfred J. Preston Partridge b: September 23, 1893 in Las Felis[?], Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co., CA d: January 02, 1980 in Mount Hermon, Santa Cruz Co., CA ............ +Irene Myfanny Stevens b: December 06, 1908 in San Francisco, CA December 06 m: June 14, 1924 in near Oakland, Alameda Co., CA? d: May 1999 ........ *2nd Wife of Alfred J. Preston Partridge: ............ +Mary Louise Galer b: February 02, 1910 in Alameda Co., CA m: May 29, 1947 in near Castro Valley, Alameda Co., CA? d: November 30, 1982 in Mount Hermon, Santa Cruz Co., CA ........ 2 Fanny Olive Partridge b: March 20, 1895 in near Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co., CA? d: July 18, 1995 in Corvallis, Benton Co., OR ............ +Eugene Joseph Pells b: August 05, 1893 in Santa Rosa, Sonoma Co., CA m: January 31, 1922 in Oakland, Alameda Co., CA d: June 08, 1927 in Livermore Sanitorium, Alameda Co., CA Cause of death: Tuberculosis Burial: June 11, 1927 with soldiers honors, Mountain View Cem, Oakland, Alameda Co., CA ........ 2 Allen Lucas Partridge b: April 03, 1897 in near Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co., CA? d: February 1971 in Prescott, Yavapai Co., AZ *2nd Husband of Carrie Ann Lucas: .. +[1] Alfred H. Partridge b: April 14, 1858 in Johnson St. home, Brooklyn, Kings Co., NY m: Aft. 1902 in Oakland, Alameda Co., CA 2nd marriage d: October 25, 1924 in Oakland, Alameda Co., CA

Degree Abt. June 1887 teaching degree, Iowa City Academy, Johnson Co., e. IA

Education 1877 started Frankes Academy , now Main St. between 4th & 5th, next door to 1st ME Church, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co., CA, age 11 Education August 1882 start Normal school Education Aft. May 1886 attended Iowa City Academy, Johnson Co., e. IA

Occupation Bef. 1889 obtained a District School, Iowa Occupation 1889 school teacher in suburbs of Red Oak, Montgomery Co., sw. IA Occupation 1907 housekeeper, Oakland, Alameda Co., CA

Residence 1880 in household of father John, Vernon/San Antonio, Los Angeles Co., CA Residence Aft. September 1880 stayed with Aunt Syb (Sylvia Bentley Lucas?) at Lucas mansion Santa Monica, Los Angeles Co., CA Residence Bef. May 1886 Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co., CA Residence Abt. May 1886 big red brick house on J. H. Lucas property, Corning, Adams Co., sw. IA Residence 1887 Iowa City, Johnson Co., e. IA Residence Bef. 1889 Corning, Adams Co., sw. IA Residence 1889 moved to Red Oak, Montgomery Co., sw. IA with Fanny Residence Abt. 1890 moved from Red Oak, to live with friend, Mary Penman, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co., CA Residence Bef. March 1891 moved from CA to be with ill Fanny & family, Fremont, Dodge Co., NE Residence Aft. March 19, 1891 returned to Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co., CA Residence Abt. March 1899 West St., Oakland, Alameda Co., CA Residence 1900 with father John Henry & sister Effie McElroy, 920 40th St., near Emeryville, Oakland, Alameda Co., CA Residence Abt. August 1902 with Farina, Fenita & Allen John, 84 Echo Ave., at Piedmont Ave. & Howe St., Oakland, Alameda Co., CA Residence Bet. 1904 - 1906 with Farina, Fenita & Allen, 4203 Piedmont Ave., Oakland, Alameda Co., CA Residence Bet. 1906 - 1908 with Farina & Allen, 4203 Piedmont Ave., Oakland, Alameda Co., CA Residence 1909 with Farina, 4203 Piedmont Ave., Oakland, Alameda Co., CA Residence 1943 529 36th St. Oakland, Alameda Co., CA Residence 1943 sold 529 36th St., Oakland, Alameda Co., CA Residence October 1943 1524 80th Ave. (Ada's), with son Alfred and granddaughter Phillis, Oakland, Alameda Co., CA Residence July 01, 1944 5412 Bmd [?] Residence Bef. 1959 Oakland, Alameda Co., CA

LABEL1: Lived over 100 years

LABEL5: Chapel of Chimes- Hayward.

lived to age 100

kept extensive journal up to 1950's, age 90's

from Carrie Ann Partridge, abt 1950:

I, Carrie Ann Lucas Partridge have accumulated this data since I was a young woman and I think it is very correct.

from John LeRoy Humbert, Jr., Feb 1999:

The most interesting notes on the cryptic timeline to me are in 1882. "Cousin Ed" and "Normal". This is because in 1882 William Lucas visited from Iowa to L.A. Carrie kind of apologizes for not getting family data from him. Understandable as she was only 17. I wonder if the notation on Cousin Ed is tied to the visit by Wm.? Is one of the records in error? Don't know. The notation "Normal" would indicate to me that Carrie entered normal school that year. It was not uncommon for young ladies who finished highschool (usually at about the age of 16) to go to normal school for 2 or more years and then go into teaching. Carries says she graduated in 1888 and taught at Red Oak (?) in 1889. She does not mention Ada's marriage.

I think the 1886 notation refers to a move Carrie made while in school, not to a move by the Lucas family. I believe the events in the time line pretty much apply only to Carrie unless otherwise noted. Cryptic notes such as "to Iowa City" and "in L.A." were intended to jog her memory as she wrote her journal, so we can't build too many theories on what she may have meant.

I sure wish the things that Carrie lists as "on file" were available. She had a gray steel file box that had her copies of stock certificates from the late 1800's early 1900's, and I suspect had other things she mentions. Perhaps Al's daughter Phyllis ended up with it. I've not seen or heard from her since Carrie died or earlier (I was a pall bearer at the funeral and sitting in the front during the funeral/burial, didn't see everyone in the crowd. I assume Phyllis was there).

Here is a tidbit from mo own memory, an event that took place at the First Baptist Church on Redwood Rd. in Castro Valley when Aunt Carrie was in her 90's. > > We were members of the church as were the Partridges, Al was an usher. Aunt Carrie had not come to church for quite a long time as her sight and hearing were both poor and it was difficult for her to negotiate unfamiliar territory. > > Every year at Mother's Day, it was usual for the Rev. (Radcliff at that time I think) to have all the mothers in the congregation stand, then seat them by saying "All those under 30 please sit" etc. etc. until only one was left standing. For many years this had been a woman then about 90 years old. I no longer remember her name, but she was not the nicest of people and it always detracted from the whole thing that the last person left standing was in fact rather a nasty one. > > One year Al and the current pastor put their heads together and brought in Aunt Carrie (I think she was about 95 at the time, but not sure), and seated her near the back.  When the usual ceremony was completed, and the usual senior mother left standing up front and looking very smug, the Reverend then added "Now all those under 95 please sit. This caused quite a comotion (Baptists are easily aroused) and heads turned until Carrie was seen at the back of the church with Al holding her steady. Applause and cheering are not always out of place in church. > > Some might think the whole episode lacked charity, I think it was rather a form of education for all who experienced it. >

Got to come home for this weekend, and had the following waiting for me;

"Jan 31, 2000

"Dear John & Family

"After my Dad (Al Partridge) & Mother were divorced, I lived with grandma Partridge (Carrie Lucas) a lot during summer vacations and on week-ends.

I lived with aunt Ada with my grandma & Dad one summer. She was so nice to me. I think it was after my grandma sold her home in Oakland and had a hard time getting relocated.

The return address on the envelope is Phillis Carstensen

John

from Carole Elizabeth Bartlett MacKay, Feb 1999:

Carrie attended Iowa City Academy and graduated in 1887. She obtained a district school.

[1889] Fanny supported family now entirely from store. Fanny & Carrie sold store after JHL left & moved to Red Oak, IA.

Carrie obtained a position as school teacher in suburbs of Red Oak and was just in line for a city school when she seemed to require a change of climate and accordingly sent to LA and stayed with her friend, Mary Penman.

1891 Great alarm was felt as to Fanny's health and Carrie came home from Calif. [to NE]

[1897] Farina & 'Judge' [Fenita] went to live with Carrie. Then Carrie moved to Peidmont Ave. in Oakland with Farina and Judge. Judge went to high school and graduated there.

[John L. Humbert, Jr..FTW]

BIO:Carrie was born NOV.13, 1865, half a year after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. My first memory of her, she was sharing an apartment in Oakland, Calif. with one of her sisters (I believe Effie Eliza Lucas). Her son Alfred built a house on Redwood Road in Castro Valley Calif., and Carrie spent her last years there with Alfred and his second wife (Mary Louise Galer). Carrie was very nearly blind, and very hard of hearing in her last years, and for safety reasons could not be left alone. As a teenager, I sometimes kept Carrie company when Al and Mary-Lou were away. Carrie would tell me stories of her (and my grandmother Ada's) childhood days, she remembered best their experiences in the 1870's in Elko, Nevada, and in southern California. Carrie compiled a great deal of genealogy in a hand-written journal, which has survived to this time, in it she mentions a great number of documents that were apparently in her possession at one time, but if they survive, they were not with the journal when it was found in 1992. A great deal of Carrie's interest in family history seems to have revolved around her hope that unclaimed property or wealth would be found, family stories abound with tales of donated properties that should revert to heirs, unclaimed wealth and even buried treasure (the buried treasure story appears to have been true, See biography of John Lucas). Carrie appears to have added information to her journal from perhaps as early as 1890, up to about 1951. Carrie's father liquidated the family 's vast land holdings, and invested the money in stocks. Stacks of the worthless certificates were around when I was a youngster, but I don't know what became of them. They were primarily stocks in gold and copper mining and oil exploration companies. The only company name that I remember is the Globe Copper Mine in Arizona. Many of the stocks had John Henry Lucas listed on them as an officer of the company. The face value of the stocks was several million dollars. I believe that at the least, Carrie and Ada Lucas each had one of these bundles of certificates. I do not know if other children of "Henry" (or his siblings) had some also. John L. Humbert, Jr. -1992-

Conversations with Carrie Ann Lucas and John L. Humbert, Sr. Journal of Carrie Ann Lucas.

Sources

• Caryl Dinsmore, (1998-2001).

Shirley Anne Elmore, 1997 - 1998.

John Leroy Humbert, Jr., Humbert Clan's Home Page! web page, (1997 http://www.goldrush.net/~humbert/index.html), "Electronic."

Affidavit of birth, note: certificate of sister Ada has signature of Mrs. Carrie Ann Lucas Partridge, 1943.

Carrie Ann Partridge, (abt 1885 - abt 1950).

Oakland City Directories, Oakland History Room, note: 1900 has name Mrs. Carrie A. Partridge, 1904 Mrs. Carrie Partridge Lucas, 1905-1907 Mrs. Carrie L Partridge, 1908-1909 Carrie L (wid Alfred).

1880 Census, Vernon, Los Angeles Co., CA, note: has name Carrie Lucas.

CA Death Records at Rootsweb, online, (http://userdb.rootsweb.com/ca/death/search.cgi), "Electronic," note: has name Carrie L Partridge.

1880 Census, San Antonio, Los Angeles Co., CA, note: has name Carrie Lucas.

DNA Confirmation

Paternal relationship between MRCA John and Carrie is confirmed by the following autosomal AncestryDNA test comparisons, for third cousin or closer relationship:

Maternal relationship between MRCA Farina and Carrie is confirmed by the following autosomal AncestryDNA test comparisons, for third cousin or closer relationship:

Triangulation needed for beyond 3rd cousin:

• Ada (Lucas) Humbert and Carrie (Lucas) Partridge are confirmed to be siblings, as children of John Henry Lucas and Farina (Bentley) Lucas, by Predicted relationship: 3rd cousin 1x removed, AncestryDNA test of Ada's great-grandson Steven Mix and Carrie's great-gr-grandson Andre Pells. Shared DNA: 71 cM across 5 segments, 13% probability 3rd cousin 1x removed.

• Ada (Lucas) Humbert and Carrie (Lucas) Partridge are confirmed to be siblings, as children of John Henry Lucas and Farina (Bentley) Lucas, by Predicted relationship: 3rd cousin 1x removed, AncestryDNA test of Ada's great-grandson Steven Mix and Carrie's great-gr-granddaughter Renee Frye. Shared DNA: 52 cM across 4 segments, 21% probability 3rd cousin 1x removed.

• Ada (Lucas) Humbert and Carrie (Lucas) Partridge are confirmed to be siblings, as children of John Henry Lucas and Farina (Bentley) Lucas, by Predicted relationship: 4th–6th Cousin, AncestryDNA test of Ada's great-grandson Steven Mix and Carrie's great-gr--grandson Caleb Evans. Shared DNA: 21 cM across 1 segments, 27% probability 3rd cousin 1x removed.

• Ada (Lucas) Humbert and Carrie (Lucas) Partridge are confirmed to be siblings, as children of John Henry Lucas and Farina (Bentley) Lucas, by Predicted relationship: 4th–6th Cousin, AncestryDNA test of Ada's great-grandson Steven Mix and Carrie's great-gr-grandson Andrew Carstensen. Shared DNA: 25 cM across 2 segments, 27% probability 3rd cousin 1x removed.