My mother, her sister and brother were placed in an orphanage around 1930 after their mother died. I am trying to locate any of their records. All three were adopted about 2 years later by Walter and Marjorie Horne. In letters we found after my mom died, she wrote that it was a Quaker orphanage in Oakland, California.

Names:

Wilbertha Coleman changed to Bonnie Patricia Horne
Maria Coleman changes to Jeanne Horne
Phillip Coleman changed to Donald Horne

If anyone could direct me to possible information source, I would appreciate it very much!

1930
Emeryville, Alameda, California
Wilson Coleman 44
Bertha Coleman 44
George Coleman 14
Wilberta Coleman 5
Maria Coleman 4
Phillip Coleman 2


I found the article about MRS BERTHA COLEMAN AND HUSBAND WILSON
Oakland Tribune (Oakland, California) > 1930 > May > 1
STRUCK DOWN BY A BAKERY TRUCK AS SHE CROSSED THE STREET IN THE MIDDLE OF THE BLOCK WITH HER HUSBAND, MRS BERTHA COLEMAN, 45, OF 471 EMERY ST. EMERYVILLE WAS TAKEN TO THE HIGHLAND HOSPITAL WHERE SHE DIED A FEW MOMENTS AFTER ADMITTANCE. THE ACCIDENT OCCURED AT 44TH ST AND SAN PABLO AVE IN EMERYVILLE,
GEORGE F HICKEY, 22, DRIVER OF THE MACHINE, WAS ARRESTED BUT RELEASED WHEN WILSON COLEMAN THE HUSBAND APPEARED AT POLICE HEADQUARTERS AND GAVE HIS VERSION OF THE ACCIDENT. COLEMAN RECIEVED MINOR BRUISES AND LACERATION


Some "orphan"type homes found

Fred Finch Orphan asylum
Boys and Girls Aid Society
St Vincents
Roman Catholic Orphan>
The sistersof the Society of Helpers
The Protestant Orphanage Society
The Golden Gate Orphange and Industrial School_Salvation Army


one place you might check is the County Probabtion Dept of Alameda County

Good Luck,
Connie
a search volunteer

I found a 1935 Oakland article that pertain to an organization called "the Friend's Society" in the article the First Unitarian Church is mentioned...I am not "up" on the Quakers so I am not sure of the affliation, but I think I have heard the term "the friends" used in conjunction with the Quakers. I may be way off base tho'.

found reference to "The Friends Society" or "Society of Friends" of Berkley..they had a meeting house at Vine and Walnut sts in Berkley


maybe you can get some assistance from one of these sites?
For more information on the Religious Society of Friends: www.quaker.org.

Oakland Quakers
(Religious Society of Friends)
Worship at 5 pm in the Laurel
Located in the Laurel neighborhood of East Oakland.

FRIENDS (QUAKER) PROGRAMMED MEETING
1600 Sacramento St., Berkeley, CA 94702
Tel. 510-524-4112

http://sfquakers.org/


Connie

Thanks for your help, Connie. The info you supplied regarding the accident is definitely my grandmother, as well as the census info. I will check the other references.

Your help is much appreciated!
Gail

my Grandpa, Melvin Johnson was in this one too.