Daughter of William "Albert" Stone and Martha Stage. Her birth city is based on her siblings' sourced birthplace of Boalsburg before and after her birth. Her mother Martha's married names were Stone, Saunders and Crooker. Ada married three times as well to John B. Frost, William Higgins and Samuel Bruce Wells.
Her children:
1. Mattie Frost
2. Albert Frost
3. Mintia May (Higgins) Smith ("Minnie")
4. William Higgins
5. Fred R. Higgins
6. Walter Willis Wells
7. Hazel M. (Wells) Hardisty Trimbur
8. Samuel Ellis Wells
9. Unknown child. Mother's 1900 census says 8 of 9 children living. 1910 says 7 of 9 living and son Fred died in 1909.
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Chapel of the Chimes records (Santa Rosa, Sonoma County):
Ada M. Wells
b. 14 Dec 1851
d. 15 Feb 1940
mother: unknown
father: Stone
BURIED RURAL CEMETERY (cremation)
burial permit dated 3/26/1940
informant: Mr. Lee Hardisty ***
O'Leary Funeral Home, Sebastopol
This information was given over the phone. They would not send me a copy of her funeral records.
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*** Her daughter Hazel's first husband.
Records from Analy O'Leary Funeral Service:
(now called Pleasant Hills Memorial Park & Mortuary in Sebastopol)
Place of death: Route 3 Box 182, Sebastopol
Funeral: 2/16/1940
Services: Chapel of the Chimes
Interment: Chapel of the Chimes (error- Chapel of the Chimes records say buried Rural Cemetery)
Type: Casket burial
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Note: Death certificate stated "cremation" by Chapel of the Chimes and listed O'Leary Funeral Service as "embalmer" and funeral director. No mention of Rural Cemetery.
Listed in the Santa Rosa Rural Cemetery Book (revised 2007 edition) as:
Ada Wells d. 1946
Location: Stanley Outer Circle near II. Broken wooden marker - nails form the inscription, 5/96.
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This bio was created in order to assist with providing updates for the upcoming edition of the Santa Rosa Rural Cemetery book published by the SCGS. The intent is to have these family burials remembered and accurately recorded.
Daughter of William "Albert" Stone and Martha Stage. Her birth city is based on her siblings' sourced birthplace of Boalsburg before and after her birth. Her mother Martha's married names were Stone, Saunders and Crooker. Ada married three times as well to John B. Frost, William Higgins and Samuel Bruce Wells.
Her children:
1. Mattie Frost
2. Albert Frost
3. Mintia May (Higgins) Smith ("Minnie")
4. William Higgins
5. Fred R. Higgins
6. Walter Willis Wells
7. Hazel M. (Wells) Hardisty Trimbur
8. Samuel Ellis Wells
9. Unknown child. Mother's 1900 census says 8 of 9 children living. 1910 says 7 of 9 living and son Fred died in 1909.
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Chapel of the Chimes records (Santa Rosa, Sonoma County):
Ada M. Wells
b. 14 Dec 1851
d. 15 Feb 1940
mother: unknown
father: Stone
BURIED RURAL CEMETERY (cremation)
burial permit dated 3/26/1940
informant: Mr. Lee Hardisty ***
O'Leary Funeral Home, Sebastopol
This information was given over the phone. They would not send me a copy of her funeral records.
______________________________________
*** Her daughter Hazel's first husband.
Records from Analy O'Leary Funeral Service:
(now called Pleasant Hills Memorial Park & Mortuary in Sebastopol)
Place of death: Route 3 Box 182, Sebastopol
Funeral: 2/16/1940
Services: Chapel of the Chimes
Interment: Chapel of the Chimes (error- Chapel of the Chimes records say buried Rural Cemetery)
Type: Casket burial
_______________________________________
Note: Death certificate stated "cremation" by Chapel of the Chimes and listed O'Leary Funeral Service as "embalmer" and funeral director. No mention of Rural Cemetery.
Listed in the Santa Rosa Rural Cemetery Book (revised 2007 edition) as:
Ada Wells d. 1946
Location: Stanley Outer Circle near II. Broken wooden marker - nails form the inscription, 5/96.
______________________________________
This bio was created in order to assist with providing updates for the upcoming edition of the Santa Rosa Rural Cemetery book published by the SCGS. The intent is to have these family burials remembered and accurately recorded.
Inscription
Transcription to the left & what it appears to mean is in ( ):
...GGINS (Fred HIGGINS)
...09 (d. 1909)
...WELLS
1939?
...M. WELLS (ADA M. WELLS)
...1940 (d. 1940)
Gravesite Details
Thought to be 3 names on this marker... two Wells and what appears to be Higgins at the top.
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