Pearl is the oldest daughter and 2nd oldest of the 8 children of Victor Emanuel Bemis and May Estella Hall. Her husband, parents, oldest brother Vern, and two youngest siblings Grace and Victor are buried in the same cemetery she is.
She married John Floyd Stevens on 16 Sep 1909 in Inkster. They had 2 boys - James Everett born 1913 and died 1999, and Victor Douglas born 1916 and died 1975.
Her beloved husband John died in the flu epidemic of 1918. As a widow with two young boys, she lived with her parents in North Dakota. Her mother passed away in 1922.
Pearl's father was a wealthy banker, but with the stock market crash and the depression, he went bankrupt as he could not bear to take people's farms from them. Pearl and her father and her two boys decided to move from North Dakota to Arizona about 1929 where her father's cousin, Murray Bemis, lived.
In Arizona, Pearl and her boys lived separately from her father and took in boarders. She passed away in 1932. Her father was too old to take care of the orphaned boys, so Doug (16) moved to Chicago to live with Pearl's sisters during his last 2 years of high school and James (19) stayed on his own in Phoenix trying to get by.
She married John Floyd Stevens on 16 Sep 1909 in Inkster. They had 2 boys - James Everett born 1913 and died 1999, and Victor Douglas born 1916 and died 1975.
Her beloved husband John died in the flu epidemic of 1918. As a widow with two young boys, she lived with her parents in North Dakota. Her mother passed away in 1922.
Pearl's father was a wealthy banker, but with the stock market crash and the depression, he went bankrupt as he could not bear to take people's farms from them. Pearl and her father and her two boys decided to move from North Dakota to Arizona about 1929 where her father's cousin, Murray Bemis, lived.
In Arizona, Pearl and her boys lived separately from her father and took in boarders. She passed away in 1932. Her father was too old to take care of the orphaned boys, so Doug (16) moved to Chicago to live with Pearl's sisters during his last 2 years of high school and James (19) stayed on his own in Phoenix trying to get by.
Pearl is the oldest daughter and 2nd oldest of the 8 children of Victor Emanuel Bemis and May Estella Hall. Her husband, parents, oldest brother Vern, and two youngest siblings Grace and Victor are buried in the same cemetery she is.
She married John Floyd Stevens on 16 Sep 1909 in Inkster. They had 2 boys - James Everett born 1913 and died 1999, and Victor Douglas born 1916 and died 1975.
Her beloved husband John died in the flu epidemic of 1918. As a widow with two young boys, she lived with her parents in North Dakota. Her mother passed away in 1922.
Pearl's father was a wealthy banker, but with the stock market crash and the depression, he went bankrupt as he could not bear to take people's farms from them. Pearl and her father and her two boys decided to move from North Dakota to Arizona about 1929 where her father's cousin, Murray Bemis, lived.
In Arizona, Pearl and her boys lived separately from her father and took in boarders. She passed away in 1932. Her father was too old to take care of the orphaned boys, so Doug (16) moved to Chicago to live with Pearl's sisters during his last 2 years of high school and James (19) stayed on his own in Phoenix trying to get by.
She married John Floyd Stevens on 16 Sep 1909 in Inkster. They had 2 boys - James Everett born 1913 and died 1999, and Victor Douglas born 1916 and died 1975.
Her beloved husband John died in the flu epidemic of 1918. As a widow with two young boys, she lived with her parents in North Dakota. Her mother passed away in 1922.
Pearl's father was a wealthy banker, but with the stock market crash and the depression, he went bankrupt as he could not bear to take people's farms from them. Pearl and her father and her two boys decided to move from North Dakota to Arizona about 1929 where her father's cousin, Murray Bemis, lived.
In Arizona, Pearl and her boys lived separately from her father and took in boarders. She passed away in 1932. Her father was too old to take care of the orphaned boys, so Doug (16) moved to Chicago to live with Pearl's sisters during his last 2 years of high school and James (19) stayed on his own in Phoenix trying to get by.
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