Dau of James J. Campbell (1835, PA) and Mathilda J. Abel (1852, CA). She is listed in the 1875 Nevada census in Elko at age 2.
The 1880 census lists Rebecca A. Campbell (8, NV) with her parents J. J. (46, PA) and M. J. (29, CA) as well as brother James J. (11, NV), and sisters Mary J (6, NV), Ida (3, NV) and Sarah (2 mo, NV).
She married John T. Reid (1871-1943) a mine owner on 16 Apr 1896 in Auburn, Placer Co, CA and had a daughter Josephine A. in Mar 1897. Living with them in 1900 was her mother Mathilda (47, CA), sister Ida M (22, NV) brother John J (17, NV) and sister Leah (9, NV).
In 1910 she and John are listed with Josephine, but Rebecca is listed as being born in California this time. Also living with them is her father James J. Campbell (75, PA) who had been married 43 yrs.
By 1920 she was divorced and living alone, working as a trained Nurse (40, NV) in Lovelock, NV.
The 1930 census for Lovelock, NV lists Rebecca as the wife of Julian Pagay, a laborer in a lumber yard (47, Spain) first married at age 36, and an alien who immigrated in 1913. Rebecca (47, CA) was not working and was first married at age 18 - prior to Julian.
They are listed in Silver City, NM in 1940, Julian age 44, with wife Rebecca (61, CA). It says they had lived in Lovelock, NV in 1935.
She sailed to Hawaii and back between July and September of 1946.
[Obituary] The St. Helena Star - Friday, 17 September 1948, pg 1
Last Rites For Mrs. Pagay
Last rites were held Monday at 3:30 p.m. for Mrs. Rebecca Pagay, 74, who died at the Sanitarium September 10. The services were held at the Morrison Chapel, with interment in the St. Helena public cemetery. Mrs. Pagay is survived by her husband, Julian Pagay, of Lovelock, Nevada, a daugnter, Mrs. Josephine Thomas, Fresno, and a sister. Mrs. Leah Tomlinson, of Salt Lake City. She was a native of Lodi, and a member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Elder O. H. Shrewsbury officiated at the services.

Daughter of John Furtado (Portugal) and Mary Maderas (Massachusetts).
She married John Charles Piver on 9 Jun 1916 in Berkeley, Alameda Co, CA.
In 1920, she is listed in Oakland CA as Mildred Piver (22, RI) wife of John Piver (24, CA) with children Louis (2) and Marian (1). She is listed with her Piver family of a son and two daughters in Berkeley in 1930, first married at age 15. But is erroneously listed as age 28 and born in Calif.
They must have divorced as he was remarried on 16 May 1931 to Edna May Taylor.
John Piver is listed in the 1940 census with his 3 children from the first marriage and widowed.
Strangely, she is listed as Mildred Gill on her marriage record to Joseph Gill on 26 Nov 1945 in Carson City, NV, just a year before his death in 1946.
The 9 Feb 1949 copy of the Reno Gazette-Journal (pg 5) reported:
ENGAGED - Mrs. Mildred Gill To Become Bride Of Richard Canonic
Mrs. Mildred Gill of Reno, whose engagement to Richard Virgil Canonic of Verdi was announced at a family dinner party given Jan. 30 at the home of Mr. and Mrs. James Canonic at Washoe power plant. A spring wedding is planned by the couple. Mrs Gill was for some time manager of the Crystal candy store here, and Mr. Canonic is In the lumber business in Verdi. Attending the announcement dinner were the honored couple, Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Mayer, Mr. and Mrs. George Knauth, and the host and hostess.
They were married early in 1950 and are listed as married in the 1950 Reno census. They must have divorced soon after as she married Julian Pagay in 1952, and Richard Canonic didn’t die until 1959.
Widow of Joseph Gill (1890-1946) and also listed as Midred Gill Canonic when she married Julian Pagay.
[Obituary] Reno Gazette-Journal - 13 Oct 1952 - Page 11
Reno Resident 20 Years Dies
Mra. Mildred Pagay, a resident of this community for more thart 20 years died at a local hospital Saturday, following a short illness. Mrs. Pagay was formerly Mrs Mildred Gill, whose husband Joe Gill owned the Crystal fountain on Virginia street. Mr. Gill died several years ago.
Mrs. Pagay, a native of Rhode Island, was born Nov. 5, 1902. She is survived by her husband, Julian Pagay of Reno; two daughters, Mrs. Dorothy Canepa of Reno and Mrs. Marian Sciarroni of Richmond, Calif., a son: Louis John Pever of San Francisco.
She was the sister of Joseph Furatdo of Berkeley: Tony Furatado, Oakland; Mrs. May Reese of Oakland, Calif., Mrs. Evelyn Vantbump of Los Angeles.
Friends are invited to attend funeral services on Wednesday afternoon at 3 o’clock at the home chapel of Ross-Burke Co., with the Rev. John T. Ledger of Trinity Episcopal church as clergyman. Burial will be in Mountain View cemetery.
[Obituary] Reno Gazette-Journal - Monday, 13 October 1952, pg 16
PAGAY
In Reno. Oct. 11, 1952, Mrs. Mildred Pagay, wife of Juliun Pagay of Reno; mother of Mrs. Dorothy H. Canepa of Reno, Mrs. Marian Sciarronl of Richmond, Louis John Pever of San Francisco; sister of Joseph Furatdo of Berkeley, Mrs. May Reese of Oakland, Mrs. Evelyn Vantbump of Los Angeles, Tony Furatdo of Oakland. A native of Rhode Island. Friends are invited to attend funeral services on Wednesday at 3 p. m. at the home chapel of Ross-Burke company with the Rev. John T. Ledger of Trinity Episcopal church clerevman. Burial in Mountain View cemetery.

After her death a Card Of Thanks was posted in the 19 Oct 1952 Nevada State Journal - We wish to thank all of our kind friends and neighbors for their many kind expressions of sympathy and condolence during our recent bereavement at the death of Mildred Gill Pagay.

Her birth record lists 16 May 1896, immigration lists her as 16 in 1911 (b. 1895), citizenship application lists her birth as 14 May 1897, and her death certificate lists 24 Feb 1896.
She is listed as Tsipra on the birth record, Cipre during her immigration, and later records list her name as Sadie Sopira Blank.
Her family lived in Novoselitsa (Noua-Sulita or Noyye Strelishcha) near the Carpathian Mtns, and has been in Russia, Romania, Moldavia, and is now in the Ukranian Republic, near Chernovtsy.
Sadie sailed from Rotterdam to New York on the ship “Nieuw Amsterdam” of the Holland-America Line with her older sister Ann and Ann’s husband Max. Her parents sent the children to America a few at a time as they could afford it, to avoid the Russian Revolution, but were unable to leave themselves - according to famliy tradition. She Immigrated thru Ellis Island on Sept. 25, 1911 from Novoselitza, Bessarabia, Romania as Cipre Blank according to her, the passenger list and her alien registration. The ship’s immigration record says she was 16, and lists her with her sister Hinde (Ann) and Max Altman. It also says she was a seamstress, coming to New York to live with her brother Nathan at 42 E. 9th St, which is also the address Max and Ann Altmann listed for a cousin D. Kiegner (their mother's family). Cipre was detained by Immigration for a day until her brother could be contacted, since she was only 13 and listed as coming to live with him, and released on 26 Sept 1911.
She is then listed as Sadie Blank (19, RUS) in the 1915 NY census, haveing been in the US 4 yrs and living with her brother Nathan (26, RUS) and his wife Goldie (23, AUS).
The 1920 census says she was 23 years old, living at 440 East 145 St, Bronx, NY with her brother Nathan, his wife, and their daughter Ruth. She was a boarder who worked as a Foil-lady in a Skirt House. It lists her as an alien, immigrated in 1907, whose parents were both born in Russia. She was also a member of the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society of America in Manhattan, New York in 1920.
Married in Jersey City, New Jersey in 1922, age 24 and living at 440 E. 145th St in New York. According to family tradition they moved to Reno later that year.
Divorced Max Carter in Reno 13 Oct 1938, where the notice in the Nevada State Journal the next day listed “Sadie Blank Cartersinsky (Carter) from Max Cartersinsky (Carter)”. She then lived with her son Hal, as a single mother, until he joined the Navy at age 17 during WWII. In the 1940 census she is listed with son Harold (14) as a seamstress in a clothing store (40, Romania) and divorced, living on Stevenson St.
She was (2nd) married to Eli Krause in November of 1950, but he died a few years later. Sadie remarried Julian Pagay on 4 July 1954 in Carson City, NV. Her Citizenship issued Nov 12, 1953 to Sadie Blank Krause was reissued June 15, 1959 to Sadie Blank Pagay, as a result of her intervening marriage.
Died of a heart attack (had high blood pressure).
[Obituary] Reno Gazette-Journal - Thursday, 27 Feb 1986, pg 33
Sadie B. Pagay
Sadie B. Pagay, 88, died Monday in a Reno hospital. A native of Romania, she was born May 14, 1897, and had lived in Reno since 1922. Mrs. Pagay was employed by Patterson's Mens Store for more than 40 years, retiring in 1976. She was a member of Temple Emanu-El. Surviving are her husband, Julian of Reno; son, Harold A. Carter of San Mateo, Calif.; three grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren. A funeral is scheduled for 2 p.m. Friday at the Ross, Burke & Knobel Mortuary, with burial at the Hebrew Cemetery.