Wells Family - Person Sheet
Wells Family - Person Sheet
NameLeo Henry “Bob” Carton 
Birth28 May 1901, Ludlow City, Hampden Co, MA
Census6 Jan 1920, Livermore, Alameda Co, CA
Memoroll#625, pg 2
CensusMay 1940, Antioch, Contra Costa Co, CA
Memoroll#197, pg 31
Death16 Nov 1971, San Francisco, CA
Burial19 Nov 1971, Willamette Nat'l Cem, Portland, Multnomah Co, OR
MemoSection T, site 98
Misc. Notes
Son of Henry James Carton (MA) and Mary T. Rice (ENG)
QM3 US Navy WWI - service starting 2 Jun 1917
Listed with his parents in Livermore, CA in the 1920 ceusus, as age 18.
He was first married to Vonna M. Ball (1907-1983) in May 1928, with whom he had a son Robert Wallace Carton (2 Oct 1929 Contra Costa Co, CA - 23 Apr 1954 Sonoma, CA). He was listed with them in Antioch, CA in 1930.
Listed as divorced (38, MA), and working in a steel mill in 1940, with only his mother (65, ENG) living with him.
On 14 Feb 1942 his WWII Draft registration in San Francisco lists Mary G. Carton as his next of kin, having remarried.
QM3 US Navy WWI - service starting 2 Jun 1917
Listed with his parents in Livermore, CA in the 1920 ceusus, as age 18.
He was first married to Vonna M. Ball (1907-1983) in May 1928, with whom he had a son Robert Wallace Carton (2 Oct 1929 Contra Costa Co, CA - 23 Apr 1954 Sonoma, CA). He was listed with them in Antioch, CA in 1930.
Listed as divorced (38, MA), and working in a steel mill in 1940, with only his mother (65, ENG) living with him.
On 14 Feb 1942 his WWII Draft registration in San Francisco lists Mary G. Carton as his next of kin, having remarried.
Spouses
Birth15 Nov 1892, California
Death21 Mar 1986, San Francisco, CA
BurialHoly Cross Catholic Cem, Colma, San Mateo Co, CA
MemoSt Robert Bellarmine section, row 66, stone 38
Misc. Notes
Her mother’s maiden name was Carroll. She gave her birth date as 1892 and 1895 at various times. She and her husband Art worked for and later owned a trucking company named McKesson & Robbins. She is listed as Mary G. (38, CA) in the 1930 census, first married at age 25. In 1938 she was listed as widowed at 4128 17th St in San Francisco. She inherited the business and wanted her adopted son Ken to take it over, but he didn’t.
In 1940, after the death of her husband, she is listed on 17th St as widowed (48, CA), working as a delivery clerk for a drug store, with son Kenneth (16, CA) and a lodger David Jenkins (78, CA).
She later married Leo Carton, who died before her, at which time she resumed the use of Samuels as her last name.
Went by "Gerty".
In 1940, after the death of her husband, she is listed on 17th St as widowed (48, CA), working as a delivery clerk for a drug store, with son Kenneth (16, CA) and a lodger David Jenkins (78, CA).
She later married Leo Carton, who died before her, at which time she resumed the use of Samuels as her last name.
Went by "Gerty".
Marriageabt 1941, San Francisco, CA