Wells Family - Person Sheet
Wells Family - Person Sheet
NameSamuel Claghorn Bates Jr 
Birth19 Oct 1892, San Francisco, CA
Death2 Jan 1976, San Francisco, CA
BurialVeteran’s Memorial Cem, Crescent City, Del Norte Co, CA
MemoNorth Lawn, Row V
Misc. Notes
Son of Samuel Claghorn Bates and Rosella Coakley
Was living in Clark Co, NV when he registered for the WWI draft. SFC US ARMY World War I (15 Dec 1917-23 Aug 1919)
Living in Oakland, married to Pearl for his WWII draft registraton.
Later married to Ellen Louise Meader (1900-1995) on 20 Mar 1952 in Del Norte Co, CA where they lived.
Was living in Clark Co, NV when he registered for the WWI draft. SFC US ARMY World War I (15 Dec 1917-23 Aug 1919)
Living in Oakland, married to Pearl for his WWII draft registraton.
Later married to Ellen Louise Meader (1900-1995) on 20 Mar 1952 in Del Norte Co, CA where they lived.
Spouses
Misc. Notes
Name also listed as Alchorn, Alkern
She was in Nevada in 1910 at age 8, with her mother Josie (24, CA), sister Ida (13, CA) and brother Philip (10, OR). Her mother is listed as married, but her father isn’t listed with them. Living with them is her mother’s sister May Muldoon (17, NV) and husband Edward (25, NV).
Listed with her brothers Philip Alcorn (19, OR) and Thomas Hoad (6, CA) and her remarried mother, Josie Hoad (38, CA) back in northern Calif in 1920. Her stepfather isn’t listed, but he is Edward William Hoad (1878-1936, CA).
She is the second wife in Herbert Samuel’s bigamy case in San Francisco in 1924, six months after their marriage in Oct 1923. And she filed for an annulment immediately on April 19, 1924 awhich was granted on May 3rd.
By 1925 she is listed in the San Francisco city directory as a stenographer, then in 1927 thru 1930 as a book keeper.
She is listed as single (28, ID) in the April 1930 San Francisco census, with a lodger living with her. It appears that she legally (re)married Herbert in June 1930 at Carson City, NV. And she is listed in a 1935 Oakland City Directory as Pearl G. Samuels, living with Herbert.
She worked as an executive secretary and traveled regularly with her boss to New York.
[Oakland Tribune - 23 Sept 1937, pg 8] Blow in Eye Killed Love, Wife Asserts
A blow killed her love for Herbert M. Samuels, master mariner, Mrs. Pearl Samuels alleges in a divorce complaint she filed in the Superior Court today. She says he landed it on her eye last August 4, and the next day she left him. They were married on June 9, 1930 in Carson City, Nev., according to her complaint, which alleges her husband earns $295 a month. She asks the court for $300 of his money for attorney’s fees, and “other relief in reason”.
In 1939 and 1940, she is listed as Pearl Samuels, a bookkeeper for the Sam Bates Co, living in Oakland. Then in the 1941 Oakland City Directory, she is listed as Pearl A. Bates, wife of Sam C. Bates Jr, owner of Sam Bates Co - Contractors and Mining Machinery.
When her mother died in 1943 her married name was "Bates".
She was later living with (married to?) Arthur Karl Uecker (1910-1955), brother of her half-brother Tom Hoad’s wife Edna. She came home from work one day and found him dead in their Oakland home, and Pearl was never heard from again.
In 1958, according to (her father) William Alcorn’s obituary, her married name was "Nelson" and she was living in Oakland.
She is not mentioned in the 1968 obit of her sister Ida, and may have been deceased by then.
She was in Nevada in 1910 at age 8, with her mother Josie (24, CA), sister Ida (13, CA) and brother Philip (10, OR). Her mother is listed as married, but her father isn’t listed with them. Living with them is her mother’s sister May Muldoon (17, NV) and husband Edward (25, NV).
Listed with her brothers Philip Alcorn (19, OR) and Thomas Hoad (6, CA) and her remarried mother, Josie Hoad (38, CA) back in northern Calif in 1920. Her stepfather isn’t listed, but he is Edward William Hoad (1878-1936, CA).
She is the second wife in Herbert Samuel’s bigamy case in San Francisco in 1924, six months after their marriage in Oct 1923. And she filed for an annulment immediately on April 19, 1924 awhich was granted on May 3rd.
By 1925 she is listed in the San Francisco city directory as a stenographer, then in 1927 thru 1930 as a book keeper.
She is listed as single (28, ID) in the April 1930 San Francisco census, with a lodger living with her. It appears that she legally (re)married Herbert in June 1930 at Carson City, NV. And she is listed in a 1935 Oakland City Directory as Pearl G. Samuels, living with Herbert.
She worked as an executive secretary and traveled regularly with her boss to New York.
[Oakland Tribune - 23 Sept 1937, pg 8] Blow in Eye Killed Love, Wife Asserts
A blow killed her love for Herbert M. Samuels, master mariner, Mrs. Pearl Samuels alleges in a divorce complaint she filed in the Superior Court today. She says he landed it on her eye last August 4, and the next day she left him. They were married on June 9, 1930 in Carson City, Nev., according to her complaint, which alleges her husband earns $295 a month. She asks the court for $300 of his money for attorney’s fees, and “other relief in reason”.
In 1939 and 1940, she is listed as Pearl Samuels, a bookkeeper for the Sam Bates Co, living in Oakland. Then in the 1941 Oakland City Directory, she is listed as Pearl A. Bates, wife of Sam C. Bates Jr, owner of Sam Bates Co - Contractors and Mining Machinery.
When her mother died in 1943 her married name was "Bates".
She was later living with (married to?) Arthur Karl Uecker (1910-1955), brother of her half-brother Tom Hoad’s wife Edna. She came home from work one day and found him dead in their Oakland home, and Pearl was never heard from again.
In 1958, according to (her father) William Alcorn’s obituary, her married name was "Nelson" and she was living in Oakland.
She is not mentioned in the 1968 obit of her sister Ida, and may have been deceased by then.
Marriageabt 1940
Divorce