Wells Family - Person Sheet
Wells Family - Person Sheet
NameEdward William Hoad 
Birth25 Nov 1877, Merrimac, Butte Co, CA
Census8 Jun 1880, Bidwell, Butte Co, CA
Memoroll#63, pg 215
Census18 Apr 1910, Virginia City, Storey Co, NV
Memoroll#859, pg 2
Census4 Apr 1930, Blue Lake, Humboldt Co, CA
Memoroll#120, pg 4
Death31 Oct 1936, Oroville, Butte Co, CA
BurialWyandotte Cem, Oroville, Butte Co, CA
Misc. Notes
Edward is the son of John Henry Hoad (1830, England) and Mary Lucina Mallory (1836, NY).
He is listed in the 1910 census for Virginia City, NV, working as an electrician in a quartz mine and living in a boarding house. It is likely that is how he met and married Josie.
He was married to Josie and back living in Butte Co, working as a gas engineer when he registered for the WWI Draft in 1918.
[Obituary] Chico Record - Tuesday 3 Nov 1936, pg 3
DRIVER DIES IN CROSSING CRASH--Oroville Nov 2, 1936. E. W. Hoad of Bangor is dead & George Crandell of San Francisco is critically injured as the result of an accident Saturday night in which Hoad’s truck crashed into the side of a logging train. The accident happened on the Garden Ranch Road five miles SE of Oroville. Hoad apparently failed to see the train. The car ran directly into the fourth car & was thrown 100 feet. It was reduced to junk. Both Hoad & Crandell were rushed to the Oroville hospital by Sheriff Alvin Kistler & Constable William Fitch, but Hoad was dead when taken from the car. Hospital attendants at first gave Crandell no chance to live, but latest reports indicate he may survive.
Oroville Mercury-Register - Tuesday 3 Nov 1936, pg 2
EDWARD HOAD RITES WEDNESDAY 1:00pm—Funeral services for Edward Hoad 59, mining man, who was killed Saturday night when his automobile struck a Swayne logging train will be held at 1:00pm at Hamilton & Riley's. Clarence Osgood & Bishop F.T. James will have charge. Burial will be in Wyandotte cemetery instead of Bangor as announced Monday.
He is listed in the 1910 census for Virginia City, NV, working as an electrician in a quartz mine and living in a boarding house. It is likely that is how he met and married Josie.
He was married to Josie and back living in Butte Co, working as a gas engineer when he registered for the WWI Draft in 1918.
[Obituary] Chico Record - Tuesday 3 Nov 1936, pg 3
DRIVER DIES IN CROSSING CRASH--Oroville Nov 2, 1936. E. W. Hoad of Bangor is dead & George Crandell of San Francisco is critically injured as the result of an accident Saturday night in which Hoad’s truck crashed into the side of a logging train. The accident happened on the Garden Ranch Road five miles SE of Oroville. Hoad apparently failed to see the train. The car ran directly into the fourth car & was thrown 100 feet. It was reduced to junk. Both Hoad & Crandell were rushed to the Oroville hospital by Sheriff Alvin Kistler & Constable William Fitch, but Hoad was dead when taken from the car. Hospital attendants at first gave Crandell no chance to live, but latest reports indicate he may survive.
Oroville Mercury-Register - Tuesday 3 Nov 1936, pg 2
EDWARD HOAD RITES WEDNESDAY 1:00pm—Funeral services for Edward Hoad 59, mining man, who was killed Saturday night when his automobile struck a Swayne logging train will be held at 1:00pm at Hamilton & Riley's. Clarence Osgood & Bishop F.T. James will have charge. Burial will be in Wyandotte cemetery instead of Bangor as announced Monday.
Spouses
Birth17 Mar 1881, California
Death5 May 1943, Visalia, Tulare Co, CA
BurialBlue Lake Cem, Blue Lake, Humboldt Co, CA
Misc. Notes
Daughter of Lawrence S. Alkern and Susan Ida Morehead.
Josie married William Alcorn in Crescent City while only a teen and had daughter Ida there a year later.
There was apparently a family dispute, possibly between William and Josie’s father. But the result was that Josie left while pregnant with her son Phillip, who was born in Feb 1900 in Coos Co, OR.
After giving birth to Phillip in Oregon, Josie took her babies to Washington Co, Idaho and set up housekeeping with Robert Owens (b. Sep 1860, NY), as she is listed for the June 1900 census. She also began to use the name Alchorne, which is the ancient name of both Alcorn and Alkern.
By 1910 she had moved again to Gold Hill, NV where she ran a boarding house as Josie Alchorn (24, CA) with the 3 children and her sister May (17, NV) and husband Edward Muldoon (25, NV), with 5 lodgers. The census indicates she had 4th child who was no longer living. Edward Hoad was living in a boarding house in Virginia City at the time, working as an electrician in a quartz mine. So this is likely where they met.
She was apparently married (a second time) to Edward William Hoad a short time later and returned to California, as she was living in Oakland in 1913, Richmond in 1915, and Chico in 1918 as Josie Hoad. And by 1920 she is listed in the census for Blue Lake as Josee Hoad (38, CA) as head of household, with children Phillip (19, OR) and Pearl (18, ID) Alcorn, as well as Thomas Hoad (6, CA).
She is listed in Eureka from 1922 thru 1927, and then back in Lake City in 1930, this time with her husband Edward Hoad. In the 1930 census, both her brother George Dewey Alkern (18 May 1891, CA - 4 Oct 1940, San Francisco) and her daughter Ida (33) were divorced and living with Josie (49) and her (second) husband Edward Hoad (50, CA). Also living with them, in addition to the 5 boarders, was her nephew Fred Muldoon (19, NV).
In 1940, after Edward’s death, she was living in Ukiah as head of household (60, CA) with her divorced son Phillip Alcorn (40, OR) and grandson Gail (5, CA). It says that she had been living in Gilroy, CA in 1935, while Phillip & Gail were in Siskiyou County in 1935.
[Obituary] Visalia Times-Delta - Thu, 6 May 1943, pg 4
Josephine Hoad Removed By Death
Mrs. Josephine Hoad, 62, died yesterday morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Paul Stewlow, with whom she had made her home for the past years. She had been ill for some time.
Mrs. Hoad was born. March 17, 1881, in Crescent City, California, and came here from northern California. She was a member of the Methodist church in Crescent City.
Surviving her are two sons, Philip Hoad and Thomas E. Hoad of northern California; two daughters, Mrs. Pearl Bates of Oakland and Mrs. Paul Stewlow of Visalia; two brothers, Jack Alkern of Fields Landing, California and Fred Alkern of Chico; four sisters, Mrs. Effie Getchell of Bayside, California, Mrs. Neola King of Cornnell, California, Mrs. Mabel Nessler and Mrs. Myrtle Wymore of Blue Lake, California and two grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at 10 a. m. Friday at Hadley's Funeral chapel, with the Rev. E. R. Connelly officiating. The body will be sent to Fresno for cremation and the ashes taken to Blue Lake, Humboldt county, for interment in the family plot.
Josie married William Alcorn in Crescent City while only a teen and had daughter Ida there a year later.
There was apparently a family dispute, possibly between William and Josie’s father. But the result was that Josie left while pregnant with her son Phillip, who was born in Feb 1900 in Coos Co, OR.
After giving birth to Phillip in Oregon, Josie took her babies to Washington Co, Idaho and set up housekeeping with Robert Owens (b. Sep 1860, NY), as she is listed for the June 1900 census. She also began to use the name Alchorne, which is the ancient name of both Alcorn and Alkern.
By 1910 she had moved again to Gold Hill, NV where she ran a boarding house as Josie Alchorn (24, CA) with the 3 children and her sister May (17, NV) and husband Edward Muldoon (25, NV), with 5 lodgers. The census indicates she had 4th child who was no longer living. Edward Hoad was living in a boarding house in Virginia City at the time, working as an electrician in a quartz mine. So this is likely where they met.
She was apparently married (a second time) to Edward William Hoad a short time later and returned to California, as she was living in Oakland in 1913, Richmond in 1915, and Chico in 1918 as Josie Hoad. And by 1920 she is listed in the census for Blue Lake as Josee Hoad (38, CA) as head of household, with children Phillip (19, OR) and Pearl (18, ID) Alcorn, as well as Thomas Hoad (6, CA).
She is listed in Eureka from 1922 thru 1927, and then back in Lake City in 1930, this time with her husband Edward Hoad. In the 1930 census, both her brother George Dewey Alkern (18 May 1891, CA - 4 Oct 1940, San Francisco) and her daughter Ida (33) were divorced and living with Josie (49) and her (second) husband Edward Hoad (50, CA). Also living with them, in addition to the 5 boarders, was her nephew Fred Muldoon (19, NV).
In 1940, after Edward’s death, she was living in Ukiah as head of household (60, CA) with her divorced son Phillip Alcorn (40, OR) and grandson Gail (5, CA). It says that she had been living in Gilroy, CA in 1935, while Phillip & Gail were in Siskiyou County in 1935.
[Obituary] Visalia Times-Delta - Thu, 6 May 1943, pg 4
Josephine Hoad Removed By Death
Mrs. Josephine Hoad, 62, died yesterday morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Paul Stewlow, with whom she had made her home for the past years. She had been ill for some time.
Mrs. Hoad was born. March 17, 1881, in Crescent City, California, and came here from northern California. She was a member of the Methodist church in Crescent City.
Surviving her are two sons, Philip Hoad and Thomas E. Hoad of northern California; two daughters, Mrs. Pearl Bates of Oakland and Mrs. Paul Stewlow of Visalia; two brothers, Jack Alkern of Fields Landing, California and Fred Alkern of Chico; four sisters, Mrs. Effie Getchell of Bayside, California, Mrs. Neola King of Cornnell, California, Mrs. Mabel Nessler and Mrs. Myrtle Wymore of Blue Lake, California and two grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at 10 a. m. Friday at Hadley's Funeral chapel, with the Rev. E. R. Connelly officiating. The body will be sent to Fresno for cremation and the ashes taken to Blue Lake, Humboldt county, for interment in the family plot.
Marriageabt 1912, Nevada
ChildrenThomas Edward (1913-1985)