Deconstructing Hannah (and her will) (Part 2)

Eva  (Evetta) (Councilman) (Staugh) Holm (cont.)

I believe that Eva Councilman of San Francisco,1880, is Evetta Holm of Bergen, New Jersey, 1920. But where was she for the intervening 40 years?

Looking at the 1910 and 1920 census I can see that Eva's husband George T. Holm was born in Massachusetts.  I looked for Eva or Evetta Councilman in the Massachusetts Vital Records.  I found her marriage to George T. Holm, son of Thomas W. and Lucy (Magoon) Holm, living on Auckland Street in Boston and employed as a teacher.  Evetta was living at 180 Chelsea Street, Charlestown (her grandmother's house), daughter of George E. and Helena (Sullivan) Councilman, employed as a bookbinder.  They were married on November 18, 1906.  This was Evetta's second marriage, as she had been divorced.  This probably explains why I couldn't find her in the 1900 census.



Saint Mary's Infant Asylum

I did find two other interesting records in the Massachusetts Vital Records.  On June 22, 1895 Eva Councilman, born at San Francisco, California, gave birth to Regina Councilman at Saint Mary's Infant Asylum.  And on July 20, Frances R. (Regina?) Councilman, daughter of Eva Councilman, died of acute gastroenteritis at the West End Nursery, age 28 days.

I searched the 1900 census for an Eva, married, born 1877 in California.  I found 21 Eva's of the right age, but of those, only one was the child of a father born in Germany and a mother born in Ireland. 

Licking County, Ohio

Eva Staugh, born February 1877 in California had been married to Edward Staugh for 1 year at the time of the census.  They had no children.  Edward was a glassblower, born in Ohio in January 1872.  His father was from Germany and his mother from Ohio.  Edward and Eva lived in Massillon City, Stark County, Ohio.  Eva's father had also been a glassblower in California. 

Edward married for the second time on January 23, 1902 to Anna Wodtly in Massillon, Ohio.  At that time he was divorced.  He and Eva were married 3 years or less.  Because of the connection with a German father, glassblowing and divorce, I am fairly certain this is the same woman. 

By the time her aunt Hannah O'Sullivan's will went through probate in 1933, Eva (Evetta) (Councilman) (Staugh) Holm has not been heard from in 10 years.   They were aware, however, that she was deceased.  Eva probably died in New Jersey sometime between 1920 and 1923.  Her husband remarried and is listed in the 1930 census with his wife, Madge, daughter Marjorie, age 21, and niece Marie, age 22.

Timeline for Eva (Evetta) (Councilman) (Staugh) Holm:

1877, born San Francisco, California
1880, living in San Francisco, California
1895, birth and death of daughter, Frances Regina, Boston, Massachusetts
1899, marriage to Edward Staugh, Licking County, Ohio
1900, living in Massillon, Ohio
1906, marriage to George T. Holm, Charlestown, Massachusetts
1909, birth of daughter, Marjorie C., New York
1910, living on Claremont Avenue, Manhattan, New York
1920, living in Edgewater, New Jersey

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