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Bernice was born 15 June 1876 in Rollin, Lenawee, Michigan, United States to Burrill T. Bailey and Mary Haynes. She was the youngest of eight children.
In the 1880 census Burnice (age 5) was the daughter of Burrill T. Bailey in Rollin, Lenawee, Michigan, United States.[1]
Name | Sex | Race | Age | Status | Relation | Occupation | Birth Place |
Barritt T. Bailey | M | White | 42 | Married | Head | Minister | Michigan |
Mary Bailey | F | White | 42 | Married | Wife | Housekeeper | Michigan |
John M. Bailey | M | White | 19 | Single | Son | Works on farm | Michigan |
Elbert F. Bailey | M | White | 13 | Single | Son | Student | Michigan |
Leroy Bailey | M | White | 8 | Single | Son | Student | Michigan |
Burnice Bailey | F | White | 5 | Single | Daughter | Michigan |
Around 1890 the family moved to Santa Clara County of California.
Bernice married George Edward Hannaford 5 April 1893 in San Jose, California.[2]The first five of their seven children were born here.
In the 1900 census Bernice (age 24) was the wife of George Hannaford in San Jose, Santa Clara, California.[3]
Name | Sex | Race | Age | Status | Relation | Occupation | Birth Place |
John (George) Hannaford | M | White | 27 | Married | Head | Butcher | California, USA |
Bernice Hannaford | F | White | 24 | Married | Wife | Michigan, USA | |
George L Hannaford | M | White | 6 | Single | Son | California, USA | |
Ruby Hannaford | F | White | 3 | Single | Daughter | California, USA | |
Raymond Hannaford | M | White | 8/12 | Single | Son | California, USA |
Raymond died on 2 November 1900 and was buried in Oak Hill Memorial Park, San Jose, Santa Clara County, California, United States.[4]
In the 1910 census Bernice (age 32) was the wife of George E Hannaford in Soquel, Santa Cruz, California, United States.[5]
Name | Sex | Race | Age | Status | Relation | Occupation | Birth Place |
George E Hannaford | M | White | 37 | Married | Head | Us Mail | California |
Bernice Hannaford | F | White | 32 | Married | Wife | Michigan | |
George L Hannaford | M | White | 16 | Single | Son | Laborer | California |
Ruby A Hannaford | F | White | 13 | Single | Daughter | California | |
Hazel G Hannaford | F | White | 6 | Single | Daughter | California | |
Victor R Hannaford | M | White | 3 | Single | Son | California | |
Donald B Hannaford | M | White | 2 | Single | Son | California | |
Samuel Hannaford | M | White | 75 | Widowed | Father | Own Income | England |
Grief struck again when daughter, Ruby, perished in the flu epidemic of 1917-18. Ruby had just graduated from nursing school and died taking care of patients. [6]
In the 1920 census Bernice (age 44) was the wife of George E Hannaford in Highland, Santa Cruz, California.[7]
Name | Sex | Race | Age | Status | Relation | Occupation | Birth Place |
George E Hannaford | M | White | 47 | Married | Head | Mail Carrier | California |
Bernice Hannaford | F | White | 44 | Married | Wife | Michigan | |
Hazel Hannaford | F | White | 16 | Single | Daughter | California | |
Roy Hannaford | M | White | 13 | Single | Son | California | |
Donald Hannaford | M | White | 12 | Single | Son | California |
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Hannaford family circa 1920 in the Santa Cruz Mountains |
Yet again, Bernice was struck with grief when George died from a self-inflicted gunshot 3 March 1927 in Loma Prieta, Santa Cruz, California.[8]
Bernice married a second time to Frank G. Rohner 22 September 1936 in Alameda, California.[9]
In the 1940 census Bernice (age 63) was the wife of Frank Rohner in Menlo Park, San Mateo, California.[10]
Name | Sex | Age | Status | Relation | Occupation | Birth Place |
Frank Rohner | M | 65 | Married | Head | Germany | |
Bernice Rohner | F | 63 | Married | Wife | Michigan | |
Marian Hannaford | F | 10 | Single | Granddaughter | California |
In the 1950 census Bernice (age 73) was the wife of Frank Rohner in San Mateo, California, United States.[11]
Name | Sex | Age | Status | Relation | Occupation | Birth Place |
Frank Rohner | M | 75 | Married | Head | Germany | |
Bernice Rohner | F | 73 | Married | Wife | Michigan | |
Alvin Rohner | M | 45 | Divorced | Son | Grocer | Iowa |
Bernice died 23 March 1951 in Palo Alto, Santa Clara, California. She is buried next to Frank in the Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery in Menlo Park, San Mateo County, California[12][13]
by Ethel “Tiny” Bernice Bailey Hannaford
- She married at sixteen. For several years she helped care for her bed-ridden mother and partly paralyzed father in addition to her own family. When she was twenty-four, she was deeply grieved by the death of a baby boy (Raymond). During the years she lived at the mountain ranch, she raised a family of five. There was no running water. Her cooking was done on a wood range. She baked bread, not just only for her own family, but sold it to neighbors. She was a substitute mail carrier when her husband was ill or on vacation. She drove the horse-drawn mail cart over the mountain roads. She directed and helped pick, can and pack cherries from the orchard. Her door was always open to her many friends and relatives and friends of her children.
- At age forty-two, she was stunned by the death of her beloved daughter, Ruby. When she was fifty-two, her husband died. She moved to Palo Alto and made a home for her three grown sons, Earl, Roy and Don. In 1935 death again struck. This time to son Roy. In 1936 she married Frank Rohner and took Roy’s child, Marian, to raise. They lived on Portola Road where Frank ran a dairy, later moving to San Carlos; then to East Palo Alto into a half-finished house Frank was building. It was without many modern conveniences, but she was happy with “her man”. They both enjoyed old fashioned dances and pinochle. She was a mother to her step children and loved her grandchildren. She was thrilled to become a great grandmother.
- Frank was a Catholic and she often went with him to church, though she preferred going to the Baptist or Methodist church.
- In her last years she suffered with back trouble.
- In her last illness, she had been in a coma for some time but suddenly she spoke clear and loud to me saying, “don’t forget the song, Tiny”, referring to the hymn Shall We Gather at the River, that she had previously requested to be sung at her funeral. I assured her I would remember. Those were the last words she uttered though it was twelve hours before she died.
They (Burrill Bailey's family) left Michigan 2 November 1885 arrived in Arizona 7 November 1885. I think they came by train. From Solomonville, where they first lived, they went to Bailey Wells. Bailey Wells was names for Joshua Bailey, brother of Burrill. It was a stage stop and Burrill and Mary set up a boarding house.
When a child in Arizona, an Indian chief wanted to trade ponies for her (Bernice).
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