Lydia Anne Furman was born on 11 October 1878 in Bradford County, Pennsylvania, daughter of Henry Furman (1848–1884) and Sarah Marie Ingalls (1851–1927).
She lived for a few years in Spring Valley, Minnesota after her father died and her mother re-married. Then, after the death of her step-father in 1897, the family relocated to Berkeley, California where her older brother Chauncey had moved some years earlier.
On 16 June 1923, at age 39, she married Herman Hadlen, a widowed grocer.[1] He died just four years later in 1927,[2] and Lydia never re-married.
For most of her life, she shared a home wtih her brother Claude, until he died in 1955.
Lydia died on 16 June 1965 in Berkeley, Alameda, California, aged 86.[3]
Census:
2 June1880, Columbia, Bradford, Pennsylvania[4]
4 June 1900, Berkeley, Alameda, California[5]
23 April 1910, Berkeley, Alameda, California[6]
14 January 1920, Berkeley, Alameda, California[7]
16 April 1930, Berkeley, Alameda, California[8]
↑ Death record of Herman C. Hadlin, 25 November 1927, Alameda County, California, Certificate Number 53518, FHL DGS #005240839, image 343 of 857, index, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-L1SL-6SD, California State Registrar, Office of Vital Records and Statistics (Sacramento, California).
↑ Death record of Lydia A Hadlin, 16 June 1965, Alameda County, California, index, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VP4J-HH7, California State Registrar, Office of Vital Records and Statistics (Sacramento, California).
↑ 1930 United States Census, Berkeley, Alameda, California, 16 April 1930, SD 8, ED 1-272, Sheet 20B-21A, family 46, household of Claude Furman, lines 100 & 1, FHL DGS #004950089, image 385 of 1259, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GR7Z-9MNG, National Archives and Records Administration.
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