Caroline Lambert Woodhams

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Caroline Lambert Woodhams (Potter)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York, Kings County, New York, United States
Death: December 12, 1917 (64)
San Jose, Santa Clara County, CA, United States
Place of Burial: Santa Clara, Santa Clara County, CA, United States
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Charles S. Potter and Elizabeth Ann Potter
Wife of Col. Oscar Woodhams
Mother of Elizabeth Maurice Woodhams; Frederick Oscar Woodhams and Gladys van Beuren Porter
Sister of Elizabeth Ann van Beuren and Thomas Lambert Potter

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About Caroline Lambert Woodhams

~• is in the 1855 NY state census

The 1870 San Fran. (Montgomery Street) (July 26th) census shows :

Elizabeth (mother) living w/o Charles (her husband) and two children at home:

Thomas: (20) bookkeeper Caroline: (14) attending school. The age must be in error for she is shown as age 2 in 1855 (State Census of NY). (Her grave marker must then be in error as well.)

Elizabeth Ann (sister) now away from home as she had recently married Fred. T. van Beuren

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Caroline Lambert Woodhams's Timeline

1853
May 25, 1853
Brooklyn, New York, Kings County, New York, United States

Source of Birth year: 1860 census
Name: Charles Potter
Age: 41
Birth Year: abt 1819
Gender: Male
Birth Place: England
Home in 1860: San Francisco District 2, San Francisco, California
Post Office: San Francisco

Household Members:

Name Age

Charles Potter 41
Eliza Potter 35
Eliza Potter 14
Thomas Potter 10
Caroline Potter 5

1863
December 1, 1863
Age 45
Ophir works, (Comstock Lode area), modern Storey County, Nevada Territory, United States

see: https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91636700/report-of-a-charles-s-pott...
&
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91641972/cs-potter-dies-of-consumpt...
&
http://www.miningutah.com/id305.html

Name: Chas S Potter
Age at Death: 45
Death Date: abt 1863
Burial Date: 6 Dec 1863
Burial Place: San Francisco, San Francisco, California
Funeral Home: N. Gray & Co. Funeral Records
Funeral Place: San Francisco, San Francisco, California
Record Type: Register
Source Reference: p. 1-300, 1863-1868
Number of Images: 2

(this matches his age and place of domicile)

Chas.S. Potter's body seems to have been brought back to S.F. from Phir, where he died

1877
May 1877
CA, United States
1881
July 17, 1881
CA, United States
1888
February 13, 1888
San Francisco, San Francisco County, CA, United States