On August 1st, 1928, Charlotte R.C. Hamilton, a Grad. Nurse, crossed the Canadian-American border from Canada to Port Huron, Michigan. The hand-written document was prepared in Toronto, and may have been an application for permanent residence in the US.
The record of the border crossing provides the following information. Charlotte was 55 years old, was 5 feet 5 inches tall with grey hair and blue eyes. She was born in Falkenburg, Ontario about 1873 (January 15, 1873). Her last permanent address was Moosejaw, Saskatchewan. The form included this wording, "Seen $6,000.00," probably to prove that she was able to support herself. Another question asked who had purchased her ticket; she had paid for it herself.
Charlotte was travelling to Modesto, California to join Bertha Klaus at 1739 Almond Street, and had been living in the US from 1923 to 1928, the current year and was a permanent US resident. (Modesto is in the interior of California east of San Franscisco. It is in the county of Stanislaus.)
We know that Charlotte lived with her parents and then with her brother and widowed father until her marriage at 41 years of age on June 14, 1916 to William Joseph Hamilton of Watt Township, son of Edward Hamilton and Sarah Taylor.
It seems that between 1916 and 1923, Charlotte studied to be a nurse and also lived in Moosejaw, presumably with her husband.
Charlotte gave her next-of-kin as John McNee, Utterson. Her brother, John was five years older than she was, and Utterson was probably the address of the McNee land which was north of Falkenburg. John was married to Jessie Mina Grant, a school teacher in about 1912. John and Charlotte's father died in 1917.
Charlotte's full name was Charlotte Robina Cockburn (McNee) Hamilton. She appears in the 1930 census for Modesto City, California. She was 57 years old and widowed at that time, and her work was 'Special nurse - general duty.' Charlotte died January 10th, 1947 in Stanislaus, California.
It is not known if Bertha Klaus was a friend or an employer; however, the cemetery plot in which Charlotte was buried was owned by Bertha Klaus. (See July / 2010 post)
Sunday, January 10, 2010
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