Life History

Notes

• The Bermudez couple adopted Angela Benavides.  Angela was the oldest child of her parents, Feliciana Treviño Camacho and Phillip Camacho, of Kansas City, Missouri.  The Bermudezes were related to Angela's Feliciana in some way and were her gofdparents.  They agreed to raise her, but they lived in very poor conditions.  Angela remembered living in a train caboose.
  
  "Angela Benavides -- I was told by her that she was stolen or given to her godparents and they lived in a train caboose.  Made their way to San Francisco and stayed there the rest of her life."  They arranged for Angela to marry Filberto Felix.  He was from Mexico."
  --  Paula Juarez, Facebook Messaging to Orville Boyd Jenkins, 30 January 2019
  
  Angela's daughter reports that Angela had said she never got to go to school.
  
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  Angie (Angela Benavides-Felix) -- [her birth mother] Feliciana did not bring her up.  She gave her to Angie's godparents.  Bermudez was that last name.  Angie was never allowed to go to school and they lived in a railroad box car.  They moved to San Francisco.
  
  I think the godparents names were Beatrice & Daniel Bermudez(s).  They both worked at St. Joseph's church.  In San Francisco when I was young. I think Angela died in the 90's sometime.
  --  Paula Juarez, Facebook Messaging to Orville Boyd Jenkins, 1 February 2019
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  The Bermudez couple did formally adopt Angela.  Adoption records have not been found, but we note that Angela's California Death Record (see at the end of these notes) gives the names of her parents as mother's maiden name Cantu and father's name surname Bermudez.  Her adoptive parents' last names are  given in her death record.  This also indicates that they did formally adopt Angela.
  
  California, Death Index, 1940-1997
  Angela Bermudez Felix
  Social Security #550301218
  Birth 22 Feb 1921 Texas
  Death 26 Feb 1996 San Francisco
  Mother's Maiden Name Cantu
  Father's Bermudez
  
  1930 Federal Census, San Francisco County, California, 12 April, San Francisco, District 38-33, page 18A, 1060 Iowa St, Hse #180, Fam #197
  Bermudez, Daniel Head Rents $17 M Mexican 37 First married at age 20 [mar abt 1913] Mexico Mexico Mexico Spanish Lang, Entered US 1909, Status Alien, Railway Trimmer [b abt 1893]
  Bermudez, Beatrice Wife F Mexican 29 First married at age 16 [mar abt 1917] Texas Mexico Mexico No Occup [b abt 1901]
  Bermudez, Angelita Dau F Mexican 10 Single Texas Mexico Texas [b abt May 1920]
  Salas, ??? Boarder M Mexican 21 Single Mexico Mexico Mexico Spanish Lang, Entered US 1928, Status Alien, Railway Laborer [b abt 1909]
  
  Daniel and Beatrice were liste dnteh 1931 San Francisco City Directory.
  
  U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995
  San Francisco, California, City Directory, 1931, p 126
  Bermudez Danl (Beatrice) lab h 1160 Iowa
  
  Daniel's WWII draft registration has the year of his birth a year later than what he reported to Social Security, and what we get from his census age.
  
  U.S., World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942
  Daniel (no middle name) Bermudez
  Age 48
  Birth 21 July 1894 Mexico
  Residence 1100 Phelps St, San Francisco, California
  Contact Mrs B Bermudez, same address
  Employer H R Reid Co, 2600 Oakdale Ave, San Francisco
  (back)
  5'7" 180 lbs, Brown Eyes, Black Hair, Dark Complexion
  Scar across right side of face, scar on right wrist
  Registered 26 April 1942
  Signed Daniel Bermudez
  
  They were listed in other city directories in the 1940s.
  
  U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995
  San Francisco, California, City Directory, 1944, p 157
  Bermudez Danl (Beatrice) lab h 1100 Phelps av
  
  U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995
  San Francisco, California, City Directory, 1945, p 173
  Bermudez Danl (Beatrice) lab h 1100 Phelps av
  
  Angela's daughter Paula remembers that the Bermudezes worked in jobs at St Joseph Catholic Church in San Francisco.
  
  "Angela and Filbert had other children Filbert Jr, Manuel and Delores Felix all in San Francisco.  The address were they lived was 848 Goettingen st San Francisco.  Angela and Filbert passed on.  I know that Bermudez "Daniel" (I think that was his name) worked at St. Joseph's church for as long as I can remember.  Him in the church and her in the rectory."
  --  Paula Juarez, Facebook Messaging to Orville Boyd Jenkins, 30 January 2019
  
  Angela's Social Security record has the Spanish speling of her mother's name:  "Father Daniel Bermudez, Mother Beatriz Cantu."  Paula's comment above provides a context for some comments she had made the day before about her adoptive mother Angela Felix.
  
  "Writing to you about the family in Texas I started thinking about "Angela Felix" my adopted mother. How sad she must of felt all those years.  Never knowing if her family loved her.  She was a good mom."
  --  Paula Juarez, Facebook Messaging to Orville Boyd Jenkins, 31 January 2019
  
  An index record of Daniel's death record is available, but the original document is not available.  This index record transcribes the place of birth as Maine, but it shoudl be Mexico.  The date of death reproted fits with the date reported on a Find a Grave memorial that has the date of burial.
  
  California, Death Index, 1940-1997
  Daniel Bermudez
  Birth 21 Jul 1893 Maine [Mexico]
  Death 19 Feb 1967 San Francisco
  Social Security #557109269
  
  U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014
  Daniel Bermudez
  Born 21 Jul 1893
  Died Feb 1967
  Last Residence San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94103
  SSN 557-10-9269 issued California (Before 1951)
  
  The memorials on Fnd a Grave for those buried in Holy Cross Cemetery were constructed form the cemetery burial registerThe person who develped the memorials notes on many that the date may the date of burial rather than death.  In all the cases we have checked, even where this caveat is not stated, that has been the case.
  
  Daniel Bermudez
  BIRTH 21 Jul 1893  Mexico
  DEATH 19 Feb 1967 San Francisco, San Francisco County, California
  BURIAL [21 Feb 1967 date of burial from cemetery records] Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery, Colma, San Mateo County, California
  Spouse Beatrice Cantu Bermudez 1899-1976
  daughter Angela Bermudez Benavides Felix
  unknown-1996
  Created by Athanatos 13 Feb 2013
  --  Find A Grave Memorial 105157839, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/105157839/daniel-bermudez

Sources

• 1. 1930 Federal Census, San Francisco County, California
  • 12 April, San Francisco, District 38-33, page 18A, 1060 Iowa St, Hse #180, Fam #197
• 2. California, Death Index, 1940-1997
• 3. U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014
• 4. U.S., World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942
• 5. Find a Grave Memorial Registry
• 6. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007
• 7. Facebook Messaging
• 8. U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995
  • San Francisco, California, City Directory, 1931, p 126
• 9. U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995
  • San Francisco, California, City Directory, 1944, p 157
• 10. U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995
  • San Francisco, California, City Directory, 1945, p 173
• 11. U.S., Obituary Collection, 1930-2018