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     Mae Hapgood was born on 10 March 1881 in Omaha, Douglas Co., Nebraska.² She married first Bert Franklin Burlingham, son of Nathan Decatur Burlingham and Laura Sophia Kidder, on 30 March 1898 in West Glendale, Los Angeles Co., California.¹ They may have separated about 1917, and divorced about 1921 (see below). She married second Ernest H. Dutton in Los Angeles Co., California, recorded on 11 May 1923.³ She died on 9 October 1945 at home in Glendale, Los Angeles Co., California, at age 64 from ovarian cancer.² She was buried at Grand View Memorial Park & Crematory (Sect. B, Lot 87, Grave 7) in Glendale, Los Angeles Co., California.⁴
     She and her husband Bert are listed in North Jackson, Amador Co., California, in the 1900 census⁵, and in Idaho Falls, Bingham Co., Idaho, in the 1910 census.⁶ Mae's divorced brother Charlie was living with them in 1910.⁶ She and Bert are listed as husband and wife in the 1915-16 Glendale city directory, but in the 1917 directory Mae is listed with her daughter Daphne in Glendale and Bert is not.⁷ By 1918 Bert was living in El Centro while she was still in Glendale.⁸ Bert was listed in El Centro in the 1920 census, enumerated in January, as married but without Mae, and living as a boarder with the widow Josephine Parizek (who he would marry as his second wife about two years later).⁹ Mae is listed in January 1920 as married but without Bert, living with her widowed mother in Glendale, Los Angeles Co., California,¹⁰ and working as a rotary operator in basket factory.¹⁰ She is listed in the 1923 Glendale city directory as Mrs. Mae Burlingham, working as a pastry cook.¹¹

     Josephine Kovar was born on 4 March 1882 in Bohemia (now part of Czechoslovakia).^5,6 She married first Karel Perizek, recorded on 24 May 1911 in Los Angeles Co., California.⁷ She married second Bert Franklin Burlingham, son of Nathan Decatur Burlingham and Laura Sophia Kidder, on 24 December 1921 in Imperial Co., California.¹
     She and her second husband Bert are listed together in Elsinore Twp., Riverside Co., California, in the 1930 census, along with her children Edwin and Olga Parizek from her first marriage.⁸ He is listed there again in the 1940 census, but she was then living in Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co., California, as a maid for Myron Etienne and his wife.^9,10

     Daniel Coffin Lewis was born on 2 September 1841 in Kennebec Co., Maine.² He married Bernice Pamelia Burlingham, daughter of Nathan Decatur Burlingham and Laura Sophia Kidder, on 24 December 1886 in El Dorado Co., California.¹ He died on 17 March 1924 at his home in Calwa Park, Fresno Co., California, at age 82.^3,4 He was buried at Odd Fellows Cemetery in Fresno, Fresno Co., California.⁵
     When the Civil War began in 1861 he was living in Boston, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts, working as a pattern maker⁶, and enlisted there on 13 June as a private in Co. E of the 11th Massachusetts Infantry. Barely a month later, on 21 July, he was wounded by a gunshot to his left shoulder and taken prisoner at the First Battle of Bull Run, just north of Manassas, Virginia. He was released in February 1862. Whether he rejoined his regiment or not is unknown. If so, he would have participated in the Siege of Yorktown from April to May 1862, the Battle of Williamsburg on 5 May, the Battle of Fair Oaks on 25 June, and the Second Battle of Bull Run on 29 August. He was eventually discharged for disability, on 31 October 1862 in Washington, D.C., according to one source, and on 13 November 1862 in Falmouth, Virginia, according to another.^6,7
     He and his wife Bernice lived for a time in Jalisco, Mexico, possibly from December 1898 until at least 1907^2,8, where he had a mining business.² In 1910 Bernice and their children Bert and Percy were living in Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co., California. Daniel is not listed with them in the census, and was probably still in Mexico.⁹
     He lived for about a year and a half at the Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Sawtelle, Los Angeles Co., California, being admitted on 3 October 1916. At the time he was suffering from chronic indigestion, arteriosclerosis, and a swollen prostate and heart. He left on his own recognizance on 10 February 1918.⁷
     He and Bernice are listed together in the 1920 census in Fresno, Fresno Co., California. Bernice's niece Jessie (daughter of her sister Augusta) and her husband Clarence Bliss were then living with them.¹⁰
     He was working as a helper in a warehouse in 1920.¹⁰

More Information / Background

• First Battle of Bull Run
  
• Siege of Yorktown (1862)
  
• Battle of Williamsburg
  
• Second Battle of Bull Run.