Individual Details
Opal Ivory
(5 May 1897 - 20 Jan 1954)
By 1920 she was still single, employed by the telephone company as a cashier in Sacramento Precint 21 and lodged with a family there.
California Voter Registration: 1936 Mrs. Opal Clark, bookkeeper lives at 610 Hyde, San Francisco
Polk's San Francisco City Directory 1938. Page 299. Opal Clark 764 Hazelwood, clerk for Metropolitan Life Insurance Company.
Polk's San Francisco City Directory 1942. Opal L. Clark, 2261 17th Ave. clerk for Metropoligan Life Insurance Company
Polk's San Francisco City Directory 1945-46. Clark, Opal L., residence: 2261 17th Avenue, bookkeeper for California State Automoble Association
4 Aug. 1951 Opal Ivory returned to San Francisco by ship from Honolulu, Hawaii. Form states she was born at Elk Creek, CA
Death certificate in possession of Sharon Ivory in 2009. "Opal I Clark died 20 Jan, 1954 of a cerebral edema. She did Office work for Bell Manufacturing Co.[a furniture manufacturer] She was born in California to Byron Ivory, born in Michigan and Bessie Carlton born in Kansas. SSN #559-24-7075. Informant Pearl Bell.
She died in Franklin Hospital, San Francisco, CA where she had lived all her life. Burial Jan. 22, 1954 at Olivet Memorial Cemetery."
Events
| Birth | 5 May 1897 | Elk Creek, Glenn County, California |  | ||
| Census (family)-shared | 1900 | (Byron Adelbert Ivory and Bessie Carlton) Township 3, Glenn County, California |  | | |
| Census-shared | 7 May 1910 | (Byron Adelbert Ivory) Glenn County, California | | | |
| Census | 4 Apr 1930 | Sacramento, Sacramento County, California | | | |
| Death | 20 Jan 1954 | San Francisco, California | |
Families
| Spouse | Clark ( - ) |
| Child | John B. Clark (1923 - 2007) |
| Father | Byron Adelbert Ivory (1850 - 1928) |
| Mother | Bessie Carlton (1875 - 1908) |
| Sibling | Pearl Belle Ivory (1895 - 1955) |
Notes
Census (family)-shared
Byron A IvoryHeadM50MichiganBessie IvoryWifeF25Kansas
Pearl IvoryDaughterF5California
Opal IvorySonM3California
Richard StrattonServantM68Canada Eng
Francis A MeyersServantM48Missouri
Arthur A StrawnServantM35Iowa
Census-shared
Byron A Ivory Head M 69 Michigan Widowed - Proprietor, lumber millPearl Ivory Daughter F 15 California
Opal Ivory Daughter F 12 California
Census
Opal Clark Head F 33 California - Manager, apartment houseJohn ClarkSon M 6 California
Endnotes
1. California Death Index 1940-1997, Pearl Belle Ivory death 25 Oct 1955.
2. "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M9P8-VBG : accessed 23 November 2017), Opal Ivory in household of Byron A Ivory, Township 3, Glenn, California, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 15, sheet 6B, family 128, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,086..
3. "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MV2J-YR4 : accessed 6 November 2017), Byron A Ivory, Township 3, Glenn, California, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 29, sheet 13B, family 57, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 77; FHL microfilm 1,374,090..
4. "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XC6Q-9MJ : accessed 6 November 2017), Opal Clark, Sacramento, Sacramento, California, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 76, sheet 2B, line 59, family 54, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 186; FHL microfilm 2,339,921..
5. California Death Index 1940-1997, Opal Ivory death, 20 Jan 1954.
6. "California Death Index, 1940-1997," database, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VGTJ-11Q : 26 November 2014), Opal I Clark, 20 Jan 1954; Department of Public Health Services, Sacramento..
7. "United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J5DF-5MR : 20 May 2014), Opal Clark, Jan 1954; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing)..