Angela E French 59ys, 10mos, 2ws, 6ds
Angela E (Anson) Brunson
1889
"on or about the month of August, 1889, willfully and without cause deserted the plaintiff"
1892 Los Angeles, California
Wife, Angela, files for divorce claiming desertion, extreme cruelty and adultery.
1892 Reno, Nevada
Scandal in High Life
Special to Gazette
San Francisco, Dec. 10--An Examiner dispatch, referring to a suit for divorce commenced in the Superior Court at Los Angeles yesterday by Mrs Brunson, wife of Judge Anson Brunson of that city, says that there are three counts in the complaints upon which the prayer for a decree in based. The first two are desertion and extreme cruelty, while in the third count Mrs Mary O H Stoneman, wife of General George Stoneman, ex-Governor of California is names as co-respondent.
Gen'l. Stoneman has not been seen at his residence at Los Angeles for over a year, and a few months ago he left Los Angeles for the east. The cause of his departure, as well as his present whereabouts, has been much of a mystery.
Judge Brunson is a native of Portage county, Ohio, and a man of some wealth. He came to California in '64 and served as Judge of the Superior Court in Los Angeles county from '84 to '87.
Mrs Stoneman is an intellectual woman, over forty years of age and retains much of the beauty that in her youth made her prominent in the social circles of Baltimore. the charges in the complaint are denied by respondents intoto.
Gen'l Stoneman has not been seen at his residence at Los Angeles for over a year...
Weekly Gazette Stockman
Thurs. Dec 15, 1892, page 5. (far right col.)
1892 Los Angeles, California
Mrs Brunson Gets a Divorce
Los Angeles, Cal., Dec.21.--The ten days allowed to answer the complain in the divorce suit of Mrs Anson Brunson against her husband, Judge Brunson, wherein Mrs [Mary] Stoneman [of Baltimore], wife of ex-Gov. Stoneman, was made co-respondent, expired today The case was called in the Superior Court, and, no answer being filed, the case went by default. A decree was granted to Mrs Brunson.
The New York Times, December 22, 1892.
1892 Los Angeles, California
The Brunson Divorce Case
Los Angeles, Cal., Dec 29, --The text of the decision of Judge Shaw granting a divorce to Mrs A. E. Brunson from her husband, Judge Brunson, has just been made public. This is the case in which Mrs Mary O H Stoneman, wife of Gen. George H Stoneman, ex-Governor of this State, was names as co-respondent.
Judge Shaw's decision declared that from the evidence the court finds that the defendant, on or about the month of August, 1889, willfully and without cause deserted the plaintiff; that each and all of the allegations of the complaint filed in charging said defendant with adultery with Mary O H Stoneman, at any time or in any place are untrue and false in every particular; that each and every one of the allegations of cruelty upon the part of the defendant stated and charged in said complaint is untrue.
From the foregoing facts the court finds that the plaintiff is entitled to a decree of divorce upon the grounds of desertion, but on no other grounds.
NY Times Archives, December 30, 1892.
1895 San Bernardino, California
San Bernardino County Death Notice
Anson Brunson BOOK 2 (A - B)
Willed estate to Mary Stoneman
1900 Census San Francisco
John A Moore 78, collector, b Maine
Phoebe R Moore 70, b. Maine, 2 Child 1 living
Augusta French 77, b Maine, 7 child. 3 living
Angie Brunson 50, niece, no child.
578 Golden Gate Ave.
1913
San Francisco Area, CA Funeral Home Records
Name: Angela E Brunson
Gender: Female
Age at Death: 60
Marital Status: Widowed
Birth Date: 1853
Birth Place: Maine
Death Date: 9 Mar 1913
Death Place: San Francisco, San Francisco CA
Funeral Home: J.S. Godeau Funeral Records
Funeral Place: San Francisco, San Francisco CA
Obituary Included: YES
Record Type: Record Book
Source Reference: Vol. 14, p. 1-400, 1913
Number of Images: 1
1913 San Francisco, CA
Funeral Home record
Brunson--March 9, Angela E Brunson, beloved sister of John M French of Los Angeles.
--Friends and acquaintances are respectfully invite to attend the funeral to-day (Wednesday), at 1 o'clock p.m. from the chapel of Julius S Godeau, 41 Van Ness avenue.
Image of Published Obituary
Brunson Mansion on Bunker Hill
"The residence known as the Brunson Mansion was built in the early 1880s by Judge Anson Brunson who resided on the bench of the Los Angeles County Superior Court before stepping down to serve as a lawyer for the lucrative Santa Fe RailRoad. According to the L.A. Times, the residence was “a dark red house, large, compact, dignified, in the center of sloping lawns walled up above the level of three streets.” The house was so large it had a Bunker Hill Avenue and a Grand Avenue address, before settling on 347 South Grand as its official label."
"The Judge resided at the home with his wife Angela until the early 1890s when details of his torrid affair with the widow of a Civil War General came to light. In December 1892, Mrs. Brunson filed for divorce on the grounds of desertion, extreme cruelty and adultery. She was supposedly in possession of hotel registers and love letters, one of which read like “an extract from a French novel,” documenting the relationship between her 60 year old husband and Mrs. General George Stoneman, 10 years his junior. The Judge had left the Grand Ave property and taken up residence on Flower Street and Mrs. Brunson stayed in the mansion until she was forced to sell it in 1894. While Judge Brunson denied the existence of a romantic relationship between him and Mrs. Stoneman, when he died in October 1894, he left all his possessions to “my dear and faithful friend, Mary O.H. Stoneman.”
Years after the mansion was long gone, locals felt that the “ghosts of unhappinesses remained there,” haunted by “the husband and wife who for years lived as strangers under the same stately roof...."
One of the mansion's next owners was Dr B F Church ...
"In the early years of the new Century, the 18 room property became the Hotel Brunson. Its thirteen years as a boarding house would see little incident other than almost getting burned down by a wayward firecracker in 1904, and the shooting of a burglar by a hotel resident in 1909 (the police followed the trail of blood and apprehended the suspect at his nearby home)."
Brunson Mansion, 347 South Grand Avenue
Mansion Photo
Brother: John M French
nephew
Brunson Woodbury French 1889CA-1940 MI
Angela E (Anson) Brunson
1889
"on or about the month of August, 1889, willfully and without cause deserted the plaintiff"
1892 Los Angeles, California
Wife, Angela, files for divorce claiming desertion, extreme cruelty and adultery.
1892 Reno, Nevada
Scandal in High Life
Special to Gazette
San Francisco, Dec. 10--An Examiner dispatch, referring to a suit for divorce commenced in the Superior Court at Los Angeles yesterday by Mrs Brunson, wife of Judge Anson Brunson of that city, says that there are three counts in the complaints upon which the prayer for a decree in based. The first two are desertion and extreme cruelty, while in the third count Mrs Mary O H Stoneman, wife of General George Stoneman, ex-Governor of California is names as co-respondent.
Gen'l. Stoneman has not been seen at his residence at Los Angeles for over a year, and a few months ago he left Los Angeles for the east. The cause of his departure, as well as his present whereabouts, has been much of a mystery.
Judge Brunson is a native of Portage county, Ohio, and a man of some wealth. He came to California in '64 and served as Judge of the Superior Court in Los Angeles county from '84 to '87.
Mrs Stoneman is an intellectual woman, over forty years of age and retains much of the beauty that in her youth made her prominent in the social circles of Baltimore. the charges in the complaint are denied by respondents intoto.
Gen'l Stoneman has not been seen at his residence at Los Angeles for over a year...
Weekly Gazette Stockman
Thurs. Dec 15, 1892, page 5. (far right col.)
1892 Los Angeles, California
Mrs Brunson Gets a Divorce
Los Angeles, Cal., Dec.21.--The ten days allowed to answer the complain in the divorce suit of Mrs Anson Brunson against her husband, Judge Brunson, wherein Mrs [Mary] Stoneman [of Baltimore], wife of ex-Gov. Stoneman, was made co-respondent, expired today The case was called in the Superior Court, and, no answer being filed, the case went by default. A decree was granted to Mrs Brunson.
The New York Times, December 22, 1892.
1892 Los Angeles, California
The Brunson Divorce Case
Los Angeles, Cal., Dec 29, --The text of the decision of Judge Shaw granting a divorce to Mrs A. E. Brunson from her husband, Judge Brunson, has just been made public. This is the case in which Mrs Mary O H Stoneman, wife of Gen. George H Stoneman, ex-Governor of this State, was names as co-respondent.
Judge Shaw's decision declared that from the evidence the court finds that the defendant, on or about the month of August, 1889, willfully and without cause deserted the plaintiff; that each and all of the allegations of the complaint filed in charging said defendant with adultery with Mary O H Stoneman, at any time or in any place are untrue and false in every particular; that each and every one of the allegations of cruelty upon the part of the defendant stated and charged in said complaint is untrue.
From the foregoing facts the court finds that the plaintiff is entitled to a decree of divorce upon the grounds of desertion, but on no other grounds.
NY Times Archives, December 30, 1892.
1895 San Bernardino, California
San Bernardino County Death Notice
Anson Brunson BOOK 2 (A - B)
Willed estate to Mary Stoneman
1900 Census San Francisco
John A Moore 78, collector, b Maine
Phoebe R Moore 70, b. Maine, 2 Child 1 living
Augusta French 77, b Maine, 7 child. 3 living
Angie Brunson 50, niece, no child.
578 Golden Gate Ave.
1913
San Francisco Area, CA Funeral Home Records
Name: Angela E Brunson
Gender: Female
Age at Death: 60
Marital Status: Widowed
Birth Date: 1853
Birth Place: Maine
Death Date: 9 Mar 1913
Death Place: San Francisco, San Francisco CA
Funeral Home: J.S. Godeau Funeral Records
Funeral Place: San Francisco, San Francisco CA
Obituary Included: YES
Record Type: Record Book
Source Reference: Vol. 14, p. 1-400, 1913
Number of Images: 1
1913 San Francisco, CA
Funeral Home record
Brunson--March 9, Angela E Brunson, beloved sister of John M French of Los Angeles.
--Friends and acquaintances are respectfully invite to attend the funeral to-day (Wednesday), at 1 o'clock p.m. from the chapel of Julius S Godeau, 41 Van Ness avenue.
Image of Published Obituary
Brunson Mansion on Bunker Hill
"The residence known as the Brunson Mansion was built in the early 1880s by Judge Anson Brunson who resided on the bench of the Los Angeles County Superior Court before stepping down to serve as a lawyer for the lucrative Santa Fe RailRoad. According to the L.A. Times, the residence was “a dark red house, large, compact, dignified, in the center of sloping lawns walled up above the level of three streets.” The house was so large it had a Bunker Hill Avenue and a Grand Avenue address, before settling on 347 South Grand as its official label."
"The Judge resided at the home with his wife Angela until the early 1890s when details of his torrid affair with the widow of a Civil War General came to light. In December 1892, Mrs. Brunson filed for divorce on the grounds of desertion, extreme cruelty and adultery. She was supposedly in possession of hotel registers and love letters, one of which read like “an extract from a French novel,” documenting the relationship between her 60 year old husband and Mrs. General George Stoneman, 10 years his junior. The Judge had left the Grand Ave property and taken up residence on Flower Street and Mrs. Brunson stayed in the mansion until she was forced to sell it in 1894. While Judge Brunson denied the existence of a romantic relationship between him and Mrs. Stoneman, when he died in October 1894, he left all his possessions to “my dear and faithful friend, Mary O.H. Stoneman.”
Years after the mansion was long gone, locals felt that the “ghosts of unhappinesses remained there,” haunted by “the husband and wife who for years lived as strangers under the same stately roof...."
One of the mansion's next owners was Dr B F Church ...
"In the early years of the new Century, the 18 room property became the Hotel Brunson. Its thirteen years as a boarding house would see little incident other than almost getting burned down by a wayward firecracker in 1904, and the shooting of a burglar by a hotel resident in 1909 (the police followed the trail of blood and apprehended the suspect at his nearby home)."
Brunson Mansion, 347 South Grand Avenue
Mansion Photo
Brother: John M French
nephew
Brunson Woodbury French 1889CA-1940 MI
Angela E French 59ys, 10mos, 2ws, 6ds
Angela E (Anson) Brunson
1889
"on or about the month of August, 1889, willfully and without cause deserted the plaintiff"
1892 Los Angeles, California
Wife, Angela, files for divorce claiming desertion, extreme cruelty and adultery.
1892 Reno, Nevada
Scandal in High Life
Special to Gazette
San Francisco, Dec. 10--An Examiner dispatch, referring to a suit for divorce commenced in the Superior Court at Los Angeles yesterday by Mrs Brunson, wife of Judge Anson Brunson of that city, says that there are three counts in the complaints upon which the prayer for a decree in based. The first two are desertion and extreme cruelty, while in the third count Mrs Mary O H Stoneman, wife of General George Stoneman, ex-Governor of California is names as co-respondent.
Gen'l. Stoneman has not been seen at his residence at Los Angeles for over a year, and a few months ago he left Los Angeles for the east. The cause of his departure, as well as his present whereabouts, has been much of a mystery.
Judge Brunson is a native of Portage county, Ohio, and a man of some wealth. He came to California in '64 and served as Judge of the Superior Court in Los Angeles county from '84 to '87.
Mrs Stoneman is an intellectual woman, over forty years of age and retains much of the beauty that in her youth made her prominent in the social circles of Baltimore. the charges in the complaint are denied by respondents intoto.
Gen'l Stoneman has not been seen at his residence at Los Angeles for over a year...
Weekly Gazette Stockman
Thurs. Dec 15, 1892, page 5. (far right col.)
1892 Los Angeles, California
Mrs Brunson Gets a Divorce
Los Angeles, Cal., Dec.21.--The ten days allowed to answer the complain in the divorce suit of Mrs Anson Brunson against her husband, Judge Brunson, wherein Mrs [Mary] Stoneman [of Baltimore], wife of ex-Gov. Stoneman, was made co-respondent, expired today The case was called in the Superior Court, and, no answer being filed, the case went by default. A decree was granted to Mrs Brunson.
The New York Times, December 22, 1892.
1892 Los Angeles, California
The Brunson Divorce Case
Los Angeles, Cal., Dec 29, --The text of the decision of Judge Shaw granting a divorce to Mrs A. E. Brunson from her husband, Judge Brunson, has just been made public. This is the case in which Mrs Mary O H Stoneman, wife of Gen. George H Stoneman, ex-Governor of this State, was names as co-respondent.
Judge Shaw's decision declared that from the evidence the court finds that the defendant, on or about the month of August, 1889, willfully and without cause deserted the plaintiff; that each and all of the allegations of the complaint filed in charging said defendant with adultery with Mary O H Stoneman, at any time or in any place are untrue and false in every particular; that each and every one of the allegations of cruelty upon the part of the defendant stated and charged in said complaint is untrue.
From the foregoing facts the court finds that the plaintiff is entitled to a decree of divorce upon the grounds of desertion, but on no other grounds.
NY Times Archives, December 30, 1892.
1895 San Bernardino, California
San Bernardino County Death Notice
Anson Brunson BOOK 2 (A - B)
Willed estate to Mary Stoneman
1900 Census San Francisco
John A Moore 78, collector, b Maine
Phoebe R Moore 70, b. Maine, 2 Child 1 living
Augusta French 77, b Maine, 7 child. 3 living
Angie Brunson 50, niece, no child.
578 Golden Gate Ave.
1913
San Francisco Area, CA Funeral Home Records
Name: Angela E Brunson
Gender: Female
Age at Death: 60
Marital Status: Widowed
Birth Date: 1853
Birth Place: Maine
Death Date: 9 Mar 1913
Death Place: San Francisco, San Francisco CA
Funeral Home: J.S. Godeau Funeral Records
Funeral Place: San Francisco, San Francisco CA
Obituary Included: YES
Record Type: Record Book
Source Reference: Vol. 14, p. 1-400, 1913
Number of Images: 1
1913 San Francisco, CA
Funeral Home record
Brunson--March 9, Angela E Brunson, beloved sister of John M French of Los Angeles.
--Friends and acquaintances are respectfully invite to attend the funeral to-day (Wednesday), at 1 o'clock p.m. from the chapel of Julius S Godeau, 41 Van Ness avenue.
Image of Published Obituary
Brunson Mansion on Bunker Hill
"The residence known as the Brunson Mansion was built in the early 1880s by Judge Anson Brunson who resided on the bench of the Los Angeles County Superior Court before stepping down to serve as a lawyer for the lucrative Santa Fe RailRoad. According to the L.A. Times, the residence was “a dark red house, large, compact, dignified, in the center of sloping lawns walled up above the level of three streets.” The house was so large it had a Bunker Hill Avenue and a Grand Avenue address, before settling on 347 South Grand as its official label."
"The Judge resided at the home with his wife Angela until the early 1890s when details of his torrid affair with the widow of a Civil War General came to light. In December 1892, Mrs. Brunson filed for divorce on the grounds of desertion, extreme cruelty and adultery. She was supposedly in possession of hotel registers and love letters, one of which read like “an extract from a French novel,” documenting the relationship between her 60 year old husband and Mrs. General George Stoneman, 10 years his junior. The Judge had left the Grand Ave property and taken up residence on Flower Street and Mrs. Brunson stayed in the mansion until she was forced to sell it in 1894. While Judge Brunson denied the existence of a romantic relationship between him and Mrs. Stoneman, when he died in October 1894, he left all his possessions to “my dear and faithful friend, Mary O.H. Stoneman.”
Years after the mansion was long gone, locals felt that the “ghosts of unhappinesses remained there,” haunted by “the husband and wife who for years lived as strangers under the same stately roof...."
One of the mansion's next owners was Dr B F Church ...
"In the early years of the new Century, the 18 room property became the Hotel Brunson. Its thirteen years as a boarding house would see little incident other than almost getting burned down by a wayward firecracker in 1904, and the shooting of a burglar by a hotel resident in 1909 (the police followed the trail of blood and apprehended the suspect at his nearby home)."
Brunson Mansion, 347 South Grand Avenue
Mansion Photo
Brother: John M French
nephew
Brunson Woodbury French 1889CA-1940 MI
Angela E (Anson) Brunson
1889
"on or about the month of August, 1889, willfully and without cause deserted the plaintiff"
1892 Los Angeles, California
Wife, Angela, files for divorce claiming desertion, extreme cruelty and adultery.
1892 Reno, Nevada
Scandal in High Life
Special to Gazette
San Francisco, Dec. 10--An Examiner dispatch, referring to a suit for divorce commenced in the Superior Court at Los Angeles yesterday by Mrs Brunson, wife of Judge Anson Brunson of that city, says that there are three counts in the complaints upon which the prayer for a decree in based. The first two are desertion and extreme cruelty, while in the third count Mrs Mary O H Stoneman, wife of General George Stoneman, ex-Governor of California is names as co-respondent.
Gen'l. Stoneman has not been seen at his residence at Los Angeles for over a year, and a few months ago he left Los Angeles for the east. The cause of his departure, as well as his present whereabouts, has been much of a mystery.
Judge Brunson is a native of Portage county, Ohio, and a man of some wealth. He came to California in '64 and served as Judge of the Superior Court in Los Angeles county from '84 to '87.
Mrs Stoneman is an intellectual woman, over forty years of age and retains much of the beauty that in her youth made her prominent in the social circles of Baltimore. the charges in the complaint are denied by respondents intoto.
Gen'l Stoneman has not been seen at his residence at Los Angeles for over a year...
Weekly Gazette Stockman
Thurs. Dec 15, 1892, page 5. (far right col.)
1892 Los Angeles, California
Mrs Brunson Gets a Divorce
Los Angeles, Cal., Dec.21.--The ten days allowed to answer the complain in the divorce suit of Mrs Anson Brunson against her husband, Judge Brunson, wherein Mrs [Mary] Stoneman [of Baltimore], wife of ex-Gov. Stoneman, was made co-respondent, expired today The case was called in the Superior Court, and, no answer being filed, the case went by default. A decree was granted to Mrs Brunson.
The New York Times, December 22, 1892.
1892 Los Angeles, California
The Brunson Divorce Case
Los Angeles, Cal., Dec 29, --The text of the decision of Judge Shaw granting a divorce to Mrs A. E. Brunson from her husband, Judge Brunson, has just been made public. This is the case in which Mrs Mary O H Stoneman, wife of Gen. George H Stoneman, ex-Governor of this State, was names as co-respondent.
Judge Shaw's decision declared that from the evidence the court finds that the defendant, on or about the month of August, 1889, willfully and without cause deserted the plaintiff; that each and all of the allegations of the complaint filed in charging said defendant with adultery with Mary O H Stoneman, at any time or in any place are untrue and false in every particular; that each and every one of the allegations of cruelty upon the part of the defendant stated and charged in said complaint is untrue.
From the foregoing facts the court finds that the plaintiff is entitled to a decree of divorce upon the grounds of desertion, but on no other grounds.
NY Times Archives, December 30, 1892.
1895 San Bernardino, California
San Bernardino County Death Notice
Anson Brunson BOOK 2 (A - B)
Willed estate to Mary Stoneman
1900 Census San Francisco
John A Moore 78, collector, b Maine
Phoebe R Moore 70, b. Maine, 2 Child 1 living
Augusta French 77, b Maine, 7 child. 3 living
Angie Brunson 50, niece, no child.
578 Golden Gate Ave.
1913
San Francisco Area, CA Funeral Home Records
Name: Angela E Brunson
Gender: Female
Age at Death: 60
Marital Status: Widowed
Birth Date: 1853
Birth Place: Maine
Death Date: 9 Mar 1913
Death Place: San Francisco, San Francisco CA
Funeral Home: J.S. Godeau Funeral Records
Funeral Place: San Francisco, San Francisco CA
Obituary Included: YES
Record Type: Record Book
Source Reference: Vol. 14, p. 1-400, 1913
Number of Images: 1
1913 San Francisco, CA
Funeral Home record
Brunson--March 9, Angela E Brunson, beloved sister of John M French of Los Angeles.
--Friends and acquaintances are respectfully invite to attend the funeral to-day (Wednesday), at 1 o'clock p.m. from the chapel of Julius S Godeau, 41 Van Ness avenue.
Image of Published Obituary
Brunson Mansion on Bunker Hill
"The residence known as the Brunson Mansion was built in the early 1880s by Judge Anson Brunson who resided on the bench of the Los Angeles County Superior Court before stepping down to serve as a lawyer for the lucrative Santa Fe RailRoad. According to the L.A. Times, the residence was “a dark red house, large, compact, dignified, in the center of sloping lawns walled up above the level of three streets.” The house was so large it had a Bunker Hill Avenue and a Grand Avenue address, before settling on 347 South Grand as its official label."
"The Judge resided at the home with his wife Angela until the early 1890s when details of his torrid affair with the widow of a Civil War General came to light. In December 1892, Mrs. Brunson filed for divorce on the grounds of desertion, extreme cruelty and adultery. She was supposedly in possession of hotel registers and love letters, one of which read like “an extract from a French novel,” documenting the relationship between her 60 year old husband and Mrs. General George Stoneman, 10 years his junior. The Judge had left the Grand Ave property and taken up residence on Flower Street and Mrs. Brunson stayed in the mansion until she was forced to sell it in 1894. While Judge Brunson denied the existence of a romantic relationship between him and Mrs. Stoneman, when he died in October 1894, he left all his possessions to “my dear and faithful friend, Mary O.H. Stoneman.”
Years after the mansion was long gone, locals felt that the “ghosts of unhappinesses remained there,” haunted by “the husband and wife who for years lived as strangers under the same stately roof...."
One of the mansion's next owners was Dr B F Church ...
"In the early years of the new Century, the 18 room property became the Hotel Brunson. Its thirteen years as a boarding house would see little incident other than almost getting burned down by a wayward firecracker in 1904, and the shooting of a burglar by a hotel resident in 1909 (the police followed the trail of blood and apprehended the suspect at his nearby home)."
Brunson Mansion, 347 South Grand Avenue
Mansion Photo
Brother: John M French
nephew
Brunson Woodbury French 1889CA-1940 MI
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