cremated

1900 Berkeley Ward 1, Alameda, California household 294
Albert Carlisle May 1854 46 Maryland bookstore keeper
Eleanor Jan 1864 36 Neb
Catherine May 1882 18 Ca
Burlington Mar 1886 14 Ca
Alma Apr 1888 12 Ca
Helen Dec 1889 10 Ca
Albert Feb 1898 2 Ca
Alexander Mar 1900 8 mos Ca

1920 Berkeley, Alameda, California household 283 2327 Vine
Elinor Carlisle 56 widow
Alma B 31
Albert T 21
Grafton M 19

1930 San Francisco, San Francisco, California household 165
Eleanor Carlisle 68 widow
Alma dtr 42

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"History of the San Francisco Bay Region : history and biography"
BY BAILEY MILLARD
VOLUME II
PUBLISHERS THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY, INC.
CHICAGO SAN FRANCISCO NEW YORK 1924

His first wife bore him seven children, of which the two bovs are
still living. The second wife bore him four children, of which three are
living. Her name was Susan Dudley Wetzel, she was from Independence,
Missouri, but born in Virginia. She was a woman of remarkable beauty
and sweetness of character and many years the junior of Alex Majors.
She presided over his home in Nebraska City with great efficiency and
kindliness. Of the two children living in California one is Greene Majors,
one-time mayor of Alameda and at present judge of the Piedmont, Cali-
fornia, court. He is the yovmgest child of Mr. Majors' first marriage,
and the other, Mrs. Elinor Carlisle, senior member of the A. Carlisle &
Company firm of San Francisco. In an official capacity she served as the
first woman school director on the Berkeley, California. Board of Educa-
tion, and finally on the Chamber of Commerce directorate, from which
she resigned to move to San Francisco after the big fire in September,
1823, at which time she lost her old home. Greene Rlajors has one son,
Dr. Ergo Majors, of Oakland, California. ]Irs. Carlisle has six children,
the eldest, Catherine, married to Samuel Van Ornum, a civil engineer of
Pasadena, California, and Burlington M. Ctirlisle. the manager and director
of A. Carlisle & Comjxiny, and four children at home. .'lma, Helen. Albert
and Grafton.

Alexander Majors died at Chicago on the first dav of January, 1900.
His wife died in California in 1915. She was called upon as the widow
of Alexander Majors in 1913 to unveil the Pony Express monument in

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Saint Joseph, Missouri, as his daughter, Mrs. EHnor Cariisle, performed
the hke service in unveiHng the Marker at Sacramento March 3. 1923,
memorials placed by the ladies of the Daughters of the American Revolu-
tion to commemorate historical events. With the passing of Alexander
Majors a great soul crossed the Great Divide. A Boston nevspa[)er in
commenting upon his death spoke of him as "the John the Baptist of the
West, blazing the way for a new civilization," which was the purest tribute
that could be paid him.