Alice Mabel Emery Holder Brown - passenger list

Here is the passenger list for Alice Mabel Emery Holder Mitchell Brown (the sister of my great grandfather, (Fred Owen Emery Daniels) traveling on the SS France, leaving from Le Havre, France on September 27, 1924 arriving at New York on October 3, 1924.

Mabel is listed at #13 and apparently traveled without her husband, Durland Wadsworth Brown. 

More about the SS France which had its inaugural voyage on September 10, 1910 can be found here, which includes some interesting photographs and postcards.

Alice Mabel Emery Holder Brown passport application

Here is the passport application for Alice Mabel Emery, the sister my great grandfather Fred Owen Emery Daniels.

This document provided the first photo I had seen of Mabel as well as confirmation of her third marriage to Durland Wadsworth Brown on September 9, 1920.    

On the second page, listed as a witness is her brother who confirms Mabel's husband had worked for Fred at his business, Terminal Garage.

I noticed a minor error; her birth date was listed as November 23, 1899, however both the birth document from Washington County, Iowa and her death certificate from Cook County, Illinois stated she was born November 27, 1899.

Fred C Holder Jr

While searching for the descendants of Alice Mabel Emery (the sister of my great grandfather, Fred Owen Emery Daniels), I was able to locate documents relating to her first husband, Fred C Holder Jr.

I reviewed the 1910 US Census I had posted previously, which indicated Fred had been married for 2 years, yet his wife was not listed as living in the household.   I'm not sure whether that is an error and Alice Mabel (Emery) Holder was mistakenly omitted or whether she was living elsewhere in 1910. 

I stumbled upon Fred Holder's passport application from 1918 which contains some information about Fred.


























He had remarried and had been living in Australia, employed for an Australian company.   He had previously worked for Swift and Company in Chicago.   This confirms I had the correct Fred Holder for the 1910 US Census which indicated Fred was employed by a packing company.
























Never having seen a photo of Fred, a passport application is a great source.  Fred's photo is shown on each page of the application.

The passport application also confirms Fred's father was Fred Christopher Holder.
























I then located a passenger list for the SS Sonoma which sailed on February 11, 1920 from Sydney, Australia and arrived in San Francisco on March 1st (or 6th) which included the name of Fred's second wife, Wanda and their son, Forrest.


























Further research led me to a marriage register for Wanda (Cox) and Fred Holder, who were married January 9, 1915 in Berrien County, Michigan.

Apparently the marriage of Alice Mabel Emery and Fred C Holder Jr lasted less than 8 years.

Washington County Iowa - births

Here is a printout of Washington County, Iowa births that include my great grandfather Fred Emery, his siblings, Alice Mabel and Frank born to Fred J Emery and Abigail Williams.







Unfortunately Fred had not been provided a first name at the time the county recorded his birth, but the information on his WW I draft registration (even though he changed his last name to Daniels) helped me confirm I had the correct family.      It also helped to have a sister named Alice Mabel (see previous post) to make sure I was on the right track.