The Shemwell Family

Manuel Perry CostaAge: 80 years18841965

Name
Manuel Perry Costa
Given names
Manuel Perry
Surname
Costa
Birth September 5, 1884
MarriageVirginia Rosaline PareiraView this family
unknown

Historical Event
Spanish-American War
between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 13 years)
Note: The Spanish-American War was a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States, the result of American intervention in the Cuban War of Independence - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish%E2%80%93American_War
Historical Event
Polio Epidemic
1916 (Age 31 years)

Note: Over 7,000 deaths and 27,363 cases reported in America's worst polio (infantile paralysis) epidemic - http://goo.gl/ZBEQA1
Historical Event
World War I
between 1917 and November 1918 (Age 32 years)

Note: The United States enters 'The Great War' where more than nine million combatants were killed- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I
Historical Event
Spanish Influenza Epidemic
1918 (Age 33 years)

Note: Spanish Influenza killed over 500,000 people in the United States, and somewhere between 20 and 40 million in what has been cited as the most devastating epidemic in history - http://virus.stanford.edu/uda/
Census January 26, 1920 (Age 35 years)
Birth of a son
#1
Louis Elmer Costa
October 22, 1925 (Age 41 years)
Birth of a daughter
#2
Eva Costa
about 1928 (Age 43 years)
Historical Event
The Great Depression
October 1929 (Age 45 years)

Note: The Wall Street Crash sets off the Great Depression, the most severe worldwide economic depression in the 20th century - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression
Census April 14, 1930 (Age 45 years)
Birth of a daughter
#3
Dorothy Costa
about 1931 (Age 46 years)
Census May 9, 1940 (Age 55 years)
Historical Event
World War II
between December 1941 and August 1945 (Age 57 years)

Note: The United States enters World War II after the attack at Pearl Harbor, a global war that involved the vast majority of the world's nations and including all of the great powers - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II
Historical Event
Korean War
between 1950 and 1953 (Age 65 years)
Note: The Korean War was a war between the Republic of Korea (South Korea), supported by the United Nations, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea), at one time supported by the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War
Historical Event
Vietnam War
between 1946 and 1975 (Age 61 years)
Note: The Vietnam War was a long, costly armed conflict that pitted the communist regime of North Vietnam and its southern allies, known as the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. The divisive war, increasingly unpopular at home, ended with the withdrawal of U.S. forces in 1973 and the unification of Vietnam under Communist control two years later. More than 3 million people, including 58,000 Americans, were killed in the conflict. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War
Death March 9, 1965 (Age 80 years)
Burial
Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Old Mission Cemetery
Family with Virginia Rosaline Pareira - View this family
himself
wife
Marriage:
son
Louis Elmer Costa
Birth: October 22, 1925 41 30Santa Barbara, California, United States
Death: September 25, 1998Santa Maria, California, United States
3 years
daughter
Eva Costa
Birth: about 1928 43 32California, United States
Death:
4 years
daughter
George Costa + Virginia Rosaline Pareira - View this family
wife’s husband
George Costa
Birth: November 8, 1891 41 30San Simeon, San Luis Obispo, California, United States
Death: November 17, 1920San Luis Obispo, California, United States
wife
Marriage: about 1917California, United States
15 months
step-son
George Andrew Costa
Birth: March 30, 1918 26 22California, United States
Death: October 20, 1972San Luis Obispo, California, United States
2 years
step-son

Census1920 United States - Census transcript - George Costa - Household

Ed 106, Lompoc, Santa Barbara, California, United States

NameRelationHomeMortSexRaceAgeConditionImmNatNatYSchoolRWBPLangFBPFather langMBPMother langEngOccupationIndEmp
Costa, GeorgeheadRMW27MYYesCAPortugalLCPortugalLCYesFarmerGeneral FarmEmp
Costa, Virginia RwifeFW24MYesYesCAPortugalLCPortugalLCYesNone
Costa, George AsonMW1SCACACAYesNone
Costa, ManuelcousinMW35S1902AlienNoNoPortugalPortugalLCPortugalLCNoLaborerGeneral FarmW

Census1930 United States - Census transcript - Manuel Perry Costa - Household

ED 40, Township 05, Santa Barbara, California, United States

NameRelationHomeV/RRadioFarmSexRaceAgeCondAMSchoolR/WBPFBPMBPLangImmNatEngOccupationIndustryCodeEmpWorkUnempVetWar
Costa, Manuel PheadR25YesMW45M39NoYesPortugalPortugalPortugalPortuguese1903AlYesFarmerGeneral FarmVVVVOYesNo
Costa, Virginia RwifeFW33M20NoYesCAPortugalPortugalYesNone
Costa, George Astep-sonMW12SYesYesCACACAYesNone
Costa, Joseph Wstep-sonMW10SYesYesCACACAYesNone
Costa, LouissonMW4SNoCAPortugalCANone
Costa, EvadaughterFW2SNoCAPortugalCANone

Census1940 United States - Census transcript - Manuel Perry Costa - Household

Judicial Township 05, Santa Barbara, California, United States

NameInfoRelationHomeV/RFarmSexRaceAgeCondSchoolR/WBPCityCountyStateOccupationIndustryCodeEmpWorkWagesVetWar
Costa, Manuel PheadYesMW55MNoAzoresRancherRanch
Costa, Virginia RwifeYesFW44MNoCA
Costa, George Astep-sonYesMW22SNoCARanch HandRanch
Costa, Joseph Wstep-sonYesMW20SNoCARanch HandRanch
Costa, Louis EsonYesMW14SYesCA
Costa, EvadaughterYesFW12SYesCA
Costa, DorothydaughterYesFW9SYesCA

Name
Virginia Costa (nee Perry) Obituary and Family Listing Recitation of the Rosary for Virginia Rosalene Costa, 82, of Lompoc, will be at 8:30 p.m. Friday in the Starbuck Mortuary, Lompoc. Mass will be celebrated at 11 a.m. Saturday in the Old Mission Church, San Luis Obispo, with burial to follow in the Old Mission Cemetery. Mrs. Costa was born Sept. 17, 1895, in San Luis Obispo. She died Wednesday in a Lompoc hospital. Along with her husband, Manuel P. Costa, who died in 1965, she was involved in farming in the San Julian and Jolama districts. She was a charter member of the La Purisima Council of Catholic Daughters of America, and a life member of the SPRSI and the UPPEC. She had lived in Lompoc since 1917. Surviving are two sons, Joe Costa of Lompoc and Louis Costa of Santa Maria; two daughters, Eva Hamon of Lompoc and Dorothy Dayton of Fullerton; 17 grandchildren and 12 great- grandchildren. A son, George Costa, preceded her in death.