SOPER, Lola Carol

1894 - 1973  (79 years)

• Name	SOPER, Lola Carol
  Born	30 Jul 1894	Platte County, Missouri
  Gender	Female
  Died	23 Dec 1973	Oroville, Butte County, California
  Person ID	I10954	Uriah Davis I - Genealogy
  Last Modified	21 Jun 2018

  
  

  Father	SOPER, Joseph J.
  Mother	WINGO, Mary Elizabeth,   d. Abt 1912, California
  Family ID	F3623	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	KELLY, Charles Louis,   b. 29 Sep 1877, Nunda Township, Mc Henry County, Illinois ,   d. 29 Oct 1966, Oroville, Butte County, California  (Age 89 years)
  Married	8 Sep 1913	Oroville, Butte County, California
  Children	1. KELLY, Velda Eilene,   b. 17 Aug 1914, Oroville, Butte County, California ,   d. 28 Jul 1968, Oakland, Alameda County, California  (Age 53 years)   2. KELLY, Earl Louis,   b. 6 Aug 1919, Oroville, Butte County, California ,   d. 15 Jan 1999, Modesto, Stanilaus County, California  (Age 79 years)
  Last Modified	24 Jun 2018
  Family ID	F1691	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Notes for Lola Carol Soper: By Earl L. Kelly son of Lola (Date Dec. 1. 1995): "My mother was born in Platte County, Missouri 7 30 1894. Her parents lived below the Mason Dixon Line, where the family had a plantation and slaves before the Civil War. The fortunes of war went against them, and the carpet baggers got the farm and left them with hardly anything". C.C, Soper, Mary Soper, and family moved to Montana about 1898; they did poorly in Montana and not having money for railroad transportation, they moved to California by Covered wagon, taking what belonging's they could. They first stayed in Ripon, San Joaquin Co., Ca., then moved to Robert's Island in Stockton. They were there during the San Francisco Earthquake in 1906. Sometime later they homesteaded 40 acres in Bald Rock. They suffered hard times as the land wasn't very productive. They raised a few apples, blackberries, and had a cow for milk. They would pick blackberries in season and take them 25 miles by wagon at night so they would be fresh for market, and trade them off for supplies needed. (Earl L. Kelly speaking) "My mother went to Bald Rock School through the seventh grade. Her father ran away with some Indians and her mother died about 1912 she met my father and married him in 1913."