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Author: HEL218
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Serafim "Samuel"/"Sam"
-- Born February 10, 1871 in Tago, Cape Verde Island (parents also both born there),
immigrated about 1899.
--Race: Mulatto.
--Married to Mary Mendes, born Mary Lopes (also born in Cape Verde Islands)
--Parents were Apulicardo Mendes and Maria Micailla (also born in Tago)
--Children were Adelina/Adeline (b. about 1903 RI), Mildred (b. about 1913 RI) and Vivian
(b. about 1917). A 1920 census also listed Mary Morias/Morias as Samuel's adopted
daughter (b. about 1919 in RI)
--Lived at 25 Hall Street, Providence, RI and working as a laborer in the lumber industry.
Could not read or write English
I believe his cousin was Pedro Mendes. A Pedro Mendes, born in Togo (your Samuel's
birthplace) about 1871, came over to the US in 1913, and listed his "friend's
name" in the US as his cousin Serafim Mendes in Rhode Island (where your Serafim was
living at the time. Pedro left from Brava, Cape Verde Islands and landed in Massachusetts
on June 5, 1913
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