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Tokusuke Sugiyabu1830/1862 -- avatar
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Marriage24 JAN 1910
 
place: 2025 Pine, San Francisco19
By Rev. Zenro Hirota
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Tamakichi T.3 4 14 15 16 Nakamoto3 4 14 15 16

Birth28 FEB 18733 4 14 15 16
ImmigrateOCT 189814 15
 
( place questionable )
to U.S. Territory in the Hawaiian Islands fromf Hiroshima, Japan
ImmigrateOCT 1898
 
His residence was Hiroshima, Japan; he was 25 [b. about 1873]
Immigrate11 AUG 1902
 
from Vancouver, British Columbia, destination, San Francisco
Reside1910
Reside1914
 
Reside1916
 
Movedbef DEC 1916
 
to Yuba City, Sutter, California
Residebef DEC 1916
 
operated a family restaurant there
Tag1918gardener
Reside12 SEP 1918
 
nearest relative: Suyeno Nakamoto
Reside1920
 
266 2nd Street
Reside1921
 
Tag1921gardener
Reside193015
 
Reside193516
 
142 Chandon Road16
Reside194016
 
142 Chandon Road; Farm Schedule: 72
Death13 JAN 19434
 
Grave
Latitude 39.37896 Longitude -121.68894
Aged: 69.9 years

On 12 Sep 1918, Tamakichi was required to sign up for the military draft in Sutter County, California. His physical description is as follows:

height: short
build: slender
eyes: brown
hair: black
[any disqualifying disabilities]: none

In his old age, Tamakichi had tuberculosis. After the Japanese Exclusion Order he stayed in Gridley Memorial Hospital for two years. He died alone at the hospital while the rest of the family was either serving in the U.S. Army (his son, Harold), or in internment camps.

Note that in 1902, when he came from the port of Vancouver, British Columbia on his way to San Francisco, the title of the collection is titled, "Vermont, St. Albans Canadian Border Crossings, 1895-1954."  However, if you click on the original, you will see up at the top that they record was made in Vancouver, British Columbia, and most definitely not Vermont.


Suyeno2 13 14 15 16 19 20 21 Sugiyabu2 13 14 15 16 19 20 21

Birth20 APR 188413 14 15 16 19 20 21
 
in Mita-mura, Hiroshima, Japan9
Immigrate190821
 
to California, U.S. A. (as a "picture bride" for Tamakichi Nakamoto)
Moved1910
 
from Japan, 2 days before her marriage in America
Reside1910
 
Arrived 2 days before her American marriage.
Reside1910
Husband: Tamakichi Nakamoto of Bridgeport, Mono, CA
Residebef 1910
 
in Kanagawa Mura, Hiroshima, Japan
Other22 JAN 1910
 
Arrival from Japan as Suyeno Nakamoto.
Reside1914
 
Reside1916
 
Residebef DEC 1916
 
co-operator of a family restaurant
Reside1918
 
Reside192013
 
Reside193014
 
Reside1935
 
142 Chandon Road
Reside194015
 
142 Chandon Road
Other1942-1945
Unconstitutionally imprisoned along with her chidlren, Bob Manobu, Yuri and Ray
ResideSEP 1942
 
Other7 JUN 1945
 
Released from unconstitutional imprisonment to this place with her son, Ray
Reside1950
 
Home of her son, Harold H. Nakamoto
Reside1951
 
Passenger list arriving in San Francisco
Other28 NOV 1951
 
Arrival on United Airlines
Residebef 15 OCT 1973
 
Death15 OCT 197315 16 20
 
Grave
Latitude 39.37896 Longitude -121.68894
Aged: 89.5 years
Suyeno came to America as a "picture bride." Following the customary practice for those who had gone to America as single men, the couple, who had not previously met, exchanged photos and letters, and the marriage was arranged in that way.

During World War II, Suyeno and her children were forced to go an internment camp, and to leave her husband, who was too sick to go with them, and who eventually died in the hospital all alone. Meanwhile, their son, Harold, served in the U.S. Army.

We have a record of Suyeno Nakamoto arriving on an airplane in 1951.  She was likely visiting her relatives in Japan, and she was a widow at that time.  It is certainly Suyeno Sugiyabu Nakamoto, as her residence was shown to be in Gridley, California, where her family had been living.

Contrary to her record of Takusuke Sugiyabu being her father, in her 1910 passenger list, her father was listed as Shintei Nakamoto of 149 Kanagawa Mura, Japan.  This Shintei Nakamoto was, in fact, her future father-in-law, and this record is what gives us his name.




ChildrenFirst NameBirth DtDeath DtBirth PlaceSpouses
1✟

Noboru R. 

16 FEB 191211 JUL 1917  CA, Mono Co  
2+

May Akino 

12 OCT 191414 FEB 1974  CA, Sutter Co, Yuba City Iwaji Uyemori 
3✟

Joe Tommy 

16 DEC 19163 FEB 1917  CA, Sutter Co, Yuba City  
4+

Hisashi Harold "Harold" 

26 APR 19182 AUG 2010  CA, Sutter Co Masako "Masa" Sakaoka 
5

Robert Manabu "Bob" 

11 JUN 192124 NOV 2002  CA, Sutter Co, Yuba City Alice Chizuru Uyeda 
6+

Pat Yuri 

1 MAR 1924aft OCT 1973  CA, Sutter Co, Yuba City Clarence Michiyasu "Michi" Yamamoto 
7

Ray Lei 

7 JUN 192911 FEB 2005  CA, Butte Co, Gridley Lourdes M. ___ 
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  8. FamilySearch Hisashi Harold Nakamoto, US GenealogyBank Obituaries
  9. FamilySearch Joe Tommy Nakamoto Vital • California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994
  10. FamilySearch May Nakamoto California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994
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  12. FamilySearch Tamakichi Nakamoto United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
  13. FamilySearch Tamakichi Nakamoto Vermont, St. Albans Canadian Border Crossings, 1895-1954
  14. FamilySearch United States Census, 1920
  15. FamilySearch United States Census, 1930
  16. FamilySearch United States Census, 1940
  17. FamilySearch Yuri Nakamoto California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994
  18. Other: Willie P. Nakamoto; California, U.S., Birth Records from Select Counties, 1872-1987;
  19. Marriage Sources:
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  20. FamilySearch Document #2, Tamakichi Nakamoto California, San Francisco County Records, 1824-1997
  21. FamilySearch Marrieg document #3, Suyeno Sugiyobu Miscellaneous • California, San Francisco County Records, 1824-1997
  1. Findagrave Suyeno Sugiyabu Nakamoto
  2. FamilySearch BillionGraves Index
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  4. FamilySearch Hisashi Harold Nakamoto California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994
  5. FamilySearch Hisashi Harold Nakamoto, US GenealogyBank Obituaries
  6. FamilySearch Joe Tommy Nakamoto Vital • California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994
  7. FamilySearch May Nakamoto California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994
  8. FamilySearch Noboru Nakamoto California Birth Index, 1905-1995
  9. FamilySearch Suyeno Nakamoto Migration • California, index to San Francisco passenger lists, 1893-1934
  10. FamilySearch Suyeno Nakamoto Vital • California Death Index, 1940-1997
  11. FamilySearch Suyeno Nakamoto, US, War Relocation Authority centers final accountability rosters, 1942-1946
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  19. Other: Social Security Application of Suyeno Nakamoto;
  20. Other: Obituary for Suyeno Nakamoto, "Appeal Democrat," Marysville, CA, Tuesday, 16 Oct 1973, p. 18;
  21. Other: Record for Suyeno Nakamoto, Japanese Americans Relocated During World War II;
  22. Marriage Sources:
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  23. FamilySearch Document #2, Tamakichi Nakamoto California, San Francisco County Records, 1824-1997
  24. FamilySearch Marrieg document #3, Suyeno Sugiyobu Miscellaneous • California, San Francisco County Records, 1824-1997
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