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The 1939 Register records 66-year-old Alice M. Yeo at 25 Queens Road in the Alphington area of Exeter. She is retired and shown as a widow; with her is her daughter, 40-year-old Doris M.H. Yeo. There are two other women in the same household: Alice Ashford, a 57-year-old widow, and May Martin, a 54-year-old married woman.
Samuel John Yeo was born at Tywardreath in Cornwall in 1871 [note 1] and married Alice Maud Dymond in Exeter in 1897. They had one daughter, Doris Maude Helen Yeo [note 2].
Samuel died in 1933 in Derbyshire, at Smedley’s Hydro in Martock [note 3] at the age of 63. His death certificate records him as a motor garage proprietor of 25 Queens Road in the St Thomas district of Exeter and the informant as his widow Alice Maud Yeo [note 2].
Alice lived until 1949. She, Samuel and Doris are buried in the parish churchyard at Alphington.
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Notes
1. Samuel was born in 1871 to parents Samuel Yeo and Elizabeth Curtis. He appears to have visited or lived in Chicago – the Penzance newspaper The Cornishman dated 8 August 1912 printed a list of people who had recently stayed at Blake’s Star Hotel in Clarkson Street, New York under the headline ‘Cornish Folk in New York’. The list included S. Yeo, who was travelling from Chicago to Tywardeath.
2. 1898–1976, did not marry.
3. Was Samuel perhaps in Martock with his wife for a health cure, ‘taking the waters’ in this spa town? He died from a condition affecting his kidneys and arteries.