The Proeger Family · Generation 4 — Earl's great-grandparents

Mildred A. Rose

Aileane's mother · b. July 1898

Mildred Rose Silva, smiling, with curled dark hair and a dark cardigan over a light blouse; detail from a three-generation family photograph
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Mildred A. Rose

CaliforniaConfirmed

Aileane's mother · 1898–1960

Mildred Rose Silva — detail from the three-generation photograph (FamilySearch Memory 9943586) S323.

Born
26 July 1898, California
Died
7 October 1960, Alameda County, California
Married
Frank T. Silva (Frank Silva Jr)
Sources
5
Images
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Life in the order the records give it

Birth1898
Born 26 July 1898, California
the day is from the California Death Index S316; enumerated as a two-year-old daughter in her own father's household in the 1900 census, Washington Township, Alameda County, where she and her twin brother Edward are bracketed "Twins" S55. That is what lifts her from a name in a parent field to a documented person with parents of her own.
Census1920
In 1920 she is in her husband's parents' house, indexed by OCR as "Mildresk" Silva, born 1899 California S48
Photograph
A photograph of Mildred and William Springer by a picket fence, late 1930s or 1940s, from Patricia Collins’s collection, is in Photos below with its AI-assisted enhanced version.
Death1960
Died 7 October 1960, Alameda County, California, as Mildred A Springer Confirmed (index; certificate not seen)
California Death Index 1940–1997: born 26 July 1898, California, mother's maiden name Mendonca S316. The birth date matches the 1900 twins entry and the maiden name matches her mother's, so this is her. The 1960 date is restored. It was withdrawn on 14 September because searches under Silva and Rose found nothing; she had remarried and died as Springer.
Photograph1915
🆕 A studio portrait of two couples, about 1915–1920 Confirmed (family testimony): Mildred and her first husband Frank Da Silva Jr, with her sister Helen (Rose) and Helen’s husband Victor Johnson, as her granddaughter Patricia (Proeger) Collins named them on 1 October 2026 (Helen is Mrs. Victor Johnson in Mildred’s 1960 death notice; Patti confirmed the name). ⚠️ Helen married Victor only after her first husband William Farrell was killed on 10 June 1946 (she was still Mrs. O’Farrell in 1942), and Frank Jr died in 1924, so the man beside Helen in this photograph may be Farrell; not settled. In Photos below.

Family parents, marriages, children, siblings

Children1918
Her daughter's 1918 birth index entry carries Rose in the mother's-maiden-name field
independent corroboration from a vital-records index S56
Marriage1918
Married Frank T. Silva (Frank Silva Jr) before September 1918, when he named "Wife Mildred Silva" on his draft card; in January 1920 the couple were in his father's household S48. Later surname Springer S316.
Children
A three-generation photograph shows her with her daughter Aileane and granddaughter Nancy S323; it is in Photos below and her portrait above is cut from it.

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Not found
Second marriage, to William Springer, after Frank Silva Jr died in 1924; date and place not yet found. Her granddaughter Patricia (Proeger) Collins named him on 1 October 2026 Confirmed (family testimony): “My Grandmother. Moms Mother. And her second husband William Springer.” She died as Mildred A Springer S316. The 1950 census finds Mildred Springer, 51, born California, with her husband William Springer, 50, born California, an auto parts salesman, in Oakland, Alameda County Probable (name, age, birthplace and husband match; nothing else on the entry ties it to her)
United States Census 1950, ED 67-450B, p. 76, line 7. The marriage record itself is not yet found.

Photos & documents 6 photos · 1 document

Photos (6)
Frank T. Da Silva Jr and Mildred A. (Rose) Silva, with Mildred's sister Helen (Rose) and her husband Victor Johnson — from the Patricia Collins collection
Frank T. Da Silva Jr and Mildred A. (Rose) Silva, with Mildred's sister Helen (Rose) and her husband Victor Johnson — from the Patricia Collins collection c. 1915-1920 Confirmed Download · → card
Enhanced (AI-assisted, non-generative): glare reduced, cleaned and upscaled. Frank T. Da Silva Jr and Mildred A. (Rose) Silva, with Mildred's sister Helen (Rose) and her husband Victor Johnson — from the Patricia Collins collection
Enhanced (AI-assisted, non-generative): glare reduced, cleaned and upscaled. Frank T. Da Silva Jr and Mildred A. (Rose) Silva, with Mildred's sister Helen (Rose) and her husband Victor Johnson — from the Patricia Collins collection c. 1915-1920 AI-assisted enhancement of the original photo Download · Original photo · → card
Mildred A. (Rose) Silva Springer and her second husband William Springer, by a picket fence, 1930s–1940s — from the Patricia Collins collection
Mildred A. (Rose) Silva Springer and her second husband William Springer, by a picket fence, 1930s–1940s — from the Patricia Collins collection c. 1937-1946 Confirmed Download · → card
Enhanced (AI-assisted, non-generative): glare reduced, cleaned and upscaled. Mildred A. (Rose) Silva Springer and her second husband William Springer, by a picket fence, 1930s–1940s — from the Patricia Collins collection
Enhanced (AI-assisted, non-generative): glare reduced, cleaned and upscaled. Mildred A. (Rose) Silva Springer and her second husband William Springer, by a picket fence, 1930s–1940s — from the Patricia Collins collection c. 1937-1946 AI-assisted enhancement of the original photo Download · Original photo · → card
Three generations: Mildred Rose Silva (left), her daughter Aileane Silva Proeger (right) and granddaughter Nancy Proeger (front). Undated. FamilySearch Memory 9943586; identified by the uploader, Mildred's great-granddaughter.
Three generations: Mildred Rose Silva (left), her daughter Aileane Silva Proeger (right) and granddaughter Nancy Proeger (front). Undated. FamilySearch Memory 9943586; identified by the uploader, Mildred's great-granddaughter. undated Confirmed Download · AI-restored colour version · → card
Restored with AI from the original. Three generations: Mildred Rose Silva (left), her daughter Aileane Silva Proeger (right) and granddaughter Nancy Proeger (front).
Restored with AI from the original. Three generations: Mildred Rose Silva (left), her daughter Aileane Silva Proeger (right) and granddaughter Nancy Proeger (front). c. 1941 AI restoration of FamilySearch Memory 9943586 Download · Original photo · → card
Documents (1)

Documents · 1 page image all documents

Retrieved from the UNT Libraries' Portal to Texas History, or — for the University of Texas Cactus yearbooks — from Texas ScholarWorks. Each thumbnail opens the full page scan, which can also be downloaded. The quoted text is the OCR that ships with the scan, copied verbatim; the page image is the authority.

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Mildred A. Rose · Sources

Citations

Sources cited on this card

5 of the record's sources are cited here. The numbering is the record's own; the full list, with where else each is cited, is at Sources.

  1. S48US Census, 1920 — Washington Judicial Township (originally Washington, ED 213), Alameda County; household 132, sheet 8B line 62. FamilySearch ark:/61903/1:1:MH38-KY1. Frank Silva, 22, married, born California 1898, relationship to head of household: "Son", both parents born Portugal; in the household with "Mildresk" Silva, born 1899 California — an OCR mangling of Mildred. The relationship column is what makes the father–son link a record rather than an inference from a "Jr" on a headstone.
  2. S55US Census, 1900 — Washington Township, ED 405, Alameda County; household 24, sheet 1B line 93. FamilySearch ark:/61903/1:1:M9PW-6X9. Antone Rose, Head, born February 1840, Portugal, arrival 1870, married 21 years, his own parents both Portugal-born; Louise Rose, Wife, age 44, Portugal (her birth-year column reads 1865, contradicting her own age); Mildred Rose, Daughter, born July 1898, California. The same township as the Silvas, one enumeration district over. ⚠️ These records say "Portugal," not "Azores," and this page does not upgrade them to match the Silvas. "Rose" is the standard Anglicisation of Portuguese Rosa / Roza. 🔑 SUPPLEMENT, 22 September 2026 — the same page re-served (rid 36140745) and read at full resolution. The children are named: Rose (Nov 1879, already married), Louise (June 1885), Antone (June 1887), Joseph (Oct 1888), Frank (May 1891), Edward and Mildred (July 1898), bracketed as twins, and Helen (Oct 1899). ⚠ The mother's age column (44) and birth-year column disagree; the age governs, agreeing with S201, so she was born c.1855–56.
  3. S56California Birth Index, 1905–1995 — Aileane Silva, born 15 August 1918, Alameda, California, FamilySearch ark:/61903/1:1:V256-J8H. The index's single associated surname is the mother's maiden name, and it reads Rose — corroborating Mildred Rose as her mother from a vital-records index rather than from NUMIDENT or a user tree. Its limit, stated: the index does not print the mother's given name, so it establishes the surname Rose, not specifically "Mildred A."
  4. S316California Death Index, 1940–1997 — Mildred A Springer. FamilySearch record VPWY-81H, read 23 September 2026. Born 26 July 1898, California; died 7 October 1960, Alameda County; mother's maiden name Mendonca. An index; the certificate has not been seen. The birth date matches the July 1898 twins entry of the 1900 census (S55) and the mother's maiden name matches Louise Rose's, so this is Mildred A. Rose under a later married surname. FamilySearch also attaches this row, wrongly, to her mother as a death record.
  5. S323FamilySearch Memory 9943586 — three-generation photograph. Original upload, 1044 × 1572 px, uploaded 7 September 2014; downloaded 23 September 2026. Uploader's comment, 28 November 2016: “Mildred Rose/Silva on the left, Aileane Silva/Proeger on the right, Nancy Proeger in front. Three generations my mom, grandmother and great grandmother.” Undated. The identifications are the uploader's, Mildred's great-granddaughter.

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