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Joseph Daniel Nunan
John Francis' children knew little about the Uncle Joseph Daniel Nunan, only that he died during the First World War in training at American Lake in Camp Lewis, (now known as Fort Lewis) Washington. Research has given us more information.
For his obituary in the San Francisco Examiner of 6 February 1918 we know Joseph Daniel was born April 1888. While the cause of death is not stated, Helen Nunan recalled that it was pneumonia. He was not quite 28 years old.
The City Directories of San Francisco shows that Joseph lived with his father most of his life. His occupations were listed in 1903 as a shademaker, in 1907 and 1910 as a salesman. In 1911 he is listed in the directory as living away from his father but he is still a saleman.
It was believed that Joseph never married, but research shows that he did. When looking into the burial records of the Nunan family at St. Mary's Cemetery in Oakland, the name Mamie appeared as being buried in the Nunan plot. Checking the San Francisco Examiner for the date of the burial, 29 July 1912, we discovered Joseph's marriage to May (the name given in Joseph's obituary) Silva. The obituary for Mamie Nunan shows she died in Los Gatos on 25 July 1912. She was the beloved wife of Joseph D. Nunan and devoted daughter of Anthony and the late Caroline Silva, and loving sister of A.T. and F.B. Silva and Mrs. Doretta Conroy. She came from Erie, Pennsylvania. It appears Joseph and Mamie were married only two years. Apparently she died in childbirth as the cemetery records show her buried with her baby. Joseph died only four years later from what we now know from research to be the influenza outbreak at Camp Murray in Washington State. He is also buried at St. Mary's Cemetery.