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Veterans Name: Emanuel Napoleon ZERMAN
Birth Date: Aug 21, 1845
Location: Moscow, Russia
Death Date: Aug 29, 1910
Location: Santa Ana, Orange County, California
Buried at: Fairhaven Memorial Park
Plot Location: Lawn S-6-3
GPS Coordinates: N33° 46' 15.33674" W117° 50' 31.06181"
(DMS) Datum: NAD83. Coordinates are +/- 1.00 feet of the grave location
Side Served: Union
Rank: Private
Company:
Unit: Shield’s Division – New York Volunteers
State: New York
Occupation: Civil Engineer, Farmer, Deputy Assessor
Family Information
Parents –
Father: John Napoleon Zerman
Birth Date/Location: 24 June 1790, Veneto, Italy
Death Date/Location: 10 December 1876, San Francisco, San Francisco
County, California
Mother: Maria Christine/Celestine Pernet
Birth Date/Location: France
Death Date/Location: 1860, San Francisco, San Francisco County, California
Spouse: Virginia M. Deck
Birth Date / Location: 1851, San Francisco, California
Death Date/Location: 3 March 1936, Orange County, California
Marriage Date / Location: Feb 1, 1872, San Francisco, California
Children –
Name: Archibald Napoleon Zerman
Birth Date / Location: 16 Mar 1873, California
Death Date / Location: 23 Oct 1957, Santa Ana, Orange County, California
World War I Draft Registration, Orange County, California
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Name: Laura Estella Zerman
Birth Date / Location: 1875, San Francisco, San Francisco County, California
Death Date / Location: April 1876, San Francisco, San Francisco County,
California
Name: Victor Emanuel Zerman
Birth Date / Location: 27 Aug 1877, San Francisco, San Francisco County,
California
Death Date / Location: 12 May 1952, Los Angeles County, California
Name: Richard Francis Zerman
Birth Date / Location: 4 Jun 1881, San Francisco, San Francisco County,
California
Death Date / Location: 2 Mar 1968, Los Angeles County, California
World War I Draft Registration, San Bernardino County, California
Name: Fredrick A. Zerman
Birth Date / Location: 20 Jun 1887, California
Death Date / Location: 13 Oct 1975, Los Angeles County, California
World War I Draft Registration, Los Angeles County, California
Additional Information
Member of Sedgwick Post No 17, GAR
California Voter Records
 Lived in San Francisco 1872, 1875, 1878, 1880, 1882
 Lived in Orange County 1892, 1896
1872 – San Francisco County
Emanuel Napoleon Zerman, 27, Russia, Civil Engineer
1896 – Garden Grove, Orange County
Emanuel N. Zerman, Farmer, 50, Russia
Comments:
No actual military service found for Civil War for Emanuel Zerman. Military Service is based on
Kelchner Burial List compiled by Sons of Union Veteran’s Orange County.
New York Passenger List for March 1, 1872 lists a Captain and Mrs. E. N. Zerman departing
Aspinwall, Panama for New York. Occupation of Captain E. N. Zerman, Mexican Army.
New York passport application in 1866 for an Emanuel Zerman born in Moscow, lists his father
as Brigadier General John Zerman.
Photograph of tombstone for Emanuel N. Zerman, Fairhaven Memorial Cemetery, Orange
County, California taken by Charles Lewis Beal, 3/16/2007. Retrieved 21 September 2012, from
Findagrave.com. Used with the permission of Charles Beal.
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Memorial # 96099632, Created by Helen (Kane) Favaron, Record for Emanuel N
Zerman
Memorial # 96099518, Created by Helen (Kane) Favaron, Record for Virginia M Deck
Zerman
Memorial # 96099680, Created by Helen (Kane) Favaron, Record for Archibald N
Zerman
Memorial # 96099820, Created by Helen (Kane) Favaron, Record for Victor Emanuel
Zerman
Memorial # 96104837, Created by Helen (Kane) Favaron, Record for Richard F Zerman
Memorial # 96099746, Created by Helen (Kane) Favaron, Record for Fred A Zerman
State of California. California Death Index, 1940-1997. Sacramento, CA, USA: State of
California Department of Health Services, Center for Health Statistics, Microfilm
 Record for Archibald N. Zerman, mother’s maiden name Deck
 Record for Victor Zerman, mother’s maiden name Decker
 Record for Richard F. Zerman, mother’s maiden name Deck
 Record for Richard F. Zerman
1870 U.S. census, population schedules. NARA microfilm publication M593, 1,761 rolls.
Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.
 San Francisco Ward 9, San Francisco County, California; Roll M593_83, Page 56B;
Family 1019, Record for Manuel Zerman
Tenth Census of the United States, 1880. (NARA microfilm publication T9, 1,454 rolls). Records
of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
 San Francisco, San Francisco County, California; Roll T9_73,Family 130, Record for
Emanuel Zerman
United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900.
Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1900. T623, 1854 rolls.
 Westminster, Orange County, California Roll T623_95, Page 22B, Family 421, Record
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Thirteenth Census of the United States, 1910 (NARA microfilm publication T624, 1,178 rolls).
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