Millicent Belaire Benioff

Her father, a furrier, died when she was 6 years old. According to Delaware Wills and Probate records for her father, Millicent inherited 86 acres of land in Delaware which had been given to Alexander from his parents Ida and Isaac. The land was then sold back to Isaac for $1200 after Alexander’s death.

Stella was appointed Millicent’s Guardian (not sure why that was necessary as she was her mother). In 1907, Abe Silverstein traveled east and brought Stella and Millicent back to San Francisco. The 1910 Census shows her living with her mother, her grandparents Abraham and Dora Silverstein and her Aunt Cecile and Uncle Sidney Silverstein. They lived at 313 Washington Street in San Francisco.

In 1920 she was 13 and living with her grandfather Abraham (Dora is not listed on the census) and her mother Stella, who now has the last name Newman, but she is listed as single on the census and is working in a Department Store as a milliner. They were living at 2867 Sacramento Street in San Francisco. 

She was a contralto, and in 1925, there is a notice of her singing at KFRC radio station in Oakland, in the Oakland Tribune. 

In 1930, Millicent was living with her mother at 3423 Fillmore Street, SF. Stella’s name is Benioff again and she is listed as “widow.” Neither of them is working. In 1940 Millicent and Stella are still living together, now at 2645 Van Ness. Millicent, now 27, is working as a stenographer for the War Dept.

Stella died in 1947. I can’t find Millicent in the 1950 census.