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Note: eath certificate of her mother Eva Skultka, Alaska Vital Statistics, 1919.
<b>Peter John, "United States Census, 1920" This Haida family were residents of Hydaburg, AK.
</b>Name: Peter John
Titles and Terms:
Event Type: Census
Event Year: 1920
Event Place: Ketchikan, First Judicial District, Alaska, United States
District: 13
Gender: Male
Age: 40
Marital Status: Married
Race: Indian
Race (Original): Indian
Can Read:
Can Write:
Relationship to Head of Household: Head
Relationship to Head of Household (Original): Head
Own or Rent:
Birth Year (Estimated): 1880
Birthplace: Alaska
Immigration Year:
Father's Birthplace: Alaska
Mother's Birthplace: Alaska
Sheet Number and Letter: 8A
Household ID: 8
Line Number:
Affiliate Name: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
Affiliate Publication Number: T625
GS Film number:1822030
Digital Folder Number:004442131
Image Number: 00199
 HouseholdGenderAgeBirthplace
Head Peter John M40 Alaska
Wife Polly John F24 Alaska
Daughter Elizabeth John F8 Alaska
Daughter Jula John F7 Alaska
Daughter Sarah John F6 Alaska
Daughter Cicila John F3 Alaska
Son Benson John M1 Alaska
Niece Genevieve Ross F5 Alaska
This individual was identified by her marriage certificate, First Judicial District, Sitka, AK dated 1 Jun 1938
She married Walter D. Soboleff of Sitka.
She was in Sitka, Terr. of Alaska as a student at the Sheldon Jackson School according to the 1930 US census.
The 1944 BIa village census at Juneau, AK indicated that she was 1/4 Alaska native.
According to Sherry Kroll Jackson she was 1/2 Haida. Internet, 1/2001 jackson5@gci.net
Further research is needed, Walter Soboleff, Jr. indicated that his mother was a Skultka. He also identified his mother's sister as Olive Ross.
He indicated that her middle name was Evangeline, after her mother.
The following was obtained from the Social Security Death Index.
Genevieve SOBOLEFF Birth Date: 17 Dec 1914 Death Date: Jan 1986 Social Security Number: 574-14-3635 State or Territory Where Number Was Issued: Alaska Death Residence Localities ZIP Code: 99841 Localities: Tenakee Springs, Skagway-Yakutat-Angoon, Alaska Death Benefit Localities Zip Code: 99841 Localities: Tenakee Springs, Skagway-Yakutat-Angoon, Alaska
Her obituary, including her photograph, appeared in the Juneau Empire, 28 Jan 1986.
She died following an extended illness. She had Alzheimer's disease.
She was interred at the Alaska Memorial Park on Riverside Drive in Juneau, AK.
She was a member of the Ts'eilaanaas (Eagle) tribe of the Haida nation. She was a member of the Frog Clan, and was entitled to use the Eagle, Frog and Sculpin crests.
As her parents both died when she was young, she was raised by relatives in Hydaburg, Kasaan, and Craig.
At age 12 she went to school at Sheldon Jackson in Sitka, AK.
During summers she worked at in salmon canneries in Kasaan, Waterfall and Craig. She was a housekeeper during a summer break at Goddard Hot Springs Resort outside of Sitka, AK.
Because she had an outstanding academic record she received a scholarship to attend the Sage Memorial Hospital in Ganado, Arizona. She remained in Arizona from 1933 until 1937 when she graduated as a registered nurse.
As the Sage Memorial Hospital served the Navajo indian community in the surrounding area she learned to speak Navajo.
She and Walter Soboleff married in Sitka, Ak in 1938. They then journeyed to Dubuque, Iowas where he was completing his last year of seminary. They moved to Juneau, AK in 1940 where her husband accepted his first ministry with the Presbyterian Chruch.
She worked as a nurse at the US Government Hospital in Juneau, at St. Ann's Hospital in Juneau and as a matron and nurse for the Juneau Police Department.
She later worked as the village health aide at Tenakee Springs, AK for the Southeast Alaska Regional Helath Consortium where she and her husband resided starting in 1974 following his retirement.
She was a member of the Alaska Native Sisterhood, Order of the Eastern Star, the National Association of American Indians, te American Legion Auxillary and the Craig Presbyterian Church.
She was linguistically gifted. She learned to speak and translate Navajo. She spoke both dialects of the Haida language (Kaigani-Alaskan Haida and Massett, BC dialect). She could also speak and understand Inupiaq, Tlingit, and Chinook.
She and Dr. Michael Krauss, of the University of Alaska Fairbanks, developed an alphabet for Kaigani Haida. With this tool, she and other Haida speakers organized some of the first Haida language symposia which led to the production by the Society for the Preservation of the Haida Language of the first Haida books published in 70 years.
Note: This individual was a resident of Hydaburg, AK in 1919 according to the d
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