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Annie Margaret Casey Fitzhenry
Birth Place: San Francisco
Pioneer Father: James M. Casey
Birth Place: Castle Island Kerry
Date of Arrival in California: `51
Pioneer Mother: Eliza Long Casey
Birth Place: Castle Gregory Ireland
Date of Arrival in California: 1852
Death: Father: 1899; Mother: 1890
Remarks: Dear Pioneer Ladies I can not give you much Pioneer history at present only that my father was interested in the stage line and drove a six horse stage from the Hall of Justice at the Plaza in San Jose long before a train ever ran down there. I have been trying to look this up in history but failed in the library. Hoping you will be able to assist me. I remain with best wishes Annie M. C. Fitzhenry.
Edna Lovell Gardner
Birth Place: Truckee California
Pioneer Father: Hiram Smith Gardner
Birth Place: [illegible] New York
Date of Arrival in California: 1870
Pioneer Mother: Angeline M. Griffin Gardner
Birth Place: Platteville Wisconsin
Date of Arrival in California: Fall 1853
Death: July 2 1918 [illegible] Pass
Remarks: —
Mrs. Sadie Gummer Stevens (Stephens)
Birth Place: Santa Clara Cal
Pioneer Father: Samuel P Gummer
Birth Place: Maine
Date of Arrival in California: 1850
Pioneer Mother: Sarah Frances Gummer
Birth Place: Ohio
Date of Arrival in California: 1849
Death: Died in S. F.
Remarks: Came by oxteam across the plains.
Martha Lorina Bequette
Birth Place: San Juan California
Pioneer Father: James Thomas Clarke
Birth Place: Kentucky
Date of Arrival in California: 1849
Pioneer Mother: Mary Ann Clark
Birth Place: Peoria Ill.
Date of Arrival in California: 1846
Death: —
Remarks: Overland through Truckee. My mother came to California in 1846, was a member of the Donner Party. The man who killed her first husband Edward Pyle of San Jose, was the first man hung in California.
Annie Maria Ferguson
Birth Place: Columbia Tuolumne Cal.
Pioneer Father: John L Bonnell
Birth Place: Rhode Island
Date of Arrival in California: 1852
Pioneer Mother: Lucinda Bonnell
Birth Place: Belfast Ireland
Date of Arrival in California: 1852
Death: Mother: 1900; Father: 1895
Remarks: By Isthmus
Harriet Lawrence [illegible]
Birth Place: San Francisco
Pioneer Father: Henry Hathaway Lawrence
Birth Place: [illegible] N.Y.
Date of Arrival in California: 1849
Pioneer Mother: Sarah Ann Mack Lawrence
Birth Place: Cayuca N. Y.
Date of Arrival in California: 1853
Death: Mother: 1922; Father: 1901
Remarks: Mother By the Isthmus Father Around the Horn. My father settled in Napa leaving there in the Spring of ’53. Was sent as Commissioner from California to the World’s Fair held in New York City. Married April 30 (’53). On return to California, he entered the SF Mint Jan 1st 1864, holding his appointment for forty years
Grace McClure Hurley
Birth Place: Mission San Jose, Alameda Co. Cal.
Pioneer Father: Richard A. McClure
Birth Place: Lewisburg Union C. Penn
Date of Arrival in California: Oct 1853
Pioneer Mother: Eleanore L. Henine
Birth Place: Yates, Orleans Co. N.Y.
Date of Arrival in California: Dec 1856
Death: Mother 1910 Sept 8 Across the Isthmus; Father 1879 Dec.
Remarks: Mother Across the Isthmus Father plains. My father brought the first sheep across the plains. He was five and a half months crossing and landed at Mission of San Jose. Alameda Co Calif.
Mary K. Mogan
Birth Place: San Francisco, Cal.
Pioneer Father: Joseph R. Mogan
Birth Place: Galway Ireland
Date of Arrival in California: May 1850
Pioneer Mother: Sarah Mogan
Birth Place: Galway Ireland
Date of Arrival in California: Alameda Co Calif 1862
Death: Mother: Nov 23 1924; Father: May 11 1908
Remarks: Mother by Panama; Father Sailing ship from Boston Mass
Josephine Eve Mahi
Birth Place: San Francisco Cal.
Pioneer Father: Raphael Leandi
Birth Place: Cracow Poland
Date of Arrival in California: 1850
Pioneer Mother: Maria Leandi
Birth Place: St. Petersburg Russia
Date of Arrival in California: 1852
Death: Mother & Father passed away in SF
Remarks: Both came by way of Panama
Sara Gertrude Barrett
Birth Place: San Francisco Cal.
Pioneer Father: Theodore Flynn
Birth Place: Belfast Ireland
Date of Arrival in California: 1851
Pioneer Mother: Marybell Collins
Birth Place: New Orleans, La
Date of Arrival in California: 1851
Death: Mother: 1906; Father: 1896
Remarks: Both arrived by Panama
Emma Greenberg Hilp
Mrs. Henry Hilp
Birth Place: San Francisco
Pioneer Father: Henry Greenberg
Birth Place: Bavaria, Ger.
Date of Arrival in California: Early in 1852
Pioneer Mother: Marie Bergtheil
Birth Place: Bavaria Germany
Date of Arrival in California: 1853
Death: Father: 1883; Mother: 1894. Both arrived by Panama
Remarks: My father came to Placerville, then Hangtown in 1852 and built the famous round tent which I saw recently, is surrounded by corrugated iron, is now a bank. A photograph of it is now in the Pioneer room of the Memorial Museum. My father was one of the first founders of the woolen mills called the Pioneer and Mission Woolen Mills, S.F. He was in the banking business on the corner of Sacramento and Leidesdorff St. [illegible] with a branch in Yreka. My father was a member of The Vigilantes. I have a faint recollection of the excitement. I have his naturalization papers which were taken out in Tallahassee Florida.