Table of Contents Previous | Next Random
Click to enlarge image
Mrs. Margery Glass Weisenborn
Birth Place: San Francisco, Cal.
Pioneer Father: Frederick Hugh Glass
Birth Place: Belfast, Great Britain
Date of Arrival in California: 1879
Pioneer Mother: Lulu Belle Coe Glass
Birth Place: Nevada City, Nevada Co.
Date of Arrival in California: —
Remarks: I am the grand-daughter of Mrs. Sarah Gregory Coe Hecox and William R. Coe. My grand-mother arrived with her parents Augustus Bayne Gregory and Nancy Saunders Deaman Gregory in Coloma, Placer County Sept 12, 1850. They came in a covered wagon from Alexandria Missouri. They were both born in Louisville Kentucky. My grandmother’s brother and baby sister Susan were also with their parents. My grand-father William P. Coe came around the “Horn” in a steamer and arrived in Nevada City in 1856. He came from Williamsville New York but he was born in County Kent Tunbridge Wells England. In Nevada City he engaged in mining activities and merchandising where he remained until 1883, when he came to San Francisco. Here he was connected with the Spring Valley Water Company with whom he remained until his death Sept 23 – 1902.
Elizabeth Cornell Akers
Birth Place: Nevada Co. California
Pioneer Father: Charles William Cornell
Birth Place: [illegible] N.Y.
Date of Arrival in California: Sept 17 1849
Pioneer Mother: Elizabeth Dickenson Cornell
Birth Place: London England
Date of Arrival in California: 1849
Death: Father: Aug 17, 1907; Mother: Sept. 21 1893
Remarks: Father arrived on the Palmetto around the “Horn.” Mother sailed from London to Australia and from Australia to California. Father was first coroner of San Francisco. Place of business Dupont, or Sacramento St., appointed by the Alcade Cabinet maker, a Vigilante, [illegible] Fire Department, have articles of early fires.
Mrs. Lucy Galloway Ericksen
Birth Place: San Francisco
Pioneer Father: James D. Galloway
Birth Place: New York, N.Y.
Date of Arrival in California: Mar 1850
Pioneer Mother: Bessie Cuthbert Galloway
Birth Place: Kildare, Ireland
Date of Arrival in California: May 1856
Death: Mother: Mar 1923; Father: Jan 1903
Remarks: Father came by way of Nicaragua and mother Aspenwall to Panama by way of the Isthmus of Panama.
Isa Johnson Leroi
Birth Place: Stockton Calif
Pioneer Father: John Wilkins
Birth Place: Boston, Mass.
Date of Arrival in California: 1848
Pioneer Mother: Elizabeth Wilkins
Birth Place: Gorham, Maine
Date of Arrival in California: 1850
Remarks: Both parents arrived by water.
[illegible] (Nelson) McMahon
Birth Place: Oakland, Cal.
Pioneer Father: Calom Clark McMahon
Birth Place: California
Date of Arrival in California: —
Pioneer Mother: Margaret Nelson Breese
Birth Place: California
Date of Arrival in California: —
Death: Mother died in 1920; Father: 1925
Remarks: —
Mrs. Hestner (Grandmother to “[illegible] (Nelson) McMahon”)
Birth Place: —
Pioneer Father: Mrs. L.E. McMahon… (see “Remarks”)
Birth Place: —
Date of Arrival in California: —
Pioneer Mother: —
Birth Place: —
Date of Arrival in California: —
Death: —
Remarks: Charter members fo the Association of Pioneer Women of California.
Mrs. Mary Shafer Desmond
Birth Place: Moore’s Flat, Calif.
Pioneer Father: Henry Shafer
Birth Place: Baden, Germany
Date of Arrival in California: Spring of 1852
Pioneer Mother: Mary Sullivan
Birth Place: Castle [illegible], Scotland
Date of California Arrival: 1849
Death: Father Died 1900; Mother: Sept. 7, 1869
Remarks: Mother came to California from New Orleans by oxteam. Father came by the Panama Route.
Mrs. A. Cecelia Gates
Birth Place: San Francisco, Cal
Pioneer Father: Robert C. Mar
Birth Place: Harrisburg, Penn.
Date of Arrival in California: 1861
Pioneer Mother: Catherine Palmer
Birth Place: New Orleans, La.
Date of Arrival in California: 1846
Death: Father died in June 1876; Mother in San Francisco 1919
Remarks: For more information see Mrs. Mary Pendergast’s record. She is Mrs Gate’s aunt an past president.
Mary H. Blumberg McKean
Birth Place: Port Townsend, Wash.
Pioneer Father: Julius F. Blumberg
Birth Place: Cologne, Germany
Date of Arrival in California: 1852
Pioneer Mother: Carlene Hartung
Birth Place: Gosalar, Ger.
Date of Arrival in California: 1853
Death: Father died in S.F. Also mother.
Remarks: Father came across the plains. Mother by the Panama Route.
Mrs. Olita Constance Sewmarkel
Birth Place: San Francisco, Cal.
Pioneer Father: John Herman Rohlmoss
Birth Place: Hanover Germany
Date of Arrival in California: 1852
Pioneer Mother: Elizabeth Oster Rohlmoss
Birth Place: New York City, N.Y.
Date of Arrival in California: 1854
Death: Mother: Mar. 1914; Father: Dec 1910. Both in S.F.
Remarks: Father left N.Y. in 1852 thence to Georgia to Aspinwall, crossed the isthmus on mule pack, from there by steamer ([illegible] Scott to San Francisco. Mother came by the Panama route. A brief history of father’s life is published in a volume called The Garden City, gotten out by leading spirits of San Joaquin county. Father left his home in Germany in 1849, crossed the Atlantic to New York where he remained until Oct 5, 1852, arrived in S.F. Nov. 1852.
Marion E. Lunt
Birth Place: San Francisco
Pioneer Father: Charles Mighell Smith
Birth Place: Boston, Mass.
Date of Arrival in California: —
Pioneer Mother: Mary Brumley Smith
Birth Place: Norwich, Conn.
Date of Arrival in California: 1857 By way of Panama
Death: —
Remarks: Grand-daughter of George Brumley who arrived in San Francisco in 1851. Mother, a member of the Association of Pioneer Women of California.
Mrs. Isabella V. Pomeroy
Birth Place: San Francisco
Pioneer Father: Paul Heitzeberg
Birth Place: Paris France
Date of Arrival in California: 1851
Pioneer Mother: Catherine Fighe
Birth Place: Ireland
Date of Arrival in California: 1852
Death: Father died in [illegible] 7, 1908. Mother died June 1903.
Remarks: —
Margaret Mary Little Edgar Krump
Birth Place: San Francisco
Pioneer Father: John G. Little
Birth Place: Whitehaven, England
Date of Arrival in California: 1852
Pioneer Mother: Mary Shauridge Little
Birth Place: Maxwelton, Scotland
Date of Arrival in California: 1853
Death: Mother: Nov. 8 86; Father: jan 9 84.
Remarks: My father came out in 1852, bought a home for his family in the neighborhood, of where the Palace Hotel stands. Where I, and a younger sister were born. Mary J. Little Mayborn was an older sister and taught at the [illegible] and G.H. She passed away two years ago last March. My mother and four children came out on the s.s. Thomas Woight, had a frightful voyage, were afraid of being lost at sea. Am a native daughter and live San Fran.