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Thompson, Alice Ellsworth
Birth Place: San Francisco
Pioneer Father: Charlie E. Thompson
Birth Place: San Francisco
Date of Arrival in California: July 29, 1898
Pioneer Mother: —
Birth Place: —
Date of Arrival in California: —
Remarks: Was born in San Francisco Aug 22, 1925, the great grand daughter of Andrew and Ellen Whalen Thompson. Andrew Thompson arrived in San Francisco Aug 1849 on board the ship Elizabeth Ellen. He was a native of Albany, New York. Was a veteran of the Mexican War. Ellen Whalen Thompson arrived in 1851, was a native of Ireland. They were her paternal grand-parents. Her maternal great grand parents were John C. Sack of Bavaria, a pioneer of 1849, and Mary A. Tennant Sack, a native of Philadelphia, a pioneer of 1851. She is grand niece of Adrianna Thompson past president of the Association of Pioneer Women of California and the late Ellsworth Thompson. She is the junior member of the association.
Burke, Alpha Brothers, Mrs.
Birth Place: Linwood, King Co.
Pioneer Father: Furman C. Brothers
Birth Place: Quincy, Illinois
Date of Arrival in California: 1887 [illegible]
Pioneer Mother: Ida Mathers Brothers
Birth Place: Hollister, California
Date of Arrival in California: —
Remarks: Alpha Brothers Burke is the daughter of Ida Mathers Brothers, President of the Association of Pioneer Women of California, also the grand daughter of Helen Rogers Patterson and the great grand daughter of Synthia Stephens Rogers who came to California from Illinois in 1850, also the great grand-daughter of Margaret Jones Mathis who came to California from Illinois in 1852.
Schroder, Robina Alice
Birth Place: San Joaquin
Pioneer Father: Antonio Goppi
Birth Place: Switzerland
Date of Arrival in California: 1851
Pioneer Mother: Agnes E. Lee
Birth Place: Ireland
Date of Arrival in California: 1852
Death: Mother died March 8, 1925; Father years ago
Remarks: My father left New Orleans in the year 1851 and came by boat to what is now called Burlingame and bought a ranch. My mother left New Orleans in 1852 and came by boat to the ranch. My sister remember when the first train started there at Burlingame.
Forbes, Floy Hays
Birth Place: Livermore, Cal.
Pioneer Father: G.G. Grand father Boone Hays
Birth Place: Kentucky
Date of Arrival in California: 1843
Pioneer Mother: Lilly Mills Hays
Birth Place: Modesto, Cal.
Date of Arrival in California: —
Death: Mother died in Coalinga Fresno California Mar. 8, 1893
Remarks: G. G. Grand father Boone Hays was a grandson of Daniel Boone. Great Grand Father Boone Hayes and G. Grand father Watts on my Grand-Mother’s came to California settling first on the Sacramento River, then moving later to mines at Mariposa. Great grand father is buried in the old cemetery at Mariposa.
Freethy, Marie Collet, Mrs.
Birth Place: San Francisco
Pioneer Father: Dr. John Peter Schnitz
Birth Place: Ullman, Germany
Date of Arrival in California: November 1853
Pioneer Mother: Karolina Grelle Schnitz
Birth Place: Germany
Date of Arrival in California: —
Death: Dr. Schnitz died in April 1906; Mrs. Schnitz in Sept. 1910
Remarks: Dr . and Mrs. Schnitz came by the Donner Route. Dr. Schnitz was an author of some distinction in his profession, among his books being one on Human Physiology and [illegible] phamphlets [sic] on the cause of diphtheria and croup. In 1886 he was appointed to the chair of physiology and nervous disorders in the California Medical College.
Veaco, Edith Laura, Mrs.
Birth Place: San Francisco
Pioneer Father: Stewart Winwall
Birth Place: San Francisco
Date of Arrival in California: —
Pioneer Mother: Alice B. Winsby
Birth Place: Nevada City, Nev.
Date of Arrival in California: —
Remarks: My grand father in San Francisco in 1851. He and my grand mother came from Cincinnati Ohio and spent lives in San Francisco.
Stewart A. Winall
Ida Carolyn Shaughnessy, Mrs.
Birth Place: San Francisco
Pioneer Father: John Martel
Birth Place: Alsace Loraine [sic]
Date of Arrival in California: —
Pioneer Mother: Frances Cecill Martel
Birth Place: Syracuse, NY
Date of Arrival in California: 1853
Death: Father: June 9, 1896; Mother: Mar 8, 1905
Remarks: My grandfather Charles Cook came to California in 1852 and my mother only sixteen years old came around the Horn with a baby, 3 months shortly after.
Kryenhagen, Elizabeth Ellis Gump, Mrs.
Birth Place: Centerville, Fresno
Pioneer Father: John Grey Gump
Birth Place: Alexandria, Vir.
Date of California Arrival: Oct. 1850
Pioneer Mother: Nancy Ann Cox
Birth Place: Pike Co. Missouri
Date of California Arrival: 1849 by Santa Fe trail
Remarks: John Grey Gump landed at [illegible] City, from there he went to Angel’s and later to Memphis Camp Calaveras Co. Located a gold mine there and lost [illegible] in a law-suit. Nancy Cox crossed the plains via the Santa Fe Trail three times by ox trails. First came in 1849 as a child. Returned when in her teens. Lost husband in battle of New Orleans. In 1865 relocated to California where she rejoined her family.
Himby, Emma A. (nee Street)
Birth Place: Placerville, El Dorado Co.
Pioneer Father: James H. Street
Birth Place: Philadelphia, Penn.
Date of Arrival in California: 1880
Pioneer Mother: Sophomoria Sullivan Street
Birth Place: Sebastopol Sonoma Co.
Date of Arrival in California: —
Death: Mother is living, also Father
Remarks: Personal history attached.
Kreiss, Adelaide Jenetta, Mrs.
Birth Place: Nevada Nevada Co.
Pioneer Father: John H. Brandman
Birth Place: London England
Date of Arrival in California: 1849
Pioneer Mother: Cecilia Jenetta Purdy Brandman
Birth Place: Galena, Ill.
Date of Arrival in California: 1852 by way of the covered wagon
Remarks: My father was postmaster of Grass Valley during the Civil War. My mother attended school at Grass Valley guardian. About 1858 and about five years later she married my father and moved to Nevada City where my father became engaged in the newspaper of that town. This is just a brief sketch of my parents life in California after nine months of crossing the plains.