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Hampkins, Laura Delle, Mrs.
Birth Place: Ione, Amador Co.
Pioneer Father: Francis A. McMurry
Birth Place: Springfield, Ill.
DatDate of Arrival in California: 1853
Pioneer Mother: Consumnes California Gansick
Birth Place: Ione, Amador Co.
Date of Arrival in California: Born in California
Death: Died on Colenga Train 1912
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Bonney, Jamie Lee, Mrs.
Birth Place: Rio de Los Putos, Sylmar, Ca.
Pioneer Father: John Reed Wolfskill
Birth Place: Kentucky
Date of Arrival in California: 1838
Pioneer Mother: Susan Cooper Wolfskill
Birth Place: Missouri
Date of Arrival in California: —
Remarks: My father came to California in 1838. In 1841 he went to the Los Putos Grant in Sylmar Cal, where he lived his long life and died in 1896
Hedge, Lila Berry; continued from p – 94
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Remarks:Our grandparents and family started for California April 27 1852 crossing the plains on oxteam, arriving in Sacramento on the 9th of September of that year. Ten days later settled in Sonoma Co. where he purchased property and engaged in merchandise building and business. In 1856 he was elected to the board of Supervisors of Sonoma Co. In 1859 he moved to Marin County, where he engaged in farming and dairy business. In 1861 he sold out his interest in Marin Co. and returned to Sonoma Co. and the next year was elected Justice of the Peaceand served for two years. at Sebastopol. In 1870 Mr. Berry was again Justice of the Peace and was elected successfull re-elected holding that letter for the next twelve years.
Linderman, Berry, Linda; continued from p – 95
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Remarks: My grand-mother’s name was Elizabeth Cameron, Her father and his family crossed the plains to California in 1849, arriving at a place known as Fremont in 1849 about the first of October, he then went to Sacramento where he remained for the Winter. In the Summer, he moved to Martinez, preaching occasionally until the Fall of 1851, when he returned to Sonoma Co near the present town of Sebastopol. He was set apart to the whole work of the ministry in California by the California Presbytery of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in 1854, after which, his time was mostly spent in visiting destitute places, preaching organizy supplying churches and after the organization, in writing and purifying said churches, until prevented by the afflictions of old age.
Verney, Rose Lowell Savage, Mrs.
Birth Place: Seven Mile House, Yuta Cal.
Pioneer Father: Ambrose Benjamin Savage
Birth Place: Montreal Canada
Date of Arrival in California: 1870
Pioneer Mother: Mrs. Ambrose Benjamin Savage
Birth Place: Wyandotte California
Date of Arrival in California: —
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Freeman Anthers, Amelia, Mrs.
Birth Place: San Francisco, Cal.
Pioneer Father: Jacob Anthers Freeman
Birth Place: Baden Germany
Date of Arrival in California: 1852
Pioneer Mother: Mary Elizabeth Freeman
Birth Place: Cincinatti Ohio
Date of Arrival in California: 1854
Death: Mother died 1910; Father died June 21 – 1904
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Elliott, Emma Frances, Miss.
Birth Place: San Francisco
Pioneer Father: Thomas Lorain Elliot
Birth Place: Corinna Maine
Date of Arrival in California: 1851
Pioneer Mother: Susan M. Gillen Elliot
Birth Place: Glasgow Scotland
Date of Arrival in California: In San Francisco Arrived 1855
Remarks: Mother came by way of Panama, Father also.
Church, Martha, Mrs.
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Pioneer Father: John Schroder
Birth Place: Plymouth Co. Marshall Ind.
Date of Arrival in California: 1849
Pioneer Mother: Welthy Ann Schroder
Birth Place: Columbus, Ohio
Date of Arrival in California: 1850
Death: Died Loyalton Cal
Remarks: Parents came overland by wagon train.
Claire Harrington Whitern
Birth Place: San Francisco
Pioneer Father: Edward Harrington
Birth Place: San Francisco
Date of Arrival in California: —
Pioneer Mother: —
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Date of Arrival in California: —
Remarks: Claire Harrington Whitern is the daughter of the late Pearl Harrington, who was the grand-daughter of the late Judge Hester who was the father of Laura Hester Phelps an active member and past president of The Association of Pioneer Women of California, she is, also the daughter-in law of our member, Mrs Katherine Egan Johnson.
O’Hair, Martha Helen
Birth Place: Nevada City, [illegible]
Pioneer Father: George Wilkinson W. Hamilton
Birth Place: Ontario, Canada
Date of Arrival in California: Mary W. Lewis
Pioneer Mother: Nevada City, [illegible]
Birth Place: —
Date of Arrival in California: —
Remarks: I am applying a record of my mother’s father John Jack born in Paisley Scotland and arrived in San Francisco 1852. Died in Nevada City California.
Claussen, Edith L.
Birth Place: San Francisco
Pioneer Father: Lehman Joseph
Birth Place: San Francisco
Date of Arrival in California: —
Pioneer Mother: Clara Lehman
Birth Place: Hayward, Cal.
Date of Arrival in California: —
Remarks: Grandfather, Jacob Schilling, born in Germany, made his first trip to S.F. at the age of 16 in 1848 and after 3 months sailed for China, and returned to S.F. in ’51; there resided in Hayward, Cal – died in 1890
Elliot, Mary
Birth Place: Pine Grove
Pioneer Father: Thomas Elliot
Birth Place: Maine
Date of Arrival in California: 1851
Pioneer Mother: Susan McGillan
Birth Place: Glasgow, Scotland
Date of Arrival in California: 1855
Remarks: By way of Panama
Enright, Talia M.
Birth Place: San Francisco
Pioneer Father: William Enright
Birth Place: Ireland
Date of Arrival in California: 1861
Pioneer Mother: Mary Anna Enright
Birth Place: 1861
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