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Did this murder occur in Mariposa County?

Jan Bond — 3 Oct 2003 3:25:59 GMT

My gg-grandfather's brother Stephen Bond (born 26Aug1825 England) went to California and died there. I have been trying to discern exactly where. I am pasting a copy of a newspaper notice from May 1873.

"The Evansville Journal says information was received in that city a few days since, of the murder, in California, of Stephen Bond, son of Mr. Cornelius Bond, a resident of this county near Millersburg, and a brother of Mrs. Isaac Mills, of Evansville. The Journal says:

The murder was committed last fall but the friends of the deceased were not apprised of it until quite recently, as it occurred in a wild region, about 50 miles from Maripoza, and twelve miles from his nearest neighbor, his only companion being a dog. The murder was not discovered until four days after it was committed, and all that is conjectured about it is that some person called on him pretending to desire to purchase some of the merchandise he kept for sale, and while was in the act of serving them, shot him through the head. This was conjectured from the position of the body when found. The assassin is known to have secured $120 in gold and a gold watch, and probably a great deal more.

Mr. Bond left this city twenty-three years ago in company with a Mr. Bradford. Both gentlemen were well known to all the older citizens. The deceased was forty-eight years old, a bachelor, and was a member of the International Order of Odd Fellows. His lodge at Bear Valley, California, has transmitted to this city resolutions of respect to his memory. Mr. B. was possessed of considerable property, and Mr. John Mills, of this city, has gone to California to take charge of his effects for his relatives."

I am searching Mariposa County from the mention of "Maripoza" and that he was a member of the Bear Valley IOOF - and this is the only Bear Valley I could find that has/had an IOOF.

If it did not happen in Mariposa County, could someone hazard a guess where it did?

Thank You

Norwegian Gulch/Tent

collageman — 9 Oct 2008 12:17:26 GMT

Hello! My relative John Hesler was from Norway. He moved from Rochester NY to Hornitos by 1860, as he is listed in the 1860 US census there. By 1863 he had moved to Mariposa where he was a boot and shoemaker. He has a paper trail in Mariposa. I am curious about the root of Norwegian Gulch - was it founded by Norwegians? Or was the connection something else? Were there Norwegians in the area during the Rush?

Thank you.

Steve Heimerle

Geary Family of Mariposa

dsmeds2 — 28 Aug 2008 7:47:56 GMT

I am a great great grandson of John Geary and his wife Ellen, whose maiden name was either Moran or Foran. Both husband and wife were from Ireland. They reached California before gold was discovered and so were among the very first to reach the Mother Lode. They lived long-term in Mariposa County. John Geary was one of the original miners of the Whitlock Mining District, a few miles from the town of Mariposa. Both John and Ellen died in the early 1890s at Whitlock's. They and three of their children are buried at St. Joseph's Church cemetery in Mariposa, in graves situated very near the church itself. Their daughter Bridget was among the very first individuals buried in the graveyard.

I am seeking info from anyone who may know details about this family. My own research is at an advanced stage, so please do not refer me to obvious internet sources such as Ancestry.com or MariposaResearch.net. Chances are you will only be quoting my own research back at me. I'm looking for original, direct, within-the-family sort of sources.

To see some of what I've already found about the Geary, Moran, Foran family, see my webpage at "http://home.comcast.net/~davesmeds/geary.htm".

Dave Smeds

1936 Mariposa High Commencement Program

nan_w|M956068 — 12 Jan 2006 10:52:06 GMT

Hi:
While going through my parents estate I ran across a 1936 commencement program to Mariposa High School dated May 28, 1936. We moved from Mariposa to Amador Co. that year.
I scanned the program and hopefully I will be able to attach it to this message. I am also giving the complete program below so google will find the names.
Regards,
Nan Wolf
71532.734atcompuserve.com
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Mariposa County High School
COMMENCEMENT PROGRAM
Thursday, May 28, 1936 8:00 o'clock

Band led by Conrad Bergland played 3 marches, "Hippodrome", "Ironclad" & "New Colonial"
Processional - Mrs. Agnes Bertken
Invocation - Father Hunt
Salutatory - Jane Trabucco
Solo - Russell Lind accompanied by Mrs. Agnes Bertken
Valedictory - Rodney Clark
Presentation of Amer. Legion Awards - L. T. Milburn
Address - Dan H. Gilson
"Rural vs City Education"
Announcement of Cup Awards - Cleo Adelsbach
Presentation of the Class - J. L. Spriggs
Awarding of Diplomas - Gabriel Sovulewski, Pres. of Board
Benediction - Rev. Lee

GRADUATES OF THE CLASS OF 1936
Graduates:
Marl Ashworth Russell Lind
Thomas Bains Leonard Marshbank
Athene Canova June Martin
David Carre James McNamara
Rodney Clark Francis Oneto
Margaret Cramer Jessie Prather
Hazel Ellis Noreen Price
Edith Green James Rassmussen
Richard Hudson Richard Starns
Christine King Thomas Stout
Robert Lally Jane Trabucco
William Whalley
Class Motto: "Make Good or Make Room"
Class Flower: Talisman Rose

Board of Trustees:
Gabriel Sovulewski, President
N. D. Chamberlain, Clerk
J. C. Westfall
Walter D. McLean
O. M. Whitley

Clinton (SKIP) Ramey

NCL855 — 15 Aug 2008 3:14:26 GMT

Looking for school friend. Lost touch when I moved back to Texas from Livermore. I think he went into the service in 1969/1970. would like to touch base. Thank you.

Searching for relatives in Mariposa County

Ponca — 17 Jan 2002 3:13:15 GMT

My greatgreatgrandfather arrived from France between 1854/1856 and settled in Indian Gulch, Mariposa County. My greatgrandfather Thomas Albert Autrand, his brother Joseph and his sister Clara are listed in the Indian Gulch, Mariposa County 1880 Census. Clara Autrand later married Charles (Carlos) Merino. My greatgreatgrandfather Vicente Coz and his family including my greatgrandmother Josepha (Josephina) Coz are listed in the Hornitos, Mariposa County 1880 Census. I have been researching both of these families for the last two years and I would like to share and exchange information with other interested descendants of the family.

1863 Report about recruits from Mariposa County CA - Lieutenant L.M. GARDNER, Company L, 1st Cavalry, C.V

danderup — 23 Jun 2008 7:57:22 GMT

Am not related. May be of interest to someone who is. I have no further info but additional old newspaper extracts may be found at URL:

www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php

Vern D
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Stockton Daily Independent
Stockton, San Joaquin Co., CA
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>>FRIDAY, 8 MAY 1863<<

RECRUITS -- Lieutenant L.M. GARDNER, of Company L, 1st Cavalry, C.V., arrived in this city yesterday, with 15 recruits for his company. They were all obtained at Mariposa and Hornitos, within the last fortnight, and are a fine, intelligent, sober lot of men. This raises company L to 52 men.

DUNNING FAMILY MARIPOSA

meridenme — 27 Jun 2008 5:57:45 GMT

Looking for anyone researching the family of William H. Dunning (originally from Maine) and his wife Barbara Duncan, married in Chowchilla, Mariposa County, December 25, 1879. They had six children: Henry Luis, Martha A., Charles S., Frederick, Duncan and Annabel.

seeking obit: DONAHUE, 2003

vhouli — 8 Jun 2008 7:18:18 GMT

Seeking obit/info on: William Joseph DONAHUE, 6/28/1948 - 9/22/2003.

Gilbert Douglas/s b. 1822 - 1870 & 1880 in Mariposa

xd22577 — 11 Jun 2008 12:03:06 GMT

Hi
I'm trying to find a Gilbert Douglas who was born in 1822 in either Vermont or New York. I found one in Mariposa on both the 1870 and 1880 Census's with a wife named Hannah E., Gilbert is listed as a miner. Unfortunately in 1870 there is also a Gilbert Douglas in Clayton County, Iowa as well (where his om died in 1864)- same age - differnt birth location, but parents in the same states.... Soooo... lol
Is there anyway for me to find out if he is my Gilbert? Suggestions? Leads?

thanks
sunnydaze1@hotmail

James and Florence (Wash) McKenney MO, IL, CA

jodythomson57 — 26 Mar 2008 7:42:24 GMT

James Allen McKenney died in Mariposa on 3 Oct 1954. He had been born in Missouri in 1878/9 and was first enumerated in the census in 1920 (in Parlier, Fresno County) and then in 1930 (Oakland, Alameda County). He was a physician.

I suspect that he 'retired' to Mariposa and probably did not have a long history there. Nevertheless, I wonder how I might find an obit for him? Any suggestions where in Mariposa County to look? Newspaper? Library? Kind researcher who lives in the county who might look for me?

His wife, Florence Wash, d. in 1959 in Modoc County where I suspect she went to live with one of her married sons.

James and Florence had at least:

Philip W. McKenney b. ca 1903 Illinois
Frances R. McKenney b. ca 1906 Illinois
John Paul McKenney b. ca 1908 Missouri

Can anyone help? Thank you.

Webb family

Tanisha Ortiz — 23 Apr 2006 9:20:39 GMT

I am searching for my great great grandmothers family back in the 1800's.My great great grandmother's name was Maude Thomas. Her brothers were Eddie and Joe Webb they owned the Webb station.Her sister's names were Mattie Founts and Lillian. I know I have realitives here in Merced but I need help.

Thank you.

Samuel Ferguson on 1900 South Coulterville has 2 nieces, ida VARAIN and Alice Avery living with him

LeilaMenzies — 13 Dec 2007 11:24:20 GMT

Samuel B. Ferguson and his wife Ester have two girls living with them as "nieces" on 1900 Mariposa County census. Ida M. VARAIN, born in California about 1888, is the daughter of Mary Lincoln BROWN and Charles VARAIN. Alice Avery was born about 1880 in California as well. How are these girls related to Samuel Ferguson and his wife Ester?
My husband is a descendant of Mary Lincoln Brown and her 2nd husband, John A. Lane.

GANN FAMILY

sharonlgann — 1 Mar 2003 6:21:55 GMT

I would love to hear from anyone working on this line.!! I can't believe there aren't any postings for gann family already here. My father is Robert Fox Gann born to Robert Burton Gann son of Henry wilson gann,son of elias newton, son of Samuel Jackson Gann.

Photo of Alexander Deering

sntipton — 23 Aug 2007 5:55:50 GMT

I am trying to locate a photograph of Alexander Deering. He was an early attorney in Mariposa as well as District Attorney and held County and State judgeships.
Any leads would be greatly appreciated.
Scott Tipton
sntipton@san.rr.com

BEAVERS/MARTIN

jostorie — 28 Jul 2007 2:51:30 GMT

Callie May BEAVERS died 6/26/1980 in Mariposa Co.
Looking for information on her descendents to find out who her parents were?

Does anybody have access to her obit?

Thanks a lot

Forest Gallison

Judy Jordan — 4 Aug 2007 6:23:27 GMT

I found this death on the Mariposa USGenWeb site. Does anyone know who his parents were?

Forest GALLISON

July 1, 1882 Mariposa Gazette
(submitted by W Disbro)
In Stockton, June 22, 1882, Forest GALLISON, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. GALLISON of this place, aged 21
years and 7 months.

Judy

Harold Hale

brianfutrel — 9 Jul 2007 9:25:51 GMT

Harold Hale was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in about 1920. In 1995, Harold was living in Sequoia(Mariposa CO) California. In 1995, Harold's brother, Teddy, passed away in Las Vegas, NV. In 1995, Harold had a sister, Lois Stewart, living in Tehachapi (Kern CO), CA. I would like to get in touch with Harold since we have a common ancestor. Please help me get in touch with Harold and his family. Thanks brian in springfield missouri

Lucy Brown - died allegedly at 120 years old Oct 1924

esqshay — 10 Jul 2006 11:02:29 GMT

The article posted below is the only time Lucy Brown's husband was referred to as "Mono Tom" Brown except for people who have since erroneously repeated that phrase from the United Press article that appeared in the Modesto Bee. Lucy was thought to be the oldest person alive at the time and there were numerous articles across the nation published about her death.

The journalist was obviously sloppy and inaccurate in his reporting. Lucy Brown did not die of a heart attack as he reports. If he had verified his facts he would have found out she died after suffering from a cold for a few days. I have a three page report from her Doctor. Below is an abbreviated account of her death certificate and the coroner's report.

While it says Pete Hilliard was her grandson, he was in fact only such through marriage not bloodline. Lucy had 2 sons that died young and one daughter - all from a prior marriage. Bill Brown had 2 children from a prior marriage.

Any decendants of this family can contact me directly.

Mariposa County Bk 2 page 48
Yosemite National Park

Mrs. Lucy Brown (Indian) dod Oct 1924
sex: female marital status: widowed bp: unknown
age: relatives say 120 yrs old
occ: in house*
spouse: Bill Brown
father: unknown bp: unk
mother: " " bp: "
length of res: 120 yr est. in CA estimate
informant: Pete Hilliard (grandson) age 54yr

I hereby certify as to the person .................that on
Oct 20, 1924 ........that I have investigated the death
officially on account of
(written over top of preprinted statement and is not
completely readable)
cause: Death due to natural causes on account of old age and
contraction of a cold.
physician: Dr. Elanda M. Churse(?) autopsy surgeon
Oct 21, 1924 Mariposa
pl of burial Yos Valley Ca, Oct 21, 1924
undertaker: US Gov Yosemite, CA

Sue Bettis

alloutwar1479 — 29 Jun 2007 2:42:06 GMT

Good Evening all. I am looking for information on my birth mother,Sue Bettis (a.k.a Sue Garcia) who lived in coulterville from 1990 until her death in 1998. I just recently found out she was deceased, but have no idea how she died. I know she must have married Rick Bettis, who according to the court reports, was her boyfriend for quite some time. I know he was a truck driver and she worked at a restaraunt for six or seven years. Thanks for any help in advance.

Indian Gulch and Hornitos

Ponca — 17 Jan 2002 3:13:15 GMT

Our Autrand side of the family came to California from France between 1854-1857 and settled in Indian Gulch, California, they appear in the 1860, 1870 and 1880 Mariposa County Census. Our Coz side of the family settled in Hornitos, California, and appear in the 1880 Mariposa County Census. Both sides of the family owned land in Mariposa County, we do have the land certificates and papers. We do know that two of the Autrand brothers that first came to Mariposa County died in there between 1860 and 1880. Can someone guide me about where to get information about baptisms and death records during that time. Where are the Catholic Church records of that time? Or the Cemetery records of that time? Thanks in advance to all those volunteers for any help and consideration of this matter.

Death of Nathan SHOEMAKER in 1862

danderup — 26 Apr 2007 4:42:57 GMT

Am not related but may be of interest to someone who is. I have no further info, but additional newspaper extracts may be found at URL:

www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php

Vern D
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Stockton Daily Independent
Stockton, San Joaquin Co., CA
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>>SATURDAY, 14 JUNE 1862<<

A MURDER in MARIPOSA -- The 'Gazette' gives an account of the homicide of a man named Nathan SHOEMAKER, by one SMITH, on the 30th of May, at Clark's steam mill, in the county of Mariposa. For some words that passed between the 2 about a mere trifle, SMITH returned after the lapse of an hour or 2 to where SHOEMAKER was at work, armed with a bowie knife and swore to kill him. He commenced the attack by the use of such epithets as tempted Mr. SHOEMAKER to strike at him with a plank, when SMITH plunged the knife he held secreted in his hand, into SHOEMAKER's abdomen. The wounded man then turned, fled and was pursued and cut in several other places. He died from the effects of his wounds a few days after. SMITH was arrested and is now in jail. Deceased was an amiable, excellent man, highly respected and in his unfortunate death is much lamented.

Yosemite National Bank

motwn — 16 Feb 2007 1:19:05 GMT

My Uncle Richard S. Gimblin founded the Yosemite National Bank in Mariposa. Does anyone have the date it was founded or a picture of the bank or the plaque on the front of the bank. Thanks.

Greely Hill Community Center

motwn — 16 Feb 2007 1:07:50 GMT

My grandmother, Ethel L. Gimblin, founded the community center in Greely Hill. I wonder if there are any pictures available, or photos of the plaque that is posted.

Ruby (perhaps Juanita?) VARAIN wed Fred S. Meiser, reported Mariposa Gazette April 30, 1904

LeilaMenzies — 3 Jan 2007 3:14:40 GMT

I can track Ruby and Fred from California into first Oregon for 1910 census and then into Yakima Co., WA for 1920 census. Ruby and Fred have these children:
ESTHER ABT 1906
GLADYS ABT 1909
Andrew abt 1918
John V. abt 1921
William abt 1923 and Gaelen G. abt 1925.
Fred marries a second time to a Josephine Iverson (her widowed surname). It is Josephine who is buried in Grandview Cemetery, Yakima Co, WA, not Ruby Juanita (Varain) Meiser.
Seeking 2 things:
who is Ruby the daughter of?
where is Ruby buried? (and what is her death date? The 1930 census has Fred meiser as married with his sister Bertha Cervine living witgh him, widowed, so it seems as if Ruby would still be alive in 1930?

Lotta VARAIN wed William SCHWARTZ in Mariposa Co, CA 1881

fhewston — 5 Jan 2007 7:42:58 GMT

DiBros' index of Mariposa Gazette has the reference to Lotta Varain marrying William SCHWARTZ (also spelled SCHWARTS in same article) I believe this is Charlotte (also called Lucy on 1880 Mariposa Co census) VARAIN.

1900 census in New years Twp 2, Mariposa Co, CA
head William SWARTZE (sic) age 49 born Jan 1851 New Jersey
wife Charlotte age 36 born Nov 1864 CA father born France, mother born New mexico had 9 children/9 living
dau Louisa age 18 b Nov 1881
dau Norma age 16 born Sept 1883
dau Alma age 15 born Apr 1885
son Edward age 12 born July 1887
dau Marie age 10 b Sept 1889
son William E. age 8 born Oct 1891
son Edwin (also spelled Erdwin) born Aug 1891
son Stanly (sic) age 2 born June 1897
dau Estella age 6 months born Nov 1899

The marriage of Louise SCHWARTZ in March 1901 to Samuel MYERS happens in Selma (Fresno Co, CA).
1920 Twp 3, Fresno Co., CA ED 11
Samuel T. Myers age 43
wife Louise Myers age 38
dau Alma Mae age 15 b CA
son Lawrence W age 13 b CA

WWI draft rec ords:
KERN Co. -- Stanley SCHWARTZ botrn 30 June 1897 no relatives listed
KERN Co. -- Erdwin Schwartze (sic) born 5 Mar 1894 lives with Stanley at 1200 Bellview Ave, Bakersfield.
MADERA Co. -- Edward Schwartze (sic) born 21 July 1887
MADERA Co. -- William Schwartz born 8 Oct 1889, nearest relative wife
1920 ED 142 Crane Valley, madero Co, CA
William E. Schwartz age 29 b CA Ala CA
wife Anna M. Schwartz age 32 b Ark Ark SC
son Robert E. Schwartz age 1 b CA
mother-in-law Mary J. Beard age 69 wd b SC
niece Mary L. Patterson age 16 b CA NY OH
POSSIBLE CA Death records for this famnily:
born 28 April 1918 Robert Edmund SCHWARTZ, died in Los Angeles Co., on 17 Feb 1980. Mother's maiden name = BEARD.

Seeking other marriage, birth and death records for these families. Share with living descendants family history.

Mariposa 1974 obituary?

lkrahn164 — 19 Dec 2006 12:21:50 GMT

Hello. I'm looking for an obituary on the following: Gilbert Haney, died February 6, 1974. He was a resident of the town of Mariposa. Is there anyone who could look for an obituary on him? I'd like to know where he was buried. Thank you very much.

Gilbert's wife, Ruth Haney, died January 20, 1990, also in Mariposa. Any help with either of these people would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Death of Major B. F. WHITTIER in CA in 1860

danderup — 28 Nov 2006 2:32:37 GMT

Am not related but may be of interest to someone who is. I have no further info but additional newspaper extracts may be found at URL:

<http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php>;

Vern D
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Transcribed by Dee Sardoch; <deesar@frontiernet.net>
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Stockton Daily Argus
Location: Stockton, San Joaquin Co., CA
Description: July 2-7, 1860
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>>Saturday, 7 July 1860<<

DEATH of MAJOR WHITTIER -- Major B.F. WHITTIER, of Mariposa, died suddenly at Monoville, on the 23d ult. He was well known in early times by many of our citizens as a successful merchant at Agua Frio. He had served in the Mexican War, and held an appointment under WALKER during the Nicaragua Revolution.

Loretta Barcroft Trabucco ~ Obituary results ~ 1995

Alma — 30 Oct 2006 12:15:45 GMT

Merced Sun Star [Merced, CA.]
Thursday, Dec. 28, 1995, page A-4

Obituaries
Loretta Trabucco, 85
Retired registered nurse

MARIPOSA - Loretta Barcroft Trabucco, a retired registered nurse, died Sunday at Fresno Community Hospital. She was 85.

Mrs. Trabucco was born April 1, 1910 in Merced and lived in Mariposa for the past 20 years. She was the third generation Californian and great-granddaughter of early Hornitos pioneer, Raphael Barcroft.

Her father, Raphael Barcroft, was the mayor of Merced from 1914 to 1922 and a leading hardware merchant in the San Joaquin Valley.

She graduated from Samuel Merritt Hospital in Oakland and worked as a registered nurse at Yosemite Valley Hospital and later in Ahwahnee at the tuberculosis sanitarium.

After the death of her husband, Ralph Trabucco, in 1946, she moved from her home in Bear Valley to Torrance, where she became active in real estate and was honored numerous times by Tarrell Reality as their top salesperson.

Mrs. Trabucco was preceded in death by her husband, Ralph Trabucco, in 1946 and a daughter at birth.

Survivors include a daughter, Donna Barela of Mariposa; a son, David R. Trabucco of Mariposa; four grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.

Graveside services will be held Friday at 1 p.m. at Calvary Cemetery on Childs Avenue and Highway 59 in Merced with the Rev. Jose M. Montiel of Sacred Heart Catholic Church officiating.

Ivers and Alcorn Funeral Home of Merced is directing services.

John Bracken Mankins

JanaBlack58 — 13 Apr 2002 1:10:01 GMT

John Bracken MANKINS was b. 23 June 1804 in Orange Co., NC. He married four wives: 1) Mary "Polly" SLOAN, 9 November 1819, Floyd Co., KY; 2) Matilda GIBSON, 24 June 1839, Washington Co., AR; 3) Lydia BOYD, 7 Dec 1864, Tulare Co., CA; Jane WOOD, 25 Sept 1869, Washington Co., AR. He died in Mariposa Co., CA in 1876.

He began coming west to Tulare and Mariposa abt. 1860 and is also noted in business documents in Nevada.

His children by Polly SLOAN were:

Edith (Eda/Eddie)b. 16 Oct 1821; Rachel b. 18 Oct 1823; Lydia b. 20 Nov 1825; Elizabeth b. 22 Jan 1828; Peter P. b. 1830; Walter W. b. 24 Dec 1834; John Bracken Jr. b. 13 Dec 1835; Samuel Walter b. 16 Apr 1837. The first four children were b. in Floyd Co., KY, Peter was b. in Vermillion Co., IL; and the last three boys were b. in Washington Co., AR. All are charted on the page linked below...

I want to know where John Sr. is buried and if he had an Obituary... I am especially interested in any information on his eldest daughter Edith.

Happy to share and I have *lots* on this family!

ledger of A. G. Black

CYNTHIA — 10 Jan 2001 12:00:00 GMT

I currently have in my possession the ledger of A. G. Black of Bull Creek and Yosemite dated 1867-1874 Mariposa County
There are many names in the ledger that I will share in the future. I am looking for any information on the above names. Thank you for your help.

1930 Yosemite General Census

Yose Mite — 7 Sep 2006 10:29:40 GMT

1930 Yosemite General Census. Sorry for the quality, but it is as big as I could get it without being too large.

pictures

M L Jackson — 20 Aug 2006 4:34:59 GMT

searching for pictures of the Lord family especially a picture of John J Lord of Hornitos, California-We have no pictures of him-(none!)--There must be some old timers left around that might have pictures that I could have a copy-He was the father of Samuel-Walter and Thomas Lord and also Annie Speaker all born in Hornitos-These are the decendents of the Marshall family-Thank u ahead fo time-
Lojackson1@juno.com

Obit lookup please - Gladys Lucille (Coffman) Crocker, died Dec 1993, Midpines, CA

Linda Baker — 7 Sep 2005 3:14:28 GMT

I am looking for an obit for my dad's second cousin, Gladys Lucille (Coffman) Crocker. Whe was born 1921 in McCurtain Co., OK to Parker and Sadie (Bailey) Coffman. She married John George Crocker. She died 23 Dec 1993 in Midpines, Mariposa Co., CA. Please contact linda_baker@cox.net. Thank you

Lena Rube - Brown - Wilson's 1928 California Indian Application

Yose Mite — 13 Jul 2006 10:37:24 GMT

Moss family

Rossana — 15 Jul 2006 11:54:41 GMT

I am looking for a MOSS family in Mariposa County...The 1860 census lists a Sarah Calhoun br OH with children Churchill Moss, br 1844 TX, Norman Moss, br 1847 TX, Silas Moss, br 1849 CA, W M Calhoun, br 1854 CA, John, br 1856 CA and Sarah Calhoun, br 1859 CA. Silas Moss died 1903 in Mariposa County. Norman Moss was listed along with his wife Nancy, in the 1900 census Mariposa County. Churchill Moss, my great great grandfather left for southern Oregon where he lived most of the rest of his life. Is there anyone looking for Norman's family? What about the Calhoun children? Any relations there? Silas aparently never married and as far as I know had no children.

Mariposa Indian posts

Sharon — 12 Jul 2006 11:24:49 GMT

This site is called "ancestry.com". It's intention is useful information to be distributed for seekers of their ancestors. Yose Mite uses this site for his political campaign on the origins of the Yosemite area Indians. I find this very inconsiderate and disruptive. If this continues, I will report this to ancestry.com.

Message to Yose Mite - I find your posts, including those directed to me personally, to be juvenile and not worthy of a reply. Anyone discerning who compares what you allege is in documentation with what you attached can readily see the disparity for themselves. I can see the "campaign" on the issue being put on the web. Do you not realize that with your behavior the only thing you are doing is being an irritant and giving that campaign an associated bad reputation? Find a forum where people care about your dribble and leave the genealogy seekers of Mariposa County alone instead of this running dialogue where you idiotically post to yourself.

For those coming here for accurate information about their genealogical roots, I would ignore these posts. Lena Rube, wife to Johnny Brown and mother to Christian Melvin, Virgil, Alvis, Hazel and Emma was not Mono or Paiute. If you are a descendant of this family, please feel free to contact me.

Eadweard Muybridge's Yosemite American Indian photos.

Yose Mite — 13 Jul 2006 11:03:08 GMT

Some one I know got Eadweard Muybridge's Yosemite Indian photos and noticed that they had numbers on them.

He noticed that there was a sequencal order to the numbers and put them together and this is up he came up with.

http://thehive.modbee.com/?q=node/1620

He had seen certain photos before like "Piute Chief's Lodge" and decide to put them together by numbers and this is up he came up with.

This would be of interest to any person who are interested in early Yosemite Native American life. He did it so you can see the progression.

I don't know if anyone is related to Captain John or any of the other Paiutes captians can tell if that is your ancestor, but they are great to those interested in Yosemite Indian genealogy or Mariposa Indian history.

Here are the famous Yosemite American Indian Basketmakers.

Yose Mite — 11 Jul 2006 10:45:41 GMT

Sharon, here are your famous Yosemite Native American Basket Makers. Some of the best Basket makers. Their works are in the Yosemite Indian museum and others.

1. Tiny Young Charlie, Carrie Bethel, Alice Wilson, Lena Tom, and Maggie "Taboose" Howard. ALL MONO INDIANS. Taboose is Paiute for Nut Grass.

2. Mono County Basket Makers - Emma Williams, Lucy Telles, Carrie McGowan, Tina Charlie, and Minnie (Lena) Brown, mother of Chris Brown.

3. Yosemite Indian Field days...held at June Lake...Mono County - Mono Paiutes and their baskets.

4. Yosemite Indian Field Days...held at June Lake...Mono County - Mono Paiutes and their baskets.

A lot of these baskets ended up in the Yosemite Indian Museum in Mariposa County as Miwok-Paiute baskets, but they were NOT Miwoks....not by their 1928 California Indian Applications and other documentation.

You saw the 1924 Yosemite article about the Ranger Townsley going to Mono County to pick up their baskets to sell in Yosemite, Mariposa County.

Mono Lake was once part of Mariposa County and Yosemite was once part of Mono Paiute territory.

Raven Littlewing

Jennifer Dawson — 8 Jul 2006 9:40:55 GMT

I'm trying to locate Raven- I believe her to be a lost friend- her name used to be Carol- It's been a long time and I'd love to catch up with her.
Please if anyone knows her- please let her know I am looking for her. I now live in Contra Costa county.
My name is Jennifer- my e. mail is cr8z4critters2@msn.com- my home is 925-679-0592
Thank you...

Yosemite Miwok? Susie Leonard - 1939 request for assistance.

Yose Mite — 5 Jul 2006 11:46:38 GMT

In 1939 Susie Leonard requested assistance from the County, for Indians.

To do so, she asked for a paper from Sacramento Area Bureau of Indian Affairs with a document showing her "Indianess" to see if she qualified.

Here is Susie Leonard's 1939 reply letter showing her Indian blood degree from Sacramento area BIA.

Note that it shows that she was not a Yosemite Miwok, but 1/2 Casson or Casson Yokut. Yokuts were original Indians of Madera. Later on The Leonard's moved to Madera County to live.

This is an official document. Taken from the National Archives. There is an official National Archives stamp and writing on the top of the document. Anyone can go there and get this copy...plus many, many others. If they are interested in getting information of Indians in the area and ancestry.

Today many of her descendents are misinformed. Believing they are Miwok, but they are actually Casson Yokut. Hopefully this will help them figure out their Indian ancestry.

Later some of one children married into the Amos's, another Casson Yokut family from Madera County.

Yosemite Miwoks? Louisa Sam-Tom 1928 California Indian Application and census

Yose Mite — 4 Jul 2006 12:03:42 GMT

Early 1850 Mariposa County Map - with other California Counites 1850

Yose Mite — 3 Jul 2006 7:52:29 GMT

1850 California Map showing counties, especially Mariposa County.

Yosemite Miwoks? From Yosemite Research Center - the Browns

Yose Mite — 2 Jul 2006 9:17:58 GMT

Here is a photo of Mamie and Freddie Brown. Like most of the Indians in the Yosemite and Mono Lake Area the Brown name was associated with Paiutes.

Even early photos at the Yosemite Research Center indicate this.

Here is a photo of some of the Brown family. Who were Yosemite-Mono Lake Paiutes.

It was really hard to find any early photos of Miwoks in Yosemite. Even in the Yosemite Research Library.

There were lots of early Paiute photos.

So Mamie and Freddie Brown are Yosemite Paiutes and not Miwoks.

Yosemite Miwuk? Mary Ann Lewis - Johnson's 1928 California Indian Application.

Yose Mite — 1 Jul 2006 5:45:43 GMT

Yosemite Miwuk? Henry Johnson 1928 California Indian Application

Yose Mite — 1 Jul 2006 5:24:10 GMT

Yosemite Indians are Outlaw Paiutes - Pony Express article.

Yose Mite — 22 Jun 2006 9:36:22 GMT

From the Pony Express Periodical. An E Campus Vitus group that delt with Gold Mining History and Western Pioneer accounts. March 1956

This is the transcribed version of the story.

YOSEMTIE INDIANS ARE
OUTLAW PIUTES

Camp Barbour in 1851 produced
the great frontiersman. Major
James D. Savage, leader of the
Mariposa Battalion, who with
Andrew D. Firebaugh, chased out-
law Piute Indians back into Yose-
mite Valley, which led to its dis-
covery. It is obvious they were
not Miwoks and Diggers. They
were peaceful, certainly not war-
like enough to go out rading Fort
Barbour (later Fort Miller) built
with soldiers armed with cap and ball
muskets. Also, this is refuted by
the testimony of veteran David
Williamson to the Pony Express
the late Williamson (born at Fort
Churchill in the 1860s) whose
father was an army officer, was
told differently by Johnny Calico,
son of Chief Winnemucca. Johnny
as a kid in 1860, witnessed White
Man's route up the Truckee River
from Lake Pyramid, in the so-
called battle of Lake Pyramid
which was not a "battle" but a
very fast route, so fast as the
soldiers could get away on horse-
back. His father told him that
all unruly renegedes in the tribe
(The Piutes had no jails) had
been exiled for generations over
the mountains west of the big
lake (which was Mono Lake).
So there are your tough out-law
Yosemite Indians that Savage and
Firebaugh chased with their Mari-
posa Battalion in 1851.

*They were renegede Paiutes. The common people of the Mono Paiutes bragged about their exploits they were like Robin Hood in their eyes.

*There is a town called Firebaugh that now exists in the area.

Interesting Yosemite Indian reference in book.

Yose Mite — 18 Jun 2006 4:41:36 GMT

From the book "The Disputed Lands; A history of the American West" by Alexander B. Adams.

Transcribed is a very interesting paragraph;

"The impact of crowds of strangers in both California and Oregon upset the Indians' way of life. In California they had long become accustomed to the rule of the Spaniards and had accepted their own role as second-class citizens. The Spaniards, however, had concentrated their settlements and missions along the coast, and their influence had little effect on the Indians in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada.
An imaginative entrepreneur, named James D. Savage, took advantage of their comparative ignorance. Soon he had the Indians - some reports said hundreds of them - hunting the stream beds for gold, which he purchased from them at ridiculously low prices. ONLY THE YOSEMITE INDIANS, WHO LIVED FARTHER EAST, CAUSE HIM TROUBLE. Their attacks on his posts as well as on other white miners moving into the area produced a short conflict. Savage led a punitive expedition against them, during which he entered the Yosemite Valley and saw its marvelous beauty."

Chief Bautista, Cypriano, Pasquale, and other chiefs signed the treaties and worked whole-heartedly for James Savage. Chief Bautista was James Savage's best overseer. It was reported he would capture Indian run-a-ways who tried to escape the toil of the gold mines.

James Savage did watch out for them and helped them fight their enemies who lived in the high Sierra's, the Paiutes (or Ahwahneechees). That is why when he was killed in 1852, they cried and wailed on his death. They called him "their White Father" and the whites called him "The White Chief".

Westley Wilson funeral notice - Yokut Indian from Mariposa.

Yose Mite — 18 Jun 2006 4:01:04 GMT

Yosemite Indians - more history in print.

Yose Mite — 18 Jun 2006 2:10:55 GMT

This is from "The Pony Express" August 1952.

"The outlaw Piutes wree read out of the tribe farther north in early part of 19th century. Some of them were chased south, and some west over the Sierra Mountains into the Yosemite Valley region. In 1851 they raided Camp Barbour (later called Fort Miller 20 miles NE of Fresno) and were chased by Major James Savage, Andrew Firebaugh, and their soldiers. In the pursuit Yosemite was discovered. CONTRARY TO BELIEF, THE YOSEMITE INDIANS ARE NOT CALIFORNIA DIGGERS, BUT THE DESCENDENTS OF OUTLAW PIUTES, as per testimony of Johnny Calico (son of Chief Winnemucca) to the late David Williamson, historian of Nevada, and in testimony of Williamson to H. Hamlin."

Notice that "testimony" of a historian quoting Johnny Calico, son of Chief Winnemucca that the Yosemite Indians are "Outlaw Piutes". Some of the part of the Battalions is a little off, but the testimony of the Johnny Calico is very interesting.

More historical reference about Yosemite Indians really being Paiutes.

See the actual Pony Express account below.

Calico is well known Paiute last name now.

Chief Winnemucca was the head Northern Paiute throughout Nevada, Idaho, Oregon and California. Then there were sub-chiefs of areas, and then captains of camps and areas.

Yosemite Indians in the news - Indians Seen In Peace Stunts At Yosemite

Yose Mite — 11 Jun 2006 8:46:32 GMT

Indians Seen In
Peace Stunts
At Yosemite

Bucks Display Horsemanship
and Squaws Compete in
Basket Making, Beadwork

Special Dispatch to The Chroncile

YOSEMITE – August 1. – Hundreds
of Indians gathered here today to
open Yosemite National Park an-
nual Indian field day program. Dur-
ing the past few days all trails
and roads leading to Yosemite val-
ley have brought many visiting red
men from the far-flung plains of
Nevada to the fertile foothill coun-
try adjacent to the San Joaquin val-
ley in California.
The celebration opened today
with a display of Indian baskets
and beadwork. Mrs. W. B. Lewis
judge of the exhibition, awarded the
first prize for the best basket to
Lucy Talles, an Indian living at
Mono Lake. Edna Foster another
Indian, residing in Minden, Nev. re-
cevied first honors for beadwork.
Five hundred dollars was distributed
among the Indians entered in these
two contests.
In the afternoon feats of hosre-
manship by both the red and white
men kept the crowd keyed up with
excitement. Harry Williams, Hary
Tom and Mac Jones, Indian youths
residing near Mono Lake, shared
most of the prizes.
Chris Brown, Yosemite Indian,
captured second prize in the Indian
pony race, being nosed out by
Harry Tom, mounted on a black
3-year-old colt.

San Francisco Chronicle August 1 1924

*Indians live at Mono Lake. Lucy Talles is Lucy Telles, the famous Yosemite basketmaker is a resident of Paiute Mono Lake in 1924. Harry Tom son of Bridgeport Tom and Louisa Sam-Tom.

Anyone have any information on a Edward Allen?

marcy — 26 May 2006 9:33:42 GMT

I am looking for information on Edward Allen.

We were wondering if he had any brothers or sisters? He lived in Mariposa County.

Yosemite Indians in the news - Oldest Indian "Squaw" is Dead

Yose Mite — 8 Jun 2006 5:51:15 GMT

This is from the San Francisco Bulletin, July 16th 1921.

Someone transcribe this and it is on another site. I don't care for the "Squaw" reference but that is old newspapers printed in 1921.

OLDEST INDIAN SQUAW DEAD

by the United Press

YOSEMITE, Mariposa Co., Oct.
21. - Lucy Brown, last member of
the orginal Indian tribe found in
the Yosemite Valley when the white
men came, is dead, aged 120 years.
The famous old squaw succumbed
to heart disease yesterday and will
be buried to-day in the tiny Indian
burying ground, to rest beside her
husband, MONO Tom Brown.
All last night Lucy's descendents
- six generations of the Brown
family - sat or paced about a great
camp fire paying homage to her
memory. The guttural exlcama-
tions of the braves, the wailing of
the squaws and the crackling of
the fire composed her requiem.
Thousands of people who have
visited the valley in increasing
yearly numbers since its discovery
in 1851 knew the old woman, who
received her callers with wrinkled
impassiveness, content with her
reputation as the oldest Indian and
one of the oldest women in the
United States.

In Craig Bates writings he never mentions the "Mono" part in book.

In Bates book he uses this and the other news story I posted as "sources" for his writings, but never mentions that they live at Mono Lake. Also that they were Mono Indians (Paiutes).

Also how can a Miwok man have a title "MONO"?

Yosemite Indians in the news - Mono Indian Wins High Sierra Belt

Yose Mite — 7 Jun 2006 8:05:50 GMT

From the San Francisco Chronicle Sept. 8th 1929 - Yosemite News

Mono Indian Wins High Sierra Belt

YOSEMITE. Sept. 7 - Harry
Tom, full-blood Mono Indian. to-
day added enough points to his to-
total of yesterday to annex the all-
round horse riding championship
of the High Sierras. Four thousand
people saw Tom thunder past the
grandstand in the final horse race.
winning the title and along with it
a specially engraved saddle and the
first leg of the James M. Schwa-
bacher silver trophy. The Wawona
cowboys evened up scores for the
white men by winning the potato
race from the Mono Indians by a
score of 22 to 19.
Archette Westphall, the 4-year-
old miss on the big horse gave a
fine example of horsemanship.
Ranger John Wagner took first
place in the steeplechase race with
Eddie Gordon. Wawona second Al-
vis Brown, Mono Lake, captured the
chaps and spur race. Harry Tom
out-tricked his brother Mack in the
trick riding contests. Gene Mac-
Gregor, Hornitos, won the muscial
chair dash with Tom Sovulewskie,
second.

It shows that Harry Tom, Mack Tom, and Alvis Brown and Westphall

Harry and Mack Tom are children of Louisa and Bridgeport Tom. Louisa Tom is the daughter of Captain Sam and Susie Sam.

There other children were famous Yosemite Basketmakers.

Alvis Brown brother is brother of Chris Brown; Chief Lemee. Son of Johnny Brown and Lena Rube-Wilson resides at Mono Lake.

PIUTE GEORGE

carolyn — 14 May 2006 2:44:07 GMT

Is anyone sure they know who the parents of " Piute George "were?
Carolyn

from this website:
http://www.yosemite.ca.us/library/yosemite_yarns/boston_kill...
THE INJUNS KILLED BOSTON

DOWN CASCADES way about seven or eight miles below Yosemite Valley there’s a big rock with a flat side on it. If you take a good look you’ll see the outlines of an old fireplace on it. That and a headboard in the cemetery in Yosemite Valley are about all that are left of George Ezra Boston, who used to be tollkeeper on the old Coulterville Road.

“Everybody liked Boston but somehow he got on the wrong side of Piute George, a renegade Indian who was runnin’ from the sheriff and holed up not far from Boston’s station. One evenin’ George was passin’ Boston’s place with a couple of friends, about suppertime. The tollkeeper, bein’ a generous gent invited the Indians in to eat with him. This they did and while Boston had his back turned, cleanin’ up the dishes, Piute George shot him. Another Indian cut his throat, just to make sure he was dead. Then they set fire to his cabin to hide what they had done.

“Ol’ Piute George really took to the rocks after that. A couple of the local folks finally coaxed him down by sendin’ up another Indian and gettin’ him drunk. They were staked out and waitin’ for him as he came slinkin’ along the trail and when he got close one of them let him have it in the backside with both barrels of a shotgun.

“Doesn’t seem possible that he lived through it but Mrs. Leidig and some of the Indian women nursed him back to health. I heard they cleaned out his wounds by runnin’ long feathers dipped in bear grease through them! He was tried for murder and sent to San Quentin for the rest of his life.”

Chi-Tock-Non Kote-U-Pu

carolyn — 10 May 2006 3:15:52 GMT

This years Pow Wow will be this coming weekend at the Fair Grounds........

http://www.visitmariposa.net/powwow/

Lafayette H. Bunnell's "Discovery of the Yosemite, 1851, and the war that led to the event" now on PDF

Yose Mite — 9 May 2006 7:24:06 GMT

For any researcher who wants Lafayette H. Bunnell's "Discovery of the Yosemite, 1851, and the war that led to the event" on PDF here is a great link to that book.

http://esnips.com/web/YosemiteIndiansWebResearch

You can download it and then using PDF search tool you can go right to certain sources.

This is the first written account of Yosemite Indians and one of two only written accounts by a person who met and wrote about Chief Tenaya.

Enjoy. The book is a great resource for history of Yosemite Indians, first contact and Mariposa County history.

Tom Hutchings the first mailman of Yosemite.

Yose Mite — 24 Apr 2006 3:36:22 GMT

Tom Hutchings the first mailman of Yosemite was a Yosemite-Mono Lake Paiute and not Miwok.

Tom Hutchings was of a Mono Lake Paiute and a Yosemite Paiute mother.

I have been in contact with his descendents and they have paperwork that he was a Paiute and not Miwok.

Each year the Indian census had Tom Hutchings also known as Tom Hudgens or Tom Hutchens was documented to be Paiute year by year until his death.

His children were documented to be Paiute after that.

In the Yosemite Research Library there is a picture of Tom Hutchings and on the back it had his tribal identification that he was a Mono Indian.

The only Indians that bare his last name are in the Paiute and Mono areas.

The majority of his descendents are in Paiute and Mono areas.

The Southern Sierra Miwuk have been writing that Tom Hutchings was a Miwuk which is incorrect. He was not part of that tribal group.

Lafayette "Punch" Choisser/Trabucco family

carolyn — 8 May 2006 6:32:27 GMT

Tom- an extensive CHOISSER family tree is online

http://www.choisser.com/family/tree.html

Here is just a piece

Lafayette "Punch" Choisser 1834-11/17/1884 (historical info)
M: 7/30/1865 Julia Georgette (Aldridge) Choisser 1847-9/4/1896

1. Nancy E. (Choisser) Trabbuco 1867-1950
M: 2/23/1884 John B. Trabbuco 1864-7/3/1941?
1. Ellen Simpson
2. Adeline Udell
3. Harold Trabucco
4. Joseph J. Trabucco
5. Barbara Enos

Carolyn

COWAN./SMITHERS/CLARK

carolyn — 8 May 2006 5:39:05 GMT

Enough is Enough! Not everyone was Paiute ie: Pokotucket

Sharon — 5 May 2006 12:35:41 GMT

Chief George Dick and his children Sally Ann and Charlie Dick were Paiutes.

Yose Mite — 7 May 2006 5:54:43 GMT

Chief George Dick and his children Sally Ann and Charlie Dick were Paiutes.

Chief George "One-eyed" Dick and his children were important Indians Yosemite Indians.

http://thehive.modbee.com/?q=node/153

Here is the Dicks on the Mariposa Yosemite pioneer cemetery site;

http://www.mariposaresearch.net/yoscem.html

On this website it states:

http://www.yosemite.ca.us/library/the_ahwahneechees/chapter_...

"CHARLIE DICK
Born 1857, near Mono Lake, California. A Piute. His wife was Mary. A sister was Sally Ann. They had three sons; Frank lives in Sonora, California, where he worked for the lumber company for some time. Roland died some years ago. John, no record at this time.

Charlie was a wood cutter for Yosemite National Park many years. He was the first to operate a power saw. He cut many cords of wood for the Park. When he became too old, and was no longer wanted as a wood cutter, he died, about 1930, and was buried in Coulterville, California."

George Washington Casson Yokut and Jennie Washington Chuckansi Yokut

Yose Mite — 7 May 2006 4:58:33 GMT

George Washington is a full blooded Casson Yokut from Mariposa/Madera County.

He married Jennie Busby who's father was a white and named David Busby and mother was Chuckansi Yokut from Madera County.

They made their home in both Mariposa and Madera Counties. They would travel back and forth and Jennie Washington was a basket maker in Yosemite.

Jennie Washington baskets are in the Yosemite National Park Indian Museum.

Craig Bates, the official Yosemite National Park Indian ethnologist implied that Jennie Washington was Miwuk/Chuckansi in his book Tradition and Innovation, but that is incorrect.

Here is the a website that has Jennie Washington's 1928 California Indian Application and what the Yosemite Indian Museum has her labeled:

http://thehive.modbee.com/?q=node/372

They imply that Jennie is Miwok/Chuckansi, but she is 1/2 white and 1/2 Chuckansi.

She is not Miwok nor Paiute, but half Chuckansi Yokut and her husband George Washington was a full blooded Casson Yokut.

You can view Jennie Washington's 1928 application on the linked site.

I don't know why the Yosemite National Park Service has Indians who are Yokuts and Paiutes as Miwoks?

That is why Indian genealogy is very important, because as you can see people are getting it wrong.

Chief Tenaya was 1/2 Mono Lake Paiute, Married a Mono Lake Paiute woman...

Yose Mite — 6 May 2006 2:14:31 GMT

There is a lot of misinformation going on around here.

For those people who ever read Lafayette H. Bunnell's book "The Discovery of the Yosemite, 1851, and the war that led to that event" documents:

Chief Tenaya or Ten-ie-ya was born of an Awahneechee father and a Mono Lake Paiute mother.

That means that Chief Tenaya was documented to be 1/2 Mono Lake Paiute.

Tenaya grew to adulthood at Mono Lake and married a Mono Lake Paiute woman.

They had several children.

That would mean that Chief Tenaya's children would be 3/4s Mono Lake Paiute.

There has been a lot of misinformation out there regarding this.

People should read the book.

Here is is:

http://www.webroots.org/library/usahist/dotyaiw0.html

The only written account of Chief Tenaya's ancestry.

Even in Maria Lebrado's story it states she is the granddaughter of Chief Tenaya and his "Piute" wife.

Chief Tenaya was 1/2 and married a Paiute woman.

So his children would be 3/4s Paiute.

It is surprising that Chief Tenaya's descendent didn't know that? It is kinda of surprising.

Mariposa Genealogy Friends - NEW WEBSITE

Sharon — 6 May 2006 2:09:18 GMT

I apologize for the abundance of email that I know filters through here to my Mariposa genealogy friends. As you know, for years I worked at collecting information - accurate and verifiable information - on my Indian ancestors of Mariposa. Many years ago, I benefited from shared information from you which led me and supported me to the right sources.

As you can tell, I am greatly disturbed by the mis-information being put on the net and feel strongly compelled to refute it - for future genealogy seekers to not be mis-led.

A debate towards truth when conducted by citing sources can be productive. I know anyone wanting the truth would never accept hearsay.

As you know, years ago I had a Mariposa Indian Website where I shared information and documents- such as the much talked about Petition to Congress - as well as census I painstakingly transcribed - and other documents.

At this point, I am taking the current discussion off of this board. In the future my dialogue will be strictly on my new website - which will not be devoted to sharing the genealogy of the Mariposa Indians I have collected - nor sharing documents such as the Petition to Congress which information can in turn be misconstrued.

My new website's purpose is singular - to address the fallacious contention of a small group of people that the Ahwahneechees/Yosemites as well as other tribes being pulled into this - were all Paiutes. As always, my approach will not be because I said so - but will be backed with sources.

Why was Bill Brown called "Mono" Brown?

Ahwahnee — 6 May 2006 5:48:29 GMT

Why was he called "MONO" Brown and not "Miwok" or "Digger" Brown?

What tribe does "Mono" mean he is from?

Young Charlie - a supposed Miwok Chief

Yose Mite — 6 May 2006 8:39:54 GMT

In Craig Bates book Tradition and Innovation on pages 147 and 150. Bates write that Nellie Jim and sister Tina Jim are married to a "Miwok" named Young Charlie.

Young Charlie was a Yosemite Indian.

Craig Bates implies that Young Charlie is a son of "Miwok" Chief.

See photo of Nellie and Tina Charlie as written by Craig Bates below.

NOW page 79 of the same book, Tradition and Innovation, is photo of Jennie Sam.

Craig Bates writes Jennie Sam is "a PAIUTE woman from Mono Lake". That she is Paiute. That her basketry is Paiute.

What Bates does not realize is that Young Charlie and Jennie (CHARLIE) Sam ARE brother and sister.

They are from the same parents. PAIUTES Dick Charlie and Mary Charlie. Dick and Mary Charlie had many, many children and grandchildren in and around Yosemite and Mono Lake. They were all Paiutes.

Here is Jennie Charlie-Sam from Craig Bates' Tradition and Innovation where it states she is a Mono Lake Paiute in Yosemite. see below:

Remember Mono Lake is only 11 miles from the eastern side of Yosemite.

Early Photos of Yosemite Indians - Paiutes.

Yose Mite — 6 May 2006 7:39:39 GMT

Here is a link for those who want to see some of the oldest photos of Yosemite Indians. Some of these photos are rarely seen.

http://www.yosemitecampers.com/discus/messages/29/1920.html?...

They are Yosemite Mono Paiutes.

The photos show Chief Dick's cabin in Yosemite next to acorn graneries. Sadie and Susie McGowan and others. They were the Paiutes of Yosemite.

No the titles are NOT made up.

They were what was written on them or classified as.

These are some of the oldest photos taken IN Yosemite by photographers who lived IN Yosemite Valley.

Lancisco Wilson's gravemarker in Yosemite National Park cemetery

Yose Mite — 6 May 2006 7:21:51 GMT

Sharon, here is are these documents we found on the internet with Lancisco Wilson indicated as the headman of the main Southern Sierra Miwuk village.

http://gis.esri.com/library/userconf/proc05/papers/pap1803.p...

http://www.georgewright.org/0533gaskell.pdf

You can search for Lancisco Wilson's name in PDF search where it states that Lancisco Wilson was the headman of the man Southern Sierra Miwuk village.

Now here is Lancisco Wilson's gravemarker a few yards away from the Yosemite Indian Museum and Yosemite Research Center.

Interesting that no one walked a couple of yards to see Lancisco Wilson's gravemarker? The gravemarker where it reads: Lancisco Wilson "PIUTE" which of course means he was Paiute and not Miwuk.

Tom Hutchings, first mailman in Yosemite was Mono Paiute.

Yose Mite — 6 May 2006 6:29:08 GMT

Sharon, where is your proof that Tom Hutchings (Hudgens) was a Miwok?

You can't mention Craig Bates writings because Craig Bates writings are questionable since he is married to a Miwok and has a Miwok son. He never even answered the descendents of Tom Hutchings when they asked where he got his information.

They wanted to know where he got the information that their ancestor was Miwok since they always knew he was Paiute and they have all his Paiute information. His wife was a Paiute and his children spoke Paiute. All his documenation shows he is Paiute. They never had to ask why he was Paiute because they live it every day. They even live on Paiute reservations. Yet the Southern Sierra Miwuks have him as a Miwok and none of his family is in the group.

In the Yosemite Research Library there is a picture of Tom Hutchings.

See below of the photo of Tom Hutchings.

Then see the actual back of the photo of taken from the Yosemite Research Library of Tom Hutchings.

They wanted to know why Craig Bates and the Southern Sierra Miwoks have their ancestor as a Miwok and have him in their paperwork for federal recognition as a Miwok?

They hold no hatred towards any Miwok person, but they do not like the fact that their ancestor has been changed TO A Miwok and no one told them how he is a Miwok? Then they are not part of the group.

This IS FROM the Yosemite Research Library. In all Tom Hutchings documentation HE IS Mono Paiute.

Yosemite Indian petition was signed mainly by Paiutes.

Yose Mite — 24 Apr 2006 3:25:14 GMT

I have researched the Petition to Congress by Yosemite Indians and have found that most of the signers were actually Paiutes or Piutes.

Lancisco Wilson - Paiute
Chief George Dick - Paiute
their sons - Paiute
Pedro - Paiute
Captain Reuben - Paiute
Jim - Paiute
Bill - Paiute
Henry - Paiute
the Toms: Bridgeport Tom and Tom Hutchings - Paiutes
Captain John - Paiute
Captain John's son - Paiute

There were two locations that the Paiutes came from Yosemite and Mono Lake.

No signers like Cypriano and Chief Baustista or the Howards were signers.

They had a reservation down by Merced Falls, in Merced County.

That is why several of their people were born at Bear Valley which is by Merced Falls. That is about 35 miles away.

Mono Lake is about 11 miles away from the eastern entrance of Yosemite.

Chief Tenaya and his band of Yosemite Indians were Mono Paiutes.

Yose Mite — 30 Apr 2006 5:27:50 GMT

A sickness overwhelmed and decimated the Ahwahneechees.

A tribe that Chief Tenaya himself said was unlike any surrounding tribes.

Chief Tenaya's father took the handful of remaining surviviors, not to neigbhoring Miwok areas, but to war like Paiute Mono Lake, also known as Teniega Bah. There Chief Tenaya's father married a Mono Lake Paiute woman and had Chief Tenaya or Tenieya.

Decades later when Tenaya grew to adulthood he married a Mono Lake Paiute woman. They had several children.

Later a medicine man advised Tenaya that it was safe to return to Yosemite. Tenaya took about 200 Indian back into Yosemite.

There Chief Tenaya was the founder of the Pai-ute Colony or Ahwahni.

Chief Tenaya also spoke a Paiute jargon.

Chief Tenaya's band was made up of Mono Paiutes and few outlaws from the western tribes.

Chief Tenaya's band were lighter and taller then the western tribes.

Those in Chief Tenaya's band were made up Monos and Paiutes from Nevada.

They spoke Paiute and Monache and not Miwok.

That is from Lafayette H. Bunnell's Discovery of the Yosemites 1851, and the war that lead to that event.

No mention of any Miwoks in the whole book.

Murder in September 1877

ldsapolog — 29 Apr 2006 12:48:01 GMT

In doing some research, I discovered some newspaper items submitted that indicate that my third great grandfather Frank S. Clow was accused of murdering a David Patterson in late August or early September of 1877. I read another article that indicated a preliminary examination had been conducted, and he was held to answer and denied bail. This is new information to me, and I am dying to find out what happened!!! Can anyone assist me? I am very much a newbie on this. My husband is listed as the owner of this account, and you can either reply to him or to me at tracytcsr@aol.com. Thanks.

The Three Indians on the 1880 Yosemite Mariposa census

Yose Mite — 28 Apr 2006 9:00:29 GMT

1990 obituary - Mariposa, CA

Lowell Krahn — 27 Apr 2006 4:48:50 GMT

My great aunt, Ruth Haney, died January 19, 1990 in Mariposa. She lived in the town of Mariposa for many years (since at least the mid-1970s).

Is it possible she has an obituary in the local newspaper? (Her married name was Haney; maiden name Simmons)

Thank you for any suggestions.

I found old documents that prove that Miwoks aided Mariposa Battalion.

Yose Mite — 24 Apr 2006 3:18:07 GMT

I found several old newspaper accounts that Cypriano and Chief Bautista of the Miwoks aided James Savage of the Mariposa Battalion.

Those chiefs considered Savage their "white chief". At first I thought that they were Yosemite Miwoks, but it turns out they helped James Savage track down the Chief Tenaya and the Ahwahneechees.

It's true. I have the early newspaper accounts. There were several reporters who wrote during that time the Mariposa Battalion and James Savage was assisted by Cypriano and Chief Bautista.

Susie Sam, wife of Captain Sam was documented to be Paiute.

Yose Mite — 24 Apr 2006 3:54:52 GMT

Captain Sam, full blooded Paiute born at Mono Lake. He lived most of life between Yosemite and Mono Lake and other Paiute areas.

On most of his wife's, Susie Sam, government documentation she is documented as Paiute or Yosemite Indian.

Not all Indians born in Yosemite were Miwok.

On this link it shows that Captain Sam himself states that his wife was a Paiute.

http://thehive.modbee.com/?q=node/372

In 1928 the majority of her grandchildren state that both Susie Sam and Captain are full blooded Paiutes. Now because of recognition many are saying she was Miwok?

Yet Susie died in August 1903, before most of those 'elders' living today knew her. She spent most of her life in and around Yosemite and Mono Lake and not in the lower foothills of the Miwok.

Also Captain Sam had other children besides Leanna and Louisa Sam-Tom. They had Pete, George and Mattie they are documented as Paiute and they lived in Paiute areas till their deaths. Some of their grandchildren intermarried with Washos also not only those on the western side.

The Sam name is Paiute or Mono in that area.

Yosemite Indians - Yosemite Native Americans were Paiute or Piute.

Ahwahnee_Indian — 15 Apr 2006 9:57:20 GMT

I read that the early Yosemite Indians were Paiute or Piute. Any information on that anyone?

1992 obituary - Edith Stevens

Lowell Krahn — 13 Apr 2006 6:10:29 GMT

My aunt, Edith Stevens, died April 25, 1992.

She was a resident of the town of Mariposa, California (even though she died in a Merced hospital).

Would the local newspaper have an obituary on her?

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

MOSES RODGERS

carolyn — 10 Apr 2006 7:09:58 GMT

PETER GREEN----------Freed by Thomas Thorn 1855

carolyn — 10 Apr 2006 6:08:53 GMT

http://afrigeneas.com/forum-west/index.cgi?noframes;read=45
California's African American Pioneers
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Green, Peter
He was a former slave of Thomas Thorn when Thorn resided in Quartzburg, Mariposa County.
In August 1855 he was issued his freedom paper by a justice of the peace in Mariposa. #3, p.76

"Know all men to whom these presents shall come, that I, Thomas Thorn, of the State and County aforesaid, being the rightful owner of the Negro man, Peter Green, and entitled to his service as a slave during his life have this day released and do by these presents release him from any further service as a slave.

And I do by these presents form myself, my heirs, executors and administrators declare him, the said Peter Green, to be free to act for himself and no longer under bonds as a slave. Provided, however, that the said Peter Green shall pay to me the sum of one thousand dollars, good lawful money or work for the service, from the present time until the first day of February, A.D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three. Thomas Thorn
In the presence of Benjamin F. Cadell, Jr., Joseph A. Tiry, I hereby notify that the above obligation has been complied with and that Peter Green was legally discharged. Given under my hand at Quartzburg, this day of August, A.D., 1855. James Givens, Justice of the Peace" #15, p.84; #46, pp.61-62

To gain his freedom, Peter agreed to either pay $1,000 or work for Thorn until April 1, 1853.
It is not known which option he chose.
After gaining his freedom, Green became a leader in the Methodist church in Stockton. #55, p.18
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Early deeds of Mariposa County

Liz DuBois — 8 Apr 2006 7:34:58 GMT

I am looking for early deeds in Mariposa County...around 1850, when my husband's great-great-grandfather, Orrin/Orin DuBois, was living in or near Burn's Diggings. In the 1850 census, it appears that he had real estate valued at $60,000. Can someone please advise me on how and where to find deeds from around 1850?

Many thanks!
Liz

Lake McClure

Judy Klee — 3 Jan 2001 12:00:00 GMT

Is there any one who knows the history of Lake McClure? Is there anyone researching genealogy connected with this branch of the McClures?

Is McClure Lake a natural body of water or man made?

I appreciate any information and be glad to share my McClure genealogy.

Judy Klee

JOHN HITE AND LUCY-

sweetwater48 — 13 Mar 2006 2:55:24 GMT

I just heard from Jim Hotchkiss, that his long awaited publication is now availalbe................

THE MILLIONAIRE MINER AND THE INDIAN GIRL

A TRUE STORY

BY JAMES M. HOTCHKISS, JR.

The book can be ordered directly from the publisher, Xlibris Corporation.

www.xlibris.com <http://www.xlibris.com/>; or by phone 1.888.795.4274 choice 3. It is also available at a slightly higher price from Barnes and Noble and other booksellers.

I have posted more information on this book on the Mariposa Website, see link near the top of the main page........Have been waiting on this book to be published for several years.

Best, Carolyn
http://www.mariposaresearch.net/

NEWS FROM BEAR VALLEY-MARGRAVE, TRABUCCO

sweetwater48 — 13 Mar 2006 2:18:10 GMT

The MARGRAVE house was torched Saturday- on a snowy day, the building was used as practice burn for the fire department-

The OSO Museum Collection from Bear Valley has been given to the Mariposa Museum and History Center, according to Barbara Parker. Barbara’s family, the TRABUCCO's of Bear Valley put together a collection of many items belonging to old families in the area.

See photos and feel free to comment on Tom Margraves blog spot:
http://www.mariposafootprints.org/pblog/index.php

castagnetto/enos

jacquiekelly41 — 3 Mar 2006 5:28:48 GMT

looking for info on Joseph Daniel Castagnetto. I have obit and am really looking for info on wife Mary Josephine Enos and her parents. I think she married A. Fernandez after James died . When did she die and where buried?

Santiago Lopez Obit--b. Hornitos, CA 1850?

Adrienne Mooney Karyadi — 20 Jan 2006 4:19:00 GMT

I'm trying to track my great grandfather Santiago Lopez. Two different birthplaces have been given for him; the one in the obituary below is for [H]Ornitos, CA. Does Marisposa county have birth records going this far back? If so, how do I get the records?
Thanks
Adrienne Mooney Karyadi
akaryadi@earthlink.net

"Plan Final Rites Saturday for Santiago Lopez, 93" Nov. 12, 1943
Santiago Lopez, 93, resident of Yuma County for the past 72 years passed away Wednesday evening at the home of his daughter Miss Emilia Lopez, 683 Orange Ave., Yuma. Mr. Lopez was born in Ornitos, Cal. in 1850 and came to Yuma at the age of 21 years, residing here ever since. At one time he was a cattleman in Cibola Valley.
Surviving him are four sons and four daughters. The sons: Manuel of Blythe, Cal., Arturo, Los Angeles, Cal., Octavio, San Francisco, Cal. and Bruno, Yuma. The daughters: Miss Emilia Lopez, Mrs. Isaac Polhamus and Mrs. Mary Allen of Yuma and Mrs. John Loyacon of Sacramento, Cal. Rosary and wake will be held this evening from 8 to 11 p.m. and funeral services will be at Immaculate Conception church at 3:30 p.m. Saturday. Burial will be in Yuma Catholic Cemetery."

Mariposa 1866 Great Register

MARY CORNELL — 17 Jan 2006 8:16:48 GMT

Would like to find a copy of the 1866 Great Register for Mariposa County. Does anyone know where it is to be found? Looking for information about George W. Cornell, his birthplace and birthdate and other possible info.