Jean, I can check for an exact dod and possible obit for you next Monday. Sandra maybe Colleen can get the dod for me earlier? and any other JOWETTs in the CADI? From: Youngson <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: CADI lookup Will someone please do a CADI lookup for me? Wilberta Jowett b.20 Nov 1910 d. Aug 1980, San Diego, San Diego, CA 92103 SS# 073-14-9873 If you come across any other Jowetts I would be interested--this was the only one in SSDI who specifically died in California. Thanks Jean San Antonio, TX [email protected] ______________________________

I've inherited a beautiful, carved piece of round marble that was taken from "The Golden Ball" in Sacramento around 1900. Does anyone know about "The Golden Ball?" Was it a hotel or saloon? Any pictures or information would be appreciated. Thanks, Dave Page [email protected]

Nancy, I found him! He died age 66 in Fresno Sep 18 1936 and his wife, Jennie E.(MURPHY) died age 60 also in Fresno May 10 1932 I have obituaries for both - need your address to mail to you. Children are listed: La(o)raine G. RYAN Michael J. RYAN Jr E. C. RYAN Richard RYAN all of Fresno in 1936 and Robert E. RYAN of Garden City KS (1932) and TX (1936) This IS the right one - the obit gives the same location of birth Sandra From: Nancy Brada <[email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: Michael Ryan - BOOKS Hi! I have heard that this is a great list, and have finally got around to subscribing! I am looking for information regarding a Michael J. Ryan. Michael was born Jan.17th, 1870? in Edwardsville, Madison County,Il. He was the son of Peter and Bridget Ryan.I know that in 1903 Michael was living in Mankato, Mn and in 1908 Fargo, North Dakota. Sometime after that but before 1911 Michael was working for the Deere and Weber Co. of Minneapolis. In 1911 Michael organized the Ryan Vehicle Co. with his brother Peter Ryan in Phoenix, Ariz. In 1914 Pater bought out Michael's interests in the Company. Sometime after then Michael moved to Fresno, Ca.In the late 1920's My great-grandmother Ella Ryan McNeilly (Michael's sister) and my Grandparents and my Mother and Uncle went to visit. I have some great..but unlabeled photos of Michael and his family..nice house..even by todays standaards. I would love to know anything at all about the family and would sincerely appreciate any help. Hopeful in Il, Nancy ============

I can check these out if they are the right HARRIS. Sandra You wrote: > >Hi Ralph, > >I checked CAIF and there are 4 cards on Dr. Benjamin F. Harris, > >1. one card says filed in Bio. letter file, >2. another says filed in Bio. card file, >3. there is a reference to a sketch and portrait in the History of Alameda >County, 1928 by Frank Merritt, pg. 64-69 and >4. a portrait in San Leando Recollections, volume 5 Number 4 from September of >1974, page 407 by author Maria Patino: Dr. Benjamin F. Mason, 1852-1972. > > >---------- >| From: Ralph Anderson <[email protected]> >| To: [email protected] >| Subject: Re: [CA-GOLDRUSH-L] Benjamin F. MASON 1858 El Dorado County >| Date: Sunday, September 13, 1998 4:56 PM >| >| Sandra, >| >| Could you tell us what the CAIF is. Thanks. >| >| >| Ralph Anderson >| Boulder, CO >| [email protected] >| ---------- >| > Date: Sunday, September 13, 1998 9:30 AM >| > >| > Joyce, I can try to check the papers for that death - and also the CAIF >| > (information file) to see if his name is mentioned. Will this help? >| > Sandra >| >| >| ==== CA-GOLDRUSH Mailing List ==== >| Automatic Administrative Reminder: >| Please DO NOT post to multiple lists with one email; >| this can cause bounced-mail problems for Rootsweb and for >| us! >| >| >| >| >| >| >| >

Someone on Norcal was doing something on the Vigilantes - maybe a web search would find his page? Joel something or other. Or an archive search of Norcal would find his email address. Sandra You wrote: > >Checked CAIF and did not come up with anything under Rice, Heatherinton, >Bendixon. Did look in a California history book and found mention of the >Vigilante committees...there was a reference to a Hetherington, no first name, >as being the last of the three executions carried out by the committee...I will >check later in the week on Hetherington spelling in CAIF > >Colleen > >---------- >| From: Sandra Harris <[email protected]> >| To: [email protected] >| Subject: [CA-GOLDRUSH-L] RICE/HEATHERINGTON/BENDIXON >| Date: Monday, September 14, 1998 5:02 AM >| >| Richard, have you checked in the Alta index for these names? >| Have you checked the CAIF (California Informaton File) for mentions of >| these names? >| Sandra >| >| To: [email protected] >| Subject: [CA-GOLDRUSH-L] California and B.C. people >| >| I am looking for information on two women who were allegedly involved >| with the San Francisco vigilante movement; Jessie Rice or Heatherington >| and Fanny Bendixon, who was the consort of one of the leaders before she >| married Louis Bendixon. I believe he sied in California in the 1870s. >| Fanny died in Barkerville B.C. in the 1890s and Jessie was murdered there >| in 1863. >| >| Any help would be appreciated. >| >| >| Richard Wright >| [email protected] >| >| >| ==== CA-GOLDRUSH Mailing List ==== >| Automatic Administrative Reminder: >| Please remember to stay on topic - this list covers the >| gold rush in California's early history. Please send your >| queries about your ancestral names in CA during this time >| period and stories pertaining to the events, etc. If you >| are unsure if your message is on topic, please ask the list >| owner <[email protected]> about it before posting. >| >| >| >| >| >| >| >

Tata! = I can check it for you. <G> I don't know where else it is but I am sure other libraries have it as well as the CA Room. Sandra You wrote: > >Sandra, > >Where can someone check the ALTA index? > >Colleen > >---------- >| From: Sandra Harris <[email protected]> >| To: [email protected] >| Subject: [CA-GOLDRUSH-L] RICE/HEATHERINGTON/BENDIXON >| Date: Monday, September 14, 1998 5:02 AM >| >| Richard, have you checked in the Alta index for these names? >| Have you checked the CAIF (California Informaton File) for mentions of >| these names? >| Sandra >| >| To: [email protected] >| Subject: [CA-GOLDRUSH-L] California and B.C. people >| >| I am looking for information on two women who were allegedly involved >| with the San Francisco vigilante movement; Jessie Rice or Heatherington >| and Fanny Bendixon, who was the consort of one of the leaders before she >| married Louis Bendixon. I believe he sied in California in the 1870s. >| Fanny died in Barkerville B.C. in the 1890s and Jessie was murdered there >| in 1863. >| >| Any help would be appreciated. >| >| >| Richard Wright >| [email protected] >| >| >| ==== CA-GOLDRUSH Mailing List ==== >| Automatic Administrative Reminder: >| Please remember to stay on topic - this list covers the >| gold rush in California's early history. Please send your >| queries about your ancestral names in CA during this time >| period and stories pertaining to the events, etc. If you >| are unsure if your message is on topic, please ask the list >| owner <[email protected]> about it before posting. >| >| >| >| >| >| >| >

Here's what I found in "San Francisco 1846-1856 From Hamlet to City", Roger W. Lotchin - 1997 University of Illinois Press, Urbana and Chicago (page 194). After telling of the Vigilantes being formed 1856 it goes on to say "....Before the citizens group disbanded at the end of the summer, its rope was again called into use. One JOSEPH HEATHERINGTON, undeterred by the two previous lychings, shot a Dr. Randall in an affray. He and a convicted murderer named BRACE were hanged." Is BRACE the RICE that was being inquired about??? Hope this helps also, RUTH _____________________________ Ruth & Don Skewis [email protected] > -----Original Message----- > From: Carolyn Feroben [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, September 14, 1998 2:51 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [CA-GOLDRUSH-L] RICE/HEATHERINGTON/BENDIXON > > > According to Grace Atherton in _California An Intimate History_ it was a > Joseph Hetherington, Englishman, who was hung for murder by the > Committee of Vigilance. Rice or Bendixon not mentioned. > > Hope this helps, Carolyn > > Norby Family wrote: > > > > Checked CAIF and did not come up with anything under Rice, Heatherinton, > > Bendixon. Did look in a California history book and found > mention of the > > Vigilante committees...there was a reference to a Hetherington, > no first name, > > as being the last of the three executions carried out by the > committee...I will > > check later in the week on Hetherington spelling in CAIF > > > > Colleen > > > ==== CA-GOLDRUSH Mailing List ==== > Automatic Administrative Reminder: > Please remember to stay on topic - this list covers the > gold rush in California's early history. Please send your > queries about your ancestral names in CA during this time > period and stories pertaining to the events, etc. If you > are unsure if your message is on topic, please ask the list > owner <[email protected]> about it before posting. > > > > > > > >

According to Grace Atherton in _California An Intimate History_ it was a Joseph Hetherington, Englishman, who was hung for murder by the Committee of Vigilance. Rice or Bendixon not mentioned. Hope this helps, Carolyn Norby Family wrote: > > Checked CAIF and did not come up with anything under Rice, Heatherinton, > Bendixon. Did look in a California history book and found mention of the > Vigilante committees...there was a reference to a Hetherington, no first name, > as being the last of the three executions carried out by the committee...I will > check later in the week on Hetherington spelling in CAIF > > Colleen

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Checked CAIF and did not come up with anything under Rice, Heatherinton, Bendixon. Did look in a California history book and found mention of the Vigilante committees...there was a reference to a Hetherington, no first name, as being the last of the three executions carried out by the committee...I will check later in the week on Hetherington spelling in CAIF Colleen ---------- | From: Sandra Harris <[email protected]> | To: [email protected] | Subject: [CA-GOLDRUSH-L] RICE/HEATHERINGTON/BENDIXON | Date: Monday, September 14, 1998 5:02 AM | | Richard, have you checked in the Alta index for these names? | Have you checked the CAIF (California Informaton File) for mentions of | these names? | Sandra | | To: [email protected] | Subject: [CA-GOLDRUSH-L] California and B.C. people | | I am looking for information on two women who were allegedly involved | with the San Francisco vigilante movement; Jessie Rice or Heatherington | and Fanny Bendixon, who was the consort of one of the leaders before she | married Louis Bendixon. I believe he sied in California in the 1870s. | Fanny died in Barkerville B.C. in the 1890s and Jessie was murdered there | in 1863. | | Any help would be appreciated. | | | Richard Wright | [email protected] | | | ==== CA-GOLDRUSH Mailing List ==== | Automatic Administrative Reminder: | Please remember to stay on topic - this list covers the | gold rush in California's early history. Please send your | queries about your ancestral names in CA during this time | period and stories pertaining to the events, etc. If you | are unsure if your message is on topic, please ask the list | owner <[email protected]> about it before posting. | | | | | | |

"In reference to the settlement of the town of Vernon, on the east bank of the Sacramento River, a pioneer town of Sutter County...It was not until 1851 that any settlements were made for farming purposes...There was a great rush of settlers in 1852 and that year nearly the whole of the river bottom land was occupied...Henry Heitman settled on the Harris Ranch, which he sold to S.D.Harris in 1854; this place was used as a milk dairy in the early days." History of Sutter County (Thompson and West), 1879 ---------- | From: Sandra Harris <[email protected]> | To: [email protected] | Subject: [CA-GOLDRUSH-L] S D HARRIS in History of Sutter County | Date: Monday, September 14, 1998 5:09 AM | | Ralph, I can check on the possibility of this book being in the CA Room | - but not utill next Monday, my list is very full for this Monday. | Please let me know if someone else finds it before that time. Thanks, | Sandra | | From: "Ralph Anderson" <[email protected]> | To: [email protected] | Subject: [CA-GOLDRUSH-L] S.D. Harris look-up | | If someone has access to the 1879 History of Sutter County (Thompson | and | West), I would like to know what it says about S.D. Harris on page 99 | (citation from Sutter-Yuba Digger's Digest). | | Stephen D. Harris married my grandmothers sister Adeline Burrows in | Sutter | County in 1854. | | Thanks | | Ralph Anderson | Boulder, CO | | | ==== CA-GOLDRUSH Mailing List ==== | Automatic Administrative Reminder: | Your Support Keeps RootsWeb Free! | http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html | | | | | | | | |

Ralph, I can check on the possibility of this book being in the CA Room - but not utill next Monday, my list is very full for this Monday. Please let me know if someone else finds it before that time. Thanks, Sandra From: "Ralph Anderson" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: [CA-GOLDRUSH-L] S.D. Harris look-up If someone has access to the 1879 History of Sutter County (Thompson and West), I would like to know what it says about S.D. Harris on page 99 (citation from Sutter-Yuba Digger's Digest). Stephen D. Harris married my grandmothers sister Adeline Burrows in Sutter County in 1854. Thanks Ralph Anderson Boulder, CO

Richard, have you checked in the Alta index for these names? Have you checked the CAIF (California Informaton File) for mentions of these names? Sandra To: [email protected] Subject: [CA-GOLDRUSH-L] California and B.C. people I am looking for information on two women who were allegedly involved with the San Francisco vigilante movement; Jessie Rice or Heatherington and Fanny Bendixon, who was the consort of one of the leaders before she married Louis Bendixon. I believe he sied in California in the 1870s. Fanny died in Barkerville B.C. in the 1890s and Jessie was murdered there in 1863. Any help would be appreciated. Richard Wright [email protected]

Thought I had explained it - CAIF=California Information File. Sandra You wrote: > >Sandra, > >Could you tell us what the CAIF is. Thanks. > > >Ralph Anderson >Boulder, CO >[email protected] >---------- >> Date: Sunday, September 13, 1998 9:30 AM >> >> Joyce, I can try to check the papers for that death - and also the CAIF >> (information file) to see if his name is mentioned. Will this help? >> Sandra > >

If someone has access to the 1879 History of Sutter County (Thompson and West), I would like to know what it says about S.D. Harris on page 99 (citation from Sutter-Yuba Digger's Digest). Stephen D. Harris married my grandmothers sister Adeline Burrows in Sutter County in 1854. Thanks Ralph Anderson Boulder, CO [email protected]

Sandra, Could you tell us what the CAIF is. Thanks. Ralph Anderson Boulder, CO [email protected] ---------- > Date: Sunday, September 13, 1998 9:30 AM > > Joyce, I can try to check the papers for that death - and also the CAIF > (information file) to see if his name is mentioned. Will this help? > Sandra

Hi Joyce, and welcome. You are luck to know the date and place (especially the county) of death for Ben! Without a death certificate or newspaper article is your information from a letter or , bible, or ? A note here for anyone researching Grizzly Flat(s). Gudde_California Gold Camps_ lists a Grizzly Flat in Placer County, one in Plumas County and Grizzly Flat_s_ (also knows as Grizzle Flat) in El Dorado County. There are a total of 15 locations begining with the word Grizzly. The El Dorado County GenWeb Page: http://midtown.net/mirish/eldorado/default.htm Has resources for searching the county along with this vitals information: El Dorado County Recorder-Clerk 360 Fair Lane Placerville, CA 95667 (530) 621-5490 Birth index - 1903 to present Marriage index - 1850 to present Death index - 1903 to present Mining Claims index The Mountain Democrat (oldest surviving newspaper in California-1851) link can also be found on the El Dorado County Page. The Democrat site lists all the newspapers serving the county and the years they were in service. Also there are many historical articles of the gold rush era for you to read online (while Sandra is at the Library looking for your obit:-)))). A search at the USGS site for cemeteries in El Dorado County can be done here: http://mapping.usgs.gov/www/gnis/gnisform.html Have fun, Carolyn Joyce Mason wrote: > > Hello, > I am new to the list and am interested in learning if any > information is available on my ancestor Benjamin Franklin Mason who > drowned at Grizzly Flat, El Dorado County CA on June 9,1858. Would there > have been a newspaper notice, or death certificate? Does anyone know if > there is a Grizzly Flat cememtery where he might be buried? Any > information will be greatly appreciated. Thank you. > > Joyce Mason > Palm Springs, CA

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Joyce, I can try to check the papers for that death - and also the CAIF (information file) to see if his name is mentioned. Will this help? Sandra From: Joyce Mason <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: [CA-GOLDRUSH-L] Ben F Mason death at Grizzly Flat Hello, I am new to the list and am interested in learning if any information is available on my ancestor Benjamin Franklin Mason who drowned at Grizzly Flat, El Dorado County CA on June 9,1858. Would there have been a newspaper notice, or death certificate? Does anyone know if there is a Grizzly Flat cememtery where he might be buried? Any information will be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Joyce Mason Palm Springs, CA