Well again I will try, I must have lost the other message when I changed formats, Steve you and the rest are putting me to shame, of course you Steve, have nothing to do in that big office HA!HA! Death of Mrs Nightingale---Miss S.M.Page was born in Liverpool England Sept. 19,1828 died at the home of her daughter Mrs. Augusta Fleming in Jackson Feb. 9,1902. The subject of this notice spent most of her childhood days in London, at eighteen years of age she came to America in a sailing vessel, The journey was accomplished in about 6 months, She came by way of the Gulf of Mexico to New Orleans then up the Mississippi river to St. Louis, in 1858 she in the company of others crossed the plains and located in Virginia City, Nevada, 5 months was consumed in this overland ox-team trip. Indians were numerous and hostile this time in the different sections which these immigrants were obliged to travel, after four years stay in Virginia City, Nevada she moved to California and lived for the most part in Sacramento, Tuoluine, Alpine and Amador counties.. In the year 1850 she married John F. Davis, who died in 1861, two children were born by this union, one son who died in childhood and one daughter, Mrs. Fleming now living in Jackson, she married her second husband Wm. Bastian, brother of James Baistian of Amador in the year 1868, he was accidentally after nearly one year of happy married life. In the year 1873 she married John Nightingale, who died July 4, 1902 Among those of her relatives who mourn her are Mr.& Mrs. Fleming and granddaughter Eileen Fleming of Jackson also her step children Mrs. Susanna Perry and Mrs. Mary E. Perry of Stockton and Mr. & Mrs. M.J.Nightingale of Oakland. Mrs. Nightingale gave her heart to God at the age of 12 and since then has been a faithful servant.---there is more but the film is bad and can not read sorry. Obit-- P.R.Dick A respected citizen and prominent in church and grand Army circles, died at his residence near Wood Bridge, January 27, aged 65 years and 9 months , he was born at Rock Creek near Tillin?, Senaca county , Ohio at the age of 21 he with his father and a younger brother settled in Iowa, and when the civil war began he inlisted in the seventh Iowa Infantry, one of the regiments that helped bring General Grant into notice, At the Battle of Shilo he was hot by a spent canister shot, from the effects which he never fully recovered, after, serving three years and one month and receiving an honorable discharge, after which he returned to Iowa, where he married and took employment with the Atchinson, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Company at Emporia Kansas. In 1882 he with his family came to Amador county, where he engaged in farming for nine years but on account of health removed to the valley where the present neat little home has been built. A short time before his death his old stomach trouble returned , but for a while no serious result was feared, how ever he soon has alarming symptoms and a physician was summed, but his services were of no avail, he gradually sank into unconsciousness, among his last words were"I neither wish nor fear to die," He leaves his wife, seven sons and two daughters, all but one present at the funeral, The order of the exercises were under the G.A.R. post of Lodi, after divine services in the M.E.Church at Acampo? the procession moved up Palm? avenue to Cherokee lane, hence along Cherokee to the new cemetery one mile east of Lodi--Mr. Dick was a brother of John R. Dick of this place to whom we are indebted for the above sketch of his brother. Estate of john A Eagan--hearing Estate of Peter N Barnhart--Hearing Estate of William Sa???--Hearing Estate of Robert J. Adams--Order setting $50 dollars per month as family allowance for one year, order setting apart real and personal property to widow and minor children. Estate of John H. Schealor--Order appointing S.J.Shealor administrator. Estate if Mary E. Shettle--hearing on petition for an order to sell personal property set for Feb. 17th. thats all of the missing message Steve, quit making fun of the Missouri way of speaking, after all, there were some great writers from Missouri, Like Samuel Clemens , the Twain you ,yourself quoted more then once. Remember this If you could see your ancestors, all standing in a row, would you be proud of them, or don,t you really know? Some strange discoveries are made in climbing family trees. And some of them, you know, do not particularly please. If you could see your ancestors, all standing in a row, There might be some of them, perhaps, you wouldn,t care to know, But there,s another question which requires a different view. If you could meet your ancestors, WOULD THEY BE PROUD OF YOU ????????? well thats all for today as my grandson is here visiting and wants to play a game on my computer,Abigail