These people look familiar Carolyn. Didn't this picture appear in one of the Mariposa Gazette Centennial books and perhaps have a caption with the name??? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carolyn Feroben" <sweetwater@sierratel.com> To: <CAMARIPO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, November 05, 2001 1:31 PM Subject: [CAMARIPO] CATHEY's VALLEY METHODIST CHURCH-1923 > http://www.cagenweb.com/mariposa/cathchurch1.html > > Thanks to Tom Hilk for providing this and other pictures that are making > their way to the website- > > One picture of this dedication is of the community folks who attended > the ceremony- > there are no names! Your help will be appreciated if you can identify > some of the folks..............will let you know when I get that photo > posted to the net! > > Thanks! > > Carolyn > > > ==== CAMARIPO Mailing List ==== > NEW LIST MEMBERS- Post your query so we can start helping you!! >

http://www.cagenweb.com/mariposa/cathchurch1.html Thanks to Tom Hilk for providing this and other pictures that are making their way to the website- One picture of this dedication is of the community folks who attended the ceremony- there are no names! Your help will be appreciated if you can identify some of the folks..............will let you know when I get that photo posted to the net! Thanks! Carolyn

Listers may be interested in the following database if they have miners coming from SW England: Genealogy - Family History - Cornwall Online ... Cornish Mining Index - Over 16,000 names AN ONLINE SEARCHABLE DATABASE CLICK HERE TO SEARCH. If ... Description: Genealogy and family history. Category: Regional > Europe > ... > England > Cornwall > Society and Culture > Genealogy www.cornwall-online.co.uk/genealogy.htm - 7k - Cached - Similar pages Joan

Hi Jill, I checked the following Mariposa Co records: birth index marriage index death index all did not show either Harrison or Tatman (Tateman var.) until after 1875. except for; Marriage of George W. Branch to Mrs. Mary Ann Harrison Feb 22, 1852 bk B page 2 I spoke to anymous sources regarding the records and their indexs; I it is not in the index, the county does not have it (in files, microfilm/fiche or storage). It is commonly accepted that all recorder records pertaining to the new counties were transferred to the new county and totally removed as if it never happened in the original county. An added complication, the county court and seat prior to the current location in Mariposa Town was at Agua Fria a few miles so-west, was burnt down during the period of or before the formation of Tulare County in 1852. I think it is an excellent possibility that your ancestors were alway located in what is now Tulare or Fresno and Kings Counties (partly formed from Mariposa, then Tulare Co's). I briefly check internet sites for Tulare and easily found several with names consistant with your subjects. Hope this helps, maybe narrows your search area. If you find something pointing back my way give me a call. Happy Hunting, Steve

Hey, thanks! Sigourney B. GOFF aka Sidney B. GOFF was Frank's cousin, oldest son of his uncle Robert b. 1812 England. The entire family came from England to Newport RI around 1825. As far as I know, Frank was the only one who came out West, as his father William died (or was declared dead) at the beginning of 1850 when Frank was a 17-year-old sailor. There was a William GOFFE listed in the 1850 Mariposa census and I wondered about him, but his age was wrong to be Frank's father, being 36 instead of 42. Joan ==================================== In a message dated 11/3/01 6:14:37 PM Pacific Standard Time, rubyslippers@kc.rr.com writes: > > Guess what I just ran into? A civil war database. No Frank...F...or > Stahl...but this guy: > Sigourney B. Goff from Newport, RI > Enlisted as a Corporal on 26 May 1862 > Enlisted in Company L, 9th Infantry Regiment Rhode Island on 26 May 1862 > Mustered out on 02 September 1862 in Providence, RI > > > >

>From my ROSE mail list... The following was handed down from generation to generation in my wife's family. These were common cures that people practiced without a doctor being available. The document was hand written and dated 1877. It is shown as it was written without corrections in grammer and spelling. PLEASE DON'T DO THIS AT HOME! I am not sure it would work in any of the cases, but it makes for fun reading. Mrs. Shaffers : All her Receipts - 1877 Receipt for Inflammatory Rheumatism: Half an ounce of pulverized saltpeter. Put in half pint of sweet oil. Bathe the parts that are affected. Receipt for Piles: Take a half a pound of new made butter, free from salt. One pint of the juice of Pokeroot. One common table spoonful of gunpowder. Put them together and simmer the compound over a slow fire until the water is all out of it, then as it is cooling, stir it a little at intervals to keep the powder from sinking . Anoint the parts that are effected twice a day for a few days For the bleeding Piles in the month of may, it is best to get the Poke root, it is more juicy and can be easy be grated and strained but if made in the winter, boil the Root and use the tea according to strength. Receipt for burns and cuts and bruises: Half pint of sweet oil. Five cents worth of Beeswax. One tablespoon of poison. One tablespoon of lard. One tablespoon of whiskey. Boil slow for one hour, spread on effected parts. Receipt for Erysipelas. Take the common yellow carrot, scrape it and grate it fine and apply it as a poultice and this carrot is good for children that has the croup. Apply it to the back part of the neck Breast change it when it becomes dryish. Receipt for felon: Take the yolk of one egg and equal quantity of strained honey. One tablespoon of spirits of Turpentine fresh drawn. One tablespoon of Spirits of camphor. Mix it well and thicken it with flour to the consistence of thin paste. Spread it on the sore thinly and cold. About "felon" and "erysipelas." I have a couple different lists of old medical terminology. Felon doesn't make the lists, but thedictionary describes it thusly: A painful, pus-producing infection at the end of a finger or tie, near the nail. Erysipelas, according to an old medical terminology list, is a contagious skin disease due to streptococci with vesicular and bulbous lesions; the dictionary describes it as an acute infectious disease of the skin or mucous membranes caused by any of several kinds of streptococcus. The above receipts were found in the Bible of Mildred Young. They belonged to her grandmother, Maria' (Black) Brenner. I am not sure who Mrs. Shaffer was in connection to the family. Maybe a neighbor. ....Michael Reck <moreck@juno.com>

unsubscribe ----- Original Message ----- From: "rubyslippers" <rubyslippers@kc.rr.com> To: <CAMARIPO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2001 7:04 AM Subject: Re: [CAMARIPO] INDIAN CENSUS/ROLLS > I had replied to Joan privately. > > Mariposa Indian residents are listed in the federal census beginning in > 1880. Joan's North Star and Maria Lebrado appeared in the 1870 as wives > with children but this was highly unusual. > > I have no listing for Fremont but I haven't tried to find one either so I'm > sure Pat's answer is a lot more comprehensive. > > And as for a Civil War database...I believe rootsweb has a search > engine...I'd try looking under "military" on their site. > > Sharon > > > > ==== CAMARIPO Mailing List ==== > NEW LIST MEMBERS- Post your query so we can start helping you!! > >

I have already sent this to Judy (to give her the shot at getting it through inter-library loan first), but it looks like the play "The Green Dragon Emerald" was written in 1928 by Lucy Alsanson Cuddy. There is a copy of it in the Northern Regional Lending Library [NRLF] (I think it is restricted to libraries in CA). Those interested will probably have to wait a couple weeks for Judy to be through reading it. The information is given below: Author: Cuddy, Lucy Alsanson. Title: The green dragon emerald, a mystery play in three acts ... San Francisco, Calif., Banner Play Bureau, c1928 Description: 94 p. diagrs. 19 cm. Subjects: Chinese plays. Call numbers: NRLF $B 275 664 Your local county reference librian should understand it. (NRLF is run, I believe, by U. Cal, Berkeley). I look forward to hear how much fun the story is. Peace, - Mike

Guess what I just ran into? A civil war database. No Frank...F...or Stahl...but this guy: Sigourney B. Goff from Newport, RI Enlisted as a Corporal on 26 May 1862 Enlisted in Company L, 9th Infantry Regiment Rhode Island on 26 May 1862 Mustered out on 02 September 1862 in Providence, RI

<A HREF="http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/index.html">Click here: Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System</A> This is a Civil War link that I think I received from the GOFF email list -- but the only Sailors listed are Black Sailors, at this time. There are lots of Goffs on this list but not Frank Stahl GOFF.

Carolyn, thanks for forwarding the message from Pat. Pat, the reason I asked about the 1860 census is that Indians (and other races) are included and identified by race in the later Mariposa censuses (censi?). I am looking for great-grandmother NORTH STAR who was born in 1845, 1847 or 1853 and was said to be fullblood Yosemite Miwok. She is listed in the 1870 Mariposa Census with her children in the household of Frank S. GOFF, my great-grandfather. According to family members, they were married in a Miwok ceremony, and she is shown as "wife" in the 1880 census. I still have a theory that he may have "bought" her, as GOFF also "owned" Chinese bond slaves, and Indian women and children were being sold to white miners during that time period. They did stay married until her death in 1897 and had at least nine children. North Star was listed as "wife" on his Homestead papers. I have not been able to find NORTH STAR any earlier than the 1870 census and have not a clue who her family was. I would like to find out whether she was related to any other Mariposa Indian families. Oral history says that NORTH STAR was a survivor of the Mariposa Indian Wars. Possibly she was an orphan, so I am looking for a household and/or relatives where she was living before 1865 when she married Goff. Someone raised her -- ? -- from 1845(?) to 1865. According to some accounts that I have read, the Fresno Reservation was in existence as early as 1851, when Chief Tenaya and a remnant of his band (mostly women, children and old people) were "removed" to that place against their will. Naturally, the Indians kept trying to run away, and eventually they were allowed to return to their homes on the Merced River (around 1853, I think). I am wondering whether any record was kept of the individual Indians so removed and later released. Did the government do any census at the Fresno Reservation? I have my granduncle Ed GOFF's application for the 1928 Indian Register, but while it shows NORTH STAR as a fullblood Mariposa Indian, it states that he did not know who his grandparents were, on either side. So I am looking for information that my granduncle did not even have! He does list North Star's date of death as 1897 and age as 50, so that makes her born in 1847, but who knows ... Re the Civil War, I have Frank Stahl GOFF in the 1860 Hornitos census and the 1870 Mariposa census. Sometime between those dates, he met NORTH STAR and their first child was born in 1866. She was named Elizabeth Grant GOFF, and a later child was given the middle name "Sherman" -- that's what got me wondering about the Civil War and whether he might have been in active duty in the years 1861-65. GOFF was a sailor back in Newport, Rhode Island before coming out to California and came from a seafaring family from England. Also, his grandfather STAHL was a Colonel, probably in the Revolution. When I looked for Civil War veterans a while back, the Navy had not been listed at that particular website. Even though I seem to have hit the proverbial "brick wall" with NORTH STAR, I come back to the search from time to time, hoping to find some little scrap of information that might unlock her identity. Thanks for your help and input, Joan in San Jose ================================================ In a message dated 11/3/01 6:52:32 AM Pacific Standard Time, sweetwater@sierratel.com writes: > > This message from listmember Pat was sent to the wrong address- it was > ment for this list in response to recent posts by Joan on the Fresno > Reservation and the question regarding the 1860 Census.............. > =================================================== > > Joan wrote: > > Sharon -- Were Indians included in the *1860* census and is that census > available for Mariposa County? Also, have you ever come across any > record or > list of the Indians at the Fresno Reservation in the 1850s? > > Another question: Do you know of any way to find records or lists of > Mariposa > residents who served in the Civil War? > > Joan in San Jose > > > >"Pat Brattland(Yet-choo-nook)" wrote: > > > > > Indians did not become citizens until 1924. The total Indian > population was > > > estimated by several people. By 1850 the California Indians were > reduced to > > > 100,000. > > > Many Indians scattered fearing for their lives finding areas of the > State > > > to exist undisturbed or they were "shuttled" to reservations, one > being > > > Fresno Indian Reservation, which came about on or around 1857. > Conditions > > > worsen at this reservation most ran away or died. Those in command > were > > > common thieves. Every Indian was hunted down and forced to the > Fresno > > > Indian Reservation. > > > > > > Those Indians under government control were counted in a census of > 1880, > > > reported to be 20,385, another count in 1890, 16,624 and the last > count of > > > 1900, 15,377. > > > C.E. Kelsey did a census of non-reservation Indians in California, > in > > > 1905-1906, 12,961+ > > > San Francisco, Santa Clara, and Solano counties had no Indian > settlements > > > reported and were omitted, however, numerous Indians lived there. > The final > > > findings in 1910 must have exceeded 20,000 and may even have reached > > > 25,000. > > > The government then in 1928 established a series of Rolls, which > intended > > > to include each and every California Indian and then revised once > again in > > > 1933. One should note that it was the Bureau of Indian Affairs > assembling > > > the census rolls and not the Bureau of Census. > > > I don't believe there was an official listing of Indians at Fresno > Indian > > > Reservation, however in looking at family applications you will find > that > > > some list the Fresno Indian Reservation as a previous reservation. I > think > > > the government would like to turn the other way regarding the Fresno > Indian > > > Reservation, a shambles to be sure. The rolls of 1928 contained the > age of > > > nearly every Indian who filed an application, 21,977, is about the > most > > > accurate of the times. > > > > > > I refer you to Handbook of NorthAmerican Indians, vol.8 for detailed > > > > information on census . > > > Also, The California Indians, R.F. Heizer is a good source but info > is > > > almost identical to Handbook. > > > One other book I have, The Conflict Between The California Indian > and White > > > Civilization, appears to list the Fresno Indian Reservation has the > Fresno > > > Indian Farm......I have to read further about that. Anyway there is > an > > > interesting chapter on The American Invasion 1848-1870, which > appears to > > > answer many questions regarding population and a Diary of a A.J. > Bledsoe, > > > Indian Wars of the Northwest (1885), is quite sad and graphic, an > account > > > of what happened at the Reservations. > > > > > > Sharon might have more for you...... > > > ==== CAMARIPO Mailing List ==== > If you have any good California History or Genealogy Links let us know! > >

Joan, Most Indians when asked how old they were or any other question regarding time answered "long time ago". Although it may not be entirely accurate, I would think that her listed age of 17 in 1870 was not entirely off. That would make her with child at 12 because according to the census she had a 4 year old. But....back then people did amazing things at young ages. As for her tribal affiliation...she appears in the Miwok books...you were told you are Miwok...and I'm sure you are. In 1870 she is living right next door (even though you can't see it on the census) to my great great grandma at Bull Creek. Therefore I'd be willing to bet she was a Bull Creek Indian. Unfortunately, that doesn't tell you which one of the 50 or so Bull Creeks were her relatives but heck...I'll adopt ya....the family needs a good liberal for balance anyway. LOL!

Transcribed from The Mariposa Gazette, Sept 20, 1979 by Steve Miller Service Today for Colonel John A. Macready of Darrah Full military services will be held today for Colonel John A. MacReady, 92, an aviation pioneer and holder of several aviation first, at Castle Air Force Base at 1:30 p.m. Col. MacReady died at his ranch home on Darrah Road, where he had resided since 1967, on land owned by his family for many years. Following cremation his ashes will be scattered over the ranch he loved, according to his wishes. He was a native of San Diego, and lived in Searchlight, Nevada as a youth where his father was engaged in mining. MacReady had a long and varied record in aviation. MacReady and Oakley Kelley flew from New York to San Diego in May 1923, marking the first trans- continental flight of the United States. Earlier, on October 5, 1922, he and Kelley had set a record for the longest flight at that time, 35 hours, 18 minutes, also making the first inflight refueling. Mr. MacReady later set a world altitude record for an open cockpit plane of 40,800 feet. For the altitude record, he survived temperatures down to 80 degrees below zero by breathing oxygen through a welder's mask. He is also credited with making the first aerial photographic survey of the United States. Other aviation first credited to him include making the first night parachute jump and demostrating the practicability of dusting crops by airplane. In 1968, he was enshrined in the Aviation Hall of Fame in Dayton, Ohio, and was the first to receive the board of directors award of the American Aviation Historical Society. Other honors include the Distinguished Flying Cross, the French Croix de Guerre with palm, honorary member of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots and elder statesman of the National Aeronautics Association. He joined the Army in 1917, becoming one of the first aviation cadets. By age 33, he was the chief test pilot and chief of the flying section at McCook Field in Dayton. He left the Army in 1926 but was recalled during World War II and flew with the 12th Air Force. In 1942, he was named commander of the Merced Army Air Field, which later became Castle Air Force Base. Surviving are his widow, Nelliejay; two daughters, Jo-Anne Calhoun of Yuba City and Sally Jean Liston of Chico, and seven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

Hello Listers, Please does anyone have information about any BOWHAYs who went to America as miners from Devon or Cornwall in England. (They would have been tin miners in England.) I have found these Alaska-Yukon Goldrush Participants, and wonder if any of them had previously been in Mariposa County: Abbreviations PCD - Port Clarence District YT - Yukon Territory DC - Dawson City Ck - Creek Bowhay (?), , gold claim in Bonanza Ck Bowhay Amy, DC, YT, Bowhay C W, DC, YT, miner Thanks for reading, Joan

This is not a solicitation for donation. I do not know if the Macready Memorial Foundation still exists. Steve Mariposa Gazette, Sept. 27, 1979 Memorial for Colonel Macready A Macready Memorial foundation has been formed in honor of the late Colonel John A. Macready, Ret., much honored officer in the U. S. Air Force for his many records and outstanding services. Funds will be set aside for a building to be used for a museum of the family artifacts, and later an academy will be established. Contributions may be made to the memorial by sending to (address omitted).

DCT Mariposa Co. transcribed by Steve Miller Macready, John Arthur Sept. 15, 1979 bk I page 164 John Arthur Macready dod Sept. 15, 1979 sex: male race: cauc ethnicity: American dob: Oct. 14, 1887 birthpl: Calif father: Benjamin Macready bp Scotland mother Martha Deuahunt Beck bp Illinois cit. USA ss#548-40-5095 mar. status: married surv. sp. Nelliejay (Turner) Macready occ: Ret. USAF 28 yrs United States Air Force kind of industry: US defense res: 5944 Darrah Rd. Mariposa, Mariposa County, CA pl of death home Mariposa county informant: Nelliejay Macready, wife, 5944 Darrah Rd. cause of death: carcinoma of the colon, rectum coroner: P. Paige Sept 19, 1979 cremation: Sept 20, 1979 Evergreen Crematory, Merced, CA not embalmed Ivers and Alcorn Funeral Home Sept 20, 1979

From Mariposa Gazette, August 5, 1954 by Steve Miller Zeta McFerren Services Yesterday Funeral services were held at 2 p. m. on Wednesday in the Tiscornia & Ivers Chapel for Mrs. Zeta McFerren, 60, a member of the Norman family of Cathey's Valley, who came to Mariposa County in 1910 from Montana. She and her husband, George McFerren, who preceded her in death in 1947, operated the '49er Club in Mariposa for several years, selling to Walter Robinson and Harry Overly in 1946, at which time they retired. Since his death she has been residing at her home on Redbud Drive, just south of Mormon Bar, and she will long be missed by her host of friends and neighbors. She is survived by her mother, Mrs. Maggie Norman of Cathey; two sisters, Mrs. Mary Rowland of Cathey; and Mrs. Helen Carter of Merced; and two brothers, Judge Jay T. Norman of Cathey and Jas. Norman of Mountain View. Pall bearers included Frank Soares, Walter Robinson, Stanley Fiske, J. H. Ellingham, Herbert Merril and Cyril Walker. The services were conducted by Rev. J. M. Ligon of the Mt. Bullion Community Church, and a vocal solo by Barbara Tedrow was accompanied by Eleanor Ligon at the organ.

From Mariposa Gazette, August 5, 1954 by Steve Miller Last Rites Held for Tony Fournier Here Tuesday A large number of friends and relatives of Tony B. Fournier, 70, lifetime resident of Mt. Bullion and Mariposa, gathered at the Tiscornia-Ivers Funeral Home in Mariposa on Tuesday after- noon, to pay their last respects. Fournier died at the Fremont Hospital on Saturday, where he had been a pnemonia patient for about two weeks. He had been in ill health for several years. He was born May 10, 1884 at Mt. Bullion where he spent his early years. He engaged in mining until about 15 years age. Since that time he has ranched there, in Bootjack and Mariposa. Fournier was superintendent of the B & M Mine near Bridgeport for several years, and a Hunter's Valley mine for another period of years. During the time his children were in school he was active in school affairs and was trustee of the Mt. Bullion school for a time. Services were conducted by the Mariposa I. O. O. F. Lodge No. 39 of which he was a member for 47 years. He leaves his widow, Sadie, seven sons; Russel and Eugene of Mariposa, Milton and Ira of Mt. Bullion, Tony and Earl of Merced, George of San Mateo; two daughters: Mrs. Rebecca Jay of Mt. Bullion and Mrs. Jane Barnhill of Coarsegold; two sisters: Mrs. Sarah Gordon of Lincoln, Calif., and Mrs. Catherine Bruce of Hayward; also 32 grandchildren and three great grandchildren.

Transcribed from the Mariposa Gazette Sept. 22,1917 By Steve Miller William J. Fournier Called By Death The horrors of war was brought home to all Mariposans this week, when word was recived that William J. Founrier of Mt. Bullion, one of the first young men of the country to answer his country's call, had passed away at the U. S. Naval Training Station, Mare Island. Death came on Sunday the 16th, following an illness of about three weeks from an attack of measles and pnuemonia. Will Fournier was a native of Mariposa County and 24 years, 11 months and 15 days of age. For many years he followed the occupation of mining and with some degree of success. Honest and fair in all dealings with his fellow men he in all dealings with his fellow men he made many friends, all of whom will re- gret to hear of his untimely death. Surviving are his father, Antone Fournier of Mariposa, one brother, T. B. Fournier, and two sisters, Mrs Jay C. Bruce and Mrs. Sarah Kirby. The remains were brought to Mariposa Wednesday and laid to rest in the I. O. O. F. cemetery at 2 p. m. Service were held at the grave. To his sorrowing relatives the sympathy of the entire community is extended.

An obit for Thomas BICHARD is at William Disbro site: http://www.crosswinds.net/~genehunter/aug1900.htm The same fellow is listed in the Mariposa Great Register of 1872 http://www.cagenweb.com/mariposa/GR.htm 150 "Bichard, Thomas" 32 England Miner Princeton I'll watch out for the name as I research. Best, Carolyn midge DuBray wrote: > I am looking for information Thomas Bichard - birth,death,family,occupation. He was born in Guernsey about 1836. Any information would be appreciated. Thank you. > > ==== CAMARIPO Mailing List ==== > Thanks for sharing and helping each other!!