Note: Hamlen operated the Buffalo Meadows Toll Road between Smoke Creek and Surprise Valley. Plumas National Bulletin, Quincy, California - 10 June 1915 1;6 E.H. Hamlen Sr., a pioneer resident of Sierra Valley, died Saturday, May 29th, at his home in Sierra Valley at the advanced age of 79 years. Deceased was a native of Kennebec County, Maine, where he was born January 16, 1836. He came to California in 1857, and for two years engaged in mining and lumbering at Alleghany, Sierra County. He then went to Sierra Valley where he engaged in ranching until 1875. Going to Nevada, he conducted a toll road until 1881, when he returned to farm in Sierra Valley. Deceased was united in marriage October 9, 1865 to Mrs. Hattie E. Heselton of Stratham, New Hampshire. To this union three children were born: Calvin M. Rose E. and Edmund H. Hamlen.