Hi, This is part of Trinity Co., CA taken from the 1885 county directory. Sorry but I have no additional information on these. Only thing is says for sure is if your Ancestor was here in 1885. If there is no occupation it is because none was listed. Janie http://www.freeyellow.com/members6/famos/cemetery.html my latest card whose job is it? http://www.rosescafe.net/cards/whosejob.html BIG BAR A post office and mining camp in the northwesternpart of the county, on the Trinity River, and distant from Weaverville about thirty miles, from which place it receives its supplies. Bush, Andrew J. - 40 acres Gibson, G. R. - superintendent of Trinity Hydraulic Mining Co. 167 acres Treat, Orrin - farmer/stockraiser 40 acres Underwood, T. M. - school teacher Wadleigh, M. N. Miss - school teacher Waldorff, Jacob - farmer Wallace, J. C. - miner 40 acres CANON CITY (See Weaverville) COX BAR (See Weaverville) DOUGLASS CITY A flourishing mining camp, lying about six miles south of Weaverville, at the point where the wagon road from Weaverville to Hay Fork crosses the Trinity River. It is the center of a considerable mining section. A little farming is also done in the neighborhood. There is a post office, general store, hotel and blacksmith shop located here. Anderson, Lars - miner Bargas, Marcalino - miner Bath, James - miner Butts, Joshua - miner Clements, William - farmer 190 acres Clement, Wm. H. - laborer Collins, Richard - miner Coumbs, John - farmer 80 acres Coumbs, Thomas - farmer Cruthis, Jesse D. - miner Daris, Parry O. - miner Davidson, Jessie Miss - school teacher Dixon, Charles - miner Eddy, William - miner Eliasen, Peter G. - miner Enos, Joseph - miner Estes, Wm. C. - miner Fonseca, John J. - miner Fraetas, John E. - miner Frazee, Joseph M. - trapper/hunter Gardiner, Nathaniel - miner Gibson, Robert K. - farmer Gibson & Robinson - farmers 320 acres Grant, James A. - miner Grant, Manuel - miner 10 acres Guptill, Bartlett S. - farmer Hennessey, Timothy - miner Hoskin, Benjamin - miner Hubbard, John A. - miner Hurst & Allison - miners 40 acres Hurst, John - miner Ingram, Augustus - miner Ingram, Walker - miner Johnson, Henry S. - miner Johnston, James A. - miner 65 acres Jordan, Humphrey G. - farmer Joseph, Michael - farmer 40 acres Leonard, Henry W. - hotel & saloon Lobdell, Orrin - miner Mabie, Hiram - farmer Machado, John F. - miner Machado, Manuel S. - miner Maloney, Thomas - miner Marsh, Frank - miner Marshall, A. H. - assessor, farmer 58 acres Mason & Thayer - gen mdse Mason, John C. - Mason & Thayer McIntyre, Archibald - farmer 60 acres McKenzie, David - miner McWilliams, John - miner Mendoza, Innocencia J. - farmer 10 acres Middleton, Samuel - farmer Monahan, Daniel - laborer Moss & Mabie - farmers 60 acres Nieman, John - farmer 50 acres Noyes, Laren A. - farmer 40 acres O'Connell, Charles - miner O'Connell, David J. - miner O'Keefe, Martin - miner 50 acres Prader, M. - 10 acres Preira, Manuel - miner Quarte, Francisco - miner Quarte, Manuel R. - miner Rogers, Antone - miner Siegfried, John B. Silcox, Richard - miner Silver, Frank - laborer Smith, A. W. - miner 40 acres Smith, David D. - laborer Smith, John H. - stockraiser 160 acres Smith, John W. - farmer Smith, Michael D. - miner 160 acres Swift, Edward D. - miner Thayer, S. I. - Mason & Thayer Tourot, Charles D. - miner Turman, John A. J. - farmer Vitzhum, George - farmer 219 acres Ward, Harry - miner Weaver, W. J. - blacksmith 160 acres Williams, Antone - laborer Williams, Manuel - stockraiser GEORGES (See Weaverville) HAY FORK This post office town, situated on Hay Fork - a branch of the south fork of the Trinity - is the center of the principal agricultural section of the county, although even here the quantity of good farming land is limited. The chief products are hay and wheat, which find a ready market in Weaverville. Some mining is also carried on in the neighborhood. The town has two general stores, a hotel, and the usual adjuncts of a mining and farming town. The population of the town and tributary country is about two hundred. Barker, David E. V. - farmer 400 acres Barnes, George W. - miner Bayles, Adam D. - postmaster, flour mill, stockraiser 160 acres Bush, George W. - farmer 10 acres Carter, John W. - hotel & saloon 300 acres Conlin, John - stockraiser DeLong, George S. - farmer 160 acres Detrick, Daniel C. - miner Drinkwater, W. C. - farmer 320 acres Duncan, Alfred B. - farmer 240 acres Farmer, William Ferinheough, William - farmer/stockraiser 40 acres Francis, Timothy M. - farmer Gardiner, James - laborer George, Beriah M. - farmer 320 acres Grigsby, Lafayette - farmer 160 acres Grigsby, Wm. J. - farmer 120 acres Hailstone, John T. - farmer 280 acres Hampton, James M. - stockraiser Hoyt, Jonathan S. - miner, farmer 180 acres James, Walter W. - blacksmith Kellogg, Langdon J. - hotel, saloon, 260 acres Kerlin, Samuel - farmer 160 acres Kester Bros. - miners Kester, John A. - Kester Bros. Kester, Josephus - Kester Bros. Kingsbury, Henry D. - farmer 160 acres Knowles, Henry - farmer 320 acres Maynard, Charles - farmer 160 acres McKay, Zack - stockraiser 280 acres Newman, Edward - farmer Olsen, James P. - farmer 280 acres Postmaster - Adam D. Bayles Rourke, Dennis - farmer 320 acres Sanborn, John - farmer 80 acres Scott, James M. - farmer, miner Shock, Thomas M. - laborer Stafford, Henry F. Stafford, James A. - merchant 100 acres Stoppel, Antone - farmer 40 acres Trimble, John W. - farmer Vanderhoff, John H. - J. H.Vanderhoff & Co Vanderhoff, J. H. & Co. - merchants 120 acres (Young) Vaughn, Willis H. - farmer Vodges, Jacob R. - miner Walters, Henry A. - farmer 320 acres Wells, Richard B. - stockraiser 160 acres Williams, Moses - stockraiser 160 acres Wines, Nicholas C. - farmer 440 acres Young, Mary E. - Vanderhoff, J. H. & Co. Young, W. W. - assistant postmaster Zook, Samuel - miner HETTENCHOW Post Office, Blocksburg, Humboldt, Co. Burgess, Edward F. - miner Duncan, Mary F. - stockraiser 520 acres Smith, Benjamin K. - miner Wilburn, Edward - stockraiser 80 acres Wilburn, Hiram D. - stockraiser 240 acres Wilburn, James S. - stockraiser 400 acres Wilburn, James S. Jr. - stockraiser 160 acres HOBOKEN (See Weaverville) HYAMPOM (See Hay Fork) INDIAN CREEK (See Weaverville