This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Burnes Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.california.counties.sierra/333.3/mb.ashx Message Board Post: The California State Library, California History Section at 900 N Street in Sacramento has a great newspaper collection as well. It includes the Mountain Messenger. You really need a date or time period to search the newspaper. It will be a time-consuming search otherwise. These old newspapers often contain lots of good information. Don't neglect the two major Sacramento newspapers as well (the Bee and the Union). They would very likely carry an article on a murder committed in Sierra county. Chuck Knuthson Sierra County GenWeb

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Lewis, France, Keenan, Livermore, Modgelin, O'Rourke, Reid, Fitzgerald, Marvin Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.california.counties.sierra/204.10/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I hope I am not too late, just saw your query on the Rutishauser Letters. I would like copies of the letters that mention France, Lewis, Keenan, Livermore, Modgelin, ORourke, Reid, and two that aren't listed Fitzgerald and Marvin if you have anything on them. Thank you Glenda Please send answer to my addy [email protected]

Thanks for the information. Larinda -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2006 9:46 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [CASIERRA] charles burnes, a miner,robbed and killed on a bridge outside town - Sierra County, CA This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/EY.2ADE/333.2 Message Board Post: If you live anywhere near Berkeley, California, you can find back issues of the Downieville Mountain Messenger...Calif's oldest weekly (still going strong) from the 1850s on. ...at the Doe Library on the UC Berkeley campus. Go to the periodical section and just ask for help. If you know the approximate date you can scroll thru the appropriate microfilm roll. It takes less time then you think. Good luck. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.california.counties.sierra/338.2.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Thanks Emmitt

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.california.counties.sierra/338.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I was in Downieville during summer of 2005. Wonderful little town. I saw two hotels, there may be one other. They are all small. On main street there is one just east of the Hwy 49 (Commerce St) bridge. Highway 49 enters town on the west side as "Main" street. But when the highway turns south and crosses the river, the highway becomes "Commerce" street. Main street continues east as it heads along side of the river. The hotel on Main street was larger and has a restarant / bar on the first floor. The hotel on the south side of the river bridge is less developed. It might not have been a hotel in 1885. I am not a historian of this area, but thought that this might help you sort out your answer.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bavouzet, Bavouset, Ramm Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.california.counties.sierra/299.2.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Jim, I was sent a letter by the Camptonville Historical Society that was written by Erma Cassano entitled "Camptonville Recollections." It mentioned my Bavouzet relatives and some of the Ramm family. I have received some information from the state of California archives (obits, newspaper copy, etc) plus in summer of 2005 I went to Camptonville and Marysville and dig some research as well. If you are not familiar with the story from Erma, let me know and I will send it to you. It is 11 pages typed in Microsoft Word format...or I can put it in almost any other format you need. If you are familiar with the document, and are aware of other information, please send it on to me. I would love to know more about the "Star of the Sea" church in San Francisco where Mon. Charles Ramm officiated. I have been near it but didn't get to see it. I would like to visit the cemetery there as some cousins are buried in it. If you wish you can email me directly. If you click on my name in the message board, it will show you my email address. If you happen to know any of the surviving Ramm family members I would love to contact them. Thanks for writing, Rex

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EY.2ADE/299.2 Message Board Post: My Grandfather, G. B. Cassano was a farmer in Oak Valley and a neighbor of the Ramms. Have you found out any more? I have some tales and info for you. One of the Ramms, Father Charles Ramm married my parents at the Cathedral in San Francisco.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EY.2ADE/304.2 Message Board Post: I grew up with Neal and Ruth. Neal died some years ago. His wife is still in Downieville. The last I heard of Ruth I believe she was in Portland Oregon. Neal had a son Terry. He may be in D'Ville yet.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: LAWRENCE Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EY.2ADE/338.1 Message Board Post: Have you tried to contact the Downieville Museum? Website indicates it's located in former Chinese establisment. There doesn't appear anything in the way of specific data on line, but they may have some materials like old maps that could be of help. Good luck Vern D

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: LOWE, LOW Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EY.2ADE/340.2 Message Board Post: Tried search for LOWE in Sierra county 1860 in Heritage Quest and got nada. However did find a LOW which seems to fit your other parameters (first names). Heritage Quest microfiche pretty good and location you're looking for is Whiskey Diggings Township #8. Post Office on same census page is Gibsonville. If typical, suspect this is a more pinpoint location than the township. You can find it at Topozone URL: <http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=39.7403&lon=-120.908&datum=nad27&u=4&layer=DRG&size=l&s=50> As you've probably already found out, Goggle usually comes up with a location in Plumas county for Whiskey Diggings. Vern D

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EY.2ADE/340.1 Message Board Post: There's a Whiskey Diggins canal listed in Topozone. URL is <http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=38.9633&lon=-121.183&datum=nad27&u=4&layer=DRG&size=l&s=50> You may have to play with map some to figure out its relationship to more well known locations. Grid location is also provided. Vern D

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Campbell, Hale Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EY.2ADE/151.1.1 Message Board Post: I can't access the family bible page, but I do have some information about Hattie Hale Campbell, that I got from the Nevada Historical Society: When George Hale came west, Harriet was left with foster parents. At age 19 she joined father. She became a school teacher and was one of the first teachers at Rocky Point School, on the west side of Sierra Valley. She met and married Frank H. Campbell

Oooppssss. I cut and pasted the wrong book title. The reference came from this Gudde book: _California Gold Camps: A Geographical and Historical Dictionary of Camps, Towns, and Localities Where Gold Was Found and Mined; Wayside Stations and Trading Centers_ (Berkeley/Los Angeles/London: University of California Press, 1975). Chuck Chuck Knuthson California Ancestry Research <http://californiaancestry.com> Member, Association of Professional Genealogists <http://apgen.org> 2007 FGS/ACPL Conference 15-18 August 2007 in Fort Wayne, Indiana Local Host: Allen County Public Library <http://www.acpl.lib.in.us> Visit our web site at <http://fgs.org>

Mike, In Erwin G. Gudde’s book, _California Place Names: The Origin and Etymology of Current Geographical Names_ (Berkeley/Los Angeles/London: University of California Press, 1940; Fourth edition by William Bright, 1998), was found the following reference: “Whiskey Diggings [Sierra]. On Little Slate Creek, near the Plumas County line. Shown as Whiskey on Trask's map, 1853. The camp is mentioned by John Clark in "The California Guide," September 3, 1852. The _Alta_, February 24, 1854 reprints an item from the Gibsonville _Trumpet_ which reports that a greenhorn picked up a nugget of twenty-seven ounces on his first day of mining. There was prosperous tunnel work in progress when Vischer (p. 240) visited the place in 1859. One of the diggings averaged 700 dollars weekly in the winter of 1861 and 1862 (_Mining Press_, March 16, 1861; July 16, 1862). The camp was also known as Whiskey and Newark (Bancroft Scraps, V, p. 1782). The place is still mentioned as a part of the Gibsonville district in 1918 (_Mining Bureau_, XVI, Sierra, p. 11)." [Gudde, p. 368-369.] The Sierra County Clerk-Recorder's office at the courthouse in Downieville (the county seat) has many vital records (birth, marriage, death) dating from the county's formation in 1852. These early records are not complete but are worth a look. They may provide some family information. (California did not begin statewide recording of vital records until July 1905.) I hope this helps. Chuck Knuthson Sierra County, CA GenWeb Chuck Knuthson California Ancestry Research <http://californiaancestry.com> Member, Association of Professional Genealogists <http://apgen.org> 2007 FGS/ACPL Conference 15-18 August 2007 in Fort Wayne, Indiana Local Host: Allen County Public Library <http://www.acpl.lib.in.us> Visit our web site at <http://fgs.org>

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Lowe, Gilson, Brady Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EY.2ADE/340 Message Board Post: Where was Whiskey Diggings located? The 1860 US census for Sierra County, CA, Roll 66 Book 1, Page 850 is listed as Whiskey Diggings ____________ . The last word of this location I can't read on the census image. I also don't find the place on any current Sierra county maps. Ancestors Byron Lowe, Rebecca (spouse), son Warren Brady and others are second household on this page. Seeking info on these people, as well. Thanks, Mike

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EY.2ADE/329.1 Message Board Post: Greenville Bulletin Plumas county newspaper "DIED Kelley-At Tule Dist Honey Lake Valley April 28(?) 1884 Mary Ann wife of J.D. Kelley 53 yr." Not sure if related. Also not sure about the numerals as the microfilm was difficult to read.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EY.2ADE/339 Message Board Post: I am looking for any information on a stagecoach stop/inn located near pike city, sierra county, california in the late 1800's. It was called our house and is listed in the Sierra County Place Names. The Harris family owned the inn around the 1870's and had 9 children that were born there but I cannot find out who owned it after them or whatever happened to it. My parents own the property now and I would like to find any information, stories, or pictures of Our House. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/EY.2ADE/291.1 Message Board Post: Hi Sandy, thanks for replying,my Thmas was born in Bruton,Uk,one day I will find him. Lindsay

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: MARMON Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EY.2ADE/142.147 Message Board Post: I'd like to add my inquiry about an early miner at Goodyear's Bar: Alfred Marmon. Marmon was born in Logan County, Ohio in 1824 to an Orthodox Quaker family; moved to Cass County, Michigan in 1829; was disowned by the Birch Lake Monthly Meeting in 1849 for deviating from plain speech & dress and for nonattendance; left for California in 1852 and traveled overland, passing through Kanesville, Iowa in May 1852. Listed on the federal census 1860: Goodyears Bar, miner 1870: Lincoln, miner 1880: Goodyears Bar, deputy county assessor Moved to Sacramento in mid-1880s, worked as a janitor in a church. Died and buried in Sacramento in 1901. Would like to learn more about his years in Sierra County. Debian

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/EY.2ADE/333.2 Message Board Post: If you live anywhere near Berkeley, California, you can find back issues of the Downieville Mountain Messenger...Calif's oldest weekly (still going strong) from the 1850s on. ...at the Doe Library on the UC Berkeley campus. Go to the periodical section and just ask for help. If you know the approximate date you can scroll thru the appropriate microfilm roll. It takes less time then you think. Good luck.