(not responsible for errors and/or typos) SISKIYOU PICNIC AT OAKLAND ATTENDED BY SCOTT VALLEY PEOPLE (Western Sentinel 14 May 1931) (I've capitalized the surnames) The 12th annual picnic of the Siskiyou-Modoc-Lassen Society was held at Oakland in Mosswood Park on Sunday, May 10th. The weather was everything that could be desired and the attendance was estimated at about one thousand. A considerable number held old fashioned picnic lunches under the trees. The attendance extended not only from the home counties (many having taken advantage of the very low railroad rates) and even into the San Joaquin and coast counties. The former Mrs. A. B. THOMPSON, of Yreka, led the community singing, and Mrs. Pearl COLLAR presided at the piano. Mrs. THOMPSON's little boy and husband provided some tap drum and trumpet music and Ed STEELE brought along his silver-toned banjo. An examination of the pioneer's book showed some of the following who were former residents of Western Siskiyou. Mrs. PERRIAM, Mrs. Margaret IRVING, formerly the BEGLAM girls from Indian Creek, whose father and mother came around Cape Horn in 1858 to Siskiyou County; Joseph S. WALKER and his sister Pearl and husband, the WALKER's are descendents of "Uncle Billy WALKER" who arrived in Scott Valley in 1866 in a covered wagon from Missouri; Frank W. HOOPER whose father came to Bidwell's Bar in 1850 and whose grandfather preceded him in 1849 and whose mother came to Scott Valley in 1859 by the Panama route; Abe LEOPOLD and Jonas BAR, whose father came around the Horn in 1850 and who first settled in Siskiyou County at the little town of Oro Fino; O. R. BIGELOW, who was born at Sawyers Bar and whose father came by ox team in 1854; C. H. VANDECAR and wife at Fort Jones, whose father and mother came by way of the Isthmus to Forest City, Sierra County in 1859. A number of the LIN! DSAY family consisting of J. N. LINDSAY and wife, Mrs. MARGARET J. MANNING and Mrs. Frank SWEET, Mrs. L. W. MILLER, all former residents of Oro Fino, and whose parents were covered wagon people of 1850; Gilbert PELLETRUM, a former resident of western Siskiyou, whose father came in 1718 (sic) by ape Horn to San Francisco; Mr. and Mrs. Henry FRIED. Mrs. FRIED being before her marriage, Miss Anne W. WHEELER, whose mother came in 1860 by Panama, and whose grandfather, formerly well known of Fort Jones, J. W. WOERSTER, was another Cape Horn sailor in 1849 settling first in Quart Valley; Anna Lincoln FRARY, who went to school at McAdams Creek and whose father and mother arrived in the overland stage in Placer County on the very day that the citizens of a certain town were going to name it. As Mrs. LINCOLN alighted from the coach, she was asked her name and replied, "Lincoln" and so the town of Lincoln in Placer County was named for her. Her sister, Mrs. Elsie STEPHENS, and brot! her, Leslie, were also present; C. H. JORDAN, an uncle of Judge Chas J. LUTTRELL, and whose father came to Scott Valley in 1857 and his mother in 1864 from Maine. Mrs. Jessie ROOT BOONE, whose father came to Scott Valley in 1850 and her mother in 1859. Her father had the distinction of making the first thrashing machine in California at a shop formerly located at what is now 15th and J Streets, Sacramento, and which machine was used for first thrashing grain in California. Mrs. P. J. THRALL, whose father came in 1851 by Panama and whose mother came in 1852 by ox team and settled in Fort Jones; Scott HOWARD and wife, their daughters and sons-in-law, Scott's father came to Sacramento in 1849 and went to Siskiyou County with his family in 1853. Scott has the distinction of having been the first white child born in Quartz Valley. The late James PARKER and James DAVIDSON also deceased, were all born in Scott Valley about the same time; Joseph TRAVALLI now of Oakdale and his s! ister Dolly TRAVALLI O'NEAL and whose people settled at Fort Jones in the early '50's; Mr. and Mrs. Frank SHARP of Scott Valley, whose parents were early settlers; Misses Millie and Augusta TUTTLE, whose father came around the Horn in '49 and mother in '60 by the Panama route, and who settled in Scott Valley in 1863; Miss Elizabeth DAGGETT and Miss Ada HORTON FITCHET, kinspeople of the former Lieutenant Governor, John A. DAGGETT, the former owner of the famous Black Bear Mine, and whose parents came overland to Siskiyou County in 1869; Louis P. KAPPLER, whose father and mother came in 1859 by the Panama route to Scott Valley; John A. FALKELSTEIN, a former Scott Bar boy, whose father came in 1849 and of Mantica; Mr. and Mrs. JAY, mother in 1851; Mrs. Anna CALLOWAY, Dunsmuir, and Mrs. John MUIR, husband and daughter of Oakland. Their father was Joseph SHORT, who was a miner at Deadwood in the early '50's when that camp aspired to be the county seat of Siskiyou County. Their ! mother Ella HOOPER, came with her mother to Hooperville in 1859. Mrs. Kate MEAMBER and one daughter, now residing in Oakland. Her father and mother were pioneers at Hooperville during the first quartz excitement about 1857. Among others present were: Mr. and Mrs. James LUDDY of Mantica; Mr. and Mrs. Jay WOODFILL of Sawyers Bar; Robert W. BEEM, Mrs. F. J. MATHEWS, Brice MATHEWS, Arnold NUTTING, Mabel and Ruth HICKEY, Russell SKILLEN, Clay JOHNSON, Margaret SMITH, Manuel PEREIRA, Donald PARKER, Grace PARKS, Phoebe PARKER, Mrs. L. M. LORD formerly Miss Doll of French Creek; Miss Etta WALKER now of Santa Rosa; Della NOBLES, formerly Della BROWN of Indian Creek; Dr. Wirt ELLER and wife of Oakland. ****************************** Joanne A. Smith Mello jomello@hitechnetworks.net