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/QY.2ADE/1004 Message Board Post: The California Civil War rosters are currently being transcribed and are over half completed. There are many listings for Yuba County residents included. The database is at: http://www.cagenweb.com/ccwr The index of names is linked from: http://www.cagenweb.com/yuba/nuggets.htm or at http://www.cagenweb.com/yuba/cw-alpha.htm The entire book will eventually be transcribed and online. If you would like to help transcribe records or have anything you would like to submit to the Yuba County site, please contact me! Thank you, Kathy kathysedler@hotmail.com

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/QY.2ADE/706.1 Message Board Post: Sherri, Did you ever get these photos? I now live in Sacramento,CA. about an hour drive from Yuba City & Marysville, but still go there every few months as I use to live there. I know where both the Hotel Marysville is and the Coopers mansion is in Yuba City. I will be going there in the next month and can take photos for you free if you like. Let me know if you are in no hurry for the photos and I would be more than willing to help another. Where do you live? Sincerely, Rebecca Garrlentini garrlentini1@aol.com

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: HOUGH Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/QY.2ADE/1003 Message Board Post: Does anyone know who was WILLIAM HOUGH indexed (but I can't see it) on the Yuba County, in Nevada City Census of 1850. Am interested in where he came from, his family, his descendants etc. Thanks Betty Clifton

I found your family man in a 1910 Marysville census. Please send me an e-mail address if you would like to see the gif. Thanks, Candi in California

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/QY.2ADE/392.403.1 Message Board Post: Hi: My name is Paul Gunning, I am from Sligo, Ireland. I have been contact with Sam and TomMcCay of California re Samuel Owen Gunning who -- all records indicate -- was the brother of my gggg-grandfather, Patrick Gunning. All my family male members worked on the Docks, were soliders, many were champion boxers and are great story-tellers. I am interested in the note regarding the visit of SO Gunning to Mr Heggerty (incidentally, Heraughty etc is a Sligo surname). The McCays of Red Bluff are travelling to Ireland and Sligo this July. I look forward to hearing from you. Best Wishes Paul Gunning

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/QY.2ADE/1001 Message Board Post: Hey there! I am searching for any history out there on Linda Elementary School's early beginning. I have worked there over 23 years, and am working with our PTA to put together a Historical DVD for our party. We will be throwing a HUGE birthday party, September 24, 2005. It is our 150th! I would love old pictures, too, if possible. Or know where we can get them. We have gathered some, but would love to have more. If you can help, please drop me a line. Thank you, Kim

Is there someone who could take a headstone photo for me? Peoria Cemetery, Marysville, Ca. Rovell Paul HUBBARD b. 1925 d. March 9, 1980 Thank you! Evelyn in Oregon

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: CREPS Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/QY.2ADE/117.262 Message Board Post: I am related to the Creps family and would like to exchange information. I have information relating to the spouse of Burton Creps, son of William Creps and Matilda Lofton.

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/QY.2ADE/999.1 Message Board Post: Hi John, I will be more than happy to lookup those obits for you next time I go in the library. To explain the discrepancies you sited, I am updating all of the death indexes first (more time intensive but more likely to be visited by researchers first), THEN the individual cemetery listings. Sorry for the confusion this may have caused you. I will update that section to reflect this. I'll be back in touch as soon as I do those lookups. Kathy Sedler Yuba Co. Coordinator - CaGenWeb

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Riddle, Younce Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/QY.2ADE/999 Message Board Post: I'm searching for information about Robert E. and Martha A. Younce, who according to the death notices posted on the CAGenWeb site for Yuba Co, died in Yuba Co on March 16, 1990 and January 4, 2002, respectively. According to the same index, both individuals are buried in Peoria Cemetery in Yuba Co, although they are not shown in the cemetery burial listing for Peoria Cemetery found elsewhere on the Yuba Co CAGenWeb website. I'm trying to confirm if Martha's maiden name was Riddle. I have reason to believe that she is the daughter of William H. and Pauline Riddle, who lived in Paradise, CA, at least during the period of the late 1950's and early 1960's. According to a newspaper account of William and Pauline's 50th wedding anniversary published in 1962, the hosts of their anniversary celebration included "Mr. and Mrs. Robert Younce of Marysville". Also referenced in this article is their grandson, Donald R. Younce, who was in the service in training at Lackland AFB in Texas at that time. Any information or look-up of the obituaries of this couple would be appreciated. John Reid P.O. Box 7164 Libertyville IL 60048

Paradise Genealogical Society April 8, 2004 Regular Meeting The Paradise Genealogical Society will hold their monthly meeting on Thursday, April 8th at 7:00 p.m. at the Paradise Ridge Senior Center, 877 Nunneley Rd., Paradise, CA. The speaker will be Ann Rutherford, Superior Court Judge (retired) speaking on "Finding and Reading Court Records and Which Courts Have What Types Of Documents." Judge Rutherford is always an excellent and interesting speaker. Everyone interested is welcome to attend. Please note the summer time change to 7:00 p.m. Refreshments will served. Contact Natalie Carlson 872-3795 for more information.

Greetings: The UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento was established at the old Sacramento County Hospital property in the 1970s. When the County sold the University the property no provision was made for the County Hospital Cemetery. During construction for an expansion project, contractors found human remains in the project zone. The body count has increased from 2 sets of remains to 28 sets of remains WITHIN THE PROJECT ZONE. The County Hospital Cemetery has been reported to have begun as 1 acre in 1877 and was expanded to 2 acres at a later date. Thirty graves have been reported to have been moved in the past, though neither the County nor UC Davis has the records of that relocation. UC Davis Medical Center has petitioned the Superior Court of Sacramento County to allow them to exhume and relocate the 28 bodies found during their subsequent archaeological review. The medical center claims to be the "cemetery authority" even though California cemetery law required the County of Sacramento to relocate the graves from the cemetery before the County had authority to sell the land. A hearing will be held on April 13 in Sacramento Superior Court. This is a true instance of Murphy's Law for this poor cemetery. What could go wrong, did go wrong. Now UC Davis is forced to bear the cost of the relocation which the County should have done before transferring the land. Now UC Davis only wants to address the 28 bodies in the project zone while ignoring the rest of the location of the cemetery and the untold remains that rest there. (Mostly under a parking lot and temporary modular buildings.) If you had ancestors that were buried in the Sacramento County Hospital Cemetery, I encourage you to contact me direct at ssilver1951@jps.net to learn more. This entire situation could have been avoided had the County of Sacramento complied with the law. Without doing so, they had no statutory authority to sell the land from the county's ownership. What happens when we violate the law? What happens when a County violates the law? Nothing unless someone sues them. If you have someone buried in the Sacramento County Hospital Cemetery located at X St. and 45th St., please contact. Thank you, Sue Silver, State Coordinator California Saving Graves

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: VAN ZEE, EDMONSON, HART Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/QY.2ADE/997 Message Board Post: Barbara Jean Van Zee Barbara Jean Van Zee died in Emmanuel Care Center, Yuba City Thursday, March 25, 2004, at age 69. Born Jan. 20, 1935, and a native of Woodland, Mrs. Van Zee had been a Yuba-Sutter area resident for 38 years. She worked for Marysville plumbing as retail clerk for three years. She was a member of St. Joseph's Church, Marysville. Survivors include her daughter, Lori Edmonson of Oakley; sons, Jerry and Stanley Van Zee, both of Woodland; sister, Beverly Hart of Modesto; six grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. The family requests memorials be directed to American Cancer Society, 618 5th St., Marysville, 95901. Arrangements are under the direction of Lipp & Sullivan of Marysville. Services: A chapel service is scheduled at 10 a.m. Wednesday, March 31, at Lipp and Sullivan Chapel, Marysville, with Rev. Robert Copsey of St. Joseph's Church of Marysville officiating. Burial will be at St. Joseph's Cemetery in Woodland. (Obituary from the Woodland "Daily Democrat," Tuesday, March 30, 2004, (Woodland, Yolo County, California). Submitted with the permission of the "The Daily Democrat," 711 Main St., Woodland, CA 95695. <http://www.dailydemocrat.com/> Please note: I am not related to the family listed above, and I do not have any further information on this family.)

Fosters Bar Township still exists but the town in under water. Rosemary

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/QY.2ADE/996.1 Message Board Post: This was answered within 24 hours. My thanks to Sharon for her reply and effort. "Hi, I found this information about Bell Valley in the "History of Yuba County" by Thompson that might help: BELL VALLEY This little valley lies on the line between Parks Bar and Foster Bar Township, where the Rice's Crossing road passes. It was named after Tom Bell, the noted highwayman, who used the valley as a retreat for stock and other booty. It was settled in 1854 by Arthur & Howard, at which time a trail led through the valley to Rice's Crossing. The road was made in 1859, and that year James Wood purchased the place and converted the house into a hotel. The valley now belongs to Peter Yore." "When I look on my California atlas, I can see that Rice's Crossing is on theYuba/Sierra County lines between the small towns of Bridgeport and French Coral. I don't see anything listed for a Bell Valley and can't spot it on the map. I don't believe that Park's Bar or Foster Bar exist any more. Sorry I couldn't help more." Thanks to all others who also replied. Denise

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bell, Simmons, Alford, Southard, Nasalroad, Dryer, Lindsey. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/QY.2ADE/996 Message Board Post: Found in an Livingston Co. MO Deed Book: "...Jas S. Bell and Margaret A. Bell , his wife, of Bell Valley in Yuba Co. Calif....sold to Joseph P. Martin of Sacramento, Suter Co. Calif. Oct. 27th 1853." James and Margaret are my 3rd Great Grandparents. Where is "Bell Valley"? Two of their sons were born in CA (one being my 2nd great grandfather) and by 1856 they are back in Livingston MO. Came out from Livingston Co. MO for the Gold Rush. A MO history book refers to James as "Buena Vista" Bell. Thanks for any help.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Cunningham Hines Martin Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/QY.2ADE/994.1 Message Board Post: Francis (Frank) Miles Cunningham and Lillie Hines had a daughters, Joy Ann (b. 1935) and Carlene (b. 1937) and a son, Francis (Frank) Walter (b. 1942). Francis Miles Cunningham was born at a place called Sheep's Ranch in Bishop, in Inyo County in 1890. His mother's name was Martha Martin Cunningham.

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/QY.2ADE/117.136.1 Message Board Post: Looking for parents of Mary Jane Creps who married Samual Lamer. Indiana County PA

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/QY.2ADE/995 Message Board Post: Can people please help rate my site of its info and its navigability. http://www.zarr.co.uk/go.asp?l=Lj93gMDxKh

Greetings: The Press Release at the end of this message was sent out this morning to media representatives in the Sacramento area. As president of the El Dorado County Pioneer Cemeteries Commission, I have attempted to keep a residential subdivision from impacting a small cemetery in Cameron Park. Efforts to this point have not been as fruitful as we would have hoped. Much as I have asked you to do in relation to other historic cemeteries with immediate problems, it would be helpful for others to let the County of El Dorado know they are watching this situation. Please contact the District 1 Supervisor Rusty Dupray at bosone@co.el-dorado.ca.us or call him at (530) 621-5650. Please cut and paste the following message and send it to Supervisor upray - Honorable Rusty Dupray, District 1 Supervisor County of El Dorado 630 Fair Lane Placerville, CA 95667 Re: Skinner Burying Ground, Cameron Park Dear Supervisor Dupray: I learned that a residential subdivision is threatening to engulf the historic Skinner family cemetery near the intersection of Green Valley Road and Cameron Park Drive. Too many of California's historic cemeteries are being impacted by development projects these days with no regard at all to the pioneers buried within them. I hope you will help to ensure that this cemetery is not adversely impacted by the effects of the Cameron Glen Estates project. Please help to protect and preserve it in a way that it will remain visible from Green Valley Road as it has for over 136 years. Sincerely, [Your name, address, email address and phone number.] [End of message text.] Thanks so much for lending a hand! Sue Silver State Coordinator, CALIFORNIA SAVING GRAVES President, El Dorado County Pioneer Cemeteries Commission PRESS RELEASE FOLLOWS: No Rest for the Dead in El Dorado County James Skinner could never have imagined that 136 years after burying his son John, a struggle would become necessary to protect the resting place of his family. He could never have known that in the county he once helped settle there is no rest for the dead. Now a group of El Dorado County residents is endeavoring to protect and preserve this small historic cemetery in Cameron Park. In the past this area was known as Green Valley. Just north of the cemetery is Green Valley Road that was first known as the Sacramento and Coloma Road in the 1850s. It was the earliest route to and from the newly discovered California gold fields. Pioneer James Skinner owned his ranch and winery in Green Valley from 1856 until his death in 1885, when he was buried beside his son John in the little cemetery on the hill overlooking his home. The boy had tragically died in a hunting accident in 1868. Skinner's wife Jessie was laid to rest in the ranch burial ground in 1898, and Skinner's lifelong friend David Reid, who had emigrated with the family from Scotland in 1840, was interred there on his death in 1899. The bachelor sons of the family, Alexander and William were also buried here. James Skinner's children sold the ranch in 1898. Together with the cemetery, they excepted and reserved to themselves and their heirs, an easement running 200 feet to the Green Valley Road. They also reserved the right to use the easement "at all times" for the purposes of caring for the cemetery and "interring other bodies therein." The James Skinner family has not rested in peace for many years now. Since the 1970s,, development in the vicinity of the old ranch and cemetery has been extensive. Every residential or commercial project approved for construction near or adjacent to the cemetery has caused vandalism and desecration to occur. In the late 1980s, a shopping center was constructed on one of its boundaries, cutting the hill to a depth of 12 to 15 feet on the east side of the cemetery. The gravestones have been continuously vandalized or stolen ever since. Now only the stones for James and Jessie Skinner and David Reid survive. A white picket fence that was required of the shopping center developer by the County has been torn apart and put together at least twice since the mid-1990s. Now Cameron Glen Estates, a residential subdivision on the southern, western and northern boundaries of the cemetery, threatens to completely engulf it. When the project first began in 1990, the County of El Dorado told the developer that the board of supervisors was the legal authority for the cemetery. This contention was made even though Elva Joerger Ryan, James Skinner's great-granddaughter, was paying property taxes on it, as she had since 1967. Project plans for Cameron Glen Estates will substitute an arbitrary access route to the cemetery created by a 1967-subdivision map. Although the 1967 map did not identify the Skinner deed which established the family' s rights, neither did the 1990 Cameron Glen subdivision map. Some believe the developer ignored the controlling deed in order to deliberately and unlawfully extinguish the true easement. If plans for Phase 5 of this project are approved, two houses will be constructed on the north side of the cemetery and will interfere with the family's easement described in 1898. Elva Ryan's family was never notified of this project or the shopping center development because the County had maintained it was authority over it. The family did not learn of the problems that the cemetery was suffering until late-2000 when members of the El Dorado County Pioneer Cemeteries Commission (EDCPCC) contacted them. The group has since worked with James Skinner's great great granddaughter, Jeanne Ryan Jackson of San Francisco, who continues paying the property taxes on the family burial ground. Mrs. Jackson has asked the EDCPCC to work on behalf of the Skinner family cemetery. She hopes the group will help ensure it will be protected and preserved as the children of James Skinner intended it would be. The Commission has advised county project planner Rogers Evans of the easement dispute. Evans has been asked to withhold all further approvals affecting the cemetery pending a land survey to locate the original easement. Until this issue is resolved, the James Skinner family will not rest in peace. [END TEXT]