hello still looking for the wife of James Vestal born about 1757 any info is appreciated Patricia Perkins at caviness@abts.net ---------- > From: crystalwoman <crystalwoman@in-tch.com> > To: VESTAL-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [VESTAL-L] Wm A Vestal > Date: Friday, February 12, 1999 7:26 PM > > Hi cousin-Your cousin Harold Paul RAYNER, b. 16 Jan, 1945, Phoenix, AZ is gr > grandson to Martha(Mattie) Frances VESTAL, b.ca. 1873,(we need her > birthdate)Shasta Co., CA. Do you know if she too was born in Pleasant > Grove, or was it Pittville? We know she d. 29 Dec, 1930, Sanger, Fresno > Co., CA > Mattie m. John(Jack)Samuel SYKES and they had Geneva(Nieva)Iola SYKES who m. > Frank Edward RAYNER SR and they had Frank Edward RAYNER Jr, who is 73, and > lives in Big Bend, Shasta Co,CA, on part of his original homestead there, > and he is Harold's dad. Harold and I live in rural MT and have a small > ranch and raise beef cows and hay and our own vegetables. > I have a photocopy of THE VESTALS OF FALL RIVER VALLEY by Frances A. > Gassaway, from Shasta Co. Library, and some other copies of the lineage and > story of VESTAL's. The data enables us to go back on my husband's direct > line back to Eng, with some holes in the lineages. > I wondered if you had found anymore data out on the trip William A. VESTAL > made on the covered wagon train in 9 Oct, 1851, and the story of the rest of > the family coming in 1852 in oxen train to Yuba City CA. We are most > interested in their trek west on the wagon train, and the oxen train..... > Great hearing from you, and what wonderful news about descendants still > farming in Pleasant Grove. > Happy Trails, J > Also, visit my personal home pages on spirituality and genealogy: > http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Crete/3718/ > -----Original Message----- > From: Paul & Marianne Kepler <pmkepler@jps.net> > To: VESTAL-L@rootsweb.com <VESTAL-L@rootsweb.com> > Date: Friday, February 12, 1999 4:36 PM > Subject: [VESTAL-L] Wm A Vestal > > > >Hi Crystalwoman! We're Cousins! > >Your Vestals came to Sutter County, California, not Yuba County, in a > >farming community called Plesant Grove. Our family still farms our ranch > >there. I am descended from William's sister, Amy, who married John Mahon > >Algeo. And we are in very close contact with some of Wm's sister's Mary's, > >descendants, the James family. The James' still farm in Plesant Grove also. > > > >Do you know about the family history "The Algeo-Vestal Story, A Pioneer > >Herritage" written by Oba Algeo? > > > >Let me know what information you may be looking for, and I will be glad to > >see if I can help. Marianne > >........................................................................... > . > >..... > >Paul and Marianne Kepler > >15913 Mountain View Dr. > >Nevada City, CA 95959 > > > >530-265-3666 > > > > > >==== VESTAL Mailing List ==== > >Please Help Support Rootsweb! By becoming a member, your donation will > continue to have this great surname e-mail list, and the new surname boards > on a website at Rootsweb! Your donations are the only thing that keep them > going! Just go to: http://www.rootsweb.com/ > >Please Help Support Rootsweb! By becoming a member, your donation will > continue to have this great surname e-mail list, and the new surname boards > on a website at Rootsweb! Your donations are the only thing that keep them > going! Just go to: http://www.rootsweb.com/ > > > > > ==== VESTAL Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe, put unsubscribe in 1st line of body & subject, turn > automatic signatures off, & sent to: VESTAL-L-request@rootsweb.com for > reg. mail, and to VESTAL-D-request@rootsweb.com for digest mode.