Aunt Emma Writing 1892
Wed. January 6, 1892
Mr. Crow, Will Ingram and Brad after coyotes the dogs haven't gotten back
yet. The dogs got away from them. I ironed , cut up and salted some beef.
I finished moving the woodpile, cleaned up around. Thane and Will over, and
spent the evening. Mr. Mays and Myra down this evening they have arrived at
Brad's today from L.E. A. Crows. Mr. Crow got a tag from the bank for
$95.00 he got from Mr. Jamison. Mr. Crow got Fanny and her colt up to wean
the colt. I took them to water today and they got away from me and broke
the fence down.
Jan. 7, 1892
This forenoon foggy, this afternoon the sun shone out dimly. Mr. Crow
caught up and mated a young jack and a stallion colt. I brewed coffee and
baked a cake. Thane and I went to the station after flour. Mr. Mays down
this evening. I called to see Mrs. Mays she is looking very well much
larger and fleshier then she used to be.
Friday Jan. 8, 1892
Mr. Crow up to the ranch to see Bennie. Cut and sawed wood this afternoon.
He went up to Brad' and spent the evening. i baked some pies, picked a
goose, and took it over to Thane. Mister Cleary down to see me his family
they are all sick and wanted to know what to do for them. He didn't want to
give them de medicine. They have the grippe. Cash and c are at Brads
tonight, came up to attend a meeting of the Modesto Bank.
January 9, 1892
Mr. Crow been charging around. Been poisoning gophers this afternoon. I
made yeast, baked cookies, Thane and Myra Mays here this afternoon. Frank
came down this morning, filled the gun shells for Mr. Crow. Mr. Crow got a
letter from Mr. Gruble of Snelling about renting his land near Snelling. He
will deliver the grain at the mill instead of the railhead.
Sunday January 10, 1892
Mr. Crow wrote a letter to Mr. Gruble and took it to the P.O. Skinned two
coons, him and Will Ingram, went down in the bottoms, with the dogs caught
last night. I have been reading the most of the day. Frank down the
morning. Will, Thane and Arthur Crow down and spent the evening.
Jan. 11, 1892
Cold and clear , a cold north wind this afternooon. Mr. Crow off a
hunting with the dogs today. I washed , mopped, mended, moved a pile of
lumber, cut up two coons for the chickens. Thane and I went out to the
station this afternoon. I took my clothes to wash, and to get a sack of
graham flour. Thane did some shopping. Mr. and Mrs. Mays stopped on their
way to the river after water for Mrs. Mays to wash with.
Jan. 13, 1892
Cold and foggy all day, the sun shone out a little while this evening. Mr.
Crow went up to the ranch after a plow and took Ida up a pumpkin, some beets
and carrots, canned fruit and preserves. This evening he was out in long
race with the dogs after a coyote. Haven't been doing much today, but
visiting with Nellie and Callie Rose. I have had a lame back from my work.
I went over to Thanes and took her a letter. I went up to Brads tonight to
see if they knew where Mr. Crow was when he was after the coyote after dark.
Mollie Crow went up to Ida Crows today. Mr. Sam Moorehead and Mr. Chris
Krough here today to see Mr. Crow about planting his land.
January 20, 1892
A frost this morning, warm and pleasant today. Mr. crow charging around
this forenoon. this afternoon he and I went to John Stewarts to see Pike
and May is sick. They both seemed glad to see us. I cleaned up the yard
where I moved the lumber from and burned the trash. When we got home we
found a man here. Mr. Lassil after Mr. Cassars jeanettes I got a letter
from Wiley and Edith and a check for $13.25 for eggs I sent them. Mr. Crow
and Henery got back about 12 o'clock last night. they caught two fat coons.
I cut one of them up today. Brad down and spent the evening. His
men are
working on the dam. Thane has been over after east. They are going to move
to the Graford place tomorrow.
January 21, 1892
Mr. Crow done the chores. I got a good chicken dinner and had a good time
visiting with the kinfolk. Pike Crow and wife, Nellie Stewart and Margaret,
Mary and George Crow were here for dinner and spent the day. Susie and
Bennie here part of the day, and Brad here this afternoon. We all enjoyed
ourselves. Seemed like old times to be together.
Mr. Lassil here last night. left this morning to take Mr. Cassons jeanette
home. We go a letter from Hannah Isom saying they will be in Modesto
Saturday. Mr. Crow will go to meet them. Mr. Crow and I expect to go out to
Mr. Baily's tomorrow to see old Mrs. Hale. I knew here when I was a girl.
Will and Thane Ingram moved out to the plains today. (Ingram Creek north of
Patterson?) I went over to say goodbye. I hated to see her go.
Friday January 22, 1892
Cold this morning, but warm and pleasant throughout the day. Mr. Crow and
I went out to Charlie Hale's and spent the day. Charles' Martha is with
him. I was acquainted with her many years ago. This is the first time we
have met in 30 years. We spent an enjoyable day together talking about old
times. We came back by Franks and brought Jig the horse home with us.
Frank was out making a garden. And
Bonnie was out with him helping him work as busy as a bee. When we left he
followed us nearly to the gate. I wrote a letter to Edith and Wiley and Mr.
Crow wrote Mr. Tully. Old grandma Fentem is dead. And her funeral sermon
will be preached at Newman tomorrow. Poor old lady she has been sick a long
time.
January 23, 1892 Saturday
Mr. Crow started for Modesto this morning after some friends met them about
half way here and turned around and came home. I scrubbed the porch,
churned, cleaned, worked until noon. This afternoon Mr. Crow Will and
Hannah Isom went down to river and the orchard looking around. Hannah is my
cousins daughter. They have come to see us from Orange. Ethers' Hannah"
sister sent me a box of oranges. Mary and Myra down. Mr. Crow and I both
took our usual Saturday bath. Mr. Crow got a letter from Walter Smith. He
is an insurance agent and he could loan 6 or 7 thousand dollars and wanted
Mr. Crow to furnish the money. The man that drove the carriage that brought
Will and Hannah here for dinner.
January 24, 1892
Cold and frosty this morning but warm and pleasant through the day. Mr.
Crow and Mr. Isom drove around together. Mr. Isom killed a duck this
evening. Mr. Crow wrote a letter today to J. Walter Smith. Hannah and Will
writing home to their folks. Tom Crow and his wife down and spent the day.
Ida and Bennie down this evening. Frank came down this morning, brought a
bull down and took one back, and took Old Jig back to finish sowing with
tomorrow. I went up to see Mrs. Mays, but I didn't find her at home. Osear
said that Myra had the ear ache and they were walking about with her. All
day has been very nice almost like summer, a gentle south breeze.
Monday January 25, 1892
Mr. Crow went up to the ranch this morning. This afternoon he and Will
were down in the bottoms burning weeds this afternoon. Will fixed the straw
shed and this forenoon Hannah and I washed and cleaned the hen house, done
some mending. We went down to the station to take some clothes to the
washer woman. I got some clothes pins. I throwed considerable wood in the
wood shed. Hannah hemmed a red table cloth. Mrs. Isom and Hannah seemed
very well satisfied. I went up to see Mrs. Mays, Myra had the ear ache.
Will went down tonight to see if he could kill a goose.
January 26, 1892
It rained quite a rain, last night. Been more or less cloudy all day with
a south, south-west wind. Looks like it might rain more tonight Mr. Crow
charging around in the forenoon. He is down below the orchard helping Will
Isom dig up the willows that have come up since harvest, this afternoon Him
and Will killed a lot of little pigs this morning. Hannah ironed and baked
light bread. We had one man for dinner. They commence summer fallowing out
in the 80 yesterday. They will eat dinner here and stay at Franks at night.
I wrote to Ester Rose, Mrs. Hoyt and to Wiley. I wanted him to send a
check.
Saturday January 30, 1892
Mr. Crow and Will finished planting and sowed the barley. Harrowed it in
this afternoon. MR. crow, Will, Hannah and I went down across the creek
after a load of wood. Hannah baked bread, pumpkin pies, cookies, she washed
the woodwork in the kitchen. I cleaned my room, Hannah's and the dinning
room., and the granary. Osear and Charlie down after some lumber. Brad
Borrowed. Arthur came down and brought the mail tonight. Frank was going
to take his men out to the hill getting read to plant summer farrow.
Feb. 2, 1892
Cloudy last night and all forenoon. Cloudy, or foggy a heavy west wind
most of the day. The sun shone in the afternoon, but it has been cool all
day. Mr. Crow, Jimmy and Frank a out a hunting. They back started nothing.
Will dug up trees, and plowed the old orchard. Hannah and I washed and
mended. I washed and hung up some beef. I made sacks out of mosquito net
cover it to keep the flies out of it. I heard that Mrs. Thompson is dead,
poor old lady she has suffered fearfully for months. I haven't heard where
abouts they have brought her.
Feb. 3. 1892
The wind blew very hard through the night. Pleasant this afternoon. Wind
blew tonight, Mr. Crow and Will got two colts and tied them up. Mandy's
colt was awful mean. They had quite a time with her. She jumped over into
the manger. Hannah and I were busy all forenoon. And Hannah ironed. her
and I went out to the station this afternoon. I got some oats, salt,
coffee, and lamp chimneys, graham flour. Mr. Sam Miller and young Struters
here for dinner. They went up to Franks after some horses and back her
tonight. Hannah and I came back by Franks from the station. Hannah, Will
and young Struters went a coon hunting.
Feb. 4, 1892
Mr. Crow and Will hauled some fruit trees from the lower orchard and this
afternoon they sowed a little patch of barley and harrowed the old orchard.
I cut up a little brush for kindling. Cut up seven pigs for the chikens,
spaded and raked the ground around the back porch. Hannah fixed up things.
Hannah took the old clock to pieces and fixed it up to run. Mr. Sam Miller
and Struthers left for home. Jimmie Crow down after the dogs to go coyote
hunting. they caught a coyote. Hannah got a letter from her pa and ma .
They sent a letter Mr. Crow and me. Mr. crow, Will, Osear out coon hunting
tonight. Osear says that the coons are catching his chicken.
Friday Feb. 5, 1892
Mr. Crow and Will digging postholes down in the orchard. Hannah doing some
fancy work. She gave the house a through sweeping. I mended in the
forenoon and cut brush for kindling wood. Frank down for dinner. He took
Flara his mare home with him. Jimmie Crow down. They all going coyote
hunting this morning. Will wrote a letter to his sister in the east
tonight.
Feb. 6, 1892
It rained nearly 1/2 inch last night. Been cloudy today. Mr. Crow
cutting
wood and charging around today. Will, Johnnie, Frank and Arthur Crow went
out coyote hunting. Haven't heard whether they caught any or not. I took a
bath and cleaned around. Hannah churned and done the cooking. Will went
over to the P.O. Hasn't got back yet. I expect Mrs. Thompson is pretty bad
off, or he would have been back before now Hannah fixed my hair up in
pompadour style. She say it is becoming to me.
Feb. 7, 1892
Mr. Crow went to see Bennie this morning. They were just starting down
here to spend the day. So he came back with them. Will went out a hunting-
killed 3 ducks and a goose. Hannah and I went out to church but the
preacher didn't come. There was a good many persons present. Evelyn Crow
came up. She was at church. Bell Crow and her five children, and girl.
Frank Bell and children, Jimmy Crow and children, Mr. and Mrs. Wallis and
family, Mr. Will Fink and child, George and Charlie Fink. Tom and Laura
Crow, Mr. Medlin, Alice Walden and children.
Feb. 8, 1892
Mr. Crow and Will finished digging the postholes, then hauled part of the
posts. Hannah done some ironing, baked light bread and cookies. Mr. Mays
and Myra down this afternoon. Frank, Ida and Bennie came down this evening.
I got a letter from cousin Sarah. She is visiting her son. She is a
cousin of mine. Mr. Thompson came tonight said his wife is very low,
doesn't think she will ever get up again. Poor old man he seems to feel his
wifes' sickness so much.
Feb. 11, 1892
Mr. and Mrs. David and his two children here this afternoon. Mr. David
says the people are trying to make a road through his grain field.
Feb. 12, 1892
Mr. Crow and will hauling lumber and making their fence. Hannah cooked her
turkey. Had a bad ear ache. I took some eggs up to Marys that I borrowed.
Jimmie Crow and Walter down after the hounds. Him and Frank are going to
have a coyote hunt tomorrow. A tramp here this morning. Old Bill horse run
the two young colts through the wire fence cut them some on the legs. Hannah
washed the woodwork in the pantry and put clean paper on the shelves.
Feb. 13, 1892
Mr. Crow and Will finished putting boards on their fence. haven't got
the
wire on it yet. Hannah baked bread, been in the kitchen a good part of the
day. She churned and finished her pillow shams. I mopped my room, cut up
five little pigs for the chickens, cleaned the chicken yard, gathered up the
brush in the garden, cut it up for kindling wood. I went to Mrs. Mays
borrowed some soda for Hannah to make gingerbread. I cleaned up the egg
case and pout the eggs in it. I got 74 eggs today. I got a letter from
Nellie Rose, Hannah got a letter from her father and mother, and from her
sister and brother-in-law.
Feb. 14, 1892
They caught about 25 catfish, Will and Hannah went fishing this afternoon,
some of them pretty small. Johnnie here today he says that Mrs. Miller is
still at her mothers. The old lady is not expected to live because of
heart disease. She is going to Dr. Burke if she ever gets well enough to
travel. John Stewart here with a paper. Mr. Latta is trying to raise money
to build a church at Crows Landing. Mr. Eli Latta takes an active part in
building churches and church matters. His son Dick is sick. He thinks it
is doubtful that he will ever get well. Apricot trees are coming out in
bloom. Some of the blooms are nearly out. It is so early in the season I am
afraid that they will be frosted.
Feb. 15, 1892
This afternoon bright and pleasant mercury at 64. Early in the season to
be so warm. Mr. Crow and Will are fixing up the checks out in the field for
irrigating. Will plowed the ground back of the garden, and Mr. Crow sowed
barley on it for the chickens. Mr. Crow and Will went a coon hunting
tonight. Hannah and I washed and mended. She churned, made a table
cloth,
made some lemon and custard pies. I chopped up a lot of kindly wood that
came off the trees. I wrote to Mrs. Hoyt Frank and Bennie down this
evening. Bennie is as fat as a little pig and knows where the apple box is
when he comes down. Our old turkey hen has some little ones, and so has old
Flara some pups.
Feb. 16, 1892
Mr. Crow and Will at work fixing up the checks. Mr. Crow brought in a jack
with a young colt. Hannah ironed and rubbed the furniture in the her room.
Frank came down after the turkey gobbler and the sheep to take up to his
place. I made pie, cleaned the chicken yard, I swept it, cleaned some in
the orchard. I cooked a large fat coon. Mr. Crow and Will caught last
night. The coon weighed 21 pounds. Ida, Bennie and Mr. Sniger here this
afternoon. Bennie didn't want to go back home with his mother.
Feb 17, 1892
Mr. Crow and Will finished getting the ditch ready so they can irrigate.
Will plowing the orchard. This evening Hannah and I worked around all day
and have not done much. Tom and Lara down this afternoon. Tom got a couple
of trees Uncle Ben gave him. Three strange men here. Wanting peanuts pups
when they are a couple of weeks old. Mr. Crow and Will tied up Bitts' colt
to gentle it. Old Dutch' heifer was up this evening she is the fattest
animal I have ever seen. She is almost out of shape she is so fat. Mr. Crow
got up before day and went hunting, caught a skunk.
Feb. 18, 1892
Mr. Crow went up to the dam to see if there was any water to irrigate with,
a little stram came in the orchard. Will cleaning up the garden, getting
ready to plow, if it hadn't rained he would have hauled some manure put it
on the planes in the garden today. He made a fish trap to see if he could
catch some fish. Hannah made some pumpkin pies, helped Will burn leaves in
the garden until it rained. We had a mess of turnips and lettuce today.
Hannah cleaned the buggy house and churned, I made new brine for the meat.
Cleaned the hen house and mae a ditch to run water to the walnut trees, and
mended my dress.
Friday Feb. 19, 1892
It rained a little last night a strong wind from the south, and threating
rain all day, very clo9udy. But didn't rain very much. Tonight dark and
cloudy. The wind has gotten futher to the east, has every appearance of a
rain tonight. Mr. Crow went out the dam to see about the wasther. Some came
this morning but didn't run much. He cleaned out the ditch. And Will is
pruning trees in his spare time. they have to be pruned. Hannah hemming
napkins. I have been charging around all day. Jimmie, Walter? Crow down
this after noon. Jimmy took some of the dogs with him and Charlie Hale is
going to have a hunt tomorrow. We are getting lots of eggs. We got five
and nine today and will have four hens setting. Smut had pups, so has
Flara, and Peanut.
Feb. 20, 1892
Mr. Crow and Will putting manure in the garden and plowed part of the day.
So we can plant some garden. I raked and piled up weeds and brush to get
them out of the way Hannah churned and fixed up the kitchen. We cleaned in
the sitting rooms this afternoon. Hannah and I went out to the station,
took a case of eggs and brought back a box her pa had sent to her. it has
her and Wills saddles and bridles and her feather bed and pillows and Wills
gun. When we got back Frank Bell had brought his mother down to stay all
night. Mary Crow and her children were here after Fala and her pups. Mr.
Crow got a letter from Mr. Walden Brad down today.
Feb. 21,1892
Mr. Crow and Will working with the water, pretty good head. They are in
the 3rd check in the far field tonight. Frank down helping them awhile
today. They got up another mule and tied it up in the barn with Old Kilts'
mule and one of Thompson' mules had it a fine mule last night. Mr. Crow
wrote to Mr. Walt ? and sent a check for insurance money on the Pierce
place. I wrote to Wiley to send us garden seed and other things. Aunt
Evelyn stayed here last night and until the afternoon. Frank Bell came
after and we had a pleasant visit together. Mr. Crow, Will out last night
after a coon, the dogs run it across the river. Will went over and got it.
Ida and Benny down so was Brad.
Feb. 22, 1892
Mr. Crow and Will hauling dirt and fixing the checks in the first fields to
irrigate. They finished irrigating in the far fields and turned the water
into this field. Hannah and I washed. She gave the milk box a good
scouring. I picked the ducks that Will killed and cut up a coon for the
chickens. I was quite sick all day with the sick headache.
Sunday March 6, 1892
Mr. crow around all day, first Will and Thane Ingram came, then Brad and
Pike Crow, then Frank and Ida. Brad left before dinner. The rest here for
dinner. We had a grand socialable time amongst us. I went up to Mrs. Mays
and got some butter for dinner. Hannah had a nice dinner. After the
company left her and Will went across the river. Will took his gun and
killed four large carp. He brought them home for the chickens. Hannah
churned tonight after dark, so we wouldn't have much to do tomorrow as that
is wash day. Frank and Ida were going out to the mill.
March 19, 1892
Another warm day mercury at 74 some wind late this evening. Mr Crow and
Will went to Modesto to get a barrel of lime. Hannah and I cleaned the
buggy house, I cleaned and limed the hen house. Hannah, went horse back
over to the Post Office got two postals from J. A. Crow. We haven't had any
company today. Mr. Crow got up at 4 o'clock this morning and went hunting.
Hannah sent 4 rolls of butter to Modesto got 50 cents a roll. She sent 6
rolls on Monday.
Benjamin H. Crow was born February 27, 1824 Mercer Co. Ky. d. Sept. 18, 1906
Crows Landing,Ca. Uncle Ben came with his father to California on the 1850
cattle herd. He settled in 1854 he then located on the Orestimba Creek and
built a ranch until 1869 when he moved to three miles east of Crows' Landing
on the south side of the Orestimba Creek. He built a house there is 1870.
Crows Landing was a place of considerable importance as all shipping was
done by boat, and the landing and postoffice were located near Mr. Crow's
ranch.
He married Emma Patchett Crow who was the daugther of John and Esther
(Passmore) Patchett. John Patchett was a native of Lincolnshire, England.
Aunt Emma was married to Mr. Crow on October 10, 1858. She was born in
Chester county., Pa .
John E. Thompson had a general store and blacksmith shop 31/2 miles east of
the present town of Crows Landing. He also built wagons, buggies, etc. But
closed the shop when the railroad came through and ran the store only. He
was in the Civil War on the south side and was taken prisoner at Vicksbury.
Lewis Crow Married Mary E. Rose and children were Thomas "Tom", Frank,
Herbert, Harry, Edith, Ethel, Estella married John Conont. Lewis Crow
crossed the plains with his father in 1849 for Ca. He left Pike county in
the spring, and going with ox-teams via Fort Hall down the Humboldt River
and along the Carson route to Placerville arriving September 10. His father
returned to Mo. but Lewis mined on the Yuba River and was until fall 1850,
when he went to meet his father and brothers and assist in driving the 500
head of cattle that they brought with them. At the mouth of the Feather
River his father, Walter Crow, died. The brothers came to Stanislaus county
and spent the winter at Ripon . In the spring of 1851 they settled near
Ripon, where they did butchering and a dairy until 1864. In the meantime,
in 1854 they had entered land on the West Side and became owner of a large
track and built warehouses for shipping rain down the San Joaquin River. He
had a ranch of 700 acres 8 miles west of Crow Landing . In 1863 he bought
482 acres five files from Oakdale on the Stanislaus River.
Walter Crow son of J.T. Crow was born July 18, 1884 in Crows Landing.
John Bradford "Brad" Crows children were Walter, Eleanor, Theodocia, James
t. Benjamin T., Cassius "Cash", John Bradford, Susan by Parthania D. Eastin.
By Judith Allen South he had Myra, Glenn, Evelyn and adopted her two girls.
John Bradford Crow came to Ca. in 1865 with his family in one of
the largest wagon trains to cross the plains. He had led five wagon trains
west before gathering up his family and in laws and moving to the San
Joaquin Valley at Crows Landing.
With him on the train were his wife Parthania, his children including John
Bradford Crow III who was three years old.
Also on the train were Thane and Will Ingram, Brad's wife's niece and
Brad's brothers, Isaac and his family, sister Susan Smith who was married to
James Webb Smith..
They arrived in CA and settled on the banks of the San Joaquin River at
Crows Landing. John's brothers had come to Ca in 1849 looking for gold.
There was Lewis Jacob Crow who settled in Oakdale, and Clinton Pike Crow who
settled near San Jose. They came from Ashely Mo. with their father Walter
and two others Marion and Sam. Walter returned to Mo. by way of the Isthmus
of Panama to get a herd of cattle to sell at the mines and died of cholera
while stopping to help some sick travelers near Verona, Ca which is near the
confluence of the Feather and Sacramento Rivers.
John bradford Crow was one of the first settlers on the West Side to see
the value of farming the land instead of using it for stock. The Crows
raised sheep, mules, jacks, cattle, and John raised grain, barley, wheat,
oats, and large gardens for the family and help to use. Also the family
raised Morgan horses and trained them to sell.
The garden was maintained by a man who asked if he could come to California,
when Brad returned to Mo. to buy more stock after the Civil War. This old
man came up to him and asked if he could go to Ca with him. He said that he
had worked for him in Mo. Brad said fine if he would ride on the steam
train and take care of the stock. The next morning the man was there with
his six sons.
They worked on the ranch and surrounding ranches and built cabins on the
mouth of the Orestimba Creek where it flows into the San Joaquin River on
the south side.
Personal tragedy overtook Brad after he reached Ca. He had traveled to Ca
with his wife and eight children. His wife died in 1866 and his first born
son Walter F. Crow died on Jan. 13, 1871. Then his daughter Eleanor Crow
died on June 10, 1871 at Napa Ca and is buried at the Stockton Rural
Cemetery. This his third child Theodocia Crow died April 29, 1854 and is
also buried at Stockton. That left his son James Thomas Crow as the oldest
child. All eight children were old enough to have come west on the 1865
wagon train.
Another son Benjamin Tucker Crow was killed in 1886 when he was thrown from
a horse and died of a broken neck.
Brad married Judith South Allen and had three more children by her. He
also adopted her two daughters by a previous marriage.
Brad's brother Benjamin Franklin Crow and his wife Emma Jane lived across
the creek from Brad. He also ventured into farming. He had a passion for
hunting and had a pack of hound dogs. Some time in his life he had lost an
arm and when he rode he held the reins in this teeth and the rifle in the
other. They hunted south down by Los Banos and crated the dogs and shipped
them north on the train to hunt. Emma stayed with his brother Lewis who
lived near Oakdale.
The family raised hogs and in the fall penned them up and fed them acorns
to fatten them up before packing the meat away for the winter.
Brad purchased land from the Orestimba Rancho. He served with the Mo.
state militia and was called up for active duty on the North's side.
The Crows formed the first private school on the banks of the Orestimba
which was also used as a church by the circuit rider preacher Eli Latta.
In letter years John a had prune orchard and home in San Jose.
Frank Crow is the son of Lewis Crow and was raised by Ben and Emma Crow.
C.C. Crow b. Pike Co. Mo. July 18, 1860 crossed the plains by wagon train at
5 years of age to Stanislaus Co. Ca. He had 220 acres on Orestima Creek
near the junction of the creek and the San Joaquin River. He also had a
cheese factory located on his place. His place is 3 1/2 miles east of Crows
Landing, Ca.He was one of the incorporators of the Crow Oil Company and
served as a director. The company was incorporated with a capital stock of
$300,000 with eighteen hundred acres in the Sunset belt.
He married Cora C. Cressey.
Archie Mayes, in 1896 purchased 80 acres of land a mile and half north east
of Crows Landing. In 1869 he came to Ca and worked for the Crow Brothers
for 25 years. In 1875 he was supt. of a street railway in Stockton owned by
the Crow Brothers. And he took charge of their stock and cattle in Nev. for
a short time. He married Ella Delano and had one daugther Myra and one son
Albert.
Aunt Emma's Map (coming soon)
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