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From: "Lynne Roberts" <>
Subject: RE: [CASanJoaquin] Stockton, San Joaquin Co., CA -- 20-25 Nov 1871
Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 15:25:35 -0700
In-Reply-To: <00cf01c55f18$d31eebc0$a4235142@ealaird>


I, too, have enjoyed them and have a question for the list. I have been
fortunate to have been left a very large selection of newspaper
clippings - including the Independent and the Record - that go back to
early days in Stockton. I, however, am not the typist that Dee
obviously is, nor do I have the available time to sit down and enter
them in such large blocks. I must also add that I have tons of
clippings with no attribution - and occasionally with no date - but
articles discussing local people. Because of their context in these
scrapbooks I can usually give an estimation of time - but only that. If
there is any interest, I will happily contribute - occasionally, and not
on schedule - the vast numbers of clippings retained by my great-great
grandmother, my great-grandmother, and her sister. These will date from
around the dates of Dee's and up into the early 1900's.

One example is the following:


Newspaper clipping found in Abbie Marble Hammond's bible - the year of
Robert Ray's death was 1871:

SAD AND FATAL OCCURENCE. - The Visalia Delta of the 13th inst. contains
the following:

It is seldom we have to record so sad and sudden calamity, as the one
which befell one of our best known citizens on the evening of the Fourth
of July.

Mr. Robert Ray and eight others, including his two sons, Willie and
Robert L., left their home on Deer creek in the morning. In the evening
they camped on White river with a band of sheep which they were driving
to the mountains. The company spread their blankets underneath a large
sycamore tree on the south bank near the public road. About 11 o'clock
when all were quietly resting, the tree fell down upon the sleepers,
killing Mr. Robert Ray instantly, and wounding four others viz: Charles
Harper, Herbert Southworth, Pat Castigan and James Hobbs. The other
four escaped unhurt. One Willie J. Ray was sleeping on the same blanket
with his father at the time of the accident. It is supposed that the
tree was thrown down by the shock of an earthquake, the evening being
very calm. Mr. Ray is to be buried this evening. He was a well known
man, a good citizen and highly esteemed by all who had the pleasure of
his acquaintance. He leaves a wife and five children, was forty eight
years of age on the 14th day of the present month.



The ladies of my family clipped everything they liked from the paper -
and especially any obituary, marriage or death notice of anyone
connected to them. I have lots. By the way my family surnames are the
Hammond, Roberts, McKee, Ray, Young.

And - does anyone know anything about San Joaquin City?

Lynne


-----Original Message-----
From: Elizabeth Laird [mailto:]
Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2005 1:54 PM
To:
Subject: Re: [CASanJoaquin] Stockton, San Joaquin Co., CA -- 20-25 Nov
1871

Dee,
I have thoroughly enjoyed your newspaper postings, and want to thank
you
for them. Of course, I always read with an interest in my own family
surnames, hoping to find an ancestor.
Today, I finally found a family surname [not an ancestor, mind you,
but
a cousin, at least] and - guess what? <G> George Tribble got 'whupped'
by
the girls!
Thanks for the laugh for the day!
Elizabeth



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