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Subject: [CASCLARA] John VALENTINE (d. 3.18.1882)
Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 11:21:34 -0800

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Surname: Valentine, Payne, Pomeroy, Smith, Gilbert
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In San Jose, March 18, 1882, Capt. John Valentine, a native of Saratoga
county, New York, aged 93 years, 6 months and 22 days.

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Pioneer Obituary.

Captain John Valentine died in this city on Saturday, March 18, 1882, aged
93 years, 6 months and 22 days. He was born in Saratoga county, New York,
August 24th, 1788. In the year of 1813, the State of New York was called
upon to furnish soldiers for the defence of New York harbor, and Mr. Valentine
at the time was 1st Lieutenant of a cavalry company, raised in his own
county, the entire company volunteered and proceeded to the city of New
York, and were in the service of the United States until near the close
of the war. After returning home he married Lydia Payne in the later part
of the year of 1814. In the year 1826 he removed with his family to Seneca
county, Western New York, and in 1832 to the town of Bridgewater, Wastenaw
county, State of Michigan. To Mr. and Mrs. Valentine was born eleven children,
six girls and five boys. In the Fall of 1836 Mrs. Valentine died leaving
a family of ten children, the eldest two, Mrs. Pomeroy and Mrs. Smith,
being married. The eight remaining were left to the care of the father,
the younger child less than six months old. Thus left in a new country
with limited means of support, the loss of the mother was a terrible affliction
to the husband and children but Mr. Valentine done everything within his
power keep his family together. He was a kind and affectionate husband
and father and loved his family dearly, but the struggle was too much for
human nature and his declining health compelled a partial separation of
the family. In the Fall of 1852, he accompanied the family of C.W. Pomeroy
to California, arriving in San Francisco January 2, 1853; (his youngest
son Lyman Valentine having come overland in 1850) leaving two daughters
residing in Howell Michigan, Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Gilbert. Having up to
that time buried seven out of his family of eleven children. About sixteen
years of his California life has been spent in San Jose the balance in
Shasta and Sacramento counties. He was the last survivor of his own father's
family and leaves behind him but one member of his own family, Mrs. Pomeroy.
Honest, affectionate, kind and social, he had no enemies. While his daughter
and friends will miss him, they should not mourn his loss for he had lived
out the full measure of his time and passed away without disease or a struggle,
fully prepared for the happiness awaiting him in a better world.

The Pioneer, published San Jose, Saturday, March 25, 1882

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