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From: Lester M Powers <>
Subject: Re: Where is Sawtelle, CA
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 20:14:39 -0800


Donna Hull wrote:

> Need some help here. I'm trying to help a friend who
> has a relative who was listed in his brother's obit in
> 1919 as living at Sawtelle. <...snip...> She put a
> query on a census list only to be told there was no
> such place. <...snip...>

Today, Sawtelle is an unincorporated community --
and a part of the City of Los Angeles -- between
Westwood and Santa Monica. The name "Sawtelle" is
usually applied to the "old soldiers' home" there,
though strictly speaking, "Sawtelle" is the name of the
town, not the old soldiers' home. The old soldiers'
home at (next to, but not in) Sawtelle is now the
ENORMOUS Veterans' Administration complex there (on L.A.
County land). Around 1919 or so, if your friend's
relative was an old geezer, chances are he was at the
home, otherwise if a youngun, at the town of Sawtelle.

Sawtelle (the town) was annexed to the City of Los
Angeles in 1922. It remains a part of the City of L.A.

> for 1920 census does anyone have a clue as to how that
> area was listed in Los Angeles Co.? I'm assuming it
> was L. A. Co.

I have a long-lost great or great-great uncle,
Frederick Bartels, who, according to family legend (only)
was at the L.A. "old soldiers' home," during the 1920s
and/or 30s or so. The CADI does list a Frederick J.
Bartels who died in L.A. on February 26, 1932, age 76
(which is about the right age for my Fred). I looked
up Frederick J. Bartels in the 1920 census, and he is
listed as at the "National Military Home" in "MALIBU
TOWNSHIP." This Malibu stuff makes no sense, but
that's what the 1920 census page says (supervisor's
district 8, enumeration district 486, too). One of
these years I'm going to try to get a copy of the old
soldier Frederick J. Bartels' death certificate, but I
sooooo procrastinate. Sigh.

Anyway, presumably Sawtelle was in Malibu Township.
That part of Sawtelle that was for the old soldiers, on
the 1920 census, is enumeration district 486, LDS FHL
microfilm number 1,820,116 -- for my Fred anyway.

If you go *way* back in time, to the late 1800s,
Sawtelle would have been in La Ballona Township.

Lester Powers



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