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Obituaries & Newspaper Vitals
Gridley Herald
[Gridley, Butte County, California]
Sites:
A - G,
H - L,
M - R,
S - Z
Abbreviations
d/n = Death Notice, some information, not
usually very much.
f/n = Funeral Notice, some information, in
the old newspapers these can be either Obituaries, or just a
listing of when and where the funeral was held. It might also
include 'Visitors'.
nart = News Article, Accidents, Suspicious
Deaths, etc
The 1920's and 1930's Edition's of the
Gridley Herald were very difficult to read, the notices were
never in the same place, many times the columns were staggered.
If you find anything that does not look complete, please let me
know and I will see if I can find the rest of the Article.
The early Edition's also did not [in many
cases] include given names of married women, when these are
found, I have listed them thus: Smith, C A [Mrs]
Quite a few of the images from the 1980's and
1990's were scanned when the newspaper was either folded or on a
spindle. At least one edge is curved, but for the most part, the
data can be figured out. I do not have access to any other
images. It is possible that the Volunteers at the
Paradise Genealogical Society
could do lookups, but they charge for their services.
The dates alongside of the names are the
dates of publication and range between 1922 and 2005.
Current Obituaries can
be gleaned from the Gridley Herald.
The
California Digital Newspaper Collection
This is a tremendous Resource. The search
function works just great, pay particular close attention to
hits that say "Advertisement" this is where the Birth, Marriage
& Death Lists are located.
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History of Butte County
Until the magic wand of gold was waved o'er the land, drawing hither in
a wild, tumultuous rush thousands and tens of thousands of eager
adventurers from the four corners of the earth, that portion of
California now under our consideration was but little known, save to the
rude natives who had called it their home for ages. A few land grants
and settlements had been made in the valley, but the mountains that
bordered it, robed in green and crowned with snow, were as yet
trackless, and as perfect as when they were issued from the great
workshop of nature.
Capt. Louis A. Arguello, by order of the governor of California,
explored this region in 1820, passing up the Sacramento river and
penetrating to Fort Vancouver, on the Columbia river. He was, beyond a
doubt, the first Caucasian to enter the limits of
Butte
county.
As has been seen elsewhere [see article on the Great Fur Companies],
trappers penetrated this region at least as early as 1828. The party of
Jedediah S. Smith, in 1827, passed up the valley to its head, then over
the mountains to the coast, and thence to
Oregon,
though it is by no means certain they were within the limits of this
county. The next winter a party under McLeod, trapped the upper
Sacramento and its tributaries, including, no doubt, the Feather river
and Butte creek, and came near perishing on the McLeod (McCloud) river
that winter, which stream then received, and has since borne the name of
that unfortunate leader. It is, then, extremely probable that the first
representatives of English-speaking nations to view the flower-carpeted
valley and pine-covered mountains of Butte county, were a party of
American trappers, led by Jedediah S. Smith, or a party of Hudson Bay
Company men,
under the leadership of Alexander Roderick
McLeod, in the winter of 1827- 8.
From that time till 1845, when the Hudson Bay Company withdrew beyond
the Columbia river, scarcely a year passed by without representatives of
that vast corporation, or parties of American trappers setting their
traps in the streams of this region, camping beneath its noble oaks, and
hunting the antelope, elk and deer that thronged the valley and
mountains.
In the year 1838, the
United States
government sent out a fleet of vessels, under the command of Com.
Charles Wilkes, on an extended voyage of exploration that lasted five
years. In the month of September, 1841, a detachment of the expedition
started on an overland trip from Vancouver to Yerba Buena (San
Francisco), passing down the Hudson Bay trail and the Sacramento river.
The party consisted of:- Lieut. George F. Emmons in command, Past
Midshipman Henry Eld, Past Midshipman George W. Colvocoressis, Assistant
Surgeon J. S. Whittle ; Seamen, Doughty, Sutton, Waltham and Merzer;
Sergeant Steams, Corporal Hughes, Privates Marsh and Smith ; T. R.
Peale, naturalist; W. Eich, botanist ; James D. Dana, geologist; A. T.
Agate, artist; J. D. Breckenridge, assistant botanist ; Baptiste
Guardipii, guide ; Tibbats, Black, Warfields, Wood, Molair and Inass,
mountaineers.
All this, however, tended not to develop the valley, nor to make it
other than it then was, save by the interest created in the eastern
.haunts of the trappers by their tales of the loveliness of the great
Sacramento valley, the fertility of its soil and the mildness of its
climate. How these stories induced emigration, the settlement at
Sacramento,
from which radiated others, and the final settlement of the whole
valley, has already been related. [See Settlement of the
Sacramento
Valley.]
It is at that point, then, that the history of
Butte
county properly commences.
In the month of July, 1843, some emigrants started from the neighborhood
of
Sacramento
to go overland by the
Hudson Bay
trail to
Oregon.
At the same time they disappeared from view, also vanished some animals
belonging to Capt. John A. Sutter, and the coincidence was so striking
that John Bidwell, Peter Lassen, James Bruheim and an Indian associated
the two events together in their minds and searched for the missing
animals in the direction the party had taken, with the hope of finding
them. The party was overtaken at Red Bluff, and the hope fully realized.
This was the first trip any of the settlers about the junction of the
American and Sacramento rivers had made to the upper end of the valley,
and so pleased was Mr. Bidwell with the appearance of the country that
he made an outline
map
of it upon his return to Sutter's Fort, upon which were marked the
principal streams, with the names that nearly all of them now bear. From
this map, a number of selections of land were made for the purpose of
applying for land grants from the Mexican government.
The first grant made in this region was that to Peter Lassen, on Deer
creek, lying partly in this county, but chiefly in Tehama. He settled
upon it at the celebrated Lassen's ranch in the early spring of 1844. In
the month of July, 1844, Edward A. Farwell and Thomas Fallen settled on
the Farwell grant, the east line of which runs through the town of
Chico.
This was the first settlement within the present limits of
Butte
county, and the little habitation of these two men was the pioneer of
the many fine mansions and happy homes to be seen on every side.
Later in the same year, Samuel Neal and David Dutton settled on the
Esquon grant, on
Butte
creek, seven miles south of
Chico.
In 1845, William Dickey, Sanders and Yates located on the Dickey grant,
now the property of Hon. John Bidwell, and known as the Rancho Arroyo
Chico.
Also James W. Marshall, the discoverer of gold in 1848, and Northgrave
located on the grant to S. J. Hensley. That year, also, Charles Roether,
familiarly known as Dutch Charley, settled on the Huber grant, on the
north side of Honcut creek.
The discovery of gold on
Feather river,
in March, 1848, by John Bidwell, but two months after the discovery by
Marshall
at Coloma, was the beginning of a new era for this region. In the great
rush of incoming gold-hunters in 1849,
Feather river
received its share, and soon every bar, ravine and gulch had its quota
of industrious miners, while the smoke from their rude cabins, frail
tents, and hastily-constructed brush shanties marked the river's course
for miles. On the more important bars, mining-camps of considerable size
sprang suddenly into existence, some of them becoming quite populous
towns full of life and business, and containing many substantial
buildings. Of these but few traces can now be found, save the one or two
that have absorbed the others and prospered by the law of " the survival
of the fittest." Their history, such as can now be traced, is given
elsewhere in this volume.
Source:
The History of
Butte
County
California
- Volume II
by Harry L
Wells & W L Chambers -
547 Clay Street,
San Francisco
1882
Transcribed by: Martha A Crosley Graham - Pages 128 - 129
Butte County,
California
1850 Census
The Transcriptions
are finished! The proofing has turned out to be a nightmare! The
handwriting on the images is very difficult to read at times: So we are
going to let Researchers make their own decisions. Please use the index
as a guide and access the images.
Due to the fact that
there are almost 4000 entries for the Index, I have had to create a pdf
file for it.
This file is a fully searchable pdf.
The transcribed data
includes: Name, Age, Page Number and Notes. The images have been
uploaded so that you can access the rest of the information.
The Images can be
accessed Here.
Thank You Lyle, a
job well done!
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