1850 census Ohio, Boone, IL: Michael Detro (transcribed as Detoro), aged 38, bp Canada; Desdy, aged 32, bp Canada; Mary Jane aged 11, John aged 7; Euphema aged 2; and Adelaid aged 6 months -- all born IL.
"Michael Detro Jr. and his wife Desdemona formed the nucleus of a California-bound party leaving Iowa in 1859. Cross-country travel was not a new experience for the Detros. The couple, soon after their marriage about 1840, had moved with their infant daughter Mary Jane from New York to Illinois. They farmed near Elgin [Kane County] where John Charles, Euphemia Mallie, Desdemona and George Wallace were added to the family. They moved on into Iowa before their youngest child, Barton Detro, was born in 1856. As with countless other families, the pull of the frontier was too much for the Detros. In 1859 they packed their belongings once more, herded their milk cows together, hitched the oxen to the wagons and headed west. Several of Desdemona's brothers and a sister joined the party. These were Palmer Clark (possibly with a wife and family), Barton Clark, George Clark, and Mary Jane Clark. The last named had with her a three year old daughter, Alice Jane, a favorite with her little Detro cousins. Not to be confused with Desdemona's sister was Mary Jane Detro who had married in Iowa to Hod White. This new family was added to the caravan.
M1) Thomas Crane - 13 FEB 1855 in Kane County, Illinois, USA http://www.ilsos.gov/GenealogyMWeb/MarriageSearchServlet
Title: Illinois Statewide Marriage Index 1763-1900.Lic. No. 2303.
[Note: There is a marriage record in Kane County, IL, between Mary Jane Detro and Thomas Crane February 13, 1855. Then there is a marriage record in Butte County between Horace White and M.J. Crane on June 23 1863, in Chico. Perhaps, Hod, is a nickname. This would appear to be one of those fortuitous finds, but to refute this scenario, there is a Mary Jane White buried in the Chico Cemetery, who died Aug. 11, 1874. Horace White appears in both the 1880 census Janesville, Lassen County as a wheel wright and then again in the 1900 census in French Gulch, Shasta County as a miner. Both times he lists himself as a widower, and in the 1900 census he states he had a marriage of 11 years duration. This timeframe fits the time between the marriage record of June 1863 to M.J. Crane and the death year of Mary Jane White, 1874.]
"Hod White became a miner in Little Butte Creek near the Mineral Slide at the Golden Eale Mine." No date indicated. Source: "Tales of Paradise Ridge" Vol. 18, No. 1, June 1977.
M2) Horace White Butte County, CA Marriage Records, by Paradise Genealogical Society, Paradise, Butte, CA Book A, p. 80. Text: Horace White marries M.J. Crane 23 JUN 1863 in Chico, Butte, California, USA
All this still leaves Mary J. White alone with her children in the 1870 census in Chico, Twp, Butte County, CA: Mary J. White, aged 30, bp NY; Frank aged 6; Allice A. aged 3; Marinda aged 1 -- all born CA.
Note: Horace White, aged 34, miner, bp MI, is living in Kimshew, Butte County, in 1870. Not sure if he is still married to Mary and simply living in the mining camp or if they are separated or divorced. Mary is living with their three children in Chico.
M3) John Seward Akin Butte County, CA Marriage Records, by Paradise Genealogical Society, Paradise, Butte, CA Book B, p. 413. Text: John Seward Akin marries Mary Jane White 15 OCT 1877 in Chico, Butte, California, USA
1880 census Chico Twp, Butte, CA: John S. Akin, aged 40, farmer, bp NY, both parents NY; Mary J. aged 40, bp NY, both parents NY; John S. Jr. aged 6 months, born December, bp CA; three step-children, last name White: Frank aged 15; Alice aged 13; and Marinda aged 11 -- all born CA, father NY, mother NY.
1900 census Chico Twp, Butte, CA: John S. Aken, aged 60, born Nov. 1839, day laborer, bp AR, both parents NY; Mary J. aged 61, born Sept. 1838, married 22 years, five children w/four living, bp NY, both parents NY; Frank J. [White, step-son] aged 35, born April 1865, day laborer; John aged 20, born Dec. 1879, day laborer, bp CA --for both the father bp AR, mother NY; granddaughter, Amy Chapman, aged 15, born July 1884, bp CA, father AR, mother NY. - Research above courtesy Carolyn Hackett Dowd.
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Chico Daily Record, Monday Morning, March 23, 1903, pg 1 col 1: Mrs. Akin's Death. Mrs. J. Aikin [note spelling], wife of John Aiken, died at 1:30 o'clock yesterday morning. She had been an invalid for a number of years. She was a native of New York, aged 63 years, and had raised a large family of boys and girls, several of whom are living.
The funeral will take place this afternoon at 2 o'clock from the Presbyterian Church.
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63-year-old Mary J. Akin was interred, per the Chico Cemetery Association Records, in the plot noted, on March 23, 1903 (there is no marker).
"Michael Detro Jr. and his wife Desdemona formed the nucleus of a California-bound party leaving Iowa in 1859. Cross-country travel was not a new experience for the Detros. The couple, soon after their marriage about 1840, had moved with their infant daughter Mary Jane from New York to Illinois. They farmed near Elgin [Kane County] where John Charles, Euphemia Mallie, Desdemona and George Wallace were added to the family. They moved on into Iowa before their youngest child, Barton Detro, was born in 1856. As with countless other families, the pull of the frontier was too much for the Detros. In 1859 they packed their belongings once more, herded their milk cows together, hitched the oxen to the wagons and headed west. Several of Desdemona's brothers and a sister joined the party. These were Palmer Clark (possibly with a wife and family), Barton Clark, George Clark, and Mary Jane Clark. The last named had with her a three year old daughter, Alice Jane, a favorite with her little Detro cousins. Not to be confused with Desdemona's sister was Mary Jane Detro who had married in Iowa to Hod White. This new family was added to the caravan.
M1) Thomas Crane - 13 FEB 1855 in Kane County, Illinois, USA http://www.ilsos.gov/GenealogyMWeb/MarriageSearchServlet
Title: Illinois Statewide Marriage Index 1763-1900.Lic. No. 2303.
[Note: There is a marriage record in Kane County, IL, between Mary Jane Detro and Thomas Crane February 13, 1855. Then there is a marriage record in Butte County between Horace White and M.J. Crane on June 23 1863, in Chico. Perhaps, Hod, is a nickname. This would appear to be one of those fortuitous finds, but to refute this scenario, there is a Mary Jane White buried in the Chico Cemetery, who died Aug. 11, 1874. Horace White appears in both the 1880 census Janesville, Lassen County as a wheel wright and then again in the 1900 census in French Gulch, Shasta County as a miner. Both times he lists himself as a widower, and in the 1900 census he states he had a marriage of 11 years duration. This timeframe fits the time between the marriage record of June 1863 to M.J. Crane and the death year of Mary Jane White, 1874.]
"Hod White became a miner in Little Butte Creek near the Mineral Slide at the Golden Eale Mine." No date indicated. Source: "Tales of Paradise Ridge" Vol. 18, No. 1, June 1977.
M2) Horace White Butte County, CA Marriage Records, by Paradise Genealogical Society, Paradise, Butte, CA Book A, p. 80. Text: Horace White marries M.J. Crane 23 JUN 1863 in Chico, Butte, California, USA
All this still leaves Mary J. White alone with her children in the 1870 census in Chico, Twp, Butte County, CA: Mary J. White, aged 30, bp NY; Frank aged 6; Allice A. aged 3; Marinda aged 1 -- all born CA.
Note: Horace White, aged 34, miner, bp MI, is living in Kimshew, Butte County, in 1870. Not sure if he is still married to Mary and simply living in the mining camp or if they are separated or divorced. Mary is living with their three children in Chico.
M3) John Seward Akin Butte County, CA Marriage Records, by Paradise Genealogical Society, Paradise, Butte, CA Book B, p. 413. Text: John Seward Akin marries Mary Jane White 15 OCT 1877 in Chico, Butte, California, USA
1880 census Chico Twp, Butte, CA: John S. Akin, aged 40, farmer, bp NY, both parents NY; Mary J. aged 40, bp NY, both parents NY; John S. Jr. aged 6 months, born December, bp CA; three step-children, last name White: Frank aged 15; Alice aged 13; and Marinda aged 11 -- all born CA, father NY, mother NY.
1900 census Chico Twp, Butte, CA: John S. Aken, aged 60, born Nov. 1839, day laborer, bp AR, both parents NY; Mary J. aged 61, born Sept. 1838, married 22 years, five children w/four living, bp NY, both parents NY; Frank J. [White, step-son] aged 35, born April 1865, day laborer; John aged 20, born Dec. 1879, day laborer, bp CA --for both the father bp AR, mother NY; granddaughter, Amy Chapman, aged 15, born July 1884, bp CA, father AR, mother NY. - Research above courtesy Carolyn Hackett Dowd.
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Chico Daily Record, Monday Morning, March 23, 1903, pg 1 col 1: Mrs. Akin's Death. Mrs. J. Aikin [note spelling], wife of John Aiken, died at 1:30 o'clock yesterday morning. She had been an invalid for a number of years. She was a native of New York, aged 63 years, and had raised a large family of boys and girls, several of whom are living.
The funeral will take place this afternoon at 2 o'clock from the Presbyterian Church.
~~~
63-year-old Mary J. Akin was interred, per the Chico Cemetery Association Records, in the plot noted, on March 23, 1903 (there is no marker).
1850 census Ohio, Boone, IL: Michael Detro (transcribed as Detoro), aged 38, bp Canada; Desdy, aged 32, bp Canada; Mary Jane aged 11, John aged 7; Euphema aged 2; and Adelaid aged 6 months -- all born IL.
"Michael Detro Jr. and his wife Desdemona formed the nucleus of a California-bound party leaving Iowa in 1859. Cross-country travel was not a new experience for the Detros. The couple, soon after their marriage about 1840, had moved with their infant daughter Mary Jane from New York to Illinois. They farmed near Elgin [Kane County] where John Charles, Euphemia Mallie, Desdemona and George Wallace were added to the family. They moved on into Iowa before their youngest child, Barton Detro, was born in 1856. As with countless other families, the pull of the frontier was too much for the Detros. In 1859 they packed their belongings once more, herded their milk cows together, hitched the oxen to the wagons and headed west. Several of Desdemona's brothers and a sister joined the party. These were Palmer Clark (possibly with a wife and family), Barton Clark, George Clark, and Mary Jane Clark. The last named had with her a three year old daughter, Alice Jane, a favorite with her little Detro cousins. Not to be confused with Desdemona's sister was Mary Jane Detro who had married in Iowa to Hod White. This new family was added to the caravan.
M1) Thomas Crane - 13 FEB 1855 in Kane County, Illinois, USA http://www.ilsos.gov/GenealogyMWeb/MarriageSearchServlet
Title: Illinois Statewide Marriage Index 1763-1900.Lic. No. 2303.
[Note: There is a marriage record in Kane County, IL, between Mary Jane Detro and Thomas Crane February 13, 1855. Then there is a marriage record in Butte County between Horace White and M.J. Crane on June 23 1863, in Chico. Perhaps, Hod, is a nickname. This would appear to be one of those fortuitous finds, but to refute this scenario, there is a Mary Jane White buried in the Chico Cemetery, who died Aug. 11, 1874. Horace White appears in both the 1880 census Janesville, Lassen County as a wheel wright and then again in the 1900 census in French Gulch, Shasta County as a miner. Both times he lists himself as a widower, and in the 1900 census he states he had a marriage of 11 years duration. This timeframe fits the time between the marriage record of June 1863 to M.J. Crane and the death year of Mary Jane White, 1874.]
"Hod White became a miner in Little Butte Creek near the Mineral Slide at the Golden Eale Mine." No date indicated. Source: "Tales of Paradise Ridge" Vol. 18, No. 1, June 1977.
M2) Horace White Butte County, CA Marriage Records, by Paradise Genealogical Society, Paradise, Butte, CA Book A, p. 80. Text: Horace White marries M.J. Crane 23 JUN 1863 in Chico, Butte, California, USA
All this still leaves Mary J. White alone with her children in the 1870 census in Chico, Twp, Butte County, CA: Mary J. White, aged 30, bp NY; Frank aged 6; Allice A. aged 3; Marinda aged 1 -- all born CA.
Note: Horace White, aged 34, miner, bp MI, is living in Kimshew, Butte County, in 1870. Not sure if he is still married to Mary and simply living in the mining camp or if they are separated or divorced. Mary is living with their three children in Chico.
M3) John Seward Akin Butte County, CA Marriage Records, by Paradise Genealogical Society, Paradise, Butte, CA Book B, p. 413. Text: John Seward Akin marries Mary Jane White 15 OCT 1877 in Chico, Butte, California, USA
1880 census Chico Twp, Butte, CA: John S. Akin, aged 40, farmer, bp NY, both parents NY; Mary J. aged 40, bp NY, both parents NY; John S. Jr. aged 6 months, born December, bp CA; three step-children, last name White: Frank aged 15; Alice aged 13; and Marinda aged 11 -- all born CA, father NY, mother NY.
1900 census Chico Twp, Butte, CA: John S. Aken, aged 60, born Nov. 1839, day laborer, bp AR, both parents NY; Mary J. aged 61, born Sept. 1838, married 22 years, five children w/four living, bp NY, both parents NY; Frank J. [White, step-son] aged 35, born April 1865, day laborer; John aged 20, born Dec. 1879, day laborer, bp CA --for both the father bp AR, mother NY; granddaughter, Amy Chapman, aged 15, born July 1884, bp CA, father AR, mother NY. - Research above courtesy Carolyn Hackett Dowd.
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Chico Daily Record, Monday Morning, March 23, 1903, pg 1 col 1: Mrs. Akin's Death. Mrs. J. Aikin [note spelling], wife of John Aiken, died at 1:30 o'clock yesterday morning. She had been an invalid for a number of years. She was a native of New York, aged 63 years, and had raised a large family of boys and girls, several of whom are living.
The funeral will take place this afternoon at 2 o'clock from the Presbyterian Church.
~~~
63-year-old Mary J. Akin was interred, per the Chico Cemetery Association Records, in the plot noted, on March 23, 1903 (there is no marker).
"Michael Detro Jr. and his wife Desdemona formed the nucleus of a California-bound party leaving Iowa in 1859. Cross-country travel was not a new experience for the Detros. The couple, soon after their marriage about 1840, had moved with their infant daughter Mary Jane from New York to Illinois. They farmed near Elgin [Kane County] where John Charles, Euphemia Mallie, Desdemona and George Wallace were added to the family. They moved on into Iowa before their youngest child, Barton Detro, was born in 1856. As with countless other families, the pull of the frontier was too much for the Detros. In 1859 they packed their belongings once more, herded their milk cows together, hitched the oxen to the wagons and headed west. Several of Desdemona's brothers and a sister joined the party. These were Palmer Clark (possibly with a wife and family), Barton Clark, George Clark, and Mary Jane Clark. The last named had with her a three year old daughter, Alice Jane, a favorite with her little Detro cousins. Not to be confused with Desdemona's sister was Mary Jane Detro who had married in Iowa to Hod White. This new family was added to the caravan.
M1) Thomas Crane - 13 FEB 1855 in Kane County, Illinois, USA http://www.ilsos.gov/GenealogyMWeb/MarriageSearchServlet
Title: Illinois Statewide Marriage Index 1763-1900.Lic. No. 2303.
[Note: There is a marriage record in Kane County, IL, between Mary Jane Detro and Thomas Crane February 13, 1855. Then there is a marriage record in Butte County between Horace White and M.J. Crane on June 23 1863, in Chico. Perhaps, Hod, is a nickname. This would appear to be one of those fortuitous finds, but to refute this scenario, there is a Mary Jane White buried in the Chico Cemetery, who died Aug. 11, 1874. Horace White appears in both the 1880 census Janesville, Lassen County as a wheel wright and then again in the 1900 census in French Gulch, Shasta County as a miner. Both times he lists himself as a widower, and in the 1900 census he states he had a marriage of 11 years duration. This timeframe fits the time between the marriage record of June 1863 to M.J. Crane and the death year of Mary Jane White, 1874.]
"Hod White became a miner in Little Butte Creek near the Mineral Slide at the Golden Eale Mine." No date indicated. Source: "Tales of Paradise Ridge" Vol. 18, No. 1, June 1977.
M2) Horace White Butte County, CA Marriage Records, by Paradise Genealogical Society, Paradise, Butte, CA Book A, p. 80. Text: Horace White marries M.J. Crane 23 JUN 1863 in Chico, Butte, California, USA
All this still leaves Mary J. White alone with her children in the 1870 census in Chico, Twp, Butte County, CA: Mary J. White, aged 30, bp NY; Frank aged 6; Allice A. aged 3; Marinda aged 1 -- all born CA.
Note: Horace White, aged 34, miner, bp MI, is living in Kimshew, Butte County, in 1870. Not sure if he is still married to Mary and simply living in the mining camp or if they are separated or divorced. Mary is living with their three children in Chico.
M3) John Seward Akin Butte County, CA Marriage Records, by Paradise Genealogical Society, Paradise, Butte, CA Book B, p. 413. Text: John Seward Akin marries Mary Jane White 15 OCT 1877 in Chico, Butte, California, USA
1880 census Chico Twp, Butte, CA: John S. Akin, aged 40, farmer, bp NY, both parents NY; Mary J. aged 40, bp NY, both parents NY; John S. Jr. aged 6 months, born December, bp CA; three step-children, last name White: Frank aged 15; Alice aged 13; and Marinda aged 11 -- all born CA, father NY, mother NY.
1900 census Chico Twp, Butte, CA: John S. Aken, aged 60, born Nov. 1839, day laborer, bp AR, both parents NY; Mary J. aged 61, born Sept. 1838, married 22 years, five children w/four living, bp NY, both parents NY; Frank J. [White, step-son] aged 35, born April 1865, day laborer; John aged 20, born Dec. 1879, day laborer, bp CA --for both the father bp AR, mother NY; granddaughter, Amy Chapman, aged 15, born July 1884, bp CA, father AR, mother NY. - Research above courtesy Carolyn Hackett Dowd.
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Chico Daily Record, Monday Morning, March 23, 1903, pg 1 col 1: Mrs. Akin's Death. Mrs. J. Aikin [note spelling], wife of John Aiken, died at 1:30 o'clock yesterday morning. She had been an invalid for a number of years. She was a native of New York, aged 63 years, and had raised a large family of boys and girls, several of whom are living.
The funeral will take place this afternoon at 2 o'clock from the Presbyterian Church.
~~~
63-year-old Mary J. Akin was interred, per the Chico Cemetery Association Records, in the plot noted, on March 23, 1903 (there is no marker).
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