In February of 1937 the widow Minnie Beatrice Green Heath wrote an article for ‘The Grizzly Bear' titled: Nancy Kelsey: The First Woman to Cross the Plains." This article reprints the deathbed narrative of a pioneer Nancy Kelsey and was originally published in the San Francisco Examiner just after Nancy Kelsey's death in 1896. It is also contained and reprinted in the California Historical Quarterly published by the California Historical Society in 1968. Minnie Heath it was said ‘a young woman who had come to teach school in Cuyama, took to walking over the hill to talk to her neighbor Nancy Kelsey, three or four times a week, and to hear the old ladies stories of pioneer times. Nancy told good stories and Minnie Heath was enthralled."
This death notice appeared in the newspaper for Minnie Beatrice Heath:
Funeral services for Minnie Beatrice Heath, 77, who died at her home, 1908 Twenty-fourth Street, Thursday, will be held at 2:10 p.m. Saturday at Payne and Son Chapel with the Rev W.R. Wheatland officiating. Interment will be held in the family plot, Union Cemetery (Bakersfield). A resident of Bakersfield for the past 29 years, she is survived by two sisters, Mrs. R.B. Sanders (Ralph B Sanders married her sister Georgia Florence Green June 1908 in Bakersfield) , Bakersfield; Mrs. Martha Ellen Cheney (Martha Ellen Green married Walter Cheney) of Taft; three brothers, John L. (John Lewis Green born Jan 12 1873), Bert, and D.R. Green (Douglas Ray Green born Jan 13 1891), all of Bakersfield.
In February of 1937 the widow Minnie Beatrice Green Heath wrote an article for ‘The Grizzly Bear' titled: Nancy Kelsey: The First Woman to Cross the Plains." This article reprints the deathbed narrative of a pioneer Nancy Kelsey and was originally published in the San Francisco Examiner just after Nancy Kelsey's death in 1896. It is also contained and reprinted in the California Historical Quarterly published by the California Historical Society in 1968. Minnie Heath it was said ‘a young woman who had come to teach school in Cuyama, took to walking over the hill to talk to her neighbor Nancy Kelsey, three or four times a week, and to hear the old ladies stories of pioneer times. Nancy told good stories and Minnie Heath was enthralled."
This death notice appeared in the newspaper for Minnie Beatrice Heath:
Funeral services for Minnie Beatrice Heath, 77, who died at her home, 1908 Twenty-fourth Street, Thursday, will be held at 2:10 p.m. Saturday at Payne and Son Chapel with the Rev W.R. Wheatland officiating. Interment will be held in the family plot, Union Cemetery (Bakersfield). A resident of Bakersfield for the past 29 years, she is survived by two sisters, Mrs. R.B. Sanders (Ralph B Sanders married her sister Georgia Florence Green June 1908 in Bakersfield) , Bakersfield; Mrs. Martha Ellen Cheney (Martha Ellen Green married Walter Cheney) of Taft; three brothers, John L. (John Lewis Green born Jan 12 1873), Bert, and D.R. Green (Douglas Ray Green born Jan 13 1891), all of Bakersfield.
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