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Terry Mason's Family History Site25,070 names. Major lines: Allen, Beck, Borden, Buck, Burden, Carpenter, Carper, Cobb, Cook, Cornell, Cowan, Daffron, Davis, Downing, Faubion, Fauntleroy, Fenter, Fishback, Foulks, Gray, Harris, Heimbach, Henn, Holland, Holtzclaw, Jackson, Jameson, Johnson, Jones, King, Lewis, Mason, Massengill, McAnnally, Moore, Morgan, Overstreet, Price, Peck, Rice, Richardson, Rogers, Samuel, Smith, Taylor, Thomas, Wade, Warren, Weeks, Webb, Wodell, Yeiser. |
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Menefee, Eugene L. and Fred A. Dodge. "History of Tulare and Kings Counties California." Los Angeles, California: Historic Record Company, 1913.
Pgs. 582-584: Gilbert M. L. married Laura E. Shaw, and following are the names of their eight children: Levi, Letitia A., John H., Laura B., Martha J., James S., Mary A. and Jesse L. Levi married Adeline Filey, who bore him two sons. Letitia A. became the wife of Alfred Wooley and had two daughter. John J. married Martha Filey and they were the parents of three children. Laura B. became the wife of George Hill and the mother of this three sons and one daughter. Martha J. married John Findley and has borne him three daughters and a son. Mary A. married George T. Seamunds. Jesse L. took for his wife May Downing and they have a son. Mr. Dean has sixteen grandchildren and one of his granddaughters is married.
For several years Mr. Dean lived near Visalia, where he carried on an extensive stock business and raised corn and vegetables. He remembers when he thought he was doing well to sell one hundred pounds of shelled corn for seventy-five cents. He was for a time engaged in freighting from Stockton and had a government contract to deliver supplies for soldiers at Fort Independence. He voted at the first election in the county, casting his ballot for Lincoln with his father, under an oak tree in the open. He remembers well when the county seat was changed. He herded stock quite extensively and sold many cattle at the mines in California and Nevada and was for a time in business in Visalia. In 1867 he homesteaded land in the county, which later he sold in order to lease a ranch of nine hundred acres for stock raising purposes. He keeps an average of two hundred head of cattle and horses and sufficient number of hogs for his own use.
! Mr. Dean's experiences in Tulare county cover the period of much of its development. He has seen land which was formerly worth only $1.25 an acre sold for $5 to $20 an acre and other lands at much higher prices at corresponding increase in value. During his early years here he hunted a good deal, killing many deer and bear. He has seen as many as two hundred and fifty deer in a single winter and more than one hundred bear, sometimes in groups of eight or ten. At one time he shot a bear which had come to the mill at Visalia for water. He killed also many antelope and saw numerous elk. For a time his association with Indians was rather intimate and they often called upon him for advice in their relations with their white neighbors. At one time they counselled with him as to whether they should give a war dance or peace dance at Isham. His knowledge of Spanish and of Indian tongues made him useful in this capacity. He has been school trustee of the Isham Valley school fourteen years. In politics he is a Democrat and as a citizen he is markedly public-spirited. Mrs. Dean passed away in February, 1911, after forty-nine years of wedded happiness."
