The Searchlight
Redding, Cal.
Sunday, August 16, 1914
PIONEER OF TRINITY AND SHASTA COUNTIES DIES AT AGE OF 82
Michael R. Newman Succumbs In Shasta After A Long Illness (Special to the Searchlight.)
SHASTA, August 15 Michael R. Newman, pioneer of Shasta and Trinity counties passed away at 4:30 this morning. His illness was of long duration. For two years he had been in feeble health and at several times he was near death, but he always pulled through. Nr. Newman ate a hearty breakfast yesterday morning and then asked to be laid on the bed. His son, Louis H. Newman, assisted him to his couch.
"Who are you?" the father asked.
"Why I am Louis," the son answered.
"No, you are not Louis," answered the pioneer, who only a few minutes before had chatted cheerfully and familiarly across the breakfast table with his son.
It was plain that the pioneer's mind had slipped away from him. He dropped into unconsciousness and so remained until he breathed his last this morning at break of day.
Michael R. Newman was born in Kentucky. He would have been eighty-two years of age in November next. He came to California in 1852, before he was of age, crossing the plains. Mr. Newman followed mining in the early days, dividing his residence between Shasta and Trinity counties, taking a turn once in a while at the goldfields in Siskiyou. In his old age he engaged in business, and for the last ten years he made his home in this old town.
The pioneer's wife passed away eleven years ago. The couple had eight children, four of whom are living: Louis H. Newman, Shasta; M. Reuben Newman, Sacramento; A. Jackson Newman, Susanville, and Mrs. W. E. Baker, Redding. Several grandchildren are left, among them being these: Miss Maud Newman, Miss Hattie Baker, Miss Ione Baker, Miss Ida Baker, all of Redding, and Sam Baker of Mammoth, Boon Baker of Nevada and Eugene Baker of Trinity.
Mr. Newman was a member of the Weaverville lodge of Odd
Fellows. He was also a Mason and a Knight of Pythias. The
Redding lodge of Odd Fellows will conduct the funeral, which
will be held in Redding at 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon.
Interment by the Houston Undertaking company.
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The Morning Searchlight
Redding, Cal.
Tuesday, August 1, 1905
THE LAST BUT ONE OF FAMILY IS GONE
Jesse Nicholas Woodward Died Sunday at Whiskeytown Home
The last but one of the most prominent families of the early days of Shasta County has followed his father, mother, sisters and two brothers into the Great Beyond.
Jesse Nicholas Woodward, youngest member of the family of O. P. Woodward, Sr., died Sunday in the house where he was born, the Woodward Hotel, at Whiskeytown. He was 27 years and 26 days old on the day of his death.
For several months he had suffered from acute tuberculosis and his usual robust body was wasted away to a shadow. He realized that the end was near and received the ministrations of Father Nugent of the Catholic Church of this city. He was tenderly cared for and given every attention by his surviving brother, John R. Woodward, and his brother-in-law, John R. Schilling.
The body was brought to this city and the funeral took place
at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon from the Catholic Church. The
interment took place in the Woodward family burial plot in the
Catholic Cemetery.
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The Searchlight
Redding, Shasta County, California
Tuesday, October 26, 1926
MRS. MARY CATHERINE BOWLES, REAL COVERED WAGON BABY, DIES HERE
Mother Of Mrs. J.D. Endicott And J.W. Endicott Succumbs Following Operation
Mrs. Mary Catherine Bowles, who was brought to California from Minnesota by her parents in a covered wagon in 1851, died at St. Caroline Hospital at 9 o'clock last night following an operation. She had been ill two weeks. Arrangements for the funeral have not been made.
Mrs. Bowles was the mother of J.D. Endicott, meat market proprietor of this city; E.W. Endicott, employee of the Associated Oil Company of Sacramento, J.W. Endicott of this city and Clay A. Bowles, Southern Pacific fireman of Dunsmuir. She leaves a brother, J.P. McNeil, in Miami, Arizona.
Mrs. Bowles was born in Minnesota in 1850 and came to this state with her parents when one year old. Her first husband was J.E. Endicott, who died in Red Bluff thirty-three years ago. She then married C.A. Bowles, who died in this city last Armistice Day.
All of the sons are here except Clay Bowles, who is expected
to arrive this morning. Arrangements will be completed for the
funeral on his arrival. Burial will either be in this city or
Red Bluff.
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The Searchlight
Redding, Shasta County, California
Thursday, November 12, 1925
PARALYSIS FATAL TO C.A. BOWLES
Old Resident of Kennett Died In Redding Wednesday Morning
Columbus A. Bowles passed away at 8:15 Wednesday morning in the family's apartment house, 202 Pine street, as the result of a third stroke of paralysis.
The decedent was born in Missouri and was aged 76 years. He leaves the widow, Mrs. Catherine M. Bowles, and one son, Clay Bowles, a fireman on the Southern Pacific. He was step-father of J.C. Endicott, the butcher.
Columbus A. Bowles made his home in Kennett for thirty years, and was employed there most of the time by the Mammoth Copper Company. He and his wife moved to Redding a few months ago, when they bought the Pine Street apartment house from Milton Baragar.
The funeral will be held in the chapel of the Home
Undertaking Company Friday afternoon.
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WEEKLY SHASTA COURIER
Saturday, June 13, 1896
SAD FATALITY
If ever the saying, "In the midst of life we are in death," was exemplified it was last Sunday, when Paul Wellendorff, who a few days before had left us full of life and hope and strength of youth, was brought back, cold in the embrace of death, to be laid away forever, "in his windowless palace of rest." The young man, who was teaming for Porter and Eligh, left Redding for Cinnabar last week, with a four-horse load of miscellaneous mining supplies. Owing to the nature of the load, 200 pounds of black powder had to be placed in the front wagon, under the seat, where it was loaded by an experienced hand, with burlap sacking and sacks of barley placed about it for protection. How the accident occurred is, and will be a mystery. Old teamsters say that powder invariably escapes from cans, into the bed of the wagon and either by friction with cans or iron work or a spark from gravel, the powder was ignited. The accident occurred near Morgan's Ranch, June 6th. Wellendorff had just watered his horses at a creek, and conversed with a camper who was writing a letter under a tree near the road, and who witnessed the accident. The team started up, and just after striking a chuckhole the explosion occurred. Wellendorff was hurled sixty feet in the air and fell in front of the horses, who stopped over his body. As soon as possible assistance was summoned, but the unfortunate young man expired about two hours after. The Coroner's jury found that the death was caused by fractures of the skull and injuries resulting from explosion and fall. It was also brought out that the explosion was not caused by smoking or through any carelessness of the deceased. The two wagons were wrecked.
The remains were taken to Shasta and interred Sunday afternoon, being escorted to the grave in the Odd Fellows and Masonic cemetery, by Mt. Shasta Parlor, No. 35, N.S.G.W, and Odd Fellows from the French Gulch, Shasta and Redding lodges. At the grave, the N.S.G.W. funeral services were held, followed by prayer by Rev. Macquarrie, and the mortal remains of Paul Wellendorff were consigned to the plot of earth, where just 23 years ago, his mother was laid away in eternal rest.
Paul C. Wellendorff, was a native of California, 29 years of
age, a son of Dr. Louis Wellendorff, a former resident of
Shasta. Although of a quiet, unassuming disposition, he
possessed excellent traits of character that made him many
friends, and the members from his native town, and from other
communities where he was known, who gathered around his grave,
were eloquent tokens of regard and esteem....
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Weekly Shasta Courier
Shasta, Cal.
Saturday, June 13, 1896
HENRY W. WHEELER
In San Francisco June 4th, Henry Wm. Wheeler departed this life. Mr. Wheeler was well known in this part of the state and was the first and efficient superintendent of the Red Cross Lumber company with headquarters at Mott. Under his supervision the company built its first mill at Mott, also the mill at Bartlee on the McCloud, and later the mill on Soda Creek. On disolving [sic] his connection with the Red Cross Company Wheeler and Eli Knight built the Castle creek sawmill near Castella.
He leaves to mourn his loss a wife, Mrs. Maryette Wheeler and
a step-daughter. He was a devoted Odd Fellow and was a member
of Castle Rock Lodge No. 349, Mt. Shasta Encampment No. 87,
and Red Bluff Canton. The deceased had been in poor
health for some time and went to San Francisco for medical
treatment, and everything possible to alleviate his sufferings
was brought into requisition. The remains were brought to
Dunsmuir and given burial with the honors of the fraternities
to which he belonged.
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Millville Tidings
Millville, Shasta County, California
Friday, December 29, 1918
MINISTER'S SON DIES FOR DEMOCRACY
The communication from A. F. Witt, Sunday school organizer and close friend of Rev. and Mrs. Pierce of this place, surely verifies the report that their son, William Pierce, Jr., was killed in action.
William Pierce, Jr., was born at Hollister and was 22 years of age. He was a first class private of Company A, 316th Engineers reaching Camp Lewis May 1st, 1918, and left the first week in July for France, bein in the service less than six months.
He loved the mountains, and spent much of his time there, all of his summers being passed in the Yosemite or the high Sierras.
He registered first from Mariposa, then transferred to
Millville in order to make a last visit to his father and
step-mother, which was during the month of last April.
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Millville Tidings
Millville, Shasta county, California
Friday, November 8, 1918
MRS. ELLA BOSANKO VICTIM OF INFLUENZA
Mrs. Ella Bosanko died at Ingot this morning from influenza.
Mrs. Bosanko leaves a husband, Henry Bosanko, and two
children, son and daughter.
Deceased was a sister of the Lack brothers, M. D., Mac., John,
Charley, and George.
Funeral arrangements had not been completed at this writing.
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Millville Tidings
Millville, Shasta County, California
Friday, November 1, 1918
DEATH OF MRS. ROGERS
Mrs. Martha Jane Rogers, for 34 years a resident of Shasta county, died in Oakland Friday evening, October 25, in the home of her daughter, Mrs. Emma Messenger Smith, with whom she had made her home for the past year. She was the mother of F. W. Rogers, a farmer of Palo Cedro, and the widow of L. A. Rogers, who opened the first store at that place years ago.
Mrs. Rogers was born in Tennessee and was aged 89 years. A little over a year ago she fell accidentally and broke her hip, making her a permanent invalid.
The funeral was held in Millville Monday afternoon, funeral
services being held at the grave. Rev. Wm. Pierce officiating,
interment being made by the side of her departed husband in
the Masonic cemetery.
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Redding Courier-Free Press
Friday, February 23, 1934
MRS. NANCY FISHER PASSES SUDDENLY IN MILLVILLE HOME
Mrs. Nancy Mears Fisher, one of the earliest settlers of Shasta county, passed away Wednesday at the ranch home in the Millville section where she had resided 78 years.
Stricken suddenly after she had prepared the evening meal, Mrs. Fisher succumbed in a short time. It was her first serious illness and the first time a physician ever had been called to attend her.
Mrs. Fisher was born in Illinois, March 12, 1852. She would have been 82 years old next month. At the age of four years she was brought to Shasta county by her parents, settling on the farm near Millville, where she spent the remainder of her life.
The trip across the plains was filled with dangers and excitement for the little girl. Attacked by Indians, the family lost all its horses and the use of cattle was required to pull the wagons.
Mrs. Fisher's husband passed away in 1904. She is survived by one son, Chester A. Fisher who resided with her at Millville; four nephews, W. H. Mears, W. B. Mears, J. S. Mears and J. R. Mears, all of Millville; two nieces, Mrs. Maggie Nelson of Imperial and Mrs. Roxie Gilbert of Millville; a sister-in-law, Mrs. J. K. Mears of Millville; seven grandchildren, and eight great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be conducted Friday afternoon at 2
o'clock at the graveside in the Masonic cemetery at Millville.
Rev. P. T. Coleman, pastor of the Redding Baptist church, will
officiate and interment will be made by McDonald & Scott.
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Redding Record-Searchlight
Thursday, June 22, 1961
Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Burdick, who died yesterday at her home, 1454 Court street, came to Redding from Missouri in a covered wagon in 1888.
She was born in Missouri, Dec. 16, 1872. For 50 years she lived at the present site of the Bank of America.
She leaves two daughters, Mrs. Glen E. South, and Mrs. Hugh Brinkeroff, and a brother, Jim Edwards. She also leaves eight grandchildren, 19 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.
Funeral services will be Saturday at 10:30 a.m. at McDonald's
chapel. The Rev. Richard H. Walsh will officiate. Burial will
be in Redding cemetery.
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Redding (Calif.) Record-Searchlight
Thursday, August 23, 1951
MRS. MOORE OF GAS POINT DIES
Mrs. Laura Eva Moore, 68, Gas Point, died yesterday at Enloe memorial hospital, Chico.
Services will be held Saturday afternoon at 2:30 at McDonald's chapel. Burial will be in the family plot at Cottonwood cemetery.
She had recently taught school at Gas Point, and previously during her 32 years as a teacher had also been at Cloverdale, Lone Tree and Antelope schools.
A resident of the state all her life, Mrs. Moore had lived in Shasta county since she was 10 years old. She was a member of the Native Daughters of the Golden West, Camelia parlor, Anderson, Mt. Lassen Grange, Cottonwood, and the Shasta County Historical society.
She leaves two daughters, Mrs. Lois Oliff, El Cajon, and Mrs.
Inez Ruddy, Chico; and two sons, Joe B. Moore, Cottonwood, and
Harold F. Moore, Yuba City. She also leaves one nephew,
Julius M. Martin, Red Bluff.
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