Historical Faces and Views of Stanislaus County

 

The following are families, faces and scenes from early Stanislaus county.  If you might have a one that you would like to add please contact the county coordinator.  Photographs provided in JPEG format are appreciated.  As the file grows these will be made as thumbnail photographs.



"Stanislaus Street in Modesto (later Maze Boulevard).  George Fischer born in Modesto in 1885 was building a home
for his bride to be Emma Kolb born 1890. The picture shows Emma, George's sister Lizzie Fischer and 'Old Bull'. Taken 1907."

George Henry Fischer and Emma May Kolb on their wedding day.  February 15, 1908 in Modesto




George Fischer born 1885 and his brother Admer Fischer born 1888.



At Ransome School Wood Colony.
Mar-6-1919. First Grade
 


Anna Fischer




Fehr's Dried Fruit Yard Employees




The Mother singers were active in the years of the Great Depression




Lulu, Will, George, Lizzie Lucinda, Lizzie Emma and Frank Henry Fischer





James Williamson Paine.  He was born in Giles County Tennessee December 3,1815 and
died Modesto July 9, 1886, buried in Modesto Citizens Cemetery.




Charley (1863-1936) and Lena Paine Kolb (1868-1936) with their old Ford.



Old Truck
Boyd H. Todd and his brother Von at the Borden Plant circa 1930



Annie Elizabeth Mauro
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Mauro
Annie Elizabeth Mauro
Oakdale Citizens' Cemetery
Oakdale, Stanislaus County, CA
Photo by Elizabeth Cook, 26 April 2005

Birth Date: 8 Jan 1880
Birthplace: California (Oakdale)
Death Date: 28 May 1956
Death Place: San Joaquin
Mother's Maiden Name: Bakker
Father's Surname: Kattestaart  

Her family is in the 1880 Oakdale Census (surname mis-spelled):

Kees Kattistaart, 38, Birthplace: South Holland
Mary Kattistaart, 36, Birthplace: South Holland
Maria Kattistaart, 9, dau
Everet Kattistaart, 6, son
Jacob Kattistaart, 4, son
Ryyer Kattistaart, 2, son
Annie Kattistaart, 5M, dau
Annie Schethas, 61, m-i-l

She married Ernest August Scharnhorst, a younger brother of my great grandmother, Julia, sometime between 1900 and 1910, and had a child, Ernest Otto in 1921.  The last I know of them is from the 1930 census, when they lived on land (near Los Banos) patented by her husband's older brother Louis, who died in 1907. Ernest died in 1907.    After his death, she re-married, but I have (yet) found no information about that.


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Albert Scharnhorst
Oakdale Citizens' Cemetery
Oakdale, Stanislaus County, CA
Photo by Elizabeth Cook, 26 April 2005

Birth Date: 1863
Birthplace: California (Tuolumne Co, likely China Camp)
Death Date: 1899
Death Place: Oakdale

Here are two fotos of the gravestone for Albert Scharnhorst, 1863-1899, buried in the Oakdale Citizens Cemetery.  He is the 5th of 10 children of Fred Henry and Josephine Scharnhorst.  Father born in Hanover, and immigrated around 1850.  Mother born in California of parents born in Mexico and California.  As far as I know, Albert never married.  He is the younger brother of my gr grandmother Julia, who married Carl Johann (aka Charles) Ekstedt, had at least a couple of children in the Oakdale-Stockton area, then migrated to the Puget Sound area in Washington State.

 

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Scharnhorst, Ernest August
Oakdale Citizens' Cemetery
Oakdale, Stanislaus County, CA
Photo by Elizabeth Cook, 26 April 2005

Birth Date: 1866 (?)
Birthplace: California (Tuolumne Co, likely China Camp)
Death Date: 1836
Death Place: Oakdale (?)

Here are two fotos of the gravestone for Ernest Scharnhorst.  He is the 5th of 10 children of Fred Henry and Josephine Scharnhorst. Father born in Hanover, and immigrated around 1850.  Mother born in California of parents born in Mexico and California.  He married Annie Elizabeth Kattestaart between 1900 and 1910 and had one child, Ernest Otto, in 1921.  He (apparently) took over the Merced Co land of his younger brother Louis (who died in 1907), but later lived in O'Neal Township, San Joaquin Co.


Elizabeth Cook
Fairbanks, Alaska

 

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Johnson Elementary (or Joint Elementary) Grades 3-4-5th 1943



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