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Solano History 16 records found  1 - 10next  jump to record: Search took 0.02 seconds. 
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Vaca settlers help raise a college / Goerke-Shrode, Sabine [190] [WAYITWAS-2003-190]
This continues the story of David and Jane Gray Creighton after they settled in Vacaville in 1863. The story is based on the diaries of David Creighton, transcribed by his great-granddaughter, Josephine Farmer Albrecht. Her daughter, Kirsten Llamas of Florida, granted permission to use diaries, letters and photographs - Editor.
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Trains speed Elmira to S.F. trip in 1868 / Goerke-Shrode, Sabine [194] [WAYITWAS-2003-194]
This column continues the story of David and Jane Gray Creighton during the 1870s. It is based on the diaries of David Creighton, transcribed by his great-granddaughter Josephine Farmer Albrecht. I'd like to thank her daughter, Kirsten Llamas of Florida, for permission to use diaries, letters and photographs for these columns. Editor.
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Vaca settler's diary reveals busy days / Goerke-Shrode, Sabine [192] [WAYITWAS-2003-192]
This continues the story of David and Jane Gray Creighton, based on the diaries of David Creighton, transcribed by his great-granddaughter Josephine Farmer Albrecht. - Editor
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Hardship punctuates their long lives / Goerke-Shrode, Sabine [197] [WAYITWAS-2003-197]
This column finishes the story of David and Jane Gray Creighton. It is based on the diaries of David Creighton, transcribed by his great-granddaughter Josephine Farmer Albrecht. I'd like to thank her daughter, Kirsten Llamas of Florida, for permission to use diaries, letters and photographs for these columns.
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Diary of 1873 tells of a smitten young man / Goerke-Shrode, Sabine [649] [WAYITWAS-2006-649]
Several years ago, Kirsten Llamas, the great-great-great-granddaughter of David Creighton, one of the earlier settlers in the Vacaville area, shared some of her family's diaries and letters with me.
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Diaries chronicle a long road west / Goerke-Shrode, Sabine [188] [WAYITWAS-2003-188]
Recently, a great-great-great-granddaughter of one of the early settlers in the Vacaville area, David Creighton, approached me with the news that she would like to share some of his diaries and letters with me.
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Pioneer settler wanted land, not gold / Goerke-Shrode, Sabine [136] [WAYITWAS-2002-136]
Though he was born in Orange County, Va., on May 30, 1808, he grew up in Kentucky. Like many young frontier men, he felt the urge to move further west. The year 1830 found him as a farmer in New London, Miss., where he married Cornelia Catherine Lamme, a great-granddaughter of Daniel Boone, on Jan. 19, 1830.
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Settler's humor helped her cope in pioneer days / Goerke-Shrode, Sabine [4] [WAYITWAS-2000-4]
During the early years of the Gold Rush, women were a rare sight, especially in the gold fields, but also in the newly forming settlements. One of the few who braved the hardships of the journey was 28-year-old Luzena Stanley Wilson, who, together with her husband Mason Wilson and her two toddler-aged children, came to Vacaville in the spring of 1851.
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Vaca streets named for earliest settlers / Delaplane, Kristin [321] [ECHOS-1997-321]
In 1852, Mason Wilson and his wife, Luzena, a North Carolina native, arrived from the gold fields to harvest the wild hay in Solano that was selling for $150 a ton in San Francisco. Traveling in a covered wagon, they arrived in Vacaville and set up their rig on Main Street.
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Diaries reveal a persistent courtship / Goerke-Shrode, Sabine [653] [WAYITWAS-2006-653]
This installment continues the story of Thomas Jefferson Mize, also known as "TJ" or Jeff, and Mary Melissa Creighton, based on their respective diaries during 1874 and 1875.
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