Sacramento County
Biographies
JOSEPH
FRANCIS NEVES
JOSEPH FRANCIS NEVES.--One of the landowners and successful asparagus growers is Joseph Francis Neves, who came to the United States from the Azores Islands when he was eighteen years of age. His birth occurred at Fayal, October 16, 1876, a son of Manuel Francis and Mary Gloria (Paniero) Neves. Manuel Francis Neves went to Brazil, South America, when he was a young man and spent twenty years farming there; he returned to Fayal where he married and reared a family of five children: Rosie, of Fayal; Mrs. Francis Charamuga, of Ryde; Manuel, living at Fayal; Joseph Francis, our subject; and Anna, also of Fayal. The father of our subject died at the age of eighty years, the mother is still residing at Fayal, aged eighty years.
Joseph Francis Neves received a public school education at Fayal and at eighteen came to America and spent five months at Newport, R. I.; then he removed to Santa Clara County, Cal., where he spent seven years working on ranches throughout the county; in 1898 he removed to Sacramento County and worked in the delta for one year.
The marriage of Mr. Neves united him with Miss Josephine Smith, a daughter of John Smith, presented elsewhere in this history. She was born near Ryde, on Grand Island, and was educated in the Georgiana School. After their marriage, Mr. And Mrs. Neves spent two years on the John Smith ranch; then leased the Joseph Green ranch, 340 acres, for the next thirteen years; the family then removed to San Jose, but only remained for one year. In 1922 the family settled on seventy-five acres willed to Mrs. Neves by his (sic) father; Mr. Neves also owns seventy acres south of Ryde on Grand Island, which is devoted to general farming. Nine children have been born to Mr. And Mrs. Neves, seven of whom are living: Joseph, who is married and has a son, Walter; Ernest, Albert, Lillian, Vernal, Juliet, Gerald, Julia and George, both deceased. Mr. Neves belongs to the U. P. E. C. Lodge of Rio Vista and the I. D. E. S. of Isleton. Mrs. Neves is a member of U. P. P. E. C. at San Francisco. They are Republicans in national politics.
Transribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With
Biographical Sketches, Page 901-902.
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Taylor.