Sacramento County
Biographies
MRS. ROSE
SARMENT
MRS. ROSE SARMENT.--This rancher of Sacramento County was born on Grand Island, Sacramento County, a daughter of John and Mary Smith. Miss Rose Smith received her education at the Georgiana district school in the vicinity of her father’s ranch. In March, 1896, at San Francisco, Miss Smith was first married to John Bettencourt, a native of the Azores Islands, a son of Antone and Antonette Bettencourt. John Bettencourt was a young man of twenty-one years when he left his native land and came to California, first settling in Butte County, where he engaged in farm work. Removing to Sacramento County, he worked on farms in the delta region; then leased fifty acres, where he raised beans and asparagus, remaining there for twelve years.
In November, 1908, Mr. And Mrs. Bettencourt located on a portion of the John Smith ranch on Andrus Island where Mr. Smith had built a house for them. Upon the death of her father, Mrs. Bettencourt received as her share of the estate, seventy-seven acres of the home place where she has since made her home. Mr. And Mrs. Bettencourt were the parents of four children: Rose married John Bisista, a native of Hungary, and they have three children, Winona, Dariel, and Winston; they reside on a portion of the home ranch; Mary; Elsie married Peter Lausten, a native of California and they have two children, Iris and Dorothy; and this family also lives on the home place; John is the fourth child. Mr. Bettencourt passed away March 22, 1909. The second marriage of Mrs. Bettencourt occurred May 7, 1910, which united her with Joseph G. Sarment.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With
Biographical Sketches, Page 935.
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Taylor.