Sacramento County
Biographies
ALEXANDER MONROE WARNOCK
ALEXANDER MONROE WARNOCK, farmer, of Lee
Township, was born in Putnam
County, Illinois, April 10,
1830, his parents being James A. and Elizabeth (McCord) Warnock. The
father, a native of South Carolina, died in Putnam County, Illinois, in 1862,
aged seventy-two; the mother a native of Pennsylvania, died in 1852, aged fifty-two. They
had moved to Illinois in 1828, soon after their marriage
in Ohio, whither grandfather McCord had moved from Pennsylvania
some years before. Grandfather Joseph Warnock was the son of an Irish
emigrant, Michael, who settled in Pendleton County,
South Carolina, in 1768. Joseph moved
with his family to Brown County, Ohio,
thence to Indiana, and finally settled in Putnam
County, Illinois where he died
about 1840, aged seventy-seven. Grandmother Margaret (Sumter)
Warnock died several years earlier, at the age of sixty. Grandparents
William and Elizabeth McCord also settled in Putnam County,
Illinois, and died there, the latter about
1845, at the age of eighty-six. A. M. Warnock received a district-school
education and was brought up on his father’s farm, helping on the same until he
was twenty. In 1850 he bought in partnership with his brother a
Mexican-war land warrant and located 160 acres in Grundy
County, Illinois. In 1853
he sold his eighty, and set out for California, March
24, 1853, arriving at Placerville
September 10. He mined in that section eight years during the mining
season, usually coming down into the plains in summer, and working more or less
in various lines as opportunity offered. In March, 1861, he was married in
Placerville to Emeline
Johnson, and moved into Douglas County, Nevada, where he carried on teaming for
twelve years. In 1873 he moved into Sacramento
County, settling at Franklin. He
bought a hay-press and followed that line of business until 1880. He then
rented a ranch of 240 acres about three miles north of Franklin,
which he held three years. In 1883 he rented 525 acres, five miles above Routier, which he still holds. In 1885 he rented a
part of the Davis place, in Lee
Township, and in 1888 the whole
1,200 acres. On both places he does general farming, raising grain of all
kinds besides horses, cattle and hogs. The children of Mrs. Warnock—the
first three being by a former husband named Alcock,
but entirely identified with the new family and bearing its name—are: Elizabeth,
now Mrs. Silas Grant*, residing in Canada; Walter E., born in 1855, and Samuel
M., in 1857, both interested in the working of the two farms occupied and
worked by the Warnock family and their hired help. James Archibald
Warnock, born in Nevada in 1863, is married to Ella, a daughter of Milton
Sherwood, of Sacramento, is the father of two boys and is farming near Elk
Grove; Isabel, born in 1865; Ella, in 1868; Gertrude, in 1870; Alexander
Victor, in 1872; Arlie Etta, in 1874, the last named being a native of
California and the others of Nevada.
Transcribed 11-20-07 Marilyn R. Pankey.
Source: Davis, Hon. Win. J., An Illustrated
History of Sacramento County, California. Pages 764-765.
Lewis Publishing Company. 1890.
© 2007 Marilyn R. Pankey.
*The biography mentions
".....Elizabeth, now Mrs. Silas Grant, residing in Canada".
"Grant" is an incorrect surname
spelling for Silas. The name should be "Grout". Silas Grout was
my great-grandfather. Silas and Elizabeth had 8 children.
Child #7 was Oscar Grout, my grandfather. The biography also mentions three
children by Alcock.
Alcock may or may not be correct. Two
cousins and I are searching for confirmation. I hope Alcock
is correct. I will let you know if we determine otherwise. (28 April 2008)
Gail Grout Dahm
oldbears@comcast.net