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Joaquin County
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MRS. ELIZA DEMORETTA FORE
Among the pioneer women of San
Joaquin County is Mrs. Eliza Demoretta Fore, residing
two miles west of Lodi on the Kelly Road, where she owns an excellent ten-acre
ranch all under cultivation. She is a
good business manager, and since her husband’s death has most creditably borne
the obligations and duties laid upon her by that event. She is a native of Cameron, Missouri, a
daughter of John and Catherine (Nave) Miner, both parents being natives of
Kentucky, where her father plied his trade of saddlemaker
and also engaged in farming pursuits; later he became a merchant. There were six children in the family,
namely: Malissa,
Cassa, Winfield Scott, Eliza, our subject, and
Joseph. Thee father lived to be
seventy-five years old and the mother ninety-five.
Eliza Demoretta
received her education in the grammar schools of Cameron, Missouri, and on
March 4, 1877, was married to Millard Henry Fore, also a native of Missouri, a
son of Charles Fore, who was a farmer.
Mr. Fore owned eighty acres in Linn County, Missouri, and on this farm
the young married couple lived until 1882, when they sold it and came west to
Oregon, where he purchased land and resumed his farming pursuits, also leasing
250 acres. However, they resided in
Oregon only one year, then removed to Woodbridge,
where he made his home until his death in 1909.
Seven years ago, Mrs. Fore built a house on their ten-acre vineyard
property, where she now resides.
Mr. and Mrs. Fore were the parents
of eight children: Charles Rucker is
married and a rancher; Clarence Lester is married and has one daughter, Phyllis
Lucile; Jewell Pearl, Mrs. Grimsley, has one
daughter, Golden Madue; Goldie, Mrs. Guy C. Lewis,
has two sons, Torrence and Roland; Millard L. resides
on the home place; Claude Elmo is married and has three children, Claude Elmo,
Jr., Burdette Marion, and Dorothy Lorraine; Burdette Cornell lives at home; and
Noble D. resides at Stockton. Three of
the sons served their country during the World War. Millard served in England as a cook in the
officers’ department; Burdette served in France in Company C, 145th
Machine Gun Battalion of the 40th Division; and Noble was in Company
10 A of the recruit camp at Camp Kearney.
Mrs. Fore is a Democrat in her
political affiliations. She is a member
of the Women’s Auxiliary of the American Legion, the Women’s North Side Club, and
the White Apron Club of Lafayette Hall district. Mrs. Fore has favored all measures for the
promotion of the social, material, intellectual and moral welfare of her
community, where she has made many friends.
During the forty years of her residence in San Joaquin County, she has
seen many changes and has watched the development of San Joaquin County as it
has emerged from pioneer conditions to become a factor in the progress and
prosperity of the state.
Transcribed by Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
944. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 Gerald Iaquinta.
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