San Joaquin County
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MRS. SARAH A. FRENCH.
MRS. SARAH A. FRENCH, manager
of a farm in O’Neil Township, was born in South Deerfield, Massachusetts,
September 6, 1829, daughter of Daniel D. and Ann (Jewett) McCloud, both natives
of Massachusetts; the father was born October 19, 1792, and died October 4,
1841, aged forty-nine years; the mother was born April 16, 1795, and died
January 21, 1878, at the age of eighty-one years and nine months.
Sarah McCloud, the subject of
this sketch, was married in North Adams, Massachusetts, in 1852, to W. B.
French, a native of Hotchkissville, Connecticut. He
was born August 16, 1819, and died July 22, 1882, leaving his wife and a family
of four children, viz: William A., born March 26,
1853; Emma S., May 29, 1855; George M., December 23, 1857; and Hattie M.,
August 10, 1863, now the wife of Mr. Jones, a farmer, of San Joaquin County.
Mr. and Mrs. French struggled
hard to get their comfortable home. They came to California in 1852, settling
in Stockton, where there was but one wooden house at
the time. In the flood of 1862 they lost 300 head of cattle, and in 1874 their
house was destroyed by fire, but, nothing daunted, they set to work again, and
by their industry and perseverance at last succeeded in saving the means with
which to buy the ranch on which Mrs. French now resides. It contains 150 acres,
situated four miles from Stockton, on the Mariposa road, principally devoted to
the raising of wheat and fruit.
The death of Mr. French was a
loss to the community. He was respected by all, and had many friends.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
An Illustrated History of San Joaquin County,
California, Page 451. Lewis Pub. Co. Chicago, Illinois 1890.
© 2009 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
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