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LAWRENCE POUNDSTONE
A successful rancher of San Joaquin
County is Lawrence Poundstone, who was born in El Dorado, California, April 19,
1878, a son of the pioneer miner Lawrence Ryder Poundstone, who crossed the plains
to California in 1861 from his native state of Pennsylvania. Lawrence Ryder Poundstone married Miss Ann
Burke, a native of Michigan, who also came to California in the early sixties. The father became a miner in El Dorado
County, and was associated with Colonel Hayward. When Colonel Hayward made his great strike
known as the Eureka mine, the father owned a quartz mill about a mile from the
Eureka mine and Colonel Hayward purchased the mill. The father died recently at the age of
eighty-seven.
Lawrence Poundstone obtained his
education in the public schools of Benicia, California. At eighteen years of age he started to work
in one of his father’s mines; and he followed mining with his father until
about four years ago. The Poundstone
family still own interests in two mines on Sutter Creek, Amador County.
At Colusa, on November 25, 1905,
occurred the marriage of Mr. Poundstone and Miss Nellie Frasier, born in Colusa
and a daughter of Jared and Sarah (Alexander) Frasier. Jared Frasier came around the Horn from
Canada to California in the fifties, and helped to build the state capitol
building at Sacramento. Mrs. Poundstone
received her education in the schools of Colusa. She is one of a family of seven children,
three of whom are living. The other
living children are: Neva, Mrs. Coazza of Grimes, California, and Stanley of Colusa. Her father passed away at the age of
sixty-eight, while the mother is still living.
Four years ago Mr. Poundstone purchased 120 acres of land in the
northern part of San Joaquin County, on the Mokelumne River, about eight miles
from Woodbridge. Nine acres of his ranch
is devoted to vineyard and the balance is used for raising grain and for
pasture for his stock; he conducts a dairy of seventeen cows. Four years ago he erected a fine, modern
bungalow residence on his ranch, where he resides with his wife and two
children, Miriam and Lawrence, Jr. Mr.
Poundstone is a member of Henry Clay Lodge of Masons, Sutter Creek. Mrs. Poundstone is a past noble grand of
Sutter Creek Lodge of Rebekahs, and a past worthy matron of the Eastern Star of
Sutter Creek; and she is also a member of the California Parlor, N. D. G. W.,
of Amador City. At the present time Mrs.
Poundstone is clerk of the school board of the Ray District.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1490. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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