Sutter County
Biographies
LEWIS T. STERNES
LEWIS T. STERNES. A
practical, industrious and thrifty rancher, Lewis T. Sternes
is closely identified with the agricultural and horticultural interests of
Sutter county, his ranch being pleasantly located six
miles northwest of Yuba City. Beginning
life for himself with no assets excepting strong hands and a willing heart, he
has labored courageously, and by dint of strenuous toil and wise management has
increased the forty cents that was his sole capital when he arrived, a boy of
nineteen, in Santa Rosa, to a comfortable competency. A son of Joshua Sternes,
he was born, February 27, 1855, in Ray county,
Mo.
Joshua Sternes
was born and bred in Old Virginia, and when a young man went to Missouri, where
he worked for a few years as a brick mason.
Crossing the plains in 1864 with his family, he lived for two years in
Nevada, and the following two years was a resident of Jacksonville, Ore. Migrating from there to California in 1868,
he lived in Sacramento until his death, at the age of fifty years. He married Sophia Shaw, who was born in
Missouri, whither her parents settled on removing from Tennessee, their native
state. She died in Oregon, leaving six
children, all of whom her mother, Mrs. Shaw, took back with her to the old home
town in Ray county, Mo.
Returning with his maternal grandmother
to Missouri in 1868, Lewis T. Sternes remained
there six years, completing his education in the public schools. In 1874 he came to California, arriving in
Santa Rosa with but forty cents in his pockets.
Learning the trade of a blacksmith, he worked at it four years, and in
1878 located in Sutter county, buying eighty acres of
the land included in his present home ranch.
The land was raw and uncultivated, but he at once began its
improvement. As he succeeded well in his
operations he was soon enabled to purchase forty acres of adjacent land, and
subsequently made still another purchase, increasing the size of his ranch to
one hundred and fifty-five acres. He
erected a small blacksmith’s shop on the farm, and for many years was kept busily employed, although he now does his own
repairing and blacksmithing only. He has
been very successful as a general farmer, and for some time rented land, which
he managed in addition to carrying on his own.
He has erected substantial buildings on his place, and has a good
orchard of five acres, a vineyard of twenty-five acres, and has the remainder
of his farm in grain land or pasture.
October 10, 1883, Mr. Sternes married Jennie Thorp, a native of Sutter county, and they are the parents of two children,
Floyd G., twenty years of age, employed in a railway office in San
Francisco; and Sadie, at home.
Politically Mr. Sternes is liberal in
local affairs, but in national matters is a stanch[sic]
Democrat. Fraternally he belongs to the
Woodmen of the World.
[Inserted by D.
Toole.]
Lewis
T. Sternes
Findagrave
Memorial:
Lewis T. Sternes
Birth: Feb.
27, 1855
Death: Sep.
19, 1909
Burial: Sutter Cemetery, Sutter, Sutter
County, California, USA; Plot: 1-90-3
Created by: jj
Record added: Mar 10, 2014
Find A Grave
Memorial# 126158360
1943 Oct 25, Sacramento Bee, P10,
Sacramento, California
New Guard Unit is Set Up in Marysville
Marysville (Yuba Co.), Oct. 25 – Floyd
G. Sternes announced he has begun the formation of a
company of the California State Guard to replace the old company F, California
National Guard, which was inducted into the armed forces before war began. The company will be known as company A, 2nd Battalion, 24th Regiment of the California State
Guard. Sternes,
recently commissioned a captain, has had long experience in local military
organizations. The new organization will
accept men from 18 to 60 and will work with other agencies for the protection
of the home front. Sternes
is recruiting the company evenings. He
lives at 811 Seventh Street.
1946 Jul 23, Sacramento Bee, P9,
Sacramento, California
West Butte Native Dies in Marysville
Hospital
Yuba City (Sutter Co.), July 23. Mrs. Jennie Sternes
Olson, 86, a native of West Butte, Sutter County, died yesterday in the Rideout Memorial Hospital in Marysville. Mrs. Olson was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
J. Thorpe, early day residents. She
lived her entire life in Sutter County with the exception of 15 years spent in
Sacramento. She is survived by her son,
Floyd Sternes of Marysville and her daughter, Mrs.
Marie Jacobs of Fair Oaks. Funeral services will be held at 10 A.M.
tomorrow in Hutchison’s Colonial Chapel.
Transcribed by Donna Toole.
Source: History
of the State of California & Biographical Record of Coast Counties,
California by Prof. J. M. Guinn, A. M., Pages 638-641. The Chapman
Publishing Co., Chicago, 1904.
© 2017 Donna Toole.
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