• ZUMWALT FAMILY HISTORY
complied by
George R,> Zunwalt
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-»• ZUMWAL? FAMILY ARTICLES
Date Title
February 20» 1961 George R0 6 & 7 Zumwalt Completed Information Sheet
2 August 7, 1957 Small Bit of History - Dr„ Elmo Russel 6 Zumwalt
3 August 15, 1957 Zumwalt Family Tree - John 2 Line of George R„ 6 _ 7 Zximwalt
4* August 24, 1957 Andrew 1 Zumwalt - History of Pioneer Families of Missouri
5 August 25, 1957 Daniel 5 Zumwalt - History of California Joseph Oscar 5 Zumwalt - History of Colusa County 6 August 25, 1959
7 August 25, 1957 John Edward 6 Zumwalt - History of California
8 April 1, 1957 James Brown 4 Zumwalt - "Truth"
9 April 2, 1957 James Brown 4 Zumwalt - Fresno State College Library
0 June 1, 1958 Family of John Randall 4 Zumwalt & Sara Parthena Zumwalt
11 October 20,, 1958 Zumwalts in Missouri - Effie Lee 5 & 6 (Zumwalt}McGrath
12 November 11, 1958 Paternal Lineage of George R„ 6 & 7 Zumwalt
3 November 11, 1958 Maternal Lineage of George R„ 6 & 7 Zumwalt
14, November 6, 1958 Relationship of Sarah Parthena 5 Zumwalt & John Randall Zumve:,
15 November 20, 1958 Copy of Will of Andrew 1 Zumwalt
16 February 19, 1959 Ivy James 5 Zumwalt
17 May 1, 1959 Recollections of Solomon 3 Zumwalt
18 June 7, 1959 Joseph 4 Zumwalt and Convival Clampers
39 June 7, 1959 Joseph 4 Zumwalt at Marysville Buttes
20 November 2, 1959 Life of Owen E, 6 & 7 Smith
21 January 1, I960 Antedotes of History of Fort Zumwalt
22 May 1, I960 Joseph 4 Zumwalt at Henness Pass
; i May U, I960 "Away" by G er trude( Zumwalt) Mr s<= Arthur Helm
24 July 1, I960 Impressions of a Journal Man
25 November 23, I960 Ivy George 5 & 6 Zumwalt
26 January 29 o 1961 Manton Ellihue Phillips - History of California - February 210 1961 Family History of Fh5llip 3 Zumwalt & Leah Powell Page Dati3 Title
26 February 28, 1961 History of Fort Zumwalt
29 February 28, 1961 The Frontiersman - Drs Rockwell Do Hunt
30 March 29 , 1961 Daniel Kindle 5 Zumwalt - History of Tulare & Kings County
.31 April 24,, 1961 Revo Benjamin Franklin 5 Zumwalt
32 May 27, L96i 1 My Father John Randall 4 Zumwalt, by Dr„ Reuben S„ Zumwalt
33 August 21, 1961 Picture and Article on Fort Zumwalt - Homer Zumwalt 34 August 24, 1961 Fort Zumwalt Poem 35 December 28, 1961 Biography of James Culiver 6 Mosier
36 February 22, 1962 Zumwalt Romances
37 February 22, 1962 Zumwalts in Lavacca County, Texas
38 January 24, 1962 My Father, David Leslie 5 Zumwalt
39 May 5, 1962 Nathan Heald 4 Zumwalt
40 July 7, 1962 Isaac 4 Zumwalt
41 August 7$ 1962 Judge James M„ 5 Zumwalt
42 August 9S 1962 Mary Ann 4 (Zumwalt)MrSo Richard J„ Harbert
43 •Jxuxe 25, 1962 Nathan Heald 4 Zumwalt (Article #2)
44- June 25? 1962 George Ra 6 & 7 Zumwalt - Jacob 2 Line
45 June 25, 1962 George R0 6 & 7 Zumwalt - John 2 Line
46 December 5, 1962 Christopher Peter 4 Zumwalt
47 December 5, 1962 Nancy 3 (Groce) Mrs0 Solomon 3 Zumwalt
48 December 5, 1962 Andrew Jackson 4 Zumwalt
4.9 February 19, 1963 Edwin L0 6 Zumwa.lt Lineage
50 February 19, 1963 Zumwalt _ Braly Lineage of George R., 6 & 7 Zumwalt
5J March 12s 1963 Andrew Jackson 4 Zumwalt of Irving
52 March. 20s 1963 Dr„ Rockwell Dennis Hung - MrD California
53 March 20, 1963 Historical Series - Restoration of Fort Zumwalt
54 April 10£ 1963 History of the Troxel & Zumwalt. Family
55 r.pril 10; 1963 By Or Team to California
February 28, 1964 Biography of John Henry 5 Zumwalt page Date Title
57 October 8, 1964 Joshua 4 Zumwalt
58 October 8, 1964 Lewis Levi 5 Zumwalt
59 October 8, 1964 Jo Lee 6 Znanwalt
60 November 21, 1964 James Brown 5 Zumwalt
61 January 31, 1965 Biography of Albert 6 Cotton
62 February 10, 1965 Dee 5 Zumwalt, Early Settler in Rio Grande Valley
63 January 129 1966 Fred Ho Zumwalt "In Meraoriam"
64 May 1, 1966 Relic of the 17th Century
65 December 15, 1968 Rear Admiral Elmo R. 8 Zumwalt 2 Zumwalt Lines
ndfather Grandmother
Andrew 1 Z —— .___ & #2 Wo Ann Regina ?? Andrew 1 Z & #2 wn Ann Reg Jacob 2 Z — & #1 Wo Catherine Miller Jacob 2 Z -————i- & #1 Wo Catherine • Andrew 3 Z — _ #1 Wo Elizabeth Price George 3 Z ——— & Mary Killsbrew /illiam 4 Z ~— & Sarah Randall Ivy Jason 4 Z & #1 w<> Sarah James John Randall 5 Z - _ Sarah Parthena Zumwalt Sarah Parthena 5 Z & John Randall Ivy George 6 Z ___ & Mattie Jane Braly Ivy George 6 Z —— & Mattie Jans £ George Rudolph 7 Z & Mildred Stovall George Rudolph 7Z - Mildred Stove
George Rudolph 7 Zumwalt
850 Market Street Colusa. California 95932
When & Mhere born: 27 March 1903 ColusaB California /hen & 'fliere died:__ From what countries did ancestors emigrate to Uc SQ; Father's side,, Germany Mothers side; Ireland
Parents: Ivy George 6 Zumwalt and Mattie Jane Braly
1st marriage to:. Mildred Stovall ./hen & Where: 5 November 1927 Woodland,, California '..hen & Where was 1st mate born? 2 January 1906 'Jilliamsn California When & Where did 1st mate die: Name of 1st mate's parents: Jame3 Mo Stovall and Hattle May Wilcoxin If 1st mate was widow/widowerp give name of his/her 1st mate: 2nd marriage tos„ None hen & Where: '•/hen _ Where was 2nd mate born:. Uhen & '.-here did 2nd mate die:__ fcame of 2nd mate»s parents:. Cf 2nd mate was widow/widower 0 give name of his/her 1st mate:. In the spaces provided below please fill In as much detail as you can on both yourself four mate/mateSo
I ducat ion :__Colusa. Elementary School - Colusa High School - Hitchcock Military Academy - - University of California at Berkeleyp California rsup.vyi." i.i; (Past and Present) Merchant - Farmer - Prunes - Rice - Barley - Cattle Sheep - Hogs
Military Service:. None: Too young for World War I Too old for «______£___-
Offices held in civilian life: ;.on:. Methodist
Affiliation:. Hative_ Sons of the Golden vfest - Masons - Elks - Rotary
ses lived: Colusa0 California - ChicoQ California -- Berkeley,, Galifor
.-_• details on your life activities:
se list children of 1st and 2nd marriages, dates of birth and deaths anniversar: :ed names of girls and current addresses of each so they may be contacted«
1„ Ruth Ann (Zumwalt)(Galentine)Mayberry born: 21 November 1929
married to: Edwin Dexter Galantine on: 15 June 1943
3 children: a„ Dejffcer Mark Galentine born: 17 April 1950
b„ Brian George Galentine born: 21 March 1952
Co Patricia Lynn Galentine born: 30 November 1953
marriej to: Clark Douglas Mavberry on: 11 January 1964
1 child: Sue Adele Mayberry born: 8 October 1966
2U Sara (Zumwalt) Burrows born: 30 July 1933
married to: Frank Robert Burrows ______20 March 1954
2 children: David Frank Burrows - born: 12 September I960
b0 Elizabeth Megan Eurrows born: 23 March 1962
,ou have a family bible or any other information that might be helpful?___Yss„,
ycu at a later date be willing to send a picture to be printed with your biogr
Information by: George Ra Zumwalt
Address:___ 850 Market Street
City and State: Colusa. California Article # 2 August 7B 1957 Revised: January 15» 1965
SMALL BIT OF HISTORY
James Brown 4 Zumwalt Brother of John Randall 4 Zumwalt _ Cynthia Ann 4 (Zumwalt)Dunlap
James Brown 4 Zumwalt was born at St0 Charles, Missouri on July 11, 1832, He was fitted out for 49 California gold by J„ C„ Fox, a wealthy merchant of Paris,, Missouri,, He made a fast trip as they drove horses„ three months to Carson City, Nevada„ He walked from there to Hang Town* California, now called Plaeerville. He voted for California to come into the Unionp September 9, 1850. He was 18 years old and lawful to vote at that time. He married when he was 28 years old to Miss Lydia A, DeWitt, The children of James Brown 4 Zumwalt and Lydia A. DeWitt are:
Marcus Cicero 5 Zumwalt & Allen Lafayette Zumwalt, born at Red Bluff, California moved to Colusa County in 1864» A famous dry year, John Randall 5 Zumwalt Fannie Bell 5 (Zumwalt)Gist Florence H„ 5 Zumwalt Anabell Edyth 5 (Zumw_lt)Farmer Ethan 5 Zumwalt twlns James Elizar (El) 5 Zumwalt was born here and moved to Tulare County August 1878. He bought the ranch of Mr, Van Sherman just north of Tulare City, Minnie Myrtle 5 (Zumwalt)Jewell Alma Nettie 5 (Zumwalt)Helm and Clyde DeWitt 5 Zumwalt were born here.
Notations by Marcus Cicero 5 Zumwalt in regard to his father James Brown 4 Zumwalt?
He had a wagon making shop in 1858, Learned blaeksmithing as a big boy in Missouri„ His teacherp a good blacksmith taught him how to harden steel, so in the 50°8 quit mining and begaan sharpening picks for the miners. His hardened steel out lasted all others„ so he did a good business. Mining excitment was on everywhere and father moved to where the old town of Shasta now stands, a busy town of several thousand., Red Bluff, head of navi= gation was the big headquarters, so moved there in 1858.
December 20, 1943: Marcus Cicero 5 Zumwalt's memoir of his father, James Brown 4 Zumwalto
James Brown 4 Zumwalt9 born at St, Charles, Missouri on July 11, 1832, brother of John Randall 4 Zumwalt and Cynthia Ann 4 (Zumwalt) Dunlap0
My father and mother in company with my grandfather and grandmother, RevQ A0 W, DeWitt, game by Steam Boat from Red Bluff (Red Bluff at that time was the head of navigation of the Sacramento River) to Grand Islands Colusa County early in 1864„ That year was almost rain lass* I was too young to remember about it, but imagine Grandpa saved the day - being a pioneer Christian Minister,, he preached more prosperous districts. While there was little money, he was paid in hams, bason and things of that kind raised about Marysville0 He generously divided his buggy loads of eats with the Zumwalt family0 My first remembrance of anything was the great flood of 1867=680 I saw the flood coming down the Sacramento River0 The neighbors carried out of our very modest house everything, in fact cleaned the house not any too soon, as water soon stood six feet deep in ito It seems to me now that Grandpa and Grandma were always near us.
.—.' My father bought a house on land immune from floods, of G, 0, Burnett, a brother of the first Governor of California, Peter H, Burnett, This was our house until 1878. iaring the fall of 1877 my grandfather and grandmother and ray two brothers, James Elizar &_ [El) 5 Zumwalt and Samuel Ethan 5 Zumwalt and Perry Mardis all homesteaded land on Deer Creek,, southeast of Tipton, Tulare County. (Pixley was not then on the map), *,e Sa The next year, 1877, another almost rainless year; dryest since 1864» My father had ^ ; r_mer fallowed 30 acres, plowed deep and good in Colusa County, The wheat crop surprised everybody and people drove miles to see it. Winter sown grain was almost a total failure, My In later years most of the Colusa County was summer fallowed0 In August 1877 my father said, "I think I'd better see how granpa and grandma are doing", so I was taken on the trip. From Sacramento to Tipton by rail. Two tickets cost $28.40. It was a slow train, Ho •F, exiting to me as my first rail trip I asked the conductor the name of every stream bu and station until too dark to see anymore. We surprised our relatives by our arrival. aer didnJt care for Deer Creek nor the barren country filled with dead sheep that had ; arved during the very dry year of '77, The return trip Grandpa said, however, you had «* i seen much of Tulare County, so we drove to the then straggling village of Tulare,, w sloping over night with Uncle Sam Fowler, a great man of 6 ft, 8 in. He was positive that ~. his county was going to be a wonder when irrigated. My father much impressed by his en= pe husiasm and the cheap land, bough half of Mr. Fowler°s ranch and decided to move to Tulai Wg as soon as he could sell his ranch in Colusa. .» & My father, James Brown 4 Zumwalt and Uncle Sam Fowler knew what a long story it was ^ before their Ideas came true, I wish it were possible for them to see Tulare County as it ^ now is; 2nd in agriculture in the whole of the U,S,, We also visited the famed Mussle Ch Slough Settlement where it had already been demonstrated what could be done by irrigation! fQ pr Returned by San Francisco ZD1 We bid grandpa farewell and said we'd probably see him again when we moved to Tulare County, We returned via San Francisco0 It seemed to me a very large city. We stopped at ^ the famous Russ House where all pioneers "put up". Things had changed a great deat since j0j father was there in 1853 and 1857. However, we took a look at the old "What Cheer House", ^ .'."amous as headquarters of all early mining men and where father had stopped in the 50's. ja
We sold our ranch of 360 acres in 1868, We had a big auction sale and our kindly neighbors paid double price for furniture, cows, pigs, etc. and insisted on buying old things not saleable, This brought in some unexpected ready money.
We moved to Tulare County
It was like a covered wagon train when our cavalcade left Colusa County in August 181 to make the overland drive to Tulare County, I being oldest, (17 years old), drove a four horse team, Allen L, 5 Zumwalt next in years (15) drove a two horse team, Howard Morris ••.'lose home was at Camp Badger, Tulare County, drove a team, then fathers team; a wagon loaded with cooking utensils, eatables with mother and following children; John 5, Fannie Ell 5, Florence 5, Edilh 5 and Ethan 5, After a day or two stay at Sacramento, we drove to Stockton, where we camped for several days. We purchased many things that would be needed in a. new county, Stockton was noted as headquarters, not only for San Joaquin valley, but for what was known as the Southern Mines, As the new road following the Soutlprc era Pacific; R, R„ was very soft and bad we left Stockton via the old Stage Road, Via SndTo; ing, formerly County Seat of Stanislaus County, We came to the S, P. R0Ro South of Mercei ere were Madera and Selma at that time and Fresno, a small burg. We came into Tulare ounty near Kings River and camped that night at Mr, Bauson"s ranch. The son, Charles sen, at this time (1943) is living at Visalla, He was probably the first boy I met in iare County, The Hauseh family were most cordial and neighborly and remained our frietf om fchat time on,. Page #3
We reached our land the next day and established a temporary camp. Father then bought the Sherman place which had a fair sized ho_se. It took a lot of room for a family of that size, Two children were born here, Minnie Myrtle 5 Zumwalt on November 12, 1878 and Alma Nettle 5 Zumwalt on September 20p 1881, In 1883 father built the finest residence in the San Joaquin Valley, The main building Is 36 by 40 feet, two stories high and an L 20 by 40 feet, one story high. The whole building entirely surrounded by broad arches, It was id In this house that Clyde DeWitt 5 Zumwalt was born on December 27, 1884,
*e, My oldest sister marries.
My oldest sister, Fannie Belie 5? was married to Thomas J, Gist in this fine new home a, November 3, 1886, The next day, November 4, 1886, I left the ranch to engage in the retail D business under the firm of Schoeneman and Zumwalt, a partnership that continued throughoutt the entire time of business. The Gill Building in which we were to occupy was not finished i yet, so we had a make shift store in the street for a few weeks, December 23» 1886, the a Gil Building was done and we moved in some things that night and some the next morning, We got some railroad boys to help and as it was the day before Christmas, had a fine business. hat Mr, Gill was a fine, good man and never over charged for rent, so it would be 53 years on n- December 24P 1939 that we were in the same building and all that time we NEVER HAD A LEASE. lai We went out of business in May 1940• a bit over 53 years. We broke a record or two, Soon after opening we opened accounts and bought goods of Levi Strauss & Company and Buckingham & Heicht (shoes) and were steady customers for over 50 years. Also for nearly as long we 8 bought of Cluett, Peabody & Company ( Arrow Shirts-still best in the U.S.). Later we 11 bought much goods in the east. I used to measure for tailor made suits from Ed. V, Price? Chicago, and several years before we were out of business we had paid them over $100,000.00 0D| for tailored suits. One year alone we did $7,000.00, so probably sold the suits for a good profit, probably $150,000.00.
ZDMWALT LINEAGE OF JAMES BROWN 4 ZUMWALT re al Andrew 1 Z » -____ & #2 w, Ann Regina ice John 2 Z & Elisabeth Conrad 16 i William 3 Z —,._ & Sarah Randall '• James Brown 4 Z ———---•— & Lydia DeWitt
Marcus Cicero 5 Z —-- & Louise Hunt Allen Lafayette 5 Z - & #1 Annie ?? #2 Allia ?? John Randall 5 Z & Lizzie Simmons Fannie Belle 5 Z & Thomas Jefferson Gist Florence Hannah 5 Z 187 James Eiizar 5 Z —— & Mabel Ford "our Mabel Edyth 5 Z — < _ Lewis F, Farmer •is Samuel Ethan 5 Z & Pearl Bessie Ray Minnie Myrtle 5 Z — & #1 Orrin L, Hagler lie #2 James Henry Jewell re Alma Nettle 5 Z _ Ralph D, Helm Clyde DeWitt 5 Z —• & Esther J, Johnson
«%roms Dr, Elmo R, 6 Zumwalt, grandson of James Brown 4 Zumwalt 3nfl]Tos George R, Zumwalt reed
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GEORGE R. 7 ZGKWALT'S FAMILY TREE
Andrew I Zumwalt Andrew 1 Zumwalt & #1 w, Mary ?? #2 w, Ann Regina ??
______Henry 2 Z George 2 Z Delia. 2 Ells, 2 Jacob 2 Z John 2 Z Adam 2 Z Andrew 2 Z Catherine Christopher 2 Z (Z)Marks (Z)Li_k (Z)Boyd b 1 Wo Catherine Miller by rf_ v^ Frances Price Eli*, 3 Andrew 3 Z Henry 3 1 Jacob 3 Z George 3 Z Susan 3 Levi 3 Z John 3 Z Isaac 3 Z Z Pittman (Z)Crow
by fFi. w? unknown by #2 w, Susan Coonce William 4 Z Eliz 4 Samuel Christina Isaac Nathan Sarah 4 Edna Levi Wesley Cynthia 4 Z David 4 Z (Z)NuU P, 4Z 4(Z}Crow 4 Z Heald 4 Z 4 Z 4 Z • (Lingo)- . Jacob 4 Z Harpole Andrew J, 4 Z
by Sarah Randall Andrew J, John Rardall James Brown Cynthia 5 Sarah 5 Z Elizabeth 5 Susan 5 Z Christina Jane 5 5 Z 5 Z 5 Z (ZjDanlap (Z)Grafford (Z)Campbell O by Sarah Parthena 5 Zaawalit 8 6 Emma 6 Z Edgar 6 Z John L0W> Lillie 6 Arthur 6 Z Ivy Gaorge Effie 6 Reuben 6 Z Robert 6 Z Z'Saith 6 Z (Z)Graves 6 Z iZ)McGratM
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_l *•*> «••*> as ca o by Mattie Jane Braky _ ro i~* wee R, 7 Z Lionel Ro&hwell 7 Z Geraldine 7(Z).Br_„sford Ivy George 7 Zumwalt *Bt # O^ VJJ Article # 4 24 August 1957
ANDREW 1 ZUMWALT
Andrew 1 Zumwalt, of Germany, emigrated to America and settled first in Pennsylvan where the town of Little York now stands. He purchased the land upon which the town was subsequently built, and erected a cabin upon it. Being afflicted with cancer, he removed to Virginia, where he could obtain medical aid, and settled on the Potomic not far from Georgetown, But he grew worse instead of better and soon died.
In the meantime the deed to his land in Pennsylvania had been destroyed and his chil dren lost what might have been a princely fortune to them. This valuable paper was lo3t in rather singular manner. One of the girls, while hunting about the house for a piece of pasteboard to stiffen her new sunbonnet, found the deed, and being unable to read, she supposed It was a useless piece of old paper and used it in her bonnet. The deed had neve been recorded and therefore could not be restored, and the heirs to the property never succeeded in establishing their title.
Mr. Andrew 1 Zumwalt was married twice. By his first wife he had; Henry 2, George 2 >' Delia 2, Elizabeth 2, and Margaret 20 By his second wife he had; Christopher 2, Jacob 29 John 2, Adam 2P Andrew 2 and Catherine 2,
Christopher 2 Zumwalt and Jacob 2 Zumwalt settled in St, Charles County on Peruque Creek* in 1796 and in 1798 Jacob 2 Zumwalt built the first hewed log house that was ever erected on the north side of the Missouri River, It is still standing on land owned by Mr, Darius Heald, about one and a half miles northwest of 0«Fallon Station, on the St, Louis, Kansas City and Northern Railway, The house was used as a fort during the Indian War, and often as many as ten families found shelter within its walls at the same time, The first Methodist Sacrament in Missouri was administered in this house, by Rev, Jesse Walker in 1807. The wine was made by Mrs, Jacob 2 Zumwalt and Mrs, Col. David Bailey, from the juice of polk berries sweetened with maple sugar, and for bread they used the crusts of corn bread,
Adam 2 Zumwalt came to Missouri in 1797. He placed his family and $800,00 worth of possessions with his stock, consisting of 30 head of cattle9 11 sheep and 12 horses on board a flat boat and came down the Ohio and up the Mississippi River to St, Charles County, Missouri with his clumsy craft. He settled near the present town of Flint Hill, where he erected two still houses and made whisky to sell to the Indians, who were camped near his place.
The great Chief Black Hawk made his home at Zumwalt* s for sometime, and was a regular and frequent visitor until after the commencement of hostilities between the Whites and the Indians, He often danced with Mr, Zumwalt's daughters, and was so fond of whisky that he frequently became very drunk, but he never caused any disturbance or acted in an un- gentlemanly manner0 In very cold weather the whisky would freeze and become solid ice, in which state it was sold to the Indians by the cake and they often bought as much as $100.00 worth in a single day,
Mr. Adam 2 Zumwalt was a friend of the Preachers and whenever they came into the .it'ighborhcod they held services in his house. Rev, Jesse Walker and a Geraan Minister named Hostetter preached there as early as 1800,
During the Indian W_r, Mr, Adam 2 Zumwalt1 s family took shelter in Pond Fort, while he and his son, Jonathan 3 Zumwalt remained home to protect property and prevent the In diana from destroying it, Jonathan 3 Zumwalt had learned to use his gun when five years of age, and was as quick and accurate a marksman as could be found in the country. When he was six he killed a large buck, which plunged around so in its death agonies that he became frightened and ran home, and lost his gun in the woods. On one occasion the Indians crossed the Mississippi River on the ice and murdered an entire family of twelve persons, who lived near Mr. Adam 2 Zumwalt's place. He assisted coc in burying them. The bodies were wrapped in quilts and buried under the house, in a place na% used as a cellar. The Indians burned the house soon after and the bodies were devoured eng, by the flames, and 5 For On another occasion an Indian Chief was buried at Mr. Adam 2 Zumwalt s house, and puri was buried with a loaf of bread in one hand a butcher knife in the other and his dog was \^&^ killed and buried at his feet. These preparations were made in order that when he reached j|e j the happy hunting grounds he would have something to eat and a dog to find him game. ;n|s The names of Mr. Adam 2 Zumwalt's children were: John 3, Elizabeth 3, Andrew 5, Rachel 3, Mary Ann 3, Catherine 3, Jonathan 3 and Solomon 3» ! hav: Gal: John 2 Zumwalt;, a brother of Adam 2 Zumwalt, settled on Darst's Bottom in St. Charles Sol* County in 1806. The names of his children were George 3, John 3, Barbara 3, Mary 39 in v Elizabeth 3, Adam 3, Andrew 3, Jacob 3» Henry 3, and William 3, of i site Andrew 3 Zumwalt was a devout Methodist, but his three daughters joined the Baptist ,dpor Church and their mother said she was glad of it, but the old gentleman was very angry and Q\aii said he hoped now, that the family was divided among the churches, that some of them would N0$, find the right one and get to heaven and be contented when they got there and not want to *eer go somewhere else. | deat There ware five Jacobs in the different Zumwalt families and they were distinguished as Big Jake, Little Jake, Calico Jake, St. Charles Jake and Lying Jake. in 1 of K tttt**Mt» *#***tt*a-3HBt ##*„««*#£# Z. P ploy This article about Andrew Zumwalt and family was copied from a reprint of "The j/a-o History of the Pioneer Families of Missouri". published originally in 1876 and republished !# p xn 1935o ftiis 1935 reprint is available at $10.00 per copy from Goodspeed's Book Shop, 1 ber Inco, 18 Beacon Street, Boston 8, Massachusetts,
FHOK BY PI Revised: Decen
DANIEL 5 ZUKVALT an Daniel 5 Zumwalt,, now living retired in Anderson, Daniel 5 Zumwalt was born in Han a cock, Indiana „ April 11«, 1833, a son of Joseph 4 and Mary (Ogle) Zumwalt, The parents were i'26 natives of Ohio and Kentucky, respectively, and removed to Illinois at an early day, th- engaging in farming. In 1849, Joseph & Zumwalt decided to remove to the more remote w< and made the trip overland with teams* arriving at Sacramento, California September 5, | For two years he engaged in mining near Downieville,. but gave this up to follow agricult'.; pursuits. Removing to Solano County he purchased land and farmed for a time,, then remove* [ that part of Colusa County which is now Glenn County, and there followed the same occupat led He finally located at Anderson and here his death occurred in 1892 at ninety two years 6i his wife having died six years previous at the age of eighty two years.
Daniel 5 Zumwalt received his education in the common schools of Illinois,, his pare?;*: having removed to .-/ill County when he was a baby. He grew up there and with them came to California where he engaged in mining with his father. Like the elder man he also farmed in Le8 Solano and Colusa Counties., He removed to the latter county in 1879 at which time he located I in what is now Glenn County, purchasing from his father the land upon which the present site of Willows is located. He gave an undivided half of one hundred and sixty acres for the t site and Zumwalt"s addition is named in his honor. He owned seven hundred and twenty aeres» L upon which he carried on general farming, In 1884 he sold out there and came directly to 10 Shasta County,, wbera he purchased nine hundred and sixty acres and engaged in raising sheep, ?ld Not meeting with success he sold this land and removed near Anderson where he purehpsed six to Seen acres adjoining town and engaged in the fruit business. He sold out there after the death of his second wife which occurred in 1901, and removed to a home he erected in town,
Jd Daniel 5 Zumwalt was first married in 1854 to Nancy Murphy, a native of Canada, who di in 1885, age forty nine years, Seven children were born of this marriage; Louisa 6„ the vi of K, E, Kelly of Willows; John E, 6 of Frutoj Margaret M. 6» deceased, formerly the wife Z, P. By_r| Joseph 6 of Willows; Addie 6* wife of John Hainline of Williams; Harry 6r an am- j ployee of the Western Pnsific Railway; and Alta 6, the wife of Dr, J, H, Soothill„ of And;-; Mr, Zumwalt"s second wife died in Anderson in 1901 s age 59 years, Mr, Zumwalt Is a republ ied in polities? and though never an office seeker, has upheld the party interests, He Is a ra< I ber of the Methodist Episcopal Church, LINEAGE OF BANJUL 5 ZUMWALT
Andrew 1 Z -=- & #1 w, Mary ? George 2 Z — & Maty Kale Jacob 3 Z —— & Nancy Ann Spurgeon Joseph 4 Z — & Mary Ogle Daniel 5 Z .— & #1 w» Nancy Murphy #2 w, Ellen Baseome
FHOK HISTORY OF STATE OF CALIF. AND SACRAMENTO VALLEY BY PROF. J. A. QUINN - PUBLISHED 1902 January :••'.,.
JOSEPH OSCAR 5 ZUMWALT
Joseph Oscar 5 Zumwalt is another of the successful farmemof thin county. Kir. ?B jnly a .little more than a mile from Williams and it is all good land under cultivati producing wheat, the staple crop of this section, His home and out buildings are all si closed by substantial fences. In front of his residence is a young orchard and grove . a wide avenue lined by evergreens extending from the road to the front of the residence. The latter is surrounded by trees, both ornamental and fruitful!. The yard has many pi and flowers. The farm buildings are first class and a windmill supplies the place with water. Wheat growing is the chief business, but some attention is paid to stock. In a few years this will be one of the most desirable places in the valley. The trees, will that time„ have attained good size and made the place and surroundings very attractive. It is hoped that other farmers on this treeless plain will be induced by Mr. Zumwalt's ex ample to ornament and improve their surroundings by trees which are both ornamental and profitable, His success shows there is but little difficulty In making them flourish and produce a rapid growth anywhere in that section by proper cars? and attention,
Zumwalt Lineage of Joseph Oscar 5 Zumwalt
Andrew 1 Z ——— & #1 w. Mary George 2 Z *•-•* & Mary Jacob 3 Z ——~«— & Nancy Arm Spurgeon Joseph 4 Z -—— & Mary Ogle Joseph Oscar 5 Z& Kary Murphy
Josephine 6 Zumwalt Zoreda 6 (Z)Stormer Lillian 6 (Z)Reterath Pauline 6 Zumwalt Lewis Nation 6 Zumwalt Syivenus 6 Zumwalt Molly 6 (Z) Tedford Alexander Clay 6 Zumwalt Joseph 6 Zumwalt Katharine 6 (Z)Staehle
From: History of Colusa County by Will. S„ Green published in 1880 s IF Revised October 1, 1963
JOHN EDHOJfJ) 6 ZUMWALT & DANIEL 5 ZUMWALT FROM HISTORY OF STATE OF CALIFORNIA AND SACRAMENTO VALLEY - BY PROFESSOR JOSEPH ZIKWALT - J. A. QUINN - PUB, 1902
John Edmond 6 Zumwalt - A native son. John Edmond 6 Zumwalt is engaged in the livery business in Fruto, Glenn County, and is making his influence felt in the business < life of the place, He was born in Dixon, Solanc County9 %w_y 1. 1857, a son of Daniel 5 Zumwalt, the latter a native of Joliet, Illinois. The family was originally established in Kentucky, and in Boone County the Grandfather. Joseph 4 Zumwalt» was born in 1800. In manhood he removed, first to Indiana, then to Ohio and finally to Illinois where in the vicinity of Joliet he engaged in farming on land which he cleared and cultivated for the first time. In 1849 he crossed the plains to California and on October 23, landed at Sacramento. Leaving his family there he immediately went to the mines at Placerville, locating what was, afterward called Zumwalt Flat, He was very successful and in the fall of 1852 was able to return to Illinois, making the trip by the Nicaragua Route, One year later (1853) he once more came to California and followed mining for the ensuing 2 years, (1855) when he located on a farm near Dixon, Solano County and engaged in the raising of stock. Returning to Illinois In 1855, he spent one year in that location* (1856) when he located in Solano County following stock raising and general farming until 1882, when he removed to the vicinity of Anderson, Shasta County and made his home until his death in 1893;
Daniel 5 Zumwalt was fifth in a family of fourteen children, seven sons and seven daughters. In 1872 he located in Glenn County, where he owned one thousand acres, a portion of which is now the present site of Willows, which he named and after 1882 he was a resident of Shasta County, Daniel 5 Zumwalt married Nancy Murphy, of Montreal, Canada; she died at the age of forty-eight years in 1883.
The second in a family of three sons and four daughters, John Edmond 6 Zumwalt received his education in the common schools, after which he spent two years in Santa Clara College, In 1877 he engaged in the harness business in Willows, the first of the kind in that place, remaining there for four years, after which he spent some years in traveling and working through various sections of the Pacific Slope, For seven months he was located in Tucson, Arizona, engaging in mining, later worked on ranches in Shasta County, and still later mined in Sutter County, spending four years in the last named place, mining and prospecting. He finally returned to Glenn County and became superintendent of the Kelly Ranch near Fruto, In 1904 he located in town and became proprietor of a hotel which he has since carried on in connection with his lucrative livery business.
In Marysville in JrtWt Mr. John Edmond 6 Zumwalt. was united in marriage with Alice Irene Maguiness,, a native of Chico, Californiar Her father, William Maguiness was born in Lancaster Pa,, Mary 21, 1830 and in 1860 came to California via ^KeTanama Route and located in Butte County in the mines of Cherokee Flat, By trade he was a carpenter, and many of the houses are monuments to his handiwork. His death occurred May 10, 1872, In 1861, In California, he married Sarah Emily Drenon, who was bonn in Georgia,; June 15, I846, and died in Cherokee, April 24, 1895<» Mr. and Mrs. John Edmond 6 Zumwjilt became the parents of the following children: Daniel Edward 7 Z and Kirk Etna 7 Z both at home !'1902, Politically he casts his ballot in favor of the Republican candidates,
Andrew 1 Zumwalt & #1 w Mary ?? George 2 Zumwalt & Mary ?? Jacob 3 Zumwalt & Nancy Ann Spurgeon Joseph 4 Zumwalt & Mary Ogle Daniel 5 Zumwalt & Nancy Murphy John Edmond 6 Zumwalt & Alice Irene Maguiness
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JAMES BROWN £ ZUMWALT
"The subject of this sketch was born near St. Charles, Missouri on July 11, 1832, At three years of age he was left an orphan, his father and mother both having died of that dreadful scourge, the yellow fever. The little boy was tossed about from place to place, living with uncles and aunts but not being kindly treated he ran away and went to Paris, Missouri- Here he learned the blacksmith's trade with a Mr, Wilson, who proved to be a life long friend. While here he made confession his faith in Christ, at sixteen years of age, and was baptized by old B_>, Thomas, whom many in California will remember.
In 1850 he came to California and having settled in the mines near White Rock, be gan working at his trade. Her'* he was sick one whole winter, and being out of money board ed with Broo Thomas Thompson at $21 per week promising to pay him when he could make the money. He afterwards made the money at his trade and paid the debt.
In 1856 he started back to Missouri via Panama to bring his sister, Mrs, Dunlap, to California, At Panama he was taken prisoner by the Costa Ricans, during l&lker's fil= libustering expedition, and held for sometime. After his release he went on to Missouri for his sister, and returned to California in 1857, He again settled in the mines in Shasta county, but afterwards In Red Bluff where in co-partnership with another he carried on a large business. Having occasion to be gone from home for. sometime "Ms partner sold out everything, pocketed the money and went to Frazier river during to gold exeitment of that region.
On March 7, I860 he married Miss Lydia A, DeWitt, daughter of our venerable brother A, W, DeWitt, of Tulare, This proved to be a happy union marred only by the ruthless hand of death. In 1864, the family moved to Colusa county and settled on Dry Slough, where he made a comfortable and hospitable home. In 1878 he moved to Tulare county where he prospered and built a beautiful home. Last July he bought property in Irvington and came there to educate his children of whom there are four now in Washington College.: Eut alas£ ' he did not live to see his hopes realized. He was stricken down with pneumon ia and on Sunday morning, December 13, at two o'clock, he breathed his last. During his last illness his faithful wife, her father, Bro, DeWitt, and his children watched by his side till the tired spirit took its flight to the land of rest,
Bro.. James Brown _TZumwalt was one of the noble men of earth. He was honest, in dustrious, benevolent to a fault, faithful to the church, a kind neighbor and a true friend, I have never known a more liberal man to the church, according to means, than he- I have been told that he paid $1700 toward building one house of worship and the beau tiful brick edifice in Tulare is due largely to his liberality, as he paid a much larger sum towards its erection. He was more a man of action than theory, a man of deeds rather than words. He leaves a wife, eleven children and a large circle of friends to lament his loss. He was buried in the beautiful cemetery at Irvington, on a lovely afternoon. There let him rest till the trumpet of God shall call the redeemed from the grave to glory,"
From? A copy of "THE TRUTH3' (A Christian Church Paper) Vol, IV, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF,, THURSDAY, FEB, 25, 1892 NO, 4 under Obituaries
From: Brooks Gist to Dr, Elmo R, Zumwalt ft>« George R, Zumwalt ^ >0* Date: 1 April 1958 "'-1 -! •
JAMES BROWN 4 ZUMWALT
Among the most successful ranchers of Tulare County, and one whose handsome home pestles among the eottonwood trees northeast of Tulare, is the subject of this sketch,
Mrs JJames Brown 4 Zumwalt was born in St, Charles, Missouri, In 1832. Death dep him -In Mr, and Mrs* James Brown 4 Zumwalt have had eleven children, and as death h*» never entered their home, seven still gather at the family board, while four have taker- up the •responsibilities of life, and are engaged in their various occupations, Mr. Zumwalt is President of the Sunset Oil Company, with fine prospects in the r©ot- ;RU1S of the Coast Range, and is also prominently connected with several irr%atinj? 00m- ' paniesc . He has never entered, the vortex of political life, but has devoted his energies to his private interests and to the proper training of his family. For his many estiroab] traits of character he Is highly respected by all who know him, PROMi: Freeno State College Library Central California F 979,48 M 5W Printed 1391 a bv Saralee 7(Zumwalt)(Mrs, Richard D.)Crovs: I have asked many old-tivers, b«t none pan tall me the exact location of Murderers Bar, Sounds simply fascinating. Those who wrote this biography and Obituary gave each the complete treatment, didn't they/ Saralee 7 (Zumwalt)(Mrs, R.D.)Crow C r JAMES BROWN 4 ZUMWALT (cent. A_dr«w 1 Zumwalt •§• #2 w, Aon Regina _,r John 2 Zumwalt & EUasbeth Conrad William 3 Zumwalt & Sarah Randall Barnes Brown 4 Zumwalt & Lydia Angelina DeWitt Marcus Cicero 5 Zumwalt _ Lsuise Hunt Allen Lafayette 5 Zumwalt & John Randall 5 Zumwalt & Ll__ie Simmons Fannie Bell 5 Zumwalt * Thomas Gist Florence Hannah 5 Zumwalt Mabel Qiyth 5 Zumwalt & Lewis F, Farmer Samuel Ethan % Zumwalt & Pearl Bessie Ray James Eleaser 5 Zumwalt & Mabel Ford Minnie Myrtle 5 Zumwalt & #1 h, Orrin L, Hagler 02 h, James Henry Jewell Alma Nettie 1 Zumwalt & Ralph D, Helm Clyde DeWitt 5 Zumwalt & Esther J, Johnson From Sarralee ? (Zumwalt)(_?»<, R, DO) Crowe P, 0, Box 7 Dos Palo_0 California THE COLUSA ZUMWALT FAMILY Andrew 1 Zumwalt -~=—= ———I- & #2 w, Ann Regina ?? Jacob 2 Zumwalt -——••- =____ & #1 w, Catherine Miller Andrew 3 Zumwalt ----— •-•—-- & #1 w, ?? William 4 Zumwalt — .___-__ & Sarah Randall John Randall 5 Zumwalt •______& Sarah Parthena 5 Zumwalt Annie May 6 Zumwalt - born: 20 Jul 1860 died: 23 May 1883 married: Jasper Green Smith Emma 6 Zumwalt ——————= - born: 15 Dec 1861 died: young Edgar Franklin 6 Zumwalt —— - born: 18 Oct 1863 died: 16 Mar 1949 married: Laura Elizabeth Dreu John Luthur William 6 Zumwalt - born: 15 Dec 1865 died: 27 Oct 1917 married: Susie Mae Bailey Lillie 6 Zumwalt — born: 6 May 1868 died: 10 Mar 1956 married: Frank Henry Graves Arthur James 6 Zumwalt born: Mar 1867 died: 17 Jun 1930 married: Addie Cooper Ivy George 6 Zumwalt »- born: 21 Jan 1871 died: 11 Dee 1950 married: Mattie Jane Braly Dorothy( )Sandersen Effie Lee 6 Zumwalt —— — born: 15 Mar 1874 - died: 31 Oct 1962 married: Harry Hill McGrath Dr. Reuben Sylvester 6 Zumwalt - born: 20 Jan 1876 - died: married: Emma Claire Engemann Robert Randall 6 Zumwalt •' • born: 26 Jan 1878 - died: 1 Aug 1956 married: Anna E. Steeckle Sarah Parthena 5 Zumwalt married a second time to Dennis Regain Thomas 6 Regain -——=——_ born: 12 Oct 1882 died: 12 Oct 1912 married: Bessie Anderson Jesse 6 Regain ---——.-«_•.-----_ born: 22 Oct 1886 died: 19 Dec 1907 never married Benjamin R. 6 Ragain —..•..••—•,__. born: 20 Oct 1888 died: married: Jeanette Dobbins _ v. 5 :V f oc o --• n 11 November 20, 1- ZUMWALTS IN MISSOURI %S Effie Lee 5 & 6 (Z)(MrBa Harry Ho) MeGratto Ky motherp Sarah Parthena 5 (Z)(___wa_t)Rag-ln, cam® from Louisiana, Mieaouri- When sh© was a girl, her grandmother, Mary Eli__bath(Killebraw)(Mrs, George f) Zuwelt,-. liva with then and would oftan speak ©f the hardships of the settlers of early days snd of their constant fear of the _eatil« Indians*, One day she wae left IIOM with their two little children, one a baby, Tha father, aeorge 3 Zumwalt,, had to go somewhere He hated vmxy much to leave them atene but there was no other way. After he had gone the Indiana came. She saw them coming and quickly lifted up a loose plank from the floor „ She picked up the two little children and with them climbed down underneath the ho_se„ carefully pulling hack the plank in place. By that time the Indians bad gotten into the house and she could feear them walking ©vertead, 'lb kaep the baby quiet aha had to nurse him, but the little brother wanted to talk and kept saying «X hear them". Finally the Indiana left and took with them all the food in the house, but they dldnr,t set fire to the house; as they did in many places= When the father George 3 Zumwalt came home he took his little, family to Fort Z__wa3t where they 8tayed until the Indians were driven out of the country. The Fort was Fori Zumwalt wfeitfh is now made into a Missouri State Park, The baby was Ivy Jason 4 Zumwalt, my grand father. LINEAGE OF EFFIE LEE 5 & 6 I ZUMWALT) (MRS, HARRY HjMCGRATH Andrew 1 Z ————— & #2 wc Ann Regina ?? •Mmb 2 Z —~_—_-.—_ _ #1 Wc Catherine Miller Oeorga 3 Z -«.....«.••. & Maiy Elisabeth KUlebrew Ivy Jason 4 Z •••-...••..——-_ & Sarah James Sarah Parthena 5 Z *••.• & JOhn Randall 4 Zuawalt Bffle Lee § & 6 Z & Harry H. McGrath Trim Effie Lee 5 & 6 fos George R, Zumwalt Da«.i_a 29 October 1958 " Article # 12 1 June 1958 PATERNAL LINEAGE OF GEORGE RUDOLPH 7 ZUMWALT ANDREW 1 ZUMWALT - the emigrant, born in Alsace-Lorraine, Strassburg, 1698, said to be the son of Adam Zumwalt, came to Pennsylvania on the ship "Virtuous", arriving September 24, 1737, Took oath of Allegiance in Philadelphia, Settled first in Little York, Pennsylvania then moved to Frederick County, Virginia where he died in 1764, Survived by 2nd wife Ann Regina ?? Sources of Information: "30,000 Names of Immigrants", by Rupp, page 107 "Foreigners 'too Took Oath of Allegiance in Pennsylvania between 1725 and 1775" page 137 Will of Andrew Zumwalt recorded in Frederick Co. Virginia KIs80uri Gazette, April 1820 Family Records JACOB 2 ZUMWALT was born in Shenendoah Co. Virginia, probably the 3rd son of Andrew and Ann Regina Zumwalt, He served in the American Revolution with his brother in old August Co, under Captain MeCay, See Register of Virginians in the Revolution by John H, Gwathmeyj p, 751. Name spelled ili_J___fe» He married 1st, Catherine Miller, in Shenendoah Co., Virginia December 11p 1774. She must have died in August 1799 in Missouri at Old Fort Zumwalt, No doubt she is buried there in the little clump of cedars where there are unmarked graves. They sold the land in Kentucky in August 1799 but they had been in Missouri since 1796, He married in St, Borromes Church, St, Charles, Mo,s 2nd to Frances Price on November 1800. He had at least six children by his first wife, Jacob 2 Zumwalt died in Missouri in 1820, ANDREW 3 ZUMWALT was born in Virginia August 4, 1779 and married twice: 1st to unknown and 2nd to Susan Coonce,, By his 1st wife he had two children and by his 2nd wife he had eleven children. He died September 18, 1855 WILLIAM 4 ZUMWALT was born in Missouri, date unknown , married Sarah Rmdall on October 9 , 1823 in Harrison County, Kentucky and they had eight children. He died in July 1835. JOHN RANDALL 5 ZUMWALT was born January 29, 1826 and married Sarah Parthena 5 Zumwaltj, his 3rd cousin, IVY GEORGE 6 ZUMWALT was born January 21, 1871 and married Mattie Jane Braly. He died December llf, 1950 GEORGE R. 7 ZUMWALT was bom March 27, 1903 and married Mildred Stovall PATERNAL LINEAGE OF GEORGE R, 7 ZUMWALT Andrew 1 Z - ••••_..—_• , ,,, _ #2 w, Ann Regina ?? Jacob 2 Z •- • •• -— & #1 w, Catherine Miller Andrew 3 Z -———.•._—.-_-_—... _ #1 w, unknown William 4 Z ._., — —- _ Sarah Randall John Randall 5 Z • — & Sarah Parthena 5 Zumwalt Ivy George 6 Z —.—_———- & Mattie Jane Braly George Rudolph 7 Z —__— & Mildred Stovall Two Children? Ruth Ann 8 Z — & #1 h. Edwin Dexter Galentine 02 h. Clark Douglas Mayberry Sarah 8 Z ______—_—— & Frank Robert Burrows Sources of Informations Mortons"s History of Pendleton Co., West Virginia Court Records of St, Charles County, Missouri, Missouri Land Records and Family Records ~ r C Revised A] ^NEAGE OF GEQROft RUDOLPH ft fr 7 ZUMWALT ANDREW 1 ZUMWALT— the emigrant, born in Alsace-Lorraine, Strassburg, 1698£i said to be son of Adam Zumwalt, same to Pennsylvania on the ship "Virtuous",, arriving September 2., Took oath of Allegiance in Philadelphia, Settled first in Little York.; Pennsylvania then moved to Frederick County Virginia where he died in 1764, Survived by 2nd wife Ann Regina, So«.arces of Informations "30,000 Names of immigrants* , by Rupp, page 107 "Foreigners Who Took Oath of Allegiance in Pennsylvania between 1725 and 1775" page 137 Will of Andrew Zumwalt recorded in Frederick County, Virginia Missouri Gazette, April 1820 Family Records JACOB 2 ZUMWALT was bom in Virginia, probably the 3rd son of Andrew and Ann Regina Zumwa He served in the American Revolution with his brother in old August County under Captain Me Cay, See Register of Virginians in the Revolution by John H, Gwatboeyj, p, 751, Name spa He married first, Quleta (Catherine) Miller, probably in Virginia, She must I died in August 1799 in Missouri at Old Fort Zumwalt, No doubt she is buried there in t. little clump of cedars where there are unmarked graves, They sold the land in Kentucky in August 1799 but they had been in Missouri since 1796, He married in St, Borromes 01 Charles, Missouri, second to Frances Price on November 1800. He had at least six children by his first wife* Jacob 2 Zumwalt died in Missouri in 1820, GEORGE 3 ZUMWALT was born in Kentucky and came to Missouri with his parents,, Birth Census record of 1840 showed 1785, He married Mary Elizabeth Killebrew, George 3 Zumwalt died in 1840, IVY JASON 4 ZUMWALT was born the 18 February 1809 probably in Missouri, although one record says Kentucky another says in Missouri, He married first to Sally Sarah James in Pike I Missouri the 18 of September 1832, They had a daughter Sarah Parthena born the 2#»of ? ruary 1842,, I feel sure that this Sarah is your grandmothery Sarah Parthena, She is given as Sarah in Census of Pike Co,9 Mo, She had a brother Ivy James 4 Zumwalt. SARAH PARTHENA 5 ZUMWALT was born the 2& February 1842 in Louisana, Missouri and Marrie first to John Randall 4 Zumwalt and second to Dennis Ragain. She died the 31 March 1929 in Colusa, California, IVV '-flORGE 5 _ 6 ZUMWALT was born on the 21 January 1871 at Sycamore^ California and ma Mattie Jane Braly the 25 December 1901. Ivy George 5 & 6..Zumwalt died the II Decembei a,:. Colusa, California, C-EORGE R, 6 & 7 ZUMWALT was born on the 27 March 1903 and married Mildred Stovall on the 5 November 1927. JACOB 2 LINEAGE OF GEORGE ^ 6 & 7 ZUMWALT Andrew 1 Z __-__-«____-__»_-*---_ #2 w« Ann Regina Jacob 2 Z -——»- ——_ fl w, Catherine Miller George 3 ' _.-______.—__—-_ #1 w. Mary Elizabeth Killebrew Ivy Jason u Z -—----.----———A #1 w, Sally Sarah James Sarah Parthena 5 Z _-_———* #1 r>, John Randall 4 Zumwalt Ivy George 5 & 6 Z »_—.-.«-.——_ #1 <•'-, Mattie ^ane Braly George R, 6 & 7 Z -—— -——* #1 w, Mildred Stovall ? rt? Article # 14 25 August 1961 RELATIONSHIP OF Sarah Parthena Zumwalt and John Randall Zumwalt grandmother and grandfather of George R. 6 Zumwalt Third cousins according to chart by Irene Foster, Box 247 - Dayton, Oregon Andrew I Zumwalt Andrew 1 Zumwalt Jacob 2 Zumwalt Father Jacob 2 Zumwalt George 3 Zumwalt Brothers Andrew 3 Zumwalt Ivy Jason 4. Zumwalt 1st Cousins illiam 4 Zumwalt Sarah Parthena 5 Zumwal John Randall 5 Zumwalt 3rd Cousins Andrew 1 Zumwalt Andrew 1 Zumwalt Jacob 2 Zumwalt Father Jacob 2 Zumwalt George 3 Zumwalt Brothers Andrew 3 Zumwalt Ivy Jason 4 Zumwal William 4 Zumwalt Sarah Parthena 5 Zumwalt* ohn Randall 5 Zumwalt 3rd Cousins John Randall 5 Z_mwalt came to Ivy Jason 4 Zumwalt's farm near Louisiana,, Missouri to work for Ivy Jason 4 Zumwalt, There he met Sarah Parthena 5y daughter of Ivy Jason 4 Zumwalt and they married and moved to Louisiana, Missouri where John Randall 5 Zumwalt built wagons and built cabinets. Their first children were born In Missouri. Later they came by Immigrant Railroad to Colusa, California George R, Zumwalt * (S Article # 15 rleri.s~& October 1, 1963 Copy of '.JILL OF ANDREW ZOMWALD - Dated October 20, 1764 In the Narae of God, Amen; -I, Andrew Zomwald in the County of Feederick and Colony of Virginia, being weak in body but sound of memory, (Blessed by God) do this 29th day of October ANNO Domini One Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty Four, make and publish this my last will and testament in manner following, that is to say: First, I recommend and give my body to the ground and my soul to God. Secondly, I give to my wife, Ann Regina Zomwald for her share a third part of all my estate as well deserved for all her trouble she has had with me in all my sickness and children got with my first wife as well as her. I say she is to have a third of all my land, catties, householdstuff, etc. Thirdly, the two parts or third left, is to be divided in equal shares amongst the child ren one as much as the ether. Fourthly, I make my wife, Ann Regina, sole Executrix and ordain her for that, ir trust for the intents, purposes in this my will contained, as a mother ought to do to ray child ren got by my first wife as well as them got with her. Fifth, If any of the children should be fit and grown up for to learn a trade such as the li_e the shall be put to it with the will of their mother. In witness whereof, I, Andrew Zomwald set my hand and seal the day and year above men tioned. Andrew Zomwald Signed, sealed and delivered as my last will and testament in the presence of George Weaver, Peter Speer and Martin Blake. I At a Court continued and held for Frederick County the 6th day of March, 1765, this last will and testament of Andrew Zomwald, deceased, was proved by the oaths of George Weaver and Peter Speer, two of the witnesses there to and ordered to be recorded. Ann Regina, the Executrix therein ramed having refused to take upon herself the Execution thereof, Administration with the will annexed of the estate of the said Andrew Zomwald, deceased, is granted unto Henry Zomwald, he having made oath thereto and together with Jacob Huff and George Weaver, his securities entered into and acknowledged bond in the penalty of Four Hundred Pounds for his due and Faithful execution thereof. By the Court J. A. Keith, C. C. I A Co y Taste: C. C. Brannon Clerk Henry Zumwalt tried to break his father's will and there was much litigation. Copies of this should be obtained. Irene Foster From: Irene (Updegraff) Foster To: George R. Zumwalt Date: 19 November 1958 (^ _ Article # 16 February 199 1959 IVY JAMES 5 ZUMWALT Ivy James 5 Zumwalt was born in Pike County, Missouri, November % 1843, near Louisi ana, Missouri, He was the son of Ivy Jason 4 Zumwalt, a native of St. Charles, among the first settlers of Pike County, Missouri, His mother, Sarah James, was a native of Adair County, Missouri, Soon after his first marriage he bought a farm near Ashley, Pike County„ Missouri and lived there till his health failed. He sold the farm and moved to Ashley, Missouri where he lived several years. Then he moved to Louisiana, Missouri in 1907 and lived there till his death which oecured February 21, 1917. He was taken to Ashley, Missouri for burial which was February 23, 1917 at Fair View Cemetery, The first marriage of Ivy James 5 Zumwalt was to Minerva F, Henderson, daughter of Ru ffes and Sarah Henderson, near Louisiana*, Missouri on February 9, 1865, Four children were born to then: 1. Cora W, 6 Zumwalt, bom January lip 1866 near Louisiana, Missouri, She passed away March 3, 1866 and is buried at old Grassy Creek Cemetery near Louisiana, Mo, 2. Frank Ramsey 6 Zumwalt, born September 4, 1867 in Pike County, passed away October 13* 1943 in Marysville, California and is buried at Sierra View Memorial Park„ Marysville, California. 3. Carrie 6 Zumwalt, born May 30, 1873 in Pike County, passed away September 20, 1873 and Is buried at Old Grassy Creek Cemetery near Louisiana, Missouri, 4o Porter Kerr 6 Zumwalt, born October 29, 1874 near Ashley, Mis sour i9 passed away February 23, 1952 in a hospital at El Centro, California and is burled at Marys ville, California in the Sierra View Memorial Park, Ivy James 5 Zumwalt1s first wife, Minerva Henderson, was born June 13, 1844 near Louis iana, Missouri and passed away November 21, 1874 and is buried at Old Grassy Creed Cemetery near Louisiana, Missouri, The second marriage of Ivy James 5 Zumwalt was to Emma C, Crosby, daughter of H, S„ & Elizabeth Crosby of Calhoun County near Belleview, Illinois, on March 1, 1877. Two children were born: 1, Ona Co 6 Zumwalt was born May 23, 1881 near Ashley, Missouri, Pike County and passed away January 12, 1889 and is buried at Fair View Cemetery, Ashley, Missouri, 2. Mabel Francis 6 (Zumwalt) Carr was born March 29, 1887 near Ashley, Missouri Ivy James 5 Zumwalt9a aecond wife, Emma C, Croaby, was bora November 25, 1853 near Belleview, Calhoun County, Illinois and passed away July 9, 1887 near Ashley, Missouri and is buried at the Fairview Cemetery, Ashley, Missouri, The third marriage of Ivy James 5 Zumwalt was to Joaie Mace of Belleview, Calhoun County, Illinois on October 30, 1890. One child was boms 1. Earl Howard 6 Zumwalt was bom August 23, 1891 near Ashley, Missouri and passed a- way June 8, 1941 in Los Angelea, California and is buried in the Calvary Cemetery in Los Angeles, California. Earl was in Vforld War I with the Navy, Ivy James 5 Zumwalt's third wife, Josie Mace was bom near Belleview, Illinois but r C • Artiel© Page ilAZ haven't the date of her birth. She passed away July 4, 1896 and is buried at the Long Clustery near Belleview, Illinois. This was Earl's mother. i Earl Howard 6 Zumwalt married Kate Tressier. I haven't the date, she is also dead and they had no children. ^ Frank Ramsey 6 Zumwalt, son of Ivy James 5 Zumwalt was married April 18, 1889 to Zu Sadie Ochletree, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. Ochletree of Ashley, Missouri. They had two sons! Ja 1. Everett 7 Zumwalt was bora near Ashley, Missouri. I have no date but they moved to California. 2. Dr. Adali James 7 Zumwalt was born in California. I have no date on his birth. Frank was a graduate of Watson Seminary at Ashley. When he first went to California he taught school and in later years was a postal clerk. Everett married, had several chil= dren. He lived at Ant loch, California when he passed away. I have no date on his death, will send you some old clippings they had sent me. Probably you know some of Everett's children as they live around Antioch. Sadie, Frank's wife, also passed on and is buried at1 Marysville, California. Porter K. 6 Zumwalt, son of Ivy James 5 Zumwalt was married to Willa Travis of Louisi ana, Missouri in 1895. They had 8 children all born near Ashley, Missouri. One child, Ernest, passed away in 1913 only a few months old and is buried at Ashley, Missouri. Porta and his wife separated and he went to California and settled around Hammond and Yuba City, ' California. His family all went to California except the oldest daughter, Mrs. Ruby "Sara1' Unglesbee. She lives at 1805 Delmar Street, Burlington, Iowa. She married a railroad ear- pcnter, now retired, has two daughters, two sons. One of her sons visits us often. Anothei daughter, Mrs. Ethel ^Bcrt" Shults, 956 Crestwood Street, San Pedro, California. I hear from her occasionally. A son, E. 0. 7 Zumwalt, 640 Cooper Ave., Yuba City, California. Willa, Porter K. Zumwalt's divorced wife, also lives in California. She married again and lives at Orland, California. Her name is Mrs. Willa "Pete" Peterson, Orland, California, Rt. 1, Box 322C. She is quite old. I had a Christmas card from her this past year. Ail of the dates of marriages, births and deaths were from a bible. It is quite long a3 he had three different sets of children and I am the only one left. You can see I am getting up there but anyway I am quite active. • LINEAGE OF IVY JAMES 5 ZUMWALT Andrew 1 Z — & $2 w, Ann Regina Jacob 2 Z — gUv, Catherine Miller George 3 Z— & Mary Killebrew Ivy Jason 4 Z & #1 w. Sarah James Ivy James 5 Z _ #1 w. Minerva Henderson #2 w. Emma Crosby #3 w. Josie Mace #4 w. Rebecca Lamberson Bsnn RECEIVED FROM: Mabel Francis 6 Zumwalt (Mrs. Pearson) Carr Article #17 September 1, 1961 RECOLLECTIONS OF SOLOMON 3 ZUMWALT I was born in St. Charles County, Miaaouri, November 13, 1807. My fatherB Adam 2 Zum wait was born in York, Pennsylvania in the year 1757. My grandfather, Andrew 1 Zumwalt was born in Prussia near Strasburg, coming to America in the year 1728 with a brother, Balzer Zumwalt, Andrew 1 married the 2nd time in Baltimore and settled in Pennsylvania at York, There four children were born by his first wife. Henry 2 - George 2 - Mary 2 and Elisabeth 2, His wife dying, he soon married again a girl from Switzerland, moving to Virginia, lo cation near Woodstock,, He had six children by his last wife. Christopher 2 - John 2 - Jacob 2 - Adam 2 - Catherine 2 and Andrew 2. He died soon after from the affects of cancer, Adam 2 Zumwalt, a boy of ten years of age, was bound to his £ brother George 2 Zumwalt, Under the English law all minors were placed under the control of some responsible person. When Adam 2 was eighteen years of age, Governor Dunmore of Virginia was raising volunteers to chastise the Indians on the Ohio. George 2 Zumwalt gave his consent for him to volunteer, gave him a horse, saddle and a gun, so he and his brother, John 2 Zumwalt, went into the regiment commanded by Col. Lewis, 800 or 900 strong. In due time they camped on the Ohio River at the mouth of the Kenawha, now known as Point Pleasant. At this time Governor Dun- more was in council with the Indians Just across the Ohio River. Word came that the In dians agreed to treaty the next day and no one expected a battle, but the Indians crossed the river in the night and two men had gone out before daylight to shoot turkey, were fired on by the Indians in the morning. One was killed, the other made his way to camp. Col. Lewis sent his brother, Capt. Lewis and 250 men to meet the attack. The Indians' fire was heavy, they were driving Capt. Lewis and his men toward camp. Col. Lewis seemed slow in supporting him and about 200 men broke order and advanced to give their support to their fellow comrades, hiding behind trees, letting the retreating boys pass. They fired on the Indiana, killing about 40. Adam Zumwalt was one of the party. The engagement became gen eral and lasted until three o'clock in the afternoon. The Indians were driving back about two miles. They would throw their dead Into the river to keep the whites from getting their scalps. The dead numbered 80 and a great many were wounded. John 2 Zumwalt had his arm broken by a large bullet which made him a cripple for life. The Indians crossed the Ohio and signed a treaty of peace. The troops marched to eastern Virginia where there was great excitment, the colonies having declared their independence. Troops were being raised to carry on the war with Great Britain. Adam 2 Zumwalt volunteered and served five and one half years. He stated is his old age that although he had been on the frontier all his life, the five and one half years he served in the army was the hardest part of his life;; lack of food, scant clothing, A part of the time he waa clothed in bucksking, killing the deer and dressing the skin himself. He was marched from place to place and served in the south most of the time. There was a small settlement in Kentucky. Two or three years before the Revolution ary War commenced, the English had a port at Detroit on the lake. They encouraged the In dians to harass the Kentucklans with parties and furnished them with guns. Adam 2 Zumwalt went to Kentucky with other parties and gave assistance to the settlers. The people lived in forts and it was very dangerous to travel through the wilderness, between Virginia and Kentucky, They passed places where the emigrants had been killed, at that time. Forts Lexington, Boonesborough, Bryants and Riddle. Fort Riddle was captured a short time before the company arrived; part were killed, others taken to Detroit. This was in 1781 or 1782. The country had plenty of wild game, buffalo, elk deer and bear. Adam 2 Zumwalt hunted to furnish meat for Lexington. He killed eleven buffalo in one day. Adam 2 Zumwalt velonged to Cat. McConnell's company, stationed at Lexington. He send Adam 2 Zumwalt and two other men on a scout to watch the Ohio River and give the alarm to the settlement in case of the Indians should cross the river while they were out. The In- c ns crossed at- another point and attack- nt, the wa_ weal mx. the name of Simon Grity was in command of the Indians, In the meantime Captain Mc- word at Lexington and led 25 mounted men to the rescue. The Indians were eating b: and were surprised, All got in the fort but one man. His horse fell and he mad* back to Lexington and said hia horse was killed, In a short time his horse made • earsnce. When darkness came, Grity called to know who was In command of the fort.. He said h r-ienty of men to take the fort and they better surrender; ao one would be killed, tx .,• wowM Mve to be taken to Detroito McConnell told him to come on, fee was ready for but they retreated toward the Ohio River, The settlers raised a large number of m«_ . _ur__ad them coming up with the rear guard at a place called Blue Licks, Major MeSaryi In sommando Daniel Boone thought it best not to follow the 2nd tans but cross the river at two _Ue«„ as he feared they would be lead into a trap, MeGary did not agree with 1 and accused Boone of being a toward, but Boone replied he could go where McGary could ao they followed in pursuit. In going on the trail up a shat»p ridge they got well iftij 'trap laid fey Grity, The Indians fired from both sides, the brave mm diemo _nt#d a_d '-- a battle? but loss was heavy and they began to retreat. The Indians closed in on tSw ar and before the whites got out they lost 80 raenQ This was the worst defeat the Ken- iscklans ever had, Daniel Boone lost a eon, Adam 2 Zumwalt and his two comrades returned^ «"rt» scouting the day of the battle and heip&d bury the dead the next day. He said it was seat heart rendering scene he witnessed;, so many of his comrades and some leaving tows and orphans, About the year 1785 General Clark came down the Ohio from Fort Plfctp where Pittsburg now standSp in a flatboat with two or three cannons and aided the Kentucky militia inv« the Indian towns in the Ohio territory where Chillio now stands, Adam 2 Zumwalt was in the Ution, The Indians fled and only a. few were killed on either side, the cannons s^em- to alarm thaw- But the whites destroyed a quantity of corn and ether provisions? it og fall of the year,, the Indians suffered that winter for food. It appears that th< - Invaded Kentucky after that time except In small parties to steal, Adair 2 Zumwalt continued his occupation of hunting for the Fort, A great number of single men drifted in from Virginia and ^tber states-. Some of than Id get homesick and want to return.. The Kentucky girls formed an organisation to 1 isr the homesick boys, And anyone affected by the disease w_* taken in hand by the . • -A 3-*seed in a petticoats My mother _s©d to say it sure was a sure. It did not appear \ Adam 2 Z_m_alt was aver affected fay the disease, but about the year 1785 fee married j Roads,, ;iew.ngesi daughter of Andrew Roads who 'moved hie family d#wn the Ohio River ir. - flatboat from Fort Pitt, Andrew Roada w_@> a native of Ho_laiw3 and a Dutofa sailor SJS MI anger days,, hewlssg aside a voyage to ih* East Indira „ H* moved to Fort Pitto He moved •\& F@rt Missouri with my father in the j-mr 1780P lived to be over 90 years of «#<*• and **„piad on the old Mam 2 Zumwailt farm In St, Charles So_nty». Mla*e-_ri, After -fuming to America fee served with the English Army,, was at Broddock° a defeat not afraid of bullets, H@ te&d a prayer he said as he went into feettl* _**_ he did nd •\ at al I • Ad&tc 2 Zumwalt settled 'In Lexington and with Hals half brother, Gtorlstophar 2 Zumwalt, >wed tha building b«a_i»essr, afterward moving to Harrison %aim%y wte«re fee lived several • _,rs, She following children ware born in Kentucky; s John 3 - Eliaabeth :* - Catherine 1 Ar*-» " *s »el 3. Jonathan 3 - flatten } and Soiktmon 3 being bora in Missouri, aa 2 Zumwalt lived for seven years on the road from Lexington to George town 9 keepia. tavern , *?ben Seneral Wayne defeated the Indians in the Northwest£, «nd It waa m?« to est( Adam ;• Zumwalt was diasatlsfiedtf the gsuae w_g gone and the erji < i " set ••' Article #17 Page #3 the Mississippi". His brother Andrew 2 Zumwalt had moved to the Louisiana Purchase in 1799. In the 18008s Adam sold his farm, dug a large canoe 60 feet long and wide enough to lay four wagon wheels flat down in the bottom, loaded his goods, including stills to make whiskey, not withstanding he and his wife were members of the Presbyterian Church, hired a number of hands and descended the Licking River to the Ohio and down the Mississippi and on to Peruque, a small stream some distance above the mouth of the Missouri, and left his goods at his brother°s. He then made choice in the north part of St. Charles county, 21 miles from St. Charles at what is Big Spring, now a railroad called Renon. Adam 2 Zumwalt set up his still, getting his com ground at his brother-s mill at Peruqueo He met some difficulty in getting a market for hia whiskey as the French traders had the market, telling the Indians that Adam 2 Zumwalt" s was poison. He got a man to go with him to the Indian8s camp and by drinking in their presence they tasted it. The squaws in particular said it did not take as much to make them tight, so he had a fine trade,, The Indians up the Mississippi came down in canoes, Blackhawk came often. My mother Mary Roades (Zumwalt), had a rule for them to give her their tomahawks and butcher knives to keep while they were at the still house. When the war with England commenced, the Indians took sides with the British and in vaded Missouri and caused the settlers to live in Forts. Adam 2 Zumwaltas oldest sons went into the service. Andrew 3 Zumwalt belonged to Captain Boone»s company, a son of Daniel Boone. Adam 2 Zumwalt lived most of the time at . His son Jonathan 3 Zumwalt was 14 years old and carried a gun. He went with his father to look after the stock on the farm, it being seven miles from the fort. They would kill a deer and pack it into the Fort. After the war of 1812 closed the trouble with the Indians ended In Missouri. Adam 2 Zumwalt lived on hia farm at Big Spring, 21 miles from St. Charles, in the county of St. Charles; St. Charles being the county seat. He died August 24, 1834. His widow died April 1, I846. She made her home with me. Adam 2 Zumwalt and his wife Mary Roads joined the Presbyterian church in Kentucky, and were members until their death. I became owner of the old house and lived there until April 6, 1850 when we started for Oregon. LINEAGE OF SOLOMON 3 ZUMWALT Andrew 1 Z ———————< •• & #2 w. Ann Regina ?? Adam 2 Z ••"•'• ••••• •••• ••••_••••••« > • ••• •• • & Mary Roades SoJioiDon 3 Z '??=>»-«=•'**-»^»<-==»»ao^:g^ & l*_in_#v G_ro€6 Lucinda 4 Z —————••—••- died young Elisabeth 4 Z •• — —— _ James McCabe Andrew Jackson 4 Z ——-——— & #1 w. Margaret Ann Walker #2 Wo Lavinia M. Brown Mary C 4 Z —-—. . -,.—____ & #1 h. William Robertson h h. Daniel Conrad Ardella 4 Z •••••••• •• — & William T. Walker Toliver Lite 4 Z — ~ & #1 w. Laura Breckenbrldge #2 w. ?? Coffee Louise 4 Z ————•—. & William Potter Sarah Frances 4 Z • •-——••— & Norman F. Hammett Charles Wesley 4 Z • • — & Millie Conrad Nancy Matilda 4 Z • •— & E. L. Warren Martha 4 Z -• • __• • •• died young James R. 4 Z ————-__—— twin of Charles Wesley, died young Missouri 4 Z —-—• ••_-•_—— died young Rachel 4 Z •• • "•mi—•••••"• died young C I The preeeeding article was received by Rena Norton. May 23, 1941? from Dr, Rockve Hunt (a Zumwalt), Dean of the Graduate School of the University of California, Los Ang< Mr. George R. Zumwalt received this article on May I, 1959 from Sarah J. Zumwalts 2j street, Ind«sp«»dencej, Oregon ANCESTRAL CHART nia Pik "ZUMWALT* | Far, tar hVjte -_•-•—-- Hie first Andrew Zumwalt (#1) was the immigrant from Germany. His son Adam 2 Zumwalt, our Revolutionary ancestor (proved from National Archives, Washington Ephi D„C,), The 2nd Andrew (#3) Zumwalt was our great Grandfather and fought in the War of 1815 and came across the plains to Oregon with his son Isaac 4 our Grandfather in 1846.. j> Pem Ecc! The children of Adam 2 Zumwalt were; John 3 - Elisabeth 3 - Andrew 3 - Rachel 3 - Mary 3 - Catherine 3 - Jonathan 3 and Solomon 3. Andrew 3 Zumwalt four Great-Grandfather as stated) came to Oregon with hia now son Isaac 4 Zumwalt in 1846. John came to Oregon in 1850. John 4 Zumwalt is the father >i fcrui of Lucy 4 (Zumwalt)Etkins - Lydia 4 CZumwalt)Tedrow » Mrs. Bulad - Davis Brown and Mrs. reri A. 0. Dunbar. Rev. Elkins of Monmouth, Oregon la the Grandson of Lucy 4 (Zumwalt)F_.ki_a, zat: The only children I could locate of our Greatgrandfather, Andrew 3 Zumwalt E c: Are Isaac 4 Zumwalt Cour Grandfather) - John Martin 4 Zumwalt - Jerome 4 Zumwalt and Nancy the I Zumwalt, but Nancy I understand married a Crow. in ( Solomon 3 Zumwalt came to Oregon in 1850, that Is started that year, j Q] wintered at Salt Lake so arrived in 1851, He lived at Eugene, Oregon and wrote his Sen family about 4880. ih« Clan Adam 2 Zumwalt was born in Virginia and lived there before moving to K«n= corrj tucky and later to Missouri attc onlj ''ROMs; Ren© Norton, Cousin of Chester B. Zumwalt, deceased Neva 209 2nd Ave. pren Forest Grove, Oregon, perj December 22, 1941 dri^f gers hast They orr ery for in E knovi phan for Article # 18 June 7, 1959 Revised: January 26, 1965 JOSEPH ZUMWALT "THE PIONEER" Convivial Clampers Brew Good Times From Fun. Informality. Good Works One warm spring day in 1849 Joseph Zumwalt, impatient to be on his way to the Califor nia gold fields, walked down the dusty street to the office of the Bowling Green Journal in Pike County, Missouri, in hopes of learning when the next wagon train would leave for the Far West. While he chatted with the editor he idly thumbed through a document on the coun ter. It was the ritual of a lodge called E Clampus Vitus. According to Boyd R. Stutier, writing in the West Virginia Review In 1931, Squire v fiphriaa Bee, a tavern keeper of Dodridge County, West Virginia rganized the Ancient order of E Clampus Vitus in 1845 or earlier. William H. Hall, author of Memoirs of Bedford County * Pennsylvania described in detail an initiation in 1847 of a secret society called the Ecclampi3 Vitis. Joseph Zumwalt chuckled and continued to read,. The editor told him the document was for sale. He bought one, as did his partner, W. C. Wright. Soon afterward they left for California by ox team. Their destination was Hangtown, now Placerville, El Dorado County. The E Clampus Vitus ritual in the bottom of Zumwalt°s } trunk was forgotten. A year later in Hangtown, California Joseph Zumwalt found the ritual, reread it and decided the miners, merchants, gamblers and bar-keeps needed such an organi zation. He called together a group of friends, the ritual was read and the first chapter of E Clampus Vitus was organized^ but for reasons not clearly explained in Clamper archives, the lodge quickly died. £ Zumwalt put the ritual in his pocket, saddled his horse, and departed for Mokelumne Hill in Calaveras County. In September of 1851 he organized Mokelumne Hill Chapter No. 1001 of E Glampus Vitus. The first meeting was held in the Van Pelt Building which had a history of serving as a saloon and a jail in the years that followed. The more frivolous historians of the order point out the appropriateness of the founding place and add that many an overloaded Clamper has gone from saloon to jail and later back to saloon. Other chroniclers, however, contend that Clampers do not go to jail because the sheriff, marshal, judge and district attorney are also Clampers. They say a brother, who had been rejoicing among the pots, need only to display the upraised fist in a Clamper salute and the case will be dismissed. Today, there are more than 4,000 members in 12 active chapters in California and one in Nevada. The roster of membership includes the names of governors, lieutenant governors, su preme court justices, United States senators, state senators, congressmen, assemblymen, su perior judges, authors, industrialists, doctors, educators, merchants, engineers, truck drivers, clerks, ministers, composers, ranchers, artists, attorneys, bartenders, miners, log gers, poets and salesmen - you name them and the Clampers have them. Clamper leaders today frankly admit the objective of the organization is fun but they hasten to explain that ECV is considerably more than an unregenerate group of tosspots. They explain that scores of historic monuments have been erected and dedicated to the mem ory of great events and great men. In a lighter moment they dedicated a plaque to the mem ory of Duncan Nicol, a San Francisco saloon keeper, who invented Pisco Punch, the recipe for which died with its inventor. Their acts of helpfulness and kindness usually are done in secrecy. Files of early California papers contain hundreds of cards of thanks to un known benefactors "believed to be ECV? This same policy of secret aid prevails today. Upon being initiated into ECV the neophyte is pledge to "per caritate, viduaribus or- Phanibusque, sed prim viduaribus". It is explained that this ancient pledge means to "care for widows and orphans and principally widows." ,c Article #18 Page #2 Although the ECV Motto is Credo Quia Absurdum meaning, "Take nothing seriously, unless it be absurd," the Clampers of today take great pride in reciting a reeord of good deeds I and the preservation of historic events. luring the decades after the Mokelumne Hill Chapter was formed, other ECV lodges mush roomed in mining towns from Mariposa to Yreka, Siskiyou County. There was no state or regional organization, hence there are only meager records here and there. This lack of written record was explained by George Napoleon of Columbia, Tuolumne Countyp thusly; > The trouble was that during the meeting none of the brothers was able to keep any minutes and afterwards nobody could remember what had taken place," When historian and authors describe ECV as "the bibulous brotherhood" or the frolick- some friars," it might appear descriptions are not far from fact. f During the 80"e and 90°s Clamperdom went into a decline, which almost led to death. California had come of age and had put away childish things. It was ah era of broadcloth, gas lights and formality. By the turn of the century the last struggling Clamper chapter threw in the towel, a bar towel. For 15 years Clamperlsm remained in suspended animation, In 1915 the organization again stirred into life in Marysville, Yuba County,, William T. E1113, the authority on flood control, was a prime mover. The group Incorporated with the secretary of state. However, nothing much came of the move. World*War I was in the making and men had other things to think about. Then in 1931 there was born the Second Revival of Clamperism. •„ RESEARCH AID The writer is grateful to Alan Ottley of the California Department of the State Library Clamper Historian Elton W. Zueger and Sven Skaar, Historian for William Morris Steward Chapter, ECV, for aid in obtaining the information for this article. I am not positive of the correct lineage of Joseph Zumwalt. It could be: Andrew 1 Z & #1 w. Mary ?? George 2 Z _ Mary ?? Jacob 3 Z & Nancy Ann Spurgeon Joseph 4 Z & Mary Ogle June 7, 1959 Sacramento Bee Clipping sent to George R. Zumwalt by: Mary(Hosner)(Mrs. Edgar Willis)Zumwalt ised Oc JOE 4 ZUMWALT AT THE SIERRA BUTTES (From the Feather River Pictorial) The south end of this ridge stands magnificently 4,000 feet above the valley of the North Fork of the Yuba River (the Sierra Buttes). From this mountain the names of Sierra County and Sierra City had their origin,, The first and ultimately the largest mine worked on the steep slopes of this massive mountain was also known as the Sierra Buttes Mine„ It has a record of 84 years of con? operation, but it took men of steel to find the mine and work it. In I85O9 spring came early along the Yuba River and its tributaries brought down a of water from the mountain snows to help the established miners work their claims and also to act as a counter current against the gamblers and fast-buck artists who had wallowed in the winter mud of San Francisco and Sutters" Fort waiting for a chance to hit the mine3oo, To escape this predatory horde, Joe 4 Zumwalt and Patrick Haven left their successful winter camp at Zumwalt'3 Bar (just above Camptonville) and headed into the upper portions of the North Fork of the Yuba. A three day stop at Major Downey»s camp (Downieville) gave an opportunity for the strongest of the following swarm of gold seekers to catch up with them. In spite of warnings about unfriendly Indians and unknown country the two men wear!) shouldered their packs and headed on up the river. It was early in May and the river was in floodp making it necessary for even these hardy men to stay on the ridges. Sometimes because of precipitous gorges, they would be 2,,000 feet or more above the rushing torrents. From time to time they caught a glimpse of a majestic snow covered Buttes aheadf, with a sawtooth ridge leading away from it into the dimness of the horizon, the majesty of this formation lured them on and nine days out of Downieville they came out on a mountain shoulder right beneath the sleeping giant. Below them lay a meadow, luxuriant with grass, well above the turbulent stream. A perfect camp= site from which to prospect for the source of the gold laden float ore they had found, BU'i'o o,000000.000 , 0 On the eastern end of the meadow were five skin teepees, and grazing In the meadow a band of twenty-five or more Indian ponies. For two days the miners watched the tableau below. There were fourteen Indians: five bucks, three squaws and six children. laughter shouts,, and the barking of dogs floated up to the men who were cold-camped beneath the wil low brush of a small hillside spring. The morning of the third day they awoke to see only the teepee poles standing naked in the canyon shadows. Havens and Joseph 4 Zumwalt, deciding that the Indians had gone, stretched their cramped legs and descended to the meadow. Both agreed that this vas IT. (For many succeeding sum- mars, Piute hunting parties, seeking venison and huckleberries, came over the Yuba Pass from the Nevada Deserts, but there is no record of any violence at any time.) The first of June saw more camps on the meadow and 25 men washing the rich gravel of the river0 The take on some days exceeded $300 per mano The fall of 1852 saw twenty mule driven arrastas* working feverishly on ore assaying as high as $100000 per ton in gold. That winter there was eight feet of snow in Sierra City and 20 feet on the Buttes. > a B57. And further great di Koldo) able estimates place the total production of gold from the Sierra Buttes mine? stately $1100000o00 : by Allan Hearst her Ri¥er Territorial 1958 Fall number California was during this period of Joe 4 Zumwalt9 e pro During 1852 Joseph 4 Zumwalt lost by death three small daughters* the oldest 11. The ordinarily cold winter no doubt had something to do with it. Francis H. Hibbard JOSEPH ZUMWALT LINEAGE Andrew 1 Zumwalt »——— & #1W Mary (?) George 2 Zumwalt -~-=~~~~~~- & Mary (?) Jacob 3 Zumwalt - — & Nancy Ann Spurgeon Joseoh 4 Zumwalt .=~~-^______& Mary Ogle "Emile (Z) ;Eibe) (West) -_____-_— & #1H Matkias Eibe #2H West Mary Ann (Z) Eibe ——-————— _ George Eibe Nancy Ann (Z) Bailey — ~= __--o>____— _ peter Bailey William 5 Zumwalt -~~-~~-.---~~~~-.~- Died at the age of 10 years Jacob Willard 5 Zumwalt -~-~---~=»»-~ _ Mary Ann Stone James Ca 5 Zumwalt ——~~—=———> & #lvj Lucy Robinson #2W Earraa Olive Willett Daniel 5 Zumwalt —=—— •--•———= & Nancy Murphy Joseph Oscar 5 Zumwalt =,———.—._-_ & Mary Murphy John Ho 5 Zumvalt =~------v-____«_____._ & Susanna 5 Zumwalt ~-~--=----~—_____ Died 1842 age 3 years Julia Axui 5 Zumwalt __---~~-—-=--__ Died 1352 age 11 years Almeda 5 Zumwalt —-»~--~~—~~=—-__ Died 1852 age 9 years Jasper 5 Zumwalt __~__==^--=~__~___..* Died I846 age 1 month Elizabeth 5 Zumwalt _--=-_-=-=--_==-_.__ Died 1852 age 4 years Article #20 Revised Oct. 1, 1963 BRIEF ON THE LIFE OF OWEN EDGAR SMITH By Freda (Smith) Rackholm (His Daughter) Edgar Owen Smith Is a grandson of Sarah Perthena Zumwalt (5) John Randall Zumwalt (5) After Annie M. 6 (Zumwalt) Smith passed away in May 1882, her husband, Jasper Green Smith was quite ill. The doctor told him he had only 6 months to live. He looked around to find someone to make a home for Owen, their son? so it happened that Fredrick and Eliza beth Harmon came to adopt Owen Edgar late in 1882 or early in 1883 * They had a large ranch in Nevada where they took Owen Edgar to live for a number of years. He learned to ride and hunt with some of his young Indian friends. returned to California in the early 1890ls. The railroad went through their Ne • property shortly after they sold it and the town of Fallon is built on this property . On. of the districts is named Harmon District in their honor. They had a sheep ranch above Cloverdale which they sold and moved to Santa Rosa in 1901 fhey lived there until their death. Owen Edgar finished his business course and studied to be a court reporter. He married Lizzie Briggs July 4» 1903 and they had four children; two girls and two boys After the third child was born, the doctor told Owen to take Lizzie to the mountains for her health. That is how it came about that they homesteaded 160 acres of timber land on the South Fork of the Eel River „ When they first went In there, they packed everything by mule back We were six miles from the end of the Stage Line. He built our house from lumber from Red wood trees that he cut down himself. It was a rugged life, but we children grew strong anr so did mother. We had to make our own trail from the river crossing to our place . We usually spe the winters in Santa Rosa or Sebastopol and in the spring we would return to the homestead,, Owen Edgar cleaned a large amount of lands, planted fruit trees and grain„ He us to fish and hunt and we lived a good clean out-door life. He taught us to garden, and we grew the tallest corn and largest root vegetables for miles aroiang; strawberries half as big as a tea cup, fruit and berries grew well and we had goats for milk. He taught us t© read, write, spell and our numbers before we ever started to school When the highway was built through from Garberrille to Willets, it came within 2£ miles of o_r place, but we were on the opposite side of the river, and no bridge and we sti packed our provisions in by horseback• (Pack horse). Owen worked as a surveyor on * road, We came back to Santa Rosa before the road was finished in August 1917 Article #20 Page #2 Mrs. (Lizzie) Elizabeth Harmon died In November 1917 and it was at this time that Owen became interested in embalming. He studied and passed his State Board and became a licensed f embalmer. We had a ranch between Santa Rosa and Sebastopol. In 1928, Owen Edgar took his own name of Smith bade. He felt that the boys would soon be old enough to marry and they should have , their own rame. i In 1934r Owen 7 Smith was no longer able to care for the rach and we children were away from home, either going to school or working, so he sold the rach and moved back to Santa Rosa. I He now only worked part time at his profession; as time went on he would work only to relieve the other fellows when they were on vacation. He continued this program up until his death in February 1, 1944° He was working at the time of his stroke and he died in less than 24 hours. Mother went to the hospital and stayed with him and he passed away at 1 a. m. February 1, 1944° He has left me with many wonderful memories of him. f Daughter, Freda Smith Backholm ai ) oz Zx Zi Owen Smith Zumwalt Lineages Andrew 1 S5— * #2 w. Ann Regina Andrew 1 Z-— _ #2 w. Ann Regina Jacob 2 Z & #1 w. Catherine Miller Jacob 2 Z & Catherine Miller ndrew 3 Z —& #1 w. Elizabeth Price George 3 Z & Mary Elizabeth Killebrew William 4 Z— & Sarah Randall Ivy Jason 4 Z & Sarah James John Randall 5 Z~_ Sarah Parthena 5 (Z) Sarah Parthene 5-& John Randall 5 Zumwalt Annie 6 Z _ Jasper Green Snith Annie (Z) Smith 6_ Jasper Green Smith Owen Edgar Smith 7& Lizzie Briggs Owen Edgar Smith 7 & Lizzie Briggs Children of Owen Smith Freda 8 (Smith) Backholm _ Arvo Iver Backholm Owen Ivy Zumwalt 8 Smith _ Frances Hixson Mary Elizabeth Annie £ Smith Jasper Edgar 8 Smith • & Mary Lee Article # 21 Janaary 1, I960 Revlseds January 26,, 1965 ANCEDOTES AND EARLY HISTORY OF FORT ZUMWALT i Close upon the heels of John Lewis, first English-speaking farmer on the Missouri river in what Is now St„ Louis County, came another noted family out of Virginia by way of Kentucky* the family ©f S__malt or Zumwalt, For many years in the closing period of the Spanish dominion and the beginning of Missouri Territory,; the Lewisesp Boones and Zumwalts were neighbors and associates on the Missouri border Jacob Zumwalt and his brother Christopher arrived in the Spanish Territory in 1796 and settled on Peruque Greek, in St, Charles countyf; across the river from the John Lewis settlement. Membero of the families of both of these Zumwalt brothers at a later peried | settled in Pike County, Illinois where many descendants of both the Jacob and Christopher lines still abide, Jacob Zumwaltp in 1798, built the first hewed log house north of the Missouri river, erecting It on his Spanish grant, about 30 miles west of St. Louis* near present Highway 40. In times of Indian trouble, Jacob's log house became a Fort, and to this day the > place Is known as Fort Zumwalt, Here8 in this old Fbrt, the early Lewises and Boones often gathered, Here, too, the noted Indian, Black Hawk, was often a guest of the Z__ walt family Black Hawk lived one winter, in early territorial days, at Jacob Z__waits : 5 Miss Marcia Williams of 0 Fallona Missouri, an authority on Missouri history, legend and folklore, whose family for generations has dwelt in the vicinity of old fbrt Zumwalt, i on a recent afternoon related to the writer the story ©f the family like of those early Zumwalts as it has come down to her in an unbroken chain from one who talked to old Jaaob | Zumwalt and Daniel Boone and Black Hawk,, the Indian The Zumwalts, originating in Germany, came in an early day to America The first Zumwalt (Andrew Zumwalt) of record in the new world,-, emigrated from Germany t© America and settled first In Pennsylvania, where the town of Little York now is.. There he pur chased land upon which the town was subsequently built; and there he built his cabin, Andrew Zumwalt was afflicted with cancer. So deep was he in the wilderness that medical attention could not be had - He there upon removed to Virginia to obtain medical aid and settled on the Potomac, not far from Georgetown- He grew worse and soon died The deed to Jacob's lands in Pennsylvania was destroyed, his children thereby losing a princely fortune. The deed was lost in a singular manner, A girl, hunting a piece of pasteboard to stiffen her sunbonnet, found the deed, and being unable to read, supposed it some useless scrap of paper, and used It in her bonnet- The deed had never been re= corded. The heirs, among them the numerous Pike County descendants^ who have been im portuned at times to join in attempts to prove heirship, have never succeeded in estab- • Hr. Zumwalt was twice married. By his first wife, his children were Henry, ©aorge, Dolly and Lizzie; by his second wife he fathered Christopher, Jacob, John, Adamr. Andrew and Catherine., Adam Zumwalt followed his brothers Jacob and Christopher to the Missouri border« arriving in 1797, the same year that Daniel Boone came to the territory„ Adam placed his family and $800 worth ©f goods aboard a flat boat with stock, consisting of 30 head of cattle, 11 sheep and 12 horses and esme down the Ohio and up the Mississippi t© St Charles Co_nty with his clumsy raft,. He settled near the present town ©f Flint Hill and net far frem his brother Jacob's Start« 02 There Adam erected twcv still houses and made whisky to sell to -liana camp near his place- The great chief, Black Hawk, made his heme at Mam Zumwaits for sr»ma time and was a regular and frequent visitor until after the commencement of hostilities between the whites and Indians. 1 In very cold weather, Mr. Zumwalt '3 whisky would freeze aad become solid icea in which state he sold it to the Indians by the sake^ Bryan and Rose, in their « Pioneer Families of Missouri" are authority for the statement that the Indians often bought as mu«yh as $100 worth ©f frozen whisky in a single day, Zumwalt was a friend of the early herder preachers and whenever one of them ®w.% in to his neighborhood he had services at bis house- Jesse Walker and a German minister named Hostetter, preached there as early as 1800., During the Indian W_ri; Mr. Zumwalt" s family took shelter in Pond Fort (where TOW is Wentcville), while he and his son Jonathan remained at heme to protect, the property and prevent the Indians from destroyIng it, Jonathan had learned |o use his gun when ©nly ' five years old and was a quick and accurate a marksman as could be found on the border 0nse? when he was six, he killed a large buck, which plunged about so in its death agonies that he became frightened and ran home and lost his gun in the weeds. On one occasion,, the Indians crossed the Mississippi river on the ice and murdered f an entire family ©f twelve persons, near neighbors of the ZumwaltSc, Mr,, Zumwalt helped bury the victims. The bodies were wrapped in quilts and buried under the house, in a place used as a seller. The Indians burned the house soon after and the bodies were consumed 0 j On one occasion, an Indian Chief died at- Mr, Zumwalt"s house. He and his sons burled \ the chief with a loaf of bread in ©ne hand and a butcher knife in the other. The chief's dog was killed and buried at his feet These preparations were made so that when he reached the happy hunting ground^, he would have something to eat and a dog to find h_n game,, Mr„ Adam 2 Zumwalt" s children were? I, John Zumwalt, 2. EIizaheth(Z)(_ent)Kentv 3„ Andrew Zumwalt0 4. Raehel(Z) (Long) Howell j, 5= Katherine(Z)_e_t, 6, Jonathan Zumwalt 7, Solomon Zumwalt,, and 8. MaryCZ)K©nt, John 2 Z__walt, another brother ©f Jacob 2 Zumwalt of the F®rt„ settled Dsrst"s Bottom» in St-, Charles County, In 1806. His children wereg 1. Geerge Zumwalt, 2- John Zumwalt, 3 Barbara(Z)Steel», P MeryCzMurdoek, 5* Eli_abeth(Z)Co8how, 6. Adam Zumwalt, Andrew Zumwalt, 8D Jacob Zumwalt, 9, Henry Zumwalt and 1.0,, William Zumwalt. They were closely associated in early times with the Samuel Hardin Lewis family which established itself en the herder near the beginning ©f 1800 Andrew 3 Zumwalt, son ©f John 2 Zumwalt was a devoted Methodist,; b_t three of his daughters joined the Baptist Church (which was the ©torch ©f the Lewises) and their motfeer aaid she was glad of it,-. The ©Id gentleman was very angry and said he hoped., now that the family was divided among the churches? that ©ne of them would find the r'Sight ©ne and get "o heaven and be contented when they g@t there and not want to go semewhere else, 7hi>rB were five Jacobs in the different Zumwalt families^ according to Bryan and Rose, designated as Big Jake, Little Jake,. Calico Jakef St,, Charles Jake and Lying Jake,, so- -ailed because of his hair f,_is..".ig accounts of border warfare „ bord IVoj whor The first battle of the War of 1812 in Missouri was rough, at Fort Zumwalt, whsre the men of the settlements with soldiers from St. Louis, engaged the British controlled Ind Article §21 Page #3 Behind the Ls>g walls and stockade at Zumwalts ©n that oecasionr fighting shoulder to sbnilder with the Zumwalts themselves, were the sons of John Lewis, and John Lewis s brother;; Samuel Hardin Lewis, the early Pike County settler. Here- also, battling the Indians, were John Jong,, the Virginia born husband of Rachel 3 Zumwalt (daughter of Adam 2 Z) and Daniel McCoy who married another Rachel 3 Zumwalt (daughter of Henry 2 Z), to gether with two of McCoy6a brothers, John and Joseph,-, McCoy Creek, which travelers to St, Louis ever IJ,- S, Highway 61 cross near Flint Hill, was named for this Daniel McCoy, De scendants ©f all ©f these familiesc Including Lewis, Zumwalt£ Lang and McCoy,-, later settled in Pike County. Often as many as ten families (and families were large in those days) found refuge in lS Zv_walt s hewn log house during the Indian troubles0 Here the family ©f Samuel Hardin lewis found shelter in those dangerous days, before they moved farther north in St. Charles County,, to that part that is now Lincoln County, where they located not far from Weeds Fort where cow is Trey, a county-seat of Linosln County. The early Missouri Galloways were Aim frequenters of this old Fort in tine of Indian trouble0 James, Elijah and Peter Galloway and the girls who later became their wives, namely, Ursula Lewis, Rebecca Laird and Matilda Wilson, all then children;, are said to have played behind the stockades at Zumwalt6 s in t__es of Indian uprising,, while numerous of their elders were abroad with Howard s Rangers. The first Methodist sacrament in Missouri was administered in old Jacob Zumwalt' s house by Rev, Jesse Walker in 1807., The wine was made by Mrs- Zumwalt and Mrs, Coir David Bailey (of the Bailey family that was later so prominent in Pike County history),, from the juice of poke berries, sweetened with maple sugar, and for bread was used the crusts-of eorn breadQ Later, Zumwalt-s house was used by the Rev0 John Travis,, Missouri"a first Methodist- preacher, and among the pioneer families who gathered for services held there, was organ ized the Mto Zion Methodist Church of 0C Fallon» In the early days of Missouri Territory, when Meriwether Lewis, first cousin of John and Samuel J0, was territorial governor, the noted Indian, Black Hawk, was a frequent and welcome visitor in the log hemes ©f the Lewises, Zumwalts and Boones, He often danced with the girls of these families, who sometimes turned the Indian[s admiration to their own aeeountv prevailing up©n him to d© their chores for them, such as carrying water,-, helping with the churning, bringing in the firewood, etc. Aleng the Peruque and Culver« along Dry Branch and McCoy creek..- still linger amusing anecdotes ©f how the daughters of these houses were want to practice upon the noted chief in the days before the Indian War, Bryan and Rose, in their "Pioneer Families ©f Missouri (1-76) relate that Black Hawk often danced with Mr,, Adam ZumwaltBs daughters and that he was s© fond of Mr, Zumwalt1 e daughters and that- he feequently became very drunk,, but never caused any disturbance ©r asted in an _n»gentl_n_nly mannero Christopher Zumwalt, who came with his brother Jacob to the Spanish territory in 1796, settled on Peruque creek, on lend adjacent to the Spanish grant on which Jacob 2 Zumwalt built his fortified home. There Christopher 2 Zumwalt built a mill, a moat important con tribution to the wilderness settlement Christopher was a soldier of the Revolution, His name has been perpetuated among his descendants who settled in Pike County, Illinois,, Fort, Zumwalt was one of a line of rude frontier forte that defended the Missouri border. Other forts in the time of the Indian War were Wbod>s Fort, at the big spring where ?r©y now is; j Buffalo Port, near Louisiana; Howell Fort, on Howell9 s Prairie? Pond Fort, whore n_w is WentzviWes Stouts1 s Fort, nraar Auburn; Callaway5s Fork., near Marthasvillejand C Page #k and Cooper9s Fort, in the Boonslick settlement with its flanking cabins constituting a stockade,, According to the "Pioneer Families of Missouri",, here to fore quoted, Jacob Zumwalts bouse, with its huge fireplaces, was made ©f white oak and roofed with heavy clapboards of the same wood, The main part consisted of two ground floor rooms, duplicated to form a second story A one-story wing to the east and another to the south, each with a loft completed the structure. The foundation stones are still observable, marking the extent t of the ground floor.. Part of the main building still stands, together with a portion of tl stone chimnay^ The split oak floors which have worn away revealed the primitive method of fastening logs together with wooden pegs instead of nails. The wooden pins have been carried away by Zumwalts from many states as mementoes of the fortress home of their pioneering an cestors o The house is on the brink of a low hill at the foot of which runs a spring, from whicl! Lucy Anne Zumwalt, old Jacob*s wife, carried water for the household^ sometimes under the ^ protecting guns of those behind the walls. The wings of the house have been torn down andj the remaining part is succumbing to time and the elements o The portholes in the upper pari? which were used in repelling Indian raids, may still be seen, although the stockade which surrounded the house disappeared long ago<, A small private cemetery, shaded by ancient cedar trees, adds a touch of pathos to tbi sceae as voices of the past seem to whisper around the old fort Exploring the vicinity of the fort, the writer stumbled upon what appeared to be rude markers of some early buri«f alsv rough sandstones plucked from the surrounding lands, bearing a single letter, a rud ely carved WH" And by thes token we were reminded that this 87 acre fortress estate was owned by the Heald family for a hundred years, and that here, near the old fort, were buried a hero and heroine ©f the Fort Dearborn massacre. Major Nathan Heald, and his wife who was Rebecca Wells- Here also lies the dust ©f Mr3,. Heald's father, Samuel Wells, a soldier of the Revo lution,, who was presented with a sword for bis bravery in the war of Independence, and who later was with Harrison at Tippecanoe The great forests that clad the surrounding hills in the days of the territory have been reduced by constant cutting, but the remnants of the ©Id fort still stand surrorn by forested hills, interspersed with rolling farm lands, Leaving Highway 40 ».t a point a short distance southwest of 0'Fallon, one skirts a corn field to a large brick house, southwest of which, in what is now a pasture land, stands the old skeleton fort, relic of border days , Off to the northwest, an a forestclad hillside, are the burials of the In dian tribe that once inhabited the region. On the south side of Highway lfi;j near the spot where you turn into a field to reach \ the old fort, the Missouri Division to the National Society,. United States Daughters of 6l '8"2, have erected a monument0 on which appears the following inscriptions F©rt Zumwalt 850 yards sorth - built 1798 - on Spanish grant - Jfemestead of Major Nathan Heald - Commander Fort Dearborn in 1812 - and his wife, Rebecca Wells,- from 1817 to 1853" . The Missouri Daughters of 18>2 who erected the monument hope to raise funds for the restoration of the old fort. The Missouri legislature has been" petitioned to buy the 87 acre tract surrounding the fort for a state park , In ""'8;7, five years after the Fort Dearborn massacre., Major Nathan Heald,, commanding : officer of Fort Dearborn; same to Missouri, purchased the old Z__wa?.1 ed Article §21 Page #5 there with his wife Rebecca Wells Heald, heroine of the war of 1812 and of Randall parish's "When Wilderness was King'1, In 1909 the Rebecea Heald Chapter, Daughters of 1812, was organised there by a grand daughter, Rebecea Heald MeGluer, now deceased, and for many years the chapter held its meetings in the old fort. Many a haunting legend of Fort Zumwalt and its early masters still lingers among the inhabitants of St» Charles County, Missouri,, Within its walls, according to local tradi tion, the ghost of Nathan Boone Zumwalt was want to stalk when tragedy impended for the Zumwalt family „ Marcia Williams tells the story of how Nathan Boone Zumwalt, named for Captain Nathan Boone, son of Daniel, was killed while out hunting by the accidental die- charge of his own gun0 Thereafter, when death or danger impended for the Zumwalts, Ms ghost is said to have haunted the old forto One night, as the legend goes, a Zumwalt child lay sick in the forto A cousin watched beside the chi_dcs bedo Suddenly a presence manifested itself in the doorway., The features of the apparition could be traced„ The cousin had neved seen Nathan Boone Zum walt, but when came the dawn this relative recounted to the members of the household a description that tallied with that of the Zumwalt son who had been killed while hunting. The sick child had suddenly died while the apparition yet lingered in the doorway. The early Zumwalts are said to have been given to what the aged inhabitants of St„ Charles County today describe as "hunches"„ Once, in the early days of Louisiana, later Missouri Territory, Jacob Zumwalt was called to Kentucky on business, making the trip on horseback, leaving his then young wife alone in the- forto One night a cataacunt came and clawed at the cabin door, and being unable to enter, finally climbed to the roof where it tore at the white~oak clapboards. Some miles away, on Peruque Creek, Christopher Zumwalt, The Miller, had a "hunch" that something was wrong at his brother Jacob0 s« He hastened over the hills to his brother°s house,, bringing comfort and protection to the frightened Lucy Anne0 For many years the portal of the old fort bore the marks of the wild creatures clawing 0 Miss Marcia Williams who lives a few hundred yards from the old fort and whose family has lived in the fort's vicinity for more than a hundred years, has made a life study of its history and legend So In an interview in her heme in the fall of 1938, she related to the writer the story of the home life of those early Zumwalts., in the days before the In dian uprisings She said that the story had come, an unbroken chain of evidence, repeated to each succeeding generation by the ones that went before, back to the original narrator who had clasped hands and talked with those first settlers of tha territory,, Parts of Marcia William0s story are here givens "Jacob Zumwalt cleaned his musket as he stood in front of the big fireplace at Fort Zumwalt,. late, one bright October aftar= noon. His good wife turned to the fire and bent low as .she watched the ash cake glowing in the coals.-, She took the skillet from the trivet where the squirrel had been frying for supper„ A gourd of honey was on the table and there were earthen mugs of water from the spring at the foot of the hill„ "Gall the boys to supper, Jacob, "she said to her husband,8 and then cose yourself for you are no doubt hungry„ You were in the field from early morning with no stop at noon„ Ah, the hounds are barking,, Someone must be coming over the hill. It is the di rection that Daniel Boone comes and it is not an Indian,, for the dogs are afraid of then and always come slinking to the door if one appeal's,, n'.. •'•-' • "••-: •: -. .' OF TH : : ;: - " OF I ; F ' • Article #21 Page #6 "A hearty welcome was given the hunter when he entered the room-, Daniel Boone did not pause when told that supper was ready but came directly to the table and sat with > bowed head as Jacob Zumwalt returned thanks,, The little boys, Levi and David, watched the hunter as he ate quickly and silently,, He did not remove his fur cap, nor did Jacob They seemed alert and watchful, and their guns were never far from their hands A "Lucy Anne Zumwalt had finished the task of putting to order her supper things„ Thtl remainder of the squirrel was given to old trailer, the hound, that had come with than to the wilderness and now was almost disabled since fighting a wolf on Balleau Creek close by„ The woman seated herself on a low stool well back from the fire that lighted the room well enough for her to take up her knitting„ A lull came as the men sat and smoked and talked of the outside world, the loneliness of the winter months to come and \ of the prospect of Indian trouble„ > "But Mr0 Boone,," said Lucy Anne, "it may not be so bad, for Black Hawk comes at times and seems friendly„ He brought the children a little pet soon and has helped thai to make some bows and arrows and showed tham how to shoot than. He likes my cooking, for he was hungry and I gave him a big gourd of stew that he ate with some ash cake I made, j We will have other families hers during the winter, You see there are four large rooms j> and with the loft over two of them there is much room for many other people* "We are safe at this place and while we have always bean friendly to any Indian that came about vie never know what may happen. The spring is not far distant and one can watch from the port holes as I go for water and shoot if an Indian is lurking near:, Whetf morning comes you and Mr, Zumwalt must talk of your hunting and the pelts you will have ) to take to the trading post, for the boys must not hear of trouble with the Indians, for, when Black Hawk comes, they might say to him some word that would lead to a bad feeling and now he comes with no fear from any of us and we can all give him a true welcome at Fort Zumwalt, He will know our hearts are kind, our walls are strong and sure and that our guns are ready and that our aim is true,," Misa Williams tells of the prayer of old Jacob Zumwalt thatj worded in the quaint and picturesque dialect of Pennsylvania, has come from generation to generation in the St Charles county settlements0 The voice of old Jacob, lifted in supplication to the Al mighty, in a prayer that sounded a might like music, seems still to ring in. the ears of the descendants of the first settlers who heard it repeated by their forbearers, •Mrs* Williams is actively engaged in a campaign to have' the acres surrounding Fort Zumwalt made a state park and to restore the fort itself to its original form. The resto ration of the fort was first suggested by Rose Lane Wilder, the writer. The Missouri Daughters of 1812 have taken measures in an attempt to save this historic site to the State of Missouri, Standing on a recent late November evening by the crumbling walls and chimney of old/- Fort Zumwalt, the writer found himself attempting to visualise the surroundlag region through the eyes of Colonel John Shaw, the grand old Pike County Pioneer, who so graphi cally described these scenes in earlier chapters of this history, ltemy a time Colonel Shaw was a sojourner within the log walls of this old Fort„ Off yonder» three miles to the west, at the crossing of Peruque Greek, Shaw, in the spring of 1813, at the head of five teams loaded with supplies for Rangers, had discovered 13 Indians in £_.hush in tins to retreat and save the supplies„ Up yonder, to the north of the Fort, Shaw and a companion, on the crooked stream called. Cuivre, escaped the Indians who pursued them i ies,, standing In water Article # 21 Page # 7 up to their necks in the low marshlands until night had falsa, when a party sent cut from Fort Howard (near present Old Monroe) effected their rescue,, Across the save stream in closing years of the Spanish dominion a red-haired girl Mary Barnett, who afterwards married Samuel Hardin Lewis, Pike county pioneer, sweat amid floating ice cakes in the dead of winter to warn a aleeping garrison of approaching Indians,, Off in that same direction, near th© bank of the Cuivre and about thref/ miles west from the Mississippi, close to present Old. Monroe, on May 24, 1814, occurr*/! the bloody- battle of tho Sin-Hole, so graphically described by John Shaw wherein he end the whites on the one side, and Black Hawk and his Indians on the other fought a battle that has bsen so differently described by the two men in their personal memoirso John Shaw, known among the Indians as Ed~Sap=Pan, the Raccoon, a n_ne given him by the tribes in recognition of hia cunning and sagacity was a scout and Indira spy throughout the period of the Indian War (1812-1815) „ A friend of Daniel Boone, and f.ioaely associted with the two Boone sons, Daniel Morgan Boone and Nathan Boone, Shaw r.cted as scout and spy at the request of th© settlers on the St. Charles county border„ It was the same John Shaw who later became such a power in the pioneer politics of Pike count/, Illinois and who founded the settlement of Cole's Grove (presently Gilead, Calhoun county), which became the first seat of justice for Pike county and which, led by Shaw, was a contender with Ross" Settlement (now Atlas) in th© long county seat war which agitated the people of the county for many years following the country!'s erection on the beginning of 1821„~ Fort Zumwalt (what is left of it) stands on the old Louisiana Purchase,, near the town of QaFallo_, in St. Charles County, Missouri, approximately 50 miles south of the more than 10 miles from Point Precinct in lower Calhoun couty0 Within its log walla, Nathan Heald Zumwalt, Pike County pioneer, son of the founder of the Cold Run settlement and grandson of the founder of Fort Zumwalt, was born on the 27 of January lrV27„ While he was still a child, his father brougt him to Pike County, Illinois,, Nathan Heald Zumwalt, on the 24 of January 1850, in Pike County, married Elizabeth Jane Barlow, daughter of Humphrey D„ Harlow and AaiXda McSinney McCoy» They were married by Rev, James Burbrldgeo Both had been previously married, Humphrey D, Harlow was a native of Albarmarle County, Virginia, where he was born on the 20 Janury 1800, his father Daniel Harlow being a friend and neighbor of John Baptist Lewie and of the Colonel Robert Lewis family, of whom we have previously written,, Humphrey D„ Harlow died on the 7 of Feb ruary 1880 at the age of 80j his wife, born on the 28 of December, 1809, died on the 5 of March 1901. Both are buried in the Burbridge cemetery, in .'.artlnsburg township«. Mrs, Harlow's first; husband was Harlan McCoy, member of the McCoy family, pion C 8 a sister of Mary Frances who married James H„ Zumwalt, B, David Kubbard who married Tabit Waggoner, 9o Nathan Heald Jr, Who married Baraa hoover, 10„ Harry S„ who died the 3 of September 1869 at the age of 5, lie Nsttie L„ who married trtsa&r. Smith and died the 7 of August 1889 at the age of 22, and 12, .'Francis M, who died at the figs of 17 oh the .31 of March 1893 o Of these, the great-grandchildren of Jacob Zumwalt, founder of Fort Zianwalt, four are livings namely; James Humphry 5 Zt_hwail , ' E. 5 (Zumvalt) Walston, Daivd Hubbard 5 Zumwalt, and Nathan Heald 5 Zumwalt«, Jr, All are resi-uats G? south Pike County, Pictures and story in last week"a Republican), Nathan Heald 4 Zumwalt, Sr0, united, with Mission Baptist church at MartinabUrg, of which he was member for more than a half-ceitnjy,, He voted in 17 presidential election? his first vote being cast for Lewis Caas, Democrat, in the Whlg-Danocrat-Free-Soil campag, of 1848, his last vote being for Woodrow Wilson in 1912, In 1869 be moved Spring Creek township, where he owned 250 acres. He died on the 21 of January 1915? lacking six days;1 being 88 years old; his wife died on the 13 cf October 1912, Both are bruiec; in Burbridg cemtery. Nathan Heald 4 Zumwalt who was a son of Andre 3 Zumwalt ant I S__a_ Qoonoe, had eight i brothers, one half-brother, four slstersn and one half-sister, Acoag SWe brothers were Samuel Pc 4 Zumwalt who married first Lydia Bucakaloo and secon Mirgar?t AlkehJ Jacob 4 \ Zumwalt who died in Missouri durign the Civil War;;Andrew Je 4 Uuiwalt who married Nancy Qaggoner; Isaac 4 Zumwalt; Levi 4 Zumwalt; aid Daivd 4 Zu_walt, all of thorn went to Orep The half-brother was William Zumwalt, and the half=sister was Elisabeth Zumwalt, who married Jacob Null and located in Texasa j Sarah 4 Zumwalt, one of the sisters, married James Brtmsll a*>d In their family were several boys and girls of whom Samuel 5 Brummell of Pittsf ield is the yougest son, A grandson, Robert 6 Brumell (Son of Joseph 5 Brn__eXI » lives at Q* Fallen, Missouri near the old fort,, Other sisters were Christiana 4 <_u_w_lt) Crow who. died OH the way to Oregon in 3.853] Cynthiana 4 (Zumwalt) (Lingo) _arpole and Edna 4 (Zumwalt) Buttram, both of whom located! Oregon,, Fort Zumwalt, built five years before th_ ___sii_na Purchase, by Nathan Heald'« gr_vi father Jacob 2 Zumwalt;, and on ground included in the purchase, u_s ox/wed my Major Nathan Heald at the time Nathan Heald Zumvnlt wa_ born Within its vails in 1827, Major Heald Had commanded at Fort Dearborn {Chicago} in 1812, at the time of the tft_9_ac_>e« Major Heald, who is buried at Fort Zumwalt, was born at New xpbwithch, New Hampshirjj in 1775^ He entered the United States _rmy when he was 24 years tid and in the spring of 1801 left New England with some recruits to join the Western Army in Ohio. A year later \ was stationed at Fort Vinee__es, Indiana and another year found him in Detroit; serving with General William Hene'ry Harrison,, who was to b© President of _te United Stater-, He '4 made a captain in 1807 and put in command of what was then the military }post of Port; Wayitf> Indiana,. Rebecca Wells of Louisville,, Kentucky visited her uncle. Cap Will fells, ladi* fighter.,, of Fort Wayne where seh met Captain Heald,, The rfesttit of %h$ jfre$ti_£ is told brief fly in the young soldiery's journals "In June,, 1810, left I and ./eat to Chicago to command the post,, Wah on furlough to Massachusetts in the 'all of the name year and returned by way of Kentucky where I was married tc Rebec W . an? arrived in Chaicago in June with Mrs, Heald.," So deep in the wilderness was Fort , . : cr made June 19, 181 •\ -- Pag© # 9 7th of August.. The news was contained in an order from General Hull, at Detroit, to evac uate Fort Dearborn and march to Fort Wayne, Heald had 54 men under his command. Resi dents at the post were the wives of Captain Heald and Lieutenant Helm and those of a few of the soldiers, together with a few Canadians and the family of John Kinzie, still re» siding t! ere on the Chicago river at the time Pike county (which originally included the site of Chicago) was erected, became Pike county's first Justice of tha Peace in 1818, action of the county commissioners sitting at Goes Grove, Captain Heald,, evacuating the Fort pursuant on orders, began his wilderness march the morning of August 16, 1812„ The sun shone in unclouded splendor on the glassy wat« of Lake Michigan,, They had marched but a little way along the lake 8h^res when from I bind a low sand dune, they were attacked by tha Fottawatomies„ The slaughter wa& fright ful, History records it as the Fort Dearborn massa«sre0 Captain William Wells, uncle of Mrs0 Heald, with 15 friendly Miamis had made a forced march throug the wilderness from Fort Wayne upon hearing of the order to evacuate Dear- born* He knew the hostile intention of the Indians,, and hoped, if possible, to protect his niece, He was among those taken prisoner by the savages during the earl;/ part of 1 engagemento Held prisoner at a distance of the fighting ground, Captain Wells looked on, horrified by the frightful butchery,, When he •jaw a young savage assail one of the baggage wagons containing twelve children,, everyone of whom fell before his murderous tomahawk., h© broke from his captors and spurring his horse la the directioa of the Indian warriors8 squaws and children, shouted "If this be your game, I can Kill tool" The Indians, pursuing hotly,,,, soon shot his horse from under him a!_l the captain sev wounded, was rushed upon by the braves, who sought to make him prisoner1 and reserve him ^or torture9 Before they could accomplish their purpose„ an enraged warrior stabbed him. in the back and the gallant Captain fell dead. His heart, according to Chapman1's history of Pike County (1880)% was afterwards taken out, cut in pieces and distributed among the tribes Billy Caldwell,, a half breed Wyandot* well known in the pioneer town of Cfe leago and the early days of Pike County,, buried his remains th© next day„ Wells street, in modern Chicago, perpetuates his memory, In this fearful combat, women became heroic Mrso Heald,, an excellent equestrian and an expert in the use of a rifle, fought all the savages, with her blood streaming from her wound So Though faint from loss ©f blood, she managed to keep in her saddle? A savage raised his tomahawk to slay her, when shs looked him full in the face and with a sweet smile and gentle voice, said, in his own language, "'Surely you will not kill a squaw", Th' arm of the savage fell and so was spared th© life of this heroic woman. who 15 years later, in the log Fort at Zumwalt''s was godmother at the ehiitenlug of Pike County's well known pioneer, Nathan Heald Zumwalt, whom she named for her soldier husband, Major Nathan Heald In the massacre. Captain Heald and his wife became prisoners of different bands of warriors and each believed the other had been killed. However, the next day, a chief who was secretly friendly to Heald and was among his captors, discovered Mr??, Heald and arrang ed to return her to her husband-, The chief traded a bottle of whisky and a mule for her and effected her escape„ Not long after the massacre. Captain Heald was promoted to the rank of Major and i 1814 he was released from the army because of wounds which kept him from active service, He left Louisville with his wife and two young children for St„ Charlses County, Miss March 22, 1817, making the journey la 24 days. Several months la alt Fort and farm and two years later his wife's famil C 10 adjoining, The Indian chief, Chandonnai, who had been a benefactor to the Healds,, visiteji them there in 18.-'„ aceompani.ed by a delegation of chiefs, The old log house was then tl scene of a great feast that included a whole beef and a sheep , Mrs, Wright Johnson who lives on a farm not far from the old fort and who wa_ bom therein, is a granddaughter of Major and Mrs0 Heald, and the only surviving of the seven children of Darius Heald, who was the only son of Major and Mrs. i_ald ".nd who way horn in the log Fort in 18220 Darius latsr bull and which was formerly occupisd by the Re I family significance of the place whet, tha narks i by the Da\sghters of 1812, disci wer< Lve _t the Fort.. _rs0 Johnson and her sister,, the late Mrsu Frances Heald Otttfy of St, Lousi,, wife ol Dr, Lo Mo Ottefy of St„ Louis, had in their possession many documents of historic value and a fund of information concerning the lives their noted gra_dp_rent Bys Nesse M, Thompson, November 23, 1938 Copied from the files of The Pike County Republican, Pittafield, Illinois) Article # 22 May 1, 1960 HENNESS PASS 0oOOOOOO'JO*O,0i , "Henness Route" is a misnomer; informs.tion received from Mr, Gal]jway, an old resident of this place- Mr, G«s own words "Mr, Zumwalt came to my house (Galloway' Ranch) in July 1851 and told me he had discovered tie best pass across the maintains into California and that it would be a great advantage to my ranch. In accordance with his instructions I took with me Jackson Hettinger and John Long and cut out th' trail and mowed hay on what is since called Jacksons Ranchp packing it in for my owl use, Mr, Joseph Zumwalt was the first white man on that route that I know of. He was in before there was any trail, Henness had never seen it at that time, but afterwards cut hay on the meadows at Jacksons Ranch and packed it on the road I had cut outj and probably had Improved it some. The na-ne should be Zumwalts Pass." From: Frank Hibbard, May 1, I960 Knave Section Oakland Tribune, November 30, 1941 A copy'of "Sierra Citizens" of Downieville, October 20, 1855 r c Article 0 23 August 31f 1961 For Brother T„ B, Zumwalt who gave His Life for Us M__ I cannot say and I will not say That he is dead,, He is just away; With a cheery smile and a wave of his hand He has wandered into an unknown lando And left us dreaming how very fair It needs must be for he since he lingers there. An you oh you* Who the wildest yearn / For the oldtime steps and the glad return. Think of him faring on, as dear in the love of there as the love of here. Think of him still aa the same I say He is not dead, he is just away„ Gertrude Zumwalt Helm LINEAGE OF GERTRUDE LEONA 6 ZUMWALT Andrew 1 Z ——-———— _ #2 w, Ann Regina ?? Jacob 2 Z ———<-•••••» & #1 w, Catherine Miller George 3 Z •——••-•.••••••• ,. & Mary Elizabeth Killebrew Levi Henry 4 Z _——*—— & Rebecca Parsley David Leonard Ivy 5 Z — & Eudora Alice Bay Gertrude Lsona 6 Z — & Arthur William Helm C Article #24 1 July I960 "IMPRESSIONS AND OBSERVATIONS OF THE JOURNAL MAN" Isaac Newton 4 Zumwalt, who was born In St, Charles County, Missouri in 1815 and married Sarah Crow on the 22 of June 1837, crossed th© plains to the Willamette Valley in 18/+6. He settled in Washington County, but moved to the Lucklamute Valley, He was a mill= wright and farmer. His children and grandchildren are scattered over the West, Mr, and Mrs„ Isaac Zumwalt had twelve childrens William Henry 5, Matilda Jane 5(Z)lnlow, Commodore Perry 5S Louis Sande 5$, Andrew Jackson 5, Nancy Ann 5 (Z)Norton, Benjamin Franklin 5s> Me- iinda Katherine 5 '{Z)Atwater, Charles Newton 5* George Washington 5, and Amelia Clementine 5 (Z)(M_llory)Atwater, Mary Elizabeth 5 (Z)Staats, Christopher Peter 4 Zumwalt, born in Missouri in 1827, crossed the plains and settled in Yamhill County, Later he had a fine farm at Perrydale, in Polk County, H© married Irene Goodrich in 1849 and they had a large family, Joseph L, Zumwalt of Manzanita was born in Lane County, His father, Solomon Zumwalt crossed the plains in 1851 and took a donation claim fifteen miles south of Eugene, From Joseph L, Zumwalt I have a letter written by his father giving interesting Zumwalt family history. JosephDs great-grandfather, Adam Zumwalt, was born in York, Pena, in 17§7, At eighteen years of age he enlisted for service against the Indians under General Andrew Lewis. Chief Cornstalk with mere than 1,000 warriors, attacked the volunteer troops kill ing 130 and losing more than 200 of his warriors. Later Adam Zumwalt put in more than five years fighting British and Indians in the Revolution, He was a Private in Captain McCoan- ells Company. He and two other men were sent out scouting and while absent, Major McGary with his volunteer troups pursued and overtook the Indians at Blue Licks. Daniel Booae ad= vised McGary aot to cross the river and attack from the other side but McGary said, "if you are afraid to attack, there are plenty of men with me who are not cowards and who will fol low me", Boore said nothing but went along. As ths volunteers followed a trail through the timber they fell iato aa ambush arranged by Simon Girty, a white renegade, and more than 80 volunteers were killed, one of them a son of Daniel Boone, In 1785, General Clark and his volunteers came down the Ohio from Fort Pitt in flat boats. They had a number of cannons. The Kentucky troops defeated the Indians about where Chillicothe now stands. Adam Zumwalt was in this expedition, Adam 2 Zumwalt, that year, married Mary Roth, daughter of Andrew Roth, who had come from Fort Pitt, Adam, with his bride and his brother Christopher 2 Zumwalt, settled at Lexington.^ Mary Roth's father was born in Holland and in his youth served as a sailor. He settled in New Jersey, later moved to Fort Pitt and in 1800 to Missouri, He lived to be more than 90 years old and is buried on the old Adam Zumwalt farm in St, Charles County, Missouri, He served in the British Army and was present at Edward Braddocks defeat. Before moving from Kentucky, Adam 2 Zumwalt and his wife had five children s John 3S Elizabeth 3 (Z){Kent)Kent, Andrew 3, Rachel 3 (Z)(Long)Howell, and Katherine 3. In 1800 ths family moved to Missouri and three mere children were boras Jonathan 3» Nathaa 3 and Solomoa 3, Andrew Zumwalt moved to the Louisiana Purchase in 1799 ° In 1800 Adam 2 Zumwalt sold his farm in Kentucky, built a boat 80 feet long and wide enough to lay the wheels of his "•rttgon flat on the bottom, loaded his stills and household goods and went down the Ohio and then up the Missouri end bought land at Big Springs, 21 miles from St, Charles. Although a good Presbyterian, he also was a good distiller. He manufactured whiskey to sell to the Article #24 Page #2 Indians who became good customers as they said it took less of Zumwalt8 s whiskey to make them drunk than of the French whiskey. Mrs. Adam Zumwalt made the Indians leave knives, tomahawks and guns in her house while they were at the still house or while driakiag. Adam 2 Zumwalt died on his farm in St, Charles County, Missouri, August 24, 1834 and t Ms widow in the spring of I846. Solomon Zumwalt owned the old farm in Missouri until ' v 1850 when he crossed the plains to Oregon, 1 i I TAKEN FROMs THE EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL DECEMBER 11, 1938, PAGE 10 FROMs JAX A ZUMWALT a TO s GEORGE R. ZUMWALT c U t 1 1 V t 8 t f 0 a Ci s- a! f] 01 tl oi L: AI J( At W Jc Xi Article if*!.1} 23 November I960 I, G, ZUMWALT Genealogy and Biography of California By Chicago Genealogical Publishing Co. 1901 I, G, 6 Zumwalt is one of California's native sons, his birth having occurred in Col usa County, which is still his home, on January 24, 1872, His father, John Randall 5 Zum walt, was born in Illinois, January 27, 1826, and in 1870 came to California, where he spent the remainder of his life. He was educated for the practice of medicine but abandon ed this profession on account of ill health and for a number of years engaged in the manu facture of wagons, but spent the last years of his active business career as a farmer. His wife, Sarah Parthena 5 (Zumwalt) (Zumwalt)Ragain, was born in Pike county, Missouri, February 20, 1842 and is still living in Colusa, The enterprising lawyer of whom we write spent the first sixteen years of his life on a farm, and acquired a good education to prepare him for the responsible duties which daily come to one who is in business life. He was two years a student in the high school in Col usa, graduating in 1890, after which he entered Pierce Christian College, and on leaving that institution in May 1892, he took up the study of law under U, W, Brown in Colusa, In 1894 he was admitted to the bar. He has since been engaged in active practice and his ad vancement toward the front rank of the legal profession has been continuous and rapid, un til now he has one of the largest criminal and civil practices in the northern part of the state of California o In 1898 he was elected District Attorney and is now capably filling that office. He is well versed in the principles of juriprudence and having a good command of language, his arguments are forceful, logical and convincing. In the last few years, aside from his reputation as a lawyer, he had become noted as a business man of keen foresight and sterling worth. He is now secretary and a director of Cook's Springs Mineral Water Company, one of the largest mineral water companies in the State of California, which bottles and ships natural mineral water from this famous resort all over the Pacific Coast, Mr. Zumwalt is an ardent Democrate and has, during the last presidential campaigns, made numerous speeches in behalf of the leaders of his partyo He belongs to the Masonic fraternity and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and attends the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which his people are members. He is a favorite in social circle, being one of the popular residents of Colusa, where he enjoys the friendship of many of the best people of the localityo LINEAGE OF I„ G. 6 ZUMWALT Andrew 1 Z & #2 w. Ann Regina ?? Andrew 1 Z „ #2 w. Ann Regina ?? Jacob 2 Z & #1 Wo Catherine Miller Jacob 2 Z - & #1 Catherine Miller Andrew 3 Z & h Wo ?? George 3 Z —--— 6 Mary Killebrew William 4 Z & Sarah Randall Ivy Jason 4 Z —— & #L Sarah James John Randall 5 Z & Sarah Parthena Zumwalt Sarah Parthena 5 Z & John Randall Zumwalt Ivy George 6 Z ° & Mattie Jane Braly Ivy George 6 Z —— & Mattie Jane Braly ^Children George Rudolph 7 Z & Mildred Stovall Lionel Rothweli 7 Z & #1 Dorothy Poier #2 Ruth Rimmer Ivy George 7 Z ——• & Agnes Ann Salzman Gerald ine 7 Z — & #1 Zerrel Bransford #2 Joseph Eagleton #3 Albert Bergman Article # 26 1 January 1961 MATTON ELLIHUE PHILIPS (Husband of Cynthia Ann 6 Dunlap) Matton Ellihue Philips, a continuous residence of many years on the same farm in 1 Colusa County has given Mr, Philips a thorough knowledge of the resources of the land and also has given him a wide acquaintance among the people of this region. It was during 1883 that he took charge of his present home, six miles south of Colusa, but already for [ some years he had lived on the place, A close supervision of the land was maintained un~ [ der his management. A considerable portion of the track of seven hundred acres is adapted I to grain raising, in which work he utilizes three, eight mule teams and a Holt Combine , Harvester with a 20" cut. Of eastern aacestor and pareatage, Mr, Philips was born near Lincoln, Placer County, California, January 12, 1861 and is a son of Thomas and Sarah (Hutchison) Philips, natives of New York State, His father was born and reared at Addison Stuben County, migrated to the Pacific Coast In 1857 by way of Panama and settled in Placer County, from which point he engaged in freighting to the Nevada mines. The business which I he built up was of such dimensions that three wagons and sixteen horses were kept in con- > stant use. During 1871 he settled on the Danley ranch six miles south of Colusa and re mained there until his death, which occured March 16, 1883, at fifty-six years of age. At the time of this writing his widow made Sycamore her home, I Among three sons and one daughter now living, Matton E. Philips was second in order of birth. When ten years of age he accompanied his parents to Colusa County and later was i a pupil in the old Bridgeport school. Agriculture has been his occupation from youth, and during all these years he has resided on the ranch which still remains his home. While maintaining a close supervision of his farm affairs he has kept posted concerning govern ment problems and has been a staunch supporter of the Republican party. Though not iden tified with any denomination he gives his support to the Christian Church with which his wife is identified. In fraternal matters he is active, having membership with the Inde pendent Order of Odd Fellows at Colusa, and Native Sons of the Golden West, Colusa Parlor, In establishing domestic ties he chose for a wife, Miss Cynthia Ann 6 Dunlap, who, though a native of Missouri, had been a resident of Colusa County from childhood, her father, Lemuel Dunlap, having engaged in the building business in this locality for many years. The two children of their marriage are Everett Clyde 7 Philips and Glenn Gordon 7 Philips, LINEAGE OF CYNTHIA ANN 5 DUNLAP Andrew 1 Z •>-• •• ••— & #2 w, Ann Regina ?? Jacob 2 Z . - . • & #1 w, Catherine Miller Andrew J, 3 Z • ••;«•• • •.•«• & #1 w„ r? ______4 Z ——,_-______. & Sarah Randall Cynthia Ann 5 Z ———— _ Lemuel Dunlap Cynthia Ann 6 Dunlap — & Matton Philips From; History of California 1902-1906 History of California and Biographical Record of the Sacramento Valley, California By: Prof, J, M. Quinn A.M. Copyright 1902 by Chapman Publishing Co. The Chapman Publishing Co, Chicago I960 Article # 27 21 February 1961 FAMILY OF PHILIP ZUMWALT & LEAH POWELL ZUMWALT PREFACE In September 1930, I visited the Old Mill in Hillsboro, Indiana with my family and "Uncle Jin" Zumwalt one of the oldest members of the family at that time (1930), I gathered much information hero given and made the acquaintance of Mrs, Mary J, Bounell a descendant of Margaret Zumwalt Bever who was a sister of our ancestor Philip Zumwalt, Mrs. Bounell also had gathered information on the family history and graciously passed it on to us. We also visited the cemetery where Philip and Leah Zumwalt are buried, obtained the dates of their, deaths from the markers.. Many stories of our ancestors have been told to me, I have failed to verify any or all particulars, yet I have no doubt each was founded on some fact. We are certainly fortunate in being able to follow back our ancestors to the ___!= gration of the first one in 1737* I I have given all the facts and as complete a record as possible with the hope that some future Zumwalt may produce a better history, > Mable Zumwalt Warrick Chairman of History Committee \ Furnished by: Archie R, Zumwalt 690 Victoria St, t San Leandro, Calif, ANDREW ZUMWALT, age 39 years, from Rotterdam, Holland, September 24, 1737, in the ship "Virtuous", took oath of allegiance in Pennsylvania, per page 137 of "Foreigners Who Took ( Oath of Allegiance in Pennsylvania between 1724 and 1775". He was probably the first of this name in America. With Andrew Zumwalt also came Jacob Linn, whose daughter Maria Clarsns Linn married fialthaser Zumwalt, January 1, 1753* in Christs Luthern Church, New York County, Pennsylvania, fialthaser or Balzar Zumwalt left many descendants, some of whom think that he was a son of Andrew Zumwalt, the -emigrant. Shortly after the Revolutionary War many of Balsar"s family moved from York County, Pennsylvania to Baltimore County, Maryland. / and spelled their name Sumwalt, In Frederick County, Virginia is recorded the will of Andrew Zomwald, dated October 20, 1764 1 and probated March 6, 1765» This is undoubtedly the will of Andrew Zumwalt, the emigrant ' from Holland. In this will he mentions his second wife Ann Regina, without naming any of I his children but indicating that they ware all under age. He named his wife Ann Regina ex f ecutrix of the will but she declined to act, and Henry Zomwald was made Administrator by the Court. Page 195 "Pioneer Families of Missouri" published in 1876, by William B. Bryan, ( states that "Jacob" Zumwalt emigrated to America and became afflicted with cancer and re moved to Virginia in order to obtain better medical aid and settled on the Potomac not far from Georgetwon where he diedp leaving Henry, George, Dolly and Lizzie, children by his i first wife and Christopher, Jacob, John, Adam, Andrew and Catherine, children by his second wife, "Pioneers of Missouri" was undoubtedly in error in stating that the Zumwalt immigrant 1 was "Jacob" as Andrew Zumwalt was the ancestor of the Missouri pioneer families of Zumwalts, i as shown by advertisements appearing in the Missouri Gazette of April 12-19 and 26, 1820, which advertisement is copied in the National Genealogical Quarterly for June 1922. Among unladexed papers covering the July 1820 term of court in St. Charles County, Missouri was the Affidavit of Elizabeth Zumwalt, widow of Christopher Zumwalt, in which she stated that Andrew Zumwalt, of Shenandoah county, was the father of Henry, George, Elisabeth, Annie Till n O %m\ Peggy Zamwalt by his first wife and Christopher B Qath«rin#* Jacob* John, Ad«_j ai draw by his "last wife. GEORGE ZUMWALT, son of Andrew by his first wife, bought land in 1722 (possible dat<- I (_M» date possibly in error since Andrew dfid not arrive until 1737 0 Note by Archie li0 Zumwalt at time of copyings, 1944) in what is now Pendleton County, West Virginia* The History of Pendleton County by Gran F„ Morton published in 1910 on page 325 shows that Seerga Zwswalt, wife Mary, sold his land on South Branch of the Potomac in 1789 to Peter M«y*rs, Ha had at that time already been in Kentucky for ten years as page l_i.5 V®la 21, K*mt»eky State Historical Society Magazine, shows that he pre-empted 400 acres ©s 1mA on Sreer Creek in Fayette County in 1779? and adjoining his land hia brother, Christopher, 8. «_pted 400 acres on Graer Creak a branch of Licking River0 Christopher was also called "iituffel" Zumwalt, They settled on this land in April 1779. It was in that part of Faystti .^unty which was cut off into Bourbon County in 1785, Adam, Andrew, Christopher and Gecsrge were early settlers in Kentucky where George remained, and his brothers moved on to Missouri, rVdastt and Christopher were soldiers of the Revolution and drew pensions for their service, Au_m"B pension papers show he was born in Hampshire County, Virginia, (how West Virginia), the Bourbon County tax list for 1792 on file in the Kentucky Historical Society at Frank- fort, Kentucky included "George Zunalt" his family containing two males over 21 y_arsp and one male 16 to 21 years. This indicated that he had two sons about grown, one already awl I arm over 16, The 1794 tax list for Harrison County shows his family consisting of three _al.es 21 and one male over 16. Harrison County was cut from Bourbon in 1793. The Harrison County, Kentucky 1799 tax list shows George Zumwalt paid taxes on 150 acres on Gray"*. Ran in Harrison County which had bean entered by James Trebus, and also taxes on 400 acres «w terser Creak in Bourbon County entered by himself and in that year his family was _i_t*d as •containing one sale over 21 and two males over 16, Harrison County Court Minute Book N©„ 1, page 256, date about 1801, shows that George Zumwalt lived on the road leading from QyntM- *?_», Kentucky to Georgetown® Kentucky, which would place him in the southwestern part, of dsrrison County, His will is recorded in Harrison Will Book A, page 319, will dated .Sept*. ***r 4? 1811 and probated in February _8_60 In this will he names his wife Mary, his mm usury(deceased). Christian, Philip, John, and Jacob and daughters Folly Simmons, Eliasbe&ft Fry, Margaret Bsver and Christina Snyder and granddaughter Mary Leasure. 1. i. Lionel, Henry,,Zumwalt, son of George and Mary Zumwalt, was born in 1771, in Harrison 2. 'i&wuty, S*nt»i__y, settled in Brown County, Ohio in 1801, built a grist mill in 1801, was <$an_.ieeton_d a Colonel of Militia at the outbreak of the war of 1812 and served with di» tinotion at the head of the Fourth Detatchment of Ohio Troops. "He died in 1814 in the prime of a useful life." 2» |ftj____J_l!_f_iU» »o» of George and Mary Zumwalt, married Leah Powell, June 24* 1809 l« iterriaoe County, Kentucky, On December 5, 1828, he entered land in Fountain County, XodW in Township 19N, Range 6W and built the first mill in this county. ' B*L*§M§&^m&±kf> oon of George and Mary Zumwalt, married in Harrison County, KentuaVyf January 8, 1817, Catherine Smith. He was named executor of his father a will and was ref are1! to in this will as being in very poor health, Harrison County, Kentucky Court Record Book f Page 43.7 „ October 1833 shows the division of the estate of Christian Zumwalt between hie wife and three children,, 4o _^J5B____S^-_IP aon of George and Mary Zumwalt, married Nancy Dryden, December 1814 in Harrison County, Kentucky, Index to Harrison County, Kentucky Deed Books shows that John zumwalt bought land there at different tlmea from 1825=1856 although no will or estate | settlement is shown for him in that county, (He seems to have been the ancestor of Zumwalt' Appearing in the records there in later years.) Page #3 5o J__9_t Zumwalt. nay have been the eldest son of George and Mary as no particular be quest was left to him yet he was named first among the children to receive residue of the estate. A Jacob Zumwalt married February 9, 1797 in Harrison County, Kentucky, Ann Spurgin and this may have been George's son Jacob. 6. jfary Qf Polly Zunwalfl, married Peter Simmons lived in Ohio in late life. 7. Elisabeth Zumya^> married Henry Fry December 8, 1797 in Harrison County, Kentucky. pr. 8. Christina Zumwalt. married Peter Snyder January 7, 1794 in Bourbon County, Kentucky. tfttt, 9o Margaret Zumwalt. horn about 1782 in Kentucky died about 1869 at Saybrook, McLean , r i County, Illinois, married in Harrison County, Kentucky August 7, 1798 Michael Bever bom February 5, 1775, died July 20, 1844, son of Mathias Bever. Michael and M_rgaret(__mwalt) Bever moved to Rose County, Ohio where Michael Bever served in the War of 1812. Michael Bever entered land in Fountain County, Indiana, March 30, 1836 in Township 19N Range 7W. It was a great granddaugher (Mrs. Mary J. Bounell now living in Hillsboro, Indiana) m of Margaret Bevers who gave much information on the early history and records of the rtd family. (1934) The Zumwalt and Bever families were closely associated through many year. THE ZUMWALT NAME: Early records show several different spellings of the name, some prob ably due to errors. 1 SUMMALT, ZUMHALT, SEMAOLT, Zumwalts settled in Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland at very til early dates, and in many other states at later dates. From History of Pendleton County, West Virginia, by Oron F. Morton, pub. 1910, page 325, under "Extinct Families of Pendleton County". iA 1. Sumwalt, George (Mary) S.B. 1772 sold to Peter Myers in 1789 2. Sumwalt, Christopher, 1773* 3. Sumwalt, John (Elisabeth Conrad). Page 381, under early deeds: 236 acres, George Sumwalt, S.B. ("S=B" stands for South Branch of the Potomac River). Page 391 under Tithables for 1790s John Sumwalt Page 187 under early deeds?: 1756, 180 acres, Harper Hans from James Trimble, B.T., sold *v I to William Martin in 1765 for &80.00 resold by Martin to Christopher Sumwalt in 1773 for AH 183.33. Resold by Sumwalt to Hugh Bodkin in 1779 for $166.67 ft A NOTES ON SUMWALTS IN MARYLAND I 1790 Census of Man-land, under Baltimore County I 1 George Somwalt, male over 16, 3 males under 16, 1 female Philip Somwalt, 2 males over 16, 3 males under 16, 3 females Godfrey Somwalt, 1 male over 16, 1 male under 16, 3 females L_)| from records of First M.E. Church of Baltimore, Md. (at Maryland Historical Society) Page 27: John L„ Sumw.lt and Rachel Sparks married December 21, 1816 n SOME EARLY RECORDS bin NOTES FROM ZUMWALTS IN KENTUCKY ' P*1*3 i die In the library of the Kentucky Historical Society, Frankfort, Kentucky, are many early tax menft lists. The earliest lists for the district where the Zumwalts lived were for Bourbon Count* starting with 1787. This section was first Fayette County but there were no tax lists for 3rd, Fayette County earlier than 1787, that is, none of earlier date were preserved. be f Bourbon County 1787 Tax List: 4th. sueh Christian Summell 1 male over 21 3 horses 13 cattle keep Jacob Summalt 1 male over 21 2 horses 15 cattle the the ; Harrison County 1802 Tax Lists Beve of I Chirstopher Zumwalt (300 acres on So. Licking entered by Sam Singleton 424 acres on Crooked 5th, Greek entered by Davie McKlm) tire Harrison County 1802 Tax List: Last] George Zumwalt, 400 acres on So. Licking entered by Rodes John 1 male over 21, 2 males 16 to 21, 5 cattle by at Philip Zumwalt, 400 acres on So. Licking entered by Rodes 1 male over 21, one cow or horse In ft* Harrison County Deed Book 4* Page 206, June 14; 18l4p to Philip Zumwalt and Leah, his wife of Harrison County, sell Teste 108 acres on Gray's Run to Nicholas Sink. i MARRIAGE RECORDS IN HARRISON COUNTY. KENTUCKY Jacob Zumwalt & Ann Spurgin, married February 9, 1797 aSm Philip Zumwalt and Leah Powell, married June 24, 1809 John Zumwalt and Nancy Dryden, married December 15, 1814 Christian Zumwalt and Catherine Smith, married January 8, 1817 Elizabeth Zumwalt and Henry Fry, married December 8, 1797 Margaret Zumwalt and Michael Bever, married August 7, 1798 Mary Zinn (?) and John Leausre, married May 18, 1809 WILL OF GEORGE ZUMWALT / j£JJ* M Copied from Harrison County, Kentucky, will book A, Page 31t* Cynthiana, Kentucky fflilJ In the name of God Amen, I, George Zumwalt of the County of Harrison and State of Kentucky ,. • being very old and infirm and calling to mind the Mortality of the body and knowing it is l tJ*°, appointed for all men once to die do make constitute and ordain this my last will and test-' ament in Manner and form following (via): standi 1st, I deBire that my body be buried at the discretion of my executors and that all my 1835i just debts and funeral charges be paid by them, f ~™**i waid< 2nd, I will and bequeath to my two sons Philip and Christian Zumwalt the tract of land con-i taining 205 acres whereon I now live which I purchased of James Trabus and Thomas Holt un- f der claims, to be equally divided between them. Philip to have the 100 acres whereon he settled and Christian to have the place where I now live upon condition that they pay to my son John one third part of $1000 and the Interest which I paid to said Holt and keep Page #5 him in peaceable possession of a part of the farm as he now enjoys It until the money Is paid to him with Its interest afed, but aa my son Christian is now in low health if he jggg. die without issue lawfully begotten then and in that case his part of my estate herein mentioned is to be equally divided among my children now living* 3rd, 1 will and bequeath to my wife Mary a eomfortab le aaintainence out of my estate to be furnished her by my son Christian out of his share during her natural lifetime, 4th, I Hill and desire that the whole of my personal estate of every description (except such things as my wife may shoos© to keep for her support which I hereby authorise her to keep during her life and then dispose of as she may choose) to be sold by my executors and the proceeds together with all debts and demands due to me be collected and divided among the following of my children to wit, Jacob Zumwalt, Polly Simmons, Elisabeth Fry, Margaret Bever and Christian Snider after giving to ay granddaughter Mary Leasure one womans saddle of 120 value so as to make all my children equal in the divide except Philip and Christian* 5th, My son Henry having died without issue and which I have left him out of my will en tire nor shall his wife nor heirs inherit any part of my estate. Lastly I hereby appoint my son Christian my Exsor. and in ease of his death then my son John Zumwalt to Execute this my last will hereby revoking and disannulling all other wills by oa made. Is testimony Whereof I have here unto set my hand and seal this 4th day of September 1815. his George X Zumwalt mark Tests Charles Smith, Jr. Austin Bradford, Jr. William Mosby Harrison County February Court 1816. This last will and Testament of George Zumwalt Dec- saber was proved in open court by oaths of Charles Smith and Austin Bradford, Jr, Subscrib ing Witnesses thereto and ordered recorded. Att. William Moore C0H„C> FAMfri TREE OF MMP flnmre rmm Philip Zumwalt« son of George and Mary Zumwalt, married Leah Powell, June 24, 1809, in Harrison County, Kentucky. On December 5, 1828 he entered land in Fountain County, Indiana, inTownship 19N. Range 6W. A mill was built by David Kester in 1824, it is the oldest grist j mill in the county. Mr. Kester ran it for 5 or 6 years and sold it to Mr. Philip Zumwalt, I who built the first frame building on the site, Zumwalt owned it from 1832 to 1836 then sold j it to W. Fry, (History of Fountain County). The beams hewn from logs and the bins made > thru his handiwork still show the marks of the hatchet. The old mill, 100 years old still 1 stands in good condition is operating. (September 1930). Philip Zumwalt died September 3• 1835 at the age of 54 years 3 months 3 days and is buried in the cemetery at Hillsboro, Indiana. His wife Leah Powell died October 26, 1849 at the age of 65 years and is buried beside her husband. Page #6 1st 1st Generation 2nd Generation 3rd Generation 1. Henry, son of Phillip and Leah Powell was born March 22, 1810 and died May 9, 1875, He married Nancy Davidson, born July 4, 1824 and died March 11, 1863, They settled in Taawell County on a farm south of Delavan, Illinois William born: 19 Sep 1843 died: 10 Jan 1862 of measles in Civil War John born: 25 Mar 1844 dledt 15 Feb 1911 wife: Ruth(Moore)West no children Jose] Coun James Virgie(Z)Irwin born: 8 Oct 1847 John (deceased) dledt 8 Nov 1937 Frank(deceased) wife: Florence VerBryck Edd Vernie(Z)Youle Daniel Minnie(Z) Wardell bom: 3 Sep 1849 Leslie Mo dledt 29 Jul 1930 ? Archie R. wifet Clara Dillon Grace A. (Z)Skelton wife: Sarah Myers Ethel F, (Z)Buck Edmond John T. died 1918 Mar/ (Z) Biggs Roy born: 11 Apr 1851 Lawrence dledt 1 Nov 1928 f (Z) Akins Effie(Akins)Keltner born: 27 Apr 1853 John dledt 18 Mar 1935 Grace(AkIns)Fall Lee Bertha(Ak_ns)Morrl8 Ray Ann(Akins}Jonkers / Berniee(Akins)Dr_gouff George William Henry born: 25 Nov 1854 Walter Leonard died: 25 Jun 1932 wife: Ella Haynes wife::Mary Malonc Levi Maud(Z)Hunt born: 16 Nov 1856 Pearl(Z)Payne died: 21 Feb 1933 Francis(Z ) Vandernear wife: Minnie Wedgebury Carl 1st Generation 2nd Generation 3rd Generator; Sarah (Z) Morris Walter Morris born? 28 Dee 1858 Alice Morris dieds Edwin Morris husb8 Ed Morris Hattle (Z) Davidson boms: Dieds: Mabel (Z) Christlib Mabel Christlib borns dieds Joseph, son of Philip and Leah Powell, married Elisabeth Mendenhall and settled in Iroquois County, Illinois William Joseph MandeviXle Z born? 1840 John Zumwalt died: George Zumwalt wife: Mary Little Hattle Zumwalt Nellie Zumwalt Margaret (Z) Blodgett Oron Blodgett boms 1838 Newton Blodgett dledt BirdieC Blodgett)Riley on husbssAlonso Blodgett Elia.(__odgett)Gilbert Clyde Blodgett LulttC B_o_gett) Digga Lyd«e(B_odgatt)Botts Daisy Blodgett Rose Blodgett John borns 1836 dieds 1842 Absoluffl Bl_nch(Z)De__all boras 1844 Lowell Zumwalt la dieds 15 Jun 1910 Myrtla(Z)Saa_an wife: Jane Frye Edith(Z)Vaughn Florence Zumwalt goi Jamea Evert Zumwalt Will Zumwalt Guy Francis Zumwalt Leah (Z) Mitchell Lafayette Mitchell boras 20 Deo 1844 William Mitchell died: Jul 1880 C_ara(Mitchell)_ennett hush: : Louis Mitchell Eva(Mitchell)Nosker Dora(Miteheli )Darrough Addle May (Z) Dulin Dora(Dulin)Parkerson borns I846 Ethel(Dulin)Morrison dieds Ova(Dulin)Summers husbs John May Frank Dulin husbg George Dulin John Dulin Page #8 1st Generation 2nd Generation 3rd Generation Estella (Z) Merrltt Harry Merrltt borns 1 Mar I848 Ernest Merrltt died: 1926 Earl Merrltt husbs William A. Merrltt Christian Zumwalt Edwin Ottis Zumwalt born: 1850 Bert Zumwalt died: wife: Lou Seward Jesse Zumwalt Edna (Z) Trotter born: 4 Aug 1852 dieds Sep 1928 wife: Jennie Moore 3. John, son of Philip and Leah Powell, married Nancy Williams and settled in Iroquois, County, Illinois. James Zumwalt ' borns: dieds young of cholera Franklin Zumwalt bora: dieds young of cholera William Zumwalt borns dieds young of cholera Eddie Zumwalt boras dledt young of cholera Frank Zumwalt Lena (Z) Deitrich bora: Beraie Zumwalt died: wife: Delia Bowers Jennie (Z) Tullis Guy Tullis boras Davenport Tullis dledt husbs Tullis Eva fZ)(A_derson)Gay Hallie Gay borns dieds husb: Anderson husbs Gay John Zumwalt bora: died: Page #9 1st Generation 2nd Generation 3rd Generation Christian Zumwalt, bom September 8, 1824 at Lexington, Kentucky and died August 18, 1896p was the son of Philip and Leah Powell, Ha and Salinda Odor (July 25, 1825 - April 13, 1902) vera married February 17, I846 at Marysville, Illinois and settled in IrJquois, County, 111, Mary Jane (Z)(_olmes)Fox James Holmes boras 2 May 1848 NsllieC Holmes)Kelley dieds 27 Aug 1935 husbs John A. Holmes husbs Fox Martha (Z) Mitchell Ore Mitchell boras 9 Aug 1850 Herman Mitchell dieds 27 Aug 1918 JessieCMitchelDWeies husbs Mitchell RubyCMitehelDFowler Earl Mitchell Sarah (Z)(Meeker)T_omas Arthur Meeker bora*: 4 May 1853 Nellie Thomas dledt husbs husbs Adslia (Z) Martin Vlrgie(Mart_n)Hail borns 22 Aug 1855 Nellie(Martln)Wood dledt 29 Mar 1924 husbs Martin Charles Zumwalt Lulu (Z) Davla boras 27 Aug 1857 dledt 13 Jen 1930 wifestMinnle Bailey vtfet Mary Diggle George Henry Zumwalt Pearl(Z)Wann borns 22 Sep 1861 _olda(Z)M_Calla dledt 1 Mar 1931 Ennia Harrison Zumwalt wife! Mary C Garner Bernlce(Z)Duncan Thelma(Z) Williams Franklin Powell Zumwalt Reba Zumwalt borns 5 Feb 1868 Mabel(Z) Warrick dledt 5 Sep 1928 Hersehel Zumwalt wifes Delia Waity Kenneth Zumwalt Freida{Z)Taylor John Zumwalt borns 5 Feb 1868 dieds infancy taeretla, daughter of Philip and Leah Powell, married Henry Bixler in Fountain County, In diana, May 29, I84O0 Both she and her husband died just nine days apart from milk sickness when their youngest daughter, Nora was nine months old. ^ Page #10 1st Generation 2nd Generation 3rd Generation Mary (Blxler) Wiseman Laura (Wiseman )Sellers boras 16 Mar 18a Ella Wiseman dieds Ed Wiseman husbs Jacob Wiseman In 1934 she was living with her daughter, Ella, in Roseville, Illinois and furnished some in formation on descendants of Philip and Leah Zumwalt Elnora (Blxler) Patterson Lucy (Patterson )McMa_c_i boras 29 Oct 1843 Sarah(Patterson)Brown dledt 1 Aug 1928 husbs Louis Patterson Rhoda, daughter of Philip and Leah Powell, was born in Kentucky, February 22, 1818, died November 9, 1897, married Pryor Andrews, born In Madison County, New York, July 17, 1815s died February 17, 1879. They settled in Vermillion County, Illinois near State Line Ind, Clint Andrews Arnet Andrews bora: 20 Apr 1849 Gertrude Andrews dledt 22 Jul 1929 wife: Flora Taylor James Andrews Helen Andrews boras 3 Am 1850 Richard Andrews dledt 3 Oct 1923 Gene Andrews wifes Annie Johnson Leon Andrews • Everett Andrews Charles Andrews Louise Andrews borns 26 Apr 1853 dledt wifet Nancy Elliott Jessie (Andrews)B___witi Rhoda Badewitz boras 25 Jun 1858 Harry Badewitz dledt Alta Badewitz hush Badewitz Basel Badewitz Margaret, daughter of Philip Zumwalt and Leah Powell, married Arle Rogers, October 26, 1840 in Fountain County, Indiana. Amanda (Rogers) Kendall William Kendall borns daughter dledt husbs William Rogers born: died: wife: • ' tin SOLDIERS OF CIVIL WAR Ifol, fc, l*te William Zumwalt John Zumwalt Sons of Henry arid Daniel Zumwalt (Civil War Company D 145th Regiment Nancy Zumwalt HI. Infantry 26 daya, May 1864 to Sep 8, 1864). James Zumwalt William Zumwalt son of Joseph and Elizabeth Zumwalt Absolum Zumwalt son of Joseph and Elisabeth Zumwalt WAR 1917 to 1018 Hersohel Zumwalt - son of Franklin Powell 5 Zumwalt Kenneth Zumwalt - son of Franklin Powell 5 Zumwalt Loren Meeker - eon of Arthur 6 Meeker Bert Mitchell - son of Ora 6 Mitchell Everett Andrews Richard Andrews - son of James 5 Andrews - son of Jamas 5 Andrews LeRoy Wardell - son of Minnie 6 (Zumwalt) Wardsll Harold Wardell - son of Minnie 6 (Zumwalt) Wardell Wendell Holmes son of James 6 Holmes Glen Sennett son of Clara 6 (Mitchell) Sennett Everett Sellers son of Laura 6 (Wiseman) Sellers GOIDEM WEEPINGS OF THE FAMILY Mr. and Mrs, Christian Zumwalt of Watseka, Illinois February 18, 1896 Mr. and Mrs. Lafayette Mitchell at Brookings, South Dakota June 18, 1917 Mr. and Mrs. James R« Fox at Watseka, Illinois September 25, 1921 Mr* and Mrs. Jesse Zumwalt at Watseka, Illinois September 24, 1921 Mr„ and Mrs. William Merrltt at Hoopston, Illinois Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Zumwalt at Ames, Iowa Mr. and Mrs„ James Zumwalt at Delevan, Illinois 1931 f JJOTES ON DANIEL ZUMWALT FAMILY AND SARAH MEYERS HIS WIFEts I 1st Generation 2nd Generation 3rd Generation f Daniel Zumwalt, son of Henry and Nancy Davidson, was born at State Line, Indiana, September 3. 1849, died 1930, buried at Ames Iowa. Married, first wife, Clara Dillon who is buried at a small town near Baden, Illinois Later married Sarah Myers. They lived on a farm south of Sheldon, Illinois and In 1890 they moved to Ashkin, Illinois* In 1896 they moved ^ Amao Iowa where he died. At this time, 1945P his wifs, Sarah is still living at Ames, lova and is 86 years of age0 She was born in Canada near Detroit, Michigan. Her maiden name was Mayers and her parents, David and Jane Meyers earns to Canada from Hull,. England °» a sailing vessel, (Grandmother Jane Meyers* maiden name was Grey). When Daniel Zumwalt owed to Ames Iowa they settled on a farm south of Ames which is now owned by the State of T Page #12 1st Generation 2nd Generation 3rd Generation Iowa and is known as the State Agronomy Farm, Winnie (Zumwalt) Wardell LeRoy Wardell boras 1875 Harold Wardell dieds Girl Mothers Clara Dillon Leslie M. Zumwalt Esther(Z)Nyswonger boras 7 Sep 1880 Jean(Z)D_ubert dieds wifet Marion Hedrick Archie Ray Zumwalt Evelyn Vanda (Z) Stats* boras 15 Sep 1882 dledt: wifet Leona M, Van 0 Linda Grace A. (Zumwalt) Skelton boras 7 Oct 1885 dledt husbs Skelton Cou Ethel I. (Zumwalt) Buck Geraldine Buck 87 bornt 13 Sep 1887 dledt husbs Arthur Buck Edmond W. Zumwalt John Zumwalt bornt Mar 1890 Richard Zumwalt diedt Donald Zumwalt wifet Avis Stott CharlottefZ)Stevenson wifet Basel MeConnon Janet Zumwalt wifet unknown John To Zumwalt Dorothy Zumwalt bora: Apr 1892 Betty Zumwalt diedt 8 Mar 1918 wifes Basel Lillie Notes Daniel Zumwalt informed ms (Archie R. Zumwalt) that his grandfathers name on mother's side was John Davidson and that he married Catherine Hillard in Lancaster Pennsylvania and @am© to Attica, Indiana on a raft. He informed me that his mother and her sisters were raised at Tremont, Illinois and it was here that they were married and moved to a farm soutk; of Delevan, Illinois where they lived until they died and are buried on the old farm. ' • Article H 28 A HISTORY OF FORT ZUMWALT 0"Fallon, Missouri From: St, Iouis Post Dispatch June 25, 1936 written by Fay Profilet MISSOURI DAUGHTERS OF 1812 WILL SEEK TO RESTORE FORT ZUMWALT Resolutions have been passed by the Missouri Division of the National Society, United States Daughters of 1812, to secure funds for the restoration of historic Fort Zumwalt on Highway 40, 30 miles west of St„ Louis„ Last September the board of the organization voted at Its mid-year meeting at St. Joseph, Missouri, to investigate ways and means of the restoration,, which was first suggest ed by Rose Lane Wilder, writer, Mrs0 A, Lee Smiser, Warrensburg, Missouri, State President headed an investigation committee composed of Mrs0 Arthur J, Buck, Kirksville, Missouri, State Chairman of Memorial Markers; Mrs, E, T, Smith, St, Louis, Missouri, State Historian/ and Mrs,, Eugene Maupin, Clarence, Missouri, State Chairman of Historic Sites, Mrs. Frances Burkhardt, State Registrar,, presented resolutions at the Annual State Council held at Armstrong, Missouri, this month to petition the next Legislature to buy the 87 acre tract surrounding the Fort for a State Park, The organization had erected a monument on the site and if the land is bought and a fund established, they will restore the original cabin which still stands surrounded by beautiful farmland and dense woods Mrs, Smiser has appointed a special St,, Louis committee headed by Mrs, Burkhardt with the following members: Mrs, Josh Lewis, Jr.,?. president of the Sto Louis Chapter; Mrs„ Dudley W„ Southward, president of the Pioneer Chapter and Miss Marcia Williams, 0"Fallon, Missouri an authority on Missouri history, legends and folk lore, HISTORY OF FORT ZUMWALT Fort Zumwalt was built in 1798 on land which was a Spanish grant taken up by Jacob 2 Zumwalt, who with his brother? Christopher 2 Zumwalt, arrived In Missouri in 1796 from Virginia,, The fort is full of interest and is rich in legend not only because it was the first hewn log house erected north of the Missouri River and because its establishment as a frontier post at what was* at the time^ one of the remotest edges of civilization in the United States, but because its story is also founded on other uses to which it has been pux and conerns men and women;, who have lived useful and eventful lives under its roof, According to "The Pioneer Families of Missouri", by Bryant and Rose*, the house with huge fireplaces,, was made of white oak and roofed with heavy clapboards of the same wood,. The main part consisted of two ground floor rooms duplicated to form a second story„ A one story wing to the east and another to the south,, each with a loft completed the structure, The split oak floors which have worn away revealed the primitive method of fastening logs together with wooden pegs instead of nails. The house is on the brink of a low hill ax foot of which runs a spring. The wings of the house have been torn down and the remaining part has gradually succumbed to time and the elements. The portholes in the upper party which were used in repelling Indian raids,, may still be seen although the stockade which surrounded the house disappeared long ago, A small private cemetery, shaded by ancient eedar trees, in which a mocking bird sings,, gives a touch of pathos to the present scene as voices of the past seem to whisper around the old Fort, As many as 10 families found refuge here at times of Indian unrest. In 1807 the house was used for church services by the Rev, Jesse Walker9 and later Page II 2 • ssouri's first Methodist Preacher, held services there and from this ; was organized the Mount Zion Methodist Church. BY THE HEALD FAMILY 100 YEARS In 1817, after the Fort Dearborn massacre, Maj, Nathan Heald,, commanding officer of Port, came to Missouri, purchased the place and lived there with his wife. Rebecca ells HealdP heroine of the War of 1812, Both are buried on the homestead. The land was d by the Heald family for more than a 100 years. In 1909 the Rebecca Heald Chapter, Daughters of 1812, was organized there by a grand- mghter, Rebecca Heald McCluer and for many years the chapter held its meeting in the old; t, Mrs. Heald, for whom the chapter was named, was made heroine of "When Wilderness was ing", by Randall Parish, and for her heroic deeds in the War of 1812, a chapter in the "Pioneer Women of the West", was dedicated to her. Mrs. Frances Heald Ottofy, wife of Dr, L. M. Ottofy, 5228 Vernon Ave, and Mrs. Wright] ohnson, who lives on a farm near 0"Fallon, Missouri, are granddaughters of Major and Mrs, id, and the only surviving of the seven children of Darius Heald-, the only son of Major nd Mrs, Heald, and who was born in the log house in 1822 and who later built the brick ise standing near the Fort, They have many documents of historical value and a fund of ion concerning the lives of their noted grandparents. Major Heald was born at New Ipswich, N.H, in 1775. He entered the United States Array \ .'. he was 24. years old and in the spring of 1801 left New England with some recruits to tioin the Western Array in Ohio, A year later he was stationed at Fort Vincennes, Ind„ and still another year found him in Detroit, serving with General William Henry Harrison, who as to become President of the United States, He was made a captain in 1807 and put in ornmand of what was then the military post of Fort Wayne, Ind, Rebecca Wells of Louisville visited her uncle, Captain William Wells, Indian fighter;, where she met Captain Heald, he result of the meeting is told briefly in the young soldier's journal: "In June, 1810 ft Fort Wayne and went to Chicago to command that post. Went on furlough in Massachusetts in the fall of the same year and returned by way of Kentucky where I was married to Rebecca ! elisP the daughter of General Samuel Wells, on the twenty-third of May, 1811, and arrived In Chicago In June with Mrs, Heald." FORT DEARBORN MASSACRE Shortly after the outbreak of the War of 1812 Captain Heald was ordered to evacute Fort Dearborn and march to Fort Wayne, The troops conveying the caravan of civilians and he families of the soldiers were scarcely out of sight of the garrison when they were attacked by Indians, History relates the result of the attack as the Fort Dearborn massacre! aptain and Mrs, Heald were both severely wounded. They were captured by different bands / warriors and each believed the other had been killed. However, the next day a chief, Fio was secretly friendly to Heald and was among his captors, discovered Mrs, Heald and rranged to return her to her husband. The ohief traded a bottle of whisky and a mule for I sr and affected her escape,, Not long after the massacre,, Captain Heald was promoted to 1-..3 rank of Major and in 1814. he was released from the army because of wounds which kept I m from active service, j left Louisville with his wife and two young children for St. Charles County, Mo,, 1817, making the journey in 24- days. Several months later he bought the Zumwalt I farm and two years later his wife's family bought the Christopher Zumwalt place •Jjoint ?he [ndian Chief,, V/_a had been a benefactor to the Healds visited them there 1831 accompanied by a delegation of chiefs,, The old log house was the scene of a great hat included a xvhole beef and a sheep4 Miss Marcia Williams, whose family has lived near the Fort for many generations, has made a life study of its history and legends. In a pretty story written by Miss Williams, a glimpse of the home life of the Zumwalts is poignantly revealed. The'witer of the sto said that it had come, an unbroken chain of evidence, as hand had clasped hand of the g« eration before, and listened to the story that they passed to the next generation,, from o who had talked with Jacob Zumwalt, Daniel Boone and Black Hawk, the Indian,, THE STORY Parts of this story follow: "Jacob Zumwalt cleaned his musket as he stood in front of the big fireplace at Fort Zumwalt, late one bright October afternoon. His good wife turned to the fire and bent low as she watched the ash cake glowing in the coals. She took the skillet from the trivet, where the squirrel had been frying for supper, A gourd of honey was on the table and there were earthen mugs of water from the spring at the foot of the hill. "Call the boys to supper Jacob", she said to her husband, and then come yourself, for you are no doubt hungry. You were in the field from early moring with no stop at noon. All, the hounds are barking. Someone must be coming over the hill. It is the direction tl Daniel Boone comes and it is not an Indian, for the dogs are afraid of them and always coa slinking to the door if one appears".„„ A hearty welcome was given the hunter when he entered the log room, Daniel Boone did not pause when told that supper was ready, but he came directly to the table and sat with bowed head as Jacob Zumwalt returned thanks. The little boys, Levi and David, watch the hunter as he ate quickly and silently. He did not remove his fur cap nor did Jaeob. They seemed alert and watchful and their guns were never far from their hands.., "Lucy Anne (?) Zumwalt had finished the tasks of putting to order her suppsr things. The remainder of the squirrel was given to old Trailer, the hound, that had come with theia to the wilderness and now was almost disabled since fighting a wolf on Balleau Creek close by. The woman seated herself on a low stool well back from the fire that lighted the room well enough for her to take up her knitting. A lull came as the men sat and smoked and talked of the outside world, the loneliness of the winter months to come and of the pros pect of Indian trouble... SAY BLACK HAWK IS FRIENDLY "But Mr. Boone," said Lucy Anne (?), "it may not be so bad, for Black Hawk comes at times and seems friendly. He brought the children a little pet coon and has helped them to make some bows and arrows and showed them how to shoot them. He likes my cooking;, for he was hungry and I gave him a big gourd of stew that he ate with some ash cake I made, Ue will have other families here during the winter. You see there are four large rooms here and with the loft over two of them there is much room for many other people... We are safe at this place and while we have always been friendly to any Indian that came about we never know what may happen. The spring is not far distant and one can watch from the port holes as I go for water and shoot if an Indian is lurking near. When morning comes you and Mr, Zumwalt must talk of your hunting and the pelts you will have to take to the trad ing post, for the boys must not hear of trouble with the Indians for when Black Havik comes they might say to him some word that would lead to a bad feeling and now he comes with no fear from any of us and we can all give him a true welcome at Zumwalt Fort. He will know that our hearts are kind, our walls are strong and sure and that our guns are ready and that our aim is true." The farm is now occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Algie C. Rector. Romance seems always to follow Fort Zumwalt, Mr. and Mrs. Rector were not aware of the historic importance of the placse when they leased it and as they were turning into their new horns they saw the mark erected by the Daughters of 1812 and much to their surprise and joy discovered that they were to live at the Fort. Mrs. Rector is the great-granddaughter of little David Zumwalt, C Page # 4 who ran so happily to meet Black Hawk and the great-great-granddaughter of Jacob 2 Zumwalt. Published in the St, Louis Post*Dispatch on Sunday, June 28, 1936 Proms Lola Belle {Stapleton){Mrs. O.P«J Zumwalt To: George R„ Zumwalt Dates 21 February 1961 Note: There is a question about Lucy Anne being the name of the wife of Jacob 2 Zumwalt, His first wife was Catherine Miller and his second wife was Francis Price, Anyone! who has information on this matter please write to George R0 Zumwalt THE FRONTIERSMAN JACOB 3 ZUMWALT Jacob J Ztarawali, son of (George 2 Zimrowalt and grandma of Andrew 1 Zumwalt» was . saiile American frontiersman first in Ohio, then Indianav next to Illinois and fin*! California. He was the father of Dr, Rockwell D„ Hunt's mother0 wMy personal recollection ©f him goes back to early boyhood, th® 1870s, when h* \ i my grandmother lived on Ninth street near L street In Sscramento", Dra Hunt relates. particular object about that city home that I now remember best was a tall plum tre* the back steps of the house. Somehow the plums that grew en that tree seemed te> - b* better than those from our own orchard at the Freeport Ranch, The real hero in ever of the western frontier in America was the resourceful farmer. First of all, he nee - brave wife who knew how to get along with little and get things done in addition I i to lag up the children. One of the first major tasks on the 80 or 160 acres of his woodlai farm was to build a house to live in, but there was no lumber, no saw mill, no keg of r. no architect anywhere near* only the trees awaiting the farmer"s axe. Of eource " ha I be a log house built of the trees standing there. Log houses were not all exactly alik They differed with place and circumstance but the typical log house of the frontier, at ing for diver sendee,, may be described as being made of logs from the trunks of young 20 to 30 feet long, about six Inches in diameter, with notches cut in their extremities hold them in place. The roof was made of the same material, although usually smaller h sloping on each side. It was usual to have two doors which served also in place of win these were made by sawing off part of the logs. At one end was the chimney? ending in sir inches or more thick. Spaces between logs were chinked with clay., A careless Jol the cabin cold in winter. The doors were swung &n wood hinges, viths_t leeks as a male, but fastened with wooden pegs. There was no 8_©h thing as smooth floors, iJesldom was a feoase of roor«* than two rooms founds, VERSATILE GRANDPA "fly steady work", continues Dr, Hunts, "two mmx could build such a house in four or fi*e days, but not a single nail was used., As a rule? two big beds were used for the *** = tire family. If lucky they had featherbed mattresses. Instead ©f having closets for t meager supply of clothing (mostly homemade)» the garments were hung up around the roo»< iM-pettded from a long pole stretched across. Today we hear and read a good deal, about log cabinp but we have no realisation ©f the deprivations and hardships ewdwred by tl and mother in these log home,, As a girl and later a young mother on the Illinois fronl my &v& mother» Nancy 4 (Zumwalt)(Cotton)Hunt enjoyed such a honsae. It was her home, mother"s ow_ words I rftwrd some of the things kmr fatter did on the frontier? 'He cow mako almost everything we needed to use in those pioneer days. He would go down by the Qplstne River and cut down a eedar tree and rive out t»« staves, then work them up, half white and half red, into washtubs, keelers and buckets? taking hickory saplings and split- ing them into strips for hoops. Ha mad© scrubbing brooms by sawing a rim around a biek stodk, working the upper end into a handle, and splitting the other end into find spl r He tanned the deerskins and made mittens and whip lashes. He made our shoes and boots,, hia own carpenter work and blacksraithingo From cowse horns he made good coarse combs and bade eombs,, He was uncommonly ingenious" , Being a skillful hunter and because deer, grouse and other wild game were plentiful the family of three sons and three daughters fared well for meat. There was no doctor within miles of the farm, but grandmother knew many home remedies. I doubt if there was really anymore sickness in that family than in the pampered family of the average city home today.. F- P 'My gr«ndfatbar '« ver BS11 . '•-•'• ••-.:: "_r.at_ad of eoncpniraitng on a rein-. t af th** assembly line (aa to the modern making of _ut Dr, Rockwall D, Hurt Froms The Knzro Section of Oakland Tribune 19 February 1961 __NEAGE OF DR, ROCKWELL D, 6 HUNT Andrew 1 Z *= _ ? George 2 Z - _____ & Mary ? Jacob 3 Z — —— & Nancy Ann Spurgeon Jacob 4 Z ="• —«* & Susanna Kindle Smith ?ia_ey 5 Z —. _ #1 Cotton _ #2 Dennis R, Hunt Dr, Rockwell D- 6 Hunt & Naney Ann Stuart Paul Adam 7 Hun. —— _ Imogen© tfalkar Lloyd Freeman 7 Hunt - _ Dorothy Burnett Rotvkwell Dennis 7 Hunt & died age of 12 years Clarence Stuart 7 Hunt & Leota Article #30 March 20, 1961 HISTORY OF TULARE AND KINGS COUNTIES 1913 DANIEL KINDLE 5 ZUMWALT A descendant of an old Virginia family„ Daniel Kindle 5 Zumwalt was born near Joliet, 111,, January 24, 1845, of German extraction, his first American ancestor, George (or Adam) Zumwalt (should bo Andrew 1 Zumwalt) having emigrated Item the Fatherland in the eighteenth century, to become a settlor in Virginia and later a pioneer in Ohio, which was then on the fringe of civilisation. Jacob 3 Zumwalt, son of the emigrant, vent, in January, 18301 from Mams county, Ohio, to Hancock county, Ind., where ho died December, 1833. Jacob 4, his son, was born in Ohio, September 15, 1807, He married, June 24, 1830, Susanna Kindle Smith, bom in Ohio, Juno 12, 1811, With hia father, his three brothers and hie five sisters, he went to Hancock county, led,, in 1830, and four years later he vent to Will county, X_1P, about ten miles from Joliet. There he remained twenty years until March, 1854, when he started with ox-teams overland for California. He farmed in the Sacramento valley until 1872, when he came to his farm near Visalia, Tulare county, where he died May 31, 1878. His wife died in Sacramento November 20, 1896, and they are both buried there. He van a Metho dist and in many ways evinced great public spirit. His vife bore him children as follows: Nancy 5 (Zumwalt)(Cotton)(Mrs, Dennis Rockwell) Bunt, who died in Sacramento in 1904; Sarah M.. 5 (Zumwalt)(Mrs. James) Shoemaker, of Santa Clara} Joseph 5 Zumwalt, born April 30, 1836, who died in Kern county, August 1, 1878; Joseph H. 5 Zumwalt of San Jose, Calif.; Elisabeth 5 (Zumwalt)(Mrs. .) Hawk, of Sacramento; Daniel Kindle 5 Zumwalt of this review. When his father came to California, Daniel Kindle 5 Zumwalt and other members of their family came along, and Daniel rode horseback and helped to drive the oxen. He van only nine and his youth exempted him from guard duty, but every other duty that fell to the lot of his elders was performed by hia at one time or another. He attended the public and high schools of Sacramento, and w_s graduated in 1865 later taking the degrees of A.M. and A.B. at the University of the Pacific. Having been awarded a first-grade teacher9s certificate, he taught school a year at Yolo, then came, in 1869, to Tulare county, where he lived out his alio ted days. For twanty°three years he was land agent and attorney for the Southern Pacific Railways company, his territory including Tulare9 Kern and Fresno and what is now Kings county. He was one of the originators and organisers of the 76 Land and Water company, mat of the capital for which he personally secured. Preparatory to the formation of the company Mr. Zumwalt bought the water rights of Risley & Cameron and others and secured op tions on large tracts of land. As secretary of the company he promoted its interest until its principal office was moved from Visalia, Calif., to Traver, Calif. He was-prime factor and a stockholder of the Kaveah Canal and Irrigation Co. and vas influential in the pre- vention of the diversion of the water from the settlers. In the course of his busy life he improved and developed lands of his own, and his estate owns a fine farm between Visalia and Tulare, which is devoted to dairying and the raising of Shorthorn cattle; in the im= provement and equipment of this property he established a creamery. He was instrumental, also j, in the setting up of another at Visalia. In the construction of other canals than those mentioned above Mr, Daniel Kindle 5 Zumwalt was active. With othersphe vas indefatigable in presenting proofs to the Interior Department at Washington, D.C., of the necessity for the preservation of the redwood forests for future generations. It vas he who enlisted the cooperation of Congressman Vandever of California, who secured the passage of an authorisation of the setting aside of General Grant Park, which insures the preservation of the giant redwoods, there more numerous than in any other part of the Sierras. Article #30 Page 2 At Tulare, May 20, 1890, Mr. Daniel Kindle 5 Zumwalt married Emma F. Blaekvedel, a native of Taycheedah, Wis. Henry J. Blaekvedel, her father, born in Hemsling, Hanover, Germany, vas a son of John Blaekvedel, vho brought his family to the United States in I847 and settled on a farm in Wisconsin, whence they moved later to Jo Daviess County, 111. John Henry Blaekvedel vas a farmer in Wisconsin and later a merchant in Sauk City, Wis., (Ja and Galena, 111., and later became a resident of Dubuque, leva, in which city he passed ded away November 29, 1863. Of literary tastes and education, he entertained writers and lec He w turers vho visited him wherever he lived. He deserves a place in history aa one of the the sponsors of the Republican party. His wife formerly Anna Meta Bolterman, vas born in Ger many, a daughter of H. C. Bolterman, vho lived out his days there. She died in Dubuque, volv leva, in 1672. Two of their children lived to maturity-, NTs. Zumwalt and Mrs. Minnie Fills- dist bury. Of a former marriage two sons, Henry Herman and John Frederick, died in service while members of Company I, Seventeenth Volunteer Infantry. Mrs. Daniel Kindle Zumwalt, next to the youngest, vas reared and educated in Dubuque, came to Riverside in 1886 vith her sister, resl Mrs. PiHsbury, and in 1887 came to Tulare county. She in a helpful member of the Methodist Church and does much for Visalia Lodge No. 48, Independent Order of Good Templars, with which she has been identified since its organisation by her late husband, November 18s 18700 log 1 He vas foremost in incorporating the Good Templars Association and in building the Good Tem for 1 plars Hall at Visalia and in so safeguarding it that it cannot be diverted from its intended mil use or pass from the control of the society. He was Grand Counoiler of the order and for ana, many years one of its moat devoted and liberal supporters. He vas a member and a trustee of ouri the Methodist Church of Visalia and in 1869-70 organised its Sunday School, of which he vas superintendent. Politically, he vas in early life a Republican, in later years a Prohibi tionist. His opinions on the liquor question are shared by Mrs. Zumvalt, vho, as an ardent LINE woman suffragist, has seen much of which to rejoice in these later days of awakening and of regeneration in matters political. She vas valued assistant to Mr. Zumvalt standing beside Andre him in all trials and encouraging him vith her devoted wifely love. Their union vas a very Jacol happy one, and at home, in church work or in lodge vork their interests were mutual. Mr. Georg Zumwalt°s death occurred November 2, 1904. n -° I Jxinjt The town of Traver, Tulare county, vas laid out through Mr. Zumvalt98 Instrumentality. So versatile vas he that carried on an abstract and land business, gave attention to stock- El raising and dairying, patented a process for photographing and preserving records, and did 01 many other odd and interesting things not directly connected vith his chief pursuits. With the instincts of a true businesswoman, Mrs. Daniel Kindle 5 Zumvalt personally attends to f business connected vith her several ranches. She has a dairy ranch of twelve hundred acres near Tulare City. On her Deer Creek ranch of thirty-three hundred acres she raises many fine beef cattle. She has a quarter-section of land on the Tule river, of which eight acres are planted to oranges Just coming into bearing, and she has other ranches which she rents out. Lineage of Daniel Kindle 5 Zumwalt Andrew 1 Zumwalt & #1 v. Mary __ George 2 Zumvalt & Mary ' Jacob 3 Zumvalt & Nancy Ann Spurgeon Jacob 4 Zumwalt & Susanna Kindle Smith Daniel Kindle 5 Zumvalt & Emma F. Blaekvedel From: William F. Braly To: George R. Zumwalt a Article #31 24 April 1961 REV0 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN 5 ZUMWALT 17 Rev, Benjamin Franklin 5 Zumwalt, a son of Ivy Jason 4 Zumwalt and his #1 w, Susan (James) Zumwalt, vas born August 11, 1838 near Louisiana, Pike County, Missouri, He atten ded public school in Louisiana, Missouri, a Wesleyian Theological Seminary in Northern Mo, He was ordained an elder in the Southern Methodist Church by Bishops Olin and Pierce in t- the year 1861, He preached, aa what vas known at that time, a circuit during the Civil War, often times with a 45 revolver near at hand. When riding his circuit, this same re volver was carried in his saddle bags, a necessary precaution, as some "Southern" Metho = 28. dist laymen had been "tarred and feathered" by northern sympathizers. lie He was married April 16, 1866, to Sarah Leonora Henderson by Rev. W. D, Mahan at the o residence of the bride's father, Rufus Henderson, near Louisiana, Missouri, 1st Due to falling health, he resided in the state of Montana for a period of time. Be ing a "circuit rider" of the Methodist Church in those days meant no permanent residence 70o for any length of time. His iteneracy embraced circuits in Northern Mo., and Northwestern Mh Illinois, often many miles apart. He retired in 1888 and permanently located near Louisi ana, Missouri, He died at the home of his daughter,, Mrs, L. C. Maggart, in Elsberry, Miss Jed ouri, in December 1920. of IS LINEAGE OF REV BENJAMIN FRANKLIN 5 ZUMWALT It C >f Andrew 1 Z —-—,———-_ & #2 w» Ann Regina ?? le Jacob 2 Z --_••••-«•.• H ij.-n'... & #1 v. Catherine Miller 7 . George 3 Z —————- & Mary Elizabeth Killebrev I Ivy Jason 4 Z • & #1 v. Sally James } Benjamin Franklin 5 Z —- & Sarah Leonora Henderson ity, Esther Clementine 6 Z & Rev. L. C. Maggart Olin Pearson 6 Z —— & Lola Belle Stapleton 98 _- MY FM JOHN RANDALL 5 ZDMWALT Borns 1826 Mods 3878 J know little of my father as h© passed away when I was two years old. be had ©ne brother and ;*ar& alsiers and all of them were quit© small whan they wc •rshans by the death of both parents. As a result they vere brought up in d homes B but somehow all but ©tie kept in contact with each ether throughout their 13 This one, a girlt; became separated from th© rest and ray father lost trace of he The brother, James Br©w« 5 Zumvalt, came to California by wagers %r$&n and setl ar Sycamore on what later became the Tolsoa Ranch and later moved to Tulare. Th** remaining sister, Cynthia 5 CZumwalt)Dunlap. lived at Sycamore and vas the Bother of several childrenp oae ©f whom* Margaret 6 CDunlap}Seha_d married Augusl kshaad* children were Charles 7, Fred 7, and Clarence 7 Schaad, Another daughter Eva Wustfall, married John C. Westfall, Another daughter Enmsa 6 (Dunlaplxompkins, marri Bivin Tompkins of Meridian. Another daughter? Annie 6 (Dunlap/Phillips,, married Matteon Phillips. My father, John Randall 5 Zumwalt appears to have come from Illinois aed was _ wag maker by trade,, His father's name was William 4 Zumwalt am Ms grandfather was Andrew I Zunwalt and his great-grand father was Jacob 2 Sumwalt who built Ptert Zumvalt. My father brought his family to Colusa by railroad train in 1869. He worked there at Ms _rad< a time snd them lived briefly OR a small farm about a mile south of Colusa.-, The family then settled ®n an BO acre farm two miles south ©f Sycamore where the rest ©f hia bildi were born and where the father» John Randall 5 Zumwalt,, passed away in 1878, My mother^, Sarah Parthena (Zumwalt }f Zumwal t)Ragain was born In Pike County* Missouri in 184_n Her father was Ivy Jason 4 Zumwalt <> a 3rd cousin @f my father*So She was br | up in a home where the work was done by slaves, (Missouri was a slave state}*, and el her own personal maid,-, She married ray father when she was sixteen and they had 1© eh*. The lineage of both my mother and father goes baek to the original Andrew 1 Zumvalt cans from Strassburff Germany it My father died of pneumonia at the age of 52 contracted as the result sorwerk and exposure combating threatened floods of the Sacramento River. LIMSAGE OF JOHK RANDAL! 5 ZUMWALT AMD HIS WIFE SARAH PARTHENA 5 ZUMWALT Andrew 1 % ______ft #2 v, Ann Regina ?? Andrew 1 Z ——- — _ #2 w0 Ann Regina ' Jacob 2 Z ______ft #1 w„ Catherine Miller Jacob 2 Z -—— ft ffl w. Catherine «J Andrew 3 Z _____.__- ft #i w„ 7? George 3 3 — —•— & Mary Killebrew Villi am I Z --. >— ft Sarah Randall Ivy Jason 4 § —— ft #1 w, Sarah Ja John Randall 5 Z «— ft Sarah Parthena 5 Zumwalt Sarah Parthena 5 Z £ John Randall Annie May 6 Z -———.-— ft Jasper Smith jjiaaja S z —««*-----,— ----— .____, ____. ft died young Edgar Franklin 6 Z -_—.—-—.«- ft Laura Elisabeth Drew John Luther William 6 Z —— & Susie Ma© Bailey Li Hie 6 Z _.—^-- .——--—-•--,--= ft Prank Henry Graves Arthur James 6 I ————___«_. 4 Addie Copper Ivy George 6 Z —«=««»——-— --•—— ft Mattie Jane Braly Effie Lee 6 2 _---~~-~---««~---«. ft Harry Hill McGra 02° > Reuben Sylvester 6 Z ——.-*»_ ft Emma Clair Ehgemann Robert Randall 6 Z ----- •=-——— - ft Anna Stoeckle L. e ' Article ii'33 May 31, 1961 Revised July 1, 1964 FORT ZUMWALT •"A Log Fort, built in 1798, still stands near a Missouri highway„ Almost forgotten today it figured prominently in the history of the frontier. If more antique oolleotors would follow the pra®ti©e of Henry Ford in buying up eompl-sto homes, blacksmith shops,, inns and other structures, as well as their furnishings,; It is not unlikely that a certain ansient Missouri building ©n Highway No0 2 would In time be held at a great premium,, As it is, it merely sits sheltering farm animals and awaiting either its complete destruction by. the elements, ®r a more respectable fate through same occurrence that sa-ah a feobby as antique collecting sometimes causes. The building is the log kotase and one time fort vhieh stands about three hundred yards south of the concrete road opposite the little town ©f 0"Fallon, approximately twenty-fife miles this side of the St„ Louis city limitSo One hundred and twenty-eight years old, tke "house51 or that part of it which remains has shown qualities of endurance which frequently are expected of structures reared of stone and steel. It is a monument to pioneers who won the West which has associations that are lacking in memorials provided for long after the actual days of valor have passed. For around it a typical part of the state's history was enacted not the history centering in legislative halls, but in the prairies and low hills where palefaces fought red men that they might wield their axes and push their plows. The Zumwalt Fort, as it is known, is full of interest, not only because of its establish ment as a frontier post at what was at the time one of the remotest edges of civilization in the United States. Its lure is founded also on a recollection of other uses to which has been put, and of the men and women who have lived under its hospitable roof. Toward the end of the nineteenth century the Spanish government started a campaign to populate the Louisiana Territory by offering generous land grants to Americans who would be willing to help conquer the wilderness. This invitation brought Daniel Boone west of the Mississippi Rlverj among others of the earliest settlers were Jacob Zumwalt and his brother, Christopher both of whom arrived in Missouri in 1796, having come from Virginia., The brothers obtained liberal grants, which they proceeded to develop, Christopher's land lay along Peruque Creek, just east ©f where No. 2 crosses it now, and on both sides of the highway,, Jacobus four hundred and fifty arpents (an arpent is about equal to an acre) lay to the east of his brothers. Its serial number was 55» which shows Its relatively early issue. In .1798, according to "The Pioneer Families of Missouri11, by Bryant and Rose, Jacob built on his farm the first hewn log house ever erected on the north side of the Missouri River It was made of white oak and roofed with heavy clapboards of the same weed. The main par i consisted of two ground floor rooms, duplicated to form a second story 0 A one story w:Lng to the east and another to the souths each with a loft, completed the structure. In recent years the wings have been torn down. Inside the main part the split oak floors still re veal the primitive method of fastening logs together with wooden pegs instead of nails There are huge fireplaces. The house is on the brink of a low but abrupt hill, at the base of which is a never fail ing spring, which explains its location-, While not exactly of the type of blockhouse used in Indian warfare, the Zumwalt Fort was built with a view to its defensive value against the savageso As many as ten families found refuge within it in times of Indian unrest, The building today is by no means ready to fall, but of course, it has been gradually succumbing to decay;, however, the cement between the logs is in a remarkably good state of preservation o Article #33 Page HZ ' f The tourist spinning along No. 2, even if he could get a view of the building,, would not be very much impressed by it, for it isn't distinguished by any means, being just an orderly pile of wood, so to speak. A modern lean-to has been built at the rear to provide more roof ing for farm animalsj, but on approaching it, one's impression deepens, as it hia the air of ancient things which hangs heavily upon antiquities. It doesn't take a lot of/ .Imagination to hear voices of the past murmuring within, and when one stops to consider i- <3 year it was built George Washington died, one realises hew far back its exi* tence goes0 History of the Fort Fort Zumwalt was built in 1798 on land which was a Spanish grant taken up by Jacob 2 Zumvalt, who with his brother, Christopher 2 Zumwalt, arrived in Missouri in 1796 from Virginla0 The Fort is full of interest and is rich in legend not only because it was the first hewn log house erected north of the Missouri River, and because its establishment ai a frontier post at what was at the time one of the remotest edges of civilisation in the United States, but because its story is also founded on other uses to which it has been i put and concerns men and women, who have lived useful and eventful lives under its roof0 According to "The Pioneer Families of Missouri" by Bryant and Rose, the house with hnzgs fireplaces, was made of white oak and roofed with heavy clap boards of the same wood, The main part consisted of two ground floor rooms duplicated to form a second story, A one story wing to the east and another to the south, each with a loft completed the structure, \ The split oak floors which has worn away revealed the primitive method of fastening logs together with wooden pegs instead of nails. The house is on the brink of a low hill at the foot of which runs a spring. The wings of the house have been torn down and the renal* ing part 2us gradually succumbed to time and the elements. The portholes in the upper part which were used in repelling Indian raids, may still be seen, although the stockade which surrounded tlie house disappeared long ago. A snail private cemetery, shaded by ancient cedar trees, in which a mocking bird sings, gives a touch of pathos to the present scene as voices of the past seem to whisper around the old Fort. As many as ten families found refuge here at times of Indian unrest. In 180? the house was used for church services by the Rev. Jesse Walker, and later the Rev. John Travis, Missouri's first Methodist preacher, held services there and from this gathering was organized the Mount ZIon Methodist Church. ) In 1817, after the Fort Dearborn massacre, Maj. Nathan Heald, commanding officer of ttie f Fort, same to Missouri, purchased the place and lived there with his wife, Rebecsa Wells Heald, heroine of the War of 1812. Both are buried on the homestead. The land was owned I by the Keald family for more than 100 years. In 1909 the Rebecca Heald Chapter, Daughters ( of 1812, was organized there by a granddaughter, Rebecca Heald MeCluer and for many years ? the chapter held its meetings in the old Fort. Mrs, Heald, for whom the chapter was named yas made the heroine of "When Wilderness was King" by Randall Parish, and for her heroic f deeds in the War of 1812, a chapter in the book "Pioneer Women of the West" was dedicated to her, Mrs. Frances Heald Ottofy, wife of Dr. L. M. Ottofy, 5228 Vernon Avenue, and Mrs. Wri|Wy Johnson, who lives on a farm near 0"Fallon, are granddaughters of Maj. and Mrs. Hsald and | the only surviving of the seven children of Darius Heald, the only son of Major and Mrs* Heald and who vas born in the log house in 1822 and who later built the brick house stand' Sag near ;he Fort, They have many documents of historical value and a fund of information concerning the lives of their noted grandparents. Major Heald was born at New Ipewich, H, H„ in 1775. He entered the United States Army when ha was 24. years old and in the spring of 1801 left New England with some rfloruits to ' Article #33 Page #3 join the Western Army in Ohio., A year later he was stationed at Fort Vineennes, Xnd, tmd still another year found him in Detroit serving with Gen. William Henry Harrison who vas to become President of the United States. He was made a captain in 1807 and put in com mand of what was then the military post of Fort Wayne, Xnd„ Rebecca Wells of Louisville,, Ky, visited her uncle, Capt. William Wells, Indian fighter, where she met Captain Heald. The result of the meeting is told briefly in the young soldiers journal; " Li June 1810, left Fort Wayne and went to Chicago to command that post. Went on furlough to Massachu setts in the fall of the same year and returned by way of Kentucky, where I was married to Rebecea Wells, the daughter of Gen. Samuel Wells, on the twenty-third of May 1811, end arrived in Chicago in June with Mrs. Heald". Shortly after the outbreak of the War of 1812, Capt. Heald was ordered to evacuate Fort Dearborn and march to Fort Wayne. The troops convoying the caravan of civilians end the families of the soldiers were scarcely out of sight of the garrison when they were attacked by Indians. History relates the results of the Fort Dearborn massacre. Captain and Mrs. Heald were both severly wounded. They were captured by different bands of warr= iors and each believed the other had been killed. However, the next day, a chief who vat? secretly friendly to Heald and was among his captors, discovered Mrs. Heald and arranged to return her to her husband. The chief traded a bottle of whiskey and a mule for her and effected her escape. Not long after the massacre, Capt. Heald was promoted to the rank of Major and in 1814 he was released from the army because of wounds which kept him from ao tive service. He left Louisville with hia wife and two young children for St. Charles County,; Missouri, March 22, 1817, making the journey in 24 days* Several months later ho bought the Zumwalt Fort and farm and two years later his wife's family bought the Christo pher Z_mwalt place adjoining. The Indian Chief, Chandonnai, who had been a benefaoter to the Heaids visited them there in 1831 accompanied by a delegation of Chiefs. The old log house was the scene of a great feast that Included a whole beef and a sheep. Miss Marcia Williams, whose family has lived near the Fort for many generations has made a life study of its history and legends. In a pretty story written by Miss Williams a glimpse of the home life of the Zumwalts is poignantly revealed. The writer of the story said that it had come, an unbroken chain of evidence, as hand had clasped hand of the gen eration before and listened to the story that they passed to the next generation, from one who had talked with Jacob Zumwalt. Daniel Boone and Black Hawk the Indian:...... Parts of this story follow: "Jacob Zumwalt cleaned his musket as he stood in front of the big fireplace at Fort Zumwalt, late one bright October afternoon. His good wife turned to the fire and bent low as she watched the ash cake glowing in the coals. She took the skillet from the trivet where the squirrel had been frying for supper. A goiird of honey was on the table and there were earthen mugs of vater from the spring at the foot of the hill, "Call the boys to supper, Jacob0 she said to her busband, 'and then come yourself,, for you are no doubt hungry. You were in the field from early morning with no stop at noon. Ah, the hounds are barking. Someone must be coming over the hill. It is the direc tion that Daniel Boone comes and it Is not an Indian, for the dogs are afraid of them an always come slinking to the door if one appears' O o 0*0 o o n f "A hearty welcome was given the hunter when he entered the log room. Daniel Boone did Ii not pause when told that supper was ready, but he came directly to the table and sat with / bowed head as Jacob Zumwalt. returned thanks. The little boys, Levi 3 and David 3, watched I the hunter as he ate quickly and silently. He did not remove his fur cap nor did Jacob They seemed alert and watchful and their guns were never far from their hands,,-,.,,... n [ | "Luay Ann Zumwalt had finished the tasks of putting to order her supper things, The \ remainder of the squirrel was given to old Trailer, the hound,, that had come with them to r ( the wilderness and now was almost disabled since fighting a wolf on Calleau Greek slose by I '• Ar .icie ; Page #4 The woman seated herself on a low stool well back from the fire that lighter the room well enough for her to take up her knitting, A lull came as the men sat and smoked and talked I of the outside world, the loneliness of the winter months to come and of the prospect of ' Indian trouble...... "But Mr, Boone", said Lucy Anne, "It may not be so bad, for Black Hawk comes at times and seems friendly. He brought the children a little pet coon and has helped them to make some bows and arrows and showed them how to shoot them. He likes my cooking, for he vas hungry and I gave him a big gourd of stew that he ate with some ash cakes I made, We will have other families here during the winter. You see there are four large rooms here and with the loft over two of them there is much room for many other people...... Wo are safe at this place and while we have always been friendly to any Indian that came about we never f know what may happen. The spring is not far distant and one can watch from the port holes as I go for water and shoot if an Indian is lurking near. When morning comes you and Mrc Zumwalt must talk of your hunting and the pelts you will have to take to the trading post, for the boys must not hear of trouble with Indians, for when Black Hawk comes, they might say to him some word that would lead to a bad feeling and now he comes with no fear from ? any of us and we can all give him a true welcome at Fort Zumwalt ..... He will know our hearts are kind, our walls are strong and sure and that our guns are ready and that our aim is true." The farm is now occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Algie C. Rector. Romance seems always to fol low Fort Zumwalt. Mr. and Mrs. Rector were not aware of the historic importance of the place when they leased it and as they were turning into their new home they saw the marker erected by the Daughters of 1812 and much to their surprise and joy discovered that they were to live at the Fort. Mrs. Rector is the great-granddaughter of little David 3 Zumwalt who ran so happily to meet Black Hawk and the great-great-granddaughter of Jacob 2 Zumwalt, THE KANSAS GITY STAR MAGAZINE - Sunday May 2, 1926 Proms Irene 6 Foster To g George 6 & 7 Zumwalt ZUMWALT LINEAGE OF IRENE 6 UPDEGRAFF FOSTER Andrew 1 Z — ,___—_____ & #2 Wo Ann Regina ?? Christopher 2 Z ______& #1 w. Mary Conrad Christopher 3 Z ft Elizabeth Xeller Christopher Peter 4 Z ——— & Irene Goodrich Sara 5 Z -—————.__ & Albert Wright Updegraff Irene 6 (Jpdegraff —••- _... & William Dawson Foster ZUMWALT LINEAGE OF JACOB 2 ZUMWALT Andrew 1 Z —— — ft #2 w. Ann Regina ?? Jacob 2 Z ---_--«--,-.-_._.__-____ & #i Wo Catherine Miller #2 w. Francis Price Note by George R. Zumwalts There is no foundation to the above mentioned "Lucy Anne" as being the wife of Jacob 2 Zumwalt aia •—- -~-_- , _*~ __* ^^ .„ FORT ZUMWALT — 1798 FORT ZUMWALT great fortune. This valuable paper was lost when one of the girls, while hunting about the house for a piece of The earliest deliniation of the specific territory that pasteboard to stiffen her new sun-bonnet, found the eventually constituted the site of O'Fallon was broadly deed, and, being unable to read, she supposed it was some encompassed by the Boon's Lick Road running from St. useless piece of old paper, and used it in her bonnet. The Charles to the Boon's Lick Springs in Howard County, deed had never been recorded, and therefore could not and the Salt River Road running at right angles to it. be restored, and the heirs to the property never succeed The Boon's Lick Road is unquestionably the oldest road ed in establishing their title. in Northeast Missouri. Mr. Zumwalt was married twice. By his first wife Old records indicate that there were a number of he had — Henry, George, Dolly and Lizzie; and by his forts erected in St. Charles District for protection against second he had — Christopher, Jacob, John, Adam, An the Indians. It is known that-Daniel Boone settled on the drew and Catherine. Femme Osage Creek in 1796, six miles above its junction The sons of his second marriage settled in this sec with the Missouri River, and a fort may have been locat tion of the country. It was this Jacob Zumwalt who built ed near this place. the log house aided by his brothers. The brothers later The first hewn log house built north of the Missouri settled in various outlying districts. Adam settled near River was built by Jacob Zumwalt as early as 1798, pro where Flint Hill now stands. bably at the advice of his friend, Daniel Boone. The log Many romantic tales have been spun about the house saw service as a fort then and later in the War causes of the Indian trouble in this area. One version of 1812. It was located one mile south of the present city blames Black Hawk's infatuation for Jacob Zumwalt's of O'Fallon. daughter. It was Adam's distillery and Adam's daughters, Rachel, Catherine and Mary, who first attracted the Jacob's father, also named Jacob was of Dutch ex Chief, not Jacob's Wesleyan Methodist somber hospital traction and settled in Pennsylvania, probably around ity; although Black Hawk's relationship with Adam may the time of William Penn. He purchased the land upon have encouraged some infrequent visits at Jacob's fort which the town of Little York now stands, and erected as he journeyed down the Salt River Trail to Portage a cabin upon it. Being afflicted with a cancer, he moved Des Sioux pausing possibly on this route for a drink to Virginia, where he could obtain medical aid, and set from the spring on the farm now owned by Clem Hoeck- tled on the Potomac, not far from Georgetown. Bui, he elmann, and then at the tavern of Woodford Keithly, grew worse instead of better, and soon died. In the mean which property is now owned by Mr. Ed Pieper. The time, the deed to his land In Pennslyvania had been de stroyed, and his children lost what would have been a, (Continued on Page 8) Page 5 £P FORT ZUMWALT As of this writing, the Fort site is a state park. It (Continued from Page 5) will be rededicated by the state and the city of O'Fallon tavern has since been dismantled and rebuilt in O'Fallon during the Centennial. Mr. John Brassel, and his assist as the home of Mr. Granville Stewart. ant caretakers, are laying out a picnic and children's re Later there were five Jacobs in the different Zum creational area which will be completed some weeks walt families, and they were distinguished as Big Jake, before the Centennial. Little Jake, Calico Jake, St. Charles Jake, and Lying The above praiseworthy actions have been brought Jake. about by the persistent efforts of those interested in pre The first brother Jacob was the owner of the Zum serving the site as a state park. walt house, later referred to as Fort Zumwalt. The house consisted of three rooms on the ground floor, with a loft above them. It had a one-story wing to the east and another to the south. There were two chimneys, one at the east end of the house and the other in the center between the two main rooms, with a fireplace on both sides. The floors were of split oak, the roof was of oak shakes, and the house was put together with oak pegs. Originally built as a family dwelling, it was expand ed and port holes were made in the sides of the building Compliments of Your to be used in case of an Indian raid. As many as ten fam ilies found shelter within its walls at the same time. In 1817, Major Nathan Heald came to Missouri and purchased the Zumwalt property. He and his wife, Re ST. CHARLES JEWELERS becca, lived and died there and are buried near the house. Major Heald's father had come from England and settled in Massachusetts at a very early date. He was HERBERT F. ABLER, Jeweler married twice, and by his first wife he had two sons, Nathan and Jones. Nathan was born in April, 1775. He received a military education, and entered the army as ATLAS JEWELERS lieutenant, but was soon promoted to the rank of cap tain, and at the commencement of the War of 1812, he was placed in command of Ft. Dearborne, where Chicago ED. L. MEYER JEWELRY STORE now stands. Here they were attacked by a large body of Indians, who captured the fort, murdered the garrison, and carried Captain Heald and his young wife away as WALTER'S JEWEL SHOP prisoners into their own country. During his captivity he was promoted to the rank of major, but did not receive his commission until after he had been exchanged. After the purchase of the Zumwalt property in 1817, the Healds led a more placid existence. In Fort Zumwalt were born their three children: Mary, Darius and Mar garet. Major Nathan died in 1832. Mary married David McCausland. Darius was mar ried twice; first to Virginia Campbell and second to Mat- tie Hunter. He had seven children. Margaret died un married in 1837. Jones Heald, brother of Major Nathan Heald, never married. He lived in St. Louis until after For Prompt Delivery of the death of his brother, when he went to St. Charles GASOLINE — MOTOR OIL — FUEL OIL County, and lived part of the time at the house of his GREASE — SPRAYS OF ALL KINDS sister-in-law and part at Judge Balis'. The stockade which supposedly surrounded the ca bin in its early days has completely disappeared. So, too, have vanished all traces of the old cemetery, where Jacob Zumwalt buried his first wife by the cedar trees on the hill. Many other graves are there; the bodies lie just as they were buried, but the stones were moved down to Mt. Zion Cemetery when the property passed to other hands. The remains of the old fort, however, still stand on (STANDARD) the crest of a sloping hill. The walls have fallen and most of the thick stand of white oak from which the house was built is gone but one of the central chimneys still stands, ravished by the elements; all is desolate, but the spring still flows at the bottom of the hill. A marker was erected by the D. A. R. in 1929 on J. C. Hunn Highway 40, near O'Fallon, pointing to the spot, 300 yards away, where Fort Zumwalt stood. Telephone: CRestwood 2-3121 Page 8 Article 0 34 24 August 1961 FORT ZUMWALT From the State of Pennsylvania Came a man named Jacob Zanwalt Came among the travelers westward {! Saw a valley rich and fertile Near a winding stream called Ballow,, Built a dwelling for his family,, Built it strong from logs of white-oak, Made some port=holes in the attic? Used It often for protection Sheltering families from the Indians; Made his home a home for preachers As they worked among the people. "Ministering sacramental service Here, the first in Old Missouri,, Using wine from potal berries, Using corn bread baked in ashes," Copied from records of Mrs. Edna Olson at StD Charles9 Mo, Copied by Homer J. Zumwalt BIOGRAPHY OF JAKES CULIVER 6 MOSIER A conservative yet progressive stock, James Culiver Mosier is numbered among the cessful businessmen of Tulare County, He has been engaged in this kind of work for ab twenty years and has brought to bear the experience which the yearss have given him in methods of today and combines with ability and energy* he has met with success, which him among the first ranchmen of the county,, He is now located upon & track of four hui and sixty acres, five miles south of Visalia* on the Santa Fe Railroad, where his specj are hogs and cattle, which he sells in local markets• A native of Louisiana,, Pike County, Missouri^ he was born January 25, I851? a son Henry Mosier, who was anployed in a grist mill in that to„n>, where his death eventually - eurredo His wife, formerly Nancy 5 Zumwalt, was a native of Missouri, in which state sh* died in 1899 o Of her family of three sons and three daughters, one son and one daughter now deceased© The oldest of the family, James Culiver Mosier, was reared in his native st, received a limited education in the common school in the vicinity of his home. At elcr years of age he was apprenticed to learn the trade of miller, working two years in Louis! after which he went to Alton8, Illinois and engaged in the same occupation there for fo yearso Returning to his native town he spent the ensueing year. Then he went to Deer Lodge Montana, traveling by stage as there were no railroads at that time, Upon locating in tha^ state he at that time followed the preciousious life of a miner, continuing so occupied for two winters, entering then upon the milling business0 He had charge of the first water _ in Deer Lodge, Montana, After sometime he returned to Missouri and spent one year. In 18 he came to California, located at Grand Island, Colusa County, where he found employment, a ranch for two years,, In Lassen County he had charge of a stock business for himself re maining there for two years. Then he went to Cook County, Oregon, still engaged in the st businesso On a small scale, he and a partner opened up a business in the same line, w] increased to such proportions that in 1888 they sold out for $30,000,, Returning to th; to his old home in Louisiana, Missouri he marred April 18, 1888, Mary Elizabeth Suds; a native of that place, and two months later brought her to California They located on his present property which consisted originally of three hundred end twenty acres which he had purchased just previous to returning east. This property he has cultivated and improved adding to his original purchase until he woned ^60 acres, upon whi he engaged in raising hogs and cattle and grain0 Mr„ and Mrs, Mosier3 are the parents one daughter, Katie Irene or Katherine who is home,, In his political affiliation, Mr Mc_: was a Democrat, but has never desired official honors as his life has been too full of pe sonal dutieso Copied from History and Biography of Stats of California Biograph Record of San Joaquin Valley, California Proms Katherine 7 {Mosier) Orrison To s George R. Zumwalt Dates September 25» 1961 Lineage Andrew 1 Z • .__._..- .._— & 02 w Ann Regina { ? Jacob 2 Z -..—•••i-,....- & #1 w Catherine Miller George 3 Z ——~ _____.—_ & Mary Killebrew Ivy Jason U Z —— & 01 w Sarah James Nancy Jane 5 Z — • S H b Joseph H, Mosier James Culiver 6 Mosier & Mary Elizabeth Suda Kataerine 7 Mosier ~—— & Herman Orrison 0192300 Article #36 February 17, 1962 ZUMWALT ROMANCES MA«=KA=TAy<=M_»SHB=»K_A=KlAH BLACK HAWK GREAT WAR CHIEF OF THE SAX AND FOXES SOURCE: THE RED MEN OF IOWA by A, R, Fulton, Published by Mills _ Co., Des Moines, 1882 Chapter 13, pp. 208=230 P. 222 "After his return from tha East in the fall of 1837, Black Hawk and his family 8pe_t the winter in Lee County, residing on a small stream knowaas Devil's Creek, His famil/ then consisted of his wife, two sons, his daughter, Nam-e-qua. The daughter vas considered one of the handsomest of the Sacs maidens. It is related that a young mattie _*tlve of Baltimore—earns up from St. Louis to Fort Madison during Black Hawk's residence in that vicinity and while there visited the wigwam of the chief. Finding himself very cordially received, he repeated his visits until he became desperately smitten by the charms of the young Indian maidens. He was so far gone, indeed, as to seriously contemplated uniting his fortunes vith her for life, for it was said that the young lady reciprocated the tender feeling. Before the final step vas take, how ever, a friend of the smitten youth arrived from St. Louis. He made known his intention to his friend, v_o knowing the young man to be of high social standing and connection in Baltimore, determined if possible, to dissuade him from carrying out his intentions. All arguments seemed unavailing until his friend told him that when he should return vith his wife to vii.it his relatives and friends in Baltimore, people would say, "There goes •—— Zumwalt and his squaw." This had the desired effect, and a breach of promise vas the result...... t.^Nam-e-qua, however, did not pine away and die of a broken heart, for a few month, later she became the wife of a respectable young man of her tribe. P. 229 "The daughter, Nam _t-qua» though married, still resided vith her parents at the time her father died (1838)» Their lodge vas always a model of neatness and order, and even the yard vas daily swept. After the death of Black Hawk the family consisted of Madam Black Hawk, two sons, a daughter, and the letter's husband. There vas also an adopted son, W_u-pe°»kuk, White Fox." Black Hawk vas not a Sioux % he vas a Sac. Unlike most Indians, he had but one wife. I am sure that tha Zumwalts vho claim Black Hawk as an ancestor will have to acknow ledge that their story about bsing a descendant of Black Havk is merely a good story. Promt Irene Poster i Tos George R. Zumwalt Some rearrangement and deletions by George R. Zumvalt A ^ ^ Article #37 February 22, 1962 Revised: July 1, 1964 ZUMWALTS IN LAVACCA COUNTY TEXAS No name appears more often among our first settlers. Why this revival of old memories? There is generally so little known about them. Paul BoethePs History of Lavacca County tells much. The more one penetrates this past , the greater our historian0s work appears. But how many read it? No name is more closely ' connected with the pioneer past of thes county than the Zumwalts. Adam Zumwalt came to Texas in 1830 and to this county soon after that. In Pike County Missouri still stands the Fort of Zumwalt, the families original home. The St, Louis Post Dispatch a few years ago brought out the whole story of the Zumwalts and Fort Zumwalt, Andrew Zumwalt was also a hero of San Jacinto, as official papers show. He served in Captain W. J. E. Heard's Company. Just as John H„ Zumwalt served in the Civil War, in 183? came Noah and Gabriel Zumwalt. Noah's death was e ."great loss" to the settlersf Historian Brown tells. Among 140 voters in the first county election in 184.6 appear- five Zumwalts, Adam - Andrew - Gabriel - Isaac and Nancy. Only the Browns and the Ryans had sure voteso When in 1842 the Mexicans again captured San Antonio and the Texans rose to drive them out, Adam. Zumwalt was Captain of 43 men from this county among them Andrew and Isaac Zumwalt, _i the Fateful Meir expedition of the "black beans" also was Isaac Zumwalt, He escaped when the last bean was drawn before his name was reached, being the last in the alphabet. When in 1840 Dr. Joel Ponton was wounded and Tucker Foley tortured by the Indians, thirty six settlers went after them, led by Adam Zumwalt with Thomas R, Zumwalt among them. In 1841, a 'minute company organized by the settlers for their protection and Adam Zumwalt was elected the leader0 Gabriel Sumwalt was one of the commissioners to locate the county seat when thes county was founded. He was the first county tax assessor-collector in 1846-48. In the election of the first county officials appear among the voters Adam and Thomas Zumwalt, R„ D, Zumwalt served as tax assessor in 1892-94. Today only one Zumwalt remains her, Josiah R. Zumwalt our veteran mail carrier. In home near the High School is a good sized library and a collection of old family paper records hardly to be found anywhere else in this county. There is a photostatic cop.' of the tally sheet of the first county election held here in 1846, when Gabriel Zumwalt was elected assessor-collector. A paper by which John H, Zumwalt donated two Negro slave girJ to his wife as a gift. This was in 1861, Also the Oath of Amnesty signed in 1865 Joseph Bowling as county clerk, who was Zumwalt's relative,, Several family letters, well written a prayer book and other.* books almost a century old. Above all a signature of Sam Huston himself as governor of Texas on a document issued in 1860. There are not many of these signatures in private hands. The Zumwalts came and with the years went like many of the first settlers, moving away or dying out. Only one Zumwalt family remains here with its rich pioneer memories,, It'j a leading part whenever needed. LAVACCA COUNTY TRIBUNE Friday Octob ., 1951 Proms Mrs, John W. Gentry To* George R, Zumwalt O Article # 38 11 April 1963 MY FATHER, DAVID LESLIE 9- ZUMWALT My father, David Leslie # Zumwalt, vas born in Robertsvllle, Missouri on June 9, 1882. In his early life he changed his name to Leslie David Zumvalt, because he began receiving love-letters addressed to Mr. D. L. Zumwalt and he didn't want bis father, whose name vas David Leonard to be sharing them vith hlmc Hia was a happy childhood, living close to Bother nature on a farm in Robertsvllle, vith his brothers and slaters, which totaled an even dozen. Robertsvllle, then and now, la a small town not too far from St. Louis and eon- gists mostly of Zumwalts'. He vas raised In the nurture and admonition of the Lord, under God-fearing parents. The Baptist Church vas the place where they worshipped. When he became of age, he and hia brother, Joseph % Zumvalt atruek out for the big city of St. Louis, where they had seme success in operating a restaurant together, but the city life vas not for him. The love of the great out-doors, the land, cattle and farming vers calling him so he worked on farms until he found the place where he wanted to be, which was Sheridan, Wyoming. For a few years he worked in the mines in Deitz, Wyoming and Kirby, Wyoming and then to Sheridan, Wyoming. This is where he vent into partnership vith a Mr. Art Robinson, in a bioyle shop. Shortly after hia 30th birthday he began to call out "Hello Sweetheart" to a certain pretty 17 year old Miss named Caroline Gronski aa she passed hie bicycle shop. In six months they became Mr, and Mrs, It vas at this time he changed his occupation and worked on the Burlington railway which supplied them vith their first home - a box car. Before their fir at child arrived they made a trip back to Robertsvllle, so all the family could meet his bride. Family re unions and picnics were among the things he loved. A eon, Robert James ^ Zumvalt, was their first born,. Bob vas his short name. Before their second child vas born they had taken out a 160 acre dry farm five miles from Sheridan. There vas no water, so he dug a veil and brought the water in from a lake, which he siphoned in over a hill. There wasn't any Doctor either, at the time Ruth Ellen %.Zumwalt came into I the world two years after Bob's birth. My father depended on the Good Lord and a faithful 1 old doctor-book, and delivered hia first daughter. A year and five months later he had no difficulty in ushering in their second daughter "me" Cecilia Myrtle % Zumvalt. "Cece" was always the name he called me. My mother's family lived on a farm nearby and he vas needed there too, to bring into ' the world his sister=in=>_aw, Dorothy, four months before I arrived. These years, I believe were truly the moat happy and contented onea for him. He had his family, his home, land, cattle and wheat. Peace and contentment. Hia family bible was not only sitting on the table, it vas open and read much. Hia brother, Joe _t Zumvalt, also decided to come out to the vide open spaces vith his family, to work on the railroad in Sheridan. Nearly three years after my birth, vhen a third child vas expected, a tragedy oecured. My father called on Joe to help him oiphon gas from one tractor to another. Uncle Joe thought he told him to blow on the hose, instead of to suck in to start the gaa. The gaa B blown down into my father's lungs and the result was that he lost the use of one of his Sfigs. Those were days of saddneaa, vith him in the hospital fighting for his life, and mother threatening miscarriage. But in due time he vas back borne and they had another daughter, Eudora Marie"0 Zumvalt. "Doe" was his nick-name for her. Children have a way of growing up and Bob vas doing just that, demanding to go to school now that he was old enough. So he moved us all into the city limits of Sheridan. He took moat of everything vith us, except the dry farm, which he sold later. He worked on the rail ed, then, vith hia brother, Joep but he kept a semi-farm in the city limits. He had hia e IQ Article # 38 Page # 2 i I i road chickens, cows, horses and vegetable garden. On the dry farm he still grew his wheat and i ^v9 planted potatoes. I can remember sliding the wheat stacks and digging potatoes and picking yere choke»cherries every summer. i ^^ rJffVQ When Sudors 4F-Zumvalt was two years old, their fourth child vas born. William David jyier # Zumwalt, who vas always called "Billy". We vere living in the city then and he used to Sherj say the boys, Bob and Billy vere city born, but his daughters vere all farmers, farm born, f ^^ We vc Four happy years those vere! I remember Daddy got a railroad pass and ve made a trip , way t to St. Louis and Robertsvllle. It vas while ve vere at his birthplace in Robertsvllle that j a hurrican struck. Eudora and I had to go to the hospital in St. Louis, due to infection, w She had to have a mastoid of the ear operation and I had an eye operation. Daddy vas also ;ln8te in the hospital with us, having a hemorrhoid operation. Billy was only four years old, but f ^p he found himself a little sweetheart in St. Louis and Bob von the marble championship. Ruth ^e „ and mother just wanted to go home. They didn't like living upstairs in a flat vith Uncle Charlie and Aunt Nina. D when That vas a long, extended vacation, which included going to school in St. Louis. When i„.0Ug ve arrived home, it vas in the middle of the night, ten below zero and snowing. Daddy left ' ^py us in the cozy railroad station and walked the three miles to bring us transportation and tt^,B warm blankets, after he made a fire in the coal stove, to taring us home to a veil heated house. i F. befori Eight months after our trip to St. Louis a diptbaria epidemic broke out and ve all con- 1 taoted it. Bill ? Zumvalt was the youngest and the one the Lord called home when he vas A1 four years, eight months and ten days old. Only Mother and Daddy could see hit* put to rest Bob0 as we were all too ill and quaranteened. vent 1 and a Bob, Ruth and I enjoyed a few years of public school, but ve eventually moved from our ; ra.bbi.1 semi-farm clear across town, near my Mother's folks vho had also left their farm and moved re-unj into the city. Religion was always a barrier between Daddy and Mother, because she vas a I yme j Catholic. The remainder of our grammar school days vere spent inthe Catholic School. It seems to me, the years following that move vere hard on Daddy, physically, spirit After ually and materiallyo This vas not my Daddy's wish, but the opposition was too great and he just gave up. He didn't vork steadily on the railroad anymore. He did just what ever ! work he could find. Days when he delivered coal vere few and far between. Other days he H( kept charge of a pool-hall and finally he made and sold home brew and whiskey. Once I re- j hl8 member the police came and took him to jail and I hid away under the bed, hoping, I guess, I p]L^ that they wouldn't take me too. Bob vas a growing young hoy and he contributed much to his I sister's so they could have new Easter shoes. He worked in a Hamburger stand after school f j and also bell-hopped at night. ajKj we It was nine years after Billy was born that another child was given to them. Virginia Mae %Zumwalt, another daughter, whom he called «Jinia". One city daughter, out of three farm daughters „ He seemed to be alive and happy all over again} because he always wanted his home overflowing with daughters - like Job's daughters. After she vas born he vorked vith hia old friend. Art Robinson, in hia bicycle shopp un til Jinia vas a year and three months old. Then, at the advice of his doctor that he move to a better climate to assure him longer life, he made the decision to move to San Diego, California, He had always been a tall, thin man (like Abraham Lincoln) but because of his only having one lung, he vas losing too much weight. Nov vas the time to sell the old home stead. He did, and brought a seven passenger Hudson home. The family, along vith another driver, headed for California. Bob vas now seventeen year8 old, so there were three driver* That car was a well-loaded car Packed inside and out and on +-o of the roof. • ' • " Article # 3B Page #3 Daddy was at the wheel, just a few miles out of Sheridan, driving on the Dayton-Kane I road and before he knew it he vas driving on the soft shoulder, letting the on coming car j™ r have enough room. (That was his nature - always generous). In those days all the roads ™* vere very narrow and bad. And then it happened, and down ve vent, straight down the moun- ( tain about 300 feet, where the good Lord had put a boulder to stop us. It was a miracle we I vere all alive. Virginia awoke and cried and Mother had a dislocated shoulder blade. *° Friendly motorists helped tie big ropes and a wench to pull up the car. He sent back to ^ Sheridan for new tires and ve vere once again on our vay to "Sunny California". It was rn° ' truly a wonderful trip the rest of the way to California and a grand vacation for all of us, We vere one family vho really sav Yellowstone Park. We camped out and plcknieked all the ^ way to California. that j v »n0 t/e arrived in San Diego in July of 1931. Daddy contacted his friend, Art Robinson, but -80 instead of going in business vith him again, he and Bob ^ Zumwalt started their own bicycle 5j* ( shop, called "Zumwalt and Son Bicycle Shop". Bob had to forfeit his last year in high school, roth sue next ten years vere very hard and demanding getting a good business built. .e i Daddy, Mother and Virginia made one trip to Robertsvllle to visit his Mother and family when Virginia was eleven years old. His father had left the acene shortly after Daddy first hen brought his bride home. That vas his last family re-union vith hia relatives and it was a *" happy one. His son, and three farm daughters vere all married at this time, so they didn't « oaks this journey. Four grand-daughters and four grandsons vere his to enjoy and love. He left this earth before his "Jinia" married and had a son. eon- At the age of 60 he retired and sold his share of the bicycle business to his only son, est Bob 0 Zumvalt. He and Mother bought a 7/8 acre home on El Cajon Blvd. and once again he vent back to his firat love. On his small farm he had his garden, fruit trees and peanuts, and a bigger squash has never been grown. The chickens were there too, and the cow, turkeys, *f I rabbits and pigs. All the children and grand-children came and vent and he had his family » re-unions. The certain pretty miss he called "hello sweetheart" to was there from that first 1 ! time to the end. The Lord called him home early in the morning on December 7, 1953, He was 7l£ years old After he passed hie 70th birthday he said he vas living on borroved time; which he did for a \ { year and a half after he reached hia three score and ten years. * He used to sing about going to heaven on an old Missouri mule, but shortly before he left " his good earth he had his "Jinia" play "The Old Rugged Gross01' on her violin for him and I '» played the "Rock of Ages" on the piano. 18 I 1 | I feel sure that the place the Lord has prepared for him is truly his heart's desire;9 > and ve will all be vith him one day to have the greatest family re-unions of all, a i Cecilia Mo 7 (Zumvalt)(Mrs. James)Cascarelll 4347 33rd Street San Diego, California us* 6 S ne- | r c c Article # 38 Page #4 LINEAGE OF LESLIE DAVID 6 ZUMWALT Andrew 1 Z -—— — — &|2v, Ann Regina ?? Jacob 2 Z -----_-•••••_—II'II.II.I-II-_- & #1 v. Catherine Miller George 3 Z ----———__—___ & Mary Elizabeth Killebrev Levi Henry 4 Z —• <•___.—__* & Rebecca Parsley David Leonard Ivy 5 Z — —— & Eudora Alice Bay Leslie David 6 Z -——— -,,..__ & Caroline Gronaki THEIR CHILDREN Robert James 7 Z ••••-»••" • '>"'«" »*~ _ Ellanee Wanda Haynes Ruth ELlen 7 Z -—*—=___=______& Charles Walker Cecilia 7 Z ••••••••—-_-----,•; •,, _ James Cascarelli Eudora Marie 7 Z —————— & John Dudbridge William David 7 Z —_ _ (D) Virginia Mae 7 Z ————— & David Galloway . • <*> Article #39 5 May 1962 I NATHAN HEALD 4 ZUMWALT Nathan Heald 4 Zumvalt (Andrew i-Jaeob 2-Andrev 3) vas born in St. Charles, Missouri January 24, 1827. Hie father, Andrew 3 Zumvalt owned 200 acres of land in Pike County, Andrew 3 Zumwalt vas a native of Pennsylvania and was married tviee, first wife unknown, second wife, Susan Coonce. His second wife, Susan Ceo nee vas the daughter of Jacob Coonee vho died in Oregon. She vas of German origin (also a native of Pennsylvania). By his first wife he had two children and by his second wife, Susan Coonce, he had twelve children, 11 reared. CHILDREN OF ANDREW 3 ZUMWALT AND 01 WIFE? UNKNOWN William 4 Zumvalt & Elizabeth 4 Zumvalt & Jacob Null CHILDREN OF ANDREW 3 ZUMWALT AND 02 WIFE: SUSAN COONCE Samuel 4 Zumvalt, born: 22 July 1810 - died: 22 April 1900 David 4 Zumvalt, born: 1812 - died: Christiana 4(Zumwalt)(Mrs. Andrew Jackson)Crow, born: 2 Jan 1813 - died: 2 Aug 1852 Jacob 4 Zumvalt, born: - died: 1862 Andrew J. 4 Zumwalt, born: - died: 9 June 1890 Cynthiana 4 (Zumvalt)(Lingo)(Mrs. James Walker)Harpole born: 14 Dec 1816 - died: 3 Jan. 1904 Sarah 4(Zumvalt)(Mrs. JamesjBrummell, born: 13 Feb 1819 - died: 7 Feb 1862 Edna 4 (Zumwalt)(Mrs. Josiah)B_ttram, born: 1820 - died: 1919 Isaac 4 Zumvalt, born: 19 Dec 1824 - died: 30 Dec 1912 Nathan Heald 4 Zumwalt, born: 24 Jan 1827 - died: 21 Jan 1915 Levi Wesley 4 Zumvalt, born: 27 Feb 1829 - died: 1905 Andrev 3 Zumvalt died in September 1855 at the age of 76 years. Susan (Coonce)Zumwalt died in May 1877 at the age of 85. Nathan Heald 4 Zumvalt vas born in St. Charles County, Missouri, January 24, 1827 and vas raised on a farm. On January 24, 1850 he married Elizabeth J, Harlow. She was the daughter of Humphrey D. Harlow and Amilda McKinney. Born in Lincoln County, Missouri she was an only child. CHILDREN OF NATHAN HEALD 4 ZUMWALT AND ELIZABETH HARLOW Isabella 5 Zumvalt <•__—— & Pressley Clair Sarah 5 Zumvalt ••••••-•II-W •" & James Shelby James Humphrey 5 Zumvalt —____•_-__ & Mary Francis Galloway David Hubbard 5 Zumwalt ••»••••••—- & Flora Waggoner Nathan Heald 5 Zumwalt, Jr. _ #1 v. Mary Browning 02 v. Emma Hoover Harry S. 5 Zumvalt ——— —— & Nettle L. 5 Zumvalt —>—__——= _ Truman Smith Frank M. 5 Zumwalt ••• •' ' & Mary Elizabeth 5 Zumvalt — & David Robert Walston John William 5 Zumwalt —-— & Clara Wimmer Purlins Ann 5 Zumwalt -^—.."•••»•——— & Andrew Parker 5 Zumwalt •• • •_•••__ & Damaries A„ Galloway C Article #39 Page #2 ZUMWALT LINEAGE OF NATHAN HEALD 4 ZUMWALT Andrev 1 Z ••• & #2 v. Ann Regina ?? Jacob 2 Z — & #1 v. Catherine Miller Andrev 3 2 —— & 02 w. Susan Coonce Nathan Heald 4 Z _ Elizabeth Jane Harlow Amilda Isabel 5 Z & Pressley Clair Sarah Susan 5 Z & James Shelby James Humphrey 5 Z & Mary Francis Galloway Mary Elizabeth 5 Z & David Robert Walston John William 5 Z & Clara Wimmer Perlina Ann 5 Z Andrev Parker 5 Z & Damaries A. Galloway David Hubbard 5 Z & Flora Tabitha Waggoner Nathan Heald 5 Z, Jrt & #1 Mary Browning 02 Emma Hoover Harry S. 5 Z Nettie L0 5 Z & Truman Smith Francis Mc 5 Z FROM: Mrs. John Jones TO: George R. Zumvalt DATE: 23 December 1961 FOUND: Calhoun County, Illinois History ' ": . • ^m Article #40 Revised Oct. 11, 1963 ISAAC 4 ZUMWALT (Andrew 3, Jacob 2. Andrew 1) Isaac 4 Zumwalt (Andrew 3, Jacob 2, Andrew 1) was the son of Andrew 3 and #2 wife, Susannah Coonce. He was born December 19, 1824, in Missouri, died December 31, 1912, and married Jane Doke September 17, 1846. Jane was born May 8, 1824, in Virginia and died July 14, 1899. They came to Oregon in 1852 with the same wagon train as did James Harpole, John Daugharty, and James McCoy. Their children: 1. Andrew Jackson Doke 5 Zumwalt Born: 1848 Died: July 24, 1924 2. Lydia Ann 5 (Z)(Mrs. Henry Clay) Huston Bornt Sept. 4, 1850 Died: Nov. 27, 1929 3. Jaaes Parker 5 Zumvalt Born: Nov. 11, 1854 Died: Sept. 3, 1937 4. Cynthia Caroline 5 (Z) (Mrs. Benjamin) Kulkey Born: July 6, 1852 Died: Mar. 14, 1S88 5. John Green 5 Zumwalt Born: Nov. 16, 1856 Died: April 3, 1917 6. Susan Elisabeth 5 (Z) (M_lkey)(Mrs. John)_ynch Born Sept. 8, 1858 Died July 29, 1917 Born: Oct. 5, 1862 7. Clay Hynson 5 Zumwalt Died: Aug. 1943 Born: May 31, 1863 8. McDouglae 5 Zumwalt Died: Dec. 25, 1863 Born: June 3, 1864 9. Mary Jane 5 Zumvalt Died: March 1, 1874 lydia Ann 5 Zumwalt married Henry Clay Huston July 15, 1866 < Their children: 1. Joan 6 (Huston){Mrs* John Thomas) Miller Born: Oct. 2, 1867 Died: April 25 1953 2. Ruth 6 (Huston)(Mrs. Julius) Erdman Born: Feb. 25, 1869 Died: Apr 18, 1953 3. Ross 6 Huston Born: Feb. 14, 1871 Died: Apr. 27, 1939 4. Yuba 6 (Huston)(Mrs. James L.) Furnish Born: March 1, 1873 Died: Dec' 14, 1926 5. Read 6 Huston Born!i Sept. 8, 1874 Died:: June . 3, Ifi78 6. Guard 6 Huston Born:1 Sept 21, 1877 Died: 1 Dec. 2, 1944 7. Irene 6 (Huston)(Mrs. Ira A.) Inman Born:; June 22, 1880 Died: 8. Jane 6 Huston Born: July 6, 1882 Died: : Nov. 7, 1896 9. Myra 6 (Huston) (Mrs. George) Gibbs Born: March 8, 1885 Died: Feb. 18, 1915 10. Grover 6 Huston Born: June 24, 1887 11. Welby 6 (Huston)(Mrs. Ernest) Hukriede Born: Mar. 25, 1890 12. Verna 6 (Huston)(Mrs. Edward) Dahlin Born: May 24, 1892 rried Ira _____ I ildren: I. Great 7 Inman Born: April 10, 1902 Married: Eennie Silas March tiler Kant 7 Inman Born: August 3, 1905 Married: Anna Mae Pisk i 7 Inman 3orn: April 22, 1907 Married: Henry Gates I ister )(__•£• Ralphs. Ncvsccan 'th Street 3? jgon : Ljnaa^e of Isaac 4 Zumvalt t Zt^ivalt——» ,—__S |2tf .inn Hegirsa (?) 4 . . km u sit* "—— ______fj_K —-..fl'/J Catherine (Miller) .:w 3 ZtsavaSif—— =-_ Susan (Kuntz) Zumwalt •.:•, 4 Z__Kalt=--—--- Jane (Doke) Zumvalt . Article I? August •?, 1962 Revised April 10, 3 JUDGE JAKES M. 5 ZUMWALT Judge James M. 5 7urawalt (Andrew 1-John 2-John 3-Adam 4) a native of Polk Countyfi Mo., was born the 17th of October 1841 and is a son of Adam 4 Zumwalt and Loretta M, Bym-ic ;. who were born in Bath County, Va„, and Pike County, Mo,, July 1, 1807 and 1820 and die* in Pike County in 1875 and 1835 respectively. The father, Adam 4 Zumwalt came with his parents to Missouri when St, Louis was a small French village and after v^siding in sev eral different counties, finally located in Polk County about 1837, and here spent his de clining years. He was married in Greene County to Loretta Byrnside (his second wife) hav ing been previously married in Franklin County to Miss Mahala Sups, who died shortly after. He was a life-long Democrat and when a young man served in the Indian wars and also the Mexican War, He and his wife were members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church and the Baptist Church, respectively. His father, John 3 Zumwalt was of German birth, born in Little York, Va. and was a farmer and mechanic by occupation* While serving In the war of 1812 he was in the battle when the noted Indian Chief, Black Hawk was captured, While liv ing in St, Louis he was engaged in ferry-boating on the Mississippi Rive:1, His death occ- ured in Polk County„ His father was born in Germany, John 2 by name, and came to America and assisted the colonists in their struggle for liberty. Judge James K, Zumwalt remained with his parents until nineteen years of age and after enlisting and serving in the Home Guards for sometime joined the Fighth 'Tavalry Federal service with which he remained until the close of the War, holding the rank of corporal, and participating in the following engagements: Prairie Grove, Van Buren^ Big River Bridge0 Chalk Bluff, Bayou Keto Bridge, Little Rock, Dardanella, Claradon, Lewisburg, Bull Greek9 and numerous others. After the war he turned his attention to farming and stock-tradirg and in 1879 engaged in mercantile pursuits, being the first business man of Polktown and has been its first and only postmaster. From 1882 to 1889 he discontinued merchandising but at the latter date resumed business and has been thu# engeged up to the present tine, his stock being valued at about -33,000. This is an excellent trading point, and h« has succeeded admirably in the accumulation of wealth. He is ore of the enterprising citizens of the county and for many years has been a Democrat in his political views and in 1884 was elected to the office of county judge, December 6, 1869 he married Elizabeth Long a daugh ter of Noah Long, Whe was born in Davis County, Vest Va, in 1852 and her union with Mr, James K, 5 Zumwalt has been blessed with the birth of eight children: Charles K., attending college at Bolivar; Louisa A., at home; Edward, Lillie, James L., Pearl, May, and an infant son, Mrs. Zumwalt is a member of the Missionary Baptist Church, Lineage of James M, 5 Zumwalt Andrew ]. Z - & #2 v„ Ann Regina John 2 Z — & Elizabeth Conrad John 3 Z —- & Jane Hancock Adam 4 Z — & 02 w. loretta Byrnside James M. 5 Z & Elizabeth Long Charles 6 Zumwalt James L„ 6 Zumwalt Louisa A, 6 Zumwalt Pearl 6 Zumwalt Edward 6 Zumwalt Kay 6 Zumwalt Lillie 6 Zumwalt Infant son 6 Zumwalt From; Zelma Newman To 3 George R. Zumwalt Le # 42 2 ..: 962 Mary Ann 4 (Zumwalt)(Mrs-, Richard J,)Harbert HARBERT—In this city, October 2, 1888, of old age, Mary Ann (Zumwalt)(Mrs, Richard J,) Herbert, wife of Richard J, Harbert,, aged 77 years, 2 months and 12 days, Mary Ann 4 Zumwalt was born July 20, 1811, in Harrison County,, Kentucky and mcved with her parents to Indiana in 1828 and was married to Richard J. Herbert on 10 December 1829, She was the mother of six children* five of whom are now living as follows: Martha A, 5 CHarbert)Simmons, who now lives at Blairstown, Iowa, Joseph W, 5 Harbert who lives in Walla Walla Valley, Washington Territory, Letitia 5 (Harbert)Blake a resident of Headrieks County, Indiana, Mary A, 5 (Harbert)Camp who married William Camp, a soldier In Company A 24th Iowa Indiana and died In 1867, Mrs,. Camp for a number of years has made her home wiW her parents, Huldah 5 (Harbert)Rundell„ the youngest daughter? is the wife of our townsman G, A, Rundell, She had eighteen graiklc&lldren, thirteen of whom are still living, Mary Ann 4 (Zumwalt)Harbert was one of the remaining honored pioneers of Mount Vernon, She with her husband [email protected] J. Harbert srossed the Mississippi and came into the territory of Iowa in 1844 and first located at Dubuque9 where they lived two years when they came to Linn Gaunty and settled on the present site of the town of Mount Vernon, Her honored and highly respected husband Riehard J, Harbert assisted in 1847 in laying out the village of Meant Vernon and in building many of the first houses ereeted here and In the surrounding country. Mary Ann 4 (Zumwalt)Harbert united with the MJE, Church in 1837 and has lived a con sistent, blameless Christian life, having so deported herself during all these years as to soraraand the confidence, good will, and esteem of all who know her. She Her funeral services were conducted by Prof, Hugh Boyd, Thursday afternoon5 attended by all of her children and a large rosmber of old friends who were present to pay their re spects to one who was always greatly esteemed. Her remains were buried on one of autumngg loveliest days in our peaceful cemetery under an ______sod. The gentle zephyrs of autumn and the cold blasts of winter will alike pass over itf, but she will heed them not, cannot, wake the sleep of death, Mr, Riehard J, Harbert and his daughter Mary Ann 5 (Harbert)Camp, and her son wi we understand,, accompany his honored and highly respected son0 Joseph W, 5 Harbert to his home in Valla'Walla Valley, Washington Territory, where he will kindly furnish his father Page 0 2 Rid Harbert a home in his honored old age and provide every comfort that willing bands and loving hearts can suggest?, and as far as possible make the remaining years of his father°s life peaceful and happy, LINEAGE OF MARY ANN 4 ZUMWALT hadrew 1 Z ~ & 01 w, Mary ? George 2 Z - & Mary ? Philip 3 Z - _ Leah Powell Mary Ann 4 Z & Richard Jerome Harbert Martha A, 5 Harbert _ D. J, Simmons Joseph W, 5 Harbert _ Emma T, Evans Letitia 5 Harbert - & Robert Blake Mary Ann 5 Harbert _ William Camp Galene 5 Harbert — _ Huldah 5 Harbert — _ G, A, Rundell Elizabeth 6 Rundell & #1 h. Arnold Rufswold 02 h. John Kruger From: Elizabeth A. 6 (Rundell)(Rufswold}Kruger Tos George R, Zumwalt Article IL 10 June 1963 NATHAN HEALD 4 ZUMWALT Portrait and Biographical Album of Pike and Calhoun Counties, Illinois, Biographical Publishing Company, Chicago? 1891 pp 564-565, "Nathan Heald 4 Zumvalt own. two hundred and fifty aeres on section 6* Spring Creek Township,,,,,„,„,, Our subjeet is a son of Andrew 3 Zumwalt and Susan Coonce, natives of Pennsylvania., Jaeob 2 Zumwalt, the Grandfather of our subject, was born in the same State and Is descend ed from one of five brothers who emigrated from Germany many y«ars agoB settling at what Is now known as Little York,,grandfather Zumwalt removed from Pennsylvania to Cynthiana, Ky., and in 1800 went to St, Charles, Missouri, spending the remainder of his life in that State and dying In Calloway County, He reared a large family, three sons and three daughters hav ing been born to Ms first wife, Andrew 3 Zumwalt, the father of our subject* was the oldest member of the parental fam ily. He came to Martinsburg Township,, this State, In the spring of 1847, settling in the neighborhood to which one of his sons had preceded him. He owned two hundred acres of ^and in Pike County, He was twiee married. His second wife is of German origin and a daughter- of Jaeob Coonce, who died in Oregon, The first marriage of Andrew 3 Zumwalt was blessed by the birth of two children, William 4 Zumwalt and Elizabeth 4 (Zumwalt)Null, the later now the wife of Jacob Null of Texas, The second marriage resulted in the birth of twelve chil dren, eleven of whom were reared to maturity, Samuel 4 Zumwalt now lives in Missouri; Christiana 4 died on her way to Oregon in 1853; Jacob 4 died In Missouri during the Civil War; Cynthiana 4 lives in Oregon; Sarah 4 died in this State; Edna 4, David 4, and Isaac 4 live in Oregon; Nathan Heald 4 is our subject; Levi 4 lives in Oregon; and Andrew J, 4 re sides in Missouri, The father died in September, 1855 at the age of seventy six years and the mother in I875« age eighty-five. Both were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Nathan Heald 4 Zumwalt, the gentleman of whom we write was born In St, Charles County Missouri, January 27, 1827, was reared on a farm and received his education in the sub= scriptlon schools, He lived with his parents until twenty three years old-,.,,He has lived in his present vicinity since his marriage and in the spring of 1869 located where he now lives. His wife owns eighty five acres of good land in Martinsburg Township, In politics Kir, Zumwalt is a Democrat, He and his wife belong to the Missionary Baptist Church, January 24, 1850, the marriage rites were celebrated between Nathan Heald 4 Zumwalt and Elizabeth J, Harlow, The bride was born in Lincoln County, Missouri, to Humphrey D, and Amilda MeKlnney,, She was the only child of this eouplec but her mother married a second husband, Harlan McCoy and bore him one child, Mr, and Mrs, Nathan Heald 4 Zumwalt have had twelve children: 1, Isabella 5 Zumwalt———— - & Pressley Clair 2, Sarah Susan 5 Zumwalt ~—— - & James Shelby 3, James Humphrey 5 Zumwalt —— - _ Francis Galloway 4, Mary Elizabeth 5 Zumwalt -— - & David Walston 5, John //ill lam 5 Zumwalt —— - & Clara Wimmer 6, Purlins Ann 5 Zumwalt —•—— died in infancy 7, Andrew Parker 5 Zumwalt .- & D. A, Galloway 8, David Hubbard 5 Zumwalt ------& Flora Tabitha Waggoner 9, Nathan Heald 5 Zumwalt, Jr, •~ & Mary Browning 10, Harry S„ 5 Zumwalt ——— died at the age of five 11, Nettie L. 5 Zumwalt & Truman Smith 12, Frank M, 5 Zumwalt ——- > Page 02 LINEAGE OF ANDREW 3 ZUMWALT Andrew 1 Z —— & 02 w, Ann Regina Jacob 2 Z —— & 0 I w„ Catharine Miller Andrew 3 Z —— & 01 w, ? #2 Wo Susan Coonce Children of Andrew 3 Zumwalt & #1 wife? William Andrew 4 Zumwalt —- & 01 w, Rachel Cooper 02 w, Millie (Phillips)(Zumwalt)Barnes Elizabeth 4 Zumwalt —~ — & Jacob Null Children of Andrew 3 Zumwalt 7 02 wifes Susan Coonce Samuel P, 4 Zumwalt —- & 01 w, Lydia Buckaloo #_ w, Margaret Aiken 03 w, Nancy(Westbrook) Browning Christiana 4 Zumwalt —— & Andrew Jackson Crow li Sarah 4 Zumwalt — _ James Brummell Edna 4 Zumwalt & Joslab Buttram David 4 Zumwalt _ Philesta Cowan Isaac 4 Zumwalt ——- — & Jane Doke Nathan Heald 4 Zumwalt — & Elizabeth Harlow to Levi 4 Zumwalt ——— __ & Andrew J, 4 Zumwalt — & 01 Wo Nancy Waggoner 02 w. Mary Lansdon Jacob 4 Zumwalt —— died during the Civil War Cynthiana 4 Zumwalt & 01 h. William Lingo 02 h, James '//hiker Harpole Fromg Zelma May (Custer)(Mrs, Ralph Edwin)Newman Tog George R, Zumwalt Date? 17 March 1962 GEORGE R, 6 & 7 ZUMWALT Bos 1149 Colusa, California JACOB 2 LINE ABOUT MEs George Rudolph ( _ 7 Zumwalt born March 27, 1903 at Colusa, California Address? P ,0, Box 149 Colusa, California MARRIED TO? Mildred (Stovall) Zumwalt on November 5, 1927 born January 2„ 11906 at Williams, California Addressg P.O. Box H9» Colusa, California MY CHILDREN; Ruth Ann 7 & 8 Zumvalt, born November 21, 1929 Married? 01 h* Edwin Dexter Galentine on June 15, 1948, born March 10, ?924 Divorced? September 1962 02 h, Clark Douglas Mayberry on January 11, 1964 CHILDRENs Dexter Mark 8 _ 9 Galentine born April 17, 1950 Brian George 8 & 9 Galentine born March 21, 1952 Patricia Lynn 8 & 9 Galentine born November 30, 1953 Sue Adele 8 & 9 Mayberry born Qcto'car 8, 1966 Sara 7 & 8 Zumwalt born July 30, 1933 Marrieds Frank Robert Burrows on March 20, 1954 born July 7, 1933 Addressg 110 Lucero Way, Menlo Park, California CHILDREN? David Frank 8 & 9 Burrows born September 12, i960 Elizabeth Megan 8 & 9 Burrows born March 23, 1962 i e Artie). Page 02 MY FATHER? Ivy George 5 & 6 Zumwalt born January 21, 1871 at Sycamore, Califorata died December 11, 1950 at Colusa, California Married tog Mattie Jane Braly on December 25, 1901 born November 26, 1878 at Liberty, Missouri died October 1938 at Colusa, California Their Children? George Rudolph 6 & 7 Zumwalt born March 27, 1903 Lionel Rothwell 6 & 7 Zumvalt born April 20, 1904 died May 4, 1949 buried at Colusa, C_lifornia0 Ivy George 6 _ 7 Zumvalt born November 5, 1908 233 Florimond Drive, Colusa, California Geraldlne 6& 7(Zumw_it)CBransford)C__gleton)(Mr8„ Albert) Bergman born February 25, 1913 803 Sloe Street, Colusa, California MY GRANDMOTHER? Sarah Parthena 5 (Zumwalt) (Zumwalt)Regain born February 22, 1842 at Louisiana, Missouri died March 31, 1929 buried at Grand Island Cemetery Grimes, California Married to? 0\ h, John Randall 4 Zumwalt on October 7, 1858 born January 27, 1826 died December 3, 1878 burled at Grand Island Cemetery, Grimes, California Their Children? Annie 5& 6(Zumwalt) (Mrs. Jasper)Smith born July 20, 1860 died May 23, 1883 Emma 5 & 6 Zumwi.lt born December 15, 1861 died young Edgar Franklin 5 & 6 Zumwalt born October 18, 1863 died March 16, 1949 John Luther William 5 & 6 Zumwalt born December 15, 1865 died 1917 Lillie 5 _ 6(Zumwalt) (MrSo Frank H.)Graves born May 6, 1868 died March 10, 1956 Arthur James 5 & 6 Zumwalt born 1879 died June 17, ^ Ivy George 5 & 6 Zumwalt born January 21, 1872 died December 11, 1950 Effle Lee 5 & 6 (Zumwalt) (Mrs, Harry H,)McGrath born March 15* 1875 died October 31, 1962 Dr, Rueben 5 & 6 Sylvester Zumwalt born 1876 Robert Randall 5 & 6 Zumwalt born January 2, ii878 died August 1, 1956 Pag 45c , MY GREAT GRANDFATHER? ivy Jason 4 Zumwalt born February 118, 1809 died September 28, Married to Sarah James September 18, 1831 born September 28(, 1812 Their Children? Nancy Jane 5 (Zumwalt)(Mosier)(Mrs, Charles)Cook born June 6, 1832 died January 1, 1899 Mary Elizabeth 5 (Zumwalt)(Mrs0 William)Bennett born August 1, 1834 died June 1, 1859 Martha 5 (Zumvalt)(Mrs, George)Straub born June 20, 1836 died 1927 Rev. Benjamin Franklin 5 Zumvalt born August 11, 1838 died 11920 Levi Hi 5 Zumvalt born March 1, 1840 died February 20, 1842 Sarah Parthena 5 (Zumwalt)(Zumwalt)(Mrs, Dennis) Regain born Feb. 22, 1842 died March 31, 1929 Ivy James Zumvalt born November 18, 1843 died February 21, 1917 Married 02 wife? Mary Ann Tillet on June 23e 1847 born Jan, 17, 189 Their Children? Norman David 5 Zumvalt born May 20, 1848 married Jennie Biggers on July 20, 1871 Daniel D. 5 Zumvalt born May 11, 1849 died A-T Ladersll Co 5 Zmmalt born April 7, 1851 died 1851 Luther Co 5 Zumvalt born April 7, 1851 died 1851 Susan A. AZumwalt)(Mrs, Walter)Dent born December 17, 1852 died September 20, 1892 Joel Jason 5 Zumwalt born March 10, 1855 died September 13, 1935 married Wiletta Foster Emma Anna(Kltty) 5 (Zumwalt)(Mrs, Joseph Fenton« Jones born July 9, 1857 died 1930 married December 11, 1899 MY GREi>T GREAT GRANDFA'IHER ? George 3 Zumwalt born 1785 in Kentucky died 1840 in Pike County Married to Mary Elizabeth Killebrew born 1790 died 1799 at Fort Zumwalt. Their Children? Ivy Jason 4 Zumwalt born February 18, 1809 died August 28, 1884 married Sarah James September 28, 1812 Eli 0. Zumwalt married Elizabeth Ware May 1843 Article #44 Page #4 Elizabeth 4 (Zumwalt) (P_rsley)Rowe born 1815 Levi Henry 4 Zumwalt born 1817 died May 29, 1859 Parthena 4 (Zumwalt)(Jones)(MrSo John E.)_nlow Sarah 4 (Zumwalt)Allen Joshua 4 Zumwalt married Loretta Parsley Oct 27, 1842 Ruth 4 (Zumwalt) (Mr8, Robert)McGa_list_r Letha 4 (Zumwalt) (Mrs, John E0)Inlow married Nov 19, Mary 4 (Zumwalt)(Mrs, Wm,)Taylor married Nov, 27, 1828 MI GREAT GREAT GREAT GRANDFATHERS Jacob 2 Zumwalt born 1752 in Virginia died 1820 Piker County, Me. Married to #1 wife Catherine Miller December 11, 1772 died August 1799 at Fort Zumwalt Their Childrens George 3 Zumwalt born 1785 married Mary Killebrei Andrev 3 Zumwalt born 1799 died 1855 married Susan Coonce Henry 3 Zumwalt died 1845 Jacob 3 Zumvalt married Christine Johnson Elisabeth 3 (ZumwaitlCWinterbowsriPitteaan Susan 3 (Zumwalt)(Mrs, Lewis)Crow married Septatl 28, 1799 Married to #2 wife Frances Price Their Children? Levi 3 Zumwalt John 3 Zumwalt born August 1, 1807 died Nove_b_ 16, 1875 buried at Dallas Texas married #1 Mary Petty April 10, 1828 married #2 Eliza Allen Isaac 3 Zumwalt born 1805 married Matilda Blythe June 10 1826 Psge 05 MY GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GRANDFATHER g Andrew 1 Zumwalt bom 1698 in Strasburg-Alsace-Lorraine died 1765 in Frederick County Virginia Married #1 wife Mary ?? Their Children? Henry Js Z__w_i_ bom abtQ 1740 died 1803 married 01 Vo Martha ?? 02 w, Christine Johnson George 2 Zumwalt born abt 1742 died September 4 1815 Harrison Co. _yt, married Mary ?? Elisabeth 2 (Zumwalt)(Mrs0 John)Ki_or married oeptember 14, 1790 Delia 2 (Zumwalt)(Mrs, John)M_rks A Margaret 2 (Zumvalt)(Mrs. Jonn)L_nk Married 02 v, Ann Regina ?? Their Children? Chistopher 2 Zumwalt bom abt 1750 died 1820 married #1 v« Mary #2 v. Elizabeth Shever Jacob 2 Zumwalt born abt 1752 died 1620 married #1 v. Catherine Miller December 11, 1772 02 vt, Frances Price November 4, 1800 Adam 2 Zumwalt born abt 1754 died August 28, 1834 married Mary Roth May 24, 1785 John 2 Zumwalt bom abt 1756 died 1820 married Elizabeth Conrad Andrew 2 Zumvalt bora abt 1758 died 1823 married Margaret Baldridge 1792 Catherine 2 (Zumwalt)(Mrso David)Boyd born abt, 1760 died July 1799 at Fort Zumwalt e Article # 45 Revised; 12 Jan 1966 PATERNAL LINEAGE OF GEORGE R. 7 ZUMWALT ABOUT MYSELF; George Rudolph 7 Zumwalt, born: 27 March 1903 at Colusa, California Address: Box 149, Colusa, California MARRIED TO: Mildred Stovall on November 5, 1927 born: 2 January 1906 at Williams, California MY CHILDREN: Ruth Ann 8 Zumwalt, born: 21 November 1929 Married: 01 Edwin Dexter Galentine on June 15, 1948 & Divorced Children: Dexter Mark 9 Galentine, born: 17 April 1950 Brian George 9 Galentine, born: 21 March 1952 Patricia Lynn 9 Galentine, born: 30 November 1953 Married: 02 Clark Douglas Mayberry on January 11, 1964 Sara 8 Zumwalt, born: 30 July 1933 Married: Frank Robert Burrows on March 20, 1954 Children: David Frank 9 Burrows, born: 12 September I960 Elizabeth Megan 9 Burrows, born: 23 March 1962 MY FATHER: Ivy George 6 Zumwalt, born: 21 January 1871 at Sycamore, California died: 11 December 1950, buried at Colusa, California Married to: Mattie Jane Braly on December 25, 1901, born: 26 November 1878 at Liberty, Missouri died: October 1938, buried at Colusa, California Children: George Rudolph 7 Zumwalt, born: 27 March 1903 Lionel Rothwell 7 Zumwalt, born: 20 April 1904 died: 4 May 1949, buried at Colusa, California Ivy George 7 Zumwalt, born: 5 November 1908 married: Agnes Ann Salzman - 3 children Geraldine 7(Zumwalt)(Bransford)(Esgleton)Bergman born: 25 February 1913 V Article A' Page 0 2 MY GRANDFATHER: John Randall 5 Zumwalt, born: 27 January 1826, dieds 3 December 1878 buried at Grand Island Cemetery,, Grimes, California Married? Sarah Parthena 5 Zumwalt on December 7, 1858 born: 2 February 1842 at Louisiana, Missouri, died? 31 March 1929, buried at Grand Island Cemetery, Grimes, California Children: Annie 6 Zumwalt, born: 20 July I860 - dieds 23 May 1883 married: Jasper Smith Emma 6 Zumwalt, born: 15 December 1861 - died: very young m Edgar Franklin 6 Zumwalt, born: 18 October 1863 GE died: 16 March 1949 John Luther William 6 Zumwalt, born: 15 December 1865 died: 27 October 1917 Lillie 6 Zumwalt, bom: 6 May 1868 - died? 10 March 1956 married Frank Henry Graves on July 2, 1890 Arthur James 6 Zumwalt, born? March 1867 dieds 17 June 1930 Ivy George 6 Zumwalt, borns 21 January 1871 dieds 11 December 1950 Effie Lee 6 Zumwalt, borns 15 Marc_ 1874 - died? 31 Oct, 1962 married to Harry H„ McGrath on _ mmmm 1895 Dr, Reuben Sylvester 6 Zumwalt, borns 20 January 1876 dieds still living January 1966 Robert Randall 6 Zumwalt, boms 26 January 1878 dieds 1 August 1956 MY GREATGRANDFATHER William 4 Zumwalt, borns died; July 1835 Marrieds Sarah Randall on 9 October 1823 Children: Andrew J„ 5 Zumwalt, John Randall 5 Zumwalt, born: 27 Jan 1826 - dieds dieds 3 Dec 1878 James Brown 5 Zumwalt, borns 11 July 1832 - dieds 13 Dec 1891, married Lydia E, DeWitt on March 7, 1860 Cynthia 5 Zumwalt, borns 3 September 1829 - dieds 18 January 1892, married Lemuel Dunlap Sarah 5 Zumwalt, said to have been taken by Aunt Elisabeth Null to Texas Article 0 45 Page 0 3 Elizabeth 5 Zumwalt, borns^ ______- dieds ) married? _ Grafford rn_ ) j Susan 5 Zumwalt, borns __ ^^ ___„ - dieds __ . ^ ( never married Christina Jane 5 Zumwalt, boms 9 October 1835 - f dieds 25 June 1914 married? William Campbell r.n July 10, 1853, I I MY GREAT GREAT GRANDFATHER: Andrew 3 Zumwalt, borns 4 August 1779 - dieds 18 September 1855 s Married: 01 wife, unknown Childrens William 4 Zumwalt, borns _~_,_ „__ - dieds __ July 1835 married Sarah Randall on October^, 1823 ( Elizabeth 4 Zumwalt, borns __ ^^ =____ "" died: ,______, ? married Jacob Null Married: 02 wife, Susan Coonce on __ _ 1809 Children: Samuel P„ 4 Zumwalt, borns 22 July 1810 - died? 22 April 1900 married #1 w, Lydia Buckaloo on July 31, 1835 married 02 w, Margaret Aiken on August 16, 1854 married 03 3, Nancy E.(Westbrook)Browning on April 10, 1873 Christina 4 Zumwalt, borns 2 January 1813 - dieds 2 August 1852 married Andrew Jackson Crow on June 30, 1831 Edna 4 Zumwalt, borns __ _ 1820 - died? __ ___ 1919 married Josiah Buttram on December 3, 1840 Cynthia 4 Zumwalt, born: 14 Dec 1816 - dieds 3 January 1904 married #1 ^ . „ Lingo on __ __ 1840 married 02 James Harpoie on February 3, 1853 David Boone 4 Zumwalt, borns 22 March 1822 - dieds __ ___ married Phileta Cowan on December 22, 1845 Isaac 4 Zumwalt, boms 19 December 1824 - dieds 30 December 1912 married #1 Jane Doak on September I846 married 02 Jane Barger on __ _ __,__. Jacob 4 Zumwalt, born: _ __ 1825 - dieds m __ 1862 married Nancy Zumwalt on January 31, 1850 Sara 4 Zumwalt, born: 13 February 1819 - dieds 7 February 1862 married James Brummell on May 7, 1840 Nathan Heald 4 Zumwalt, borns 24 January 1827 - dieds 21 Jan 1915 married Elizabeth Harlow January 24, 1850 C Article # 45 Page 0 4 Levi Wesley 4 Zumvalt, born: 27 Feb 1829 - died: __ 1905 mmmm M: married Mary Zurav.tlt on April 24, 1851 G: Andrew J. 4 Zumvr.lt, born: ______1834 - died: 4 June 1890 married #1 Nancy 'feggoner on February 4, 1852 married 02 Mary /.ansdon on September 8, 1886 MY GREAT GREAT GREAT GRANDFATHER: Jacob 2 Zumwalt, bor>:: __ _ 1752 - died: _. __ 1820 Married: 01 Catherine Miller Children: Andrew 3 'Arawalt, born: 14 Feb 1779 - died: 18 Sep 1855 married „ 1 w, unknown on __ IMI married 02 w. Susan Coonce on mmm 1809 Henry 3 Zunwalt, born: __ __ 1780 - died: mmm Aug 1845 married 01 w. Barbara Zumwalt on ^ „ ____„ married i".: w. Elizabeth Kesler on September 20, 1808 Susan 3 ?umwalt, born: __ i 1781 - died: _ married Xewis Crow on September 28, 1799 Jacob 3 vumwalt, born: 1783 - died: . married Christine Johnson on _._ ___* ____» George 3 Zumwalt, born: . 1785 - died: . _. 1844 married iary Killebrew on Elizabeth 3 Zumwalt, born: - died: married • Pittman ???? 3 Zumwalt, born: . - died: ______,_> married Mauck ???? 3 Zumwalt, bom: mmm , - died: m m mmmmm married t Crabill Married: 02 Frances Price on Children: Isaac 3 Zumwalt, born: mmm __ 1805 - died: , ___ married Matilda Blythe on June 10, 1826 John 3 Zumwalt, born: 1 August 1807 - died: 16 Nov 1875 married 01 Mary Petty on April 10, 1828 married 02 Eliza Allen on ( I Article 0 45 | Page 0 5 3 I MY GREAT GREAT GREAT i GREAT GRANDFATHER? Andrew 1 Zumwalt, born _ __ 1698 - died? __ _ 1764 Married #1 Mary ?? I Children? Henry 2 Zumwalt, borns mmm __ 1740 - dieds __ ___ 1803 | married 01 Martha ?? on" j married 02 Christine Johnson j George 2 Zumwalt, borns „__ __ 1742 - died? 4 Sep 1815 married Mary ???? on j Elizabeth 2 Zumwalt, borns _ __ ^_^_ - dieds ______^ ? maried John Kizer Delia 2 Zumwalt, borns __ ___ r_ - dieds __ _„_ ___^_ married John Marks ( Margaret 2 Zumwalt, borns ______- dieds __ ___. _ Married #2 Ann Regina ?? about 1749 Children? Christopher 2 Zumwalt, born? _ __ 1750 - died? __ 1820 i married 01 w. Mary ?? married 02 w. Elizabeth Shever Jacob 2 Zumwalt, borns _ ___ 1752 - dieds __ __ 1820 married #1 w. Catherine Miller on December 1, 1772 married 02 w, Frances Price on November 8, 1800 Adam 2 Zumwalt, borns __ __ 1754 - dieds 28 Aug 1834 married Mary Roth on May 24, 1785 John 2 Zumwalt, borns __. ___ 1756 - dieds _ _, 1821 married Elizabeth Conrad Andrew 2 Zumwalt, born§ mmt __ 1758 - died? _ ___, 1823 married Margaret Baldridge Catherine 2 Zumwalt, borns ______- dieds __, __ _= married David Boyd Article #46 5 December 1962 CHRISTOPHER PETER 4 ZUMWALT Christopher Peter 4 Zumwalt came to Oregon in I845 and was ©ne ©f Polk County's moat respected pioneers. He was bora in Missouri, August 12, 1827, His father, Christopher 3 Zumwalt, was a native of Pennsylvania, ©f German ancestry, He was a Methodist minister and married a Miss Elizabeth Keller. They had nine children, ©f wb©m our subject was youngest, They named him Christopher Peter for his father? and s©me other members of family. When he was an infant his mother died and when he was four years ©Id his father died. His knowledge of his family was slight. He was reared by Mr, Joseph Hugart wh© vas his guardian. When Christopher Peter was only fourteen years old he began to work for $5,00 per month and his board, In 1845 his guardian came to Oregon, although only 18 he drove ©ne of the teams and never missed a day. They had a prosperous journey until they were induced to take the Meekcs cutoff route where they met with trouble. Their pro visions gave out and they were left in the mountains without anything to eat. They came near losing their lives. The first winter they spent near the present site of Forest Grove, In the spring of 1846 they went to a farm near the present site of Cornwallis. Here Christopher Peter 4 Zumwalt made rails at 50 cents per 100, took orders on the store for payment, lived on wheat and peas and was bare-footed nearly the entire period years. He then went to Yamhill County and worked for wages until 1849 when he purchased land in Yamhill County, After tw© years he came t© Polk County and took 64O acres w_ere he resided and raised his family. Christopher Peter 4 Zumwalt was a local preacher ©f the United Brethern Church, He was a hard working man. He prospered greatly, followed general farming. He married Miss Irene Goodrich ©n August 3, 1849, who was born in Indianapolis, 17, 1831, a daughter ©f Canny Goodrich wh© came to Oregon in 1845 and took a donation claim in Dayton, Yamhill County where he lived until his death in 1860, Mr, and Mrs, Christopher Peter 4 Zumwalt had eleven children named: John Thompson 5, wh® died In Ms twentieth year, Henry 5, who married and resided near his parents, Christina 5o wh© marri ed Frank Sargent, Mary Ellen 5s> who married Leonard Livermore and resided in Eugene City, Sarah 5, who married a W* Updegraff, who died leaving her with two children. Glen 0, 5, who married and resided In Polk County, Frank and Fannie 5 were twins, the latter died in her sixth year. The youngest child, Fred 5» died In his sixth year. At this writing they had eighteen grandchildren and one great grandchild, Mr, and Mrs, Christopher Peter 4 Zumwalt were highly esteemed pioneers of I845 (Oregon pioneers). This was copied for Oregon history in the year 1893o In the handwriting of Mrs, Agnes Humphreys Christopher 3 Zumwaltrs father, Christopher 2 Zumwalt was an uncle of Solomon 3 Zumwalt wh® resided near Eugene and who was my grandfather, Mrs, George Warner Fall Creek, Oregon -*._»: Zelma May(Custer)CMrs. Ralph Edwin)Newman To: George R, Zumwalt ;:-Vfsf Article #46 Page 02 LINEAGE OF CHRISTOPHER PETER 4 ZUMWALT Andrew 1 Z -»——.—— & 02 w, Ann Regina ?? Christopher 2 Z =—— ft #1 w, Mary Conrad Christopher 3 Z ——— ft Elizabeth Keller Christopher Peter 4 Z ft Irene Goodrich John Thompson 5 Z & Christina Ann 5 Z & #1 h, Frances Alfrey 02 h. Frank Sergeant Henry Oliver 5 Z - ft Mary Angelina Updegraff Sarah Marcena 5 Z ft Albert Updegraff Mary Ellen 5 Z — & Leonard Livermore Glenn Burnett 5 Z ft Abigail Bowman William Bruce 5 Z ft Abigail May Wells Gilford Levi 5 Z - ft Martha (Boyle)Black Fanny 5 Z ft died young Frank 5 Z ------ft Annie Livermore Fred 5 Z .. ft died young Article 0 47 5 December 1962 NANCY (GROCE) MRS. SOLOMON 3 ZUMWALT Nancy Groee, wife of Solomon 3 Zumvalt vas born in St. Charles County in 1811 and died in 1876 in the Mohavk Valley. She crossed the plains vith her husband and nine children, six girls and three boys. My grandmother vas a brave voman. She had a pony that she rode when she didn°t share it vith others. I have been told that she walked all day and helped prepare the evening meal. She bad pluck and courage. She never wanted to turn back but pressed on the work that lay before her. The family spent the winter in Salt Lake Valley and arrived at The Dalles, May 28, 1851. The women and children vere taken down the Columbia river in open boats. They had no ad venture vith the Indians. The family then came up to Lane County, Oregon and settled on a donation claim joining the Blair place. It vas there that my grandmother life vas full of good deeds as she and her pony swam the many streams to minister to the sick. She always had time to spin yarns and knit sox for the boys and stockings that never came above the knees for the girls. Dresses vere long, sweeping the floor. What a task it vas for her to iron all those ruffles. She did all that besides making all her own soap and I have seen her dry elder berries by the sack. I think my grandmother, Nancy Groee Zumvalt enjoyed smoking her chalk pipe. She always looked so contented. More so than the cigarette-smoking women of today. It is a fad with them, | This ends a sketch of noble life that has passed to the greet beyond. Vina Warner, Fall Creek LINEAGE OF SOMOMON 3 ZUMWAL. & NANCY GROGS Andrev 1 Z • •••_•••• ft 02 v. Ann Regina ?? Adam 2 Z « ••• • & Mary Roth Solomon 3 Z _-_•_-__-•__•, & Nancy Groee Lucinda 4 Z _-_-_-_•_ Elizabeth 4 Z -—..•_ & James E. McCabe Andrev Jackson 4 Z - & 01 v. Margaret Ann Walker 02 v. Lavinia M. Brown Mary 4 Z i & #1 h. William Robertson 02 h. Dan Conrad Louise 4 Z & William Potter Sarah Frances 4 Z — & Norman P. Hammitt Toliver Lite 4 Z — & 01 v. Laura Breekenbridge 02 v. ?? Coffee Ardelia 4 Z — & William Walker Charles W. 4 Z & Mollis A. Conrad Martha 4 Z James R. 4 Z Nancy 4 Z _•_-___-__• & E0 L0 Warren Missouria 4 Z Rachel 4 Z FROMs ? Leah Menef ee 70? George R. Zumvalt DATE? 8 August 1962 FROM? Mrs. Henry Mathevs, Dexter, Oregon, May 1958 by Leah Menefeo (a typed manuscript) Art ANDREW JACKSON 4 ZUMWALT Andrew Jackson 4 Zumwalt was eleestod Consteblfl r-,f Fug*«ne in June 1855 for two year Justice of the Peace in 1870 to 1874, Legislator*? In 1880. A pioneer of 1851 he was 19 years old when h* arrived In Oregon,, Andrew Jaeksoi Zumwalt was the son of Solomon 3 Zumwalt and Nancy _r_$e and was bom in St. Charles Hissouri in 1832, H*» started feo Oregon on April 5, 1851 with 1 yoke of oxen,, 1 yok< and 1 wagon. In the wagon was his mother and 6 sisters asid one brother. LINEAGE OF ANDREW JACKSON 4 ZUMWALT Andrew 1 Zumwalt •••• •--_-___ _ ,f2 v. Ann Regina Mam 2 Zumwalt «—— -— — ft. Mary Roth Salomon 3 Zumwalt --••-•—— & Nancy Groee Andrew Jackson 4 Zumwalt — ft #1 w. Margaret Walker 02 w, Lavinia Brown Children of Andrew Jackson 4 Zumwalt ft 01 wifes Margaret walker Albert Monroe 5 Zumwalt — Samantha Jane 5 Zumwalt -_—=»-•«__ &• Joseph Walfe Bond Mary Addle 5 Zumwalt ------ft Charles T. Jennings Alford 5 Zumwalt — John W. 5 Zumwalt Edgar Walker 5 Zumwalt ———- ft #1 w, Catherine Baker 02 w„ Mamie Winnard Herman 5 Zumwalt •»-—.-=•=«"»«"——»- ft Usurala toy 5 Zumwalt • •••• ft Will Turkington Children of Andrew Jackson 4 Zumwalt ft 02 wifes Lavinia Browr; Ada Louise 5 Zumwalt ————— & Thomas A, Campbell Lynn S^-rner 5 Zumwalt -~«~~----- ft 01 w, Nida Wing 02 w, B_e_rlce(fc-eley)Zumwalt Andrew Paul 5 Zumwalt ----_-•.___ ft #1 w, Muriel Wise $? w, Dora Ma Secris* Prom? Leah Menefee George R, Zumwalt Date? 6 August 1962 c LINEAGE OF EDWIN L. 6 ZUMWALT idpw j Zumwalt_ll698 - 17643 came from Strasburg°AI_a_e Lorraine in 1737 - settled it Pg arge 2 Zumwalt (1742 - 1764) buried in. Harrison County. Kentucky killip 3 Zumwalt (June 1, 1781 - September 3, 1835) buried in Hillsboro, Indiana ah Povell his wife (1784 ° 1849) buried in Hillsboro,, Indiana aery 4 Sumwalt (March 22, 1810 - May 9, 1875) buri6d Patterson Cemetery, North of _mden£ gey pavj.dson his wife (1824 - 1863) buried in Patterson Cemetery, North of Eaidena .Il-:-c_.. __ sen Franklin 5 Zumwalt (October 8, 1847 - November 8, 1935) lgrenee Verbryck his wife ( December 1850 - May 17. 1933) ii'gi8(Z) Irwin John Zumwalt Frank Zumwalt Edwin L. Zumwalt Ver_a(Z}Xo_le m2 - ) (1883 - 1957) (1885 - 1950) (1887 - ) (1890 - ) Wo Clara E, Suits h, Walter Youle iBart Irwin w. Minnie Junker hi Zumvalt Robert Zumwalt Dolmar Zumwalt Dean Zumwalt Donald Zun FA - ) (1913 - ) (1921 - ) (1920 - ) (1924 - . Birky w0 Helen Klockenga w0 Martha Allen w, Alice Lillibridge w, L„_B3Z: ,e_ Z (1940) Larry Z (1954 Gene Z James Z (1946) Michele Z"' is _ (1943) Roberta Z Ann Z (1950) Gary Z (1949) Donna Z I F'59) 9_e Z (1946) Connie Z (1951) Jan Z (1959) arle _ (1952) Clark Z iiaen Z (1958) Jack Z MX*! Edwi_ Lawrence 6 Zumwalt Emdan, Illinois ;; George Zumwalt •> Andr -. ":y- borns 1698 ..To r».-i}-> s '7.vfmva\r5. dieds 1764 born: 1752 m. #> Ann SflcriSna Andrew 3 ZumwalU died: 1820 borns 1779 H»_ „ 7.«Tnualf, m, 12-11-1774 died: 1855 fiat.her-ina Ml'Sler borns 1826 rn lt\ -u. mnknnwn John Randall dieds 1878 .Zumwalt m. 10-9=1823 born: 1-27=1826 Sarah Rgndall dieds 4-3=1887 Andrew, 1- gimiwal* m. 12=7-1858 borns 1698~ Jacob 2 Zumwalt, died? 1764 born: 1752 m. U? Ann Re/H'na George 3 Zumwalt dieds 1820 Ivy George 6 borns 1785 m. 12=11=1774 Zumwalt Tw Jason L Zumwalt dieds after 1820 Catherine Miller borns 1871 borns 2=18-1809 m. Marv Killebrew '' dieds 1950 Sarah Parthena dieds 9=24=1884 m, 1901 5 Zumwalt m. 9=18=1831 born: 2=20=1842 Sarah .Tarnas John 1 Bralv. Sr. dieds 3=31=1929 borns 1720 Scotland or John 2 Braly. Jr, Irland dieds 1=18=1798 borns 5=25=1765 oorge R, 7 John Henrv 3 Braly dieds 5=5=1783 m. 9=5=1758 Zumvalt borns 11=23=1794 I n. 5=22=1790 ' "born: 1903 Sarah Carrutfa dieds living dieds 12=5=1877 Alfred Liggett L Bralv m. 1820 m0 Mildred 02 w, Mary Carson Stovall borns 10=25=1827 dieds 11=1=1873 n. 12=1=1858 Hannah Liggett Mattie Jane 5 Braly ( borns 11=26=1878 Andrew Means,, Sr dieds 10= 1938 borns 1740 _; Henry Harrison Howell borns dieds 1826 C * or-i dieds n m- ^ m. >» g Andrew Means.Jr. H Mary Howell 1 C4 borns3=23=1789 a, Nancy Gray & _- Jane C, Means d_eds9=l5=1875 ofef c 9=28=1811 ce m _ ca Sara '_tre Hensley 5 (4 5 A borns 10=28-1789 - o dieds 10-18-187V Art 12 March W- HONORABLE ANDREW JACKSON 4 ZUMWALT OP IRVING The Honorable Andrew Jackson 4 Zumwalt of Irving disputes the claim of L, L, of Saginaw to the honor of being the oldest office holder in Oregon,-, "I want to say", - Hro Zumwalt last week, wthat X was elected constable of Eugene precinct in June 1855> hold '1 ing that office two years and in 1880 I was elected to the Oregon legislature,, serving Sr the house," Mr, Zumwalt Is a pioneer of 1850, having crossed the plains In 1850f. with hie fath and mother,, Solomon 3 Zumwalt and Nancy Groee, He was 19 when he arrived in Oregon &®& hia life since that time has been spent in the upper Willamette Valley. He has taken _ prom I inent part In th© development of this part of the state. The icrip across the plains makes a fascinating tale,, aa Mr, Zumwalt tells it; I wee born in St. Charles County*, Missouri in 1832 „ he said in _*s__al8 "I shall never forget, the dangers and the adventures of that trip. It was ray lot In Use early pari of the trip to recover our stock that had been nan off by the Jndt&sis __d thus to make possible the completion of oar trip to the state that was to fee our borne for the rest of our lives,-. Batween Salt Creek and Platte River all of our cattle were run off daring th© night, Tito© late Henry Waters of Palouse City, Washington and. X found their U and followed it for 10 miles, recovering all of the animals? Again in the Gre«si River Vell*y two of my father-s oxen disappeared. Father and I trailed them Into a deep canyon and found them,, "In the Snake River country the Indians made an attempt to- run off all the horses I - longing to the train? about 30 head-. By shear luck three of the animals were near camp and vere not Included in the general stampeden one belonged to me, one to William Plttman and one to Mr, Carrlgan, We three mounted and rode after them at full speed. The Indians a«= bandoned the horses and made their escape; Mr, Carrigan had with him on this ride,, his sever shot Colt,, the same gun that was afterward with him in the Indian fight at Port Orford. "We spent the winter in the Salt Lake Valley and arrived at the Dalles, 28 May DOT party consisted of 25 men, all armed, and 25 wagons; The women and children were taken down the Columbia river In ©pen boatsp arriving In Portland June 1st; My 12 year old brot an aged m_n and I remained at The Dalles until the 1st of July before we crossed the Cashed* Range? We finally made the tripB coaming by way of the Barlow Route and arrived in Portland j_st in time to celebrate the Fourth of July, "The maa X met was a Methodist preacher. Father Wilbur„ who was holding a Sunday Sc picnic. We left the next day for Polk County9 and not long after we arrived there an Ir.1 nan by (the name of John Flynn preached in oar neighborhood, I attended and gave him my - to renew my relations with the Methodist Church, I had joined the South Methodist Chun Missouri in 1848;So©n after we moved to Lane County and I feeeeme a charter member of the Eugene Methodist Church organized two miles west of town. Since that time I have nw&r able to get away from Methodist preachera. "X served three years in the State Militia of Oregon, during the Civil War, I voted for Abraham Lincoln' twice and tea??e been a Republican most of my life,, however X voted for Bryan three times and for Wilson onse, "I do no I meke a positive claim to being the oldest office holder in the State,, but £ p. do know that. [ am as old as any of them; You may tell Mr, Whlteomb that If he will drop n& a card I will be glad to meet him In Eugene and we will have our pictures taken tog< •' • Altho Mr, Zumwalt has seen more than four score years of strenuous and successful en deavor* he is still hale and hearty and active ami gets more real pleasure out of live than many people half his age, (Recopied by W„ R, Robertson 25 February 1961) IRVING OREGON 1911 or 1910 At Irving Wednesday were assembled about 80 persons, representatives of the pioneer | Zumwalt family, Those present were from the two branches of the family tree, via Solomon 3 Zumwalt and Isaac 4 Zumwalt, who were cousins, Solomon 3 Zumwalt and his wife Nancy Grow? ,.-ame to Oregon in the year 1851, Of their twelve children wh© crossed the plains with than 1 siewenF Mary C,5 {Zumvalt)Conrad, Ardella 5 (Zumvalt)Walker, Luesa 5 (Zumwalt)Potter, Franeaij 5 CZumwalt)HammItt, Matilda 5 (Zumwalt)Warren and Charles W, 5 Zumwalt, have combined _gss to make a total of 493 years. Of the Isaac 4 Zumwalt family there were present, himself, his wife and three of his children; The remainder of those present were the grandchildren and great- grandchildren and their husbands and wives, A brass band of 11 pieces, seven of which were "tooted" by Zum walts, discoursed fine music for the occasion and a bountiful dinner of the best turkey and pumpkin pie that was ever served, with all the usual and necessary accessories, was spread before us in the Grange Hall, and it was noticable that no one failed to participate in this part of the program, ? A photographer was present who took the crowd after the usual amount of posing vat I accomplished. Many speeches were made in which the joy of the occasion was aptly expressed ' and all present voted It one of the happiest events of their lives, | The Zumwalt family began in America about 1729, when the grandfather of Solomon Zumwalt settled in Baltimore and was united in marriage with a young lady from Switzerland, Zumvalt1. came from Strassburg, Germany, The father of Solomon 3 Zumwalt went to Missouri, near St, f Louis in 1800 and from that place Solomon 3 took up the long journey westward to Oregon in June of 1850,, getting only as far as Salt Lake that fall. It is certainly marvelous that 60; years after that date, seven of those who shared in the hardships of that jaurney should meet' and exchange greeting, all of them in reasonable good health and able to enjoy the occasion in full. Two of those present Isaac 4 Zumwalt and W, A, Potter are just reaching their 76th1 birthdays, r Besides those already mentioned, the following were present; E„ F, Zumwalt and wife Lee Zumwalt,-, Marvin Kelso and wife, Louise Campbell and son Wilbur, Paul Zumwalt, Lynn Zw' i f wait his wife and son Charles, Alva Bond and wife, Val Bond, Rufus Robertson and wife, Joto Robertson and wife,; John Robertson and family. Will Robertson and wife and daughter Louise* 'ilea Robertson, Neal Robertson„ Laura Frasser and daughter, B, F, Bond and wife, L, H, Potter ma wife and «vo sons, E, 0, Potter, Mr, Thomas Gray, Will Seavy and wife, Mrs, Fred Beam i Hamaitt and family, Fannie Barger and two daughters, Victor Hamraltt, Calude Hamnltt, j Grace Hammitt, _saae Zumwalt and wife, Mrs, Jack Lynch, Clay Zumwalt, Harry Zumvalt, Green Zumwals and wife,, Ross Zumwalt, Wade Zumwalt, Fred Zumwalt and Dale Zumwalt, -nose outside of the family who were present were; Mr, and Mrs, W, R„ Wing, Grandpa Wing.. Mr Bean,, Charlie Runyan, Mrs, Florence Boqua, Minnie Parker and George Boqua, • drew Jackson 4 Zumwalt was bom the 2 September 1832, in St, Charles County, Missouri1 f*n_ died near- Eugene Oregon in 1914 age 82 years, A p« i possession of Mrs, Agnes Humphreys, Fall Greek, Oregon 1961 DR0 ROCKWELL DENNIS 6 HUNTs MR0 CALIFORNIA Dr0 Rockwell Dennis 6 Hunt* "Mr0 California" to many, celebrates his 95th anniversar today and he's still going strong^ Not only is Dr„ Bant a lifelong Galifornian, but he b won renown as a teacher, high school principal, university professor and dean, historian f, onetime director of the California Historical Foundation, a professor emeritus of Califor nia history, and former president of the Conference of California Historical Societiesc He has authored at least 18 books,, scores of magazine articles,, and currently contrib utes California historical sketches to the Sunday Knave page of the Tribune* There is sel dom a day he IsnH at work on some project or other» Only last July he had his latest tool. publishedo It is entitled »Personal Sketches of California Pioneers I have Known,» Nov has another book before the publishers0 This one is called "Boyhood Days of Mr,, California A It tells the story of his boyhood life in the 18700 s along vith the adventures of his four N brotherse "I Hope to see this published while 1% 959 he says. Today0 8 birthday party in his honor is taking place in Stockton on the campus of the University of the PaoifiCo Itl,s a two-part affair, He vill start shaking hands with hun dreds of friends and acquaintances at 1 p<,m„ in the Anderson Reception Hall on the Stockton campus o Then at 2s 30 p0m0 he will withdraw to an invitational dinner in the dining hall of the Women9s Dormitory on the campuso The dinner gathering will include members of his fam ily in addition to old-timers who have been exceptionally cl *•« to him during the long span of years that now move him close to the century mark*. Although Drs Hunt is of the unique generation that has seen $c much technological pro gress within his lifetime,, he seldom refers to himself as a pioneer. To him the pioneers are his mother and father, and all those others who crossed the plains to California via covered wagon and those vho sailed into San Francisco Bay by ship during those two decades before his birth,, It was on February 3» 1868, that Dr„ Hunt first saw the light of day in a house on Sao- -__entoBs K street - hardly a stone throw from the capitol buldingo His mother was Nancy Ann 5 (Zumwalt)(Cotton)Hunt0 His father, Dennis Rockwell Hunt, Mrs0 Hunt had come to Cal ifornia vith her sick husband and the Zumvalt family from. Indiana, The ailing husband was Alexander 0ottono She lost him almost on the eve of their arrival here and buried him in the Sierra Nevada Mountains* In California she met the young bachelor farmer Dennis Rockwell Hunto They were marr & in 1855 and eventually established the 500 acre Hunt ranch on the east banks of the Sacra mento River at Freeporte BOYHOOD DAYS It vas on this Freeport farm that Dr» Hantrspent most of his boyhood, There he learn ed to swim, wade, fish and go boating, milk cows, ride horses, watch steamboats, schooners and barges, pick up driftwood and eye Wild geese, pelicans, sandhill cranes and swans, For three brief years 1877-1880 the Hunt family lived in Kapa but they were back at Freeport in 1880 and there young Rockwell Hunt finished grammar school0 There he adhered to the family rules that "children should be seen and not heard", "clean your boots and shoes before en tering the house", "take off your hat oo0 keep your shirt=tail in oo0 comb your hair before meals and wash your hands and face 0 o ° always say Mister when speaking of a male adul " „ have called him by his first name was improper„ During young Rock _unt°s residence in Free port the population never exceeded 100 persons, he estimates,, The Freeport men he remembers best are blacksmith Tom Kirtlen, shoemaker Andy Greer, postmaster Phil G0 Rhiel, farmer Joe Gosling and carriage maker Jim Lee„ o Article #52 Page 02 LITTLE? NOT QUITE "Freeport might have been a little place on the map, but It has always been a big pj^ to me„" he avers. When Rock Hunt finally left home he entered Napa Collegiate Institute,, and later Napa College from where he graduated in '1890, Three years at John Hopkins Uni versity in Baltimore won him a Ph- D_- degree. When be returned here after graduation in Baltimore he wed Nancy Stuart, a college classmate at Napa, His first teaching job was at the University of the Pacific in San Jose,, which had swallowed Napa College in a merger. Next he became principal of San Jose High School and from there went south to the University of Southern California where he was dean of the graduate school when he retired in 1945 and was given a title of dean emeritus-, He was then 77o From the College of the Pacific in Stockton came an invitation to become professor! emeritus in American history The other posts followed; director of the California History) Foundation and president of the Conference of California Historical Societies, "It seems unreasonable to think of myself as an old person," he says, "I have not lost) my enthusiasm, I am challenged daily with interests that engage my thinking even to the ends^ of the earth , , "Of this I tr, resolvedi that while It is yet day 1 shall not dwell always in the receding past,, but shall een _*_»•:* to rejoice In the spirit of youth, inviting par* J ennial springtime to find its dwelling place in my «•«"•__ -"• Three of his sons *nd their wi^ea will be in attendance at today "a celebration, are Paul Ac Hunt and [nogen of Oakdale, Lloyd F, Hunt and Dorothy, of Palos Verdess and Attorney Clarence S, Hunt and Leo to of Long beach, "I can't hope to have such a memorable event repeated often in the future," comments Dr- Hunt* LINEAGE OF DR„ ROCKWELL DENNIS 6 HUNT Andrew 1 Z -™_____-_.^---.__-_-,__ & 0\ y Mary 11 George 2 Z ——«———•>-~— & H&ry 11 j Jacob 3 Z _~~»_ ___ Nancy Ann Spurgeor-. Jacob 4 Z _ Susan Lth Nancy Ann 5 Z - — ------. & F h.- I Hunt | .Rockwell Dennis 6 Hunt - _ Nancj Article written fays Leonard '•• <• ; From? Marie( Ash; [fix •• '111 ia_ To? George R- Sua - ,: Dates March 10, "At,.- March 20, 1963 ' HISTORICAL SERIES - Restoration of Fort Zianvalt The following stery is a repeat of the February 25, i960 article on Fort Zumvalt, due to the public demand for information on the famous county landmark. The State Park Board is in the process of restoring the ©M Fort, Slight changes had to be made as time passed Mr-. Easlag, WE© originally bad c_arge ©f the restoration passed away and Mr., OrvilJe Henderson, State Park Board Historian^ is now in charge of the restoration program Fort. Zumwalt Is about 1 3/4 miles south aoi west of O'Fallon, Dardenne Township, St Charles County; or about 3/8 of a mile south of underpass on new highway K at Qr Fallen, Descriptions In a few wordss This is now a state park-of 45 acres, the remains ©f the oM Zumwalt Forte One large brick bouse,; one smoke house., one tool and implement shed, one lovely new shelter house. Open to the publics barbecue pits, picnic tables, swings, and slides> Tourist fasilitiess trailer spaces and camping grounds that are very popular. Girl and Boy Scouts Troops often camp here- The Zumwalt family cemetery is also located here,, and the Zumwalt Spring, I found an eld poem in our archives, it is dated July 5 1915 but the author1's name Is not given. The little poem reveals so much about Fort Z__° wait that I will q®ote its "From the State of Pennsylvania Came a man named Jacob Zymvalt Came among the travelers westwards Saw a valley rich awl fertile Near a winding stream called Bailou.- Built a dwelling for his family,, Built it strong from logs ©f vhiteoak, Made some portholes in the attic, Used it often for protection. Sheltering families from the Indians; Made his home a home for preachers As they worked among the people "Ministering sacramental service" Here, the first in old M_ss©_ri;, j Using wine from petal berries, U3ing corn bread baked in ashes-'* f Jacob 2 Zumvalt, a Revolutionary soldier of V rginia served under Captain McCoy"s A&g usta Company, built this house in 1798,, It is the first hewed leg house ever h_ilt on the north side of the Missouri River,, The first. Methodist Sacrament in Missouri was given at f this home by Reverend Jesse Walker in 18070 The first sheep introduced into Missouri was in the year 1798 when they were brought by Adam 2 Zumwalt and were put to graze on the I ground surrounding the house* Incidentally, the Peruque Greek passes through the Zumwal' f grounds0 Now I will tell you about the delightful and fascinating history of the house that Jacob 2 Zumwalt built,. It was first built with four rooms made of oak logs,,-. The r©of was made of oak shakes and the flaor was made ©f split ©ak,. 'Ihe house was put to- f gather with ©ak pegs. There were two large chimneys^, one at the east end of the house and the other in the center between the two main rooms which opened on two sides,; There i. was a loft above the four rooms.-, A few years later a one story wing was built to the ea ' It was made ©f logs. At the same time another one-story wing was added to the south. Portholes were made in the sides of tha building to be used in ease of an Indian raid l find no record of an actual battle aver being fought in the War of 1812 here,, but it was I called at this time the Zumvalt Fort-, A large stockade vas built arouzsd the Fort, We do ' ave records that show as many as ten families were known to seek shelter in the Zumwal? Fort when the Indians were on the warpath and their cattle were brought to the stockade 1 for safety. , Article #$1 ' Page 02 In the memoirs of Solomon 3 Zumvalt written in 1880 'in the Lane County Museum of Eugene9 Oregon,, now) we learn some ama_i_g bits of history- Adam 2 Zumwalt- brother to Jacob 2 Zumwalt,, built a distillery near the Fort, The Indians were friendly with the ZUB- waits and partook freely of their whiskey Whether it was the distillery or the three beautiful daughters of Adam 2 or the constant flow ©f pure clear water that attracted the Indians is unknown. All went well until Chief Balck Hawk fell in love with Adams' daughter, Rachel* Adam assured Black Hawk that he was welcome to come at anytime but under no elre__ stances would he allow Rachel to marry him - This broken romance is blamed for starting the Indian trouble in this section. Another fascinating story is of the growth ©f the Methodist Church in Missouri- 2 Zumwalt was a very religious Methodist Reverend Jesse Walker in 1807 administered the first Methodist sacrament given in Missouri in the Fort, Wine for the occasion was made from sweetened poke=berry juiee<> It was sweetened with maple sugar, Mrs,. Zumvalt and Mrs- Bailey made eornbread in the ashes in the fireplace.. The wine and bread were used for the sacramento In 1808 Elder Wc McKendree and James Ward held a "eamp=meeting" here. The Reverend John Travis, the first accredited Methodist Minister in Missourip regularly held Sunday services here- Within the Zumwalt home the Methodists organized a church known at Mt, Zion They built the church with its cemetery on what is now known at Mt, Zion Hl_ls _ short dis= tance east of the Zumwalt home*, In the War of 1812 we have records ©f five of the Zumwalts who were soldiers,, of that War- Jacob Zumwalt was greatly grieved at the death of his first wife, who was Catherine Miller who died August 20, 1799° She was buried near the top of the hill under the cedar treep a few yards from the Fort, This place is now known as the Zumwalt or the Stony Point Cemeterya In 1817 Jacob was getting restless- He sold his United States Survey 55, which was his grant from the Spanish Government and later confirmed by the U„ So Government to Major Nathan Heald,, the famed her® of the War of 1812, who was in command of Fort Dearborn {where Chicago now stands) 0 He and his wife Rebecca Wells Heald were both severely wounded and captured when they were stationed at Fort Dearborn*, After their recovery they wanted a placid life and they came to Missouri and purchased Fort Zumwalt,, The Spanish grant con sisted of 480 arpents and Major Heald added to this farm until It embraced 700 a.res* The Heald family lived in the ©Id Fort until he built the large brick heme directly in front of the Forts using the Fort as a stable and work shop,, Major Nathan Heald died here in I832r Both he and his wife were tear led in the Zumwalt cemetery „ It was in 1914 that the monuments from this cemetery were moved to Mt-, Zlsn cemetery when the property passed out of the HeaM familyo The bodies could not be removed and some of the footstones were not moved In Sep= tember, 1925* a large boulder was erected at Fort Zumwalts It was unveiled by Major Heald'e ?FJT granddaughters a It was put up by the Daughters of 1812., Today Fort Zumwalt Is a State Park consisting of 45 acres. Our beloved former Senator Robert Linnemann will go down in history as being responsible for saving Fort Zumwalt*, This beautiful park is maintained in splendid condition by the superintendent John H, Adams- He has done a beautiful job in landscaping and he and his family live in the large brick house ;- by Darius Heald in 1884, Incidentally;, notice the front window in the living room of the Heald home, It always fascinates and thrills me to see the names cut in the glass of the wedding party of Martha Heald and .Wright Johnson, The glass was cut with her diamond engagement ring, 'Martha Heald was the grand-daughter of Major Heald who married ay uncle, In the archives is a fine ar- e about this big wedding held by the fireplace in the parlor Article 0i Page #3 Joseph Jaegerv Jr,s Director of Missouri State Parks,, is to be crmpliment-ed on his accomplishments and the progress that has been made in the state par)':,, Fort Zumwalt,, A winding road through the park was made , He had the clever shelter _ouse bailt, Fiting are the church services that are held there The shelter house is well equipped with running watera stove,; picnic benches and chairs end can be rented for $3 00 for big parties as the iter,, Daughters of i8l2 did., holding their annual picnic there Mr„ Jaeger had the cemetery en -.'Mil closed vith a fence in respect for the many soldiers who are buried there, Adam 2 Zumwa tbe j Revolutionary Soldier,, is burled -nere, (His sto,i© was Jeter mated to the Murdock Cemetary about l£ miles from Matson* Missouri.) Major HealdP famed soldier of Fort Dearborn,, War of I 1812P was also buried there, The stones of both Major Heald atd his wife were moved to the teoi Mt Zion Cemetery in 1916 = a few of the footstonea were not mcved.-. There were also two m Zumwalt brothers of the War of 1812 buried here, So we are pleased that his historical ganstery has been enclosed. re- , 1 he We are all thrilled and delighted that Mr0 Jaegu; plans to have the Fort restored •- --' that State Park historianj, the late Leonard Haslagj vas in charge of the restoration ?"ae large double chimney is now completely restored; work uas started on the second ch*-£<_•"-• r Many of the old oak logs had to be rep_aced8 and where and when possible Haslag <*3 brought old oak logs from dismantled barns-, These are carefully stacked and ready to -& usea,, Has ion, lag made a careful study ©f the old Pbrt from all available pictures so the -.-estoration will la be authentic His drawings and plane are exact and splendid. It will ts'.Q time but someday soon you will see Fort Zumwalt restored., Incidentally in excavating geeae beautiful bits of old broken glass and rare china have been found which give one an ide-. of how the Zumwalt hat family lived, Some of the 6__ Zumwalt furniture that has been loea'-ed- will be stored for 8 the time being in the attic of the Heald home and as '©on as the Fort is finished these or r iginal pieces of furniture will be on display in the V.rtr. int I hope you will drive to Fort Zumwalt which is nor a Missoure Parko Itss a beautiful drive and is very worthwhile sight seeing. Your childr••••-. will learn a great deal of history s f and they might be lucky enough to find Indian arrow hea J along the creek., I found four 9r choice ones when I was there a few weeks ago0 You of £•.„ Charles County should be proud of ere your state park. he said Sep-, ater He use ha \ Article 0 54 April 10, 1963 HISTORY OF THE ZUMWALT-TROXEL FAMILY Grandfather„ Daniel Zachariah Troxel, vas born in Frederick County, Maryland near the old battleground of Fredericksburg about August 11, 1803 and had often spoken of having a .brother named George, although nothing is now known of his history. They had two sisters, one named Betsey vas married to a man by the na&e of Burbank,, They had a daughter who mar ried Governor Morton of Indiana during the Civil War0 The other sister*, Susan, married a man by the name of Smith, very likely they also lived in Indianao Father did not k_ov„ Grandfather? Daniel Zacbrlah Troxel, often told in fathers presence that originally there vere three brothers who came to America from Germany and settled in Pennsylvania away back in Colonial Times, before the Revolutionary W_r„ There is a very old town in Snyder County9 Pennsylvania named Troxelville0 It is about twelve or fifteen miles from Middieburg, and about the same distance from Mifflinburgo No doubt the town was founded by some of the descendants of one of the original brothers that emigrated from Germany, as it is true that all the Troxels in America are descended from them. Great Grandfather Troxel lived at Fredericks Maryland, where he owned an estate and a large number of slaves before the Civil War0 Grandfather Daniel Zachariah Troxel stated that when they built the National Capitol at Washington, his father, Great Grandfather Troxel had a big contract to deliver stone that went into the foundation;, and Capitol building, upon which he worked many slaves. Grandfather mentioned a good many tisaes that as a little boy, and on up to manhood he vas attended by a gigantic Negro slave named George. Grandfather, Daniel Zachariah Troxel, left Maryland in his early manhood , the year ve do not knowo Father did not know, and vent to Adams County, Ohio, where he met and married Miss Eleanor 4 Zumvalt* Shortly afterward they moved to Hancock County, Indiana, from where at a later date they moved to Will County, Illinois, where most of their children were born;, and at- a later date several died at Trout-man" s Grove near the City of Joliet, IIT In the fall of 1852 they decided to go to California, the famed land of Gold, and after selling off everything except what vas necessary to take vith them, they drove to Keokuk, lova, where they spent the winter of 1853« In the spring of 1854 they joined a great wagon train at Council Bluffs which vas under the leadership of Great Uncle Joseph 4 Zumvalt, vko was Grandmother Eleanor 4 (Zumvalt)Troxel5s brother, and Captain of the vagon train which originated at Joliet, Illinois,'and vith which they and family proceeded on to California, arriving at Illinois Town (now Colfax, Placer County) in September 1854 at which place they settled and lived until the fall of 1857 when they moved to a farm a short distance north of Silveyville, an old town a few miles northwest of the present town of Dixon, Solano County, California, Both Grandfather, Daniel Zachariah Troxel, and Grandmother, Eleanor 4 {Zumvalt}Troxel lived on the old farm at Silveyville until they died. Grandfather died March 16, 1867, age 64. years, 7 months and 19 days*, Grandmother Troxel died January 25, 1873, age 58 years, 6 norths. They both rest in the Dixon Cemetary0 They had four son3 living at the time of their death; William Tremble 55 Joseph R„ 5, George Wheatly 5, and Albert M, 5 Troxel. Grandfather and Grandmother Troxel had eight sons and four daughters0 All but the four a- bove named sons died during a terrible epidemic of bloody=flux (a cholera like disintary) in Illinois while they were young children,, The names of those that died verej Jacob 5, John 5, Everistus 5, Daniel 5, Rachel 5, Ellen 5, Ann Margaret 59 and Sarah Elizabeth 5« Grandmother, Eleanor 4 (Zumwalt)Troxel, vas born in Adams County, Ohio, her fathers name vas Jacob 3 Zumwalt, They lived on Brush Creek near the great Serpent Mound, the land upon which it stands belonged to her father at that time,, Grandmother*, Eleanor 4 (Zumvalt) Article #54 Page 02 Troxel had two brothers and three sisters; Joseph 4 Zumwalt» Jacob 4 Zumwalt, Elizabeth 4 (Zumwalt.) Long, Sarah 4 (Zumwalt) Kirkpatrlek, Mary4 (Zumwalt)Cameron*, mother of Jake 4 Cameron and Mary 5 (Cameron )Somers„ Grandmother Troxel"s oldest brother, Joseph 4 Zumwalt had four sons and three daughter Jacob Willard 5 Zumwalt, James C„ 5 Zumwalt, Daniel 5 Zumwalt, Joseph Oscar 5 Zumwalt9 Mar; Ann 5 (Zumwalt)Elbe,, Emily 5 (Zumwalt)(Eibe)West, and Nancy Ann 5 (Zumwalt)Bailey, Jacob 4 Z_awalt, her younger brother, had three sons and three daughters; John Henry 5 Zumwaltp Joseph 5 Zumwalt, Daniel Kindle 5 Zumwalt, Nancy Ann 5 (Zumwalt)Cotton)Hunt, Sarah M. 5 (Zumwalt)Shoemaker and Elisabeth 5 (Zumwalt}Eskridge)Hall, This Is our family history as given to me by my father* George W„ 5 Troxel on January 8, 1918, at Glenn, Glenn County, California Signedi Clarence M, 6 Troxel Address? 1523& T Street Sacramento, California From? MrSo A0 W„ Johnson Tog George R. Zumwalt Date? March 29, 1963 LINEAGE OF ELEANOR 4 ZUMWALT Andrew 1 Z _ #1 wa Mary 11 George 2 Z & Mary 11 Jacob 3 Z - & Nancy Ann Spurgeon Eleanor 4 Z & Daniel Zachariah Troxel William Tremble 5 Troxel & Elisabeth Johnson Joseph R„ 5 Troxel —— & Abbe Edwards George Wheatley 5 Troxel _ Ann Caroline Everts Albert M, 5 Troxel Jacob 5 Troxel John Everistus 5 Troxel Daniel 5 Troxel Rachel 5 Troxel Ellen 5 "Troxel Ann Margaret 5 Troxel Sarah Elizabeth Troxel '-,- February BIOGRAPHY OF JOHN HENRY 5 ZUMWALT Andrew 1 Zumwalt was first of the name In America» B@m In Alsace-Lorraine$ Stoaaet in 1698 • came to Pennsylvania in 1737, died, in Virginia la I7_4 - 2nd wife was Ann Keglna E_tt.( * "A Swiss Girl*= Joshua 4 Zumwalt and his second wife Nancy (Venable) Zumwalt,(who vas the daughter < and Rachel (Furaley)Venable) vere married in Pike County» Illinois oat Nweraber _3„- jbay v«r«J®_a Henry 5 Zumwalt8a father and mother*-. J©hn?s brothers and si«tors v«re Marian, IfiHlan. Andrev, Bris*_s, Newton, Sarah, Emma, Rachel and Rebeccar Tteeir hmm v«s at PI««s«&i BlXlp Pike County, Illinois, and It vas there that John spent bis ysuth, r»55*l#ed! his seh ing and grew late i__n__ After returning to California he and with tha help of his vife continued farming,, but finally the pastures looked greener up In Oregon*, He bad s®me relatives up there som^fher® irousd Salem, so th»y gave up farming and it was "Oregon or Bust", They started eut vj m two \_g@aa, John 5 Zumwalt drove ©ne and S©uth Shives the other • After their arrival, *& their daatinatlon Autumn was ever and the winter rains vere in evidence - the pastures didn't l«wk to green, a© It vas back to California. After packing up and starting out a very aimssing thing bappened - they vere several miles ®n the sroad vhen Barbara Ann discovered tfea t she had toft their money bag under her pillcv at the Hotelc It is needless to say there vas plew-ty if axcltement existing.. They turned arcund and made great speed back to the Hfctol wfc*r» t_» mmy bag was stilt undar the pillcv, a© they were again ©n their way* When %h#y arrived at Villus, California they decided to make that the end of their Jfewraagr back to California* Ji»y purchased 10 acres of land en the ©utsklrts of Willows and started to S_qs_ove tfeelr prepsrty * residence^ bare.*, pumphouse, fencing and other iaproveasnts* It vas in this mim kM% Eva 6 Zumwalt was born ©a January 24, 1893» J®_a Henry 5 Zumwalt and his wife Barbara tan were members of the Methodist Church, They attended services vith regularity and saw to It that their children did likewise* Henry 5 Zumwalt dendHed from his Illinois Lodge to Laurel Ledge Ho* 245, Willis, Wifornla, served at %ler for 28 year*, John Henry 5 Zumvalt and his vife Barbara Ann j®£.-}**_ toahel Chapter 0„EoS0 He vas Worthy Patroa fbr to© years • John, received his 50 year sad tm Ma Lcsdge la 1928, Henry 5 Zumwalt and Barbara Ann celebrated their Golden Wedding Anniversary at 'their' home in Willows vitth many friends and oeightbors in attendance^ making the happy event '«y enjoyable., After they had settled in their new horns there vere others wh© came and settled In *"•» area - there vera the R©sep Mason, Llnebauch, Pollard, Sehorn and fielieu families, alt "ifeb children growing up thereby making a neighborhood complete in 0v«ry detailo John Henry 5 Zumwalt kept busy with different types of work - carpentry„ county work and during the harvest time he was separator man (having charge of all ©Derations) and then after the harvent aeason was over he would work in the warehouses bucking sacks day while on the harvester he was oiling some gears and cogs while the machine was in ©p oration and his jumper caught in toe gears and was torn almost ©ff his back - had fee a powerful man he might have lost an arm ©r possibly his lifer While John Henry 5 Zumwalt was working at all of the above activities Barbara Ann jes was busy raising their family « The chores were not easy for her - there was the housework, ' thi cooking, gardening8 putting up fruit of every kind and description and many other chores that required her efforts*, After several years their land and their efforts began to pay so a dividends o By that time the two boys vere getting big enough to help with wome ©f the work I Cal their assignments were many but they were equal to the ©ec_si®n„ The ten acres was divided i our up Into sectionsp building site,, a portion for alfalfa and also an- area for a small vine- anc year*, fruit trees and space for wheat and gyp corn*. live stock ©n the farm consisted of a span of horses9 two cows and then to® there was always a flock ©f chickens. John Henry 5 Zumwalt would buy five ©r six small pigs - i'i&#y would be fattened up for the winter meat,-, so vith p©rk9 lardp sausage,, head cheese and etc0(> chickens9 eggs,, milk and butter, also every kind ©f fruit you could think of,, About th® ©raly thing they would have to buy from the stores would be clothes 9 flour$, sugar, c@ffee„ spices,, eto» and beef ©nee in a while„ t Itwasn t all work with this familys sometimes they would go to the mountains ©n a camping trip or down to the Sacramento River fishing ©r on a picnic « always using for '.transportation the spring wagon and two horses 0 Never a dull memento John Henry 5 Zumwalt was born In Calhoun County» Illinois on October 17 9 1853 and passed away December 30„ 1933 at the age of 80„ Barbara Ann Frances (Cralgmlles)(Mrs0 Henry) Zumwalt passed away March 12s 1944 at the age ©f 81„ They have gone on to sterna! Rest but the memory of their kindness and goodness will linger on,, LINEAGE OF JOHN HENRI 5 ZUMWALT Andrew 1 Z—-——& 02 v Ann Regina Jacob 2 Z—* 01 w Catherine Miller Heary 3 Z —-1 02 v Elizabeth Kesler Joshua 4 Z=-~-=-_t 02 v Nancy Venable Jc Henry 5 Z—* Barbara Ann Frances Craigmiles Bertha 6 Zumwalt born* 6 Sept*, 1883 died; 1884 William Raymond 6 Zumwalt born? 27 Febo 1885 died* living Henry Grever 6 Zumwalt born: 4 March 1886 died: Augo 1955 Eva 6 (Zumwalt)(Mrs, Durward) Colville borns 24 Jan, 1893 dieds living By .• William R, 6 Zumwalt 3251 Georgia Street Oakland*, Mrso Do B. Colville (Eva) 1025 Ulloa Street San FTanelse©0 California G«©rge R,, Zumwalt i Article #55 April 10, 1963 BY OX-TEAM TO CALIFORNIA One of my sons has requested me to write the story of my early life,, Whether he is in jest or in earnest I do not knowj if in earnest, I know not why he thinks I could do such a thingo It must be either because I have given birth and raised to stalwart manhood seven sons, or because I was a pioneer in the great State of Illinois, and also in our Sunny State California o He must have some reason for it; perhaps it is this - just to know something of our family history. I myself have often wished I knew more of the history of my parents and ancestorsj so I will do what I can to grant my son's request for this reason, if for no other, I must begin back with my ancestors*, From a rare old book, "The Pioneer Families of Missouri", I have learned that Jacob (should be Andrew) Zumwalt emigrated from Germany to America during colonial times and settled first in Pennsylvania at the present site of Little York, Mr*, Andrew 1 Zumwalt was married twice. By his first vife he had two sons and two daughters, and by his second wife he had five sons and one daughter„ It is said that his son Jacob 2 Zumwalt built the first hewed log house that was ever erected on the North side of the Missouri River in 1798, about on© and a half miles Northwest of O'Fallen Station,, on the Sto Louis, Kansas City and Northern Railway„ I have not been able to trace the coa= nectiom betveen the Missouri Zumwalts and my ova parents, though all vere no doubt related, The name of my great-great-grandfather was Adam Zumvalt (should be Andrew 1). His son George 2 Zumwalt, emigrated from Germany to American and lived In Virginia, where my grand B father j, Jacob 3 Zumwalt was born0 The names of great-grandfather s children vere Jacob 3? Elizabeth 3, (Z)Spry, Henry 3, Mary 3 (Z)Simmons, Magdalene, Christina 3 (Z)Snyder, Philip 3, Christian 3, and John 3. My grandfather, Jacob 3 Zumvalt, also had nine children, whose names were Sarah 4 (Z)Kirkpatrick, Mary 4 (Z)Cameron, Joseph 4, Daniel 4, Jacob 4s Elizabeth 4 (Z)Lo_gs Eleanor 4 (Z)Troxel, George 4 and John 4. The fifth of these Jacob 4 Zumwalt was my fathern Grandraoiner Zumwalt's maiden name was Nancy Ann spurgeon. She was born in Pennsylvania of parents vho had come from Englad and so was related to the Spurgeons of that country0 My mother8s maiden name was Susanna Smith. She was the daughter or Reuben Smith, whose children were Sally, John, Joel, Anna, Joseph, Phoebe, Reuben, Stephen, Mary Ann, Clarenda, Elizabeth, Susanna and Cynthia,, My great grandparents, Oliver Smith and Sarah Herrick, vho were born and married in England, came to America about 1770. Sarah was a very large woman, taller than Reuben Smith,, who was six feet six inches tall. Oliver Smith was a physician and surgeon and was quite wealthy until the Indians took and destroyed his property„ Grandmother Smith died January 17, 1834 and grandfather Reuben Smith died September 25, 1840. My own parents, Jacob 4 Zumwalt and Nancy Ann Spurgeon, were both born and raised in Ohio, as far mer So They received only a moderate education, as colleges and seminaries were then unknown in that part of the country, They had no carriages to go riding in when they were young. A walk of five or six miles was not considered much; but horseback riding was very fashionable among old and young alike. To go to church on Sunday or to market or to the mill with a bag of corn, wheat or buckwheat swung across the horse's back, or even to weddings,, ten, twenty or more miles away, all these were most common, everyday affairs« When my parents were married, father was twenty-two and mother nineteen. Father came twenty miles on horseback with his company of family relatives and friends• On arriving at mother's home, they all rode around the house three times for good cheer, according to the style of the day*, On these long rides it was customary for the young men to carry the girl's collarettes in their high silk hats, so they would not get mussed up. Article #55 Page 02 The day after the wedding they, with their company, went to my father's home for the Infair. According to previous arrangements, they started after just one week to emigrate to Indiana, This was a wedding trip that some of our young folks wouldn't like very well nowadays - especially to go a3 my parents went, with their own team, taking in the wagon all they possessed, except their five horses and the cow named "Pink". I can remember hear ing my mother calling, "Suk-Pink", and the cow would come home from as far as she could hear ins call, out of the thick woods. When they reached their journey's end, they settled in the beech and maple timber that wa3 so thick they had to cut down trees and clear out a spot big enough on which to build their little log house of one room. But since they were married in June and had started at once? the house was built before winter set in. Yet, when they moved in, the only door was a quilt hung up, and the only curtain was another quilt at the little square window without glass. Later the fireplace chimney was completed with split sticks chinked up with mud plaster0 Father split some puncheons from he big hard-wood trees and put down a floor big enough for the bed. By keeping diligently at work, they had soon made a door, bed-stead, etc. A few hens were brought from a distant neighbor, mother borrowed a rooster and made a little chicken house from small trees she had cut down; so in a short time they had plenty of chickens. Father, Jacob 4 Zumwalt, was a skillful hunter, so they fared well for meat, deer and other wild game being plentiful. They lived in happiness. In the spring they made enough maple sugar syrup (or molasses, as we always called it) and vinegar to do for the year. And they also had a splendid garden, having been provided ;/ith seeds before leaving home. They had everything necessary that was good to eat, and lived well* But on account of exposure and hard work, mother was troubled with rhewmatism and both h_d chills and fever; so they concluded to go on to Illinois and try it there. The five horse team was hitched on to the great covered wagon, and old "Pink" with her --inkling bell and playf_l progeny was made ready for another journey. Father and mother had found two little girls in the timber of Indiana; ray sister, Sarah and I were born there, Hoosiersj end sometimes I feel glad, even proud, that I was born a sturdy, hardy Hoosier. I was then three years old, and Sarah was 3ix weeks old; pretty young to be an emigrant to a new country, to be one of the pioneers. My parents and my uncle, Joseph 4 Zumwalt, and his family arrived in Will County, Illi nois, at Troutman's Grove, near Joliet, in the spring of 1834, there to begin a pioneer life over sgain by starting a new home and it had to be done very much as the first one. Here my school days began*, One of our neighbors who had come there about 1831, and was educated, vas hired to teach the first school ever kept in that place. Scholars being scarce the teacher got my parents to let me go, although a baby not four years old yet, but even now can ran ember some thing I did then. The teachers name was Henry Watkinss he used to carry me home for dinner, for we lived near the little log school house. A row of wooden pins driven into the logs served for hooks for the boys coats and hats and the girls' sunbonnets, hoods and kiss-me-quicks. Our seats were slabs from the saw-mill, with limbs of trees driven in for legs. Our writing desks were rough boards about a foot and a half wide, made fast and sloping a little along the sides of the school room. Our teacher, who was a Baptist, read a chapter from the Bible every morning and prayed with every scholar, big or little, kneeling down. Oh, that our public schools would follow that good old-fashioned way now! The teacher set our copies for writing and made our pens I of goose quills, .ve made our own ink out of oak bark. I never saw red ink in those days,- We did not stay there long. Father (Jacob 4 Zumwalt) thought best to move about five miles to the edge of Jackson's Grove, to be sheltered from the cold, bleak winds and storms* Then I had to walk more than a mile to school. I remember getting badly seared twice when 1 saw a big snake lying across the path, and once when a mother pheasant came running after me to protect her brood of young. About this time, stoves were coming into use, and father bought one for our home; it vas an odd-looking concern*, One day the teacher brought home from Chicago a few matches*, 'Ve thought it very strange that five should come out of a little stick when he struck a match on the stove pipe. The girls never studied arithmetic in the school there, but did study grammar; the boys studied arithmetic*, but no grammaro I was considered very good in Kirkham's Grammar. At times Mr. Watkins would let the entire school study out loud for five minutes; and then what a clattering and chattering we would have! During the winter time, we often had spelling schools in the evening; sometime they would choose up and spell down several times the same eveing. We also had singing school, which I attended after I became old enough! Father usually went with us, which made it very pleasant. • My father (Jacob 4 Zumwalt) was uncommonly ingenious; he was able to make almost every thing that we needed to use in the pioneer days of Indiana and Illinois. He would go down t by the Oplane River„ cut down a cedar tree and rive out the staves. The wood next, to the bark was white and the inside was red; he made his staves each half red and half white, so that it worked up very prettily into wash-tubs,, kegs, buckets, keelers and whatever we needed, taking young hickory trees and splitting them into strips for hoops to use on the utensils. Of larger hickories, he made scrubbing brooms, by sawing a ring aroung the stick? then working the upper part down for the handle and splitting the other end into fine splints. He also used hickory splints for chair bottoms. He tanned deer skins and made mittens, whip lashes and some gloves. He made and mended our shoes and boots and did much of that for the neighbors. He did his own blacksmithing and was a pretty good carpenter*, too, making all his own axe-handles, etc He made very good, coarse combs and back-combs from cow's horn. After I was about ten years old, my mother was an invalid most of the time till we i came to California; so Sarah 5 Zumwalt, my sister and I had most of the housework to do*, I _ were very early taught to work, not only in the house, but out of doors, too. When I < vas sixteen years old, mother sent to Indiana for feathers to make a bed for me„ * [ I first became acquainted with Mr. Alexander Cotton*, my first husband, at school and j at temperance meetings. He and his slter used to sing temperance songs, sometimes comic The wadding was at two o'clock; then came the dinner, such a repast as the fertile State of Illinois could afford, for the whole company of about seventy-five persons. We did not go off for a wedding trip in those days; but stayed at home, letting our parents end friends share in the festivities. We spent the evening sociably until near midnight; but about eleven, two of the girls went upstairs vith me to my room, and then I went to bed. After the girl3 had gone down, in came my husband; he drew me up from the back part of the bed, onto his arm, and just then the company came thronging in at the door to catch a glimpse of us in bed. They they left us, and soon were on the way to their home. The next day, with some of our brothers and sisters, we went to Wilmington by invita tion, to have our infair at the home of a sister of my husband. Father had recently bought a farm of eighty acres, with ten acres of woodland and a sugar camp. He now said; "Children, go onto the place and see how much you can make; and have all you make". We went, and ve worked, too! Father gave me a good young horse and two cows, besides hogs, sheep, chickens, and everything we had in the house. I fully be lieve there never was a happier couple; and oh, how we did workl We made maple sugar in the spring, picked wild strawberried in abundance, and in winter trapped all the prairie chickens and quail we wanted. We always found time to drive over to our old home about once a week, and to raise a few beautiful flowers in summer. We lived on this place only three years before we had enough saved up, with another "lift" from my father, to buy thirty acres of our own, in the edge of what was called Little Grove, then, but afterwards called Starr's Grove. There we had a beautiful place, xjith a- new house and a fine creek of running water, everything, it seemed to make us happy. ( -i But tiiis was not to last long. My husband (Alexander Cotton) began coughing and rapid- ' ly grew xrorse and worse, until he went into the dread disease, consumption. Then our troubles bsgan; and if we had not both learned to leave them with the great Burden Bearer, we would have been much worse off than we were. ! ! We had two darling little sons, Albert 6 Cotton and Joel 6 Cotton; but our dear little "j daughter, Irene 6 Cotton, inherited her father's weakness and died when but four months old. I After strong and unmistakable symptoms, my father (Jacob 4 Zumwalt) was taken with the California fever in the year 1849, when his brother (my uncle Joseph 4 Zumwalt) crossed the Great Plains and came to California, bringing his wife and eleven children with him. Well, after that spring it seamed all my father could do was to read every item of Cal ifornia news he could get and talk about the new wonderland - for mother would not be per- | auaded to undertake the journey. j But father kept reading and talking. One day he read that wheat and peaches were a j sure crop ever; that greatly increased his desire to come. That desire, which was shared ] by nil six of his sons and daughters never waned nor grew old. At last, early in 1854;, the doctors told us the only chance there was for my husband, Alexander Cotton to live was to come to California that year. Of course, I at once told ; my parents I vas going to venture all and make the start with him for California; we began at once to make arrangements to come. j Article A Page 05 Then my sister, Sarah 5 Zumwalt and her husband, James Shoemaker, decided they ^ come with us. And next, father's faver never having abated, mother consents fcc come, pr viding the old homestead could be kept unencumbered to return to in case w_ should like California. All went to work with a will to get ready for the great journey. Father began buyin oxen and having new wagons made, good and strong,. Times were very lively with us all that winter, selling home effects and buying our outfit. We had to part with all of our l-l and dear keepsakes, mementoes of our childhood, for we could only take just what we need on the way. My uncle Joseph 4 Zumwalt and family, who had gone to California in 149» and returned to Illinois, were now ready for their second journey„ Father's sister, Mrs. Nellie 4 Zum walt, Mrs. Daniel Troxel, and her family, with neighbors and friends,, made up a party that started on with teams and live stock about the middle of March, even before the snow and ice had gone. But never mind that - they were on their way to the great new country? About the. niddle of April, the remainder of our party, having remained behind to fii the business affairs, started from Joliet by rail,, and went to the terminus at Peoria. Then we took the steamboat down the Illinois River to the Mississippi and down the great river as far as St. Louis. From St. Louis we proceeded up the Missouri to Kainsville. The Missouri River was then very low, and was full of mud, sandbars,, snags, etc- so we had a hard time at the very outset of our journey. The steamboat was badly snagged, and it leak ed so fast that it was necessary to unload everything and put it onto another boat, I had the quinsy and was seriously sick with it, and my husband, by taking cold, was -^ery low in deed near to death with his disease. But as soon as we were on land, ail began to get better. The old boat never made another trip down the river; they left it at KalnsvOJLe to be used as a ferry boat. Here we met my father and the members of the advance guard. Af ter a few days" preparation, we crossed the Missouri and our long, hard camping trip across the Great Plains began. We found all the ox drivers we needed, simply for their board along the way, There were in our train besides our immediate family, which included my brothers John 5 Zumwalt, Joseph 5 Zumwalt and Daniel 5 Zumwalt, and my sisters, Sarah % Zumwtlt and Lizzie 5 Zum walt and those of uncle Joseph 4 Zumwalt and Aunt Nellie 4 (Zumwalt)TToxel, neighbors and friends occuping in all twenty-five wagons and teams, nearly all of them ox teams of five yoke for each wagon. When we camped at night we would drive our wagons so they would fo**m a circle and by putting the pole, or tongue of each wagon upon the back axle tree of the next, all round the circle, we had a pretty good corral. our large company could not remain together long; so much stock required more grass than could be found in one place near the road, for each family bad besides the teams more or less loose stock, cows, calves, etc. Some members of the company would become impatient and wish to hurry alonj as fast as their teams could go; after a few days we would usually overtake them and erawli along past them, as they would be stopped by the roadside to rest their cattle. We always went along slowly, but steadly, stopping half a day each week, whenever we possible could, o do our washing *, We always laid over Sunday, I believe. Once we made a mistake; thinking it va.\ Satur day, we were washing when some traders came along, from whom we learned it was Sundaj. *fe quickly put away the washing for that day. That was the only time we completely lost track of the day of the week. • • Article #55 Page 06 Our wagons were big and strong, and had good, stout, bows covered with think, white drilling; so there was a nice room in each wagon, as everything was clean and fresh and new. Two strong hooks were fastened on the top of each side of our wagon-box and a pole (called a 3pring-pole) laid in these hooks. Boards were laid across from pole to pole thus making a spring bed that was rery comfortable for my sick husband, after a good feather bed f.nd plenty of covering were put in place. We had but one wagon of our own, with five yoke of oxen a_3 two cows. Moat of the emigrant wagons had the name of the owners, place where they were from and where they were bound, marked In large letters on the outside of the cover. There were stations along the way at great intervals; these were called trading posts, and they kept supplies of provisions, ammunition, etc., but the emigrants had to pay dearly for everything at these stations. The traders vere glad to buy such dried fruits, jellies jams, pickles, preserves, etc. as the emigrants had to share. We called it a good day's drive if we went twenty miles, and a big drive if we went twenty-five miles; but in the mountains, and where we had streams to cross, we worked hard manj' times and went only five miles. I think I must have walked half the way to Californiao Many times I did not get into the wagon to ride all day. Oh, the roads we passed overe were terrible. In so:_e places in the mountains the men bad to let the wagons down the deep pitches with chains; in other places it would take ten yoke of oxen, or more, to pull a wagon up the steep, slippery grades. But parts of our road were just beautiful, being level as a floor and .ordered with a carpet of green grass intermingled with flowers of every shade. We of ;en saw herds of buffalo at a distance, but they were wild enough to keep out of the way of the emigrants. At their watering places we saw dead ones and partly eaten by wolves or other wild beasts. We frequently had buffalo meat as well as bear, elk, deer, antelope, and fish, ducks and other wild game. We als_ys treated the Indians well and with respect, and they never molested us at any time. Day after day we heard stories of how the Indians had been treated badly by the em igrants, and how thsy were threatening to take the next train that came along to get re venge . Sosae emigrants did have trouble that year. We always gave them something to eat when they asked for it. I believe the Golden Rule helped us to get through safely. As soon as we went into camp, if any Indians were in hearing distance, they would come to see us. They climbed up and looked into our wagons with great curiosity; yes, and as tonishment, too, when they saw the display of guns and araraunition we had. We always had these hanging rather artistically on the inside of the wagon cover, so they would be the first thing to attract the visitor's attention, and they always looked sober at the sight of them. At night we placed our weapons of defense by the sides of our beds in our tents. I claimed the ax for mine, and always saw that it was close to me but I never had occasion to use it on _n Indian. Sometimes It was trying to notice how the Indians would eat the things we gave them. For instance, on one occasion a big Indian and a pitiful little fellow begged food, and we gave each a plateful. The big fellow soon cleaned his plate then took the little one's plate away from hia, bringing a sorrowful look to the little face. When we showed our astonishment, he said by way of explanation, placing his hand upon his stomack, then point ing to hid companion; "Me heap big; him little bally!" The little boy looked sorry, but did not cry - I surmisa he was used to such treatment. Article #55 Page 07 One night in particular, more than any other, we expected to be killed or taken as captives. (Imagine for one moments what a feeling that is!) The Indians formed in a line on both sides of our camp. It was very dark but when they built fires on both sides, we knew they were in line. Then they set up their terrible war-whoop, and kept It up until late into the night. Greatly frightened, we made ready for an attack. Fortunately they did not molept us at all, except as we suffered in our minds from our fright. That night we kept ample guard and what little sleep we did get we took.,wit h our hands on our weapons* Early the next morning we moved on quietly as if nothing had happened. We had music in camp many an evening. Some of the company having brought their musi« cal instruments, such as violins or guitars and when not too tired we would sing hymns of praise. The young people had a good time and a great deal of fun. They were free from care and could ride on horseback or in the wagons all they pleased, or could walk along the road together. We managed to sew enough to keep our clothes in order while the oxen were poking along where the road was level. Some worked at crocheting or knitting a little occasionally just for pastime. We had nothing to read but our Bibles and a few hymn books, I did not notice the cold or heat very much on our trip. We had many hard, cold rain and hail storms. I think the most severe were encountered while we were in the Rocky Moun= tains. Sometimes they would sluice us out of our tents; so we were compelled to hurry our beds and everything up into the wagons. I remember one night especially when I worked in the rain till I was drenched through and through; my feet squished in my shoes. In that condition I did not dare to get into bed with my poor, sick husband and my little children for fear of giving them cold; so I drew myself up into the front end of the wagon as far as I could with my feet extending outside, and very soon I dropped off to sleep and slept soundly being so tired out. Such exposures never hurt me in the least - we could live in al most any way out of doors, so hardened were we by that manner of life. And right here I want to recommend living out of doors for the invalid when the weather will at all permit; I believe It to be better then medicine. For about three weeks I was sick with what was called mountain fever. We were then traveling along the Humboldt River, where we could get no good water, although constantly in sight of plenty of snow. Oh, how good that snow looked to me! Surely, I thought, if anyone of the rest of our company were burning up with fever, as I was, and I was well, I would go and get some snow - it looked so near! And yet they said it must be a hundred miles from U3. Distance was deceiving. After the fever had had its run, I recovered, with God's care - for little care did I have but his, before we came to the Sierra Nevada Mountains. While the young folk were having their good times, some of the mothers were giving birth to their babes; three babies vere born in our company that summer. My cousin Emily 5 (Zumvalt) Ibe (later Emily West of Dixon) gave birth to a son in Utah, forty miles north of Great Salt Lake, one evening; and the next morning she traveled on until noon, when a stop was made, and another child was born «= this time Susan Longmire was the mother made happy by the advent of little Ellen. The third birth occured after we had seperated from Uncle Joseph 4 Zumwalt8s family; the wife of my cousin Jacob % Zumwalt gave birth to a daughter while traveling In the Sierra Nevada. To this baby they gave the name Alice Nevada 6 Zumwalt. In every instance, after the birth, we traveled right along the next day j, mothers and babes with the rest of us. We had an unusual commotion one afternoon and night, near the fork of the Sweetwater River <, My youngest sister, Liszie 5 Zumwalt, then twelve years old, was lost. She had started off in search of firewood and completely lost her bearings. Finally she found the road and walked back on it five miles, when she came to a camp of emigrants. Two of them brought her into our excited camp about eleven oBclock at night. My mother was nearly be side herself when they brought her in all safe and sound out very tired. 4 > Article # 55 Page m Our train wont north of Salt Lake and passed what was known as Sublet's Cutoff, where Ogden now is. As most of our company wished to go through by Salt Lake, ve were again di vided, our own party having but one other family besides my father's - Mrs. Neff, a widow with her three sons, Jim, Dan and Joh, and a daughter named Sarah. Jim was married, hav ing with him his wife and son. He was very sick through Nevada. At Carson we thought he would die, but he refused to take our medicine (calomel and quinine), saying he would die first. Coming so near to deaths doer, he finally concluded to take the medicine, so he got well in due time. He was a soft kind of man, with little grit or vim in him. Day after day we traveled along, slowly very slowly. The roads were almost impassable; the days vere hot and the nights freezing cold. Near the summit of the Sierras we came to the snow; it was the month of August. It was here, in the midst of the great mountains, that I met with the greatest trial and loss of my life, up to this time. It was the loss of my dear husband (Alexander Cotton) the father of my two little sons. He died August 21, 1854. He was a noble, good Christian man. Oh, the patience he showed all along the road! Never recovering sufficient strength to get out, he sat there in the wagon alone through those long months, except for a few week a along the Sweetwater River. How proud he vas then, and I, toot We thought he would get well. But when ve came into the Sierras, he took fresh cold, from which he never re covered. The long lingering disease had run its course and ended his short life; his brave Bpririt departed at Twin Lakes, a beautiful little valley on this side of the summit - so he died in California. We laid the body away in the best manner ve possible could, especially marking the grave so the emigrants passing that vay for years afterwards would take particular notice of it; in this way we could hear from it sometimes. We could not linger there between the two majestic pines where my husband's body vas tenderly laid to rest; there was no grass for the cattle. We must push on. That night we found grass, so decided to remain for a day or two for washing and ether needful preparations; for we were now almost at our journey's end. Only two or three days more and ve sighted the beautiful valley of the Co sutures. We went through to Sacramento, which had grown tap around Sutter's Fort into a thriving city. Then we remained out on the American River (a branch of the Sacramento) for two weeks, while my father was looking about for a place to live. After looking over several differ ent places including the vicihty of Dixon - which he pronounced worthless for farming - he bought his farm on Deer Creek, near Daylor's Ranch, on the Cosumnes. It had a good com fortable house, considering the early date. I remained with my parents, with my two little boys; but after a while, so many came to ask me to work for them, I concluded to hire out to work, although I had never worked sway fjroa home. For my work I never received less than $50 a month, and for a part of the time I received $75. Wbmen were scarce in California in comparison to men, and it was hard to secure women' help. I would leave the children with mother, as she didn't have mu much work to do in those days. My wagon I had sold, a part of the money received for it being two fifty-dollar California slugs, one of them round and other eight-sided. They were no rarity in those day, being quite as plant Lful as currency. My fi?st acquaintance with Mr. Dennis Rockwell Hunt was made by riding vith him for thirty mils* on his grai_wagon to the place where I went to work, a large country hotel called the Somerset House. He was then hauling barley to Coloma and the landlord arranged with him to take me up. ___ Article #55 Page 09 As a matter of course, My Hunt, being an old bachelor who had come to California four years earlier, would come into the parlor a little while on his arrival with every load to inquire how the young widow was getting along, bring some message from home, or take some word back to my folks. Each time I went to visit at home I went with him on his grain or hay vagon* I did not remain long at the Somerset House. One of the owners, whose wife vas with him, sold out to the other, whose wife was still in Boston; so if I were to remain I would be the only woman there and must take the place of landlady. Mr. Linsey offered me $75 a month for all vinter, and said I might keep little Albert 6 Cotton and Joel 6 Cotton vith me, as veil as do the sewing and washing besides my wages. But no; I would not consent to stay. In a little while I began working for the Eldorado House on the Placerville road, being engaged as cook for the house. Of course, teaming from Hunt ranch paid better on the Placerville road now; so I still had good opportunity of hearing from home often! I remained at the Eldorado House until May; then Mr. Hunt thought I had better not work out anymore. So I did up a good lot of sewing for myself and children, feeling quite in dependent about my clothes, as I had earned the money to buy them myself. Mr. Hunt had a squatter's right to some land on a Spanish grant, only half a mile from my father's house. He had built a small house of four rooms, but these were not finished then. So we were married in my father's house, August 5, 1855. I was dressed in white, with embroidered pink flowers. Thus I began my married life in California. It has brought many joys and many sorrows. And now my five stalwart sons, all native sons of California, the fruit of my second marriage, have grown to manhood's estate. This is the personal narrative of Nancy Ann (Zumwalt) (Cotton) (Mrs. Dennis Rockwell) Hunt as it appeared in the Overland Monthly, April 1916. From: Mrs. A. W. Johnson To: George R. Zumwalt Date 29 March 1963 • Prepared from the original manuscript of Nancy Ann 5 (Zumwalt) (Cotton) (Mrs. Dennis Rockwell) Hunt, by Professor Rockwell D. Hunt, Professor in the University of Southern California and President of the Historical Society of Southern California. The original manuscript was prepared more than twenty years ago, vith great care and considerable research, but of course chiefly from memory. * Article #55 Page #10 ZUMWALT LINEAGE OF NANCY ANN 5 (ZUMWALT) (COTTON) (MRS. DENNIS ROCKWELL) HUNT Andrew 1 Z — —..—. — . •• M.,,,,.!,,_.,_„, & #1 w. Mary 11 George 2 Z —~<^-__—___—.•••,.• ____«__^_ & Mary ?? Jacob 3 Z ——— & Nancy Ann Spurgeon Jacob 4 Z & Susanna Kindle Smith N__,3y An_ 5 Z & 0. h, Alexander Cotton 02 h. Dennis Rockvell Hunt Albert 6 Cotton & Josephine Gregory Joel 6 Cotton & Catherine Sheldon Irene 6 Cotton died age 4 months Dr. Rockwell Dennis 6 Hunt — & Major C. Hunt & Frank L, 6 Hunt & Mark T. 6 Hunt _ George G, 6 Hunt & Note: Additions in parenthesis and genealogical #s of generations have been added by George R. Zumwalt to better identify names and persons in this narative. • ' Article # 57 October 8, 1964 JOSHUA 4 ZUMWALT I My grandfather, Joshua 4 Zumwalt, was born July 5S 1822 in Cedar City, Callaway I County, Missouri, the son of Christopher 3 Zumwalt, Jr. and his second wife, Elizabeth Keller. His mother died when he was about 3ix years old and his father a few years later while on a trip to New Orleans with a boat load of meat and lard, and from which trip he [ never returned. It was supposed he was killed on the coast of Texas as he had planned to go into South Texas to locate some land with the intention of moving there. | Joshua had six brothers: Abraham 4, John 4, Ephraim 4, Levi 4, Urijah 4» and Christopher Peter 4 and he had two sisters: Sarah 4 who married a Dr. McMillan and Mar- ( cena 4 who married a Mr. Brown. I Joshua Zumwalt was of high German descent. His ancestor, Andrew 1 Zumwalt lived in North Germany and came to America for religious freedom and settled in Pennsylvania about I 1730 or earlier. Later he moved to Virginia where he established a home at Woodstock in the famous Shenandoah Valley and where he died in 1764. Three of his son3 were soldiers in the Virginia forces in the War of the Revolution. They were Christopher 2, Sr. ( grandfather of Joshua 4, Adam 2 and Jacob 2. They served under George Rogers Clark in the Capture of Vincennes, Indiana. At the close of the Revolution they moved to Kentucky , and helped establish the city of Lexington. About 1793 they moved to Missouri and 1 settled in St. Charles, Missouri. One of Grandfather's brothers named Levi 4 went to Illinois and perhaps on to Calif ornia. Another brother, Christopher Peter 4 went to Oregon. Other members of the family went to Texas prior to the Texas Revolution of 1836 settling in and around Gonzales, Texas*, and some of them served in the Texa3 Revolution at San Jacinto, and at the Alamo. One Andrew Zumwalt's name is on the list of heroes on the San Jacinto Monument Plaque, near Houston, Texas. It is said that the Zumwalts went to Missouri with Daniel Boone and were related to him by marriage. The Zumwalts were Methodists and Joshua 4 and his wife joined the old Cottonwood Methodist Church at Little Elm in Eastern Denton County, Texas. On March 20, 1845, Joshua 4 was married to Miss Susan Chandler McNiel in Warrenton* Warren Co., Missouri. While preparing the Zumwalt history papers for my sister to join the D.A.R. (Daughters of the American Revolution) s my brother J. Lee Zumwalt 6 obtained a copy of their marriage certificate on file in Warrenton, Missouri J (We also obtained a copy of the marriage certificate of our mother's parents, Leevaston and Sarah (Turner} Jillis in Libertyp Clay Co., Missouri who were married July 30, 18441) Jo Joshua 4 Zumwalt with his wife and two baby daughters, Martha & Elizabeth Frances,, moved to Bonham, Fannin County, Texas in 1849, going later from there to McKinney, Collin Countyp Texas and in 1851 moved to Little Elm in Eastern Denton County, where a survey of land was granted and patented to him by the State of Texas, August 4, 1859. In 1853 or 54 the family moved to Denton, Denton County, Texas where they lived during the War be tween the States. Joshua 4 enlisted in the Confederate Army but when it was learned that he was a shoemaker he was detailed to make boots and shoes for the Confederate government One day a man told him if he would make him a pair of boots he'd pay Grandfather in flour, which was a scarce article in those days. To be able to do this Grandfather had to work at night. After sitting up late one night to finish the boots he discovered they were gone the next morning. At the close of the war a man came into the shop saying he wanted tm *• -ay some _oney he owed. Grandfather told him he didn't owe him anything*. Then nan said he was the one who took the boots as he had walked until his feet were sore oleeding. He said he promised the Lord if he lived through the war he'd come back and j&y for them I Grandfather was a kind and loving husband and father. Besides raising his own family he gave a home to two sets of grandchildren (of whom I was one). Nine children were born to Joshua 4 and his wife, Susan: 1. Martha 5, born in Missouri I846, died 1855. 2. Elizabeth Frances 59 horn in Missouri in I848, died 1880, married to W. G„ Mcintosh and had two daughters, Amy Myrtle 6, who married J. M. Caddell and Rebecca May 6, who married H. Ross Edwards. 3. Lewis Levi 5 (L.L.), born in McKinney, Collin County, Texas, February 1, 1851 and died January 31, 1898, married Rachel Johnson Willis, December 6, 1874 and had seven children? Nellie Obera 6, Joshua Leevaston 6, William Marvin 6, Susan 6, Mary Lucinda 6. Sarah Elizabeth 6, (the writer of this) and Rachel Maude 6. William Larkin 5, born 1855 in Denton, Texas, died February 1925 in Okla homa, married Jane Turner in 1875 and their children were: Arthur Lewis 6, Ella Rebecca 6, Laura Bess 6, John Joshua 6, Rachel Frances 6, Willie May 6,, Joseph Palmer 6, Lindley Murray 6, Evelyn Jane 6, and Edwin Larkin 6, twins 5. Rebecca 5, born 1857, died 1874, married W. C. Mcintosh before her sister Frances did and lived only a few weeks (fifty-two days) 6. Laura Ann 5, born February 20, 1861, died August 24, 1904, married R. K, Ezell in 1883 and had five children: Vesta 6B Grace 6, Allman 6, Estelle 6, Georgia 6. James Marion 5$, born 1863, died 1892, unmarried. 80 George Washington 5, born August 3, 1865, died 1959, married Maude Rector and their children were: George Edward 6, Curtis 6$, and Cletus 6, (twins) and Maude 6. He next married Emma Freeland and had two sons, Charles and George W. 9c Edward Franklin 59 twin of George Washington 5, born August 3, 1865, died June 17*, 1937, married Junia Hill in 1892 and had three children: Jerome Hill 6, Edward Barrett 6, and Junia Kathleen 6. He was married next to Martha Showalter and their children were Ruth 6, Dorothy 6, Winifred 6, _ Villiam 6. After the death of his wife, Susan, on April 26, 1906, Joshua made his home in the winter with his son, William, in Frederick, Oklahoma and with his grandson, J. Lee 6 Zu_walt in Denton, Texas in the summer, in whose home he died May 14, 1911. He had a premonition of death, telling his relatives and friends he had come back to Denton to hid them good-bye. He died just two weeks later and was buried beside his wife in the old Oak Grove Methodist churchyard, ten miles east of Denton, Texasc ' Page 0 3 The facts given above were obtained from the grandparents during their lifetine from the uncles and from papers used in D„A.R0 history. Also from Houcks "History of Missouri"*, from general Wills probated in 'bodstock, Va.,, 1765 and from the family Bible and was prepared and written by a granddaughter. Sarah Elizabeth 6 Zumwalt 5846 Goliad Ave, Dallas, Texas May 1964 LINEAGE OF JOSHUA 4 ZUMWALT Andrew 1 Z —————. & #2 w. Ann Regina ?? Christopher 2 Z & #1 w„ Mary ?? Christopher 3 Z .• & #2 w. Elizabeth Keller Joshua 4 Z -——— ——«. & Susan Chandler McNiel Martha 5 7 Elizabeth Frances 5 7 _ W, C„ Mcintosh Lewis Levi 5 Z — & Rachel Johnson \_ilis 111lam Larkin 5 Z — & Jane Turner Rebecca 5 Z ————— & W. C. Mcintosh Laura Ann 5 Z — •—— & R„ H„ Ezell James Marion 5 Z —— & unmarried George Washington 5 Z & 01 w. Maude Rector 02 w0 Emma Freeland Edward Franklin 5 Z - & H w„ Junia Hill 02 Wo Martha Showalter O'stober 8,, 1 Lewis Levi 5 Zumwalt My father, L0L„ (Lewis Levi 5) Zumwalt the oldest son of Joshua and Susan McNiel Zumwalt. was born February 1i9 1851 in McKinney, Collin County, Texas. Later the same year his parents moved to the community of Little Elm in the eastern edge of Denton County, a_d in two or three years (about 1853 or ,j54) they mo/ed to Denton*, Denton County, Texas be fore it was incorporated as a town. (It is now a city of more than thirty thousand people with two State Universities iO . After the War Between the States the family moved to their farm in the Oak Grove Com orunlty ten miles east of Denton 0 Lewis attended the one---teacher schools in the country and was an exceptional pupil Having good teachers and several kinsmen who were well-educated,, and having a very bright mind,, he learned fast*, Being studious he spent any leisure time he might have reading good books,, studying mathematics and history., and practicing penmanship. A look at the aid handwritten records In the county court house at Denton, Texas where he spent more than twenty years working in various offices shows that he was a fine penman, He taught Mmself algebra and double-entry bookkeeping, and while he was plowing a furrow In tae 61 .field9 he figured out a problem "in his head and when he reached the end of a plowed row, he'd take a corn shuck and figure on it with a pencil to see If hia answer was correct, After teaching a few years at Brown's School house fou* miles southwest of Denton, he began serving as deputy county clerk and deputy district clerk of Denton County., In wait ing on the courtj. he learned the law and became very good in its use„ in fact a© good that one of the best lawyers in Denton, Mr. Enory Smith, who was also a State Sen tor in the Texas Legislature, asked him to form a law partnership with him. Father told him that he did not have a license to practice law*, Senator Snith said he world try the cases in eourt after Father prepared them?, J __ea Its dtitrici Clarice i-ffis-a wan _&£_r_te_ iriat i__e county clerk' &? L.«. Zumwalt became the first District Clerk of Denton County in 1876 and served until ii884. He was a i'riend to all, colored as well as white,, "Uncle81 Zaek Rawlins, the colored janitor at tha i»_rt house had no better friend. Father was always helping the old and needy as shown by the following episodes Old "Grandma" Price a widow, had only one child, a son, with whom ahe lived:, One day she came to see Father and asked him to help her get a place to 1 live at the County Poor Farm*, He said,, '"Wny,*, Mrs,, Priee9 Xou don't want to do that ^ She told him she had nowhere else to go as her daughter" in-law had made her leave He told her to go on out to his house and help Rachel (his wife) with the children until they worked something outc Lewis had four brothers and four sisterag Martha 5., Elisabeth Frances 5, William Lar k_) 5, Revecca 5, Larue Ann 5» atud James Marion 5, and the twins George Washington 5 and rard Franklin 5., Four mites southwest of Denton li«^ a stockmau K_m_d i«svaston Willis wno had « r r,*aed Rachel and who came into Dent*_. to board and atter-i »*?*»r*l T*_th_r tod thought she was the prettiest girl he'!d ever seen? hazel eyes, dark hrcwn hair, n and very small and dainty*. He and Rachel were married at her father1 s b - • 6t, ?874„ To them were born the following children in order of bir Nellie Obera 6 Zumwalt horns February 7, 1876 dieds Novemb Joshua Leevaston 6 Zumwalt born: February 6, : Q a William Marvin 6 Zumwalt borns June 18, 1881 'tied: May 3, -883 he al Susan 6 Zumwalt born? April 5» 1884 died? Mary Lucinda 6 Zumwalt borns July 5, 1886 died: Sarah Elizabeth 6 Zumwalt born: December 23* 1888 dieds jr.19< Rachel Maude 6 Zumwalt born: October 20„ 1891 dieds All of them were born in Denton, Texas„ _6_U_4 Only one of these children married: Rachel Maude 6 to George Q'Kelley Hughes on November 24, 1914, eon of an old Denton County family who lived in Sanger, Texas ten miles Lew northwest of Denton. Three children were born to thems ,3~ ^. '_}_?'-.__ A son who died at birth borns June 1, 1918 died: June 1„ 1918 Jis } George 0»Kelley Hughes, Jr. born: December 31, 1920 dieds Elizabeth Pierce 7 Hughes borns August 28, 1927 dieds Maude's son, George graduated from Sanger High School and from Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College. He married Betty Jane HJgginbotham on July 12, 1947 and had two children, George O'Kelly 8 Hughes III borns May 23, 1955 dieds Amy Jame 8 Hughes born: May 19, 1959 died: Maude's daughter Elizabeth (Betty) graduated at Sanger High School, attened Ward Belmont in Tenn, one year and graduated at Texas Women" s University in Denton-, (1948) She married James L*, Anderson on June 16, 1951 and they have five children: James Hampton 8 Anderson born: September 1, 1954 Catherine Rachel 8 Anderson borns December 19, 1956 Susan Rose 8 Anderson borns February 21, I960 Carol Leigh 8 Anderson borns March 19* 1962 Sarah Hughes 8 Anderson borns January 7, 1964 Lewis 5 Zumwalt" s wife Rachel died December 21, 1891 and he died a few years later*, heir little children were reared by the grandparents, Joshua 4 a_ Susan Zumwalt, Their grandfather Willis offered to take all five of them, but as he married a second time,; Grandmother Zumwalt said it was not right for a step-grandmother to take that responsibil ity „ Father a brothers helped and we got along fine until Father's health failed Even then we never wanted for anything. No children ever had a happier childhood than we,, After four years as an Invalid, Lewis Levi 5 Zumwalt died at his parents home in Aubrey, Denton County* Texas,, January 31, 1898. He was burled beside his wife in the Odd Fellows Cemetery at Denton, Texas. he above was written by a daughterj Sarah Elizabeth 6 Zumwalt 5846 Goliad Ave„ Dallas, Texas 1964 laeage of Lewis Levi 5 Zumwalt Lle6jjrew il Z —- & 02 v. Ann Regina ilstopher 2 Z & #1 w, Mary ?? (Bhua 4 Z —— & Susan Chandker McK juis Leve 5 Z _ Rachel Johnson Willis er 3 Z & Elizabeth Keller Nellie Obera 6 Z Joshua Leevaston 6 William Marvin 6 Z Susan 6 Z Mary Lucinda 6 Z Sarah Elizabeth 6 2 Rachel Maude 6 Z — _ George 0eKelly Hughes >ir >il" •ii 5 ',- .tele ., bober 8.-, J„ Lee 6 Zumwalt : TH of my brother, J. Lee 6 Ziamwalt (Joshua Leevast__)was 20 full of good works a_d llred on such a high plain of honor a_d integrity that it is difficult to decide what to include or to leave out of the story. He was barely twenty years old when we vere left orphans, and my sisters, (three of them),; and I being too young to take care of ourselves, lived with our grandparents until Lee established a home for ins which he maintained throughout his life,, Having promised ovr father he would take sare of his sisters,, he rever faltered or complained in doing h duty, as he saw it. If he ever felt it to be a burden, he never in any way indicated 11 Q.u.Ite the contrary he was always happy to be with us and made a wonderful home,. He saw that we had an education, and believed that a classical education should come before spec ializatloh,, J„ Lee Zumwalt was born February 6} 1878 in the city of Denton, Denton County, Texas His parents were Levis Levi 5 Zumvalt and Rachel Johnson(Willis)Zumvalt who named hia for his grandparents: Joshua 4 Zumvalt and Leevastin Willis,. He grew up with a great love for reading, history being his favorite subjects As a child he could always be fouad reading a good beck and this continued as long as he Iii Any money he could spare was spent on bocks especially on Southern Literature and hist ih week he'd bring hoaie three to six books from the public library*, and the fine thing about his reading was,, he ec_.ld ram ember and tell what he had reads, One ©f the highs?, slassmates said the jjupils would slip down behind their desks when the teacher began I ask questions in history,, When Lee vas called en they3d sit up for they knew he would the whole lesson,, Sometimes bis friends w__Ld go to a club meeting where a speaker would talk on the life and events of some historical character they had never heard about,,- They would men tion it to Lee thinking he probably wouldn9t knew anything either,, Usually he not only \ knew the facts they told but could go on and tell them more than the speaker had g5_we:a-: Upon graduation from the Denton high School in 1896p at eighteen^ he obtained a ser tifieate and taught the Pilot Knob School,, the following summer,, staying vith his grand father Willis who lived four miles southwest of Denton and just one mile from the seh.v They had great times discussing {.clitics in which both were quite interested,, He had many gocd friends both young and old vho loved him for his intellect and _j tegrity*, When he gave his word, it was niver broken*, This fine characteristic was in herited from both sides of the family., as his father,, mother and both grandparents were all the soul of honor„ Like Ms Zumwalt ancestors, he was a Methodist in belief and belonged to the Methe dist Episcopal Church South-, He was also a member ot the Sons of the American Revolut After serving as deputy County Clerk of Denton County (age 21) he resigned to at: the University of Texas (1900-1901) studing law, doing two years work in one,, (He could cot afford to go but one year, so he made the most of the opportunityi) In December 1901 he was appointed County Clerk to fill an unexpired term* and in he ran for the office of County judge of Denton County which office he held for four year: Upon retiring from the office of jitdge he took the State Bar examinations which permit him to practice law and which vocation he followed throughout the remainder of his iif • He nevei _arried0 __^ Q While he was a natural born lawyer, he never quit studying and could hold his own with i the besto In 1914 he was on the committee that wrote the city charter for the city of"Den. '0f.de ton which charter remained in force until a few years agoc He was granted permission to ' teres practice law before the Supreme Court of the United States*, jfeshi Xn April 1915 he moved to Dallas, Texas and became a partner in the practice of law with MTo Orus Co Ross*, When Mr„ Ross moved to Wichita Falls,, Texas a fev; years later9 Lee became associated with Mr„ WD Gregory Hatcher who was State Treasurer of Texas in 1925, and jhapti who made the statement that he never saw a man of greater integrity than LeeD i Grand As County -Judge,, he believed in following the law strictly when trying cases and in treating all persons*, high and low*, rich and poor, with courtesy and equal justice., He was !rf FT: never afraid to take a stand on any matter and in any disagreement with the county earnm- |broth< issioners in settling a matter3 he would say, "Let's vote, and put it in the record how we •rtedo" He took only civil cases in his practice, no criminal,, Much of his practice in later life was as a consultant0 No one could write a better brief and he did this regularly for several very able attorneys„ Lines' Ear-ty in life he became interested in the Masonic Lodge which he joined at the age of twenty-fouro The following is a brief history of his Masonic works ) Andrei Christ In Denton, TaxaB he took the first two degrees in 1902; was elected Junior Warden in 1 Chr 1st I903j Worshipful Master in 1904 and District Deputy of the Grand Lodge of Texas in 1906 and Joshue again In 1912, He joined the Royal Arch Chapter in 1904 and in 1905 he went in as a Charter Lewis member of the Knights Templar of Denton,, He was a past master of Stanfield Lodge of Denton Joshua _o„ 217 „ When he made Dallas his home he entered into the work of the Masonic Lodge there and affiliated with Dallas Commandery 06 Knights Templar„ In 1923 he led in the organization of George Washington Chapter #422 and was a Charter member 0 He held all off ices at various times and had received all of the degrees of the Scottish Rite and of the Order of the Mystic Shrine, In 1933 he was elected Grand High Priest of the Grand Chapter of Texas*, I Royal Arch Masons*, He organized in 1946 the Knights of the York Cross of Honor j Texas Priory No* 23 and served as the first Eminent Prior and was treasurer of the organization at the time of his passing„ In 1948 he organized and served as First Preceptor, Oar Re= deemer Tabernacle ND„ 9? Knights Templar Priests of Texas0 He was Grand Orator of the Grand Chapter of Texas in 1943 and served as Texas Grand Chapter Representative to the Grand Chapter of the District of Columbia since 1947. I Along vith his Masonic work he did a great deal of writing , He was author of "'The lal of the Siper Excellent Masters Degree" and wrote the first and last of the five acts ' f that degree of the Council,, He also wrote the Constitution and Laws of the Grand Royal _ Chapter of Texas* Revised*, and had just completed in 1956 r A Short History of the Grand' •'"'ommandery*, Knights Templar of Texas., 1881-1955"? covering the last seventy-five of the I ommandery s first one hundred years of existence*, A little bulletin called "The Triple IsA was published every month by the George Washington Ghapter of which he was the editor for nine year30 He was a staunch supporter of the Home for Aged Masons near Arlington*, Texas (between J t Worth and Dallas),, which is owned and operated by the Grand Chapter of Texas,, Also ' he Masonic Home & School for children of deceased Masons at Fort Worth, Texas was something he took great pride in*, While he vas a man of strong convictions, he never held it against, anyone vho differed ; . ith him0 One of his good Jewish friends told us that he never saw a mora tolerant man*, Ith j Always kind,, jovial and witty, he had a fine disposition and he made sn of devoted friends*. Having a vast amount of knowledge oh almost any subject*, he made an terest.ing speaker whose services were often in demand,. He made a special study of George Jfeshington's life, as a public official and as a Mason, Music of the great Masters was h 5delight to hear* I J e I In appreciation of the great work he had done over the year_g the George Washington uri Chapter changed its name to the J,, Lee Zumwalt Chapter*, which act ton was authorized 'by the I Grand Chapter of Texas at Its yearly meeting in Waco* Texas*, December 1957o I t The wonderful life of our beloved brother came to a close in Dallas earJy in the morning »s ijf Friday,,, May I0„ 1957 after a heart attack. He Is buried beside his parents and little (brother in the Odd Fellows Cemetery of his beloved city of Denton*, re Written by his sisters r i Sarah Elizabeth 6 Zumwalt r i Lineage of Joshua Leevastin 6 Zumwalt f ,'todrew 1 Z --.•.-•»—• •.•—,_-_ _ #2 w0 Ann Regina 11 1 Christopher 2 Z .•••-—--.- & #1 w„ Mary Conrad Christopher 3 Z —-~ & Elizabeth Keller nd Ifoshua 4 Z — _ Susan Chandler McNiel fcer Lewis Levi 5 Z •• -•-...»•• - & Rachel Johnson Willis on foshua Leevastin 6 Z —— us •and' I £* '^ Article #60 November 21- 1964 JAMES BROWN 4 ZUMWALT James Brown 4 Zumwalt (Andrew 1 - John 2 - William 3) has the finest country residence I in the county*, This house and immediate surroundings makes the largest of our illustra- Jtionso The main building is 36 x 40 feet two stories high, with a hip roof and deck*, It has eight large and airy rooms with lofty ceilings, four of them above and four below0 The Ihall-ways are broad and the stairs have a very gradual and easy rise0 This building is I entirely surrounded by double porches s that protect it from the direct rays of the sun0 immediately in the rear of the main building and connected with it by the porch is an L 29 x 40 feet, one story high, containing a dining-room., kitchen, pantry, and bath-room „ jlhis building also in entirely surrounded by a broad porcho Good porxhes, and plenty of 'them are indispensable to comfort anywhere in the interior of California where the sun 'comes down with so much force during the summer,, Mr0 Zumwalt"s porches added $2,000 to the I cost of his residence,, The whole structure bears unmistakable evidence of good material,, skillful workmanshipp and painstaking thoroughness in every detailo James Brown 4 Zumvalt was born in St0 Charles, Missouri, July 11, 1832„ His parents died when he was five years of age, at vhish time he vent to live vith an uncle in Palmyra, 'Missouri, vho treated him vith so much severity that he ran avay0 But the county after- Wds appointed a guardian for him,, vho taught him the blacksmith trade, but who was after rards killed by ligh____£. Mr„ Jsmes Brown 4 Zumwalt then went to Paris, Missouri, and remained two years with Mr0 'Ehoeh Wilson, until gold was discovered in California, when Dr« Ho Jo Glenn (recently mur dered) of Colusa, and others, left Paris for gold mines0 It vas soon reported that they had made fortunes in the mines,, Everybody else was crazy to go to California*, He was fitted out by J0 0o Fox, awealtby merchant of Paris, which plaee they left April % 1850, in company with Henry Davis, Mrc Wilson, and others, with ox-teams. They made the trip in about four months 0 At Carson City he and another young man left the train and j«alked the balance of the way, arriving, as miners say, "dead broke"« He stopped first at Hangtown, Placerville, end engaged in blacksmithing, and mining , He continued mining at Gold Hill and other places in El Dorado County until 1855o He afterwards mined in Shasta I County with fair success 0 He stayed in Shasta until 1857, when he took a trip east for six months. In 1858 he left the mines and opened a blacksmith shop in Red Bluff until 1864, when he removed to Grand Island, Colusa County^ where he bought land at $To_5 per acre*, He farmed there for fourteen years 0 He ther. S9M thia farm at $50,00 per acre and ramoved to his j Tulare farm. He came to this county in 1b78 and engaged in farming and sto ck-rasing -• His farm consists of 1,000 acres of rich sandy loam adapted to small grain, alf_lfap and jfruito It is licated seven miles from the county seat, and near school and church*, The Sorthern Pacific Railroad runs through the farm. He has a small orchard, young, but it is doing well and some of the trees have made a remarkable growth, "We were shown", says the Register, "a seedling tree two years old that has a trunk three inches in diameter, and a top ten feet square, that is full of fruit0 iTwelve months from the day this tree came up through the ground it was in blossom, and bore fruit that seasono We were also shown some Carolina poplars two years old that were grown /ran cuttings, that now measure from twenty to twenty-six inches in circumference 0" He keeps on the ranch about 80 head of cattle, 150 hogs, and 22 horses. 1 ' •- 1 He married, in i860*, Miss Lydia A, DeWitt9 who was a native of Kentucky,, They have five boys and five girls« Mr, Zumwalt is one of the most active citizens of Tulare County, and cheerfully aids every enterprise calculated to advance the interests of his county. He has been engaged in the real estate business, and is familiar with the quality and location of the lands of Tulare County and surroundings. LINEAGE OF JAMES BROWN 4 ZUMWALT Andrew 1 Z ——& 02 w, Ann Regina John 2 Z ———_, Elizabeth Conrad William 3 Z —=& Sarah Randall James Brown 4 Z & Lydia Angeline DeWitt Marcus Cicero 5 Z - & Louise Alvard Hunt Allen Lafayette 5 Z _ #1 w, Annie 1 02 w, Allia 1 John Randall 5 Z ~ _ Lizzie Simmons Fannie Belle 5 Z — _ Thomas J, Gist Florence Hannah 5 Z _ Mabel Edyth 5 Z -— _ Lewis F, Farmer Samuel Ethan 5 Z — _ Pearl Bessie Ray James Eleazer 5 7. - & Mavel Ford Minnie Myrtle 5 Z - _ #1 ho Orrin L, Hagler 02 h, James Henry Jewell. Alma Nettie 5 Z _ Ralph D, Helm Clyde DeWitt t Z — _ Esther J, Johnson Froms History of Tulare County California with Illustrations by Wallace W, Elliott & Co, Publishers 609 Montgomery Street San Francisco, California - 1883 Article 0 61 January 13, 1965 BIOGRAPHY OF ALBERT 6 COTTON Albert T, 6 Cotton, who has one of the best residences in Tulare City, and repres among our views, was born in Will County, Illinois, in 1849, When but five years of age his parents started for the land of gold. Fitting themselves out with an ox-team and wa* in which they placed their household treasures, they bid good-bye to old associations, and jjined a wagon train bound overland. The long and weary trip occupied six months, and ji after they reached the line of the State, in Lake Valley, the father Alexander Cotton sick= ened and died. This occurred in the fall of 1854, when the family moved into, and settled in Sacramento County, The most of young Cotton's time was spent in Sacramento County, until 1871, although he spent some time in El Dorado County during 1857 and 1858, Attended school in Alams•',. 1859-60, Resided in Placerville in 1860-61, Went to New York in 1865, and spent one year*, In 1871 he moved to Tulare County, and engaged in well-boring. In 1873 he opened a tin-shop in Tulare City, to which he has since added stoves and hardware and house furnJi ing goods, and is doing a good business. In 1869 he married Miss Josephine Gregory, native of California, They have three children, Willie, Fred, and Daisy Cotton, -LINEAGE OF ALBERT 6 COTTON Andrew 1 Z-—& #1 w, Mary 11 George 2 Z "•• _ Mary 11 Jacob 3 Z ——& Nancy Ann Spurgeon Nancy 5 Z ——=& #1 h, Alexander Cotton Jacob 4 Z ——-_ Josephine Gregory TAKEN FRO_5 History of Tulare County California with Illustrations by: Wallace W, Elliott and Cc,, Publishers 609 Montgomery Street San Francisco, California - 1883 See Article #55 for further information on Albert Cotton r ••* • Article tf-62 February 10, 1965 Bee 5 Zumwaltfl._garly settler in Rio Grande Valley My father. Dee 5 Zumwalt, was the youngest son of Ozela Jarae Trail and James Do 4 Zumwalt, James D, 4 Zumwalt died just a month before my father was born, and many stories were told how all the family spoiled him while growing up. My father was the kindest and most gentle person I ever knew, but he was firm and we never questioned when he said no. My mother was fifteen and dad twenty-one when they were married„ In 1915 my grandmother died and dad and an older brother decided to move to Texas, I can remember leaving Missi on April 10th, a tiny film of snow on the ground and snow in the air. On the morning of the 12th we awoke to another world of wild flowers blooming every where and a glow on dads face to match. He never lost his love for the Rio Grande Valley, thru all the trouble we had , The first summer was wonderful. Our first knowledge of trouble was when Mexican ban dits wrecked the only train into the Valley, Afterwards we werewarned by American soldiers to be on the watch all of the time. Then on September 2nd a young man, Earl Donaldson who had only recently came there from Missouri, came by our place and picked up his wagon to go to San Benito (ten miles away) to get a load of lumber. He had only been gone a short time when we heard shooting and could see smoke from a big fire of somekind, A car load of men came driving up and beckoned to dad to come to the gate. He went, my mother right behind him. If he was in danger she was there too. They only wanted to warn us to leave at once as a large band of bandits were nearing, threating to kill any white person on sight. We called Fort Brown for help and left until the soldiers could get there from fifteen miles away. Then as that was home we went bask-, I can remember hearing dad say to my uncle now, "Jack you concentrate on driving, I have a gun and I will take care of that part.," We found Mr*, Donaldson had been brutally murdered, also a man named Snith and they had captured a man, Stanley Dodd, who escaped,., He told of threats of the bandits,*, what they intended to do to the people that were moving into the Valley, This was new wild unsettled country, and the lawless element was not willing to give •:•:. up without a fight, Mr, Dodds told of an old Mexican cattleman named Maso who had barbeci a beef and had it ready for the bandits when they arrived, Maso and all of his possessions were deported to Mexico•> It took one whole day and part of another to pass by our bouse*, He had large conestoga wagons filled with the many families he employed, also herds of goits sheep and cattle (Texas Longhorns), bog3 and all kinds of poultry, and many horses. The soldiers stopped each wagon and each rider in front of our house and searched the_s, then sent them on their way to Brownsville and across the Rio Grande to Old Mexico, with orders never to return to the United States, After September 2nd we had Soldiers stationed near. My father carried a gun to the fitlds. We were guarded as we went to school. My uncle calmly carried a gun into our ! I day School room, set it in a corner and proceeded with the duties of a Sunday School Su] I inteMent. We had many adventures. We eouldnat have a light at night,, Each night for weeks my mother tvled and wanted to go back to Missouri and dad was willing for her to go but when morning cvme she would stay "one more day". Mother would niver leave without him this te knew veil. After \-he start of World War I, the soldiers were moved away and a new kind of life for all of the many newcomers who had come to the Valley to-^ake their homes began*. Page 02 Where the Soldiers were stationed now stand3 a large modern school, a Gym,, and a mod ern cafeteria that mother^ after dads death in 1933«. abley managed until ill health forced her to resign in 1951 •• Dad lived to see the new Valley he loved so much bloom into a lovely farming area;1 <*ree from the fear of the lawlessness of the early days. Juanita 6 'Zumwalt)(Mrs, William CjStier George R, Zumwalt SEAGE OF DEE 5 ZIS4WALT rew 1 Z »»—-».—=—=—=——".—-«& 02 Wo Ann Regina 11 2 z — ————______-.—.______& Elizabeth Conrad ge 3 Z ———— — •—_ #1 w, Jemima Steele meS 4 Z —— •——— —_ #2 w, Ozela Jane Trail y 5 1 ____—, ____,___& Minnie Broyles Their children Annie Juanita 6 Z —-— ——_ William C, Stier Lewis Howard 6 Z -———————& not married lolyn Blanche 6 Z ————-_ James Henry Whitman i Do 6 Z —-—~———--_—_«=_ Pau_ine Taylor Article 0 63 12 January 1966 IN MEMORJAM FRED H, ZUMWALT Fred H, Zumwalt was born in El Dorado County in 1880 and came at the age of twelve to San Francisco to become a doctor.*, By night work in a drug store he was able to attend the Universtiy of Cal= lfornia College of Pharmacy, and upon completing this course became pharmacist at St* Mary3s Hospital while attending the University of California Medical School, He received his M„D, in 1902 and main tained his office for general practice in Sar Francisco until 1959„ He died September 16p perhaps the senior member of the Medical So ciety which he joined in 1909. Few presently active members of the Society have known Doctor Zumwalt or will be able to remember him in the years from 1902 to 1904 when he served as resident physician and surgeon at the San Francisco City and County Hospital, or from 1906 to 1912 when he was chief surgeon of the Emergency Hospital Service, But to the end of his active career, his advice was sought by succeeding generations of San Francisco families whom he first served in these early days. No formal honor was awarded him,, but over the long years he received the continuous confidence of his patients to a degree that cannot be overstated. This was his greatest honor. Doctor Zumwalt married Amy Sander Haehnlen in 1906; she died in 1952, They are survived by three children; Fred Ho*, Jr,s Mrs, Kenneth A, Brown of San Francisco*, and Mrs, Donald L. Layman of Fairfax* Virginia, JOHN V, GALGIANI Andrew 1 Z -—-_-______-___ & 02 v, Ann Regina ?? Jacob 2 Z ————•~-r——— _ 02 w„ Frances Price John 3 Z ...I.I-.._... i••_---_-_ & Mary Petty Isiah 4 Z —————— _ Julia(hitman) Hopewood Dr*, Fred H, 5 Z —*-—-—- & Amy Haehnlen borns 17 May 1880 died; 16 Sep 1962 m. 27 Jul 1906 Froms Fred H« Zumwalt*, Jr, Tos George R„ Zumwalt Dates 29 November 1965 5© _* Article 0 64 1 May 1966 "Relic of The 17th Century*1 From History and Genealogy of The Bieber-Beaver Family Rev, I, M„ Beaver Copyright 1939 Old Bugle owned by the Beaver Family; said to have sailed with the May Flower in 1620, First gained great renown at the jollification of the Boston Tea Party- Mrs, S, So Boord, of Malvern, Iowa, is the possessor of this historic old bugle; which is perhaps the only one of its kind in existence. The instrument is three feet long, made of red cedar wood. It is made in two in- dividual sections and these are glued together. It is about three inches in diameter at the base and taper uniformly to a point, Around the horn are placed ten crude rings made from sections of a buffalo horn, which gives the horn, as a whole, a very crude appearance,. The old instrument has a very interesting history. It is said to have been made in England during the early part of the 17th century and was brought to America in _62( by the Pilgrims, Tradition says it was used by the early Puritan fathers as a trumpet to collect the little band of soldiers for military service, and was carried in the army of Standish, the captain of Plymouth, in his expeditions against the Indians*, May ha'se taken a leading part in grand charivari given to John Alden and Prisellla in honor of their marriage day. While traditions claim so much for the interesting old instrument*, and there Is no reason to dispute the authenticity of such, the earliest authentic account of the in strument" s first appearance in public dates back to the good old colonial days that tried mens souls. It was at the jollification of the Boston Tea Party at which the citizens of Bos ton ratified the action of the patriots in emptying the British tea into the harbor*, that the old bugle first won its great renown. The old cedar bugle witnessed the bloody massacre in which the first Americans gave their lives in defense of their country. It was carried by the minute men in the battles of Lexington and Bunker Hill, is said at the battle of Bunker Hill the bugler, George Zumwalt, stood near the spot where General Warren, the Boston patriot, fell. In the thick of the battle toe in strument was struck by a British musketball and a portion of the end torn away, and i t bears the marks of the musketball to this day. Keeping pace with the other military movements of the Revolution, it was found at the siege of Yorktown and gave vent to the final surrender of Lord Cornwallis and the entire British Army in 1781 After the war was over the old bugle was never lost sight of. It figured conspicuously in the inauguration of General Wiashington, the first President of the United States, and it has taken part in the jollification of the elections of every President from Washington to Wilson, The old relic has been handed down as an heirloom from one generation to another and lias always been in the Beaver family, Mrs, Michael Beaver, wife of Michael Beaver (1775=1844) whose maiden name was Margaret Zumwalt (1776-1865) was the great, great grandmother of Mrs, Lena Bell Bever Boord, the present owner, Margaret Zumwalt came in possession of the bugle when a very small girl and she had a very full history of it, but since her death all written accounts have been lost. Upon her death the old heirloom fell into the hands of her son, Joseph Beaver, the old tanner of Hillsbor®c Indo After his death it passed into the hands of his daughter, Nancy Bever who married L, L, Cooper, C . c Article 0 04 Page 0 2 After her death it fell into the hands of Robert N, Beaver, a grandson of Joseph Beaver, and since his death it Is now in the hands of his daughter*, Lena Bell Bever Boord o LINEAGE OF: Margaret 3 Zumwalt Andrew 1 Z & 01 w. Mary ?? George 2 Z & Mary Kale Margaret 3 Z & Michael Bever From: Emily 7 (K_mler)\Mrs0 Clifford)Crumbaugh 308 LaFayette Apts, Bloomington, HI. To: George R. Zumwalt Date: 1 May 1966 to Article # 65 15 December 1968 Andrew Z 1 _-_ & 02 w. Ann Regina 11 Jacob 2 Z & 01 w. Catherine Miller Andrew 3 Z _ #1 w. Elizabeth Price William 4 Z _ Sarah Randall In Top Viet James Brown 5 Z & Lydia DeWitt James Eleazer 6 Z - & Mabel Ford Elmo Russell 7 Z — & 01 w. Francis Frank Elmo Russell 8 Z — _ Mouza Coutelaiseu-Roche Special to The Examiner WASHINGTON, (D.C.) - President Johnson has an nounced he .plans to nomi- n a t e San Francisco-borr Hear Adm. Elmo R. Zumwalt Jr. for promotion to vice ad miral and to put, him in charge of U.S.. Naval' forces in Vietnam. Zumwalt, 47, will succeed the present naval field com mander in Vietnam, Rear Adm. Kenneth Veth, who is being r e a s.'s i g n e d. A 1942 graduate of Annapolis, Zum walt was believed to be the youngest officer ever select ed for flag rank when Presi dent Johnson named him to : rear admiral in 1965. All of his sea duty was aboard destroyers and battle ships, his most recent com mand being skipper of the A guided missile frigate,-USS pj Dewey-. He served in engage- J ments during World War II -5 and the Korean War. . lit J 962 he was assigned as Ql director of disarmament in P the office of the asistant Sec- "^ retary of Defense for Inter- fyj national Security Affairs.- J»_ ! A year later he became _§ aide to Navy Secretary Paul j- !• H. Nitze. Currently he is di- £ rector of the systems analy- fe;.. sis division in the office of ^:, Chief of Naval Operations. . £>•,' > The President yesterday ;',, also approved recall to ac- . Gy tive duty for Lt. Gen. Law- ^J rence J. Lincoln, who had r\), been scheduled to retire on Aug. 1. Lincoln will head a N*. •special study for the Army on the maintenance and op eration of physical plants at Army installations and camps. , C cc