Individual Notes

Note for: Vernon E. Burke, 21 FEB 1920 - 4 MAR 1977 Index

Occupation:
     Place:   Worked for the Turlock Irrigation District.

Burial:
     Date:   1977
     Place:   Turlock Memorial Park, Stanislaus, California

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     This Information Obtained From: David Seymour on 4/07/2005, dms82683@@hotmail.com

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Note for: Daniel Burke, 17 JUL 1942 - 12 OCT 1978 Index

Event:
     Type:   Veteran
     Place:   US Marines, Vietnam

Burial:
     Date:   1978
     Place:   Turlock Memorial Park, Stanislaus, California

Individual Note:
     Pauline's Danny Boy. Beloved long lost son of Vernon (1920-1977) and Pauline(1922-2003). Grandson of Edna Heidt Blakemore (1896-1989),Lester Heidt(1895-1969), Arthur Burke((1884-1956), and Bessie Burke(1886-1953). Dan joined the Marines during Vietnam, and did not come back the same person. The got into drugs, he married briefly, but it ended in divorce, this put Dan over the edge. On October 12, 1978, just a year after the death of his father Dan ended his life with a self inflicted gun shot wound in. this hit his mother Pauline hard, she was never the same, even though she had a brother, and a sister and nices and nephews that loved her, she still felt lost and alone with only her memories of him. Pauline re-joined her Family 24 years later on January 3, 2003.
This Information Obtained From: David Seymour on 4/07/2005, dms82683@@hotmail.com

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Note for: Bessie Grace Hutchinson, 16 NOV 1886 - 21 DEC 1953 Index

Burial:
     Date:   1953
     Place:   Turlock Memorial Park, Stanislaus, California

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     This Information Obtained From: David Seymour on 4/07/2005, dms82683@@hotmail.com

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Note for: Arthur Burke, 7 DEC 1884 - 28 AUG 1956 Index

Burial:
     Date:   1956
     Place:   Turlock Memorial Park, Stanislaus, California

Individual Note:
     This Information Obtained From: David Seymour on 4/07/2005.

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Note for: Nancy Elizabeth Myers, 24 FEB 1867 - Index

Individual Note:
This Information Obtained From:1.) Anna Salierno (Family Group Sheet)
Middle name and birth date information obtained from: Beverley Ambrose on 4/14/2005 bjambrose@@sbcglobal.net

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Note for: Chloe Ann Smith, 22 JUL 1822 - 1908 Index

Burial:
Place: Hamilton Cemetery, Woodlake, Tulare Co., Ca.

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Note for: Julius Augustus Smith, - Index

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This Information Obtained from: 1.) Anna Salerno

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Note for: Hale Dixon Tharp, 8 JUL 1830 - 28 NOV 1912 Index

Burial:
     Date:   1912
     Place:   Hamilton Cemetery, Tulare County, CA

Individual Note:
     [William B. Tharp.ged]
ref: 329, p. 7

THE MINERAL KING ROAD CORRIDOR "THE PIONEERS"

The Kaweah River region was a slow starter in the settlement patterns of California. Before 1862, there was little to entice settlers to the area. The entire Southern Sierra was a wilderness to the first Euroamericans who explored its foothills. The Spanish government was interested only in finding whatever escaped mission Indians and army deserters might be hiding in the secluded landscape. The first Americans in the area were interested in beaver pelts and routes across the mountains. The earliest miners stayed almost entirely to the north where gold deposits were a recorded fact and civilization lay closer at hand.

The first permanent American settler in the area was Hale Dixon Tharp, a young emigrant from Michigan and Illinois. He arrived in California in 1851 with an adopted family and tried mining in the northern gold country for several years. After mining began to affect his health without the benefits of reaping any riches, Tharp decided to try ranching instead. In the summer of 1856, during one of Californiašs greatest drought years, he headed south through the nearly uninhabited lands of Tulare County which had been formed just four years earlier. On reaching the fledgling community of Visalia, he turned east to investigate the Kaweah River's foothill lands.

Tharp found a small valley he liked below Three Rivers, at the confluence of the Kaweah River and Horse Creek, an area now damned and flooded to form Lake Kaweah. After befriending the local Wukchumni Indians, he erected a shake and brush shelter to establish a preemption homestead. Then he returned to the northern mines for two more years.

In 1858 Hale Tharp came again to his Kaweah homestead bringing with him his brother-in-law, John Swanson. Together they built a cabin and a barn and explored the surrounding area for summer pasturage for their cattle. The Wukchumni Indians led Tharp to the Sequoia groves of Giant Forest and Log, or Crescent, Meadow, where he claimed summer grazing rights for years. In later years, he also claimed to have explored the Kaweah's East Fork in 1860, using an old Indian trail which led to the Mineral King Valley.

Hale Dixon Tharp came to Ca. before 1853. He married wife #2, Chloe Ann Smith Swanson (a widow) and they lived in Placerville. They moved to Wild Horse Creek in Tulare Co., before 1857. He is supposedly the first white man to see the giant Sequoia trees in what is today Sequoia National Park. He later grazed his animals in the sequoia's and lived in a hollow sequoia log ... still existing, known as Tharp's Cabin.

1870 Federal Census
Sharp, Kale 40 M W Raising Stock 400 1,500 Ohio
Sharp, Cloe A 48 F W Keeping House Ohio
Sharp, Norton H 13 M W At Home California
Sharp, Fannie A 9 F W California
Swanson, George 19 M W Farm Laborer Illinois (step-son)
STATE: CA
COUNTY: Tulare
DIVISION: Farmersville Twp.
REEL #: M593-92
PAGE: 16-248b
HH #: 138/138
Enumerated 28 July, 1870 by Harrison White

Individual Notes

Note for: Edward J. Swanson, 1822 - 1852 Index

Alias:   Edward J. Swanson /Jr./

Emigration:
     Date:   1852
     Place:   Left La Salle County Illinois with family for California

Residence:
     Date:   1852
     Place:   Fall of 1852 retuned to wife and family

Event:
     Type:   Eloped
     Date:   1851
     Place:   Fall of 1851 eloped with neighbors wife.