Info on the Camerons
William and Martha Cameron remain kind of a mystery
No one I have asked can tell me the maiden name of Martha. I don't know what it is yet. Malinda says that William was born in Illinois. The census of 1850 says he and Martha were born in Tenessee. So I don't know where they were born.
Nancy Cameron Littleton Johnson is buried in Rural Cemetery in Stockton, CA. Malinda Cameron Scott Thurston is buried in Harmony Grove Cemetery in Lockeford, Ca .
Malinda said her father was born in Illinois. The 1850 Census says William and Martha were born in Tennessee. I don't know where they were born. Nancy Cameron Littleton Johnson's obit says she is of the famous Cameron Family of Tennessee.
Tillman B. Littleton
Page 630
I think it is in
History of San Joaquin County
California
With Illustrations
Public spirited to unusual degree, Tillman B. Littleton the present commissioner of finance, revenue and public supplies of Stockton, has for many years taken an active part in civic affairs, contributing of his time and wide experience to the cause of good government. His father lost his life in the Civil War, and in 1873 the mother brought her family to California. She was a member of the historic old Cameron family of Tennessee, and was herself a native of that state. Her parents were members of one of the early parties that started across the plains in 1847, and they were both killed by the Mormons in the Mouontain Meadows Massacre.
Tillman B. Littleton was born September 1, 1856, in Jackson County, Arl., and accompanied his mother to California in 1873, the family locating on a ranch on Waterloo Road. He finished his education in Stockton and attended the old Stockton Business College, where F.R. Clarke was one of his teachers. He then went to work on ranches, working for wages until he was able to go into ranching on his own account. He rented considerable land and was one of the successful wheat raisers, one year producing 6,000 sacks, which he hauled to the Sperry Flour Flour Mills, reciving one dollar a bushel for it. Later he purchased a grain ranch of 160 acres on Waterloo Road, where he made his home for sometime. In 1897 he disposed of this place and since then he has made his home in Stockton, being closely identified with its affairs since that time.
At first, on coming to stockton, Mr. Littleton bought and sold hay, and later, becoming more and more interested in civic affairs he has devoted the greater part of his time to public work. He was elected superintendent of streets and held this office for one term and then for two years served as harbor master. Next he entered the street and sewer contracting business, building miles of macaham and gravel streets in Stockton, and in one summer he built $24,000 worth of sewers for the city. Entering again into the commercial life of the city, Mr. Littleton bought out the Yolland Ice and Coal Company and for ten years conducted it with success, selling out when he was elected to his present office in 1918 for a term of four years. There were ten candidates for this office, but Mr. Littleton was elected at the primaries, receiving more votes than all the other candidates put together, a crecord to be justly proud of, and showing the high esteem in which he is held by this constituency through...
Sorry, I don't have the rest.
Oopps!!! I think I found the rest!!
the splendid service he had rendered in other public posts.
Mr. Littleton's first marriage united him with Miss Katie Hayes, a native of Missouri, and one son, Roy Jr., now employed in the Centra Bank at Oakland, was born to them. He is married and has two children Frances and Gloria. Mrs. Littleton passed away in 1906 and Mr. Littleton was married a second time Miss Kathryn Harvey, a native of California, and they have a daughter, Alice Loraine. In addition to his busy life as a public offcial, Mr. Littleton is prominent in Lodge circles, being a member of the Elks, Foresters of Americ, Loyal order of Moose, and the Tructh Lodge of the Odd Fellows. Polictically he is a Democrat.
His son Roy seems to have committed suicide. I have something for that also.
I have pictures of the Thurston ranch. It says Elliott TF., San Joaquin Co. Cal.
Roger Logan told me the following:
There is an obituary dated May 10, 1940 for a William Tillman Miller. He lived at 313 Boulevard Street Turlock, CA
There was a John Miller in Wasco, CA
Claude Miller in Turlock, CA
Joseph Miller in Los Angeles, CA
Nellie Miller Warrecher in Santa Anna, CA
Nancy Miller? Sthor in Compton
There was a Mary or Eliz Miller in Stockton, CA
I have an e-mail from someone, I don't know who now. It says:
William Tillman Miller (Matilda Cameron, William, William) was born 1856, and died 10 May 1940 in Turlock CA. He married Bracy Ann Reese.
Hirum Hitchcock Thurston
City Directory 1871-1872
San Joaquin County CA
Farmer
Home Address Waterloo
Page 279
1905
Stockton, San Joaquin Co. CA
Farmer
404 N. Center
Page 285
I have a Permit for Removal and Reburial for William J. Littleton
Male White Married
Age 74
Trade Hotel-Manager
Birth State Arkansas
Buried Rural Cemetery Stockton, CA 3/10/36
Block #29
Grave #9
T. B. Littleton (Tillman)
702 N. San Joaquin
Died July 16, 1934
Male White Married
Widow Kathryn Littleton
Born Sept. 1, 1856
Age 70
Retired
Birthplace Jackson County Arkansas
Mother's Maiden Name Cameron
Informan Mrs. Kathryn Littleton
Buried Rural Cemetery, Stockton, CA
Block #29
Grave #9
Malinda's sister Nancy was married to a Littleton. While in California, she then married a Johnson.
In the Death Records
San Joaquin County
California
Volume II
1895 - 1905
Compiled By
San Joaquin Genealogical Society
Johnson, Nancy 08 Jul 1899 White 69 F Widow Born in Albama Died in Stockton
Remembrance of Pioneers Past
A Walking Tour of Harmony Grove Cemetery
Lockeford, California
By
Peggy Ward Engh
Hirum H. Thurston
Birth: June 17, 1825, in New York
Marriage: widow Malinda Scott on Feb. 3, 1859, in San Joaquin County, California
Death: July 17, 1921, in Stockton, California
Burial: Block 1, Lot 12
H. H. Thurston made the long trek across the plains, arriving in San Joaquin County and settling on the Calaveras River in 1850. He married widow Malind Scott, a survivor of the Mountain Meadows massacre which occurred in Mormon territory on September 7, 1857, in which 120 people were killed. She and her first husband were spared because they had made a detour while her parents and other members of the party were killed because they had followed another route. The Thurstons reared nine children: Frank, who died in 1865; Martha "Mattie" Andrews; Nellie, who died in 1924; Lilly; Fanny; Amelia Gremaux, buried here with her husband Lovelace A. Gremaux after they were removed from the Park View Cemetery in August, 1944; and step-children Joel, George, and Susie Scott.
An extremely successful grain farmer, he once owned 1,115 acres in the Elliott Township, 2,600 acres in Merced County, 620 acres in Fresno County, and 500 acres in Lassen County. For sicty years he farmed the same place, located approximately one and one-half miles shouth of Harmony Grove School. The originator of the combined harvester made his first machine on Thurston's ranch. Of course, owning considerable acreage was not without its perils. In 1885, Mr. Thurston was embroiled in a land dispute which merited an article in the Stockton Evening Mail: "The armed disagreement between H. H. Thurston on the one side and W. M. Harrington on the other ... still continues. The Thurson party is entrenched in a fortification consisting of earthworks thrown up to the height of five feet.... It is guarded by Joel Scott, George Scott, [Thurston's two step-sons] (pg 96) Fed Wlker, and William Moore. An eating house on wheels, belonging to a threshing outfit, has been hauled up to the fortification, and within seven feet of the house where messrs. Harrington and J. A. Flemming are residing. The fortified men still threaten to fire on Harrington and Flemming if the latter attempt to move the house on to the disputed land .... All parties are armed with shotguns, rifles, and revolvers. They occasionally swap tobacco.
Mrs. Locke noted in March, 1886, that the Thurston's "Beautiful house [featured in the 1879 History of San Joaquin County, California], and all the furniture was burned to the ground, while the family were absent in Stockton. Only one woman was there, and she made a fire in the kitchen stove for the pupose of getting tea, and left it to feed the chickens, [sic] the house took fire in some way.
H. H. Thurston retired from farming in 1911 and moved to Stockton. In the last year of his life, he had been in failing health and died at age ninety-six after developing pneumonia.
Vital Statistics
Stockton Daily Evening Record Stockton, San Joaquin County, California Monday July 16, 1934
Littleton - In Stockton, July 16, 1934, Tillman B. Littleton, dearly beloved husband of Kathryn Littleton of Stockton; loving father of Alice Littleton of Stockton and W. J. Littleton of Catalina; a native of Arkansas.
The funeral will take place tuesday, July 17, 1934, at 2 p. m. from the chapel of De Young & Conklin, American and Fremont streets, where services will be said under the auspices of Stocton Lodge of Elks. The funeral will be private. Pliease omit flowers. Interment in Rural Cemetery.
Stockton Daily Evening Record, Stockton, San Joaquin County, California Monday July 18, 1921
H. H. Thursin.
Dies at 96 Years
Was a Waterloo Farmer and Pioneer Combined Harvester Builder
Hiram H. Thurstin, 96 years of age, and for over 60 years a resident of San Joaquin county, passed away yesterday afternoon at 5 o'clock at the home of his daughter, Mrs. L. A. Gremaux, 301 West Vine street. During the past year he had been in failing health and he was sick for about ten days preceding his death.
Mr. Thurstin ahd farmed at the same place on the Waterloo-Lockeford road for the past 60 years and was remarkable active for his age. About ten years ago he retired and came to Stockton, making his residence at the northwest corner of El Dorado and Wyandotte streets.
He and his brother, Marvin Thurstin, at the old Matteson & Williamson shop, constructed the first combined harvester ever to be built in Stockton.
Born near the little town of Lodi in New York state, 60 years and one month ago he came to California in 1850 and engaged in mining in El Dorado county, later coming to San Joaquin.
Having farmed for such a long period in one locality, he had a wide acquaintance in the northeastern part of the county. He was known for his kindly magnanimous nature and would have been a well-to-do man if it had not been for hes great generosity.
His wife, Mrs. Maling Thurstin, still lives in this city at the age of 93 years. She was a survivor of the famous Mountain Meadow massacre. She and her fust husband were spared owing to the fact that they made a detour, while her parents and other members of the emigrant party were killed by Indians, while following another route.
Mr. Thurstin was the father of Mrs. Amelia Gremaux and Nellie Thurstin of Stockton, Mrs. Fannie E. Wright and Mrs. Lillian Bender of San Francisco, the stepfather of Joel Scott of Sheep Ranch, George Scott of Alameda, and the brother of Mrs. Mary Jane Todd of Stockton. A. R. Bogue of this city is a nephew.
Stockton Daily Evening Record Stockton, San Joaquin County California Thursday December 15, 1921
Thurston - In Stockton. December 14, 1921, Mlinda Thurston, loving mother of Joel Scott of Sheep Ranch, George Scott, Miss Nellie Thurston, and Mrs. Grenaux, all of Stockton, and Mrs. Fannie Wright and Mrs. Lillian Bender of San Frnacisco, a native of Alabama. |