Other Events:

• 1850 Census: 19 Aug 1850
• Occupation: Jun 1870; Shingle Maker
• 1870 Census: 13 Aug 1870
• 1880 Census: 1880, Nicasio, Marin County, California
• 1900 Census: 15 Jun 1900
• Alt. Burial: 18 Aug 1901, Mount Tamalpais Cemetery, ____, Marin County, California

Notes:

Stephen Schuyler Stedman was born about 15 March 1838 in New Marlboro, Massachusetts to Robert and Elvira (Dorman) Stedman.

As a small boy living in Lenoxdale, Massachusetts, he very often played hooky from school and would spend all day swimming in the nearby creeks. He had a great fondness for the water and perhaps this played an important part in saving his life in later years.

As a boy, Stephen assisted his father in driving loads of Charcoal from Otis and other nearby places to the iron works at Lenox Furnace (Lenoxdale).  With his father's team in the lead, Stephen and his brother Lawrence each drove one of the other teams that followed.  On the road to the charcoal pits, this meant starting at two o'clock in the morning and sleeping in the wagons as the teams followed each other.

While living in Lenoxdale, he performed another of his boyhood pranks. He assembled all the other boys in the neighborhood with their bob-tailed sleds.  These they tied together so as to make a long string of sleds. They carried this train of sleds up the steep hill to the rear of the El Dorado Hotel.  Stephen was to pilot them down the hill, but he had not foreseen that the added weight of the sleds and boys would create a problem in stopping at the foot of the hill.  On the way down he realized what was happening and decide what to do.  He could either head for a large tree at the side of the blacksmith shop or head for the open door of the shop.  Knowing that the side of the shop would give way and the tree would not be so obliging, he steered the train with their occupants straight through the shop and took the rear wall of boards out with it on the way through.  They landed in a snow bank in the creek at the rear of the shop.  Not any of the children were seriously hurt, but they had all learned a good lesson in momentum.

It is thought that this creek is the one called Stedman Creek.  When Bertha visited Lenoxdale in 1947, she talked with an old timer who said the Stedmans must have been an outstanding family in that district for there were so many places, creeks, bridges (both railroad and wagon road) named "Stedman."  Also nearby the Lenox Glass Furnace there is a hill called Stedman Hill.  The El Dorado Hotel acquired its Spanish name from the fact that Robert mined gold in El Dorado County.  That name seems so out of place in Berkshire County!

In 1854, when Stephen was sixteen, Stephen went with his father Robert on Robert's second trip to California.  Bertha can remember hearing her father tell of the beautifully colored birds (parrots and parakeets) talking and chattering on the trees when they came over the Isthmus of Panama by mule back.  But the most memorable part of the voyage happened in a place described by Stephen as the Gulf of Georgia.  (It is not clear where this is.)

A violent storm came up, and it was bitter cold.  Robert put his outer coat on Stephen.  In the storm, Stephen was washed overboard.  They searched all night for him and found him at daybreak with both arms locked around the roots of a tree trunk that had been washed into the sea.

Stephen discarded the coat and other clothing.  Stephen swam and floated until he found an old tree trunk.  When he was found, he was unconscious but had his arms locked about the tree roots.   As a boy, Stephen has not only learned to be an expert swimmer, but also he had acquired the art of being able to float on the water for hours at a time.  He knew - and taught each of his children - the art of properly arching the back and setting the back muscles in a position that would enable them to float for long periods of time.

Robert always lamented the loss important papers and family pictures in the pocket of the coat that were lost.

Arriving in California, the father and son went first to Marysville on the American River where Robert had worked in the placer diggings in 1850.

Bertha relates a story Stephen told of another interesting episode where "Lady Luck" again smiled on him while they were mining gold in California.  One day they were descending, or trying to descend, a steep hillside in a pine forest.  The dried pine needles carpeting the ground gave them a very treacherous footing.  Stephen got tired of slipping and sliding and thought it would be much more fun to slide down.  The miner's frying pans in those days were some eighteen inches across with a handle about three feet long.  This enabled the miner to cook over an open fire without much discomfort.  Without saying anything to his father, Stephen proceeded to deposit himself in the pan with his luggage strapped to his back.  His father was horrified when he saw what he was going to do and called him to stop.  It was too late.  Stephen had given his body a lurch forward, and he was on one of the wildest rides he ever took. Fortunately, the dried pine needles had piled up in back of each tree trunk.  This formed just enough rise in the ground level to turn the sled frying pan in and out among the trees in its course down the hill.  He often relate that he was scared to death, but there was nothing he could do except keep a firm grip on the handle and pray that he would reach the bottom safely.  He said it was surely a quick ride, and he was none the worse for his adventure.

During the next fifteen years Stephen led an active and often adventurous life, up and down the Pacific Coast from California to British Columbia. In spite of being of small stature and light physique, Stephen survived the hardships and was strong and vigorous when, in the early summer of 1869, he started back to New England by the overland rail route.

Stephen's brother Byron told the story of this period:

"They landed in San Francisco on 5 January 1855 and located again at Marysville.  Again they were not especially successful.  Then came the excitement of the Frazer River gold discovery in British Columbia. Robert and his son were in a party of eighty who started overland, by foot, to reach the new diggings from Marysville.  Only twenty of them survived the journey, the others perished from Indian attacks and hardships on the way.  Neither father nor son was injured, but Stephen killed one Indian.

"They operated a mine in Caribou, British Columbia, in the summers.  In winter they went down to Vancouver Island and made shingles by hand, also hunting deer for the market.  They sold their shingles and venison in Victoria.  After doing this for several years without getting ahead, they sold the claim to an English firm who went a little deeper and struck it rich.

"Stephen then worked for a mining company on Williams Creek, Caribou, and Byron Stedman has a nugget of gold taken from a pot in this mine.  (This nugget was given to Byron at Christmas, 1869 - worth $6.47 - and was still being worn by Byron in the 1920s.)

"Robert went to Marin County, California, in the redwoods, on White's Ranch.  The present railway station is called Lagunitas.  Just below the home were the Pacific Powder Mills.  Robert operated for himself making shingles, shakes, and pickets for sale in the neighborhood to the ranchmen, who were all dairymen.  Robert built his own cabin and lived alone until Stephen joined him.

"Stephen, after working a short time on Williams Creek, went into the fur trade with a partner named Douglas.  The operated a sloop northward toward Sitka.  The Hudson Bay Company controlled the fur trade in this region.  However, not having suitable goods to trade to the Indians for furs, the captain of a Hudson Bay trading steamer told Stephen and his partner to load up with blankets and trinkets and proceed to a certain district where there were furs to be had.  On the way up the coast the sloop was becalmed and a canoe put out containing twenty-four Indians. Two other canoes followed, each containing the same number of Indians. The first one came alongside and said that, if they would surrender the sloop, they would be put ashore so that they could make their way back to Victoria.  (This was evidently along the coast of Vancouver Island.)  In the boat with Stephen and his partner was one man who worked for them and also an Indian who was taking passage.

"Stephen understood seven different Indian dialects.  He told the spokesman in the canoe that they would do the same with them that the Indians did to Jack Knight about a week before.  This Jack Knight was another trader whose boat was scuttled, goods confiscated and whole party killed.  The leader of the Indians in the canoe alongside turned and told his men to open fire.  But he Springfield muskets belonging to the Indians were covered up in the end of their canoe.  These were guns of the pattern used in 1861.  Stephen understood the order, and, being armed with two revolvers, he opened fire immediately, along with his partner.

"They cleaned every man out of the canoe.  Then they commenced on the second canoe that was firing volleys at the sloop.  At each volley Stephen called "Drop" and his party would drop to the deck.  But one volley caught them too soon.  Stephen got one minie ball in the thigh, breaking his hip, and eleven buckshot in his liver, one across the neck by his windpipe, and two in his arm.  Also, one minie ball struck him in the back between the shoulders.  Douglas got one minie ball in the chest.  Stephen and his partner killed all the Indians in the second canoe, though both were put out of action.

"The third canoe started to paddle away and the man who stood behind a boat in the davits commenced to pick off the remaining Indians with a Martin-Henry repeating rifle, until only four were left.  The boat that he stood behind had ninety holes in it, but this man did not get a scratch.

'The Indian passenger came up from the cabin in the midst of the fracas, picked up a muzzle-loading rifle, shot it toward one of the canoes, then ran back to cover in the cabin.  This same muzzle-loading rifle was made in Hudson, New York, by a man named Stevens, and was sent to California by Robert Stedman, costing $150.  This rifle was later in the possession of Byron Stedman, who killed at least forty deer with it.  As of 1921, it is in the possession of Robert Stedman, son of Stephen, of Sebastopol, California.

"The remaining four Indians in the third canoe escaped.  The man who was unhurt sailed the sloop across the Sound to Fort Wrangell to get help to take the wounded men to Victoria.  At the latter place there was a British fleet.  Stephen Stedman was taken under the care of the surgeon of the Admiral's flagship.  Stephen suffered greatly and had spasms.  The surgeon advised him to go to his father in Marin County and then eat all of the wild honey and drink all of the milk he could.  Being unable to travel alone, Stephen engaged a man to go all the way with him.  Whenever the spasms came over him, Stephen imagined that he was fighting the battle with the Indians over again.

"The fight took place in the early summer of 1869.  On the 7th of August, after visiting his father and recovering somewhat, Stephen started for the East, on the Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railways, being on the first through train eastward to see how quick time could be made from San Francisco to Boston.  By arranging relays of engines, this trip was actually made in just seven days.

"Stephen's purpose in coming East was to marry and also to bring his younger brother back to California.  Douglas, Stephen's partner, also married, and later visited Stephen in California about 1872."

[The epic story of Stephen's fight with the Indians should be re-read in order to sense what transpired.  The great war canoes used by the natives of Puget Sound and the Alaska coast were vastly different from the birch bark skiffs of the history books.  They were dugouts made from giant trees and propelled by rows of paddlers on each side.  One of these canoes, complete with life size figures of its crew, is to be seen in the American Museum of Natural History in New York.  For four men in a sailboat to engage three such craft, manned by a total of seventy-two Indians, was a terrifying experience, and it seems incredible that the three white men who bore the brunt of the fighting were not overwhelmed by sheer weight of numbers.  Byron Stedman first heard this recital from Stephen when the latter arrived in Massachusetts in 1869.  No doubt he heard it repeated many times, for every detail was clear in his mind when he dictated it to me at Mechanicville half a century later.  - J. J. DeMott]

Bertha Stedman Rothwell relates some additional details:

"In the Indian attack, while the two canoes were engaged in the fighting on one side of the sloop, the third came up from behind and started an attack from the opposite side of the vessel.  On the sloop was a large Newfoundland dog and as each Indian attempted to climb over the side, the dog would attack them and back they would fall into the water.  After disposing of the two canoes full of Indians, they then turned on the third canoe.  This last attack was when they were all hurt so badly.  The dog was so wounded that it had to be killed.  Stephen said that he fought as desperately as any of the people on board.

"Stephen's partner who owned the sloop was Dudley Warren.  (I do not know if they knew one another in the East.)  Dudley Warren was not hurt badly.  He continued later to operate the sloop, buying furs from the Indians.  The government seized the sloop as a rumrunner.  Later, he proved that he had no liquor on board and they accepted their mistake. Dudley Warren received payment from the government for the vessel.  I do not know if it was the United States or the Canadian government.  He never gave Stephen his half of the money received.  He knew that Stephen had recovered and was living in California for he and his wife came down to visit him.  Warren invested the entire amount in acreage in Vancouver, BC.  When the town later grew, he sold his holdings as building lots and amassed a great fortune.  Friends of ours visiting us in 1900 knew him in Victoria and said he died a millionaire.  Stephen would never ask anyone for money owed him.  He died financially a poor man but rich in the friendship and esteem of everyone who him.

"In later life when the Indians who attacked the boat heard that Stephen was living in Marin County, they sent him a gift of friendship: a cane with an eel's head carved in its handle.  They sent with the cane a verbal message that they were his friends and only wanted the vessel, but they did not know how to get the boat any other way but to kill all on board.  The eel could never harm anyone and that was their testimonial of peace.  They said that they were sorry that they hurt him.  They felt sure that, if he were alive, he must have to walk with a cane from the wounds they had given him.  They asked that it be their cane that he used, as they had nothing but a friendly feeling for him and their dealing with him.  Bertha had the cane in her possession in 1951.

"The doctors in Victoria did not tell Stephen to eat honey.  They sent him down to his father weighing only 96 pounds.  They told him to eat all the milk he could drink and live outside as much as possible.  He had no appetite and could not seem to retain anything that he ate.  Robert cut down a redwood tree, and there was a hive of bees in the top of it. Robert brought the honey home.  When Stephen saw the wild honey, he started to eat it and it seemed to agree with him.  He put on weight and recovered.   I can recall that, when buckshot in Stephen's body would work to the surface, Stephen would go to the doctor and have it cut out. Some of these shot he took to his grave.

"Stephen, while mining, once found a large nugget of gold.  It was over one inch in length and was similar in shape to South America.  This he made into a pin that he used to wear as a shirt stud.  Later his wife wore it and at Stephen's death, it passed to his oldest daughter Elodia. At her death, it went to her daughter Hazel.  Its value is a little over $30.00."

When he arrived back in Berkshire County, Stephen naturally was somewhat in the limelight as a man of thirty-one, fresh from the fabulous Gold Regions and the equally fabulous Northwest.    At Monterey he met Lucy Jane Hall and, after a short courtship, the wedding took place on 23 September 1869 in West Stockbridge, officiated by the Rev. Charles Bradley.  Three weeks later, 14 October 1869, the bride and groom, together with Stephen's young brother Byron, set out for the West.  For Stephen it was a final farewell, for he never returned and from that time on his family was identified with the California scene.  Lucy Jane, together with her daughter Julia Ann, did come back for a visit many years later.  Byron Stedman remained in California five years and then returned to settle in Massachusetts and New York State.

Bertha related the following story of how Stephen and Lucy met:  "When he went back East in 1869, he went direct to Monterey, Mass.  At that time his sister, Julia Ann and her husband LeRoy Kellogg owned a store in that town.  They knew Lucy Jane hall, the daughter of Luke Miner hall, a prosperous farmer of Monterey.  Julia Ann wanted Stephen to meet this beautiful girl.  They planned with her mother to trick Lucy into going to the store.  Grandma Hall was supposed to need something very badly from the store that night and Lucy was to be sent for it.  Lucy at that time was working in the paper mill.  She was a calendar girl and fed the paper through the calendars to put extra gloss on it.  When she reached home, she was very tired and could not see why it was important for her to go on the errand for her mother.  Finally, very reluctantly, she left for the store.  Lucy was introduced by Julia Ann to Stephen.  Jubilantly, she returned home to tell her family, 'I have just met the millionaire from California.'  Little did she know at the time that the trap was set, and she fell into it.  She was interested in California at that time for her only brother, John Alvin Hall and his family were living at Maryville, California.  The next day, Stephen, whose mind was quite made up about Lucy, visited the mill where she was working.  Lucy said to the other girls working with her, 'Watch me, I am going to catch that millionaire from California.  I shall soon leave for California and see my brother.'

After joining Robert Stedman in Marin County, the family lived in a cabin outside of the woods, while Robert rebuilt his old cabin into a house. Here the group remained until 1874 when Byron returned to the East.  A year later Robert died, leaving Stephen and his wife and babies in the home at Lagunitas.

After Robert's death, Stephen continued to live in Lagunitas and carried on the wood business.  He operated a lumber business on the Maillard estate near Lagunitas.  In his later years he was Superintendent of the Shafter-Howard Timber Tract a few miles from Lagunitas with thousands of acres of virgin redwood forests.  He was holding this position at the time of his death.  He was also the Fire Warden.  There was a forest fire and he had been with a crew of men for two weeks out fighting the fire by back-firing.  It was under control, and he told the firefighters eating their supper in the camp, "The fire is under control, do exactly as I have ordered for tonight and it will be alright.  I am going home, Good Night."

He had chronic catarrh and asthma, and it is unknown if he took a coughing spell or not, but he was found not 100 feet from where he called to the men.  He had rolled down the trail on the railroad track.  Fearing the cars of loaded wood would burn, the Railroad Company sent an engine from the night passenger train up into the spur track to pull the cars out.  In turning a bend, they ran onto Stephen before they could stop. It immediately amputated his legs.  There was no blood, and the doctors verdict was that he had died of a heart attack and had been dead all of two hours before he was struck.  The two hours coincided with the time that he was last known to be alive.

His funeral was one of the largest ever held in Marin County.  It was over a mile in length.  He was one of the best-loved and respected citizens of the county during his lifetime.  I think this tribute paid by an old neighbor told more than can be written.  "There was no man in Marin County who made more money than your father did, and there never was any man in Marin County who gave more money away."  Stephen's wife Lucy used to always try to  tell him that people had no intention of paying him back and still, if anyone wanted money or anything he had, he would give it to them.

These notes on Robert Stedman's family have been compiled and edited primarily from manuscripts deposited at the Berkshire Athenaeum by John J. DeMott, Byron Stedman, Bertha Stedman Rothwell, Julia Ann Stedman Sturtevant, and Eloise Stedman Myers who have all been indefatigable in the preservation of family data.

The Marin Journal, Thursday, August 22, 1901, page 11

STEPHEN STEDMAN's Death

The death of STEPHEN STEDMAN was announced Friday morning.  From information gathered at the inquest and from other sources, it is learned that Mr. Stedman died suddenly of heart disease, and fell upon the railroad track in Lagunitas canyon, about a mile from the Junction a few minutes before 8 o'clock Thursday evening.

There had been a large brush fire in Lagunitas canyon and Stedman was out fighting it.  A number of flat cars loaded with wood were in the canyon and to save these from destruction, an engine was sent in to get them. It was this engine which struck Mr. Stedman, and was at first supposed to have caused his death.  He had been up the canyon looking after the fire, and was returning home when death overtook him.

At the inquest held by Coroner Eden, Dr. Wickman, who carefully examined the body of Stephen Stedman, stated that in his opinion Mr. Stedman died of heart disease before the car struck his body.  There was but little blood on the track where the body was found.  The verdict of the jury was to the effect that the death was the result of heart disease.

Stephen Stedman was born at New Marlborough, Mass., March 15, 1838.  His ancestors settled in Massachusetts with the early colonists. He was a second cousin of Commodore Perry.  He came to California, arriving at San Francisco on January 5, 1851; engaged in mining in the northern part of the state and later went north to Alaska and Vancouver where he traded with the Indians, and was owner and captain of the sloop Thornton.  He was badly shot by the Indians but was brought to San Francisco where he recovered his health.

In 1869 he returned to his home in Mass., but remained there only 3 weeks and while there married Lucy Hall. He and his bride returned immediately to California and settled at Lagunitas in Marin County where he entered the wood business with his father.  He ran the wood claim on the Mailliard tract for many years, but of late years he has been foreman of the Shafter wood claim, which position he held at the time of his death.

He leaves a widow and 6 children; Mrs. Clifford De Jardin, Mrs. Sturtevant, Mrs. George MacDonald, Robert Stedman, and Bertha and Edna Stedman.

The funeral services were held from his home at Camp Taylor, Sunday, August 18, at 10:30 o'clock, thence to Mt. Tamalpais Cemetery where he was laid to rest by his father's side. The pallbearers were Joseph Codoni, George Longly, Edward Cornwall, Thomas Estey, William Dickson, and Charles Lane.

1850 Census:
Lee, Berkshire Co., MA, p. 51, w/Robt Stedman, age 12, b. MA, as Stephen Stedman

1870 Census:
San Rafael PO - Nicassio Twp., Marin Co., CA, p. 20, w/Robert Stedman

1880 Census:
National Archives Film T9-0068     Page 29B
          Relation  Sex  Marr Race Age  Birthplace
Stephen STEADMAN  Self   M    M    W    42   MA   Occ: Lumber Man     Fa: MA   Mo: MA
Lucy STEADMAN  Wife F    M    W    34   MA   Occ: Keeps House    Fa: MA      Mo: MA
Elodie STEADMAN     Dau  F    S    W    9    CA   Occ: At School      Fa: MA   Mo: MA
Julia STEADMAN Dau  F    S    W    8    CA   Occ: At School      Fa: MA      Mo: MA
Robert STEADMAN     Son  M    S    W    5    CA   Occ: At School      Fa: MA   Mo: MA
Hattie STEADMAN     Dau  F    S    W    2    CA                  Fa: MA      Mo: MA
Bertha STEADMAN     Dau  F    S    W    3M   CA                  Fa: MA      Mo: MA
John ROSLOT    Other     M    W    W    52   FRA  Occ: Cook      Fa: FRA      Mo: FRA
Felix COTRIE   Other     M    S    W    60   FRA  Occ: Wood Chopper   Fa: FRA  Mo: FRA
Wm. FIEK  Other     M    S    W    52   FRA  Occ: Wood Chopper   Fa: FRA      Mo: FRA
Henry ABBOTT   Other     M    W    W    51   VT   Occ: Wood Chopper   Fa: VT   Mo: VT
Juan DIAS Other     M    S    W    43   CHILE     Occ: Wood Chopper Fa: CHILE Mo: CHILE
Enoch M. LANE  Other     M    S    W    24   ME   Occ: Wood Chopper   Fa: ME   Mo: ME
Jose ANTONIO   Other     M    M    W    28   PORT Occ: Teamster       Fa: PORT Mo: PORT

1900 Census:
Point Reyes Twp., Marin Co., CA, ED 53, sheet 6A

Stephen married Lucy Jane Hall on 23 Sep 1869 in West Stockbridge, Berkshire County, Massachusetts. Lucy (daughter of Luke Miner Hall and Margaret Cooley Twing) was born on 5 Jan 1846 in Monterey, Berkshire County, Massachusetts; died on 21 Aug 1927 in Daly City, San Mateo County, California; was buried after 21 Aug 1927 in Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, San Mateo County, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Name: Elodie Jane Stedman
• Group: Hall Direct Descendant
• Group: Halls of Taunton - DNA Family 024
• Alt. Birth: 14 Aug 1870, Olema, Marin County, California
• Residence: 1942; Placerville, El Dorado Co., CA

Notes:

Elodia (Stedman) DuJardin's hobby was raising prize chickens.  She was very proud of the silver cups she won with her Buff Cochins and Brahma stock.  She owned some ten or twelve cups now in possession of her son and daughter.

Group:
A person who is a direct descendant of any colonial New England Hall Family

Group:
Descendants of George Hall of Taunton, Massachusetts.

Elodia married Clifford DuJardin on 16 Nov 1890 in San Rafael, Marin County, California. Clifford (son of Frederick DuJardin and Lucuria Price) was born on 3 May 1866 in Sacramento, Sacramento County, California; died on 30 Nov 1939 in San Francisco, San Francisco County, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Group: Hall Direct Descendant
• Group: Halls of Taunton - DNA Family 024
• Alt. Birth: 16 Apr 1872, Olema, Marin County, California
• Residence: 1951; San Francisco, San Mateo Co., CA

Notes:

Julia (Stedman) Sturtevant worked for years in San Francisco, starting in 1900.  She worked: first, in the office at Sanborn Vail & Co; second, as cashier for Owl Drug Store; third, Secretary-Treasurer of Library Bureau, a firm later bought by Remington Rand.  She worked as cashier and head bookkeeper until her retirement in 1944.  She worked thirty-six years for this one firm.

Group:
A person who is a direct descendant of any colonial New England Hall Family

Group:
Descendants of George Hall of Taunton, Massachusetts.

Julia married Irving Sturtevant, Jr. on 2 Mar 1891 in Oakland, Alameda County, California, and was divorced before 1904. Irving (son of Irving Sturtevant and Libbie B. Shepard) was born on 16 Sep 1870 in San Diego, San Diego County, California; died on 3 Jan 1919 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Julia married Arthur Lawson on 1 Jan 1904 in San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, and was divorced in 1907. Arthur died in Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Group: Hall Direct Descendant
• Group: Halls of Taunton - DNA Family 024
• Alt. Birth: 9 Jul 1874, Lagunitas, Marin County, California

Notes:

Robert graduated from the San Rafael High School and attended the University of California for two years.  Eyes failed him so he had to quit.  His greatest success in life was contracting and building.  He became a graduated architect.  He bought a farm to please his wife but was a failure at farming.  He sold the farm and bought a five room cottage in town of Sebastopol, Sonoma County, CA.  In 1951 he was a small poultry producer.

Group:
A person who is a direct descendant of any colonial New England Hall Family

Group:
Descendants of George Hall of Taunton, Massachusetts.

Robert married Gertrude May Christie on 17 May 1906 in Sebastopol, Sonoma County, California. Gertrude (daughter of Alfred Christie and Catherine Clothilda Craig Coleman) was born on 20 Jan 1875 in Oxford Mills, ____, Ontario, Canada; died on 19 Jan 1949 in Sebastopol, Sonoma County, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Group: Hall Direct Descendant
• Group: Halls of Taunton - DNA Family 024
• Alt. Birth: 30 Sep 1877, Olema, Marin County, California
• 1910 Census: 27 Apr 1910, Oakland, Alameda County, California

Notes:

After her husband's death, Margaret Harrie (Stedman) MacDonald resided in Daly City, California, and made occasional trips to Ketchikan, Alaska, to visit her daughters.

Group:
A person who is a direct descendant of any colonial New England Hall Family

Group:
Descendants of George Hall of Taunton, Massachusetts.

1910 Census:
Ward 1, ED 79, sheet 10B
279 Claremont Ave.
McDonald, George    Head  M  W  32  M1  10          CA  Canada  Canada   Clerk (general) - Wholesale produce
---, Margaret              Wife   F  W  32  M1  10  2  2   CA  MA        MA
---, Margaret               Dau   F  W    8  S                  CA  CA        CA
---, Gladys                  Dau   F  W    6  S                  CA  CA        CA

Margaret married George Edward MacDonald on 27 May 1900 in Camp Taylor, Marin County, California. George (son of John Stephen MacDonald and Margaret Catherine McDonald) was born on 13 Sep 1877 in Oakland, Alameda County, California; died on 19 Nov 1945 in San Mateo County, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Group: Hall Direct Descendant
• Group: Halls of Taunton - DNA Family 024

Notes:

Bertha (Stedman) Rothwell was a major contributor to the research for this family.  Notes that she prepared for John DeMott were found in the Berkshire Atheneum.

She was an untiring active member of the San Francisco Parent Teacher Association.  She has many accomplishments to be proud of.  She originated and put into operation a program of activities to improve educational facilities for handicapped children.  This program was adopted by the National Parent Teacher Association and is operating in every state in the U.S.

She originated and put into practiv the hot lunch program for children of the San Francisco Public Schools.  Same hot lunch system was put into schools in Japan before World War II.

She led a campaign of interested citizens that culminated in establishing a Junior College for San Francisco.

In her Daughters of the American Revolution activities, one of her best accomplishments was a campaign that abolished the Rugg Text  Books from the schools of the State of California.

She was most active in Red Cross work during both Wiorld War I and II.

She led a busy life devoted to commjnity improvements.

She has an unpublished manuscript history of Marin County pioneers.

Group:
A person who is a direct descendant of any colonial New England Hall Family

Group:
Descendants of George Hall of Taunton, Massachusetts.

Bertha married Horace Chester Rothwell on 10 Aug 1907 in San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, and was divorced in Oct 1950. Horace (son of Thomas William Rothwell and Alexine Lovena Shaw) was born on 23 Feb 1884 in Florence, Hampshire County, Massachusetts; died on 31 Dec 1962 in South San Francisco, San Mateo County, California; was buried after 31 Dec 1962 in Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, San Mateo County, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Group: Hall Direct Descendant
• Group: Halls of Taunton - DNA Family 024
• Residence: 1951; Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara Co., CA

Notes:

Group:
A person who is a direct descendant of any colonial New England Hall Family

Group:
Descendants of George Hall of Taunton, Massachusetts.

Edna married Harold Augustus Davenport on 7 Apr 1904 in San Francisco, San Francisco County, California. Harold (son of John Davenport and Ellen C. Clark) was born on 18 Aug 1874 in Davenport Landing, Santa Cruz County, California; died on 15 Apr 1951 in Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara County, California; was buried after 15 Apr 1951 in Berkeley, Alameda County, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Group: Hall Direct Descendant
• Group: Halls of Taunton - DNA Family 024
• Residence: 1942; Placerville, El Dorado Co., CA
• Residence: Aft 1947; San Francisco, San Mateo Co., CA

Notes:

After her marriage to Paul Gilbert, she and her husband ran a business in Stockton, CA.

Group:
A person who is a direct descendant of any colonial New England Hall Family

Group:
Descendants of George Hall of Taunton, Massachusetts.

Hazel married John Frederick Willin on 7 Jun 1913 in San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, and was divorced in Apr 1919. John died in Jun 1928 in Sonoma County, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Hazel married William Barker on 13 Nov 1920 in San Francisco, San Francisco County, California. William was born on 18 May 1868 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois; died on 19 Nov 1938; was buried after 19 Nov 1938 in Woodlawn Cemetery, ____, Marin County, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Hazel married Paul J. Gilbert on 23 Sep 1947 in Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona. Paul was born on 12 May 1900; died on 6 Aug 1983 in Fresno, Fresno County, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Group: Hall Direct Descendant
• Group: Halls of Taunton - DNA Family 024
• Residence: 1948; San Francisco, San Mateo Co., CA

Notes:

Clifford DuJardin was the shipping clerk for Edwards Wire Rope Co., about 1951.

Group:
A person who is a direct descendant of any colonial New England Hall Family

Group:
Descendants of George Hall of Taunton, Massachusetts.

Clifford married Sarah Letitia Bell on 4 Oct 1916 in San Francisco, San Francisco County, California. Sarah (daughter of Thomas Bell and Letitia Nelson) was born on 12 Sep 1894 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois; died on 28 Jan 1961 in San Francisco, San Francisco County, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Group: Hall Direct Descendant
• Group: Halls of Taunton - DNA Family 024

Notes:

Group:
A person who is a direct descendant of any colonial New England Hall Family

Group:
Descendants of George Hall of Taunton, Massachusetts.

Rodney married Mary Ellen "Nellie" Mullarkey on 1 Nov 1915 in San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, and was divorced in Jul 1921. Mary (daughter of Edmund Mullarkey and Ellen M. Flatley) was born about Sep 1898 in California; died in Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Rodney married Margaret Ellen Ford on 2 Nov 1922 in Sacramento, Sacramento County, California. Margaret (daughter of James Ford and Ellen [--?--]) was born on 19 Mar 1894 in San Jose, Santa Clara County, California; died on 28 Jan 1943 in San Francisco, San Francisco County, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Group: Hall Direct Descendant
• Group: Halls of Taunton - DNA Family 024

Notes:

Robert Christie Stedman graduated from Sebastopol High School and the College of the Pacifica at Stockton, CA, in 1935.  He resided in northern California.

In 1951 he was a California State Game Warden, stationed at Bishop, assigned to duty in the Sierra Nevada mountains.

Group:
A person who is a direct descendant of any colonial New England Hall Family

Group:
Descendants of George Hall of Taunton, Massachusetts.

Robert married Lillian Marie Viviani on 3 Jul 1930 in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California. Lillian (daughter of Octtavio Viviani and Valeria Battaglia) was born on 27 May 1911 in Elk, Menocino County, California; died in Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Group: Hall Direct Descendant
• Group: Halls of Taunton - DNA Family 024
• Alt. Birth: 16 Nov 1909, Daly City, San Mateo County, California

Notes:

Alvin Archer Stedman graduated from Sebastopol High School and from the University of California's Agricultaral College at davis, CA.  In 1951, he was employed in the Post office in Sebastoppol, CA.

Group:
A person who is a direct descendant of any colonial New England Hall Family

Group:
Descendants of George Hall of Taunton, Massachusetts.

Alvin married Orrill Minnie Atkinson on 7 Jul 1934 in Sebastopol, Sonoma County, California. Orrill (daughter of Rev. George Ernest Atkinson and Orrill E. Sherer) was born on 30 Jan 1910 in Campbell, Santa Clara County, California; died on 4 Jan 1983 in Fortuna, Humboldt County, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Name: Leroy Stedman
• Group: Hall Direct Descendant
• Group: Halls of Taunton - DNA Family 024

Notes:

Alfred Leroy Byron Stedman graduated from Sebastopol High School.  He served as a Corporal in the U. S. Army in Manila, Phillipine Islands. Service was limited because of a hearing defect.  Previous to joining the service, he did defense work at Pearl Harbor.

In 1951, Alfred was employed as foreman in a poultry producing wholesale firm in Portland, Oregon.

Group:
A person who is a direct descendant of any colonial New England Hall Family

Group:
Descendants of George Hall of Taunton, Massachusetts.

Alfred married Grace Elaine Morey on 11 Mar 1944 in Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon. Grace (daughter of Claire Leslie Morey and Miss [--?--]) died in Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Group: Hall Direct Descendant
• Group: Halls of Taunton - DNA Family 024
• 1910 Census: 27 Apr 1910, Oakland, Alameda County, California
• Residence: 1950; Ketchikan, Ketchikan Co., AK

Notes:

Group:
A person who is a direct descendant of any colonial New England Hall Family

Group:
Descendants of George Hall of Taunton, Massachusetts.

1910 Census:
Ward 1, ED 79, sheet 10B
279 Claremont Ave.
McDonald, George    Head  M  W  32  M1  10          CA  Canada  Canada   Clerk (general) - Wholesale produce
---, Margaret              Wife   F  W  32  M1  10  2  2   CA  MA        MA
---, Margaret               Dau   F  W    8  S                  CA  CA        CA
---, Gladys                  Dau   F  W    6  S                  CA  CA        CA

Margaret married Phillip James Deller, Jr. on 27 May 1927 in Daly City, San Mateo County, California. Phillip (son of Phillip James Deller and Amelia Mauter) was born on 13 Sep 1902 in Colma, San Mateo County, California; died on 26 Aug 1960 in Sonoma County, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Group: Hall Direct Descendant
• Group: Halls of Taunton - DNA Family 024
• 1910 Census: 27 Apr 1910, Oakland, Alameda County, California
• 1940 Census: 15 Apr 1940, Daly City, San Mateo County, California
• Residence: 1950; Ketchikan, Ketchikan Co., AK
• Obituary: 2 Dec 2010, Tracy, San Joaquin County, California; Tracy Press

Notes:

Group:
A person who is a direct descendant of any colonial New England Hall Family

Group:
Descendants of George Hall of Taunton, Massachusetts.

1910 Census:
Ward 1, ED 79, sheet 10B
279 Claremont Ave.
McDonald, George    Head  M  W  32  M1  10          CA  Canada  Canada   Clerk (general) - Wholesale produce
---, Margaret              Wife   F  W  32  M1  10  2  2   CA  MA        MA
---, Margaret               Dau   F  W    8  S                  CA  CA        CA
---, Gladys                  Dau   F  W    6  S                  CA  CA        CA

1940 Census:
ED 41-7, sheet 10A
147 Willets St.
Smith, William     Head  M  W  41  Md   California   1935: San Francisco, San Francisco, CA   Driver - Retail Baking Store
---, Gladys            Wife   F  W  36  Md   California   1935: Same Place
---, Ruth                Dau   F  W  15  S      California   1935: San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

Obituary:
Gladys Schmolck

Gladys Schmolck, a Tracy resident for eight years, died Nov. 25 in Tracy at the age of 107 years.

Born in San Francisco, Mrs. Schmolck was a survivor of the 1906 earthquake and fire in that city, the Great Alaska Earthquake of 1964 and the 1989 Loma Prieta quake.

A retired bookkeeper for the family plumbing business, she had lived in Redwood City, Pleasanton and Ketchikan, Alaska. In Tracy, she lived with her niece, Doreen Wall, and her husband, Mickey.

Her husband, Hugo Schmolck, preceded her in death.

At her request, no services are planned.

http://www.goldenstatenewspapers.com/tracy_press/archives/gladys-schmolck/article_9a31a959-3746-5202-9dde-7a3898c70269.html

Gladys married William John Smith on 20 Feb 1937 in San Francisco, San Francisco County, California. William (son of Benjamin Peter Smith and Nellie Crowley) was born on 4 Feb 1899 in San Francisco, San Francisco County, California; died on 21 Nov 1942 in San Francisco, San Francisco County, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Gladys married Hugo Herman Schmolck on 13 Jun 1947 in Daly City, San Mateo County, California. Hugo was born on 5 May 1890 in Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut; died on 10 Nov 1969 in Woodburn, Marion County, Oregon; was buried after 10 Nov 1969 in Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, San Mateo County, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Group: Hall Direct Descendant
• Group: Halls of Taunton - DNA Family 024

Notes:

Group:
A person who is a direct descendant of any colonial New England Hall Family

Group:
Descendants of George Hall of Taunton, Massachusetts.

George married Dorothy Francis Garrigan on 10 Jun 1939 in San Francisco, San Francisco County, California. Dorothy (daughter of Lawrence Garrigan and Josephine Burns) was born on 29 Sep 1915 in San Francisco, San Francisco County, California; died on 12 May 1988 in Redwood City, San Mateo County, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Group: Hall Direct Descendant
• Group: Halls of Taunton - DNA Family 024

Notes:

Group:
A person who is a direct descendant of any colonial New England Hall Family

Group:
Descendants of George Hall of Taunton, Massachusetts.

Bertha married Rodney Wells May, III on 26 Dec 1944 in San Francisco, San Francisco County, California. Rodney (son of Rodney Wells May and Dorothy Costello) was born on 25 Feb 1907 in Saint Louis, St. Louis County, Missouri; died on 18 Aug 1972; was buried after 18 Aug 1972 in Lewis-Clark Memorial Gardens, Lewiston, Nez Perce County, Idaho. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Group: Hall Direct Descendant
• Group: Halls of Taunton - DNA Family 024
• Residence: 1950; Daly City, San Mateo Co., CA

Notes:

Herbert Lawrence Rothwell graduated from Lick Wilmering High School of Mechanical and Industrial Arts, San Francisco.  The high school that year discontinued and continued on as a Junior College.  He was the only student who continued on and thus completed six years of continuous attendance.

As of 1951, he was the Assistant Superintendent of Edwards Wire Rope Company in South San Francisco.

Group:
A person who is a direct descendant of any colonial New England Hall Family

Group:
Descendants of George Hall of Taunton, Massachusetts.

Herbert married Audrey Mae Minkel on 20 Nov 1943 in San Francisco, San Francisco County, California. Audrey (daughter of Fred William Minkel and Dorothy Zink) was born on 18 Sep 1922 in San Francisco, San Francisco County, California; died on 18 Oct 1974 in Santa Clara County, California; was buried after 18 Oct 1974 in Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, San Mateo County, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Group: Hall Direct Descendant
• Group: Halls of Taunton - DNA Family 024

Notes:

Harold Davenport graduated from Berkeley High School and the University of California.  At the time of World War II, he was principal of the Herbert Hoover School in Burlingame, San Mateo County, California.

During World War II he received a commission in the United States Army and served for 18 months in the provost marshal general's assignments at Fort Custer, Michigan, and Fort Sam Houston, Texas.  He served three years in China with General Wedemeyer.  He served as theatre marshal in China and as a team commander in Manchuria.   He returned to the United States in 1947.  Later he served as Deputy Provost Marshal, European command, stationed at Heidelberg, Germany.  Among his decorations were the Legion of Merit, the Army Commendation Ribbon with Oak Leaf Cluster and the Chinese Order of  Jun Hei Pel.  In 1951 he was a Colonel in the United States Army.   In 1953 he was stationed at Fort Sam Houston, Texas.

Group:
A person who is a direct descendant of any colonial New England Hall Family

Group:
Descendants of George Hall of Taunton, Massachusetts.

Harold married Calista May Frampton on 19 Jun 1930 in Claremont, Los Angeles County, California. Calista (daughter of Mendal Garbutt Frampton and Marian Kirby) was born on 1 Aug 1906; died on 20 Oct 2000 in Portland, Clackamas County, Oregon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Group: Hall Direct Descendant
• Group: Halls of Taunton - DNA Family 024
• Residence: 1948; Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara Co., CA

Notes:

Evelyn (Davenport) Day graduated from Berkeley High School, the San Francisco Teachers College od California, and she received her teachers degree from Columbia University.  She took a course in Speech Defect Correction at a University in England.  In 1948, Evelyn (Davenport) Day was living in Santa Barbara and was in charge of the correction of speech defects in the public schools.

Group:
A person who is a direct descendant of any colonial New England Hall Family

Group:
Descendants of George Hall of Taunton, Massachusetts.

Evelyn married Thomas P. Day on 10 Aug 1940 in Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara County, California, and was divorced in 1944. Thomas (son of Mister Day and Miss Johnston) was born on 7 Jan 1892 in Missouri; died on 16 Apr 1954 in Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara County, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Group: Hall Direct Descendant
• Group: Halls of Taunton - DNA Family 024

Notes:

Group:
A person who is a direct descendant of any colonial New England Hall Family

Group:
Descendants of George Hall of Taunton, Massachusetts.

Evelyn married John Joseph L'ai on 21 Jan 1939 in San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, and was divorced in Feb 1953. John (son of Mateo L'ai and Miss [--?--]) was born on 14 Jun 1914; died on 11 Feb 1988 in Santa Clara County, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Group: Hall Direct Descendant
• Group: Halls of Taunton - DNA Family 024

Notes:

Group:
A person who is a direct descendant of any colonial New England Hall Family

Group:
Descendants of George Hall of Taunton, Massachusetts.

Roberta married Albert Francis Zahnd on 7 Sep 1933 in Reno, Washoe County, Nevada, and was divorced after 1934. Albert (son of Frederick Zahnd and Jessie Hawkins) was born on 7 Oct 1910 in San Francisco, San Francisco County, California; died on 2 Jul 1985 in San Jose, Santa Clara County, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Group: Hall Direct Descendant
• Group: Halls of Taunton - DNA Family 024

Notes:

Rodney Irving Sturtevant graduated from Lowell High School, San Francisco and the University of California at Berkeley in 1949.  he took a post graduate course for teaching and graduated in 1950.  He majored in History and English.  He taught in 1951 in Pleasanton, Alameda County.

During World War II, he served for five years in the Army Air Force.  He was a sergeant in Radar mechanics.  He was stationed on Tinian Island in the South Pacific when the war with Japan ended.  The planes that carried the atomic bombs departed from this island to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Group:
A person who is a direct descendant of any colonial New England Hall Family

Group:
Descendants of George Hall of Taunton, Massachusetts.

Robert married Patricia Brennan on 22 Jun 1955. Patricia died in Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

D.S. married M.R.". Wall [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

D.E. married Capt. A.D. Wedemeyer [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]