1850, 1859, CA, Compiled by James W. Blankenship jkblank1(at)sbcglobal.net

INDEX TO THE ROSTER OF CALIFORNIA PIONEERS

Blankenship George Arthur Vol. 53 Page 79

Blankenship John Barney Vol. 3 Page 202

Blankenship John Burl Vol. 1 Page 146 Vol. 3 Page 201

+Blankenship John Martin Vol. 1 Page 147 Vol. 3 Page 203

Son of William Moore Blankenship & Mary Martin

Blankenship Nancy Vol. 54 Page 95

+Blankenship William Moore Vol. 3 Page 204

Son of John Blankenship & Mary Ann Dillon

http://www.cagenweb.com/cpl/mainindex.html

From: diane dhrenfrow(at)yahoo.com

 El Dorado 

+1850 Census, Mathenias Creek, El Dorado Co., CA, Page #346, Dwlg #6
(living with Wm C. Armstrong)

Blankenship, John I. 24 (1826), Iowa, M, mining for gold

From: Frank Blankenship Lonewolf1498(at)cs.com

San Francisco

+San Francisco, San Francisco Co., CA, 1852 City Directory
Blankenship, R. bar keeper, Bella Union, 198 Washington

http://www.sfgenealogy.com/sf/1852/52a_c.htm

From: Diane Renfrow dhrenfrow(at)yahoo.com

Sacramento

+Sacramento, Sacramento Co., CA,

Blankenship, Capt. George C. Son of Stephen Blankenship & ?

The Daily Union, Tuesday Morning, September 7, 1852 

The following persons have arrived at Yreka, Siskkiyou county, and at Shasta, by Noble’s Route:

YREKA

Illinios - Capt. Isaac Mead, Alford Mead, G.H. Blankenship, Frank Gibbs, J.J. Westbrook and four Germans.

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~npmelton/calnew60.htm

From: Diane Renfrow dhrenfrow(at)yahoo.com

+Sacramento, Sacramento Co., CA, Marriage

Sacramento Bee Newspaper, 22 May 1857

Blankenship, Maj. George C. m 13 Jun 1857 Moses, Mrs. Sarah J.

Son of Stephen Blankenship & ?

http://www.sfgenealogy.com/caldatanook/bee1857/bee1857ba.htm

From: Diane Renfrow dhrenfrow(at)yahoo.com

San Joaquin

+San Joaquin Co., CA, James Rutherford Owen Biography

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~npmelton/sjbowen.htm

JAMES RUTHERFORD OWEN, a rancher of Dent Township, was born in Tennessee, January 19, 1832, a son of George P. and Elizabeth (Davis) Owen. The mother, born in August, 1807, died in January, 1888; the father, born in May, 1808, is still living. Grandmother Owen, by birth a Pr ston, (sic) died comparatively young, and Grandfather Owen, who had moved from North Carolina to Tennessee, was not quite sixty at his death. Great-grandfather Owen was an emigrant from Wales. Grandfather Aaron Davis and his wife, whose maiden name was Jones, moved westward from Tennessee, and what age they reached is not known.

The subject of this sketch remained on his father’s farm till he was over twenty-one years of age. From 1853 to 1855 he peddled through Kentucky for wages--cotton thread used for family weaving into home-made cloth. In 1853 Mr. Owen was married to Miss Catherine Hunt, a native of Tennessee, born November 29, 1831, daughter of Louis Tyrus and Ailsey (Blankenship) Hunt. The father lived to be seventy-three and the mother sixty-five years, both dying in Tennessee. Her grandmother Blankenship, a native of North Carolina, died in Tennessee, aged 100 years.

In 1855 Mr. Owen bought 160 acres of land and went to farming, in which he continued until he left for this coast in 1869. He left home November 7, 1869, for California, where he arrived by railroad November 19, and went to work on a ranch for wages. He raised a crop on a rented place of 200 acres near Waterloo in 1870, and the following year moved to Linden, where he put in a crop about one mile south of the village. In 1872 he moved to his present location, where he rented the Brooke ranch of 1,500 acres, about three miles east of Farmington, which he still holds. In 1884 he bought 610 acres of Mr. Brooke and an adjoining forty acres from another party, about one mile and a half southwest of his home. He farms about 2,000 acres, mostly in wheat and barley, having no less than 1,200 acres in these grains. He has a small fortune invested in agricultural implements and farming stock. From 1873 to 1881 he paid considerable attention to sheep raising on shares with Mr. Brooke, having as many as 2,500 head, but found wheat-growing to be more profitable.

Mr. and Mrs. Owen have nine children, viz: Henry Taylor, born July 15, 1854, married in Stockton, in September, 1886, to Miss Mary Douglass, has one child, Essie May; Charles Madison, born February 13, 1856, has twice married--by his first wife, Edna Jane Spencer, a native of Missouri, deceased, he has one child, Verna, born in 1882; he is now living in Fresno with his second wife. The third child of Mr. and Mrs. Owen is Partelia Jane, born May 18, 1857, now Mrs. James D. Blair, who has three children--Elmer J., Emily Etta and Eva Alice. The fourth child, George Milton, born May 31, 1859, died July 27, 1862; Myra Elizabeth born January 27, 1861, now Mrs. David Bryson of Linden, the mother of one child, Nellie, born in 1888; John Hamilton, born October 15, 1862, of the firm of Long & Owen, merchants of Farmington since 1884, who was married April 4, 1886, to Miss Sarah Griffin, a native of Stanislaus County; they have two children, Alva George and a baby girl, Lizzie. Mary Alice Owen born January 15, 1865; Willie Sydney, born May 6, 1867; Walter James, born in California, near French Camp, August 30, 1870; and Thomas Jefferson, born in the present home, November 17, 1872.

Mr. Owen was a Justice of the Peace and Assessor in Tennessee, 1859 to 1861, both offices being united in that State.

From: Diane Renfrow dhrenfrow(at)yahoo.com

+Stockton, San Joaquin Co., CA,

Weekly Stockton Democrat , Sunday, 10 July 1859

http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?action=detail&id=25510

-Mr. BLANKENSHIP and family recently passed through Visalia en route for Tule river, with some 500 head of American cattle and horses. He designs settling on Tule river.

William Moore Son of John Blankenship & Mary Ann Dillon

From: Diane Renfrow dhrenfrow(at)yahoo.com

 Yuba 

+1850 Census, Mosquito Canion, El Dorado Co., CA, Page #489, Dwlg #10
(living with John Scott)

Blankenship, Barney 21 (1829), MO, M, Miner

From: Frank Blankenship Lonewolf1498(at)cs.com

Poss. son of Coleman Hargrove Blankenship, Sr. & Margaret Regal

+1850 Census, Rough and Ready, Yuba Co., CA, Page #266, Dwlg #146
(living in a hotel)

Blankenship, Chas. 41 (1809), VA, M, Miner

From: Frank Blankenship Lonewolf1498(at)cs.com

Poss. son of Thomas Blankenship, Sr. & Elizabeth Stone

Poss. son of John Blankenship & Rhoda Blankenship

Poss. son of Charles Henry Blankenship m. Elizabeth Gough

+1850 Census, Nevada City, Yuba Co., CA, Page #281, Dwlg #487
(living with G. Bedford)

Blankenship, J. H. 35 (1815), PA, M, Miner

From: Frank Blankenship Lonewolf1498(at)cs.com

+1850 Census, Newtown, Yuba Co., CA, Page #307, Dwlg #913
Blankenship, C. B. 48 (1802), NC, M, Miner
In this same household are living;
Wadkins, Jessee
Wadkins, David
Wadkins, Osborn

From: Frank Blankenship Lonewolf1498(at)cs.com