Reading Independent
August 29, 1878
ANOTHER SHASTA COUNTY PIONEER GONE
Again we are called upon to chronicle the taking off of an old and highly respected citizen of Shasta County. John Fonkes Van Schaick, after a lingering illness, died in Shasta at 1 o'clock A. M. Sunday, August 25th, at the age of 68.
John F. Van Schaik was born in the State of New York, near Utica, we think. He learned his trade--that of a painter--in the city of New York, after which he moved to New Orleans, where he resided for many years. From New Orleans he emigrated to San Francisco, working there at his trade at very remunerative prices. In the year 1852 Mr. V. settled in Shasta, he and his partner pitching their tent under the large oak tree now in the door-yard of Mrs. A. E. Taylor, formerly the Mix place. Mr. Van Schaick was not merely a mechanic, but also an artist of no ordinary capacity, as his work in San Francisco, Shasta and Reading will testify. He was also enterprising. At an early day, having faith in the growth and permanency of Shasta, he purchased ground at high prices and erected quite a clock of frame building, which after erection for a time paid him handsomely. But the flush times ceased, and the depreciation of property ensued; and failing health rendering him unfit for labor, for a number of years Mr. V. found it hard work to "make both ends meet."
He resided in Reading from the fall of 1872 until the fall of 1873,
when he became the Democratic nominee for County Treasurer, and was elected;
also re-elected in 1875 and 1877, consequently he died before he had completed
the first quarter of his third term, and died trusted and respected.
He was a man courteous, kind, generous, and of the strictest honesty, and
possessed of a fund of general information. Although having no relations
near, he received all the care the most affectionate ones could have bestowed
on him from Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Dunn, whose house has been his home for
years. He was buried in the old cemetery on Monday, August 26th.
The funeral services were held in the Court House, the Rev. Mr. Saxton,
of Red Bluff, officiating, assisted by the Shasta choir. The pall
bearers were D. H. Dunn, W. H. Bickford, District Attorney Taylor, Sheriff
Hull, Hon. A. R. Andrews and Hon. C. C. Bush. The concourse that
followed his remains to the grave was large, quite a number from the neighboring
towns being present.
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Weekly Free Press
Redding, Shasta County, Cal.
Saturday, February 7, 1891
Monday morning last, on North Cow Creek, Christopher Buckley died very
suddenly. He was well on Saturday, but on Sunday was a little unwell
and on his request the Chinese doctor was sent for and the Chinese doctor
sent him some stuff which he took, but by the time it arrived Buckley was
in convulsions and soon died. As the cause of death was unknown an
inquest was held and the fact then came out that shortly before the man
died he barked like a dog and snapped and panted and the froth ran from
his mouth in streams. As the symptoms indicated hydrophobia the jury
gave in a verdict to that effect. Mr. Buckley was a native of California,
aged about 25 years, and leaves no family; he had resided in the county
about three years, and is said to have been the nephew of Chris Buckley
of San Francisco.
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The Daily Searchlight
Redding, California
Thursday, January 22, 1914
JUDGE C.M. HEAD PASSES AFTER 4 YEARS' ILLNESS
Pneumonia Sets In, Complicating Case, And Notable Jurist Succumbed Wednesday at Age of 51
Pneumonia, that began a deadly attack a few days ago, was too much for the weakened constitution of Charles C. M. Head, superior judge of Shasta county, department 1, and at 8 o'clock Wednesday morning his spirit passed, following a day and night of unconsciousness. Dr. W. W. Head of Chico, a brother of the judge who arrived Tuesday evening, was never recognized.
Bright's disease that began nearly four years ago, when the jurist had just been elected to his second term by the people of Shasta county, had been persistent it its ravages, though Judge Head frequently rallied and he was frequently seen on the streets and occasionally on the bench, over which Judge J. E. Barber presided the greater part of the time. Trips to health resorts, while temporarily beneficial, in the end availed nothing. The sufferer was continually losing and for a year he was but the shadow of his former robust self. The last time he presided in court was December 10, 1913.
Judge Head was the father of the juvenile court of this county. It was his particular pride and he devoted himself to it as long as health permitted. The deceased was not a fraternalist. He belonged only to the Ancient Order of Workmen. While not a church member, Judge Head was a frequent attendant at religious worship.
Judge Head was twice married. By his first wife he leaves a son and a daughter, both living in San Francisco--Harold Head and Mrs. Gladys Rasmussen. In Redding, November 17, 1897, he married Miss Alpha E. Garoutte, who is now made a widow. Judge Head's aged mother, Mrs. Margaret Head, resides in Watsonville with her daughter.
The decedent leaves two brothers and four sisters: Dr. W. W. Head, Chico; Albert Head, Santa Rosa; Mrs. Thomas Elkington, San Francisco; Mrs. Jason Howard, San Francisco; Mrs. Edward Page, Dinuba, and Mrs. Alvin Finley, Watsonville.
Charles M. Head was born in Arkansas, December 6, 1862. The family came to California in 1865. His father died when Judge Head was a boy of eighteen. He was then thrown on his own resources and had to help support the family. He studied alone and finally was able to teach school. He was able to attend the Santa Rosa college, a Methodist school of the past, for only a short term. Continuing to teach school, he studied law.
Judge Head was admitted to the bar in Yolo county. In the early nineties, when everyone thought he did not have a ghost of a show, he was elected district attorney of Yolo county. In the big railroad strike of 1894 several important murder cases were an outgrowth. He prosecuted them all successfully.
Retiring from the office of district attorney in Yolo county, Judge Head came to Redding and opened law offices. He formed a partnership with J. M. C. Murphey, but this was soon dissolved and for several years he practiced alone.
Judge Head was a Democrat in politics. In 1902 he was the party nominee for superior judge. He was elected and took his seat on the bench in January, 1903. The legislature that met in 1905 created a second department of the superior court, George W. Bush being appointed to the new position. Judge Head always held the second department was unnecessary, and to show that the people thought as he did he decided to run for Judge against Judge Bush in the fall election of 1906, though he had two years of his own term yet to serve. T. W. H. Shanahan and Judge Bush were both candidates against Judge Head, but he was elected. The higher courts decided that he was disqualified to succeed Judge Bush.
In November, 1908, Judge Head was re-elected for a full term of six years more. This term would have expired at the last of the present year.
The funeral will be held this afternoon at 2:30 from the Baptist church. Rev. Coates will officate and music will be furnished by a quartette.
Judge J. E. Barber, of department 2 of the superior court, pays a tribute in the following words:
Judge Charles M. Head was a true and a loyal friend of all who were fortunate enought to know him in life, and he was a tried and devoted friend of Shasta county, where he had cast his fortune many years ago. His record illuminatingly speaks for itself in this regard. He loved its people, and in his death we have all sustained a personal loss. I recognized his worth shortly after I identified myself with Shasta county, when he was an active and honored member of the bar and before his elevation to the bench. He reposed confidence in me and I in him, and it was largely due to this respect we held for each other that resulted in my becoming a candidate for judge of department 2 of the superior court after its creation, and our relationship since we became colleagues upon the bench has been an honorable and a close one, each depending upon the other in the conscientious belief that the interest of the people would be safeguarded, regardless of everything and within the law. We never lost each other's confidence.
His personality was engaging and kindly, and while in the enjoyment of health he never shirked a duty--it can be truthfully said of Judge Head he was never lazy. He loved his work when he was upon the bench; he loved justice with all his heart, and his highest, indeed his only ambition, was to devote his life to its administration.
At this time I can say no more than this: His character was marked
by a great courtesy and consideration which always attended him upon his
discharge of his duties as a judge, always marked his relations with the
bar, and earned that popular confidence which goes out to him whom the
people believe to be a merciful and considerate as well as a just and impartial
judge.
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Redding Record-Searchlight
Monday, March 20, 1978
Anderson--Mass for Roselene Inez Gibson of Anderson will be said at 10 a.m. Wednesday at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church here.
Mrs. Gibson died Sunday at Mercy Medical Center. She was 59.
Born July 2, 1918, in the Cove area near Montgomery Creek, she was a lifetime Shasta County resident.
She was the past president of the Welfare Rights Organization and the past regional chairwoman of the Native American United Pow-Wow Organization and was a member of Pit River Tribal Inc., and the Madesi Band of Pit River Indians.
She gave free Christmas parties and Thanksgiving dinners for Indians and the underprivileged.
She leaves her husband, Larson of Anderson; six sons, Larson Jr., Alvin McDaniels and Lawrence McDaniels, all of Anderson, and Duane, Melvin and Dennis McDaniels, all of Redding; a daughter, Anita Westergaard of Anderson; five brothers, Ray, Duane and Ronald Morales, all of Susanville, Richard Morales of Cleveland, Ohio, and Earl Morales of Sparks, Nev.; two sisters, Viola Williams and Yvonne Morales, both of Susanville; her stepmother, Leona Morales of Susanville; and 16 grandchildren.
Burial will be in the Centerville Cemetery.
A priest of the Sacred Heart Parish will officate at the services.
McDoanld's Redding Chapel is in charge of arrangements.
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Redding Record-Searchlight
Monday, March 20, 1978
Funeral services for Thomas Duane Swisher of Redding will be conducted at 10 a.m. Tuesday at McDonald's Redding Chapel. The Rev. Roy A. Nelson will officiate, with burial to follow in Lawncrest Memorial Park.
Swisher died Sunday at Memorial Hospital in Redding. He was 45.
Swisher had lived in Shasta County for 30 years and was the former owner of Don D. Davis Auto Service. He also was a member of the Loyal Order of the Moose Lodge 1006 in Redding.
He was born July 14, 1923, in Sioux City, Iowa.
He leaves his wife, Helen of Redding; two sons, Leslie of Redding and
Edwin of Lake Tahoe; a brother, Harry of Shelton, Wash.; three sisters,
Ladene Doolin and Corrinne Fransen, both of Portland, Ore.; and Mavis McClure
of Bella Vista; his mother, Della Greenhaw of Redding; and two grandchildren.
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Shasta Courier
Shasta, Shasta County, California
Saturday Morning, Nov. 13, 1858
INDIAN FIGHT ON THE SACRAMENTO--ONE WHITE MAN KILLED
On Saturday last Jacob Robinson, a packer, went to an Indian rancharie near Smith's Ranch, on the Sacramento about twenty miles above this place, and asked for an Indian to hunt an estrayed mule. The one whom he addressed said that the Indian that always hunted up the strayed mules had gone to Yreka. Robinson told him that he didn't believe it, for he had seen him a short time previous. A young Indian, who had formerly resided with D. D. Harrill, of this place, then, approaching Robinson, told him that he was a "Shacktaw" of that tribe, and that if he had anything more to say he had better say it to him; and then snubbed his (R's) nose with his quiver of arrows. R. immediately went back to Smith's ranch, and getting a Mr. McGowan and Wm. King to follow him, returned to the rancharie. When the latter two arrived, Robinson was already engaged in a fight with the Indians. Seeing that he was being overpowered, however, he took to the river, and while swimming across, received an arrow in his head, one in the shoulder and one in the thigh--all of which Dr. Henry Bates, of this place, extracted, and now his prospects for recovery are favorable.
McGowan snapped his gun at an Indian, and then, clubbing it, went into a hand-to-hand fight with a number of them. He received a severe cut in the head with an axe, and an arrow in the left ventricle of the heart, which resulted in his death on Monday.
Wm. King managed to escape to the hills unhurt.
During the week the whites have secured about a dozen of the chief men
of the tribe, and will hold them as hostages until the Indian boy (the
same who lived with Mr. Harril) who shot McGowan is delivered into the
hands of the officers of the law.
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Redding (Calif.) Record-Searchlight
Tuesday, April 25, 1972
MOUNT SHASTA--Funeral services for Annie E. Fusler, 94, who died of natural causes at her home in Mount Shasta Sunday, will be conducted at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Mount Shasta Memorial Chapel in Mount Shasta.
The Rev. V. E. Boyd will officiate.
Private services and burial will follow Thursday at East Lawn Cemetery in Sacramento.
Mrs. Fusler was born May 22, 1877, in Sheridan, Placer County. She moved with her family to Mott, Siskiyou County, in 1886, and lived in the southern Siskiyou County area most of her life.
She was a seamstress, bookkeeper and housewife. Her late husband Earl Fusler was a music instructor and Southern Pacific Co. railroad car shop man in Dunsmuir. She was living with a nephew, James J. Scott, in Mount Shasta when she died.
Aside from Scott, she leaves three cousins, Adriance C. Brown of Redding, Elena Pinson of Dunsmuir, Susan Hamilton of Klamath Falls and Louis Kilson of Alhambra.
The Fidelity Chapter of the Dunsmuir Order of the Eastern Star will
participate in the Mount Shasta services.
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Redding (Calif.) Record-Searchlight
Tuesday, April 25, 1972
YREKA--Funeral services will be conducted at 10 a.m. Friday in the Hilt Community Church for Louis Alphonse, 77, of Hilt.
Alphonse died Sunday in Siskiyou General Hospital after a long illness.
The Rev. James Gorman will officiate. Burial will be in the Henley-Hornbrook Cemetery. Graveside services will be under the direction of the Free and Accepted Order of Masons. Funeral arrangements were made by the Girdner Funeral Chapel.
Alphonse was born in Italy in 1895 and came to the United States at the age of 13. His family had lived in Seattle, Wash., and San Francisco before moving to Siskiyou County 57 years ago.
Alphonse had been maintenance engineer for the Fruit Growers Supply Co. sawmill in Hilt for 42 years before retiring several years ago. He had been chief of the Hilt Volunteer Fire Department in his youth. He was a member of Howard Lodge, 37, F&AM.
He leaves two daughters, Barbara and Phyllis Alphonse, both of Hilt; a sister, Mrs. Earl Clark of Seattle, Wash. and two other sisters, names unknown, one of whom lives in Oakland and the other in Italy. Alphonse leaves a granddaughter and two great-granddaughters.
A son, Louis Alphonse, was killed in action during World War II in Europe.
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Reading Independent
Reading, Shasta County, California
Thursday, February 26, 1880
MAY--At Buckeye, February 22, 1880, Robert H. May, a native of Missouri, aged 56 years.
Mr. May was a pioneer and resided in Shasta county for a number of years
where he was engaged in mining and farming. He was a good citizen,
always attending to his own business. At his own request he was buried
at Shasta. He summoned to his bedside a few days before his death,
E. A. Reid and Jas. McCormick to whom he made known his wishes regarding
his burial, and
disposition of his property. After paying his debts he bequeathed
the remainder to Shasta and Reading school districts, and named A. Grotfend,
E. A. Reid and Jas. McCormick his executors, without bonds, to arrange
and carry out his wishes.
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Reading Independent
Reading, Shasta County, California
Thursday, February 26, 1880
DIED
Williams--In Reading, Feb. 20, 1880, infant son of Horace and Inez Williams,
aged 10 months and 20 days.
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Reading Independent
Reading, Shasta County, California
Feb. 19, 1880
IN MEMORIUM
The following resolutions were passed by the Anderson Lodge No. 254, I. O. O. F.:
Whereas, It has pleased Almighty God, the Ruler of the universe, to
remove from our midst Bro. Daniel Parr, who departed this life Jan. 27,
1880, in the 43d year of his age, therefore....
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